Moving on health
Saturday, November 21, 2009 -
Even as Senate Democrats prepare to make a show of support for majority leader Harry Reid’s health care bill, those who will have to pay for it - and that’s most of us - are running, not walking, away at a rapid clip.
The 2,074-page tome purports to cost under $1 trillion over 10 years, and that is predicated on cutting $400 billion from Medicare. The rest of this Alice Through the Looking Glass bill will come from the pockets of employers and individual taxpayers with taxes so onerous that even the liberal Brookings Institution is sounding a cautionary note.
Seems to me that Harry and Nancy are BOTH working that line to death.
As we all know, Congress is exempt (as usual) from any of the downsides of this massive tax measure.
This bill is really the "Health Care Tax Enhancement Act of 2009"
The real debate going on in Washington, is whether they can pass all of this massive killer taxation on people who WORK, as opposed to the usual culprits (government employees, politicians, unions)
Mark my words, they are REALLY coming to get you this time...
Code of Ethics for U.S. Government Service
Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring}, That it is the sense of the Congress that the following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government employees, including officeholders.
CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Any person in Government service should:
1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principals and to country above loyalty to Government persons, party, or department.
2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion.
3. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving to the performance of his duties his earnest effort and best thought.
4. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished.
5. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never accept for himself or his family, favors or benefits under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of his governmental duties.
6. Make no private promises of any kind binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.
7. Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or indirectly which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of his governmental duties.
8. Never use any information coming to him confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means for making private profit.
9. Expose corruption wherever discovered.
10. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.


