Socialism Alert! 2011 US Budget was just passed without an actual vote

[XJEEPER]

Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that “deemed as passed” a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the “deeming” document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37893

 

[joe_peters]

I am DEEMING a short political career for some of the "deemers".

 

[kdailey4315]

This is a perfect example of how the leftist media doesn't report actual facts. All of the right wing media outlets are reporting it for what it is. A deem and pass of a budget. All of the left wing media outlets are saying it's just a budget resolution and not an actual budget.

 

[XJEEPER]

Add this to the list-Obama once again bypasses Confirmation Hearings to appoint another czar.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/health/policy/07recess.html?_r=2&hp

The recess appointment was somewhat unusual because the Senate is in recess for less than two weeks and senators were still waiting for Dr. Berwick to submit responses to some of their requests for information. No confirmation hearing has been held or scheduled.

Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, said that, far from trying to delay a confirmation hearing, Republicans had wanted a forum where Dr. Berwick could explain his views.

“This recess appointment proves the Obama administration did not have the support of a majority of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and sought to evade a hearing,” Mr. Roberts said.

 

[XJEEPER]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So what's the big deal about Obama sidestepping the vetting process and appointing Dr Donald Berwick to HHS to run CMS?[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"It’s unfortunate that at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges, many in Congress have decided to delay critical nominations for political purposes," Obama said in a statement about the appointment.[/FONT]

The Congressional panel is comprised of 13 Democrats and 8 Republicans...... Obama's own party didn't want Dr Donald Berwick appointed to oversee Healthcare, which is why Obama stepped around them.

Couldn't be that they think that Berwick is the WRONG person for the job.........

How about the transparency and accountability that Obama promised the American people on numerous occasions?


Let's look at Berwick's position on Healthcare for the American citizens:

• “I am romantic about the National Health Service. I love it,” Berwick said during a 2008 speech to British physicians, going on to call it “generous, hopeful, confident, joyous, and just.” He compared the wonders of British health care to a U.S. system that he described as trapped in “the darkness of private enterprise.”​

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• Dr. Berwick wants to bring NICE-style rationing to this country. “It’s not a question of whether we will ration care,” he said in a magazine interview for Biotechnology Healthcare, “It is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”​

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• To Dr. Berwick , this is exactly how it should be. “NICE is not just a national treasure,” he says, “it is a global treasure.”​

Berwick was referring to a British health care system where 750,000 patients are awaiting admission to NHS hospitals. The government’s official target for diagnostic testing was a wait of no more than 18 weeks by 2008. ​

The reality doesn’t come close. The latest estimates suggest that for most specialties, only 30 to 50 percent of patients are treated within 18 weeks. For trauma and orthopedics patients, the figure is only 20 percent.​

Overall, more than half of British patients wait more than 18 weeks for care. Every year, 50,000 surgeries are canceled because patients become too sick on the waiting list to proceed.​

The one thing the NHS is good at is saving money. After all, it is far cheaper to let the sick die than to provide care.​

http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/27/death-panels-were-an-overblown-claim-until-now/#ixzz0t6BvGVZx​

“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”​

http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2010/07/flashback-donald-berwick-we-must-redistribute-wealth/​

Isn't Socialised Medicine great?​

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