Our President spoke today. I’ve reviewed the transcript. I count 45 lies, 7 misleading statements and 3 revelations of his hidden agenda. His speech today, as are most of his speeches, was a comprehensive attempt to mislead the American People. Here’s my take on it:

The President of the United States of America speaks: THE PRESIDENT: “Good afternoon, everybody. I just concluded a productive discussion with the leaders of both parties in Congress.” (One lie. One misleading statement)
REETZALITY: It was not a productive session. The president failed to set forth a single productive result from the meeting.
PRESIDENT: This was one of a series of regular meetings that I called for in the State of the Union because I think it’s important for us to come together and speak frankly about the challenges we face and to work through areas where we don’t agree; hopefully find some areas where we do. (Three lies)
REETZALITY: The President does not believe in coming together and he certainly doesn’t have the capability to speak frankly. If he did, he would reveal his agenda to socialize our nation and fundamentally transform us into something we are not. And Mr. President, “find some areas where we do” agree? Couldn’t you just have each side set forth their agenda and check for over-lap? Our president doesn’t believe in “reaching across the aisle” and for that I give him some credit. I wish some Republicans would act likewise like McCain, Graham, Snow, Collins and Brown. You don’t compromise on principles folks.
PRESIDENT: “Our conversation today focused on an issue that’s being discussed every day at kitchen tables across this country — and that’s how do we create jobs that people need to support their families.” (One misleading statement)

REETZALITY: Mr. President, you don’t create jobs, the private sector does. And just because you might loosen the noose strangling free enterprise doesn’t give you the right to take credit for what occurs with the limited freedom you’ve allowed. PRESIDENT: “I believe that starts with doing everything we can to support small businesses. These are the stores, the restaurants, the start-ups and other companies that create two out of every three new jobs in this country — and that grow into the big businesses that transform industries, here in America and around the world.” (One big lie)
REETZALITY: “Everything we can to support small business?” Really, you shoved your health care down our throats hurting small business. You passed financial reform, hurting small business. You are pushing cap and trade, hurting small business. You are running up debt to the extent that a drunken sailor now seems like a fiscal conservative, hurting small business. You love unions and card check, hurting small business. Thus, you are not doing “everything we can” to support small business.
PRESIDENT: But we know that many of these businesses still can’t get the loans and the capital they need to keep their doors open and hire new workers. (One misleading statement)
REETZALITY: But a lot of small businesses can get the capital, they just don’t want the risk of increased debt given the ominous uncertainty of your agenda. Also Mr. President, unlike your perception of how things work, small businesses not only require capital, they also require opportunity and incentive. The uncertain and ominous cloak of your agenda is killing opportunity and incentive.
PRESIDENT: “That’s why we’ve proposed steps to get them that help — eliminating capital gains taxes on investments, making it easier for small lenders to support small businesses, expanding successful SBA programs to help these businesses access the capital that they need.” (One misleading statement)
REETZALITY: Mr. President, American small business doesn’t want help, it wants liberty from excessive regulation, taxation, unionization, and government control. It is not so simple as just throwing money at the problem. I’ll give you a pass on this one Mr. President since you’ve yet to run a lemonade stand or make any sort of bottom line.
PRESIDENT: “This is how we create jobs — by investing in the innovators and entrepreneurs that have always driven our prosperity.” (Two misleading statements)
REETZALITY: Mr. President our prosperity is not driven by government, it is hindered by government. And for the second time, you don’t create jobs, the private sector does when it is inspired to produce. What inspires production? Profits, and your going to tax them big time. You are killing the inspiration. And do you even know any innovators and entrepreneurs? Didn’t think so, well unless count the Weather Underground and SDS folks as being entrepreneurial and innovative in their anti-Americanism.
PRESIDENT: “These are the kind of common-sense steps that folks from both parties have supported in the past — steps to cut taxes and spur private sector growth and investment. And I hope that in the coming days, we’ll once again find common ground and get this legislation passed. We shouldn’t let America’s small businesses be held hostage to partisan politics — and certainly not at this critical time.” (Three lies. One misleading statement)
REETZALITY: You just said “cut taxes” while your treasury secretary said, two days ago, that you were going to let the Bush tax cuts expire, thus raise taxes. Small business held hostage to partisan politics? Really, so if you all reach across the aisle and decide your “bi-partisan” expansion will be good for business, it will be? Keep dreaming Mr. President.
PRESIDENT: “We also talked about the need to move forward on energy reform. The Senate is now poised to act before the August recess, advancing legislation to respond to the BP oil spill and create new clean energy jobs.” (One agenda revelation)
REETZALITY: Great Mr. President. Rush through a bill that will be swarmed in earmarks and hidden agenda items before the August recess and that will help business? Wrong Mr. President.
PRESIDENT: “That legislation is an important step in the right direction. But I want to emphasize it’s only the first step. And I intend to keep pushing for broader reform, including climate legislation, because if we’ve learned anything from the tragedy in the Gulf, it’s that our current energy policy is unsustainable.” (Two lies)
REETZALITY: It is not an important step in the right direction. It is an awful step in the wrong direction. Cap and Trade, energy reform, what ever faux title you chose Mr. President, has proven every time it is implemented that it hinders free enterprise. As to learning from the Gulf Oil spill, what we have learned is that the government is incompetent in dealing with disasters, even incompetent in exploiting them for self interested nefarious political gain. Ostensibly, the government’s dealing with the Gulf Oil Spill demonstrated that the government can’t even get it right when it’s in their progressive agenda. Also, I don’t think you learned anything from the Gulf Oil Spill other than possibly refined your ability to exploit disaster in order to push your progressive agenda.
PRESIDENT: “And we can’t afford to stand by as our dependence on foreign oil deepens, as we keep on pumping out the deadly pollutants that threaten our air and our water and the lives and livelihoods of our people. And we can’t stand by as we let China race ahead to create the clean energy jobs and industries of the future. We should be developing those renewable energy sources, and creating those high-wage, high-skill jobs right here in the United States of America.” (Eleven lies)
REETZALITY: So Mr. President, then why are you proposing a moratorium on off shore drilling if you are so adverse to dependence on foreign oil? Why isn’t ANWAR opened for drilling? And Mr. President, this China Challenge, unbelievable. China is the world’s biggest polluter and they will continue to be so even when they do produce your mandated green products due to the shroud your policies have placed upon American free enterprise. What high wage, high skill jobs? Please tell me Mr. President. Just asking?
PRESIDENT: “That’s what comprehensive energy and climate reform would do. And that’s why I intend to keep pushing this issue forward.” (One global lie. One agenda revelation)
REETZALITY: No it’s not Mr. President. And let us be, to use your word, “Frank,” You have no idea or concern what comprehensive energy and climate reform would do other than this: It would further destroy American enterprise, increase government control, hurt freedom, and after that, again let’s be “Frank,” you don’t care.
PRESIDENT: “I also urged the House leaders to pass the necessary funding to support our efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I know much has been written about this in recent days as a result of the substantial leak of documents from Afghanistan covering a period from 2004 to 2009.”

REETZALITY: I can only decipher your desire to continue to nation build in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan by presuming your desire to bankrupt this country in order to create more need for your progressive government trumps your aversion to waging war against Muslims.
PRESIDENT: “While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan; indeed, they point to the same challenges that led me to conduct an extensive review of our policy last fall.” (Two lies-he hasn’t read the leaked documents)
REETZALITY: Am I getting this right Mr. President, near 100,000 documents and it’s no big deal?
PRESIDENT: “So let me underscore what I’ve said many times: For seven years, we failed to implement a strategy adequate to the challenge in this region, the region from which the 9/11 attacks were waged and other attacks against the United States and our friends and allies have been planned.” (One lie)
REETZALITY: O.K. Finally, the Bush bashing. Actually, we did get rid of the Taliban for a while, but we didn’t kill enough of them. And Mr. President, your rules of engagement are going to get more Americans killed. And what is your strategy? Counter-insurgency? Oh, I’m sure that’s going to work with a bunch of goat shepherds who grow a ton of opium on the side? Co-exist right? Another question, how do we have a viable strategy when you won’t even properly identify the enemy? You know, forgive me for saying such a reprehensible term, “radical Islamists.
PRESIDENT: “That’s why we’ve substantially increased our commitment there, insisted upon greater accountability from our partners in Afghanistan and Pakistan, developed a new strategy that can work, and put in place a team, including one of our finest generals, to execute that plan. Now we have to see that strategy through.” (Three lies)
REETZALITY: A couple of things here. You haven’t substantially increased our commitment, you actually low balled the request for troops. Last month 56 Americans were killed in Afghanistan. I hope you don’t consider that working. And again, some more “frank” speak, you don’t know if it will work.

PRESIDENT: “And as I told the leaders, I hope the House will act today to join the Senate, which voted unanimously in favor of this funding, to ensure that our troops have the resources they need and that we’re able to do what’s necessary for our national security.” (One lie)

REETZALITY: Her Mr. President, speaking of national security, how about closing the borders? Sorry, I thought you mentioned National Security.
PRESIDENT: “Finally, during our meeting today, I urged Senator McConnell and others in the Senate to work with us to fill the vacancies that continue to plague our judiciary. Right now, we’ve got nominees who’ve been waiting up to eight months to be confirmed as judges. Most of these folks were voted out of committee unanimously, or nearly unanimously, by both Democrats and Republicans. Both Democrats and Republicans agreed that they were qualified to serve. Nevertheless, some in the minority have used parliamentary procedures time and again to deny them a vote in the full Senate.” (One agenda revelation-install judges who are not deferential to the constitution)
REETZALITY: Mr. President, why don’t you try appointing folks who actually like and respect our constitution? I suspect this might be the hold up that is irritating you.
PRESIDENT: “If we want our judicial system to work — if we want to deliver justice in our courts — then we need judges on our benches. And I hope that in the coming months, we’ll be able to work together to ensure a timelier process in the Senate.” (One lie)
REETZALITY: Again Mr. President, appoint folks who adhere to constitutional principles and your problems will be solved.
PRESIDENT: “Now, we don’t have many days left before Congress is out for the year. And everyone understands that we’re less than 100 days from an election. It’s during this time that the noise and the chatter about who’s up in the polls and which party is ahead threatens to drown out just about everything else. But the folks we serve — who sent us here to serve, they sent us here for a reason. They sent us here to listen to their voices. They sent us here to represent their interests — not our own. They sent us here to lead. And I hope that in the coming months, we’ll do everything in our power to live up to that responsibility. Thanks very much. (Eight lies when he claims to want to live up to the responsibility)
REETZALITY: A great finale Mr. President. First, the noise and the chatter you are hearing is contempt for your policies. Secondly, You don’t listen to folks’ voices unless they agree with your radical agenda. Did you know Mr. President that the majority of Americans were against your health care bill, your financial reform, cap and trade, and your law suit against Arizona? Sure you do, but it doesn’t stop you from pushing your progressive agenda.
So folks, that’s my take on today’s propaganda from the Commander of Propoganda and that’s my Reetzality (2nd) for the day.
Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

What is the common denominator of Obama policies? The Destruction of America is the sole theme I can find in Obama’s policies and in his statements for that matter. Let’s check it out.

TAXATION. Obama is for higher taxation. Already some folks pay more than fifty percent of their income, of their productivity, in taxes. The Bush tax cuts will expire next year and Obama will do nothing to extend the cuts. Take a look at developed countries with high tax rates and then take a look at the entrepreneurial opportunities in those countries. It’s bleak and that’s where we’re headed. The CBO predicts only a two percent growth of gross product at best for the foreseeable future which is not quarters, not years, but decades. His drunken spending will provide a platform for him to raise taxes astronomically, further breaking another campaign promise. This is bad for America.

HEALTH CARE. Notwithstanding the socialistic anti-American theme in Obama-care, the cost alone, which is increasing by the week as we, and Washington, gets to understanding the implications, are going to be a wet blanket on our economy. Obama-care also takes away freedom, which last time I checked, is a bad thing. Companies are planning on eliminating their health care programs and turning employees over to the feds which inevitably fails at almost everything. Obama-care will hurt America. It already is.

CAP AND TRADE. This policy will explode bureaucracy and make business drastically more complex. It will increase costs and regulation and will decrease opportunity and productivity. It will grow the government and shrink the private sector. It will lead us closer to global government. Check out how it’s working in Europe. Not well. Bad for America.

IMMIGRATION. Obama is doing nothing about immigration except condemning Arizona, the one state with the fortitude to be responsible for their problems. Obama has lied about the law Arizona passed. Obama’s view on immigration is simply to, when the time is right, provide amnesty for illegals in order to create more left leaning voters who will vote for more redistribution of wealth, more government and therefore, less freedom. He has lied about the Arizona law. Bad for America.

FINANCIAL REFORM. Obama’s plan will burden the free market and again explode the federal bureaucracy. His plan ignores Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, entirely leaves them out of the “reform” and they are the two biggest culprits in our recent financial woes. Why isn’t Obama addressing the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issue? Because they are agents for the government, that’s why. They are his folks. How can you claim to be fixing something when you’re ignoring the biggest cause, the root cause, of the problem? You can’t. And he doesn’t want to fix it. He wants to grow government and the people be damned. Bad for America.

BAIL OUTS. Obama loves a good bail out because it grows government power and influence and it takes care of the Unions in the case of the Auto industry.

