OUR CHINA LOANS

In talks with China yesterday, the China reps expressed their concers with our out-of-control spending. It's a concern with them since we borrowed so much money from them. My question, if China calls in their loans, what part of the US will we have to give them?

AARP & HEALTH CARE

In the beginning AARP was formed to represent the retired people of the US and their interest. Now it's nothing more than an insurance company feeding off medcare and this is the driving reason it supports Obama's version of national health care. AARP sees huge profits in providing additional insurance for what a national health care plan will not cover. The majority of retired people are opposed to a national health care plan, but AARP does not care what they think any more, it's now what is best for AARP's profit margin. I've cancelled my membership with AARP and I'm sticking with NARFE they don't sell insurance.

HEALTH CARE POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE

Seems we have a new health care plan brewing in a Senate Committee that strips the Single Payer Plan from consideration, now that is the first good move somebody had on Capital Hill. Maybe we have some cooler heads in Washington.

NATIONAL HEALTH CARE - NO RESPONSE

I'm still waiting on my senators and representative to answer my question, "What is there about the proposed national health care plan floating around in the US House that is so bad it has caused our elected officials to set up their own private plan so as not to be part of any national health care plan?" What is good for us is not good for them, something smells bad here.

NEW DOG IN NEIGHBORHOOD

My neighbor and friend across the street may just acquired a new dog. The dog is a female german shepard and friendly with everyone. How my neighbor acquired the dog is sort of spookie. Joe, my neighbor just lost a cat three days past. The cat was killed by a stray boxer dog. Yesterday, around noon, the shepard showed up at their door. Joe and his wife tried to chase it away fearing another dog attack. But the shepard refused to leave. Joe had to leave for an hour or so, leaving his wife sitting on the front steps of their home. The shepard slowly approached Joe's wife and to her surprise the shepard put it's head on her lap. Well, that was it, out came the food dish and the water dish and the shepard spent the night sleeping on the front yard. Joe says he will call the animal control folks today to pick up the dog. Wonder what the wife will say about that. But it's spookie about the dog. Joe looses a cat to a boxer dog and the shepard shows up out of nowhere, wonder if the shepard senses Joe's family loss and wants to take the cat's place. We'll see.

HUMPREY BOGART

On another blog one individual stated Humphrey Bogart was note that a good of an actor, not near the actors of today. I take exception with that statement. I'll give just one reason why I take exception it's "The African Queen". Here was a movie that became a classic, starring Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. From the beginning of the movie to almost the end, these two stars carried the whole movie, there were no other players. How many of today's Hollywood stars can carry a whole movie solely on their acting talents with no other stars in the movie and no Hollywood graphics, and how many of them would want to try?

NATIONAL HEALTH CARE

The national health care as it sits in congress is not acceptable. As many AMA members state, we currently have the best health care system in the world and dispite what Obama says "It's a broken system." It's not broken, it's just cost to much for many individuals and ways can be found to make it affordable again. It does not require a government single payer plan that will cost the country way more than the trillion dallors that Obama says it will. Haven't we learned our lesson, any new government plan always comes with a cost esitimate that is extremely low. If we bite on a single payer plan, the cost will become so high in just a few years, the government will have no choice but start rationing health care, the same as they do in Canada and the UK. What we need is to look at alternatives to national health care to get the current costs down. We are spending money at a rate never before seen in our history and it's all borrowed money. What part of the US do we give China when they decide to call in our loans to them? I hope it's not my part of the country.