Why The White House Should Not Control The Census

A power grab we should not allow. There is no good reason why the White House (Democrat or Republican controlled) should be in charge of the census. To much opportunity for meddling. Imagine the outcry if Bush had tried this....

"There's only one reason to have that high level of White House involvement," a career professional at the Census Bureau tells me. "And it's called politics, not science."

Anything that threatens the integrity of the Census has profound implications. Not only is it the basis for congressional redistricting, it provides the raw data by which government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools.

Government Health Care Disaster

Inserted into that bill are items that could fundamentally change our health care system in a way that limits our choices and rations our care.Do we really want government managing our health care? How could anyone assume that after watching how the government handles the so called Stimulus Bill. 

Inserted into that bill are items that could fundamentally change our health care system in a way that limits our choices and rations our care.

One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Read that again. Pretty scary stuff.

And this....

and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs.

The arrogance of the left. They know what is best for us. While our system is far from perfect it is better that what they are proposing.