GREECE. Obama pushed Europe to bail out Greece. Why? Why when we have trillions of dollars of debt is he borrowing money from China to give to Greece? There are a number of reasons. First, he adores the massive government in Greece. Second, if Greece fails more than it already has, it might reveal the flaws with Obama’s policies. (if they can be any more revealed as being awful). Third, it leads us closer to global government.

UNIONS. Obama is in favor of card check, his biggest ally is the SEIU union chief, he tired to exclude unions from the mandates of Obama-care. Are unions a good thing? Nope, just run down the list of union controlled industries. Auto industry, failed. Post Office, failed. Steel industry, gone. Government, the zenith of inefficiency and waste. Public education, struggling. Government pensions gifted to Unions and driving localities, municipalities, states and the Federal government closer and closer to bankruptcy and yet, Obama loves a union. Unions have proven to be a deadly albatross to so many American principles. Obama’s union policies are bad for America.

THE WARS. Now this is a strange one. Why is Obama breaking his promises regarding the wars on a regular basis, most recently retracting his position on exiting Afghanistan? Why does he continue with apparently no exit strategy in both wars? Here’s why. Wars run up the deficit. They further in debt our nation leading us towards collapse. That’s why. Maybe on the surface he doesn’t like war, but what he likes more is the destruction of America. And wars, especially wars of the ilk we’re in, are good ingredients for an American demise. Bad for America.

ENERGY. He lied about off shore drilling is now, given the gulf crisis, back tracking from his lie during the State of the Union Address. He keeps arguing for “going green” despite the established proof that it costs jobs, hurts the economy, and is a camouflage for more government control, regulation and burden on the economy. If you think “green” is good, check out Spain with its twenty percent unemployment rate. Bad for America.

DEFICITS. Deficits are a looming if not already arrived disaster for America and yet Obama keeps spending, keeps growing government, keeps borrowing. Bad for America.

I could go on with more examples of his policies, i.e. “don’t ask don’t tell, offshore drilling, contempt for profits, contempt for information (he recently said there was too much information and argument on the internet and talk radio which injures emancipation and democracy), his anti-Second Amendment, his belief that the Constitution is incomplete because it doesn’t address redistributive justice, and more. But I’ve said enough. You get my point. Obama doesn’t like America, at least not the America we love and cherish and the one that the world needs so desperately.

So face it folks, the facts of the matter reveal it. He says it. His minions say it. Obama and his minions want to destroy the America that saved Europe from Hitler, the America that is prosperous and generous, the America that has freedom and liberty as its driving force. He said as much when he repeatedly said that he wants to fundamentally change America. I’ve said it before, but fundamental is defined as the origin of existence and that’s what Obama wants to change, our origin of existence which are our god given, not Washington allowed, rights as set forth in our Constitution.

Rush Limbaugh was right when he said he wants Obama to fail. I do too. Any true American should, because his failure means we’ve saved America, the greatest nation in the history of man built on a simple yet exquisite document which our President has contempt, which our President doesn’t even understand. And I have hope and confidence that he will fail, because no man is capable of fighting our fundamentals, they are God given, and regardless of what our main stream media thinks of Obama, he’s nothing compared to God. And there’s nothing wrong with desiring a foe to fail. Just like a sporting event, you want your team to win and the other team to lose and that’s metaphorically what we have here, two competing teams with diametrically opposed philosophies. O.K., I’ll say it another way. I want our side to win. I want it to be a blow out. I want good to prevail over evil but notwithstanding that I believe that our fundamentals are God given and the obvious implication that if you are against our fundamentals you are fighting with God, a bad fight to pick, I’ll save the good versus evil for another blog.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said Sunday that American, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, US Airways and JetBlue Airways each have committed to him that they would not institute fees for carry-on bags. He said he was hopeful other carriers would follow suit. Spirit airlines will charge fees for carry on baggage. Mr. Schumer said he planned to meet with the leadership of Spirit Airlines in the coming week. Mr. Schumer’s intention is to change Spirit’s mind. He will have an uphill battle. Ben Baldanza, Spirit’s president and CEO, told the Associated Press on Sunday that his airline still plans to go forward with its carry-on bag fee.

Good for Mr. Baldanza! The audacity of Senator Chuck Schumer to even think that somehow he as the authority to tell a private enterprise how much to charge is amazing, not to mention un-American. What are these Washingtonians thinking? Do they need a refresher course on free enterprise and liberty? They do. In fact a bunch of them need a refresher course, a “what for” in their faces. For example:

Representative Henry Waxman called upon the CEO’s of Verizon Communications, AT&T, Deere & Co. and Caterpiller to testify as to why they wrote internal memos to their employees describing how President Obama’s takeover of the health care industry will cost millions of dollars – billions in the case of AT&T. The non-political memos stated how their company’s would be affected by ObamaCare. The corporations that are under fire are required by law, the Security and Exchange Commission, to report this information.

President Obama, twelve days after being elected as President of the United States, was quoted to saying in a one-on-one television interview on 60 Minutes with Steve Kroft what he wanted to do for college football’s maligned championship game selection. Kroft asked “As president of the United States, what can you do, or what do you plan to do, about getting a college football playoff for the national championship?”

President Obama answered: “I think any sensible person would say that if you’ve got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there’s no clear decisive winner that we should be creating a playoff system. Eight teams. That would be three rounds, to determine a national champion. It would it would add three extra weeks to the season. You could trim back on the regular season. I don’t know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this. So, I’m gonna throw my weight around a little bit. I think it’s the right thing to do.”

Senator Orin Hatch: The Obama administration and top Republican Orrin Hatch may become the driving force behind a legal move to force a college football playoff system.The AP says the Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, the Justice Department said in a letter Friday to a senator who had asked for an antitrust review. In the letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, obtained by The Associated Press, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote that the Justice Department is reviewing Hatch’s request and other materials to determine whether to open an investigation into whether the BCS violates anti-trust laws.

Of course, there’s AIG, General Motors, Chrylser, Obama-Care, and the new push, financial regulation. How convenient that the Justice Department filed a civil action against Goldman Sachs just days before Obama visists New York City to push financial reform.
Obama’s financial reform plan would create a new government body, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), which would “write rules, oversee compliance and address violations by non-bank providers (!), as well as banking institutions.” This agency would have to enforce its rules and would, according to the Obama design, be able to go after any firm that offers credit to consumers. Any firm! Obama’s plan would allow the CEO of the United States, him, to determine which company is “too big to fail.” His plan has a “back stop” for these firms. Government backstopping will allow these firms to be able to borrow at lower interest rates, just as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have for years. (the biggest failures and by coincidence the most protected by government, with no hope of paying us back) have for years. If a firm gets in trouble, wala! Uncle Sam steps in and controls. Uncle Sam loves to control as of late.

Here’s the problem with all of these control tactics. I thought this was the land of the free. Free to succeed, free to fail. I thought if a company charged too much, then the free market would judge. I thought if a group of universities wanted to structure their playoffs in a certain way, go for it, it’s a free country. I thought that if a CEO spoke out, especially if the speaking out was simply complying with the law, go for it Mr. CEO, he wouldn’t get subpoenaed to Congress to explain why he was dissenting. I thought a lot of things, but then the cancer called Washington, led by the ultimate government carcinogenic, Obama, grew malignant. Now I question my thoughts. All of these control tactics are ignorant and contemptuous of American principles, such as liberty, for one. Let’s face it folks, these guys in Washington don’t have a clue about what makes this country tick. They actually believe that it is they who make this country tick. They could not be more wrong. They are parasites and we are the host. They should know that the parasites future does not shine bright when they kill the hosts.

We need to fix this mess. We need to vote the bums out this year, all of them. We need to get to work.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Is our President a Communist? He’s certainly been accused of being one. I thought I should check it out. So I, Reetzality, went to work. So, let’s check it out, but first, let’s get a definition of communism. Here it is:

“Communism is a social structure in which classes are abolished and property is commonly controlled, as well as a political philosophy and social movement that advocates and aims to create such a society.” (See Wikepdia)

REETZALITY! O.K. Now we know what a communism is. Let’s see what President Obama has to say on the subject. Here are some excerpts from Obama’s speech to Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Thank you http://thebobofiles.com/?p=211. Check it out.

“Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more – not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.”

“The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand.”
“This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet. This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all.”

REETZALITY! So let me get this straight. We’re in bed with other nations? We should share our wealth with other nations? We are no longer Americans, we are world citizens? Sounds pretty communal to me. Another question, what about our Constitution, you know the fundamental principles of our great nation? Does that cooperation he’s speaking of require us to blend our Constitution with other nations without a Bill of Rights? It appears President Obama is not really concerned with the principles of nations but only the wealth of nations. And he wants to share it. How do I know? He said so, that’s how. Don’t believe me? Go back to the beginning of this blog and re-read.

Here are some more Obama quotes:

“I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

“It’s not that I want to punish your success; I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you that they’ve got a chance to success, too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” (Said to Joe the Plumber)

“If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK .

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.” (Emphasis added) (Said by President Obama, before he was President, on National Public Radio)

REETZALITY! O.K. He’s said some significantly communist-like things in his career. Who hasn’t? Well, me, and I suspect about 99.9999% of Americans, but who am I to judge? Let’s keep investigating. Let’s check out some of his friends.

HERE ARE SOME OF HIS FRIENDS, care of: http://theobamafile.com/_associates/ObamaAssociates.htm:

WILLIAM AYERS AND BERNADINE DOHRN

William Charles Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and former leader in the anti-war movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for the radical nature of his activism, which began within the anti-war movement of the 1960s. In 1969 he co-founded the violent radical left organization the Weather Underground, which conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s. He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.

Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein, born January 12, 1942) is an American former leader of the Anti-Vietnam War radical organization Weather Underground. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center.

DAVID AXELROD

David Axelrod also has connections that that stretch back to post-War Chicago communism. While a New Yorker by birth, David Axelrod studied political science at the University of Chicago in the early 1970s. Later, while a start-out journalist with the Hyde-Park Herald, Axelrod was mentored by two older journalists cum political activists, Don Rose and David S. Canter.

FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, “Dreams From My Father,” refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.”

GRAHAM-FELSEN

Graham-Felsen ran the Obama campaign’s blog. He spent time in France taking part in labor riots, has written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.

ANITA DUNN-MAOIST

Obama administration Communications Director Anita Dunn commended the wisdom of mass murdering Communist Chairman Mao in her address to high school students this past June. Dunn cited Mao as one of her two favorite political philosophers.

GREGORY GALLUZZO-SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST STUDENT OF ALINSKY

A former Jesuit priest and executive director of the Gamaliel Foundation, Galluzzo was interview by New Republic’s Ryan Lizza and showed him the training manual he uses with new organizers. Galluzzo told Lizza that many new trainees have an aversion to Saul Alinsky’s gritty approach because they come to organizing as idealists rather than realists. Galluzzo, along with fellow trainer Mike Kruglik, schooled Obama in Alinsky tactics. The Developing Communities Project, Obama’s first employer in Chicago, was part of the Gamaliel network of organizations.

PATRICK GASPARD-SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST

In June 2009 Patrick Gaspard, a Brooklyn-based, 41-year-old Democratic operative, became White House director of the Office of Political Affairs. Gaspard’s ties to the groups behind ACORN-the groups that helped President Obama during his Chicago days-Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist Party offshoot Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. Like Obama, Patrick Gaspard wrote poetry. Like Obama , Patrick Gaspard grew up admiring third world leftists and revolutionaries. He reportedly idolized Aime Cesaire, a radical poet/politician from the French colony of Martinique.

JEFF JONES

Jeff Jones is a co-author of Obama’s Stimulus Bill. He used to be a terrorist. Jones was a national officer in Students for a Democratic Society, a founding member of Weatherman, and a leader of the Weather Underground. Jones is part of the Apollo Group, which was founded by Van Jones — Obama’s former “Green Czar.” The Apollo Group, under Jeff and Van Jones’ direction, basically wrote Barack Obama’s stimulus bill. During World War II, Jones’ father was a pacifist and conscientious objector who was assigned for the duration of the war, to a civilian work camp in the Sierra Mountains of California. Ironic, a pacifist breading a terrorist.

VAN JONES

Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults.Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”
“I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’ I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary,” he said.

MARILYN KATZ

Marilyn Katz is a Chicago public relations consultant and political operative, who has known David Axelrod for 30 years. Katz claims it was she who introduced Obama to the “activist network” in Chicago.

RASHID KHALIDI-PLO SPOKESMAN

Rashid Khalidi, an apologist and spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Director of the Middle East Institute (MEI) at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. In his role as MEI Director, Khalidi presides over a $300,000 annual grant from the federal government. He ranks among the most prominent members of the Middle Eastern studies community in the United States. His books are among the most frequently assigned works on the Middle East in American college syllabi. Arab and American media outlets alike seek him out regularly as a leading authority on the Middle East. In the 1990s, Obama and his wife were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Chicago home. During the 2000 election cycle, Mr. and Mrs. Khalidi organized a fundraiser for Barack Obama’s unsuccessful congressional bid.

MIKE KLONSKY-COMMUNIST

Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology in the American classroom. Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million. Obama, moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a “social justice” blog on the official Obama campaign website.

SAUL MENDELSON

State Senator Barack Obama probably knew Saul Mendelson through their mutual activism in Independent Voters of Illinois, an organization investigated for communist infiltration as far back as the 1940s. On March 13th 1998, Saul Mendelson, a lifelong socialist activist died in Chicago. Mendelson had been a member of various Trotskyist factions in the 1930s and ’40s before joining the US Socialist Party and later DSA. In 1983 Saul Mendelson played a significant role in the election of Harold Washington. The Saul Mendelson Memorial Service was held on Sunday, March 29, 1998, at the First Unitarian Church, Chicago.

