ÿþ<html> <head><title>Jason's Blog - On Various Subjects</title></head> <body background="images/sbackgrn.jpg" text="#DCD2C3"> <!-- Site Meter --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://s51.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s51tokusatsu"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://s51.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s51tokusatsu" target="_top"> <img src="http://s51.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s51tokusatsu" alt="Site Meter" border="0"/></a> </noscript> <!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter --> <br> <Br> <div id="google_translate_element"></div><script> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); } </script><script src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script> <br> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-16402771-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Typically, the Congressmen believe all American people are just plainly stupid. Since we are stereotypically set as stupid or an idiot, they believe they (US government) is the solution to control the people of these United States of America. I do not believe this Obama Health care plan will help the American people, in the long run, it will make more Americans poorer and the richer more richer. All of the USA politicians care about is making money from these various lobbyist groups, keeping themselves happier and do whatever the hell they need to do to be re-elected in their public position. <br> <br> I just seeing this Obama Health care as another way to tax us more and take away most of my money not to be able to afford anything anymore. <br> Barrack Obama is a big government guy where all he cares about is to control the American public and to have all the power period. He basically wants to be the king of the entire country. <br> <br> Everything that I see of this health care plan is nothing make seem like equals yet in the world we live in-equal society, there will always been rich people, middle class people, poor people, white, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Europeans, mixed racial people, males, females, transgenders, etc. <br> <br> Now I want to talk about Social Security. I understand the plan of it is for all American to put their money into this pot and by the time you reach your retirement age, then the US government is going to give you a monthly check. However the biggest problem is that after World War II, it began the baby boom where Americans were pumping out babies left and right. Since the USA population increase, the US government was slowly going to have less money to give the retired people. Since now in 2010, maybe started around 2006-2008, the baby boomers are starting to retired. Since there are so many baby boomers, the USA government cannot afford to pay off all of their citizens. The Social Security Administration is going to be hitting in the red starting this year. Also, the US government over the many years has been taking money from it to pay for wars and for other government agencies. In my personal opinion, I see Socialy Security as nothing more as another way of the distribution of wealth. How can my hard earn money be given some damn and stupid idiot who gets my money. I am sick of tired of the government keep taking things away from me. I mean what else can the USA government do to make my life even more worse than what it is nowadays. <hr> <br> <br> <font size=+2>Monday, February 8, 2010</font> <br> <br> <font size=+1>High Speed Rail in the USA</font> <br> <br> Even though we are in this long recession which I believe will last another 4-8 years or longer, I still believe we should have some type of high speed rail service in the USA. There are so many economic potential and I think it will help the airline industries as well. Think of all the retail stores and restaurants to be available at those various high speed rail stations. I believe the high speed rail service will be better for the environment. For example, when the smaller airplanes travel to short places that take at least 1 hour or less, there is so much gasoline that is wasted. A high speed rail, I believe this will eliminate the need to get rid of these smaller airplanes will be well, though not all small airplanes wil be eliminated, I think this will also help out the airports as well. <br> <br> I think within the next 5-10 years, we should see some type of high speed rail service all over the USA. Too bad these first rounds of the high speed rail will only be in the larger cities in the USA. Well I guess we better start now, better than never. <br> <br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0128/Obama-s-high-speed-rail-plan-Which-states-get-the-money">Here</a> is an interesting article about the high speed rail project from the Obama administration. January 28, 2010 <br> <br> Another article about high speed rail project from <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-high-speed-announcement-20100127,0,4321977.story">Florida</a>. January 28, 2010 <br> <br> <a href="http://www.thetelegraph.com/articles/-35674--.html">Illinois</a> high-speed rail gets billion-dollar boost - January 28, 2010 <br> <br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-mccommons/high-speed-rail-grants-fa_b_453946.html">High-Speed Rail</a> Grants Favor the Prepared - February 8, 2010 <br> <br> **** Updated on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 **** <br> <br> I was talking to one of my acquaintances from work today and we had discussed about high speed rail in the United States of America. He had said the earlier we, as Americans, or any foreigners visiting here will be able to see a fully functional high speed rail will be around 2017 in Florida. That will be going from Tampa to Orlando. Well I guess I would rather the people who develop it take their time to get it right the first time and not later on. Another interesting thing he had mentioned was that the high speed rail for the northeast will be a hybrid version since there is already a train rail from like Baltimore or Washington, D.C. to New York City. Well it will be another 10 years until I see some type of high speed rail in the United States. I'm crossing my fingers to see what happens to this great country. <br> <br> <hr> <br> <br> <font size=+2>Sunday, January 31, 2010</font> <br> <br> <font size=+1>Here are my solutions on how I believe our American Health Care system can be fixed.</font> <br> <br> 1. Allow insurance companies to compete in other states <br> <br> 2. Combining the government programs of Medicaid and Medicare into one entity of two separate entities. The Medicaid agency needs to help people to get off Medicaid if possible. <br> <br> 3. Doctor and specialist offices should become places like retail or restaurant where the individual will just have to pay for the service the person needs to be corrected. Doctors are just trying to make a living like everyone else such as carpenters, retail personnel, car mechanics, fashion designers, police officers and architects. <br> <br> 4. Another idea is to somehow eliminate most of the health insurance companies so that we do not have to rely on them. However a few of them will still be needed on extreme and unusual cases. <br> <br> <br> **** Updated on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 **** <br> An interesting article from radio talk show host, <a href="http://boortz.com/">Neal Boortz.</a> <a href="http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2010/02/back-to-the-drawing-board-sort.html">Check it out.</a> Very good stuff. You can learn something from him. <br> <br> From this web site, he had wrote the following: <br> In the meantime, here are a few ideas to consider: <br> <br> 1. Allow people to buy health insurance across state lines. <br> 2. Eliminate mandates for health insurance policies, which drive up policy costs. <br> 3. Allow employees to actually own the policies their employers pay for ... which would mean they could take those policies with them. <br> 4. Allow people to form groups to buy large group policies. <br> 5. Allow people to deduct the cost of their health insurance from their taxable income like employers can.<br> 6. Expand health savings accounts. <br> 7. Tort reform. <br> <br> <hr> <br> <br> <font size=+2>Friday, January 1, 2010</font> <br> <br> <font size=+1>Some Random Thoughts</font> <br><br> I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Hope you have all have a good year in 2010. <br> <br> I've decided to talk about predictions or guesses for the year 2010. I'm sure a lot of my guesses may go wrong. However I'm hoping some of my predictions to be wrong too since I've seen to be somewhat pessimistic these days. So here we go with my predictions. <br> <br> 1. In the USA, taxes will be going up since the Bush Tax cuts will be expiring sometime this year. <br> <br> 2. The Obama water-down version of the Health Care package will be passed which will cause more taxes for the middle class. The middle class will continue to be paying for more social programs with the tax increases. <br> <br> 3. The unemployment rate in the USA will continue to rise higher though the main stream media will not report it as much. Also, the numbers you will hear will always be incorrect. Also, the people who cannot receive any more unemployment benefit will not be reported. The main stream media will show that maybe there will be a decreased in unemployment claims. <br> <br> 4. The price of gold and silver will continue to rise higher this year. <br> <br> 5. Oil prices later in the year will hit over $115 and higher per barrel. <br> <br> 6. Iran will finally have their nuclear facility up and running. <br> <br> 7. Venezuela, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, North Korea, Indonesia, China and other countries who like them will be making more news in the year 2010. I believe there is some secret pact or alliance to slowly destroy the United States of America. <br> <br> <br> <br> </html> </body>