Because as an American, I can!

It was recently reported by the Dallas News that Last year at Parkland, 11,071 babies were born to women who were non-citizens, about 74 percent of total deliveries. Most of these women are believed to be in the country illegally.  Most people see the big picture, that these “Anchor Babies” allow these illegals to stay within this country and are a quick legal pass to get citizenship when they read this story.  However in the warped mind of David Scherer, another, deeper question comes to mind.  How many of these women actually pay their hospital bills?  I reviewed Parkland’s 2009 financial statement.  Page 18 reflects that the hospital wrote off bad debts $870,000,000 in 2009, and $785,000,000 in 2008.  This is serious money.  I am not going to suggest that all of this is due to illegal immigration, however, I will say the following:

I am estimating that it costs approximately $10,000 in hospital bills alone (not including prenantal treatment) to have a child.  These would be the costs to rush into the emergency room, pop out a baby and leave 2-4 days later alone.  I also am going to estimate that only 1% of illegals have valid insurance.  Therefore it is anticipated that the remainder pay in cash, if they don’t skip on their bill.  This translates to roughly $109,600,000 accounts receivable every year due to the hospital for birthing anchor babies.  Anyone want to take a guess on how much actually gets collected?

How to stop it.  There is no way around the Hippocratic Oath, Democrats will NEVER allow us to refuse services to illegals, after all, they are humans to.  However what is wrong with providing additional measures to track these soon to be American citizens?  I propose in states, adopt a new requirement for a drivers licenses and citizenship, fingerprints and background checks.  Additionally, all patients in hospitals will now have to be fingerprinted when services are preformed.  A computer database syncs the information.  If an illegal immigrant applies for citizenship and they have an outstanding debt to a hospital for the birth of an anchor baby, they must pay off said debt or face significant restrictions (such as a restricted drivers license that only permits daytime driving, or a new issue of driver’s license which provoke’s the right to buy beer & liquor).

The above idea will never happen, the liberals in this country rather see our medical system fall to shambles so they can pump more public money into it to boost up the voting population of 1st generations under education individuals…. but in a dream world I wish it would happen.

“I saved GM”, “I turned around one of America’s largest, oldest and most important companies”,  “I am here for the American worker” – These are just some of the many lies I am already predicting that you will her come from Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012.  The sad part is most people will believe it.  Today’s Wall Street Journal shows that yes, GM has posted a net income of $1.3 billion in Q2 of 2010, following a profit of $850 million for Q1. (A pdf copy can also be viewed here).  But let’s look at some facts regarding what his campaign is going to fail to mention.

1. The Federal government pumped $50,000,000,000 into GM to keep it alive.
   • • As most of us know, our Federal Government is broke, so though it says it put $50,000,000,000 into GM, this is borrowed money.  Now I don’t know what yield these treasuries were sold at (I would appreciate any user comments), but using today’s yield of 3.94% for 30 years, this borrowed money really becomes: $159,386,443,102. - That’s a lot of cheddar.
2. Even I could make a company profitable if I can shed all the bad assets.  One thing that “New GM” did  first was stick the American Tax payer (this means you, not an Obama supporter whom we all know does not pay taxes) with all of the unprofitable liabilities and placed them into “Old GM” (and an additional $1,175,000,000 of working capital from Uncle Sam).  Over 200 of these properties exist, from old offices to highly contaminated factories that endanger local communities.  Over a year into the process of selling these sites and only two have sold, one of these to a upstart firm which required a $529,000,000 loan provided by the US Government.  (Wall Street Journal Article).
   • All the bad assets were shed, except for the US worker.  One of GM’s largest liabilities is overpaid union workers (read Obama supporters).  There is a reason companies like Kia, Nissan and Toyota have started building plants in small cities like Canton, MS; Decherd, TN; West Point, GA and further.  CHEAP NON UNIONIZED LABOR.  Want to build cheap cars?  STOP THE UNIONS.  It is estimated that the average GM worker makes $73/hour when you include benefits.  This is estimated to be $25/hour more than a Toyota worker.  Yes, that’s right, a monkey whom puts a door on a car for 8 hours a day makes triple what the author of this blog makes. (The author also holds a double major in Economics, Finance and a minor in International Business).

Mark my words, Obama is going to say he saved GM, and it is true, but at what cost?

