"[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;”
The judge made the commonsense ruling that U.S. government did not have the power to force a person to buy a product. The Progressives who passed this law will try to say the commerce clause gives them the power. But do you really think the people who voted for the Constitution believe it was giving that power to the government? A constitution that LIMITS the power of government, especially noted in the Bill of Rights (i.e. the first ten amendments)!
The leftist say you are force to buy auto insurance - but that is true only if your own and drive a car. I once tried to get auto insurance without owning a car and was rejected (I wanted to avoid the high cost of rental car insurance). The leftist argument can be rejected in two ways: (1) it would force everyone to subsidize mass transit, just in case they might board a bus or train. (2) it would force all those who don't own cars to buy auto insurance. I am sure the Amish would be pleased to do that.
The leftist say that those who don't have insurance and can't pay force others to pay in higher premiums and costs. Well then should everyone buy food insurance and rent insurance? Because we are forced to pay for higher food cost to subsided the poor through food stamps and welfare aid.
If the leftist want to lower hospital emergency room costs, let them change to rule that hospitals are required to give emergency aid. There is no need to totally eliminate it - just change the rules to eliminate those that abuse the system.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Sarah Palin: America by Heart
Just started reading it, but if you want an understanding of what the Tea Party movement is about then read her first chapter.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Global Warming Question: Snow Removal
A recent post say the decrease of the Arctic ice will increase global warming due the lack of reflection of light back into space. So my question is: How much is man contributing to global warming by the removal of snow?
I look over my yard and I see the driveway and street may take up 20% of the surface area of our plot. If you include the roof of the house (which accelerates the melting snow) and the planting of trees were once was grass (and thus preventing the light from returning to space), how much more light is absorbed versus return to space? Add in all the extra cities, roads, highways and malls, etc that have been built in the last 200 years, how much has global warming been increased by the removal of snow?
I look over my yard and I see the driveway and street may take up 20% of the surface area of our plot. If you include the roof of the house (which accelerates the melting snow) and the planting of trees were once was grass (and thus preventing the light from returning to space), how much more light is absorbed versus return to space? Add in all the extra cities, roads, highways and malls, etc that have been built in the last 200 years, how much has global warming been increased by the removal of snow?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
A Thought on the housing crisis.
Imagine a builder builds a subdivision of 10 ten houses all alike. He sells them each for $100,000.
Next, a newcomer buys the first house for $110,000. The seller then buys his neighbor house for what he sold his plus $10,0000, i.e. the second house sells for $120,000 and the tenth house sells for $200,000. The tenth seller than buys the first house for $210,000 from the newcomer. So the newcomer has made $100,000. And because each of the houses are the same and worth what the last house was sold for, each homeowner now owns a $210,000 for which they paid $100,000 plus $10,000. Thus they turned a $1,100,000 investment into $2,100,000, or a $1,0000,000 profit.
Then, they try to sell the houses, find their houses are not worth what they paid for it and ask the Obama administration to make up the difference.
Next, a newcomer buys the first house for $110,000. The seller then buys his neighbor house for what he sold his plus $10,0000, i.e. the second house sells for $120,000 and the tenth house sells for $200,000. The tenth seller than buys the first house for $210,000 from the newcomer. So the newcomer has made $100,000. And because each of the houses are the same and worth what the last house was sold for, each homeowner now owns a $210,000 for which they paid $100,000 plus $10,000. Thus they turned a $1,100,000 investment into $2,100,000, or a $1,0000,000 profit.
Then, they try to sell the houses, find their houses are not worth what they paid for it and ask the Obama administration to make up the difference.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Reparations - The unfortunate truth.
I was listening to someone who said the whites need to pay reparations to blacks for slavery. Since no one alive today was a slave, the blacks should perversely thank slavery.
It is an unfortunate truth that anyone who ancestor had to move/or was moved because of a bad situation exists today because of that tragedy. Example: Assume you are a decadent of Irish person who forced to leave Ireland and go to he United States because of the rotten treatment by the English landlords. If that had not happen you would not exist today. It is not a choice of whether you would be living in Ireland or the U.S., it is a choice between existing or never been born.
You can receive reparations for anything that happen before your conception, for without those actions you would not have been born.
It is an unfortunate truth that anyone who ancestor had to move/or was moved because of a bad situation exists today because of that tragedy. Example: Assume you are a decadent of Irish person who forced to leave Ireland and go to he United States because of the rotten treatment by the English landlords. If that had not happen you would not exist today. It is not a choice of whether you would be living in Ireland or the U.S., it is a choice between existing or never been born.
You can receive reparations for anything that happen before your conception, for without those actions you would not have been born.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Is Reuters Anti-Israeli?
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"One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake.
But now we have two pictures from the “peace activists” that were cropped by someone at Reuters to remove knives in the hands of the activists, as they attempted to take soldiers hostage."
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Reader reaction to Reuters news
"Shame on you for editing (cropping) photos depicting wounded Israeli soldiers in a way that hides the cold weapons (knives and metal clubs) in the hands of the “peaceful” voyagers.
Unfortunately, Reuters looses its stature as an unbiased media outlet time and time again."
Blogosphere alleges another Reuters 'fauxtogate'
Additionally, the bloodied hand of another soldier, presumably sprawled out on the deck behind the first soldier, can be seen in the background.
Yet in the shot initially released by Reuters, none of these details are visible, as the photo shows only the first soldier being dragged and a man in an orange life vest standing above him.
"One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake.
But now we have two pictures from the “peace activists” that were cropped by someone at Reuters to remove knives in the hands of the activists, as they attempted to take soldiers hostage."
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Reader reaction to Reuters news
"Shame on you for editing (cropping) photos depicting wounded Israeli soldiers in a way that hides the cold weapons (knives and metal clubs) in the hands of the “peaceful” voyagers.
Unfortunately, Reuters looses its stature as an unbiased media outlet time and time again."
Blogosphere alleges another Reuters 'fauxtogate'
Additionally, the bloodied hand of another soldier, presumably sprawled out on the deck behind the first soldier, can be seen in the background.
Yet in the shot initially released by Reuters, none of these details are visible, as the photo shows only the first soldier being dragged and a man in an orange life vest standing above him.
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