Midnight Blue Says

It ain’t over folks, call your Congressmen/women and Senators today! Let them know there are better solutions for health care in the U.S.

You can read my initial report of this under reported spending scheme HERE

The democrats are continuing to quietly attach another nationalization program to the corpulent national healthcare scheme. This silent scheme would replace private student loan lending institutions in favor of direct government financed (read taxpayer financed) student loans. The Hill reports thousands of jobs would be lost in this pursuit:

But the student loan industry estimates that nearly 35,000 jobs would be lost if the federal government lent directly to students and only let private companies service the loans.

Just what we need are more college graduates unable to find work and saddled with crushing student loan debt. If you believe the cost of higher education is exorbitant, imagine what it will be like when all price controls are removed with government subsidizing student loans. Colleges and Universities will no longer have any incentive to price their product competitively if the government is there to approve student loans that cover whatever tuition they demand.

Dana Perino writing for Fox News makes a salient point regarding government takeover of student loans:

One thing is certain, consumers see the best results when they are empowered to choose which options best suit their needs. Maintaining a diverse array of private student lenders — for-profits and non-profits, local and national — would ensure that a retail market is preserved as a means to promote innovation and customer service excellence. Just as none of us want to be forced into a health insurance policy that pays for things we don’t want or need, it’s also a mistake when a high school senior only has one government-mandated option to finance their college education.

If Congress wants Americans to have health care and student loans that work for them, they should support reforms that *drive down* costs and let families shop around for the products best suit their needs. The principles of “choice and competition” cannot just be meaningless, throw-away lines that the Democrats use when they want to get their way. Republicans and like-minded Democrats should ensure that these principles are maintained in the student loan market in order to preserve jobs in a tough economy and prevent the country from spiraling further into debt.

The Cato Institute takes a closer look at “Inventing a Student Loan Crisis“. A must read for those interested in what is really going on with student loans.

In the end all will be well…Harry Reid believes it is a big day in America..only 36,000 Americans have lost their job today.

Obama visited my fair state today, struggling to find support for his flagging health care reform scheme. The organizers of the Independence Hall Tea Party Association organized a stop Obamacare Rally outside Arcadia (formerly Beaver) University. Dissent is patriotic, don’t you know!

Saw some familiar faces in this Fox News video of the event at Arcadia (formerly Beaver) University:

It ain’t over folks, call your Congressmen/women and Senators today! Let them know there are better solutions for health care in the U.S.

Obama entertains few GOP ideas in his latest healthcare scheme.

UPDATE: ABC News Senior White House correspondent, Jake Tapper, reports the Obama administration intention to use the ‘nuclear option’ in order to ram a healthcare bill through the senate:

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial “reconciliation” rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the “fix” to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

After Obama’s failure to close the deal on health care reform, it is clear that Harry Reid is going to slam this crap sandwich down America’s throat by using a nuclear option of 51 votes for passage in the Senate.

What is still in play is the House, where every member is seeking re-election. Dick Morris has compiled a list of vulnerable members who voted for Obamacare on the first go around. It is critical for you to call if your representative is listed (mine are) and let them know of your opposition to this scheme.

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Rep. Paul Ryan remarks at the bipartisan health care summit held yesterday in Washington DC:

And I’ve got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you’re not listening to them. So what we simply want to do is start over, work on a clean- sheeted paper, move through these issues, step by step, and fix them, and bring down health care costs and not raise them.

Everywhere you turn today the news is the same – Obama failed to close the deal on health care reform.

This is why Scott Brown was elected to fill the vacant Massachusetts Senate seat. The public is engaged in the health care issue and have clearly rejected Obamacare via their votes and their voices. Obama, can you hear us now?

PS: Who cares about his vote in support of a useless jobs bill?  He is, after all, a Republican from Massachusetts.

Senator Ben Nelson faced with dismal poll numbers and constituents booing him and his wife out of pizza parlor, Nelson decides to return his ‘Cornhusker Kickback’.

What he wants in return is for all states be given the same sweetheart deal, as reported by Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist:

Nelson said in his request to Reid that all states should be treated equally in the future. That could, of course, mean the federal government might pay for all of the increased Medicaid costs for all states, forever.

CBO score, anyone??

The US lost an additional 85,000 jobs in December bringing the yearly total of job loss to 2.5 million and  increasing the unemployment rate to 17.3 nationwide.

With this news in mind, the Obama administration is pushing a 1 trillion government takeover of student loans through Democrat senator Tom Harkin’s HELP committee. This scheme will eliminate private lenders, in turn adding more citizens to the growing unemployment number and end up giving the government sole control over student loans. This will drastically impact everyone’s ability to decide how they will finance a university education. If it is anything like the healthcare bill, with politics trumping coverage, will some states benefit  because their Senator held his or her vote in exchange for more goodies, leaving the other states to pick up their tab?

“My guiding principle is and always has been that consumers do better when there is choice and competition. That’s how the market works.” (Obama’s speech to Congress,9/9/09)

What happened to choice and competition? With the federalization of GM, banking institutions and healthcare, what real choices will American’s have available to them in the marketplace?

For comparison, check out GOP.com ‘The Democrats’ Job Standard “

ACTION ALERTS

If this Saturday’s (Nov. 21) senate vote passes, it WILL be impossible to stop a government takeover of health care. If you’re represented by Democratic senators, please tell them to vote NO on the Saturday vote. If the Capitol Hill switchboard number (202-224-3121) is busy, call back!

From the Independence Hall Tea Party Association -

Fri Nov 20 -Senator Bob Casey – Hands Off My Healthcare Rally. We need to remind Casey that we are watching him. His Pro-Life Legacy is on the line. If he votes in favor of a Senate Bill without a Stupak-type Amendment, he will have lost all credibility as a “Pro-Life” Senator.

Please try to go if you have time.

What: Senator Casey: Hands-off My Health Care Rally
Why: Remind Casey we’re watching him like a hawk.
When: Friday, November 20, 12 noon-2 PM
Where: Senator Casey’s Office
2000 Market St (20th and Market)
Philadelphia, PA

Philly Loser

A detrimental health scheme passed in Congress by a smaller margin that Cap & Steal. This indicates that this partisan bill will hopefully meet the same fate as Cap & Steal in the Senate – DOA

Mitch McConnell responds to Pelosi-care:

Rarely has the disconnect between Congress and the American people been clearer than the vote tonight. Americans want lower costs, less government intrusion, a simpler approach and less spending. Instead, the Democrat leadership has just forced through a partisan, 2,000-page bureaucratic monstrosity—a trillion-dollar government experiment that raises premiums, raises taxes and slashes Medicare to create more government programs. That’s not reform.

As this bill moves to the Senate, Republicans will continue to offer commonsense reforms to lower costs and increase access

Cartoon H/T: Wordsmith