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    Day By Day December 12, 2012 – Figures

    Day By Day December 12, 2012Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, six figures are a drop in the bucket here in California.

    Mohammad Safi, a graduate of a medical school in Afghanistan, began working as a psychiatrist at a California mental hospital in 2006, making $90,682 in his first six months. Last year, he took home $822,302, all of it paid by taxpayers.

    Safi benefited from what amounted to a bidding war after a federal court forced the state to improve inmate care. The prisons raised pay to lure psychiatrists, the mental health department followed suit to keep employees, and costs soared. Last year, 16 California psychiatrists, including Safi, made more than $400,000, while only one did in the other 11 most populous states, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

    So, what do the Democrats or the ruling troika do?

    Why, raise more taxes, of course.

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    Day By Day December 11, 2012 – Back in the USSR

    Day By Day cartoon for December 11, 2012

     

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, what would Anatoly think about the Right to Work/Labor protests in Michigan?

    Thousands of demonstrators who earlier in the day swarmed over the Capitol and its grounds to protest the state House’s passage of right-to-work legislation were virtually all gone by early evening.

    Both chambers were adjourned after a raucous day that led to two arrests, one protester being pepper sprayed and the tent of a conservative group being torn down.

    The two were detained after they tried to push past troopers to get inside the George Romney Building across from the Capitol where the governor has an office, State Police Capt. Harold Love told reporters.

    Only a handful of protesters remained outside the Romney office building where earlier police dressed in riot gear and on horseback had to push back crowds surging from the Capitol.

    Troopers guarded the Romney building in an effort to push away any right-to-work sit-ins outside Gov. Rick Snyder’s office.

    Protesters were earlier staging an occupation outside the Romney building entrance and clogging up most of Capitol Avenue after the state House gave final passage to the controversial legislation.

    Protesters began chanting “Hell, no we won’t go!” as troopers escorting Snyder threatened to arrest protesters who were occupying the entrance to the Romney building.

    The protesters then tried to sit down and resist police from creating a pathway to the door — they were removed but not arrested as troopers pulled protesters off the ground.

    The LEFT invokes the law, as long as it goes their way. If not, then it is all Saul Alinsky tactics and civil disobedience.

    Remember Indiana and Wisconsin?

    Anatoly should feel right at home.

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    Day By Day December 7, 2012 – Take A Bow

    Day By Day cartoon December 7 2012

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    71 Years ago America was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.

    Dec. 7, 1941, the date of the military strike by Japan on Pearl Harbor, is being remembered today around the nation.

    “71 years ago at 0755 HST was the 1st attack on Pearl Harbor. Taking a moment of silence to remember those lost,” reads a recent tweet from the U.S. Navy, which has spurred more than 1,000 retweets and such responses as:

    “Never forget. 4 uncles in World War II. I make it a practice to thank veterans, especially ones wearing WWII caps for their service” — Brendan Ben Feeney

    In Washington, D.C. and states around the country, flags are being flown at half-staff to remember the more than 2,400 Americans killed and 1,200 injured in the attack.

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed the nation’s outrage following the attack, which he called  a “date which will live in infamy.” Within an hour, Congress had voted a declaration of war.

    What a difference seven decades make.

    Today it is the “Fiscal Cliff” which is confronting America and taxing the “Rich.”

    How world events have changed…..

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    Day By Day November 28, 2012 – The View

    Day By Day Cartoon for November 28, 2012

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

     Chris, with the ObamaCare mandates, taxes and without a Medicaid doctor payment fix you may see physicians just cutting back on their practice and retiring from the profession.

    The word is already out there to medical and dental students that massive student debt to enter these professions is NOT worth it.

    This is not the way to attract the best and the brightest into such a demanding and necessary job.

    Just wait….it will only get worse in 2013.

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    Day By Day November 27, 2012 – Hassle

    Day By Day cartoon for November 27, 2012

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, the sad part is that a goodly number of physicians WILL retire if and when ObamaCare is implemented. There will be just no incentive to accept the risk for little reward and they close their private practices.

    But, you see that is what President Obama and his friends on the Far Left want – a government run, single payer health care system where the physicians all work for the government, like Britain’s National Health Service. No more private practice medicine.

    This will be sorted out, but in the meantime, it will be difficult to find a doctor – the ones remaining will be overwhelmed with work.