Ayatollah Obama

The Ayatollahs of Iran consider any individual critical of the way they appointed “Adiminawhackjob” to a second term an enemy of the state. In Turkey, anyone critical of the ways things are done is jailed for offending “Turkishness”. Here in the US, we now have an administration that is acting more and more like its Middle Eastern friends than what our founding fathers envisioned.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has gone as far as comparing critics of the healthcare plan to Nazis. Other members of the Democrat leadership have called those who don’t trust the plan “shrill”, and “fringe group fanatics”.  News organizations, supposedly nonpartisan, have affixed the labels of “small mobs” and “rabid right-wingers” to those with the temerity to ask their representatives if they even bothered to read the bill. Even a GOP candidate for the 2012 campaign has put his own version of Obamacare into place, Mitt Romney.

Are these people merely members of shrill fringe groups and other bits of minority flotsam the administration should ignore for the good of the country? George Pucine of Las Vegas was able to get this bit of statistical evidence to the contrary past the usually left-leaning guardians at the Las Vegas Review Journal:

-- Quinnipiac poll: Three out of four Americans don't believe government-run health care will be deficit-neutral and 59 percent of Americans are against health care reform if the measure is supported by only the Democrats.

-- Gallup poll: Sixty-three percent say the president's plan will worsen their personal medical care.

-- National Public Radio poll: Forty-seven percent oppose Obama's plan and 42 percent support it.

-- New York Times/CBS poll: Seven-seven percent of Americans fear costs will increase under government-run health care.

-- Time poll: Fifty-six percent fear losing freedom to choose their own doctor/plan under government-run health care.

Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll: Forty-two percent say Barack Obama's plan is a "bad idea" vs. 36 percent saying it's a "good idea."

I don’t know about you, but the above numbers say majority, not minority. The problem is Pelosi and her Democrat fellows do not believe in representing the majority. They have an agenda and it is being followed to the letter and any who swerve from the orthodoxy will be punished. Remember Joe Lieberman and his one tiny slip? He had the temerity to disagree with the liberal orthodoxy on the Iraq war and was summarily kicked out of the party.

Can any one remember who was President before Jimmy Carter?  Not many do. Most think it was Nixon, but the answer is Gerald Ford, a man most remembered for being a bit clumsy. This is because Ford did almost nothing where the economy was concerned. It was ok, not good, just ok. The problem with that is that a mayonnaise economy allowed the election of a Jimmy Carter. You would think that the American people would learn from history. Unfortunately, we never do. Carter’s policies, eerily similar to Obama’s, produced the worst economy since the great depression. Taxes were raised to the point that an affordable mortgage was nearly impossible to obtain. Small businesses went out of business faster than they opened. Interest rates skyrocketed to over 20% and the price of gold hovered around $1000 per ounce. Sound familiar?

Brian Greenspun, the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun recently lamented in an editorial that it was terrible that Nevada did not adopt the tax policies of more
progressive” states like Massachusetts, Connecticut, California and others. Let’s see…checking on the economies of those “progressive” states, they appear to be progressing right into the toilet. California, our neighbor to the west has progressed into bankruptcy and a recent ad campaign luring small business from California to tax-backwards Nevada appears to be working better than anyone thought it would.  Texas, on the other hand, through the leadership of a “gasp” Republican Governor, Rick Perry, produced 38% of all the jobs in America while Obama was blaming Bush Jr. for the problem Obama’s policies caused.

Socialism never generates public wealth. It never has and it never will. After Jimmy Carter came a true conservative, not the lie that Democrats push, Ronald Regan. Reagan systematically dismantled Carter’s metastasized bureaucracy and began using policies that were time-tested. Ignoring the shrill screams from the left that he would be throwing the elderly and the sick onto the street, he cut taxes and encouraged business to expand. The elderly got a better deal and the sick got cheaper healthcare. Ignoring the rabid left-wingers, he went after the Soviet Union and won, despite the claims that such aggressiveness would trigger World War III. Reagan’s policies generated an economy that set a record that still holds. It was the most robust economy we have experienced in the last seven administrations. This is based on US statistical data, so why is the Obama Administration hell bent on duplicating Carter’s mistakes? The answer is not economics, it is power. Remember, Reagan had to deal with a Democrat-controlled Congress under the leadership of Tip O’Neil, a proven socialist. In spite of everything O’Neil and his socialist brethren tried to do to derail Reagan’s vision, the so-called actor won. That is why he is the most hated conservative leader in history…that is until Sarah Palin takes the reins.

