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May 22, 2009 Archives NO HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS By Neal Boortz @ May 22, 2009 7:37 AM Permalink | Comments (38) | TrackBacks (0)

This one should have been a no-brainer.  Didn't turn out that way. Democrat Senator Max Baucus is making a big deal over the fact that our government's brilliant healthcare reforms will not cover illegal aliens.  So if the government won't cover the healthcare costs of illegal aliens, that leaves the burden entirely on the private sector.  The government already knows that it can't afford this government healthcare scheme, so this doesn't really make a big difference anyway.

So, why the fuss?  Votes.  The longer this idea of government healthcare lingers out there for the public to digest, the more people will begin to realize that we are making a gigantic mistake.  Government is incapable of providing a service better than any private business.  If you think I'm wrong here .. cite an example.  That being the case, why on earth would we want to hand over our own health, not to mention the health of our loved ones, to a bunch of incompetent government bureaucrats?  Democrats know they have to act fast to get this incredible power wrapped up ... fast enough to stay ahead of the wave of public opinion that is turning against a government health care system.

The looters also know how the voters feel about their tax dollars covering for the costs of illegals in this country.  So this is what the Democrats are willing to "give up."  This is their idea of compromise.  "Look, aren't we doing so well?  We are doing exactly what you want .. we aren't going to cover the medical costs for illegal aliens!"  Then you are supposed to get little tingles up your legs and praise the Lord that you have government in your life.

Trust me ... they drop illegals from coverage now to get your support, then add them right back after the legislation is passed to get Hispanic support.  They think you're too stupid to see what they're up to.  With so many Americans, they're exactly right. 

The Heritage Foundation has a great analysis on how labor unions affect jobs and the economy.  What I've done is pulled just a few facts that you should know about these unions.  Read the linked study for more information.  This one needs to be framed and put on a wall.  Ready?  OK .. here is what labor unions do for American business:

• Studies typically find that unionized companies earn profits between 10 percent and 15 percent lower than those of comparable non-union firms.

• Some unions win higher wages for their members, though many do not. But with these higher wages, unions bring less investment, fewer jobs, higher prices, and smaller 401(k) plans for everyone else.

• Final union contracts typically give workers group identities instead of treating them as individuals. Unions do not have the resources to monitor each worker's performance and tailor the contract accordingly. Even if they could, they would not want to do so. Unions want employees to view the union--not their individual achievements--as the source of their economic gains.

• Consequently, union contracts compress wages: They suppress the wages of more productive workers and raise the wages of the less competent. Unions redistribute wealth between workers.

• A better summary of the economic research is that unions do not increase workers' wages by nearly as much as they claim and that, at a number of companies, they do not raise wages at all.

• In essence, unions "tax" investments that corporations make, redistributing part of the return from these investments to their members. This makes undertaking a new investment less worthwhile. Companies respond to the union tax in the same way they respond to government taxes on investment--by investing less.

• Research shows that unions directly cause firms to reduce their investments. In fact, investment drops sharply after unions organize a company. One study found that unionizing reduces capital investment by 30 percent--the same effect as a 33 percentage point increase in the corporate tax rate

• The balance of economic research shows that unions do not just happen to organize firms with more layoffs and less job growth: They cause job losses. Most studies find that jobs drop at newly organized companies, with employment falling between 5 percent and 10 percent.

Wonderful stuff, don't you think?  Really makes you want to go to work for a unionized company.  Not.

A listener sent this to me.  Now I don't know whether this is true or not, but I've received hundreds of emails containing this little gem.  So ... if I post it on Nealz Nuze maybe the emails will slow down.  Fact is, if this didn't happen at Aggieland, it happened somewhere.  Someone came up with this definition, and whoever they are they are to be congratulated ... or, as Floridia's prized Congresswoman Corrine Brown says, "Gradulated." 

Every year at Texas A&M they do a contest to come up with the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.  This year's term was one of my favorites: political correctness.  Here is the winning definition ...

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Not bad.

Do you remember the story a few months ago about a woman who was selling her virginity in order to pay for school?  Alina Percea is 18-years-old.  Apparently she had a real itch to study computers, but she couldn't afford it.  So she auctioned off her virginity, and the winning bid went for $13,827 to a middle-aged Italian man.

So now ...... here comes the government for its share of taxes.  You see, Alina was in Germany on a student visa.  In Germany prostitution is legal, but hookers are taxed at 50% of their earnings. 

So now the question is: is she a considered a prostitute?

On top of all this, Alina may also be liable for a large VAT bill when she leaves Germany, because she earned so much money in such a short amount of time.

Government will do anything to get its hands on your money.  The middle-aged Italian dude got what he wanted.  Did Alina? 

Here's the text of former Vice President Dick Cheney's speech yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute.  Read this and you'll see why polling by CNN shows that Cheney is being looked upon more favorably by the public.

The UAW has apparently reached an agreement with GM and the Treasury Department.  There is so much wrong with that statement.

There are some Bush interrogation memos that PrezBO will NOT release .. the ones that show the results. 

This might be fun:  The perils of a nationalized car maker .  Change you can believe in. 

Here's a must-read .. I've been telling you this for months .. Obama's restructuring plans for Chrysler are going to end up costing the pension funds of teachers and police officers.  That's OK, though, as long as the UAW is happy.

A Georgetown professor has written a Bill of Federalism, that addresses the imbalance between state and federal power.

Not only does Obama definitely want to close Gitmo, but he has decided that some Gitmo detainees are, in fact, going to come to the US.

The Pew Research Center found that independent voters are on the rise in this age of Obama.

The Politico has done a fact check on the Obama/Cheney speeches yesterday.

The House voted against a Republican effort to investigate Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA lied to her about waterboarding.

An Obama oops .. can you name Obama's secretary of defense?  Apparently he can't. We'll blame it on his teleprompter.  In fact, if you check out Barack Obama's Telepromper's Blog you'll see that the teleprompter has some negative thoughts about Obama's speech yesterday, but accepts the blame for the goof. 

Congress is considering raising the federal excise tax on beer by 145%.

Is California the next brilliant bailout of the Obama administration?  George Will seems to think so ...

Lawmakers want to give Chrysler dealers more time to wind down their car dealerships.

A government middle school student in Pennsylvania has been expelled because she brought an eyebrow shaver to school, and the government considers this a weapon.

This is good news for a lot of women ... Men face mass extinction because male genes are dying out.

Michael Moore's next contribution to the world is going to be a film about the global financial crisis.

The question of the day: how do you properly remove an obese woman from her house after she has gone Tango Uniform?

Who has the highest life expectancy in the world?

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