I just got home after spending spent part of three days at OSH. I did
not manage to find a single rotary powered aircraft on the line.
Also ... I did not see any of our tax dollars at work; no USAF or
AirGuard aircraft in all the usual places. The large Plaza area was
mostly empty for the first two days of my visit. FedEx finally showed
up with one of their big freight-haulers, but aside from that the
place was rather empty.
I suspect that Wisconsin Governor Walker's stand against some of
Washington's favorite causes is the reason for us Wisconsinites
being treated as the ugly sister.
My guess is that the number of attendees was down too. though the
weather was rather cool, even cold, on Monday
RBerglund
Times are hard and 100LL is expensive.
Vote the economic clueless democrat bastards out of the senate on
2014.
That is a good start.
Paul Lamar
Same thing at the Dayton air show. The pointed lack of all military
equipment is a result of the Republicans allowing Obama's sequester
to pass into law unopposed. The presidents team had full budget
authority and chose to make this 2.2% reduction as obvious and
painful as possible. This to be expected when you hire a man born in
Kenya, raised as a Muslim in Indonesia, and converted to Communism by
his grand parents, to run the USA. Lynn E. Hanover
I agree with Lynn's observation about lack of Republican pushback. It
looks like they
are too busy lining their pockets and protecting their largest campaign
contributors to
care about real problem solving. Example? Repeal Obamacare, but then
we go back
to 11 million+ who can't afford to go to the doctor. The Bush
administration ran
everything for 8 years and they didn't get it done. I am a Republican
but I can also
understand how average folks got squeezed to death by robber-baron
mentality. We
Republicans like to grouse about entitlement mentality, but we don't
think about our
penchant for raising rents, stifling competition, corrupting our
political process, paying
only "competitive wages" all of which can be very discouraging to the
average Joe.
Even though I despise him, I believe THAT is why people vote for the
likes of Obama.
As a dentist, I can tell you that in the medical and dental community,
getting rich seems
to be job 1 and ethical, conservative, cost-effective patient CARE can
often be an
afterthought.
Gene Kahn
There is corruption in both parties.
The free market is not about fair. It is about prosperity. With out
wealth there is no well fare.
It is not for nothing that communism and uber socialism fails.
Back in the old days you either worked or you starved. Of course the
people living off the dole
had/have no medical insurance. Get a job and buy some.
Anybody in the pre Obama US could apply their nose to the grindstone,
save their excess income
and die wealthy. That is why the rest of the world wanted to live here.
When taxes are too high and there is no excess income that stops.
Paul Lamar
The reason that people cant afford health care slide home to 2 big ones
and lots of little ones.
1. Lawsuits. I live about 2 miles up from a stretch known as
"millionaire row". Most of these homes are in the 4+ million range, and
75% of the owners are attorneys specializing in personal injury and
medical malpractice. John Edwards made his millions in the malpractice
arena primarily. My wife is in health care, and if you talk to the
doctors, the single biggest expense they have is malpractice insurance.
In the hospital where my wife works if you go to the ER the first thing
they will do is test you to death to make sure that the lawyers wont
come knocking. This makes the average ER bill well over $1,000 even if
you come in with a cold. If you say you have a headache, you get the
$4,000 CT scan, just to be sure.
2. We gave up our voice in our health care. As a nation, we were happy
to pay a set amount for insurance every month and go to the doctor as
much as we wanted. This evolved into the insurance companies negotiating
with the providers regarding what care we were given, what payment was
to be made for it, and later if we really needed it or not. Now we have
to deal with medicare telling the doctors how much they get paid, how
long the patient can stay and if they even meet criteria for being
admitted. Yes, they tell your doctor that if you stay nobody gets paid,
and the doctor is so afraid of the lawyers that he will stick you in a
room for observation. The end result is that you stay, the hospital and
doctor dont get paid by medicare, and you end up with the bill. Yep, you
get the bill.
We have allowed the insurance companies, the providers, and the
government to dictate what care we can get, when we can get it, and now
the government has told us that no matter what we have to buy insurance
from the companies that started it all.
We did it to ourselves, and until we stand up for ourselves and
straighten out the mess, it gets worse.
As far as universal health care- here is an example: In Russia there is
a form of universal health care. Everyone pays in somewhat like our FICA
deductions from our paychecks and everyone gets to go to the doctor
(they can here too, an ER cant turn you away just because you have no
money), but everyone pays 28% of the bill. If the bill is $100.00, you
pay $28. If it is $100,000, you pay $28,000. Each person chooses where
they go for care based on how much they want their part to be, doctors
advertise against each other, and competition keeps the cost down. Here,
the doctors only want to know if you have insurance, and wont discuss
how much the bill will be. The hospital my wife works for does
everything they can not to answer the question if you ask how much this
will cost.
When you sit back and let others make decisions for you, you end up
living with the results whether you like it or not.
Kevin Alderman
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