In picking it apart, we do ourselves a disservice calling it simply a pork bill because it’s much more than that. It’s a power grab of the worst sort, the thing we’ve been fighting against in this country since its inception. The pork is actually the cover for the power grab because the Republicans are on the ropes over their fiscal irresponsibility.

On another diary, I noted that it will take a year to descramble the 1500 page bill. There are similar bombs hidden through it all leading to centralized body who will have power over the whole country. We’re headed back to the days of feudalism… and they call it progressive.

Instead of the lipstick analogy, let’s try a new one: You can paint pretty flowers on a bomb but it’s still a bomb.

This bill being shoved down our throats is a bomb.

Very few have even talked about the healthcare provisions in the Stimulus, which as you have pointed out is Socialized Healthcare. So many have been more worried about the Waterpark or the Honey Bee projects, while Daschel/Obama are pulling the wool over everyone’s eye. Combining this with the SCHIP bill already passed, we are well on the way to the British system that Daschel seems to think is great, according to his book. I read somewhere that the lessons of the Clinton healthcare plan from the 90’s should have been one of the first on the Clinton agenda, when his popularity was high. That is exactly what they are trying to do here.

I read the article and regardless of any bias by the author, this is still just plain wrong.

This sort of interference in private medical decisions is the worst type of infringement by the government on ones life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

President Obama should be ashamed, that is if he actually was human enough to have a conscience which compelled such shame.

Sorry Billy but grandma is going to have to die because the government says she can’t get treatment for cancer because she is too old, and the experimental drug that could cure her is too costly.

You would think the idiots over at DKos would be all over this, after all the years of them yelling that the republicans want to leave children and the elderly without health care.

Hypocrites of the highest order!!

Thanks for bringing it. Now if we could only get some bleach poured on it.

Oops - that applies to “non-emergencies” only.

on this?? One would think that they would be completely up in arms, unless there’s some sort of “payoff” for them elsewhere. As someone mentioned in another thread, the aides in congress that actually write these things are masterful at splitting up programs and dispersing them throughout a bill so you never get the whole picture.

I remember back in the “tax reform” bill that Rostenkowski headed up in the 80’s, Andy Rooney (I think?) traced a thread throughout the bill. It started with an provision that exempted businesses that met some definition in another part of the bill, then referred to another part of the bill, etc. etc. It ended up after about 6 or 8 flips to completely different parts, to just be defined as ONE particular company in Rostenkowski’s home district. Does anyone else remember seeing this?? Imagine that embedded loophole and multiply it by 535, and you get the idea. In computer programming, we call programs that use multiple ‘GOTO’ statements “spaghetti code”. The congress is expert at writing “spaghetti legislation”. Both are equally incomprehensible and dangerous!

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