The Wayfarer Philosophy

During the State of the Union speech last week, Barack Obama scolded the Supreme Court for a decision they made the week before which allowed corporations and public interest groups to have the same donation and advertisement rights during campaigns as unions and 501C groups have. The condescending scolding tone and singling out the justices as “naughty” got a lot of attention. Yet, the real problem here is how he totally misrepresented the decision and lied about it.

So, Balrack Obama, who raised the most campaign cash in U.S. history stated that this decision would open the door for foreign interests to influence U.S. elections. He also stated that this over-turned 100 years of U.S. law. He was wrong on both fronts. The case that was brought before the Supreme Court was brought by a member of Citizens United, which had made a documentary about Hillary Clinton that they wanted to release during campaign season. They were forbidden to do so by the FEC. This group was a completely American public interest group. With films by left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, and Oliver Stone’s W. being released during campaign seasons, it’s truly ironic why this group could not do the same… mostly because they are a conservative group.

All of the language that bans foreign companies or foreign funds used by American companies toward campaigns is still in place and is unaffected by the Supreme Court decision. The Democrats just want to maintain that labor unions and their interest groups only have free reign in donating and advertising for candidates. Why shouldn’t other American groups have the same rights as labor unions? What the hell, the Democrats still ahve their billionaire fund-raiser George Soros there creating “public interest” groups like they’re going out of style. The Supreme Court decision did not affect any decisions made 100 years ago, but rather, affects legislation from the McCain-Feingold bill that has only been in place in the last 4-6 years. So, Obama lied on two fronts. Yet, as we can see, lying is a regular approach used by this president.

One of the great things that has happened over the last year is that more and more American people started paying attention to their government. No longer is it enough to just sit there, listening to sailing rhetoric and big promises. Now, most Americans know that they need to pay attention to what is actually going on, not just what the politicians SAY is going on. They use spin and carefully worded phrases to make it seem like what they are doing is all wonderful while the very important details remain hidden. In the last year, more and more Americans are now looking at the truth underneath the well-constructed surface that looks golden. Barack Obama’s first State of the Union Speech tonight was a great example of surface gilding, spun results, and all-out lies that make crap and BS seem wonderful.

Playing Favorites and Dealing out Punishment and Blame

Obama’s comments on green energy and innovations were all great tonight. He even said it would be productive for the country even if there are doubts about global warming (which have grown exponentially in the alst few years). But right after these nice superficial, agreeable platitudes, Obama said that the house had passed a great energy bill and he wanted to Senate to take it up and get it to his desk. If the house Cap and Trade bill is an example of what he wants, then his soaring surface rhetoric has nothing to do with the actual legislation! The Cap and Trade bill that was passed by the house was a job killer, a business killer, and a country-wide ton of regulations that would increase the cost of energ significantly for everyone. Punishing and taxing is not a method of creating incentives. You don’t help one are simply by hurting others, especially when the whole population is one of those areas you hurt.

Obama made his plans on taxing big banks sound nice. He said that he would be asking them to pay the American people back for helping them out. Well, virtually all of the banks have paid back their loans with interest. What is the purpose of taxing them more? He said that he didn’t want to punish banks, but that’s basically what he’s doing. Once again, he’s all about punishing some as a method of helping others. Now, many Americans may not have a problem with this because it is easy to not have regard for large banks, especially after the crisis. Yet, given the fact that most of the banks he will be taxing already paid back their loans with interest, and many of them weren’t involved int eh crisis and were forced to take the TARP funds to begin with, how do they deserve this punishment? Now, you may still feel that it’s ok to punish big companies, but what good comes from it? Will singling them out and taxing them extra make them loan more? Will it encourage them to hire more people? the banks are the ones being demonized right now, but once again it will be the insurance companies, then it will be the energy companies, and so on and so on.

