Unfortunately, I have been too busy to comment on Obama’s “historic” healthcare bill, up until now. Somehow, congratulating Obama on his first real achievement seems somewhat hypocritical, considering I think the bill is the usual socialist mix of paternalistic pseudo-concern and a distressing disregard of both taxpayer’s pockets and obvious consequences. The fight to reverse [...]

It looks like the Democrats are going to attempt to shoehorn the Obamacare bill through on the thinnest of margins. Considering the controversial nature of some parts of the bill and the partisan sentiment it has generated, one can only say that this is a foolish and dangerous thing to try and do. Time has [...]

Following the media circus (New Zealand media, at any rate) that is John Key in the US, one can’t help have a little sympathy for Fran O’Sullivan’s severe attack of cultural cringe in her Saturday Column. She wails: Why is it that the travelling press troupe following John Key about in New York are sending back [...]

You can’t love on someone with a hammer. No, this is not a weird addition to the smacking debate, I am simply commenting on President Obama’s current tactics in the healthcare debate. At one point an understanding of a sorts had been reached with the health insurers lobby. The insurance companies accepted that health care [...]

President Obama has now reached the point, in his promotion of his heathcare bill, where he can no longer simply make stirring speeches. He now has to make a decision. Obama ploy so far has worked quite well. The ploy was to do what comes naturally to Obama and not provide any details to the [...]

It seems that the new Health Care bill being punted by Obama has a price tag of 1.042 trillion dollars. I guess if you say it fast enough, it doesn’t sound quite as much. And, frankly, that’s my impression of the health care bill – it doesn’t sound like much. At the end of a [...]

Prima Facie evidence that Americans are insane. This is Bernie Madoff. He stole $50 billion dollars in a Ponzi scheme. If you stacked $50 billion dollar bills one on top of the other it would stretch about 5,461 Km, or a little further than Auckland to Perth. He got 150 years in prison for this. [...]

On Wednesday, Obama delivered his new plan for banking reforms. While the man may be conciliatory to the outside world, he certainly likes to pick fights inside his country. Just a few days after setting in motion healthcare plans that will be resisted by virtually every healthcare professional in the country, he now proposes a [...]

I love watching Obama trying to throw his weight around and talk tough. It is a bit like watching Bambi try to savage a hunter. I’m not talking here about the dynamic hand-wringing that he is doing over the Iran situation, I’m talking about his plans for US Healthcare reform which he tried to sell [...]