According to Chicago DSA leader, the late Carl Marx Shier (who addressed the gathering);

At the memorial service held at the 1st Unitarian Church on South Woodlawn, speaker after speaker recounted Saul’s contributions…speakers included Deborah Meier…Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, State Senator Barak Obama, Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie and a good friend from New York, Myra Russell.

The concluding remarks were made by an old friend, Harriet Lefley, who is now Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami Medical School.
Alderman Toni Preckwinkle and Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, are both leftist Democrats with ties to Chicago’s socialist community. Both endorsed Barack Obama in his successful 2004 bid for the US Senate.

Eulogies also came from Quinn Brisben, (Socialist Party presidential candidate 1976, 1992) and David McReynolds (Socialist Party presidential candidate 1980, 2000).

DEBORAH MEIER

Deborah Meier was a former Trotskyist and Socialist Party comrade of Saul Mendelson’s and a leader of Chicago and Boston DSA.

MIKE KRUGLIK-SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST STUDENT OF ALINSKY

Taught Barack Obama in the Alinsky method.

LINDA RAE MURRAY

Linda Rae Murray left the Communist Party in 1992 and has since worked closely with Committees of Correspondence and Democratic Socialists of America. She is a prominent Chicago health professional and the the immediate past president of Quentin Young’s Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. Murray is a leading and very active advocate for “single payer” and has just been elected president of the American Public Health Association — a post Quentin Young held in 1988. There is a picture of her with President Obama and his wife.

ALICE PALMER

In 1995, Alice Palmer represented the state’s 13th District, and decided to run for the United States Congress. She hand-picked Barack Obama to run to replace her. She was an executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council, which the FBI identified as a communist front group, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front group. She participated in the World Peace Council’s 1983 Prague Assembly, part of the Soviet launch of the nuclear-freeze movement. In June 1986, while editor of the Black Press Review, she wrote an article for the Communist Party USA’s newspaper, the People’s Daily World, now the People’s Weekly World. It detailed her experience attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how impressed she was by the Soviet system. Palmer gushed at the “Soviet plan to provide people with higher wages and better education” and spoke of the efficiency of the Soviets’ most recent five-year plan, attributing its success to “central planning.” She praised their “comprehensive affirmative action program, which they have stuck to religiously — if I can use the word — since 1917.”

PERCY SUTTON

New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.

QUENTIN YOUNG

DSA member, former communist and long time Obama friend. The New Zeal blog is reporting that Dr. Quentin Young has been a close friend, personal physician and political mentor to Barack Obama for more than 20 years. He is the father of the US socialized healthcare movement and proudly admits to having tutored his friend Barack Obama in the subject. Young, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, was a member of the Young Communist League in his teens. He was also accused of membership of the Bethune Club of the Communist Party ( a party doctor’s group) by a government commission investigating the 1968 Democratic Party Convention riots in Chicago. Young has been the US’s most active proponent of “single payer” or socialzed healthcare for decades — firstly through his medical committee for Human Rights, then his Physicians for a National Health Program and his Health and Medicine Policy Research Group.

REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT

Leftist black nationalist preacher, who preached African-American unity through antipathy toward whites. The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, who acted as Obama’s personal spiritual adviser, is militantly Afrocentric. His website proudly claimed, “We are an African people, and remain ‘true to our native land,’ the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.” On March 21st, 2010, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, said that people voted for socialism when they voted for Obama. He said it to Geraldo Rivera.

ZACH POLLET-WEATHERMAN

Former Weatherman, Zach Pollet, became ACORN’s political director and the head of ACORN’s Project Vote, now embroiled in voter fraud investigations in several states.

REETZALITY! So he’s got some unsavory and close friends. By the way, these “friends” are each one degree of separation away from President Obama. That means he knows them personally. Heck, who doesn’t have some unsavory friends? I do, but then, I’m a criminal defense lawyer. I’m not judging Mr. President. To use a phrase I find humorous, “I’m just saying . . .” Actually, I’m just “posting.” . . . things I found on the Web.

O.K. Let’s do an interim run down. I gave you a definition of communism. I listed some communistic quotes of President Obama. I listed some communistic friends of President Obama. Let’s try to bring it together. Let’s use Obama-Care to assess whether his policies are communistic.

Here we go. Here are some of our loss of freedoms, thank you Obama-care and thank you, Dr. Jamie Mitchell and David Hogberg at: http://walkinginwisdom.com/archive/2010/03/24/loss-of-freedom-thru-health-care.aspx

1. You are young and don’t want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the “privilege.” (Section 1501)
2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You’ll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That’s because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person’s health status. (Section 2701).
3. You would like to pay less in premiums by buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer such policies, even if that is what customers prefer. (Section 2711).
4. Think you’d like a policy that is cheaper because it doesn’t cover preventive care or requires cost-sharing for such care? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer policies that do not cover preventive services or offer them with cost-sharing, even if that’s what the customer wants. (Section 2712).
5. You are an employer and you would like to offer coverage that doesn’t allow your employees’ slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26? Tough. (Section 2714).
6. You must buy a policy that covers ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services; chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.
You’re a single guy without children? Tough, your policy must cover pediatric services. You’re a woman who can’t have children? Tough, your policy must cover maternity services. You’re a teetotaler? Tough, your policy must cover substance abuse treatment. (Add your own violation of personal freedom here.) (Section 1302).
7. Do you want a plan with lots of cost-sharing and low premiums? Well, the best you can do is a “Bronze plan,” which has benefits that provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60% of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan. Anything lower than that, tough. (Section 1302 (d)(1)(A))
8. You are an employer in the small-group insurance market and you’d like to offer policies with deductibles higher than $2,000 for individuals and $4,000 for families? Tough. (Section 1302 (c) (2) (A).
9. If you are a large employer (defined as at least 101 employees) and you do not want to provide health insurance to your employee, then you will pay a $750 fine per employee (It could be $2,000 to $3,000 under the reconciliation changes). Think you know how to better spend that money? Tough. (Section 1513).
10. You are an employer who offers health flexible spending arrangements and your employees want to deduct more than $2,500 from their salaries for it? Sorry, can’t do that. (Section 9005 (i)).
11. If you are a physician and you don’t want the government looking over your shoulder? Tough. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to use your claims data to issue you reports that measure the resources you use, provide information on the quality of care you provide, and compare the resources you use to those used by other physicians. Of course, this will all be just for informational purposes. It’s not like the government will ever use it to intervene in your practice and patients’ care. Of course not. (Section 3003 (i))
12. If you are a physician and you want to own your own hospital, you must be an owner and have a “Medicare provider agreement” by Feb. 1, 2010. (Dec. 31, 2010 in the reconciliation changes.) If you didn’t have those by then, you are out of luck. (Section 6001 (i) (1) (A)).
13. If you are a physician owner and you want to expand your hospital? Well, you can’t (Section 6001 (i) (1) (B). Unless, it is located in a country where, over the last five years, population growth has been 150% of what it has been in the state (Section 6601 (i) (3) ( E)). And then you cannot increase your capacity by more than 200% (Section 6001 (i) (3) (C)).
14. You are a health insurer and you want to raise premiums to meet costs? Well, if that increase is deemed “unreasonable” by the Secretary of Health and Human Services it will be subject to review and can be denied. (Section 1003)
15. The government will extract a fee of $2.3 billion annually from the pharmaceutical industry. If you are a pharmaceutical company what you will pay depends on the ratio of the number of brand-name drugs you sell to the total number of brand-name drugs sold in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the brand-name drugs in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2.3 billion, or $230,000,000. (Under reconciliation, it starts at $2.55 billion, jumps to $3 billion in 2012, then to $3.5 billion in 2017 and $4.2 billion in 2018, before settling at $2.8 billion in 2019 (Section 1404)). Think you, as a pharmaceutical executive, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 9008 (b)).
16. The government will extract a fee of $2 billion annually from medical device makers. If you are a medical device maker what you will pay depends on your share of medical device sales in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the medical devices in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2 billion, or $200,000,000. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for R&D? Tough. (Section 9009 (b)).
The reconciliation package turns that into a 2.9% excise tax for medical device makers. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 1405).
17. The government will extract a fee of $6.7 billion annually from insurance companies. If you are an insurer, what you will pay depends on your share of net premiums plus 200% of your administrative costs. So, if your net premiums and administrative costs are equal to 10% of the total, you will pay 10% of $6.7 billion, or $670,000,000. In the reconciliation bill, the fee will start at $8 billion in 2014, $11.3 billion in 2015, $1.9 billion in 2017, and $14.3 billion in 2018 (Section 1406).Think you, as an insurance executive, know how to better spend that money? Tough.(Section 9010 (b) (1) (A and B).)
18. If an insurance company board or its stockholders think the CEO is worth more than $500,000 in deferred compensation? Tough.(Section 9014).
19. You will have to pay an additional 0.5% payroll tax on any dollar you make over $250,000 if you file a joint return and $200,000 if you file an individual return. What? You think you know how to spend the money you earned better than the government? Tough. (Section 9015). That amount will rise to a 3.8% tax if reconciliation passes. It will also apply to investment income, estates, and trusts. You think you know how to spend the money you earned better than the government? Like you need to ask. (Section 1402).
20. If you go for cosmetic surgery, you will pay an additional 5% tax on the cost of the procedure. Think you know how to spend that money you earned better than the government? Tough. (Section 9017).

REETZALITY! OUCH! Let’s revisit the definition of communism to begin to close this discussion. Here it is, again:

“Communism is a social structure in which classes are abolished and property is commonly controlled, as well as a political philosophy and social movement that advocates and aims to create such a society.” (See Wikepdia)

So, where are we? Let’s break it down and see if the pegs fit in the holes. Here we go:

1. Communism is a social structure in which classes are abolished. . . Certainly, under Obama-care, everybody has health care, supposedly, and because the “secretary” controls it all, everybody has the same health care. Under Obama-care we are all in the same social class when it comes to health care. So do you mean that no matter how much and how hard I work, a person who smokes, drinks, and doesn’t work is “entitled” to the same health care? Yes, class has been abolished. Damn! The first prong of the communist analysis went, well, communism. Damn again! (However, this may not be entirely true. Due to the Physicians leaving the field, running from Obama-care, and the impending shortages of physicians, there may still be classes. Unfortunately, I think upper class will mean that you are first in line and lower class means that you are last in line.)
2. . . . and property is commonly controlled . . . O.K , I’m going to fall back on my B.S. degree in Economics to explain and question this one. “Commonly controlled” means that control is not vested in the individual, it is “commonly controlled” by a government for all. Under Obama-care, the property, being the money, services, and the actual physical structures, are not controlled by the individual. Under Obama-care they are “commonly controlled” by the government. The individual’s property is taken and redistributed so that all class status in the access to health care is abolished. Damn, for a third time. The second prong of the communist analysis went communist too.
3. . . . as well as a political philosophy and social movement that advocates and aims to create such a society. Uh Oh! President Obama’s philosophy, if consistent with his statements, propounds a social movement. That’s for sure. More Uh Oh! If his philosophies are consistent with his policies, see Obama-care, he “aims to create such a society.” Damn, for a fourth time. It appears President’s health care plan, now law, passes the communist test. IT’S IN! But I’m just saying. . .

But how can this be? This is America. It is of the greatest contradictions to impose communism on America. This cannot be true! It cannot be reconciled with the Constitution, you know, the one that President Obama said the Warren Court “didn’t break free from . . . ,” that one. He also said, he wants to fundamentally change America. I know I’m repeating myself from past blogs, but this is important: Fundamental is defined by Webster’s College Dictionary as “the origin of existence.” So again, given that the constitution is the origin of our Nation’s existence and President Obama wants to “fundamentally” change our Nation, is it a great a leap of faith to surmise that Obama isn’t a fan of the Constitution? I’m just asking . . .

But who am I to question the President? Of course he’s a fan of the Constitution, the origin of our existence. He’s just says things that inherently contradict its principles, has numerous acquaintances who are un-American, and passes law that fit eerily into the definition of communism and cannot co-exist (I love those bumper stickers-sarcasm) with constitutional principles. But I’m just saying. . .

But really? Is it possible that he does love the Constitution because it provides him the freedom and liberty to destroy it? Is it possible he has a love-hate relationship with it? No, no, no! It’s oxymoronic to love something (the Constitution) because the thing (the Constitution) gives you the freedom to destroy it. He wouldn’t think that way, would he? He’s a progressive after all. Again, I’m just asking. Just posing questions President Obama, that’s all. Utilizing the Socratic method of inquiry like you probably used when you taught Constitutional law, that’s all I’m doing. Like we all should be doing.

And that’s my longest Reetzality for the Day.

Thank you so much for the long, long, read.

Brett Reetz

Note 1: Mind you, I never called him a communist, not once. I posted information I found on the web with links so you can check it out. I then did some rudimentary analysis. So keep me off the no-fly list, if you don’t, it will screw up my skiing and my family’s skiing too. Because, Mr. President, I’m just saying . . . I’m just asking . . .

Note 2: Why is there a hint of fear in my heart as I write this? I mean, even if it is concluded that President Obama has communist’ tendencies, how bad can a communist be? See Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Chavez for the answer.

Note 3: We need to speak out, loud and clear, and consistent with American principles, that’s why I write this stuff. We need to do so to prevent our nation from being fundamentally changed and we no longer can.

