Posted by
Jennine on Monday, March 09, 2009 9:17:45 PM
I have watched the great orator Obama selling his health care, energy, and education programs as the cause and the solution of our economic crisis, and I realize that he thinks we're stupid. The media for the most part is giving him a pass on this agenda, which is stupendously illogical. What's more I can't find any deep explanation of this supposed cause and effect relationship by the POTUS, or for that matter even a superficial explanation of why these issues caused our crises and how throwing money and time to have the Government intervene in these areas will help rather than continue to hurt us. I did hear him claim that health care caused a bankruptcy every 30 seconds, a claim he has made in at least two speeches carried nationally. This is a totally baseless claim that even his own staff couldn't substantiate. So they just brushed it off, and said the idea was right even if the facts were wrong. A recent study broke down the bankruptcy figures and came up with 8 tenths of 1 percent of Americans lived in a household that filed for bankruptcy because of medical costs. Bankruptcies for all reasons add up to about the same number cited by Obama, so I guess every single bankruptcy in America must be caused by health care.
As President he continues his brilliant strategy of making stirring speeches that are absolutely devoid of any substance and light on facts. Sometimes he makes things up if he thinks it will sound better. And if pushed into a corner, he will blame someone else. His very favorite target is Bush, which is already wearing thin. Or Rush. Or Rick Santelli. Or Jim Cramer. Since he can never be wrong, then anyone who disagrees with him must be wrong, and must be punished. Mr. Obama has an agenda and he is committed to pushing it down our throats and nothing and no one is going to be allowed to get in his way. At some point, his continued misstatement of facts must be labeled by the proper term, lying.
He is steamrolling programs through the Congress and campaigning to sell them to all us dolts out there who are allowing this to happen. In my opinion, going forward with Obamas health care, education or energy programs will harm us in a devastating economic way, but there also will be unintended consequences that will make bad things worse. Has anyone heard of ethanol? Not exactly a sound energy or financial investment.
Part of why liberals think conservatives are stupid is that we are quiet. Come on folks, speak up. Be noisy and rude about these programs. Otherwise, don't complain to me when there's no gas to put in your hybrid or electricity to plug it in so you can go sit in an emergency room hoping that you aren't too old or sick to deserve rationed care.