Crabby Blogging Lady

Sorry I haven’t been very humorous lately, folks. I guess I’m on a literal crabby streak. I’ve been reading the news headlines, and they have me very worried. I don’t know about you, but I’m too nervous and creeped out to be very funny or find things funny right now….

This is just sick. Makes me sick! Read this article. Tell me if that phrase “government’s role in health care” gives you the shivers like it gives me the shivers.

Senate Panel Previews Electronic Health Technology

The Senate Committee on Aging last week offered a preview of the government’s future role in health care, showing how Americans will interact with doctors and other health care providers. The demonstration offers a glimpse at an overlooked effect of health care reform.

The effort, loosely called e-Health or e-Care, combines health-care technology with 21st-century Internet connectivity. It will allow doctors to interact with their patients through innovations such as video chats, telephone health checkups, and home-health monitoring devices that relay data over wireless Internet connections.

Home-health monitoring devices? Hey, I like the Internet…. it’s a great place to get information on best term life insurance quotes or whatever. But I want to be in control of me, ok?

“The development of the broadband network and health information technologies has the potential to truly transform health care and simultaneously enable better outcomes and lowering costs,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

One of the new health technologies on display last Thursday was an automatic drug dispenser that can monitor and adjust medication dosages wirelessly, allowing doctors to tailor dosages of drugs such as insulin without having to schedule in-person visits with patients.

“What we’re talking about, folks, is using a device like this one,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said, as he displayed the small device. “It attaches to the patient’s skin and is loaded with drugs that are administered in the exact way that the doctor prescribes – wirelessly.

“That means that a doctor can vary the doses based on the information the doctor is receiving [from the monitor]. The patient doesn’t have to go in to the doctor and then the pharmacy to change his or her prescription,” he said.

So is this the reason for the government mandate to get everyone connected with broadband??

Am I the only one really creeped out about this? The government is forcing us to have their health “care.” Then they force us to get rigged to the computers, to have drugs or whatever dispensed by SOMEONE ELSE through a WIRELESS connection. This is INSANE.

These senators act like they have a bunch of new toys to play with. Us.

What the heck ever happened to getting the government out of our bodies, huh???????? Where’s Betty Friedan and Jane Fonda now?!

Well, did you play P-BO Bingo last night? I found a website where I could watch the State of the Union address over the Internet (thanks, Marcia!). So we started it up…. and…. tried to watch and listen…. oh, the agony.

I tried. Like Bill Clinton said, “I tried really, really hard. It was the hardest thing I ever tried.” Yeah, I’m lying, too. I didn’t REALLY try hard. I did try, a little. It was just too nauseating. After hearing Nancy Pelosi’s slimy (and thankfully brief) introduction, the applause go on and on and on and on and on and on (like those loud TVs at circuit city or something), and then hearing Obama discuss how he “knows” our “anxieties,” I could bear no more, not even for a game of Bingo.

Mr. Obama, you LIE. You do not “know the anxieties” of Americans. You KNOW OF them, but you do not know them. If you truly KNEW them, then that last thing you would be doing is pushing that idiotic health care takeover and planning another “stimulus” package (“and this time, for the ‘little guys’!”). PUH-LEASE. Just slash taxes, cancel the Federal Reserve Act, ditch the IRS, get the military out of domestic policing actions, and RESIGN! THAT’s what THIS American wants! Americans want to be LEFT ALONE. Quit trying to “create jobs”!! (SEE, I TOLD YOU!!). Quit trying to GOVERN us! I want to govern MYSELF. Isn’t that still allowed in this country?????????

So did anybody play the Bingo game? I’m curious. I wonder how P-BO scored.

It’s January. That jerk of a president has been in office for almost a year now; how come he hasn’t saved the world yet, huh?!?!? I’m sick of waiting for this crappy economy to turn around. I remember (I have a very good memory) how yeeeeeeears ago, people would say how they wanted government to “create jobs.” Do you remember hearing that? It was always all over the news reports– those reporters on the streets, going down to the lower levels of American society to ask the little people what they wanted from government. “Jobs,” the people would always say, “Create more jobs.”