Note 4: Enough already. Well, for now anyway.

Nancy Pelosi, without protest from Harry Reid, threatened to use the “Deeming Rule” to pass the Obama-Care bill which is, in and of itself, an oxymoron because the Deeming Rule actually side steps actual passage of a bill. The Deeming rule “deems” the House of Representatives to have voted for the Senate version of the Bill even though no such recorded vote was actually taken. It is currently being referred to as the “Slaughter Solution” because the House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter of New York suggested its use. It is also referred to as the “Self-Executing Rule” and the “Deem and Pass Rule.” The Rule, pick a title, sidesteps Article I of the United States Constitution.

Article I of the United States Constitution requires that before proposed legislation may “become[] a Law,” U.S. CONST. art. I, § 7, cl. 2, “(1) a bill containing its exact text [must be] approved by a majority of the Members of the House of Representatives; (2) the Senate [must] approve[] precisely the same text; and (3) that text [must be] signed into law by the President,” Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417, 448, 118 S.Ct. 2091, 141 L.Ed.2d 393 (1998). (This is legal citation referencing the Supreme Court Case of Clinton v. City of New York).

In Public Citizen v. United States District Court For The District Of Columbia, 486 F3rd 1342, Public Citizen, a not-for-profit consumer advocacy organization, filed suit in District Court claiming that the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Pub.L. No. 109-171, 120 Stat. 4 (2006) (“DRA” or “Act”), is invalid because the bill that was presented to the President did not first pass both chambers of Congress in the exact same form. (SOUND FAMILIAR?) In particular, Public Citizen contends that the statute’s enactment did not comport with the bicameral passage requirement of Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, because the version of the legislation that was presented to the House contained a clerk’s error with respect to one term, so the House and Senate voted on slightly different versions of the bill and the President signed the version passed by the Senate.

This is what Slaughter and Pelosi have threatened to do using the “Deeming Rule.” They have threatened to “Deem” passed a bill which wasn’t passed. The argument against it’s use is that it denies bicameralism which means it denies the requirement that both the House and Senate pass the same bill as set forth in Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution. Please know, in Public Citizens the distinction between the two bills was a clerical error with respect to a single term, thus the House and Senate voted on slightly different versions of the bill.

The District Court held that Public Citizen’s bicameralism claim is foreclosed by the Supreme Court’s decision in Marshall Field & Co. v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649, 12 S.Ct. 495, 36 L.Ed. 294 (1892). The Court held that the judiciary must treat the attestations of “the two houses, through their presiding officers” as “conclusive evidence that [a bill] was passed by Congress.” Marshall Field, 143 U.S. at 672-73, 12 S.Ct. 495. Under Marshall Field, a bill signed by the leaders of the House and Senate—an attested “enrolled bill”—establishes that Congress passed the text included therein “according to the forms of the Constitution,” and it “should be deemed complete and unimpeachable.” Id. at 672-73, 12 S.Ct. 495.

What does this mean? It means that the court held that “enrolled bill rule” prohibited it from questioning the congressional pedigree of the bill signed by the Speaker and President pro tempore. A bill is enrolled when it is entered in the Congressional Journals. Here’s some more legal jargon for you:

“Engrossed Bills” and “Enrolled Bills” in the House and Senate:

Every bill . . . in each House of Congress shall, when such bill . . . passes either House, be printed, and such printed copy shall be called the ENGROSSED BILL. Said ENGROSSED BILL . . . shall be signed by the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate, and shall be sent to the other House, and in that form shall be dealt with by that House and its officers, and, if passed, returned signed by said Clerk or Secretary.

When such bill . . . shall have passed both Houses, it shall be printed and shall then be called the ENROLLED BILL, . . . signed by the presiding officers of both Houses and sent to the President of the United States

Thus, an “engrossed bill” is a bill passed by either house. An “enrolled bill” has passed both Houses, it is an “enrolled bill.” Here’s some more law: U.S.C. § 106. An “engrossed bill” is thus one that has passed one chamber of Congress, while an “enrolled bill” has passed both the House and the Senate.

The Deeming Rule by-passes the Constitutional requirement that the same bill passes both Houses.

So what happens when the “Deeming Rule” is invoked? Here’s some more law: “Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.”), enshrines congressional journals—not the enrolled bill—as “the best, if not conclusive, evidence upon the issue as to whether a bill was, in fact, passed by the two houses of Congress.” Marshall Field, 143 U.S. at 670, 12 S.Ct. 495.

What does this mean? Here’s what it means: even though the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate have endorsed the bill as having passed the bodies over which they presided, if shown by the Congressional record of proceedings, reports of committees of each house, reports of committees of conference, and other papers printed by authority of Congress” that part of the bill passed was missing in the version enrolled, it is still “deemed” as passed.

In lay terms please: Even though the actual enrolled bills don’t match up, and in the present House and Senate bills they definitely don’t match, the journal entry rules and it only takes one fifth of those present to enter it in the Journal. Wala! We have an “engrossed bill,” ready for Presidential signing. Let’s be more on point. Wala! The Senate Obama-Caere bill is up for signing notwithstanding the fact that it wasn’t passed by the House, notwithstanding that the House bill is different.

Here are some problems with the Slaughter Rule’s application.

1. The object of the Journal Clause is to ensure transparency in legislative activities. Wait, we don’t have transparency going on here. We’ve got back room politics. Thus, Pelosi and Slaughter are contravening the spirit of the law.

2. Congress had long chosen signing of the enrolled bill by the presiding members of both houses as its method of authentication. The problem? There is an inherent trust in the Journal Clause that the “authentication” is actually that, an honest “authentication.” But the fact is, the House and Senate Bills aren’t even close, they’re barely “Dutch Uncles” of each other. And still, the Presiding members of the House and Senate are going to “authenticate” that they are the same. Again, contrary to Constitutional Law. (Note: In the Public Citizens Case, the difference between the two bills was a Medicare provision for duration of payments. One bill had thirteen (13) months, one bill had twenty-six (26) months. That’s it.)

Here’s the good news. In Public Citizens, the court held, relying upon a prior case, Marshall Field, 143 U.S. at 670, 12 S.Ct. 495. “Nothing in the Marshall Field opinion purports to limit application of the enrolled bill rule to journal-based challenges. And neither of the Court’s rationales applies solely to impeachment by journals. No less “uncertainty in the statute laws” upon which “depend public and private interests of vast magnitude, would result from allowing collateral attack of the enrolled bill by congressional documents other than journals. And “the spectacle of examination of journals by [the courts]” no more “subordinates the legislature,” than does inspection of other materials. Marshall Field’s plain language and justification cannot be read to create a rule of dismissal limited to the claims of plaintiffs who rely primarily upon journals to rebut an attested enrolled bill

In lay terms please. The Court isn’t limited to only the journals to decide whether there was a violation of Constitutional law. The Court can look at the actual two bills. The Court can look at at almost anything else they so chose. And in the case of health care, when the Court does look at the actual House and Senate Bills, they will recognize the violation of the Law and they will recognize the fraud in the authentication in the Journal. And, In accordance with Marshall Field, the Court can and should examine the evidence that the authentication in the journal was a travesty of dishonesty. Thus, not only will the Court look at both bills, the law says they should look which legally means “they must look.” And when they do, look out Pelosi!

So have faith. Pelosi and Slaughter are mis-reading the law. Ironically, Pelosi has filed a brief protesting the use of the Deeming rule, the very rule she is now threatening to use.

Here’s some more law: There is nothing that prohibits the Court from looking into a bicameral violation such as the one that Pelosi and Slaughter are proposing. In fact, the law specifically holds that the Journal Entry alone does not dictate the legal analysis. It is my position, and this is Reetzality, not Supreme Court law, but it is based upon Supreme Court law, that given the monstrosity of the differences between the House and Senate Bill, a bicameral challenge will succeed. More lay law: A bicameral challenge will reveal the abusive and unconstitutional use of the “deeming rule” and the fraud in Pelosi’s proposed journal authentication.

So Pelosi, go for it. Deem it passed. And then watch as the whole thing gets thrown out because I assure you, the Court is not going to spend the time figuring out what was passed and what wasn’t passed. They’ll simply find it un-Constitutional based upon your violation of Article I, throw it out, and tell you to start over. What the Court will affirm though is your and your minions’ tyrannical personalities.

Boy, you’d think they’d know this given Obama being a Constitutional Law Professor. But who am I to question.

Again, go for it Pelosi. Deem yourself, Obama, Reid, and the rest of you scoundrels the tyrants that you are.

And that is my long winded technical legal Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the Read. I hope I taught you something.

Brett Reetz

Note: Contact as many representatives as you can and tell them to vote no on Health Care. Tell them to leave America alone. On second thought, tell them just to leave.

In my career as a lawyer, I have been granted the ultimate back stage pass to the lives of folks. I’ve used this pass to develop my sense of people. I am a good judge of character, not because of any special abilities, but because of experience. And I can smell a con. I can feel it in my gut. And a con is a coming, care of Obama. Where? In “his” health care proposal, that’s where. I’ve read it. You can too on www.whitehouse.gov. It is nothing more than a cheap pitch. Picture a used car salesmen in the fifties. It is not a plan. Read it. Repeat: IT IS NOT A PLAN. It is a list of ideals and impossible to accomplish goals with a complete vacancy of actual plans. It is akin to the Christmas list of a delusional seven year old. It’s akin to me saying this to you: “I’m going to make you a billionaire! You in?” Now, you might ask, “how are you going to do that Brett?” Good question. It is the question that the President’s proposal fails to answer. He doesn’t answer the question, “Hey Pres? How are you going to do that?”

Want proof? Here’s what I’m going to do for you. I’m going to list what the President says he’s going to do. Then, I’m going to list the strategies the President’s Proposal sets forth to accomplish his Christmas list on www.whitehouse.gov.

WHAT THE PRESIDENT’S PROPOSAL WILL DO? (It’s a long list, so feel free to cursor down. There are some redundancies too. This is because there are redundancies in the pitch. Pitchmen so often repeat themselves.) Ready? Here I go:

