Comments for Wyoming Liberty Group http://wyliberty.org Founding Principles Guiding Innovative Solutions Sat, 05 May 2012 04:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on It’s Far Too Early to Enlist Trayvon Martin into the Anti-Gun Cause by Cliff http://wyliberty.org/feature/its-far-too-early-to-enlist-trayvon-martin-into-the-anti-gun-cause/#comment-894 Cliff Sat, 05 May 2012 04:32:28 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=4062#comment-894 Dear Steve, We are all George Zimmerman. With Liberty and Free $peech?, Cliff Dear Steve,
We are all George Zimmerman.
With Liberty and Free $peech?,
Cliff

]]> Comment on Are Health Savings Accounts a Subsidy? by Paul Bonneau http://wyliberty.org/feature/are-health-savings-accounts-a-subsidy/#comment-893 Paul Bonneau Fri, 04 May 2012 16:14:22 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=4131#comment-893 Well, it's a bit much to expect HSAs by themselves to control health care costs, when so many other factors are working in the opposite direction. But yeah, I agree that subsidies don't work. If you want to control costs, you have to let competition happen and remove subsidies. Get the federal government entirely out of health care and insurance regulation. Let the states do their thing about them; the ones that really want to reduce costs will also get out of health care and insurance regulation. I don't actually expect any of this to happen though, until the federal government has completed its wrecking job on the economy. And maybe not even then, although at that point decent health care may be reserved only o government apparatchiks. Well, it’s a bit much to expect HSAs by themselves to control health care costs, when so many other factors are working in the opposite direction. But yeah, I agree that subsidies don’t work. If you want to control costs, you have to let competition happen and remove subsidies. Get the federal government entirely out of health care and insurance regulation. Let the states do their thing about them; the ones that really want to reduce costs will also get out of health care and insurance regulation.

I don’t actually expect any of this to happen though, until the federal government has completed its wrecking job on the economy. And maybe not even then, although at that point decent health care may be reserved only o government apparatchiks.

]]> Comment on Talk about Ranching: Government by Waiver Continues while the FEC Reads Tea Leaves by Paul Bonneau http://wyliberty.org/feature/talk-about-ranching-government-by-waiver-continues-while-the-fec-reads-tea-leaves/#comment-890 Paul Bonneau Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:14:16 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=4075#comment-890 "Ironically, on that very day the news media (which doesn’t need to register and report before it speaks—go figure)" The news media was a great supporter of the McCain-Feingold bill which trampled the speech of everyone but the news media. Or should I call them the "Ministry of Propaganda"? At some point a person has to give up begging the slavemasters for permission, and just speak his mind, come Hell or high water. Otherwise, it's hard to deny that the person doesn't deserve to be a slave. “Ironically, on that very day the news media (which doesn’t need to register and report before it speaks—go figure)”

The news media was a great supporter of the McCain-Feingold bill which trampled the speech of everyone but the news media. Or should I call them the “Ministry of Propaganda”?

At some point a person has to give up begging the slavemasters for permission, and just speak his mind, come Hell or high water. Otherwise, it’s hard to deny that the person doesn’t deserve to be a slave.

]]> Comment on Obamacare at the Supreme Court, Day 3 (Part 2): Medicaid Expansion by Sama http://wyliberty.org/highlight1/obamacare-at-the-supreme-court-day-3-part-2-medicaid-expansion/#comment-872 Sama Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:55:33 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=3938#comment-872 Hey Steven,The reason I worry is eusabce since many of my Brothers and Sisters are in mental bondage to the way the oppressor spins words every time something is called Socialist the ill informed and ill educated working poor's knees jerk and they join the hue and cry against it. I agree with you about the bill being a joke without any kind of a meaningful public insurance option.As for the MSM well this time I think they are largely correct, but of course they won't report the deeper ramifications of this sell out, rather if the bill does pass they will treat it as if it is as meaningful and positive as the Government does. Hey Steven,The reason I worry is eusabce since many of my Brothers and Sisters are in mental bondage to the way the oppressor spins words every time something is called Socialist the ill informed and ill educated working poor’s knees jerk and they join the hue and cry against it. I agree with you about the bill being a joke without any kind of a meaningful public insurance option.As for the MSM well this time I think they are largely correct, but of course they won’t report the deeper ramifications of this sell out, rather if the bill does pass they will treat it as if it is as meaningful and positive as the Government does.