Well well. The government DID create jobs– in CHINA. Hope you are all happy, you knuckleheads who wanted the government to create jobs. The only REAL jobs government can ever create are Government Administrative jobs, and force businesses to invest in employees overseas! No one stopped to consider that more “government jobs” means HIGHER TAXES!! Hello?!

So here we are today. Languishing. Not only are there no minimum-wage jobs, there are just NO JOBS. I heard on the Rush Limbaugh Show today some statistics that 20% of American men ages 20-54 are unemployed. Is this for real?!?!? 20%?! That is unconscionable! And we all know what men who are idle do– CAUSE TROUBLE! You think a 23-year old unemployed man is going to fix his house’s leaky roof or shovel out Granny’s driveway or write flowery first communion invitations? No… he’s going to play computer games and move back in with Mom and Dad and mooch off their retirement. We need to get these men employed! And we need to get them real jobs, cuz you can’t pay all these taxes AND feed the family with a job flipping hamburgers. And we have to do this WITHOUT the government. Actually, I am of the persuasion that the government is being purposely manipulated. This is a fantastic post with lots more detail.

The government has done a superb job, wrecking our manufacturing industry. I’ve had it UP TO HERE with fat bureaucrats living off public largess. It is getting tougher and tougher to meet the grocery budget while the president vacays in Hawaii for $5,000 a day. He could at least donate the $$ to a soup kitchen and wear a cardigan while he tells us we need to turn our thermostats down! What a jerk….

By the way, where’s all this hocus pocus the “stimulus” billions package was supposed to conjure up??? I thought so– nowhere! Nothing! Nada! I think it was all a Great Big Hoax. Like Haeckel’s embryos, the Peppered Moth, and Paris Hilton’s LP single smash hit. Because a dollar store down the street closed recently. YES, a DOLLAR store! You know the economy is in the toilet when not even the dollar stores can make a profit in this economy!

I love dollar stores! I hated to see this one go, because now I have to travel into the city to get to the nearest one. *shudder* I went there this week and, EGADS the place was shambles, hadn’t been cleaned in months. It doesn’t have to be some kind of luxury resort or Jack Georges outlet, but sheesh, people! Pick up the litter!

Anyway. It’s just awful, the way the government has trashed the economy. And they expect us to believe they can fix it! Gah!

Oh yeah, and speaking of hoaxes…..

New York is discovering this. The latest news to come down the pike is that New York State, nearly bankrupt and desperate for money, is going to have to slash it’s state-funded “Anti-Smoking” program.

ALBANY — New York’s fiscal crisis is now expected to have to take another $10 million from the anti-tobacco program to help balance the state budget. Anti-smoking forces believe the proposal would end a TV ad campaign and eventually cost more in health care costs.

“That means a tremendous fall off of service,” said Russ Sciandra, the director of the Center for a Tobacco Free New York. He said the latest cut is about three times the reduction most other state programs have faced, cutting funding to about $58 million this year from about $85 million a year ago.

Good riddance, said Audrey Silk of New York City Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment.

“That department should be eliminated completely,” she said. “While they report they have been effective, their reports are based on surveys of people reporting their own smoking habits. In a climate where you are so stigmatized and demonized for being a smoker, who will answer honestly?”

Here here! I’m not a smoker and I really dislike the stench of cigarettes, but this demonizing of smokers has GOT to go. It’s become, like, the Eleventh Commandment in our culture. THOU SHALT NOT SMOKE. Oh sure, people can fornicate like rabbits, but YOU’RE GOING TO HEEEELLLLL if you smoke a cigarette!
What has our culture come to?

Anyway, I don’t think government should be bankrolling ANYTHING like an anti-smoking program, or an anti-obesity program, or netbooks-for-disadvantaged-homeless-people or any kind of goofy social-engineering program! For one, it’s none of the government’s business, and two, it’s costing taxpayers an arm and a leg!

That Nanny State business sure is pricey, isn’t it? Maybe New York should slash ALL such idiotic programs. We’d all be a lot happier, healthier, and wiser. Because while I may not smoke or use cell phones for fear of New York State’s Social Engineering Gestapo, I’m about to blow an artery from all the stress, trying to keep up to pay all these taxes to stop people from smoking and using cell phones! Give me a break!