1. Make health care more affordable.
2. expand health care coverage.
3. Make health systems sustainable.
4. Stabilize family budgets.
5. Stabliize the federal budget.
6. Stabilize the economy.
7. Make insurance more affordable.
8. Provide the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history.
9. Reduce premium costs for tens of millions of families.
10. Reduce premium costs for tens of millions of small business owners.
11. Help over 31 million Americans afford coverage who can’t today.
12. Make health care coverage more affordable for many more.
13. Sets up a new competitive health insurance market.
14. Give Americans the same choices as congressman.
15. Bring greater accountability to health care.
16. Lay out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down.
17. Prevents insurance industry abuses.
18. Prevent denial of care.
19. End discrimination against pre-existing conditions.
20. Puts the budget and economy on a more stable path.
21. Reduces the deficit by 100 billion over the next ten years.
22. Reduces the deficit by a trillion over the second decade.
23. Cuts government overspending.
24. Reins in waste.
25. Reins in abuse.
26. Reins in fraud.
27. Bridges differences between the house and senate bill.
28. Incorporates Republican provisions.
29. Provides significant additional federal financing to all states for the expansion of medicaid.
30. Close the drug “donut hole” for seniors.
31. Strengthens the senate bill.
32. Raises the threshold from $23,000 to $27,500 for a family plan which will start in 2018.
33. Improve insurance protection for consumers.
34. Create a new Health Insurance Rate authority.
35. Review and rein in unreasonable rate increases.
36. Review and rein in other unfair practices.
37. Lowers premiums.
38. Increases competition.
39. Increases oversight.
40. Creates new accountability standards.
41. Creates insurance exchanges.
42. Provides tax credits.
43. Provides reduced cost sharing for lower income families.
44. Provides extra assistance to families with income below $55,000.00.
45. Provides additional funding to insurers which will cover between 73% and 94% of health care costs to lower income families.
45. Provides cost sharing assistance to families with incomes between $77,000 and $88,000.
45. Invest in community health centers.
46. Provide 11 billion in funding for community health care centers.
47. Require health insurers to submit their proposed premium increases to State authority.
48. Allows government to determine if a rate increase is unreasonable.
49. Allows government to order health insurers to lower their premiums.
50. Allows government to order health insurers to provide rebates.
51. Allows government to take other actions to make premiums affordable.
52. Provides for a Health Insurance Rate Authority to provide need over sight.
53. Provides for a Health Insurance Rate Authority to help States determine how rate review will be monitored.
54.. Provides for a Health Insurance Rate Authority to monitor insurance market behavior.
55. Provides for “grandfather” clauses to protect existing plans.
56. Requires plans to cover adult dependents up to 26 years old.
57. Prohibits rescissions.
58. Mandates that plans have stronger appeals processes.
59. Requires states insurance authorities to conduct annaul rate reviews, overseen by the HHS Secretary.
60. Provides new protections that prohibit annual and life time limits.
61. Bans pre-existing condition exclusions.
62. Prohibits discrimination in favor of highly compensated individuals.
63. In 2018 requires “grandfathered” plans to cover preventive services with no cost sharing.
64. Provides a “hardship” exemption for people who can’t afford insurance.
65. Protects those who would face premiums of more than 8% of their income.
66. Provides a low cost catastrophic exchange for those whose premiums are greater than 8% of their income.
67. Raises the percent of income assessment that individuals pay if they don’t buy insurance.
68. Provies a $40 billion in tax credits to small business.
69. Exempts businesses with less than 50 employees from employee responsibility policies.
70. Requires employers to help defray the costs if tax payers are paying for their employees health care coverage.
71. Provides an unprecedented array of aggressive new authorities to fight waste, fraud, and abuse.
72. Incorporates a number of additional proposals to fight waste, fraud and abuse.
73. Creates a comprehensive Medicare and Medicaid sanction database.
74. Provides for a central storage location.
75. allows law enforcement access to information related to past sanctions on health care providers, suppliers, and related entities.
76. Will assist in reducing the number of individuals and agencies with a history of fraudulent activities participating in Federal health care programs.
77. Ensures that entities that bill for Medicare on behalf of providers are in good standing.
78. Increases access to health care integrity data.
79. Improve coordination and information sharing in anti-fraud efforts.
80. Broadens access to the data bank to quality control and peer review organizations and private plans that are involved in furnishing items or services reimbursed by Federal Health Care programs.
81. Creates criminal penalties for misuse.
82. Holds Administrative contractors accountable for Federal payment for individuals or entities excluded fromt he Federal programs or itmes or services for which payment is denied.
83. Ensures individuals have access to comprehensive mental health services in the community setting.
84. Strenghtens standards for facilities that seek reimbursement.
85. Ensures that facilities don’t take advantage of the tax payers or Medicare patients.
86. Assists in recovering over payments to providers.
87. Prevents fraudulent health care providers from discharging through bankruptcy.
88. Speeds access to claims data to identify potentially fraudulent payments.
89. Establishes a system for using technology to provide real time data analysis of claim and payment under public programs.
90. Adds strong sanctions, including jail time, for individuals who purchase, sell or distribute Medicare beneficiary identification numbers or billing privileges under Medicare or Medicaid.
91. Requires HHS to study and issue a report to congress that examines costs and benefits of assigning universal product numbers to selected items and services.
92. Requires States to monitor and remediate high risk billing activity.
93. Requires States to monitor high risk billing activity to identify prescribing and utilization patterns that may indicate abuse or excessive prescription drug utilization.
94. Save taxpayer dollars.
95. Requires in statute that the HHS Secretary to extrapolate the error rate found in the risk adjustment data validation (RADV) audits to the entire Medicare Advantage contract payment for a given year when recouping payments.
96. Requires the extrapolation of risk score errors in MA plans.
97. Modifies statutory provisions that currently limit random medical review.
98. Places statutory limitations on the application of Medicare repayment review.
99. Modifies certain medical review limitations.
100. Gives Medicare contractors better and more efficient access to medical records and claims.
101. Authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid to work collaboratively with the IRS to determine which providers have seriously delinquent tax debt.
102. Help identify potentially fraudulent providers sooner.
103. Targets high risk providers types in high vulnerability areas.
104. Enables both the IRS and Medicare to recoup monies owed to the Federal government.
105. Requires the IRS to disclose to CMS those entities that have evaded filing taxes.
106. Matches data against provider billing data.
107. Enable CMS to better detect fraudulent providers billing Medicare programs.
108. Adopts a provision from the bipartisan legislation that gives the FTC enforcement authority to speed up the introduction of generic drugs.
109. Makes anti-competitive and unlawful any agreement in which generic drug manufacturers receive any value for limiting research.
110. Requires chief executive officers of brand name pharmaceutical companies to certify to the accuracy and completeness of any agreements filed with the FTC.
111. Creates a set of benchmarks payments at different perecentages of the current average fee-for-services costs in an area.
112. Provides bonuses for quality and enrollee satisfaction.
113. Adjusts rebates of savings between benchmark payment and actual plan bid to take into account transition.
114. Requires a payment adjustment for unjustified coding patterns in Medicare Advantage plans that have raised payments more rapidly than the evidence of their enrollees’ health status and costs suggest is warranted, based upon actuarial analysis.
115. changes the effective date of the Senate policy from 2013 to 2018 to provide additional transition time for high-cost plans to become more efficient.
116. Raises the amount of premiums that are exempt from the assessment from $8,500 for singles to $10,200 and from $23,000 for families to $27,500 and indexes these amounts for subsequent years at general inflation plus 1 percent.
117. Adjusts the initial threshold upwards automatically.
118. Ensures that the tax affects firms equitably.
119. Includes an adjustment for firms whose health costs are higher due to the age or gender of their workers.
120. No longer counts dental and vision benefits as potentially taxable benefits.
121. Maintains the Senate bill’s permanent adjustment in favor of high-risk occupations such as “first responders.”
122. Adopts the Senate bill approach and adds a 2.9 percent assessment (equal to the combined employer and employee share of the existing HI tax) on income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents, other than such income which is derived in the ordinary course of a trade or business which is not a passive activity (e.g., income from active participation in S corporations) on taxpayers with respect to income above $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples filing jointly.
123. Credits to the HI trust fund the revenues from the tax on unearned income to the Supplemental Medical Insurance (SMI) trust fund.
124. Closes the Medicare “donut hole,” ensuring that seniors do not skip or cut back on needed prescriptions.
125. Creates new revenue for the pharmaceutical industry.
126. Increases the revenue from the assessment on this industry which is $23 billion in the Senate bill by $10 billion over 10 years.
127. Delays the implementation of these fees by one year, until 2011, and makes changes to facilitate administration by the IRS.
128. Adopts the House bill’s policy to clarify that they are not eligible for the tax credit.
129. Prevents unjustified tax shelters by clarifying the circumstances under which transactions have “economic substance” (as opposed to being undertaken solely to obtain tax benefits).
130. Raises the penalties for transactions that lack economic substance.
131. Replaces the variable State support in the Senate bill with uniform 100% Federal support for all States for newly eligible individuals from 2014 through 2017, 95% support for 2018 and 2019, and 90% for 2020 and subsequent years.
132. Increases States’ matching rate on certain health care services by 8 percentage points beginning in 2014.
133. Provides additional assistance to the Territories, raising the Medicaid funding cap by 35% rather than the Senate bill’s 30%.
134. Simplifies eligibility rules for various existing programs as well as for the new tax credits.
135. Conform income definitions to make the system simpler for beneficiaries to navigate and States and the Federal government to administer by: changing the definition of income used for assistance from modified gross income to modified adjusted gross income.
136. Creates a 5% income disregard for certain Medicaid eligibility determinations to ease the transition from States’ current use of income disregards.
137. Streamlines the income reconciliation process for determining tax credits and reduced cost sharing.
138. Clarifies the tax treatment of employer contributions for adult dependent coverage.
139. Delays and Reforms Fees on Health Insurance Providers.
140. Delays the senate proposal assessment until 2014 to coincide with broader coverage provisions which will substantially expand the market for health insurance providers.
141. Provides limited exemptions for plans that serve critical purposes for the community, including non-profits that receive more than 80 percent of their income from government programs targeting low-income or elderly populations, or those with disabilities, as well as for voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations (VEBAs) that are not established by employers.
142. Delays and Converts Fees on Medical Device Manufacturers to Excise Tax.
143. Provides the medical device industry expanded health insurance coverage.
144. Replaces the medical device fee with an excise tax (yielding the same revenue) that starts in 2013 to facilitate administration by the IRS.
145. Makes a series of changes to the Senate bill to improve the CLASS program’s financial stability and ensure its long-run solvency.
146. Protects the Social Security Trust Funds.
147. Provides that, if necessary, funds will be transferred to the Social Security Trust Funds to ensure that they are held harmless by the Proposal.
148. Requires careful, effective, deliberate, and transparent implementation.
149. Appropriates $1 billion for the Administration to implement health insurance reform policies.
150. Delays several of the policies to ensure effective implementation and improve transitions.
151. Delays the therapeutic discovery credit.
152. Eliminates the deduction for expenses allocable to the Medicare Part D subsidy, the pharmaceutical and medical device industry fees, and the health insurance industry fee.
153. Puts individuals, families and small business owners in control of their health care.
154. Reduces premium costs for millions of working families and small businesses by providing hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief.
155. Provides for the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history.
156. Reduces what families will have to pay for health care by capping out-of-pocket expenses.
157. Requires preventive care to be fully covered without any out-of-pocket expense.
158. Provides that Americans with insurance coverage who like what they have, can keep it.
159. Provides that Americans without insurance coverage will be able to choose the insurance coverage that works best for them in a new open, competitive insurance market.
160. The insurance Exchange will pool buying power and give Americans new affordable choices of private insurance plans that have to compete for their business based on cost and quality.
161. Small business owners will not only be able to choose insurance coverage through this exchange, but will receive a new tax credit to help offset the cost of covering their employees.
162. Keeps insurance companies honest by setting clear rules that rein in the worst insurance industry abuses.
163. Bans all insurance companies from denying insurance coverage because of a person’s pre-existing medical conditions.
164. Gives consumers new power to appeal insurance company decisions that deny doctor ordered treatments covered by insurance.
165. Provides that American families and small business owners will begin to experience the benefits of this common-sense reform:
166. Provides that Americans with pre-existing conditions will have the choice of quality, affordable insurance through a new insurance pool.
167. Small business owners will be eligible for billions in tax credits to help offer insurance coverage to employees.
168. Paperwork reduction and simplified forms will reduce costs for doctors, employers and consumers.
169. New plans will have to offer preventive care and immunizations at no cost.
170. New plans will have to cover an enrollee’s dependent children until age 26.
171. Creates a re-insurance program for employers that offer health insurance to their early retirees.
172. Will save as much as $1,200 for every family enrolled.
173. Creates a new website to help consumers compare different insurance coverage options along with state-by-state health care consumer assistance and ombudsman for any of their health insurance questions.
174. Requires Public disclosure by insurance companies of the amounts they spend on administrative expenses including advertising, profits and salaries compared to what they spend for care.
175. Requires clear and easy-to-understand insurance documents to help Americans make decisions when shopping for health insurance.
176. Creates a new independent appeals process so consumers and patients can appeal insurance company decisions.
177. Makes it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage for children because of a pre-existing medical condition.
178. Provides rebates to consumers from insurance companies when they spend a large percentage of consumers’ premiums on advertising, bonuses and other administrative expenses instead of patient care.
179. Reviews unreasonable insurance premium increases and rebates if unjustified.
180. Reviews health insurers with a pattern of excessive rate increases.
181. Removes arbitrary lifetime or yearly limits on coverage
182. Prevents insurance companies from dropping insurance coverage when a person gets sick and needs it most.
183. Imposes common sense reforms in a step by step fashion so that families and small business owners have the information they need to make the choices that work best for them.
184. Creates a new insurance marketplace that lets individuals and families without coverage and small business owners pool their resources and increase their buying power to make insurance more affordable.
185. Requires private insurance companies to compete for business based on cost and quality. 186. Requires private insurance companies to follow common-sense rules of the road that rein in the worst insurance industry abuses.
187. Provides that Americans who lose their jobs, change jobs, move out of state, get divorced or get sick will always have quality affordable health care they can rely on.
188. Provides new choices for Americans who get coverage through their job but can’t afford it.
189. Provides a level playing field with big businesses for small business owners.
190. Lowers the costs for small business owners.
191. Requires every member of Congress to purchase their insurance from the new health insurance exchange.
192. Provides the largest tax cut for health care in American history.
193. Provides millions of families with hundreds of billions of dollars in tax credits to help them pay for insurance in the new exchanges.
194. Will make insurance more affordable for those who can’t get it through work or whose employer insurance is too expensive.
195. Provides financial assistance to reduce out-of-pocket costs for moderate and low-income eligible Americans.
196. Provides tens of billions in tax credits for small business owners to make insurance coverage more affordable.
197. Provides small businesses with a new option of purchasing insurance through the exchanges.
198. Provides that small business owners will lower their costs and have the same choices that big corporations and unions enjoy.
199. Requires insurance companies to abide by new consumer protections.
200. Keeps insurance companies honest.
201. Reins in some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry.
202. Bans insurance companies from denying coverage or setting premiums based of your health status.
203. Bans insurance companies from denying coverage or setting premiums based upon medical history.
204. Bans insurance companies from denying coverage or setting premiums based upon genetic information.
205. Bans insurance companies from denying coverage or setting premiums based upon evidence of domestic violence.
206. Bans insurance companies from setting different premiums based on gender.
207. Bans insurance companies from setting different premiums based upon salary.
208. Bans insurance companies from dropping coverage when someone gets sick.
209. Bans insurance companies from refusing to renew someone’s coverage because of an illness.
210. Prevents insurance companies from discriminating against older Americans.
211. Requires insurance companies to limit the amount they can charge based on age.
212. Makes sure that insurance is there when you need it.
213. Requires insurance companies to cover minimum benefits that every American can count on.
214. Prevents an illness from ruining a family financially by limiting out-of-pocket expenses that individuals and families have to pay for treatments they need.
215. Asks everyone to take responsibility for improving America’s health care.
216. Requires all Americans who can afford to purchase insurance to do so.
217. Requires those who can afford insurance to purchase it to cover emergency room care for Americans without insurance.
218. Provides individuals and families eligibility for a waiver from the requirement to purchase health insurance if coverage is unaffordable, if premiums exceed 8 percent of income.
219. Provides exceptions for religious objectors.
220. Provides exceptions for taxpayers with incomes below the tax-filing threshold ($9,350 for a single or $18,700 for a married couple in 2009), and Indian tribe members.
221. Provides that Americans under the age of 30 and other Americans who are exempt from the requirement to purchase insurance eligibility for a low-cost catastrophic plan that covers serious illness and injury.
222. Requires larger companies that offer coverage to automatically enroll any new eligible employees.
223. Requires any company with 50 or more employees that does not offer coverage and whose employees access taxpayer supported health programs to help offset the costs to the American taxpayer.
224. Provides that no small business owner will be required to enroll an employee or to offset health costs to taxpayers.
225. Provides small business owners with incentives to cover employees through tax credits.
226. Provides small business owners the ability to enjoy greater buying power and insurance choices in the exchanges.
227. Extends Medicaid to more working families while treating all States equally.
228. Preserves CHIP, the children’s insurance plan.
229. Simplifies enrollment for individuals and families.
230. Enhances community-based care for Americans with disabilities.
231. Provides States with opportunities to expand home care services to people with long-term care needs.
232. Gives flexibility to States to adopt innovative strategies to improve care.
233. Gives flexibility to States to coordinate services for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
234. Saves taxpayer money by reducing prescription drug costs and payments to subsidize care for uninsured Americans.
235. Gives more Americans insurance under reform.
236. Allows states to expand Medicaid eligibility to more individuals.
237. Allows all low-income, non-elderly and non-disabled individuals will be eligibility for Medicaid.
238. Provides Medicaid for all unemployed adults and working famlies.
239. Provides Medicaid for all people with income below $29,000 for a family of four (133% of poverty).
240. Requires the Federal Government to support States by providing 100% of the cost of newly eligible people between 2014 and 2017, 95% of the costs between 2018 and 2019, and 90 percent matching for subsequent years.
241. Requires all states to be treated equally.
241. Precludes any special matching rates for Medicaid.
242. Preserves the CHIP program.
243. Requires States to maintain income eligibility levels for CHIP through September 30, 2019 with funding extended through FY2016.
244. Provides states, in FY2016, to receive a 23 percentage point increase to their CHIP matching rate to help them cover children under the program.
245. Provides Individuals streamlined, easy to use, State-by-State websites to participate in Medicaid or CHIPS programs.
245. Coordinates procedures to provide seamless enrollment, save time and lower administrative costs.
246. Provides Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities who would otherwise require care in a hospital, nursing facility, or intermediate care facility with a new option offered by States for community-based attendant services and supports.
247. Requires the Federal government to offer increased assistance for States who offer these community-based services.
248. Allows States to provide home and community-based services and full Medicaid benefits to people with long-term care needs.
249. Allows States to extend the “Money Follows the Person” rebalancing demonstration.
250. Protects recipients of home- and community-based services against spousal impoverishment.
251. Increases funding for State Aging and Disability Resource Centers.
252. Improves coordination between the Federal and State governments for dual-eligibles who are low-income and have high rates of chronic diseases and disabling conditions.
253. Improves care and saves money.
254. Saves money with increased rebates on prescription drugs furnished under Medicaid.