If you listened carefully during the student loan promises, you would have heard more favoritism. obama stated that he wanted grants where students who graduate would not have to pay more than 10% of their income toward their loans. He added that the loan payments would even end after 20 years whetheer or not the loan was paid back. Then, he promised that this loan forgiveness would come after 10 years for those in public service. Hmmmmm… public serice just means government jobs. Why should those working for government get a better deal than those who do not? It’s merely a reward to the public service unions, who already have realy sweet salary and benefit packages.

Now he is a Budget Balancer

Yeah, once again, even after a year he comes back with blaming Bush for putting us on the brink of a depression that he saved us from. He talked about how there were budget deficits under Bush, and he HAD to quadruple them in order to save us from economic disaster. But now, he is going to put a spending freeze on the budget. As I said in a detailed earlier post, that only freezes the spending in 1/6 of the budget at their already outrageously high levels! We need a spending cut, not a spending freeze. So, all that rhetoric about how he does not want to pass a debt burden on to the next generations is just a bunch of BS. what is truly grand is to hear Obama justify his spending by the high, but far-less spending under Bush. He spends most of the time bashing and insulting Bush, but he uses him as a model to justify his own decisions!

Putting a Nice Spin on a Bad Year

It is almost as if Barack Obama did not go through the same year we all did last year. He went on about jobs, jobs, and more jobs. He praised his own “Recovery” or “Stimulus” bill that was actually written by Nancy Pilosi and the far0left Apollo Project. It was tauted to keep unemployment below 8%, but unemployment has been at 10% or above for a few months now. He says how it saved or created 2 million jobs. His staff members say varying figures to show ho how accurate these estimates actually are. In any case, the method that they use to calculate these numbers is based on calculating how much money went to whatever projects or areas and then calculate the number of jobs there. They ASSUME that the money that they sent to different groups or areas actually saved all the jobs that are there! Recovery.gov has not been updated in 3 months, more of that unprecedented transparency. About $15 billion went to districts that don’t exist as is un-accounted for. Of course, this is just a small amount to government. Yet, $15 billion is also the amount that Obama’s spending freeze is supposed to save. Yet, supposedly this is supposed to make us forget that we have lost 3 million jobs since the bill was passed.

It’s also kind of funny how he still talks as if they are trying to move the country forward and all these interest groups and the Republicans are holding him back. With an overwhelmingly Democratic house, a filibuster-proof mejority in the senate (up until a week ago), and ownership of the White House shows that there was no possibility of the Republicans stopping them! The resistance came from the American people, who, for example, overwhelmingly apposed the Healthcare agenda. They want healthcare improvements, but they paid attention tot eh actual bills that came through and saw what disasters they would create! Yet, tonight, Obama talked about how great it was and how we cannot give up on it. 60% of the country does not want your Obamacare!

As usual, any groups against Obama’s plans are called “special interest” groups, but all the groups that support him are unlabeled as interest groups. Obama got a special tax reprieve for unions in the health care bill. He gave partial union ownership to GM and majority union ownership to Chrysler, butting out the bond holders who were 1st in line to be paid back. He talks about improving education, but he cut out charter and school choice programs int he inner city of Washington, DC at the request of the NEW and AFT. He talks about how the peple want less bickering in Washington, yet the Democrats have been portraying the worst in sleazy politics. They work on bills in backroom meetings where they don’t allow Republicans nor the press inside to see what’s going on. Then he complains about the Republicans not working with him. They aren’t even allowed int he room! The reason why he is falling in the polls and Scott Brown got elected last week is because the American people are getting wise to him, his lies, and the Democrats ACTUAL actions not their rhetoric.

I could go on and on, but I’m tired and I want to go to bed. Obama, you’re full of crap as usual.

This is rich. We got a heads up from the media that Obama plans on introducing a spending freeze during his State of the Union address on Wednesday. Sounds like he is going to be more fiscally conservative? Well, let us actually look at what it really is. The Obama administration and the Democrats in congress have just been on the biggest spending binge in the nation’s history. Now, what are the details of this spending freeze?