]]> Comment on Obamacare at the Supreme Court, Day 2: As Good as It Gets by Tayfur http://wyliberty.org/highlight1/obamacare-at-the-supreme-court-day-2-as-good-as-it-gets/#comment-871 Tayfur Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=3913#comment-871 Insurance companies do not peroate in the customer’s interest anymore. They have not for a long time. My dad worked in the insurance industry when I was very little, until the lawyer legislators conspired and contrived to upset the risk pool by allowing companies like Allstate to cream the crop of the risks, and left everybody else with significantly increased premiums. That is not how insurance was created to work.Disgusted, my dad left the insurance industry and became a lawyer himself. Not sure what that meant.Nowadays, I see enough behind the scenes to know that medical care delivers miraculous results, but as an industry, is seriously broken. By the way, Blue Cross Blue Shield is an association of companies owned in different places in different ways. Not all are non-profit.The trend today in the insurance industry is to de-mutualize mutual insurance companies. In mutual insurance companies, the customers actually own the company through mutual participation with their premiums; and they have a voice and can vote on how the company is run, based on how much in premiums they pay each year. There is no reason on this hotting up Earth for any insurance company to be anything but mutual.Guess what happens when they de-mutualize? There is one right near me in Indianoplace, who demutualized some years back. Do I have to tell you that shortly afterwards the top layer of executives engaged in a deal that brought each of them multi-millions? Like Mitt Romney, they then loaded the company with scads and scads of debt, while transferring even more wealth to themselves. And premiums in all their lines have skyrocketed since de-mutualization.Meanwhile, those executives say that mutual insurance companies are “old-fashioned” and “outmoded”. Yeah, because with a mutual company the top executives cannot become rich beyond belief. Meanwhile, people on this forum claim I am a whiner for criticizing this stuff. It’s a free country. What’s wrong with executives making millions? Let them do business the way they want to. They deserve that freedom.Okay. It’s your country; have it your way. Lynn is right: healthcare is going to bankrupt this country. Dean Baker frequently gives the facts and figures that indicate how severe it is going to be. And instead of devising laws and regulations that keep executives from earning fabulous fortunes at YOUR expense in significantly increased premiums, we are at the crossroads of deciding that government can MANDATE that you to pay those damned executives to get rich!What a country!What can be done? Baker frequently outlines solutions. Take certification of doctors and lawyers away from the self-regulating bodies of those groups. Also take away the role that such self-regulation exercises over law schools and medical schools. Their self-interest is served by insuring there is a constant shortage of doctors and lawyers and limiting the attendance at law schools and medical colleges, which keeps wages for doctors and lawyers high. Baker points out that IF wages for a particular group are high, then there IS a shortage of them. Allow schooled foreign medical and law school graduates a path to become certified in the US as doctors and lawyers, increasing competition. Allow anyone in the US to obtain medical care in other parts of the world where rates are MUCH lower (and that is EVERYWHERE outside the US); healthcare quality is as good or better than in the US; and consequently, longevity rates are significantly higher than in the US. That would relieve the cost burden on both insurance companies and government programs like Medicare.Nah. Forget that. We’ll just go bankrupt first, instead.What a country! Chuck Waggoner Insurance companies do not peroate in the customer’s interest anymore. They have not for a long time. My dad worked in the insurance industry when I was very little, until the lawyer legislators conspired and contrived to upset the risk pool by allowing companies like Allstate to cream the crop of the risks, and left everybody else with significantly increased premiums. That is not how insurance was created to work.Disgusted, my dad left the insurance industry and became a lawyer himself. Not sure what that meant.Nowadays, I see enough behind the scenes to know that medical care delivers miraculous results, but as an industry, is seriously broken. By the way, Blue Cross Blue Shield is an association of companies owned in different places in different ways. Not all are non-profit.The trend today in the insurance industry is to de-mutualize mutual insurance companies. In mutual insurance companies, the customers actually own the company through mutual participation with their premiums; and they have a voice and can vote on how the company is run, based on how much in premiums they pay each year. There is no reason on this hotting up Earth for any insurance company to be anything but mutual.Guess what happens when they de-mutualize? There is one right near me in Indianoplace, who demutualized some years back. Do I have to tell you that shortly afterwards the top layer of executives engaged in a deal that brought each of them multi-millions? Like Mitt Romney, they then loaded the company with scads and scads of debt, while transferring even more wealth to themselves. And premiums in all their lines have skyrocketed since de-mutualization.Meanwhile, those executives say that mutual insurance companies are “old-fashioned” and “outmoded”. Yeah, because with a mutual company the top executives cannot become rich beyond belief. Meanwhile, people on this forum claim I am a whiner for criticizing this stuff. It’s a free country. What’s wrong with executives making millions? Let them do business the way they want to. They deserve that freedom.Okay. It’s your country; have it your way. Lynn is right: healthcare is going to bankrupt this country. Dean Baker frequently gives the facts and figures that indicate how severe it is going to be. And instead of devising laws and regulations that keep executives from earning fabulous fortunes at YOUR expense in significantly increased premiums, we are at the crossroads of deciding that government can MANDATE that you to pay those damned executives to get rich!What a country!What can be done? Baker frequently outlines solutions. Take certification of doctors and lawyers away from the self-regulating bodies of those groups. Also take away the role that such self-regulation exercises over law schools and medical schools. Their self-interest is served by insuring there is a constant shortage of doctors and lawyers and limiting the attendance at law schools and medical colleges, which keeps wages for doctors and lawyers high. Baker points out that IF wages for a particular group are high, then there IS a shortage of them. Allow schooled foreign medical and law school graduates a path to become certified in the US as doctors and lawyers, increasing competition. Allow anyone in the US to obtain medical care in other parts of the world where rates are MUCH lower (and that is EVERYWHERE outside the US); healthcare quality is as good or better than in the US; and consequently, longevity rates are significantly higher than in the US. That would relieve the cost burden on both insurance companies and government programs like Medicare.Nah. Forget that. We’ll just go bankrupt first, instead.What a country! Chuck Waggoner