I’m watching The Green Zone.  From the start of the movie I can tell it’s a liberal piece of shit which really bashes the Bush Administration for it’s entrance into Iraq and search for Weapons of Mass Destruction.  However something else really caught my attention, something most likely did not pick up on.

Growing up the son of a contractor, my father once told me about a competing construction firm that got so large that one day it showed up to bid a new construction project for a client, and it’s sister branch from another part of the South East also showed up with a full bid package.  The point: One arm did not talk to another.

The same holds true to the Green Zone.  The movie revolves around the aspect that the US Government is so large that different sects (CIA, DOD, Army) all are competing against each other for sources and intelligence.  At one point, the Army gets a warrant form the White House and raids a CIA headquarters looking for a book with intel.  Hollywood liberals tried to make this a Bush bashing movie talking about the failure of the Iraq war.  Yet, to me it just says one thing: Our government is too big.

Some things really irk me.  Government spending is #1.  Shortly following this is people who bite the hand that feeds them. The AP Wire has picked up a story regarding South Africans protesting because the US will not increase funding to combat Aids in THEIR country.  From the article – “The protesters, clad in green T-shirts emblazoned with the words “HIV-Positive,” marched before the consulate in a wealthy northern suburb of Johannesburg to demand that the U.S. government increase its contribution to the Global Fund on AIDS, TB and Malaria….”

Currently the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has an annual operating budget of $6,800,000,000 – That’s a lot of cheddar.  But where does it all go? I reviewed PEPFAR’s 6th annual report to congress, it’s a mind boggling 21 page report filled with statistics.  As usual, I am just so upset about this I can’t form coherent sentence – list time!

The fine points about PEPFAR’s stats I just don’t get -

• 721,900 Chinese received HIV/AIDs testing and counseling  services
  • Last I checked China has an estimated 297 Billion Dollar Surplus, while the USA has an estimated debt of $13 Trillion.  Why are we spending money in China?
• The fund treated 2,485,300 people world wide with Antiretroviral treatment.
  

  PEPFAR Activities Worldwide

  • According to the CDC “At the end of 2006, an estimated 1,106,400 persons (95% confidence interval 1,056,400-1,156,400) in the United States were living with HIV infection, with 21% undiagnosed
  • The cumulative estimated number of diagnoses of AIDS through 2007 in the United States and dependent areas was 1,051,875″
  • It seems parent to me, we could provide FREE treatment for HIV/AIDS to every diagnosed American Citizen for what we spend to treat people in other countries who do not pay taxes to us.

Let’s do a little math – What percentage of non-green card holding Americans actually have relatives in third world countries?  Now compare that to the percentage of Americans which have children in school.  I think it’s a safe bet that the latter is a significantly larger number.  Finally, who does the US Government have more of a responsibility to watch over, it’s citizens with children in schools, or non tax paying citizens who are ruled by their own government.

As cruel as this may seem, I don’t see how AIDS in Africa, China or third world countries is our problem.  I don’t plan to go have unprotected sex in Africa, I don’t plan to go get a blood transfusion over there.  Why is MY government spending MY money in Africa?

PS – I hated using the analogy of Federal funding for schools, everyone who reads this knows that I believe the Federal Government just adds layers of bureaucracy to the public school system, and Jimmy Carter never should have started the Department of Education… but it’s all I could think of at 6am.

I am in DC for the first time in my life.  Never before have I felt so patriotic, we are living in a great society, food is plentiful, we have blue skies, green grass, a stable economy (in comparison to many other nations) I can put gas in my car at any time.  Things are great.  Then I watched the US House of Representatives for 30 minutes from the gallery.  That’s all it took to make me so upset with our government I had to leave.  Never before have I been so convinced that democrats are truly ruining this great country.  The source of my anger lies in the introduction of Amendment 13 (PDF Link) of the  H.R. 5136, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. The overshadowing subject of this bill is revision to the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.  But this is what not upsets me.

When I think of H.R. 5136 is about one thing: National Defense.  Everything and anything belonging within this bill should directly relate to the security and defense of this great country.  Treatment of our soldiers, new planes, ships, the naming of destroyers, new medical treatments for GIs, Benifits for GIs’ families, Free lunches for public schools.  Wait…. what? What does subsidized school lunches for America’s poor children have to do with National Defense?  Well according to Amendment 13, a lot.  The on the floor arguments mentioned that these children are subjected to eating filling but unhealthy high calorie foods as they are too poor to eat finer foods, as such, fat children are too fat to serve in the military, a major issue towards our national security.