Well, the media tells us that it will not affect Medicare, Social Security, or any of the other entitlement programs. It will also not affect national defense. It will affect about 2/6 of the budget. Well, still this is significant enough in amount, but what they do not tell us is that a spending freeze is not a spending reduction. It is merely a promise to not go above the record levels that the budget is already at! Obama has quadrupled the deficit since the Bush administration. The deficit is the amount of spending that goes beyond what the country has taken in for a given year or quarter. this all piles up in the overall national debt eventually. The spending freeze just keeps spending from going beyond the already super-high level that they’re already at.

It is like someone saying that they have to pay a quarter of their yearly expenses on a credit card, but they feel good making the promise that it will never go above that 25% regular amount of over-spending. Basically, they raised their amount of deficit spending so high that now they feel comfortable in freezing it at that poi, even though it is already way too high! During the presidential campaign, Obambi was completely against spending freezes in the first place! Now, he has compromised. Yeah, real compromise. He’s just maintaining the wild spending that he has already set as the norm.

As stated earlier, Obama has quadrupled the amount of regular budeget debt that the Bush administration had at its highest spending moments. Now he is trying to look all responsible for freezing the spending at the point… except for the other 5/6 of the budgetary items, which he reserves the right to increase. is this really so special? According to the Congressional Budget Office, we are on pace to have the overall national debt doubled in the next ten years….. all the debt that the country has accumulated since its beginning will be doubled in ten years of Obama. That’s responsibility boy.

One of the principles that Barack Obama really seems to have trouble with is “take responsibility for your actions.” He also has a great deal of trouble with honesty. Last week, after the big Scott Brown election, Barack Obama came out fighting with more campaign appearances and softball interviews. His interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC included a great line about why the American people are not in favor of the various Democrat health care plans. Obama said it was because they “lost a sense of speaking directly to the American people about their what their core values are.” I guess we need to be told what our values are instead of deciding for ourselves. There has certainly been no lack of Obama telling us what he wants, and his campaigning on the various health care proposals was pretty non-stop. I guess we are just not thinking the way he wants us to. He needs to tell us what our core values SHOULD BE. Apparently, we cannot decide for ourselves. Once again, the problem is with us, not his policies.

Obama also started a new crusade of “populism” last week by talking about how he is fighting for job creation. During his campaign speech in Ohio last Friday, he even stated that he would fight for us against those who stand in his way of creating jobs for us. Who exactly is standing in his way of creating jobs? The republicans? Are they fighting to not create jobs? In what way? What are they proposing to stop job creation? They are mostly arguing how all the things that Obama has Well, if you are a company who is in the private sector, not owned by government done and is planning to do do not seem to be geared toward actual job creation. The stimulus package obviously did not work, and it was clear at the time that most of it was just pay offs to state and local governments as well as left wing interest groups. No surprise why this big spending bill did not create private sector jobs. It was mostly geared to creating public sector union jobs.

Simultaneously, Obama decided to shift the public’s anger toward the banks again. He wants to create a new tax just devoted to banks. He says that it is to have the banks pay back penalty funds for having borrowed money from the TARP program. The thing that goes unsaid is that virtually all of the banks have paid back their TARP loans WITH INTEREST. If they have completed their financial agreement with the government, why do they need to be punished further? Additionally, many of the big banks did not request TARP funds are were forced to take the funds. Some of them even stepped in to save other banks. Now, all of these banks too must be punished. Just like with energy companies, insurance companies, and other businesses, Obama likes to announce an attack on these “evil corporations,” playing on peoples’ emotions and anger in order to divert frustration away from him. If he is really bothered by the banking disaster that occurred, why is he a stalwart supporter of Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman? Why does he not have a problem with all the bonuses from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government banks that were at the center of the catastrophe?