]]> Comment on Is Wyoming More Corrupt than New Jersey? by Dale M. Baranoski http://wyliberty.org/highlight1/is-wyoming-more-corrupt-than-new-jersey/#comment-870 Dale M. Baranoski Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:30:32 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=3946#comment-870 Thank you so much for refuting this "corruption report!" I am New Jersey's top authorty and expert on this State's systemic problem with public and legal corruption. As a police sergeant I was thrown down Alice's rabbit hole starting back in 1997 as a result of small town corruption. After 15 years, who better to identify and articulate the problems and solutions, one of which.your State, and the others can benefit from, which ill provide. I find it interesting that even though I utilzed NJ's open records act to expose criminal cover up by the NJ Attorney Generals Office of multiple victim cases, that I was contacted for input: http://southjerseyjustice.com/grcnewsarticle.jpg Chris Christie,t hen THE U.S. Attorney for NJ, who I cornered/chased down/ confronted at a public speaking event to ask that he take on the dirty Prosecutor's Office. Hear him wholeheartedly agree to, only to break that promise, and to later reappoint that very same corrupt Prosecutor after becoming Governor!: http://www.southjerseyjustice.com/USAOsoundbyte.wav And yes, he was informed of the higher governmental corruption involving the legal system and even criminal cover -up by the State's top law enforcement office, the Attorney General. I have repeatedly solicited the aid of the Center for assistance, and they never even acknowledged my efforts. As promised, here is the Answer to thiis Countries, just note who tampered with this answer, and who benefits from trying to block the answer from the People - those in public office, of all three branches because the answer can reach any politician, any judge, any prosecutor, any mayor, or any lawyer: http://www.southjerseyjustice.com/GrandJuryexpl.docx Feel free to contact me. I could only share a little of a lot. Crossfireinvest@aol.com Thank you so much for refuting this “corruption report!” I am New Jersey’s top authorty and expert on this State’s systemic problem with public and legal corruption. As a police sergeant I was thrown down Alice’s rabbit hole starting back in 1997 as a result of small town corruption. After 15 years, who better to identify and articulate the problems and solutions, one of which.your State, and the others can benefit from, which ill provide. I find it interesting that even though I utilzed NJ’s open records act to expose criminal cover up by the NJ Attorney Generals Office of multiple victim cases, that I was contacted for input: http://southjerseyjustice.com/grcnewsarticle.jpg

Chris Christie,t hen THE U.S. Attorney for NJ, who I cornered/chased down/ confronted at a public speaking event to ask that he take on the dirty Prosecutor’s Office. Hear him wholeheartedly agree to, only to break that promise, and to later reappoint that very same corrupt Prosecutor after becoming Governor!:
http://www.southjerseyjustice.com/USAOsoundbyte.wav

And yes, he was informed of the higher governmental corruption involving the legal system and even criminal cover -up by the State’s top law enforcement office, the Attorney General.

I have repeatedly solicited the aid of the Center for assistance, and they never even acknowledged my efforts.

As promised, here is the Answer to thiis Countries, just note who tampered with this answer, and who benefits from trying to block the answer from the People – those in public office, of all three branches because the answer can reach any politician, any judge, any prosecutor, any mayor, or any lawyer:
http://www.southjerseyjustice.com/GrandJuryexpl.docx

Feel free to contact me. I could only share a little of a lot.

