nothing but water is necessary…..

oh well, until I figure out embedded video here, content yourself with this…..a video showing saltwater burning…..

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Tomorrow is a magical day….it doesn’t really exist, you know….it’s a bonus day….you’re boss may not agree, but it isn’t calculated into an productivity charts….nothing you do tomorrow is going to matter……which leads me to a suggestion…..since Leap Day always falls on an election year, I suggest we get rid of February 29 forever, and replace it with November X…..the first Tuesday of November, every four years…..

If nothing we do on Leap Day matters, we might as well combine it with a similar event…..elections…….

Okay, normally I am a very mild manner man. But Congress has seriously pissed me off today. They want to increase taxes on oil companies $18 Billion dollars. That’s right. You thought it was bad when we were being screwed with $3.18/gallon gasoline. Congress wants to artificially jack up the gasoline prices. Because these complete morons don’t seem to understand. CORPORATIONS DON’T PAY TAXES.

That’s right corporations don’t pay taxes. They pass them off to the consumer. Congress is trying to increase our taxes on gasoline when we are already getting screwed over by the price. And I am sick and tired of it.

Expect $4 dollar gasoline by memorial day. Expect it to be over $5 dollars by the end of the year. Expect not only a recession, but a freaking depression because our politicians in Congress are either too freaking stupid, or just so evil that they want to screw over the poor in America.

I am barely surviving because of the gasoline prices now. And they want to take actions that not only jack up our oil prices but do nothing but benefit foreign oil companies by forcing us to import more oil. And most of those countries are freaking hostile to us.

How freaking difficult is it to understand that the way to bring oil prices down is to stop interfering in the market place! Stop trying to prevent exploring for more oil! Stop trying to prevent building nuclear plants! Stop trying to prevent refineriess. I think 30 years is freaking long enough. Stop screwing over the average person.

And that is what this is all about. Congress wants to screw over average America. You see, the little secret is the elite politicians don’t want the average man to be independent and able to profit through his hard work. They want us dependent on government for every single solitary thing in our lives. That way can control us. If we give up and give our power to some government official who wants to screw us over, we will never be free. But if we are able to work hard and become independent and gain a profit, we have the power. We have the power to support opposition to their ideas. We have the power to run against them and vote them out of office. And believe me, they don’t want that.

I want every Democrat and Republican who voted for this to be voted out immediately. We can’t put up with this bullcrap any more. There are lives at stake. Your jobs, your neighbors job, our childrens future is at stake. It’s time for us to take back freedom and let’s start by making ourself energy independent.

This isn’t going to be a long blog. I just needed to say one thing:

Fear sucks!

No new taxes or government involvement in the health care insurance provider process.

Problem:

Reasonable people know they need health care insurance. Many simply can’t afford it.

Currently insurance providers are hand picking those they will insure. These are the least risk, healthiest folks in the population. How are they doing it? With premiums, by adjusting premiums for every individual they can effectively eliminate those they will not profit from. At the same time, eliminating so many from coverage results in higher premiums for those who are covered. The insurance industry has become no more that a premium collector from a select group instead of being an insurance provider. Don’t believe it? If you have individual insurance vs group insurance and are unfortunate enough to make a major claim, when your new term comes up for renewal, watch how fast they either don’t renew, or price your premium so high you just walk away. Sure you can get a new policy but it will be priced to reflect your history, and that pre-exiting condition, excluded for at least 12 months. They will however be happy to accept your monthly premium payment, if you can afford it.

High premiums are the major obstacle to obtaining decent or any health care coverage at all. So how do we solve this problem and not affect the profit of the insurance providers?

Solution:

I see what may be the only reasonable solution. One I may be able to support: regulation.

For the most part I oppose regulation; however, I see it working positively in the public utilities arena. People are offered a utility product which like health insurance we all need, electric, gas. The price is regulated here by the PSC (Public Service Commission).

They set the rate or maximum rate that can be charged. If the utility company needs to raise rates do to costs or expansion they must present their case to the PSC for approval before doing so. The PSC works to adjust rates, if necessary, that benefit both the public and the utility company. Utility companies are profitable under this system/ process.

The country would be divided into regions, Southeast, Northeast etc.

Any company providing health insurance in a region would be required to provide a basic health care coverage plan (Standard for the entire country) to anyone in that region.

The national standard would be developed by a national group composed of an insurance commissioner from each region. Premiums would be determined by the regional Insurance commission. Regional commissions would be made up of the state insurance commissioners from each state within that region.

Premiums would be set by region based on overall risk in that region.

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Reasonable and customary charges would be set by region, similar to what is done now.

Maintenance of Profit and Coverage:

I see an increase, or at the least, the same profit for insurance companies by increasing their customer base thus spreading the risk across a region (think group coverage).

Supplement participating companies with current alcohol/ tobacco taxes collected regionally. Make these taxes fluid, easily shared with other regions if needed.

Further reduce risk with a customer deposit, similar to utilities now, with a maximum cap.

Well that’s my general idea. It seems reasonable to me and I think it would work with little federal government involvement, which means little federal control.

I said this a long time ago and I’ll repeat myself, I would accept anyone in the White House as long as it’s not Hillary Clinton. Besides the fact that she makes me nauseous, I believe she’s a liar, she panders and would make the divide in our country even wider than it is now.

I don’t agree with Obama’s policies, although admittedly I think he’s quite intelligent and does offer some things I can go along with, but he would do much more to bring our country back to “normalcy” than Shrillary ever could.

And it’s bad enough seeing her in the headlines through the election process, and always being in the papers here in New York, but could you imagine having to see this mug on the TV non-stop for a minimum of 4 years? My television set would end up in pieces on the pavement below my window!