255. Increases rebates from 15.1 to 23.1 to more accurately reflect market prices and discounts typically provided by drug manufacturers to large volume purchasers.
256. Requires Drug manufacturers to extend these same rebates to new drug formulations and Medicaid managed care organizations.
257. Saves State governments money as their Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments to cover the costs of the uncompensated care will be reduced as more Americans get insurance coverage under the Act.
258. Provides States with the option to undertake a number of reforms to improve the quality of how care is delivered.
259. Provides demonstration projects in each state to help to identify the most innovative care models that can be replicated throughout the country.
260. Protects and preserves Medicare as a commitment to America’s seniors.
261. Saves thousands of dollars in drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries by closing the coverage gap called the “donut hole.”
262. Incentivizes Doctors, nurses and hospitals to improve care and reduce unnecessary errors that harm patients.
263. Enhances access for rural America to health care services in underserved areas.
264. Takes important steps to make sure that we can keep the commitment of Medicare for the next generation of seniors by ending massive overpayments to insurance companies that cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars per year.
265. Saves taxpayer dollars by keeping people healthier before they join the program.
266. Reduces Medicare’s need to pay to hospitals to care for the uninsured.
267. Makes sure that the quality of care for seniors drives all decisions.
268. Requires a group of doctors and health care experts, not Members of Congress, to come up with their best ideas to improve quality and reduce costs for Medicare beneficiaries.
269. Save seniors on Medicare thousands of dollars.
270. Rewards the highest quality of care for America’s seniors.
271, Provides incentives for doctors, and hospitals that improve quality while providing for better coordination that helps to reduce harmful medical errors and healthcare-acquired infections.
272. Provides innovative payment reforms so providers are rewarded for the quality of care they provide.
273. Rewards innovative practices where doctors and nurse practitioners provide more primary care that is coordinated with every doctor or specialist involved with a patient’s care.
274. Allows Doctors, nurses and hospitals throughout the country to learn from innovative practices to improve the quality of care for seniors throughout the Nation.\
275. Strengthens Medicare for seniors in rural areas by enhancing access to health care services and increasing payments to providers in underserved areas.
276. Levels the playing field with doctors in other parts of the country by making sure that rural doctors and hospitals have incentives to provide care in America’s rural communities.
277. Improves the financial health of Medicare.
278. Improves guaranteed benefits and ensures that they will be preserved by ending the 14% average overpayment to private insurance companies under the Medicare Advantage (MA) program.
279. Requires insurance companies to offer Medicare Advantage plans at reasonable rates so that seniors are guaranteed the best benefits at the best price for all Medicare beneficiaries.
280. Rewards insurance companies if enrollee satisfaction and quality of care are high.
281. Prohibits MA plans from charging seniors more than they would pay for services delivered under the traditional Medicare program.
282. Reduces Medicare payments.
283. Improves the financial health of Medicare.
284. Strengthens the Medicare program.
285. Helps Medicare beneficiaries.
286. Makes sure that doctors and health care experts, not members of Congress, have the primary responsibility of finding ways to protect Medicare benefits for America’s seniors.
287. Creates an independent group of doctors and health care experts tasked with presenting their best ideas to improve the quality of Medicare and reduce costs for Medicare beneficiaries.
288. Bans all ideas that ration care.
289. Bans all ideas that raise taxes.
290. Bans all ideas that raise beneficiary premiums.
291. Bans all ideas that change Medicare benefits.
292. Bans all ideas that alter eligibility.
293. Bans all ideas that alter cost-sharing standards.
294. Transitions from a system focused primarily on treating the sick to one that helps keep people well throughout their lives.
295. Promotes prevention, wellness, and the public health.
296. Provides a funding commitment prevention, wellness, and the public health.
297. Directs the creation of a national prevention and health promotion strategy that incorporates the most effective and achievable methods to improve the health status of Americans.
298. Reduces the incidence of preventable illness and disability in the United States.
299. Saves lives and money in the long run for American families, small businesses, and the Nation.
300. Requires small businesses to compete for grants to develop their own workplace wellness programs that promote better health for employees.
301. Requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and conduct an educational campaign and provide technical assistance to promote the benefits of worksite health promotion to employers, including small businesses.
302. Gives local and state governments the flexibility to develop strategies to prevent the onset of chronic diseases, including those associated with obesity and tobacco use.
303. Provides a new competitive grant that allows communities to tailor programs that make sense for them.
304. Saves money for states by allowing them to purchase vaccines under CDC contracts.
305. strengthens our Nation’s ability to respond to infectious diseases and other threats to public health.
306. Supports the delivery of community prevention and wellness services.
307. Establishes a competitive grant program at the CDC to improve surveillance for and responses to infectious diseases and other public health threats at the State, local, and tribal level.
308. Helps put American families in control of their own health decisions with nutrition and prevention information based on the best science.
309. Requires that certain restaurants and vending machines post calorie information.
310. Provides States and health care providers with additional tools and science-based information to help them develop preventive and obesity-related services for Americans on Medicaid.
311. Strengthens America’s capacity to respond to public health emergencies.
312. Empowers families by giving them tools to find the best science-based nutrition information.
313. Makes prevention and screenings a priority by waiving co-payments for America’s seniors on Medicare.
314. Improves health.
315. Saves lives.
316. Avoids costly complications.
317. Increases prevention and wellness services for Medicare beneficiaries by waiving co-payments for most preventive services.
318. Fully covering an annual wellness visit and personalized prevention plans for American seniors on Medicare.
319. Provides incentives for States to enhance prevention and wellness services for Medicaid beneficiaries.
320. Improves people’s health and saves money.
321. Provides funding for innovative demonstration projects to develop comprehensive models for reducing childhood obesity.
322. Improves data collection and analysis.
323. Facilitates better data sharing.
324. Requires the development of standards for the collection of data regarding the nation’s health and the performance of the nation’s health care, including health disparities.
325. Supports and expands our Nation’s health care workforce.
326. Funds scholarships and loan repayment programs.
327. Funds the increased number of primary care physicians.
328. Funds the increased number of nurses.
329. Funds the increased number of physician assistants.
330. Funds the increased number of mental health providers.
331. Funds the increased number of dentists.
332. Increases the areas of the country that need them.
333. Provides a comprehensive approach focusing on retention and enhanced educational opportunities.
334. Combats the critical nursing shortage.
335. Provides through new incentives and recruitment, the increased supply of public health professionals so that the United States is prepared for health emergencies.
336. Invests in grant programs that support the training of primary care providers, including family medicine, pediatrics, general internal medicine, and physician assistantship.
337. Provides payment bonuses to primary care physicians.
338. Provides state and local governments flexibility and resources to develop health workforce recruitment strategies.
339. Expands critical and timely access to care by funding the expansion, construction, and operation of community health centers throughout the United States.
340. Increases the number of primary care providers, including doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and dentists in the areas of the country that need them most.
341. Provides, through a National Health Service Corps, significant funding for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors, nurses and other providers who provide medical, dental, and mental health care in urban and rural areas that have a shortage of health professionals.
342. Increases the loan repayment amount and enables additional flexibility for providers to meet their service requirements.
343. Creates a loan repayment program for pediatric, mental and behavioral health specialists who provide services to children and adolescents in underserved areas or with underserved populations.
344. Supports scholarships and loan repayments for disadvantaged students who commit to work in medically underserved areas and who serve as faculty in participating institutions.
345. Increase the number of nurses in the Unites States.
346. Retains nurses.
347. Addresses financial barriers that nurses and nurse faculty face today.
348. Rewards competitive grants to nursing schools to strengthen nurse education and training programs.
349. Improves nurse retention programs throughout the country.
350. Increases the student loan amounts for nursing students.
351. Addresses critical nurse faculty shortages by making nursing faculty eligible for loan repayment and scholarship programs.
352. Addresses critical public health workforce shortages.
353. Supports the training of the public health workforce and physicians specializing in preventive medicine.
354. Establishes a Ready Reserve Corps to respond in times of national emergency.
355. Supports fellowship training in public health.
356. Provides grants to promote the community health workforce.
357. Creates a competitive program that awards grants to States to develop effective and comprehensive health care workforce development strategies at the State and local levels.
358. Increases the pipeline of health professionals by supporting the development and implementation of health sciences programs in public secondary schools so that students can prepare for careers in health professions.
359. Creates education and training grants to meet the critical needs of Americans who require mental and behavioral health care.
360. Increases funding for geriatric education and training.
361. creates scholarships and loan repayment programs for allied health professionals, including radiology technicians and physical therapists.
362. Provides $11 billion in funding for the operation, expansion, and construction of community health centers throughout the Nation.
363. Helps patients take more control of their health care decisions by providing more information to help them make decisions that work for them.
364. Strengthens the doctor and patient relationship by providing doctors access to cutting edge medical research to help them and their patients make the decisions that work best for them.
365. Brings greater transparency to nursing homes to help families find the right place for their loved ones.
366. Enhances training for nursing home staff so that the quality of care continuously improves.
367. Promotes nursing home safety by encouraging self corrections of errors.
368. Requires background checks for employees who provide direct care.
369. Encourages innovative programs that prevent and eliminate elder abuse.
370. Reins in waste, fraud and abuse by imposing tough new disclosure requirements to identify high-risk providers who have defrauded the American taxpayer.
371. Gives states new authority to crack down on providers who have been penalized in one state from setting up in another.
372. Gives states flexibility to propose tort reforms that address several criteria, including reducing health care errors, enhancing patient safety, encouraging efficient resolution of disputes, and improving access to liability insurance.
373. Requires doctors with financial interests in imaging services, like MRI services, to inform the patients in writing that they can obtain the recommended imaging service from a person other than the referring physician, and provide a contact list.
374. Prevents conflicts of interests and insures full transparency and information for patients.
375. Requires all drug companies, device, and medical supply manufacturers to fully disclose and report any gifts they make or financial arrangements they have with doctors, a physician practice or group.
376. Requires all pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) that manage the prescription drug portion of health plans under Medicare or the Exchange to report information regarding any rebates, discounts, or price concessions they negotiate for prescription drugs.
377. Requires all pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) that manage prescription drug portion of health plans under Medicare of the Exchange to report how often they use generic drugs rather than more expensive brand name drugs.
378. Ensures more accurate payments for services and keep health care costs down.
379. Provides doctors and other providers with access to cutting-edge medical research to help them and their patients make the medical decisions that work for them.
380. Precludes findings from this research from being interpreted as a mandate for medical practice guidelines or coverage decisions.
381. Provides patients and doctors with additional control over their medical decisions with important patient safeguards that protect against discriminatory coverage decisions based on age, disability, terminal illness, or an individual’s quality of life preference.
382. Provide Americans with more information so they can make better choices about nursing facilities under the Act.
383. Create a “Nursing Home Compare” Medicare website that will be updated with information about: staffing, links to State internet websites concerning State nursing facility surveys and certification, a model standardized complaint form, a summary of complaints for facilities and the number of instances of criminal violations by a facility or its employee.
384. Require skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) under Medicare and nursing facilities (NFs) under Medicaid to make available all of their information concerning the facilities’ ownership.
385. Require facilities to include dementia management and abuse prevention training as part of pre-employment training for staff.
386. Creates incentives to correct deficiencies and improves independent monitoring.
387. Establishes a demonstration project to test and implement a national independent monitoring program to oversee inter-State and large intra-State nursing home chains.
388. Makes sure that families and residents have the chance to prepare and plan.
389. Requires the administrator of a facility preparing to close to provide written notice to residents, legal representatives of residents and the State in advance of closing the facility.
390. Requires background checks for employees who have direct access to patients of Long Term care facilities.
391. Prevents and eliminates elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
392. Creates a competitive grant program to innovative entities who carry out activities to protect individuals seeking care in facilities that provide long-term services.
393. Requires owners, operators, and employees of long-term care facilities to report suspected crimes committed at a facility.
394. Cracks down on high-risk providers and suppliers who defraud the American taxpayer in the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs.
395. Requires providers and suppliers enrolling or re-enrolling in these programs to be subject to a new compliance program.
396. Subjecting providers and suppliers or re-enrolling in these programs to tougher standards and criminal background checks.
397. Requiring providers and suppliers or re-enrolling in these programs to disclose all affiliations with any provider or supplier that has uncollected debt, has had their payments suspended, has been excluded from participating in a Federal health care program, or has had their billing privileges revoked.
398. Providing that the Inspector General of HHS will oversee a new comprehensive data base including any provider or practitioner who has been sanctioned under Medicare or Medicaid to help law enforcement keep fraudulent providers out of these programs.
399. Provides new authority to deny enrollment in any of these programs if these high-risk affiliations pose an undue risk to the program and the American taxpayer.
400. Creating new sanctions on individuals who purchase, sell, or distribute Medicare beneficiary identification numbers or provider billing numbers, including jail time.
401. Imposes tough new penalties to prevent waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid program.
402. Holds Medicare administrative contractors liable for payments to excluded providers.
403. Precludes health care providers from discharging their debts to Medicare or Medicaid through bankruptcy proceedings.
404. Medicare will adopt new “credit card” technology that provides real time information to determine in advance of payment whether a claim meets program coverage and other requirements.
405. Require the Secretary of HHS to study and report to Congress on the costs and benefits of assigning universal product numbers (UPNs, or bar codes) to items covered under Medicare to more effectively track and evaluate covered drugs, devices, and supplies.
406. Create new conditions of participation in Medicare on community mental health centers to ensure they are providing necessary and high quality care.
407. Create new penalties on any person who makes false statements on applications or contracts to participate in a Federal health care program or who know of an overpayment and did not return the overpayment.
408. Allows payments to be suspended during a fraud investigation of providers or suppliers. 409. Provide that new data will be available on the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) regarding corrective actions taken against health care providers, suppliers, and practitioners.
410. Require information in the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank to be accessible to private plans when they are reviewing provider credentials.
411. Imposes tough new rules for the Medicaid program that will reduce fraud and save money for cash-strapped states.
412. Sets up new rules to prevent individuals or entities that were terminated from Medicare or Medicaid in one state from setting up practice in another state.
413. Requires Medicaid agencies to exclude individuals or entities from participating in Medicaid for a specified period if it (1) has failed to repay overpayments; (2) is suspended, excluded, or terminated from participation in any Medicaid program; or (3) is affiliated with an individual or entity that has been suspended, excluded, or terminated from Medicaid participation.
414. Establishes a competitive grant program for States to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative medical malpractice reforms that help resolve disputes over injuries allegedly caused by health care providers or organizations and promote a reduction in health care errors.
415. Gives states the resources they need to test out reforms, measure the results, and build on what works.
416. Promotes innovation and saves consumers money.
417. Ends anti-competitive behavior by drug companies that keep effective and affordable generic drugs off the market.
418. Extends drug discounts to hospitals and communities that serve low-income patients.
419. Creates a pathway for the creation of generic versions of biological drugs so that doctors and patients have access to effective and lower cost alternatives.
420. Saves money for consumers and taxpayers by ending the collusion between pharmaceutical companies where companies with brand name drugs pay companies who make generic drugs to keep the generic drug off the market.
421. Extends discounts on drugs to hospitals and communities that serve low-income patients.
422. Creates a new pathway to create generic versions of biological products so that Americans have access to effective, lower-cost alternatives.
423. Provides Americans with a new option to finance long-term services and care in the event of a disability.
424. Creates a daily cash benefit in exchange for a premium paid by workers.
425. Precludes taxpayer funds from being used to pay benefits under this provision.
426. Reduces Medicaid spending.
427. Allows people to continue working and living in their homes and not enter nursing homes. 428. Provides safeguards to be put in place to ensure its premiums are enough to cover its costs.
429. Makes health care more affordable for families and small business owners by providing the largest middle class tax cuts for health care in American history.
430. Cuts taxes on families making less than $250,000 by hundreds of billions of dollars.
431. This bill will completely pay for health reform.
432. This bill will reduce the deficit by more than one hundred billion dollars in the next ten years.
433. Improve enforcement and close loopholes in the tax code.
434. Create corporate information reporting requirements.
435. Close the loophole that allows certain byproducts of paper production to be eligible for the cellulosic biofuels producer credit.
436. Help prevent tax shelters by clarifying the definition of when activities have true “economic substance” beyond evading taxes.
437. Imposes an additional 0.9 percentage point Hospital Insurance tax for households with incomes exceeding $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples filing jointly.
438. Adds a 2.9 percent tax for such high-income households to unearned income including interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents (excluding income from active participation in S corporations).
439. Imposes an excise tax on insurance companies to help finance the tax credits and other portions of comprehensive health reform.
440. Reduces the long-term cost growth of health care.
441. Helps increase workers’ after-tax wages as insurance companies respond to increased competition by offering more cost-effective insurance plans for employers.
442. Limit the excise tax only to premiums above $27,500 for families and $10,200 for singles in 2018 and would be adjusted at the consumer price index plus one thereafter.
443. Include in the excise tax new permanent reforms that will focus its impact on plans that provide the highest-cost benefits.
444. Provide permanent adjustments based on age, gender and high-risk professions.
445. Impose fees on various sectors of the health industry.
446. Impose a fee on branded prescription drug pharmaceutical companies in proportion to their federal sales.
447. Impose an excise tax on medical devices.
448. Impose an annual fee on health insurance companies.
449. Impose an excise tax on indoor tanning services.
450. Impose an additional 10 percent penalty on non-health withdrawals from HSAs.
451. Impoose an additional 10 percent penalty on Archer MSAs.
452. Limit Flexible Spending Accounts under cafeteria plans to $2,500.
453. Eliminate, starting in 2012, the deduction for employer subsidies for retiree drug coverage under Part D.
454. Raise the floor on the itemized deduction for major medical expenses to 10 percent of AGI for the non-elderly and non-disabled.
455. Limit excessive compensation paid by certain health insurance companies.
456. Establish a number of new tax benefits, beyond the ones for individuals and small businesses contained in Title I.
457. Exclude from income of certain health benefits provided by Indian tribal governments.
458. Establish simple cafeteria benefit plans for small businesses.
458. Establish a qualifying therapeutic discovery project tax credit.
459. Exclude from income of assistance provided to participants in State student loan repayment programs for certain health professionals.
460. Expand the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.
461. Reauthorizes the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (ICHIA).
462. Modernize the Indian health care system and improve health care for 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.