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, GM, and Chrysler are all companies that have taken a lot of taxpayer money from TARP, have not paid it back, and are now protected both financially and politically by the Democrats in government. As has become customary, Obama and the Democrats select those groups and companies that they consider to be allies in their cause and protect them. Likewise, they point out those who they want to demonize and attack them. How do you know if you are an ally or enemy?

Obama will protect you and fight for you if…

If you are a member of a union that has paid a lot of money to the Democrat party, you will be protected and favored. For example, int he health care bill, the unions negotiated a
stipulation that they would not have to pay the taxes on expensive health care plans that the rest of the population would have to pay. The United Auto Workers union was given significant partial ownership of GM and
Chrysler. These companies will not be demonized for needing bailouts. They will not even be criticized for not paying back the loans either.

Businesses that create private sector jobs will be demonized unless they pay off Obama and the Democrats for protection. For example, the big pharmaceutical companies were not targets of Obama in his health care promotion, because they paid a lot of money to Obamacare promotion nd supported it. On the other hand, the insurance companies did not support nor pay money to Obamacare promotion, so they become demonized.

It’s Chicago Mob Philosophy plain and simple. You ahve to pay and offer support to Obama to get his protection. If you don’t, you may need to be demonized, so he can get his agenda across and/or make himself look better tot he people.

Here it is, the day after Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. In this aftermath, Barack Obama’s talking points as uttered by himself and Robert Gibbs, his propagandist is that “it doesn’t have to do with the last one or two years, but rather the last eight years. Still blaming Bush. It doesn’t seem like such a hot explanation given the fact that Massachusetts is a dark blue state, and supposedly, according to Obama and his political advisors, the people decided to show their anger with George Bush by electing a Republican rather than the Democrat that Obama endorsed and spoke for. Yeah, Obama-logic rarely makes sense, but this is going to a whole new low in their perception of the intelligence of the American people.

According to Scott Brown’s own opinion polls, most of the people who voted for him did so because of national security. If you remember, that was one area where John F. Kennedy, a true Democrat, was strong in. Of course, the healthcare debate has a lot to do with it. Although liberal, the majority of the people in Massachusetts disagree with Obamacare just like the majority of people in the United States.

One troubling issue is that many people blame the problems solely on the Democrat leadership in congress. Of course, Harry Reed’s backroom deals and Nancy Pilosi’s blatant disregard for the will of the people are major factors. We need also put equal blame on the Obama administration’s policies. He has been touring around, campaigning, and basically pimping all the different plans that have been coming out of the congress. He chose to put the Stimulus bill in Nancy Pilosi’s hands and supported it afterwards. Obama’s people have been in Harry Reed’s backroom meetings helping to craft whatever monstrosity of a bill they are finalizing now. Why can’t he share some of the blame too? He has endorsed three Democratic candidates in Virginia, New Jersey, and now Massachusetts that have all lost to Republicans, anon Gd he still blames it on George Bush?

To Obama: No slick, the American people are sick of all the things that your and the other Democrat leaders have been doing. We would be willing to give you time to address the economy , but we actually have. I know that things cannot change dramatically in one year, but give us credit for having thoughts about your decisions in trying to address the issue. We know that punishing and demonizing businesses is not going to help create jobs. You’re just playing to peoples’ emotions and trying to get more money to spend. Making deals with your money-donors and the special interest like the special union tax waiver in the healthcare bill just shows that you lied about not listening to the special interest. Somehow your special interest groups are special and the others are evil.

So union members that have the same healthcare plan as non-union members don’t have to pay the 40 percent tax that the rest of the people have to? So, Nebraska gets a special deal on Medicaid to buy Ben Nelson’s vote? So Louisiana gets a special $300 million deal to get Mary Landrieu’s vote? So Bill Nelson’s vote got bought for allowing seniors to keep Medicare advantage in 3 Democratic counties in Florida while the rest of the state and country don’t?

Call me silly, but if you were not in favor of these deals, you might have spoken out against them.

Call me naive, but you probably could have requested that Harry Reed’s backroom deals in the Obamacare meetings the last few weeks could have been televised on C-Span like you promised eight times. At least you could have called for it.

