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The U.S. governments plan to, “just get your damned shot,” is costing taxpayers billions.  

As always with pandemic flu’s, taxpayers are footing the $1.5 billion check for the 250 million swine flu vaccines that the government has ordered so far and will be distributing free to doctors, pharmacies and schools. In addition, Congress has set aside more than $10 billion this year to research flu viruses, monitor H1N1’s progress and educate the public about prevention.http://abcnews.go.com/Business/big-business-swine-flu/Story?id=8820642&page=1

The Free Flu Shots that are being distributed cost taxpayers a whopping $600 each!  There are about 307 million people in the United States, http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html .  Current vaccine distribution leaves roughly 57 million or about 18% of the population in the U.S. without access to the H1N1 Influenza Monovalent Vaccine.

Americans, by and large are skeptics and self-select whether or not to get any kind of vaccine.  The evidence that vaccines may do more harm than good has become the topic at the water cooler and here.  Children get 55 vaccines, and most of the adult population has had numerous inoculations.  You only have to look at your arm as a reminder of the polio vaccine and the scar it left behind.  

When it comes to the seasonal and Swine Flu shots, parents would be negligent not to worry about a virus that has caused hospitalization and death of both adults and children. As to whether parents are negligent in giving their child yet another vaccine, time will tell.  We hope the last government Swine Flu Vaccination program from 1976 is not a precursor to what we can expect to see in the future.  The most current ingredient list for nearly all US Licensed Vaccines including H1N1 can be found here https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/h1n1-swine-vaccine-package-insert-us-licensed-vaccines/

As it turns out, “more than a third of parents don’t want their kids vaccinated, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. http://www.healthkey.com/a-z/swine-flu/sns-health-swine-flu-shot-opt-out,0,5198483.story

If parents do not want a seasonal or Swine Flu for their children, most likely they won’t be getting one either.  Parents and all  taxpayers will pay for those who do get the shot.  Could you use a could use the $600 in your pocket?  How about a Flu Rebate instead of a Flu Tax?  Don’t you just love government run health care so far? 

Today, the Senate Finance Committee will vote on its health care reform bill, more commonly known as the Baucus Bill. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/11382446/Baucus-Health-Care-Bill—Full-Text was last penned on September 2009 as The American Healthy Future Act of 2009. Certainly, this has been revised but good luck finding a more recent copy. 

The printing presses are busy enough printing money and they are going to get busier.  Further eroding the sovereignty of the U.S.A. being an English speaking nation, Section 118 requires that the application be made available in TEN different languages most common among Medicare beneficiaries. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6989894/Summary-of-the-Baucus-Medicare-Bill-–-S.  In pure English, if you can’t acclimate to an English speaking America, you should not be entitled to anything.

How much health care reform is going cost is any one’s guess.  If $600 in taxpayer money is being paid for a flu shot, you don’t have to be on pins and needles to know that it won’t be cheap.

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Thanks for visiting and good health to you while you hold on to your wallets and pocketbooks.

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Paying taxes is Patriotic? 

Congress is considering a National Sales Tax called a Value Added Tax-VAT in some circles. Forget about repealing all the income taxes already collected, they are planning to keeping the existing income tax and add a national sales tax on top of it.  How’s that for Patriotic?

Poor people who don’t make enough to make ends meet now will be forced to rely further on social services, further enhancing the debt and reliance on government.  Socialism, pure and simple.  

A commentator from the Say Anything Blog had this to say- http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/congress_considering_a_national_sales_tax/ that “Bush took 96 months to give us the largest debt in decades.  Obama took 4 months to QUADRUPLE that.”

This is the change you can believe in.  …”Everybody who understands our long-term budget problems understands we’re going to need a new source of revenue, and a VAT is an obvious candidate,” said Leonard Burman, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, who testified on Capitol Hill this month about his own VAT plan. “It’s common to the rest of the world, and we don’t have it.” 

I don’t have my armpits infested by the fleas of a thousand camels like some parts of the world either, but something stinks to high hell.  I understand that our economy and the world’s economy are fragile, but a VAT on top of what we already pay? Somewhere in this VAT is an angle for government subsidized healthcare, I just know it.  We are going to have to pay for the the Swine Flu Vaccine and Vaccine Stockpiles somehow, won’t we now?  Doing away with an antiquated tax code that our own Secretary of Treasury apparently couldn’t figure out is one thing, but not repealing it and expecting tax revenue on top of that is just greed and a nasty power play on the part of our elected democratic office holders.  Do they really want to be responsible for more burdens on the poor while they sit on the throne of power under the Obama reign?

You think a gallon of milk is expensive now?  A gallon of gas locally was $2.49 in Podunk USA- in the EU it is between $5-$8 per liter.  http://goeurope.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=goeurope&cdn=travel&tm=59&gps=294_333_986_501&f=10&su=p531.50.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/prices.html%23Motor

I get that not everyone pays taxes and that not everyone qualifies but for those of us who do; for the government to even consider a VAT is just another nail in the coffin of capitalism.  I am tired of scraping up the change off the floor to pay for President Obama’s proposed socialistic programs and endless bailouts.  If I wanted to own a car company, I would have purchased the stock on Wall Street.  I didn’t need a President to do it for me.

Patriotism is not getting your money for nothing and your tricks for free. Best link on the topic is here-

PHIL KERPEN: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of the Obama Administration’s Scary Trial Balloon

photo props to http://longdarkteatime.com/2004_02_01_archive.html

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