WOW! There it is. 462 promises, commitments, claims, call them what you want. It’s a truck load for sure. But gosh, it all sounds so great. So how is he going to accomplish all of this? What is the plan of attack? Let’s go to the plan as set forth on www.whitehouse.gov. Here’s how the President’s plan is going to accomplish all this:

“HEY PRES? HOW YOU GOING TO DO THAT?”

ANSWER PLEASE. DRUM ROLL. READY? ANY TIME NOW?

1. I DO NOT KNOW.
2. Go to answer number one.
3. The end.

THAT’S THE ANSWER. WHY? BECAUSE IT IS NOT IN THERE. Nothing. Nada. Zippo. Butkus. Zero. Nothing. The President’s proposal as set forth on his website is entirely vacant of mechanics with the exception of the tax increases which conveniently are pushed to the end. (There are volumes of hidden tax increases which I will address in subsequent postings) His pitch is nothing more than a shallow attempt to sell us on a government take over of one sixth of our economy. It is insulting. It is unadulterated tripe. His plan reeks of immense bureaucracy, redundancy, rampant inefficiency and government control. It is vile. It is a license to control – everything! It is ridiculous. And it’s all there for you to read. At last, some transparency. Thank you Mr. President. I greatly appreciate your efforts to educate Americans on your unconstitutional un-American agenda. We could not have done it without you.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the long read.

Brett Reetz

Obama told CBS News’ anchor Katie Couric in an interview taped before the Super Bowl that “I want to ask them [the Republicans] to put their ideas on the table, and then after the [congressional] recess, which will be a few weeks away, I want to come back and have a large meeting, the Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.”

The Washington Post reported that Obama had invited Republicans to take part in a half-day summit that would be televised live later this month, just as his meeting last week with House Republicans at their Baltimore retreat was open to cameras.

Obama’s offer reflected both the political reality that health care reform is in jeopardy after the loss of the Democrats’ 60-vote majority in the Senate, which allowed them to shut down filibusters. It also reflected Obama’s sensitivity to the criticism that the shaping of the legislation had not met his promise of transparency, something that he acknowledged at the Republican retreat.

DO NOT FALL FOR IT REPUBLICANS! Summits don’t work. Nor do committees. Summits, committees, panels, pick a name, they serve as nothing but a forum to point fingers, spread blame, and escape responsibility. How many times have we heard as a response to an attack on a political position that “so and so on the panel agrees with me.” Too many. Obama is the president, he’s responsible. Make him so. Let him fail on his own rather than joining him in his failure. I’ve read the bills, they are both a disaster for our nation, for our liberty. They both fail the fundamental American constitutional test, so again, don’t join him in his attack on our liberty.

So do not attend his summit. He will use the attendance to accomplish one of two things. He will either use it to claim he has bi-partisan support or use it to attack Republicans as the “say no” guys.

Obama will not use the summit to accomplish anything other than putting Republicans in a bad light. He will use it to shift the middle ground to the “left.” Don’t fall for it. Don’t go. This guy isn’t into compromise and neither are most Americans. We want our freedom. We demand it. His beliefs are different than ours. Don’t let us down by reaching across the aisle. Reach for American Principles of which both the pending House and Senate bills are vacant. But don’t be uninvolved. Here’s what you should do:

Draft a comprehensive health care proposal that does the following:

1. Allows inter-state competition.
2. Makes health insurance policies portable.
3. Provide tax benefits that subsidize the cost of insurance companies providing coverage for pre-existing conditions.
4. Propose tort reform.
5. Expand medical health care savings accounts. Allow folks to get more than a dollar for dollar tax break on money they put into their medical savings account.
6. Provide liability protection for nurses and physicians’ assistants so that they can increase the supply of medical services without the need for a supervising medical doctor. Increased supply over demand drives prices down. You’ll have to use simple words when explaining this principle to the Obamanomics followers.
7. Provide tax incentives for attending medical schools for doctors and nurses.
8. Provide tax incentives through medical savings accounts that will allow the eventual discontinuance of entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid. We can’t afford them, period. They will end one way or the other. Take some responsibility and wean America from them rather than collapsing America with them.
9. Propose that all government workers, including congress, will be placed in the same circumstances as all other Americans.
10. Do the numbers. Provide hard accounting of the facts of your proposal. Have specific numbers based on reality and not fantasy as to how much it will eliminate government bureaucracy and governments costs.

And send it in a memo to Obama. Come on guys, aren’t you a bit embarrassed to be participating in an Obama Summit? You should be so don’t participate, just send a memo. He can send one back so you have his response in writing. Although, he might just send over his teleprompter. What’s the difference?

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Captain Obonga, I mean President Obonga, has just completed his State of the Union Address. (He was rambling again and saying crazy things so I’m sticking with the Obonga nick name) I’m relieved. I have nothing to worry about now. Captain Obonga has got it under control. He’s going to fix the economy, government transparency, health care, the environment, the energy crisis, the nuclear power industry, education, bi-partisanship, government secrecy, foreign affairs, terrorism, actual government, the deficit, the Supreme Court decision of last week, ear mark abuses, the American spirit, both parties in congress, HIV, foreign relationships, the nuclear arms race, carbon emissions, the middle class, small business, protect us from the banking industry by punishing Wall Street and has already done so much. How can a person not be in awe of Captain Obonga. Especially when, according to his State of the Union address, he told us little guys, (he called us “they” and called Washington folks “we”) what he had accomplished so far. I didn’t know that he saved us from a second Great Depression? Boy, I am so unappreciative. I didn’t know that he saved millions of jobs. I had no idea that 300,000 teachers were ready to be laid off but for Captain Obonga’s rescue efforts. I had no idea that he hadn’t raised my taxes. Of course I’m one of the “they” and am so naive that I believe that I will never have to pay off the national debt, not a penny of it Captain Obonga, right? And of course, he said “hadn’t” raised my taxes and although us “they” people are naive, we’re not illiterate. We know the difference between “raise” and “raised.” And I’m definitely not not so illiterate to suggest that trying to raise my taxes through the health care bill, the proposed banking fee and Cap and Trade, is actually raising my taxes. You got me there Captain Obonga. You’re right, you didn’t raise my taxes-YET. By the way, can I get Scott Brown’s address to send him a thank you card?