This is what is wrong with Democrats.  They choose to throw $1,000,000 WE DON’T HAVE towards an already failing school system which provides fattening lunches to our children, all while they kill PE classes which teaches children to be healthy.   A few comments in bullet points, as I am so angry right now I can’t form coherent sentences:

1. Fast food restaurants need to stop taking SNAP (AKA Food Stamps).  Everyone knows that it is cheaper to cook at home than to eat out.  Perhaps we should teach these poor people how to cook rice.  We have plenty of food at the super market, it just needs to be cooked!  Also here’s another tip: the leftovers can be sent with the child to school the next day for lunch.
2. I love how in the context of Amendment 13, they also made the case that before WWII many of the recruits were undernourished… AKA “We can’t cut this failing program because it is making our kids to fat, if we do that, we will have undernourished kids! Let’s just throw more money at it!”
3. I mourned Reagan when he died, I still remember where I was when I saw the news.  I’ll never mourn Carter.  I hate that asshole, he’s a pansy peanut farmer with no balls who let Iran trample all over us.  Did I mention he is responsible for the creation of the Department of Education?  FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE NO PART IN THE FUNDING OR OVERSIGHT OF EDUCATION. IT SHOULD BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATES.
4. I am just pissed about the sneakiness of the system.  Yesterday I saw a $1,000,000.00 amendment get folded into a larger bill that was a shoe in for the democrats. There were no more than 10 representatives on the floor.  I would have never known about it if I had not sat there and watched it for myself.
5. If republicans can’t beat the democrats in a majority vote for the overall bill, I think they need to make an effort show up in force and  block every single amendment within that bill that is nominated by the democrats.  Two outcomes are possible: A) The democrats will never show as all democrats are lazy or B) The democrats will show up and we will finally have a congress which is active and has to vote on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE.

Cops and municipalities frequently defend the use of taser guns as a “non-lethal” alternative.  Today I read the Smoking Gun Article about a pair of women whom attacked a Wendy’s fast food employee with a stun gun.  This resulted in their being “charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony”, while the alternative would be assault, a second degree misdemeanor.  I am in no way defending the actions of the women, and after reading the police report in it’s entirety I personally hope that these women see jail time.  However I also believe in being fair and balanced.  Is assault with a deadly weapon the correct charge when police frequently defend taser guns as a non-lethal alternative?

I think that the county prosecutor needs to tread lightly when considering how to pursue charges against these individuals.

According to Jon H. Gutmacher, Esq., a criminal defense attorney in Orlando, an assault in Florida is a second degree misdemeanor. [Florida Statute 784.011]. An aggravated assault is an assault committed with a deadly weapon. An aggravated assault is a third degree felony punishable by up to five years in the state prison system, but it is subject to severe mandatory sentencing enhancements that can more than triple that time. [Florida Statute 784.021]. Where the deadly weapon is a firearm or destructive device, the crime or its attempt carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of three (3) years. Where the firearm or destructive device is also discharged during the crime the mandatory minimum sentence is twenty (20) years.

What are your thoughts?

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

I have a boss, chances you have a boss to report to. If you don’t have a boss, you are unemployed, or you are self employed, which means you answer to clients. News broke earlier this month about Howard Dean, a retired NY State Department of Correctional Services’ Food Production Center in Rome, NY. Mr. Dean, a hard working civil servant took off every Friday for 17 years. He just got caught. But not by a supervisor, Dean retired in August 2008 at the age of 63. The full article can be read here.

What worries me the most here, is the failure of the Government to hold accountable Dean’s Boss.  I would guess over the course of 17 years Dean has had several individuals come and go as his supervisor.  Yet each one has the same responsibilities, inducing  make sure your employee does their job, and approve expense reports.

If I were a resident of the State of NY I would be outraged at the lack of accountability.  Whom are these supervisors?  Where are they now?

On a tangent, it should be noted that since Mr. Dean can sufficiently run a food processing center working only four days a week, and he has proven to be an individual with a low work ethic, can it be then assumed that Mr. Dean’s replacement is overpaid for a job lacking in stress and high demand?