Maybe you could have argued against the taxes on healthcare plans that will actually make healthcare plans more expensive for us, unlike your promises of reducing our expenses.

Nahhhh.. none of that had to do with Massachusetts voting in a Republican into a senate seat that has been occupied by Democrats for the last 58 years. Besides, it’s Bush’s fault that they voted for a Republican. Yeah, you make a lot of sense… dumbass.

Well, the Democrats’ most recent version of Obamacare made it past the last major hurdle over the weekend. Obama’s quick to come out and pimp this latest version, and pour out the usual propaganda. With literally ALL of the major national polls showing that the American people are against even this latest plan, which only got released after voting on it (more of that Obama transparency), he has got to convince us that we are wrong and this is what we really want.

So, after working over the CBO, they come out with the numbers that the Democrats wanted. The Obamacare bill will actually save the government money. With half a trillion dollars being taken out of Medicare, and another half of trillion dollars in tax increases on our existing healthcare plans, the government will actually save money in the next 10 years. Amazing! The government saves money by taking it away from the people! Nice, huh? They save more money by throwing the uninsured onto Medicaid, and forcing the states to pay for it instead of the federal government. I wonder if those costs will trickle down to the people to? Nebraska is safe though, they bought Ben Nelson’s vote off by making Nebraska the only states excluded from having to pay the skyrocketing Medicaid costs that this bill creates.

Didn’t Barack Obama promise us that this was going to reduce the cost of healthcare? Yeah, but that doesn’t matter, increasing the costs on all of us is best for us anyway, that way the government can control everything, and the high costs are worth paying for creating this enormous bureaucracy.

So, by putting us on the hook for it, Obama says that the government will save $130 billion in the first 10 years of Obamacare, and then $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But wait a second, doesn’t those savings all get eaten up by the fact that Obama has promised the poor nations of the world that we will pay them $100 billion a year for climate change? Looks like Obama has already sent our governments saving anyway, just the week before. Oh well, looks like we’re on the hook for already spent savings.

I know that these Obama lies are nothing new, but they bear special significance right now as the congress is trying to ram this nationalized healthcare down our throats. The 3 chief arguments that Obama is using for unleashing Nancy Pilosi and Harry Reed designed healthcare on us are not only not addressed by the bills in the house and the senate, but are actually made worse.

Nancy Pilosi doesn’t care that most of the country doesn’t want Pilosi-care. She’s going to ram it down our throats anyway.

1. The first excuse that Obama and the Democrats were using to take over the healthcare system was that there were too many uninsured people in the country. Of course, rather than addressing that problem specifically, they have been designing bills that would take over the whole healthcare system, applying regulations that control every aspect of healthcare providers and healthcare insurance companies, as well as developing a government-run insurance enterprise. Yet, the bills that have been made still are estimated to leave 25 million uninsured people. The existence of uninsured people is just a smokescreen, and excuse to create a government-run system.
2. Then came a shift in the talking points that the Democrats were using. Next, they shifted to the cost of health care as the main reason to let the government run the whole system. Yet, the bills that are in the house and senate right now strive to pay for developing the whole bureaucracy they need to form in order to become a nation-wide insurance company by taxing the healthcare benefits all of us now have. When a bankrupt government needs to pay for developing a whole new corporation of its own, it needs to get the money from the people some way even if that means raising the cost of their health insurance. So, basically Obama to pay for his government take over by increasing the cost of our insurance premiums What a lying sack of crap he is.
3. Then, with coordinated precision, the Democrats shifted their talking points to demonize health insurance companies. In order to create more competition, the U.S. government needs to develop its own health insurance company. Rather than letting insurance companies compete across state lines, and lightening the restrictions that the federal government puts on them, the government wants to create competition by jumping into the game itself. Of course,  all of the bills they are putting out make onerous rules for the insurance companies, and no rules for the government. In other words, the referee is fixing the game before the competition. If health insurance policies change int he private sector, the policy ends and the people are thrown into the government plan. The government must approve all plans that the health insurance companies offer. The health insurance companies can be sued, but the government plan cannot be sued for damages… and the list goes on and on. Of course, we have to pay for the government to develop its own insurance bureaucracy. In addition he government allows itself to not pay its bills. The government only pays 80 cents on the dollar for its healthcare bills through Medicare and Medicaid, driving up our health insurance costs to make up for their lack of paying their bills. In addition to this, Medicare andMedicaid are virtually bankrupt. Yeah, let’s let the government ruin the rest of the healthcare sector.