I am so relieved. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Captain Obonga. I had no idea that the government, that failed to prevent a terrorist on the watch list whose father reported him as a radical without a passport from getting on a plane headed to Detroit with a bomb hidden in his underwear, no idea whatsoever that that government could fix everything else. The next thing you know they’ll be joking that the government can’t even keep strangers out of White House dinners? But you set me straight Captain Obonga. Thank you.

O.K., on a more serious note (although the first note was serious, I just utilized humor to demonstrate the seriousness, now I’ll get rid of the humor) was that a speech or what? Shoot, here comes the humor again. Captain Obonga is going to do everything. Pheewww! Say good bye to worries my little friends, I mean you American People. You “they” people.

O.K., O.K. O.K., I took a serious pill, so here goes, firm, fair and frank. The State of the Union address was a rambling cacophony of lies, misrepresentations, false promises, insincerity, rewriting of recent history, bragging, blaming, arrogance, ignorance, condescension, and otherwise consistent with a complete ripper of a marijuana fest. Thus, the “Obonga” nick name. We’ll call it a “BS”-afest instead.

Folks, he’s going to raise our taxes either directly or indirectly and has already done so with his deficit spending. Wait, small correction-maybe. He may have only raised our childrens’ taxes. Folks, he’s not going to endorse nuclear energy or off shore drilling. Folks, he has no desire to assist small business. He doesn’t even respect business for what it does. He said that all student loans would be forgiven in twenty years but in ten years if a graduate goes into public service. That’s right, we need more social workers and bureaucrats in our future than business people because social workers and bureaucrats are just so damn critical. See folks, this is another window into Captain Obonga’s soul. He values government more than the private sector. And he doesn’t understand basic values either; like paying off your debt. What in the world would justify a person to stop paying a debt if it’s not paid off? Shoot, that’s that pesky “keep your word” stuff. God that’s irritating. So what’s the big deal? I cut a deal, borrow some money for a four year degree which I actually spend six getting, drag the payments out for twenty years and then tell the lender that Captain Obonga told me I didn’t have to pay anymore after twenty years. Wait, wait, wait. I thought of something. Why don’t I just grab a public sector job in let’s say year nine, work it for a year, stop paying which is absolutely justified since I’ll be doing something so critical to America, actually serving the public for America, like for example, collecting tolls on a turnpike, and then, when I’m free of my promise to re-pay my student loan, I quit my cherished public sector job and go into the private sector and stick the tax payer with the rest of my debt. So many possibilities.

O.K. Folks, now I’m really going to be serious, actually I have been. I was just using humor to exemplify how much of a joke the State of the Union Address was. Our president has never made a bottom line, hangs out with communists and terrorists, loves Government, big government, is a progressive democrat, wants to socialize medicine, (He said he’s not quitting in his pursuit of his anti-American Agenda (He didn’t say “anti-American” but it is)), has no understanding of the economy, nothing is his fault, and after listening to his speech, wants to run everything.

Prior to his address, it was suggested that the Obama Administration was going to do a “re-set” on its agenda due to the rapidly growing trend against them. The pundits got it half right. Obama did do a reset but not on his agenda. He did a reset on the focus button so that the picture we see is different than before, blurred; but the content, the actual content, is exactly the same.

Beware folks, this guy does not like us “they” people. But he’s afraid of us and that’s why he reached out last night and spun the focus button. He changed the focus to hide. What he didn’t change was the content of his ambitions which are very un-American. Only our ability to see it was changed. But folks, you need not worry. I know this guy and his ambitions will come back into focus sooner than you think, definitely by November.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

NOTE: I use the “Captain” title to remind folks of the Titanic, you know that unsinkable ocean liner that sank on its first voyage. Of course, America could never be like the Titanic.

Scott Brown handed you a pink slip on Tuesday Mr. Obama, well maybe a warning. He handed it to you and OBONGRESS and you know it. So now what do you do? I know, I know, you have an agenda but a very un-American agenda and now, thank god you are stymied. OBONGRESS has lost its ability to shove whatever you want to shove, down the throats of the American people. So what in the world do you do? A big problem is looming for you. You’ve got a State of the Union address coming up. And the irony of it all. You get your pink slip, warning, on Glenn Beck’s one year anniversary and a day before your one year anniversary. How timely. So again, what do you do? Here’s some advice and it will work if you have the hutzpa to listen. I know it’s hard, I know you’ve always been the chosen one, without fault, without deficiency, smarter than the rest of us, but what do you know, the American people don’t like your plans. And they don’t like it big time, so again, what do you do? Here it is. This is the State of the Union speech you should give:

My fellow Americans. In the months past I have realized that my ideologies are not in line with American desires. I do not apologize for my ideologies, I do believe in them. But you don’t. I have received the message and as much as I believe in my ideologies, I believe in democracy more. I understand that my role as President is to lead according to the people’s wishes and I have been advised of your wishes and I hear you America. I hear you. So, using an old American cliche, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. I know that there are folks that are in need of affordable health care. But I also know, have been told by the people of Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, that the majority of Americans relish their freedom, their liberty, and do not relish the idea of a government run health care system. I have heard you America. However, I continue to hold to my desire to provide for those Americans who cannot afford health care. I will not let you folks down. So tonight I propose that we go back to the drawing board. That we reset the process and truly make it bi-partisan, truly make it transparent. I believe that working together, truly working together we can produce a bill that satisfies all people, their needs, their expectations, their desires. So I am proposing that we scrap the current bill, toss it out, it has been rejected and my proposal is consistent with this democratic mandate of the American people.

And I do not deny that I was wrong in my ambitions as far as process, not goals, but methodology. I do not deny that the American people disagreed with me, not necessarily my ideologies, buy my solution. And I am man enough, American enough, to admit when I am wrong and I am doing so tonight. But I will not quit, I will not surrender. I will keep pushing for a health care system that is fair, affordable, and not a burden on the American people. A health care system that utilizes true competitive principles, increases the supply of health care, has incentives to be better, to strive for perfection. Not a French system, a British system, or even a Canadian system, but an American system that does not violate our ideals, our principles, or our constitution. And as I have admitted my error, my misread of the American way, I ask that America have faith that at heart, I am an American, that my goals are American in every respect. And I ask America to accept my admission, forgive if you need to, and work with me to create and pass a bill that truly builds the greatest health care system in the world. A system that provides for need, but does not encourage it. A system that is fair. A system that does not steal from Peter to pay for Paul.

I am not going to quit, I am not going to give up. I am proposing a new path, a path reflective of the obvious message given to me by America.

I thank you for your support. God Bless America.

Why don’t you try that Mr. Obama. It would be the manly thing to do and it might save your second term. Might.

So do yourself a favor, step down from your pedestal, listen to the people, and do the right thing. Just a suggestion Mr. Obama.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

“Tyranny” is defined as arbitrary or unrestrained use of power. It has arrived. Let’s take a look. The leading debate today is Obama care. Poll after poll prove that the American people do not want it. Sure, we want health care reformed but wait, “reform” is defined as the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. That’s the Webster’s College Dictionary definition. I used the same dictionary to find the definition of “tyranny.” Wait a minute, maybe “reform” is the wrong word. Our current health care industry is not wrong. It is not corrupt, well except for the medicare and medicaid fraud which Washington sings about all the time saying “we’ll fix it, as long as you let us take over one sixth of the economy.” Health care is not unsatisfactory either. We have the best health care in the world. I know, I know, some people can’t afford it so to them it’s unsatisfactory they argue. Is it unsatisfactory that I can’t afford a Rolls Royce? It is if you call Health care unsatisfactory. But in reality, it’s not. Even worse, if I show up at a Rolls Royce dealer and tell them I really need one but can’t afford it, they, unlike our health care system, would laugh in my face. In our “unsatisfactory” health care system, I’d get treated. Sounds pretty satisfactory to me. So, I’ve decided, we shouldn’t use the word reform unless I am given a Rolls Royce. We should use the word “improvement.” Sure we want to improve health care. I thought we Americans wanted to improve everything? What we don’t want is one sixth of our economy taken over by a bunch of incompetent buffoons in Washington lead by Obama. So, great, the majority of Americans don’t want Obama-care, we live in a democracy, so they won’t pass it right. I wish! O.K. Tyranny check number one. OBONGRESS (my new term for the current congress lead by Obama) is using their power unrestrained by democratic principles. That’s the unrestrained use of power. Again, strike one!

Is it an arbitrary use of power? Let’s go to the Dictionary. “Arbitrary” is defined by Webster’s as subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely on one’s discretion. Uh Oh, Obama and Congress, OBONGRESS, strike two on the tyranny test. OBONGRESS wants Obama-care. The majority of American people don’t want it. OBONGRESS doesn’t care. It is their unrestrained will to pass it, so bingo, strike two! By the way, don’t forget, the restraint that they should be controlled by is the people, well, in a democracy. They are not. This could be strike three, but I’ll give them a break and call it a foul ball.

So OBONGRESS is unrestrained by the majority desires of the people. They are acting according to their own will. It is arbitrary. Just check out the gifts to unions and government workers that were gifted in the back room out of sight of the people in direct contradiction of Obama’s promise to have transparency. Obama is a liar. How do I know this? Again, Webster’s College Dictionary. “Lie” is defined by Webster’s as a false statement made with the deliberate intent to deceive; a falsehood. Something intending or serving to convey a false impression. Remember Obama said eight times he would allow the cameras into the negotiations? Remember Obama said that it would be a new transparent Washington? Now if he meant these things, wouldn’t he be at the podium with his teleprompter explaining why he broke his word? And breaking his word is bad enough, just about everybody has not kept a promise in their lives. But if it’s just that, just breaking your word, a decent human being explains what happened. Not Obama. Why? Because his explanation is this; he lied. He is a liar. And no teleprompter in the world can explain it away. So, Obama is not even restrained by his own words or put another way, the truth. He is by definition, acting arbitrary. Strike three. Can you imagine an employee who mislead you, lied, and never even hinted at an explanation? You don’t have to, it’s our President.

So we have an unrestrained arbitrary liar as our President. But does this make him, by definition, a tyrant? Let’s look at what doesn’t restrain him or OBONGRESS.

1. Truth and Honesty.
2. Democracy.
3. The will of the people.
4. The Constitution.
5. The press.

These are hard facts. Now let’s flip things around and ask this question. What if Obama were honest and said here’s my plan? “I’m going to take over one sixth of the economy. I’m not going to keep my word. I’m going to do this in secret. And as far as what the American people want, I don’t care, I’m acting according to my own unrestrained will. And finally, I will not be restrained by the Constitution.” What if he were honest? He wouldn’t be president, that’s what.

We are in a crisis but it’s not a financial crisis, a climate crisis, or a health care crisis. Think about this: Each of the solutions proffered by Obama and OBONGRESS for these alleged “crisis” include massive growth of government, redistribution of wealth, increased taxation, massive new debt, massive increased government control, and all of these things, contrary to what the people of this nation want. Ouch.

The real crisis we are facing is a government crisis. We are by definition being ruled by an unrestrained tyrant. Sure, he hasn’t set up concentration camps or overtly attacked the constitution, but what if we behave as Americans and live by our principles? What if we just say no. Then what? I’m not sure, but my uncertainty both scares and amazes me. Where has our America gone? How did we let it happen? How do we explain it to our children? I’m trying to figure it out, but presently, like many, I’m mostly stunned.

God Bless America which I’ve decided is not a place anymore, not a geography, not even a government. America is a a set of God Given principles that can be taken anywhere because God gave them to us, not some government or individual or tyrant. And one more point OBONGRESS, do you really want to mess with God. You may have the Black Panthers and Acorn on your side in November, but it would be contradictory to assume you have God on your side when your words, policies and actions conflict with God given principles.

We’ll see if I am right in November. I pray so.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the Read.

Brett Reetz

Note: In my list of five things that don’t restrain OBONGRESS my enemies, yes enemies (I think it’s great to disagree, but when you disagree on something as fundamental as our American principles, you become an enemy of sorts) will argue that “hey” they got elected. True. But they have threatened to use reconciliation to pass health care. Reconciliation is a procedure used for budgetary matters. It is not to be used for fundamental change. The people voted people in who created “reconciliation” for budget matters. Thus, to the exent OBONGRESS uses it to fundamentally change our country, misuses it actually, they are violating democratic principles. Let’s do a basic analysis. OBONGRESS is threatening to use a law in a manner for which it was not intended to pass legislation that will fundamentally change our country in a way that is opposed by the majority of Americans. See, unrestrained by democracy.

Next Point. My father always told me that we were a nation of laws and not men. I finally, after years of almost daily debate with my father, a law degree, and much thought, admitted that he was right. But what do you know? It now appears that I was right. It appears that way to my father as well. What he should have said is that we “should” be a nation of laws rather than “are” a nation of laws. Because we’re not a nation of laws. Here’s the example of the week. The Attorney General is ignoring the law and not prosecuting the Black Panthers for voter intimidation. Here’s another example: Where’s the IRS? Shouldn’t they be prosecuting the tax cheats in Washington? Of course not, the tax cheats are in the “in” crowd in this nation, sadly now, of men.