Thursday, October 3, 2013

BloggeRhythms 10/3/2013

There are some people in the world having jobs perfectly matched to their talents, and Harry Reid is one of them.
 
Reid is basically an empty suit, lacking any visible skills, capabilities or knowledge, however he has a job where all that’s needed is an ability to say “Yes” or “No” when required.
 
What that boils down to is being able to distinguish between Democrats and Republicans, and when any Democrat asks for anything, regardless, Reid’s function is to say “Yes.” On the other hand, in the case of Republicans, it matters not what the subject is, nor what's involved, nor any other detail, the answer is always and unequivocally “No.”
 
A perfect example of Reid's job performance occurred yesterday when according to Fox News/Politics, he “was challenged at a Democratic press conference by CNN's Dana Bash about why the Senate wouldn't consider the NIH bill."
 
"If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?" she asked. 
 
Senator Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly asked, "Why pit one against the other?" 
 
And Reid immediately chimed in: "Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. You talk about reckless and irresponsible. Wow. What this is all about is ObamaCare.”
 
Later in the day, a far more detailed response was attributed to Reid, as follows: “They are obsessed. I don't know what other word I can use. Republicans are in such desperate straits that they have literally resorted to accusing me of not caring about kids with cancer. Shameful, his office tweeted.”
 
What’s interesting to me however, is the origination of the formalized response. Because it doesn't say it came from Reid himself, which it probably didn’t, but from his “office” instead, which is obviously quite practiced at correcting their single-focused bosses miscues and mistakes.
 
As far as the new health care tax itself is concerned, it’s projected to reduce the number of uninsured Americans by 14 million next year, which I calculate to be approximately 4.4% of population.
 
At the same time, the cost of the government shutdown is estimated to be about $1.6 billion a week, $300 million a day, or $12.5 million an hour. The estimate came from the economic consulting firm IHS Global Insight, covering “just the cost in work and services the government is unable to perform as it furloughs 800,000 federal workers.“
 
So, if you look at the costs involved, what it comes down to is that to accommodate 4.4% of the population, in one way or another 299,900,000 others are paying the price. And somehow or other, I don’t think that’s what the Founding Fathers really intended for us at all.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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