Political Comentary

If you are a regular reader, you will notice that other than when I talk about Harry Reid, I have not often been real political.

But now a couple of things that are going on are bothering me.

How many of you know this?

Did anyone notice a direction President Obama came up with regarding our veterans.

President Obama's plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment of troops injured in service has angered veterans groups who say the government has a moral obligation to pay for service-related medical care.

The argument about the government's moral obligation to treat wounded soldiers, sailors and Marines fell on deaf ears during the meeting.

The president's avowed purpose in doing this is to "make the insurance companies pay their fair share."

The president's plan would increase premiums, make insurance unaffordable for veterans and impose a massive hardship on military families.

It could also prevent small businesses from hiring veterans who have large health care needs.

Funny how it is OK to throw money at everything from failing automakers, the Detroit school system that has a history of fraud and banks to name a few, but now we want to abandon our veterans.

This really bothers me. Does it bother anyone else reading this?


Now let's talk about about our President's new climate czar, Carol Browner, who is a former leader in the Socialist International group, a group that advocates one world government.

Of course when it comes to her job, since our country has never had that position, no one really knows what the climate czar does.

I don't either, but I do know one thing she wants to do, and I'll tell you my friends, you better start worrying.

Czar Browner says, "I think first of all that the science has just become incredibly clear that the impacts are real, that they will be real and we need to do something right away."

"We need to make sure that we're moving electricity in the smartest way and using the most cost effective electricity at the right time of day."

"Eventually we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that your air conditioner won't operate at its peak."

You may think it will be a long time before technology exists for your air conditioner to be controlled.

Not true, during the late 1980's and early 1990's while I was employed by Nevada Power I was part of a voluntary test program testing a unit that did exactly that.

During a specified time of day the air conditioner was shut off for 15 minutes every 2 hours.

This was simply done via the airwaves to a controller attached to my air conditioning unit. Because it was just a test, the times were set so you knew when it was off. However there were times the power company shut down units to curtail load.

The purpose of the power company having these units was to shed load in time of an emergency during a system overload condition that would cause a city-wide black out.

An emergency condition is considerably different than the government telling me a smart way to use my air conditioner when it is 120 degrees outside.

You may like socialism where government knows better than you, but I for one do not.

He leadeth us to the well and maketh us drink the poison water.