Crossfireinvest@aol.com

]]> Comment on Healthy Frontiers Defeated (For Real This Time) by Debbie Milder http://wyliberty.org/highlight1/healthy-frontiers-defeated-for-real-this-time/#comment-864 Debbie Milder Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:41:56 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=3738#comment-864 I have been on Helathy Frontiers since the beginning. I work, I have a son, I am NOT a person who sits on my butt and sucks the system. I am however unale to afford health insurance , my employer does not offer it either, leaving me uncovered. The prrogram has saved my live quite literally. I was diagnosed with sleep apena with high numbers. I have to have a CPAP machine and the program was covering that cost. Now I do not know what to do. I cannot coverit by myself. I want to know why it is when you have a WORKING person trying to make ends meat you cut those programs that can assist them, and yet continue to support the ones sitting on their butt, because they do not want to work they want the free ride. Help those who help them selves. As for Sue Wallis and her opinion of this program I think she need to learn to listen to the people who elected her. To say that "people have to suffer their own consequenses" give me a break, I have a college education, I am a single mother, I pay my taxes and contribute to society, and she has the nerve to say suffer.. Get a life lady. This will not be the last you all hear from me. I have been on Helathy Frontiers since the beginning. I work, I have a son, I am NOT a person who sits on my butt and sucks the system. I am however unale to afford health insurance , my employer does not offer it either, leaving me uncovered. The prrogram has saved my live quite literally. I was diagnosed with sleep apena with high numbers. I have to have a CPAP machine and the program was covering that cost. Now I do not know what to do. I cannot coverit by myself.
I want to know why it is when you have a WORKING person trying to make ends meat you cut those programs that can assist them, and yet continue to support the ones sitting on their butt, because they do not want to work they want the free ride.
Help those who help them selves. As for Sue Wallis and her opinion of this program I think she need to learn to listen to the people who elected her. To say that “people have to suffer their own consequenses” give me a break, I have a college education, I am a single mother, I pay my taxes and contribute to society, and she has the nerve to say suffer.. Get a life lady.
This will not be the last you all hear from me.

]]> Comment on Obamacare at the Supreme Court, Day 2: As Good as It Gets by Sig http://wyliberty.org/highlight1/obamacare-at-the-supreme-court-day-2-as-good-as-it-gets/#comment-807 Sig Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:27:09 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=3913#comment-807 This is a fascinating summary -- your conclusion, pointing out that government has induced lack of affordability and now threatens to ratchet up damage via an unconstitutional "remedy" is well taken. This is a fascinating summary — your conclusion, pointing out that government has induced lack of affordability and now threatens to ratchet up damage via an unconstitutional “remedy” is well taken.

]]> Comment on Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Overturned by 11th Circuit by william t hargrove http://wyliberty.org/highlight2/obamacare%e2%80%99s-individual-mandate-overturned-by-11th-circuit/#comment-804 william t hargrove Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:27:36 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=2104#comment-804 I see either the Obamacare being overturned or America marching down the road slowly to Socialism, that,s the truth, a lot of Individual freedoms have Been Lost even since the 1960,s after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 that was the Starting Point I see either the Obamacare being overturned or America marching down the road slowly to Socialism, that,s the truth, a lot of Individual freedoms have Been Lost even since the 1960,s after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 that was the Starting Point

]]> Comment on GOP Budget Would Boost Wyoming Economy by Sven R Larson http://wyliberty.org/highlight1/gop-budget-would-boost-wyoming-economy/#comment-802 Sven R Larson Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:06:40 +0000 http://wyliberty.org/?p=3879#comment-802 Paul, Have you ever heard the saying that if you put a large enough number of chimpanzees before a large enough number of laptops, at some point one of them will write Hamlet? Even the Republican party is able to get things right from time to time. I might add that I was terminated as a columnist for the Daily Caller after I wrote a critical article about the lack of fiscal conservatism among the GOP candidates. The chief honcho at DC is Tucker Carlson, a very close affiliate of the GOP establishment. At any rate, it is good that there are people out there who adamantly remind us of our need to stay independent. You never know. Paul,

Have you ever heard the saying that if you put a large enough number of chimpanzees before a large enough number of laptops, at some point one of them will write Hamlet? Even the Republican party is able to get things right from time to time.

I might add that I was terminated as a columnist for the Daily Caller after I wrote a critical article about the lack of fiscal conservatism among the GOP candidates. The chief honcho at DC is Tucker Carlson, a very close affiliate of the GOP establishment. At any rate, it is good that there are people out there who adamantly remind us of our need to stay independent. You never know.

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