Barack Obama, if his lips are moving, he’s lying.

Read the bills. This is why they do it behind closed doors, and don’t give us time to read them before they vote on them. Obama and his fellow Democrats are lying to us, making hopeful promises to disguise the fact that they are planning to screw us big time in order to create the United Socialist State of America.

For the past few weeks, the mantra of the government healthcare promoters has been “Health Insurance Reform.” Barack Obama, Nancy Pilosi, Harry Reed, Henry Waxman, and Barney Frank (the usual far-left suspects) have been demonizing health insurance companies and have been blaming the surge of disappointment from the American public with the Obamacare bills on “special interest groups.” Obama and Pilosi have been characterizing their plans to take over the healthcare system as fighting for the little guy against big special interest. Of course, the polls indicate that it is the majority of the American public that is against Obamacare. Does the majority of the American people work for the health insurance industry?

At the same time, the Democratic National committee has been mobilizing its union groups, including SEIU, NEA, UAW, and AARP on bus trips to town hall meetings to pressure congressmen to support whatever Obamacare bills come out of committee. This sounds more like the real “Astroturf” to me. As Nancy Pilosi characterizes anyone against the Democrats’ plans as “swastika bearing neo-Nazis,” the polls seem to indicate that the majority of the people in our country are apparently neo-Nazis because they do not support the Obamacare proposals.

Organizing for America, Barack Obama’s campaign fund-raising organization is now run out of the DNC and is staging town hall meetings and funding their union thugs to go to these meetings to look like they are actually int he majority of opinion instead of what the polls clearly indicate. So, where’s the real Astroturf? It’s amazing how the far-left is actually trying to get away with having their paid operatives fake the semblance of having the majority of the public in favor of Obama’s healthcare plans. No wonder his approval ratings are plummeting. How long will he be able to get away with his lies and propaganda?

Here, SEIU thugs wearing their purple union T-shirts are beating up a man outside of a town hall meeting. This reminds me of the kind of stuff that Chavez or Castro would organize. no wonder why these two dictators like Obama so much.

Alrightie folks. This is a Gallup Poll result released yesterday. It clearly shows that most of the country DOES NOT support Obamacare. Of course, he has a press conference tonight where he’s going to try to “change our minds,” even though the Liberal Democrats plan to ram it down our throats anyway.

The Big Lie – You Can Keep Your Private Health Insurance

Obama’s been touting this line for a while now. It’s an all out lie. Just look at the bill. Here’s the bill as of last Friday: Download the Kennedy Healthcare Bill. It’s a long one. Even though it is the size of 2 telephone books, the AMA came out in support of it after it was released midnight the night before. That’s a trend that the Liberals have been maintaining. Release the bill alte at night, and all the followers support it without reading it.

Basically, the government sets up a lot of rules for private health insurance companies that will drive them out of business. For example, if you leave your private plan you cannot choose another private plan. You have to go into the government plan. If your plan changes or you take a new job, you lose your private plan. In additon, this “competition” that the Libs keep talking about for private plans includes the government, as they do now, paying less than what the healthcare bill is, while the healthcare providers have to overcharge private insurance to make up for it.

Government Competition? REally!

