Retraction

I retract most of the favorable things I said about the President’s HealthCare Plan.  I should have known that like with all things Obama, it looks and sounds great from far away, but when the details are revealed we are all working to keep the bureaucrats in power and their moochers alive.  How could he even mention a public option?  It saddens me deeply to think that the first black president holds these extreme views.  I think that his extremism makes his incredibly huge potential dangerous.  If only he were at the most a moderate Democrat, but he’s not.

Now to a little of the speech.  It was inappropriate for the Rep. from South Carolina shout out “You lie!” at the President, but were his words incorrect.  I doubt that you could find any politician federal and local who has not lied.  Even if you take just Obama’s presidency, then yes he has lied.  Prior to his presidency he stated that he supported a single-payer system for healthcare. Since becoming president he has denied ever supporting a single-payer system.  That sounds like a lie to me, but we all lie just not all of us control the direction of 1/6th of the economy.

Finally, why does the president think that I am going to feel guilty because he talks about people’s needs?  Our government supports those who have greater needs, like the USSR did.  The government should not be supporting anyone but those that due to physical or mental ailment cannot earn or produce in our economy.  The federal government should not be using force to seize the fruits of production to satisfy the needs of the moochers, instead they should be freeing the restrictions that are designed to seize production at the end of a gun.

The Pre-Speech Script

The speech to be given by President Barack Obama tonight, Sept. 9th, 2009 has at least been partially released already.  Here it is. 

I read the excerpts, and I must say that I ACTUALLY, think that he has compromised,and the general direction has vastly improved from previous versions of a plan.  I think the insurance exchange at a high level sound plausible, as long as it is not a first step down the road or slippery slope into a single payer system.  Is the new direction an indication that the American people speaking up had an effect, or that Barack Obama is not as irrational as the Congressional Democrats that currently hold the majority, or as irrational as the f*ing Birthers?

Now that the praise is over, the excerpts were good, but were they just excerpts, because I seem to be missing the detail into the third basic goal. “And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government.”  The excerpts mention health care costs growing slower, but further down there is no detail on how this new plan, to be referred to as the President Plan, will actually accomplish this.  I think because of this there are questions I have that are not allowing me to sign off on the whole President Plan.  The details aren’t there and won’t be there for a while, but how about a mention of whether the plan to diminish health care cost growth is going to be accomplished through more taxes (God forbid that the achievers of this country are allowed to keep their earnings without having to subsidizes the moochers!), or will it be because of Tort Reform (Yeah!). People should not bring frivolous lawsuits against doctors, thus increasing the cost of Malpractice insurance and then the cost of medical care.  Or maybe let the doctors set the price of the medical care and not some federal or state bureaucrat working for Medicare and Medicaid.  Doctors should receive what they charge, and if that happened always then they could start to lower there costs through the competition of the free market. 

Okay, so I digressed just a tiche.  Read the excerpts and you decide how you feel.  I would say that I like the President Plan, with the provision that more details, mainly how to pay for the “inevitable” new bureaucracy to be put in place by the health insurance exchange, will come out with plenty of time for discussion and not a rushed vote.

I think President Barack Obama, may have just told the extremists of both parties to, particularly his own, to stop digging in against this legislation, because compromise is the only feasible solution.  The American majority, the moderates, can not and should not be ruled or swayed by the squeaky wheels, Marxists, communists, and extremists of any party.  

Let the debate begin.

Disclaimer

My intent with this blog is to each week, or month remind everyone of the promises made by the Obama campaign, Nancy Pelosi, or any other politician that is in power.  I want to track the progress they make on the promises that they made to the American people.  I have chosen people with positions of power in our federal government on purpose, because they have the most influence.  I am biased, and do not intend on this blog presenting an unbiased view of our federally elected representatives.  I do not agree with all if not most of the Economic and National Security policies of the Democrats.  On the other hand, I do agree with their views on social issues, particularly abortion and gay rights.  I want to create a smaller Federal Government.  I would like to return social issues to the State governments, or even further the city and county governments.  I believe that social issues, while very much a big part of our lives, are NOT issues for our Federal Government to fix.

The remainder of my beliefs about government should show through the posts on this blog, but I would like to at least have everyone agree on two things.  They are:

• Our current Tax Code is a crock.  We need to overhaul it.  I have a philosophy I think would work, but I think we can all agree that our current tax code can not be fixed by adding to it, and only by getting rid of it.
• Our Federal Government has many programs, and I think we can agree that there is no way that even 50% of the federal government organizations, today, actually do there jobs well.  Our government is bloated and needs to go on a diet.  I think our government does one thing well Defense, and all that entails, but I think we can all agree that if you want something done well you don't let the Federal Government do it (besides steal money from high achieving Americans).

Well that's the start.  Within the next few weeks, I will put a blog up about each of the promises made during the Obama campaign.  Then once he is in office, I will chronicle their progress, and hopefully not "blow a gasket" when he creates a dependence on the Federal Government that will leads us to fascism, and potentially to socialism.  One more disclaimer for those that will think I'm a racist for being critical of Obama.  I do not care about the color of his skin; I care more about his ideologies and policies.