In case you missed it, this letter to Editor printed in the Oklahoman makes an excellent point. And, might 'we' suggest...how about politicians running for office being required to be bonded or required to carry errors and omission insurance - with them paying for it out of their pocket - to cover any judgements or situations such as we read below. And if wrongdoing causes them to lose coverage, well, then they also lose their job! A lot of other 'workers' in Oklahoma are required to carry insurance.
Letter to Editor...
Regarding "Labor Dept. paid $200,000 settlement over ex-workers dismissal; Alleged reprisal costs agency" (news story in Oklahoman July 3);Why must taxpayers fund huge settlements when politicians are caught in a wrongdoing?
Democrat State Labor Commissioner Lloyd Fields was [recently]caught in a partisan and illegal employee termination and the taxpayers must shell out $200,000 to cover Fields wrongdoing.
And this is one of many cases in which wrongdoing/crimes by Democrats have cost Oklahoma taxpayers big time. David Hall, David Walters, Gene Stipe, Mike Mass, Carroll Fisher, and now Fields have cost taxpayers huge amounts of money.
The law should be changed to force any politician caught in wrongdoing to pay for it themselves. This would mean the guilty politicians would pay any settlement out of their own pockets. And they should immediately lose their job.
Allen Hill, OKC
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Good for the Gander OR our goose is Cooked!
[OK] Senator Tom Coburn is a physician who until recently still went home to Oklahoma to deliver babies. He believes Congress should weigh the dangers of a nationalized health system much more seriously than it has.
In the tradition of someone using a 2x4 to win the attention of a mule, yesterday he successfully pressed the Senate Health Committee to approve his idea of requiring Members of Congress themselves to enroll in whatever "public plan" is passed to compete with private insurance companies.
"Let's demonstrate leadership -- and confidence in the system -- by requiring that every member of Congress go into it," Mr. Coburn told his colleagues as they were marking up the health care proposal championed by Senator Ted Kennedy.
His idea wasn't exactly greeted warmly by many public plan supporters. Senator Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat, responded: "I don't know why we should require ourselves to participate in a plan that no one else needs to participate in. This bill goes to great lengths to show that the choice is there for everybody."
But Mr. Coburn disagreed, saying his reading of the 1,000-page health care bill convinced him that everyone would end up being forced into the public plan as private insurance carriers were squeezed out of the market by mandates and regulations. Therefore, if Congress decides a government-run health plan is good enough for the American people, it should be willing to put itself under its care umbrella.
By a 12 to 11 margin, the Senate Health Committee agreed.
Senator Chris Dodd, the committee's acting chairman, and Senator Kennedy were absent from the committee but sent in proxy votes in favor.
Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski was the only other Democrat to back the measure. Every Republican save for New Hampshire's Judd Gregg voted in favor of the Coburn mandate.
Obviously, many members of Congress -- who are used to a generous and flexible set of health benefits -- have no intention of letting the Coburn mandate become law.
They will undoubtedly try to strip it from the bill at some point, in a conference committee between the two houses if necessary. But for now it is embedded in the bill and any overt attempt to remove it would be met with howls of public outrage.
--John Fund, WSJ
Be interesting to know how many hours Hillary Clinton sat in an ER waiting room to get her broken elbow tended!
In the tradition of someone using a 2x4 to win the attention of a mule, yesterday he successfully pressed the Senate Health Committee to approve his idea of requiring Members of Congress themselves to enroll in whatever "public plan" is passed to compete with private insurance companies.
"Let's demonstrate leadership -- and confidence in the system -- by requiring that every member of Congress go into it," Mr. Coburn told his colleagues as they were marking up the health care proposal championed by Senator Ted Kennedy.
His idea wasn't exactly greeted warmly by many public plan supporters. Senator Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat, responded: "I don't know why we should require ourselves to participate in a plan that no one else needs to participate in. This bill goes to great lengths to show that the choice is there for everybody."
But Mr. Coburn disagreed, saying his reading of the 1,000-page health care bill convinced him that everyone would end up being forced into the public plan as private insurance carriers were squeezed out of the market by mandates and regulations. Therefore, if Congress decides a government-run health plan is good enough for the American people, it should be willing to put itself under its care umbrella.
By a 12 to 11 margin, the Senate Health Committee agreed.
Senator Chris Dodd, the committee's acting chairman, and Senator Kennedy were absent from the committee but sent in proxy votes in favor.
Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski was the only other Democrat to back the measure. Every Republican save for New Hampshire's Judd Gregg voted in favor of the Coburn mandate.
Obviously, many members of Congress -- who are used to a generous and flexible set of health benefits -- have no intention of letting the Coburn mandate become law.
They will undoubtedly try to strip it from the bill at some point, in a conference committee between the two houses if necessary. But for now it is embedded in the bill and any overt attempt to remove it would be met with howls of public outrage.
--John Fund, WSJ
Be interesting to know how many hours Hillary Clinton sat in an ER waiting room to get her broken elbow tended!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
America - 1776 ~ 2009!
Happy Birthday America! God Bless America!
Statue of Liberty Crown opens TODAY for first time since September 11 attacks!
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