You know why your healthcare is expsneive right now? It’s because Medicare and Medicaid pay 80 cents ont eh dollar for the healthcare bills of their users. The healthcare providers then have to overcharge the private plans to make up for it. This will increase exponentially, dirving private insurance out of the market. Government does not compete fairly. Government allows itself to break the law.

It’s frightening how Obama has launched a media campaign the last couple of weeks to push his healthcare plan. If it was so obviously good for this country, why does he have to campaign the idea? What is also frightening is how he has to use outright falsehoods to promote the idea. This should raise a number of red flags in the minds of Americans, when he has to lie and break promises to campaign this idea. While ABC, NBC, and NPR have readily taken up the idea to push Obamacare without any critical reasoning is very sad.

• Lie 1 – In his Obamacare speeches, Obama states quite openly that his healthcare proposals will not increase budget deficits and will save money in the long run. The analysis that came out of the Congressional Budget Office (not a Republican group) reveals that the initial cost will be $1 trillion. This isn’t going to create a deficit? We are already way over budget in our country’s spending. He quadrupled the budget deficit this year. How can any additional spending not increase the deficit? If you’re already over budget, how can any additional spending not increase that fact? Obama has to think we are all dumb to say that his healthcare spending won’t increase the deficit. It HAS to be virtue of the fact that we are already over budget!
• Broken Promise 1 – In the primary campaign against Hillary Canton, Barack Obama mentioned a significant difference between his healthcare proposal and hers. In his proposal, the uninsured would not be fined or taxed to subsidize the healthcare plan. He used this as a major point to make his plan seem better and in fact, more moderate. Now, his healthcare plan does include fines and taxes on businesses AND individuals who do not take insurance. Funny how the news media that promoted his proposal over Hillary Clinton’s does not mention the fact that he changed the main selling point that made his plan seem more attractive than hers. It’s also funny how he forces businesses and individuals to take insurance, and uses those who are not insured as way to make money toward the government plan.
• Broken Promise 2 – In the general election campaign against John McCain, Obama criticized McCain’s health plan in that it included a tax on worker’s healthcare provided by businesses. He continually mentioned how it was unfair to tax the benefits provided by businesses to their employees. In Obamacare, however, the government will tax the healthcare provided by businesses to employees. So, now he has taken two points from his rivals’ plans that he used to argue against their plans as part of his plan. Somehow now, these ideas that he strongly disagreed with are now part of his plan. Not only is this an example of broken promises, he includes the two bad points from these plans in his. If he want sto encourage employers and provide health insurance to employees and for employees to take this health insurance, why tax the benefit? Mainly, he wants to kill healthcare provided by the private sector to force businesses and individuals to use the government plan.
• Lie 2 – In his intent to assuage fears of government-run healthcare, Obama states that the government is trying to create competition with health insurance companies, and is not trying to replace them. He states that the government will not force people off of their private healthcare plans. Yet, if we look at what the government is already doing with Medicaid and Medicare, it is very clear that the government presence in the health insurance businesses has already hurt private healthcare and has made it more expensive and less desirable. Medicare and Medicaid pay around 80 cents on the dollar for medical bills. Healthcare providers are forced to take a loss on their expenses. In order to make up for those losses, they have to raise costs on care provided to people who aren’t in Medicare and Medicaid. This means the cost of healthcare for non-government plans goes up! One of the main reasons why healthcare is expensive right now is because of the government’s involvement int he industry already. With a larger presence in healthcare, the government will force private health insurance companies out of business by making their costs and premiums much higher than the government’s plan. The government does htis by taking advantage of the fact that they are abov e the law and do not have to pay their bills.

Even though the government doesn’t pay it’s Medicare and Medicaid bills, it still found a way to bankrupt both of these government programs. Now witht he national debt on pace to double in the next 10 years, the government wants to go further. When will the American people realize from what has already happened that the government certainly is not going to fix healthcare? History already shows us that the government’s presence has only hurt the healthcare industry. Yet, government uses its failures of the past as an excuse to take more and more power and les and less away from the free society.