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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Friday, June 13, 2003

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Today's Nuze: June 13, 2003

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THE NEW DEMOCRATIC MOTTO

"Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can force someone to do for you".

HERE'S ONE YOU HAVE TO READ

Here's a new book I just picked up. "Off with Their Heads, Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists in American Politics, Media and Business. The book is written by our friend Dick Morris. This book is a well-written Morris rant against people in our society who are obstructing or efforts to fight terrorism. Believe me, he doesn't hold back on his punches ... even with his old pal Bill Clinton. Here's an Amazon.com link you can use if you like. Morris will be a guest on my show next Wednesday.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060559284/qid=1055504150/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-7662126-7299214

FREE DRUGS FOR WIZENED CITIZENS

Step by step ... here is how it's going to work. Print this and safe it. You can show it to your children or grandchildren to help explain why the government is taking 60% of everything they earn.
  1. Democrats propose a grand new spending program. Senior citizens are going to be able to use someone else's money to buy their prescription drugs. Senior citizens pledge their electoral support to Democrats as thanks.

  2. Republicans start chanting "me too!" and get on board with the free drugs for old folks plan, hoping that at least some of the wrinkled class will vote for them.

  3. Senior citizens spend an average of $650 a year on prescription drugs right now. As soon as the drug benefit is added to Medicare the pharmaceutical companies will start marketing many more drugs to old folks. "Ask your doctor about Noasital."

  4. Seniors will rush off to their Medicare doctors and say "Tell me about Noasital." They'll insist on a prescription for Noasital, and any other drug they happen to see advertised, and many doctors will be all too willing to go along.

  5. The average yearly spending by seniors on prescription drugs will skyrocket from $650 a year to thousands of dollars a year.

  6. In short order the projections for spending on the new prescription drug benefit will have been left in the dust. What was sold to us as a $40 billion a year program will be costing well over $100 billion a year .. and going nowhere but up.Politicians and bureaucrats will start expressing their "concerns" and a fix will be demanded.

  7. The "fix" to rising spending on drugs for wrinkled class will be to put limits on what Medicare will pay for certain prescription drugs, just as Medicare has already put limits on what will be paid for certain medical services.

  8. Pharmaceutical companies will find that they aren't making any money on selling these drugs to seniors because of the Medicare price controls.In fact, they may find that they are actually losing money. To compensate for these lost profits the pharmaceutical companies will simply increase prices for these and other drugs to their non-Medicare patients.

  9. As the prices of prescription drugs for non-Medicare Americans go up, so will the price of health insurance coverage. Insurance companies aren't going to suffer these increased costs without passing them off to the insured. Basically this is the same thing that has happened in many other areas of health care. Medicare institutes price controls, health care providers make up the difference by charging other patients more, health insurance companies raise premiums ... and so on.

  10. As prescription prices and health insurance premiums increase for non-Medicare Americans, so will the demand for politicians to step in and do something. Politicians, always hungry for both votes and power, will be all-too-happy to oblige.

  11. Politicians will start demagoguing drug companies. They will be called "greedy" and will be accused of "profiteering" and "exploiting" the frail health of our precious senior citizens.

  12. After a short period of scare-mongering the politicians will vote to institute price controls on the pharmaceutical companies. Politicians will tell us that they are doing this to reign in these greedy corporate monsters who are becoming obscenely rich on the backs of sick Americans.

  13. With price controls the earnings figures for pharmaceutical companies will go into the toilet.

  14. As earnings go down pharmaceutical companies will have less and less to spend on research and development for new drugs. Research into ways to treat disease will show down and, eventually, will become the province of government.

  15. Government will be the eventual beneficiary of this mess as the masses clamor for more and more government solutions to these problems that are perceived to be the fault of the private sector.

FLAGGOTS MEETING

The Sons of Confederate Veterans are meeting in Statesboro, Georgia this weekend. Many, though not all of them will be plotting strategy to return the Confederate battle emblem to the Georgia State Flag.

This group needs to change their name. How about "DSCV?" The Delusional Sons of Confederate Veterans. Some of the more aware members of this organization need to inform their colleagues of the fact that the Confederate battle emblem is NEVER going to return to Georgia's State Flag. It's time to turn their attention to other matters.



Hillary and the girls enjoy a break in her busy book-signing schedule.

ON AMERICA BEING A "CHRISTIAN NATION"

For those of you out there who are so fond of insisting that the United States is, in some official capacity, a "Christian nation," here's an excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's autobiography.

"The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason & right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that it's protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion." The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of it's protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination."

Trouble is, most of the people who would benefit from this Jefferson thought will be unable to understand it.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

OK .. there's been so many requests for this, I'm going to re-post it for you. It's a narrative of a day in the live of an adult ADD "sufferer."

Recently I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. -- Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how this insidious disease manifests itself:

I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trashcan under the table, and notice that the trashcan is full. So I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take m y checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of pop that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the pop aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.?

I see that the pop is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the pop, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye -- they need to be watered. I set the pop down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of pop sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e- mail.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

It looks like the war in Iraq cost a bit less than expected. Take another cartridge out of the Democrats ammo belt.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-06-12-war-costs_x.htm

George Bush ... a Big Government Big Spending conservative.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20030613.shtml

U.S. Forces have attacked a terrorist training camp north of Baghdad. Seventy fanatics killed.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030613-124435-6711r.htm

Hamas says they are going to "tear Israel to pieces." If Israel dares to retaliate it will, of course, be Israel that is in the wrong.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=414963

If you don't want golf balls in your freakin' yard don't buy a house next to a bloody golf course. Idiots. Remind me of the anti-airport morons.
http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News4011.lasso

Thursday's Best of the Web.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003617

Daniel Henniger says the present debate of Iraqi WMDs is absurd ... and will remain so until the fate of Saddam Hussein is known.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110003625

The more you study the Middle East the more you will learn that Saudi Arabia is perhaps the primary destabilizing influence over there. Now they've been caught fabricating reports that Jews teach their children to hate Arabs.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33061

Who let "Enrique Sosa Alvare" loose? You do know he's an illegal alien, don't you? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20030613.shtml

Republicans are having a tough time selling the idea that people who don't pay taxes shouldn't get tax cuts. Bruce Bartlett points out that they only have themselves to blame.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brucebartlett/bb20030613.shtml
 
 

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