Just as our major news outlets have risen to the defense of Obama’s policies and have attacked the concerns of the American people, so has the administration grown in its arrogance. Why would Obama feel so comfortable issuing the threat that his administration would “hit back twice as hard” at anyone broadcasting a criticism of his policies? Does he really believe that the news is his to control? Perhaps it is.

A little known story surfaced a while ago and was quickly pulled. ABC turned the control of its reporting of White House news over to the Obama Administration. The last time something like this happened it was in Iran. Remember, if you can control the news that is one domino tipped over, if you can control the peoples’ access to healthcare…that is another. Several states already consider the second amendment more of an inconvenience than a mandate.  The appointment of Sottomeyer to the Supreme Court adds another nail in that coffin. The last domino to fall will be the food supply, and based on several reports, Obama is already working on that one. Consider his wife’s healthy diets message, usually delivered after she’s downed a few platters of fried chicken and rib tips. The insistence from the Democrat legal wing that the Commerce Clause gives the administration to mandate what people will and will not buy is a very telling sign.

The US Constitution is very specific in what and what cannot be mandated by the government. There are only 18 enumerated powers given to the feds. Everything else is supposed to be left to the states. It seems only Ayatollah Obama and his ruling council of Democrat Imams are unable to grasp that.

How to reduce Healthcare Costs

Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel and Obama’s own choice to head Medicare and Medicade, Dr. Donald Berwick, believe that the way to reduce healthcare costs is to simply kill off those who cost the most to care for. An extreme statement? An extreme view? Perhaps, unless one happens to look into the backgrounds of these two men and the Sitting US President who considers their viewpoints worthy of consideration.

Barrack Obama spent his entire adult life sitting at the feet of an avowed enemy of the American way of life, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright. Both Ezekiel and Rahm Emanuel are on the record praising one of the founders and leaders of the Weather Underground Organization, Bill Ayers. The following statement comes from the radical group’s founding document;

“The most important task for us toward making the revolution, and the work our collectives should engage in, is the creation of a mass revolutionary movement, without which a clandestine revolutionary party will be impossible. A revolutionary mass movement is different from the traditional revisionist mass base of "sympathizers.” Rather it is akin to the Red Guard in China, based on the full participation and involvement of masses of people in the practice of making revolution; a movement with a full willingness to participate in the violent and illegal struggle.”

Neither Obama, neither Emanuel brother nor Ayers himself have ever repudiated their roots, nor have they ever denounced the revolutionary ideals that drove them then and apparently drive their agenda now.  It is also germane to mention Thomas Malthus, a British clergyman and economist who published An Essay on the Principle of Population during the 18^th century. Leftists somehow seem incapable of believing that the human species is anything but a drain on the resources of the earth. This brings us to the continual and ongoing healthcare debate.

Back in 2009, when Obamacare was being shoved down the throats of the American public, the Democrat leadership not only ridiculed those who objected to the bill but laughed at those who wished to know what was in the bill before it was voted upon. What is the saddest part of all of this is that the sycophantic American Media thought the Democrat attitude was perfectly reasonable. Would those same people have thought it reasonable when a real estate agent said they could only inspect their new house after they bought it? The parallel is not arguable.

Obama continues to push affordability and cost control in his ongoing support of his horrible idea. He, like every other liberal leader out there knows full well that the opposite will occur. Costs will rise exponentially, which is exactly what is desired. If the Washington power elite truly wanted to make being patched up less expensive all they need to do is lower the cost of providing healthcare to the providers. This is basic economic fact, not theory. Look at it this way; if the cost of oil drops how does that affect the cost of gasoline at the pump? It certainly does not go up. It is the same with a visit to the doctor’s office. Lower the cost of doing business and what business provides costs less at the point of purchase.

Right now the major cost of running a medical office is not salaries, nor is it equipment. It is the price of being allowed to do business set by the government. Your average doctor pays through the nose for liability insurance. So many avenues and barriers have been erected by government and their attack dogs, civil suits in suits (read: lawyers), that if true tort reform were ever enacted the price of medical liability insurance would drop to about 1% of what it is today. If all of the fees and regulations that are nothing more than bureaucratic redundancies were removed from running a medical practice or facility and the practice allowed to pass the savings along to the patient, the cost of healthcare would also drop exponentially. Will the liberal establishment ever allow this to happen? Not on your life.

Will the liberal establishment ever allow an honest debate on these principles? What do you think?