Some additional thoughts
- “Hmmm… the middle class people who do not have health insurance but want the rest of us who do to pay for it when they have medical issues? I have no problem with them having to pay their fair share.”
I would assume that the overwhelming percentage of the 47% to 49% of the people in this country who are on some sort of welfare and pay no taxes are also those who cannot or do not pay for health care. The “wealthy” (definition needed since Obama has moved the bar between 150k and 250k over time) we can reasonably assume pay for their healthcare. That leaves only the middle class paying for healthcare does it not?
- “Quit hyperventilating about Fox News and get informed. We all benefit when people are educated, roads and bridges are in good repair and we have stable safe communities.”
People are educated? Today in our schools they are indoctrinated. Roads, bridges in good repair? We were told that was what the stimulus money was for. Stable safe communities like the liberal bastions of Detroit, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York and Los Angeles?
This smacks of typical liberal elitist thinking. Liberal elitists usually think they alone have the intellectual capacity to think and are the depositors of all correct intellectual thought. Of course the rest of us simply and blindly follow the line of thought put forth by Fox News (or fill in the blank). To most liberal elitists, one follows or believes as they do or you are assumed to be not only incorrect but incapable of thinking and researching on your own.
The history of liberalism is one of failure and dependency. The two biggest states in the U.S., New York and California, are perfect examples. California is a beautiful example. California’s present is dismal and its future frightening. The state is unimaginably mired in debt and yet the state legislature and governor just pushed through a high speed rail system that is estimated to cost in the 100 billion dollar range but will surely, as all government projects do, will cost easily double. (Think Obamacare originally estimated to cost about 850 billion with the latest estimate (government figures) at 1.8 trillion,) Other shinning star liberal states might include New Jersey, though its turning), and Michigan. In California the liberals have destroyed the schools. Every election they cry that we need money “for the children”. We need to hire more teachers, repair infrastructure, etc. Amazingly most of the time the money is approved. Then the teachers get raises along with administrators. More free lunch, breakfast, and now dinner programs have been instituted. Little infrastructure is improved and the call goes out again for more money. The last ranking that I saw had the Los Angeles school district with the highest number of administrators making six digit salaries in the nation while its academic ranking was at the bottom.
LBJ’s Great Society poured billions of dollars into the effort to eliminate poverty and there is now more poverty than ever and this was before the 2008 crash. Note Obama’s recent move with welfare. He stripped the work requirement out of the law. He was required to go through Congress but he just took it upon himself to strip the requirement. There was an immediate surge in food stamp applications. Of course this was the goal anyway. More votes and more people dependent on the government.
“Non Partisan Tax Policy Center”? Maybe not so much. In the particular report referencing the framework of the Romney tax plan there was some cherry picking, convenient omissions and in places where there were not enough specifics the TPC made their own assumptions about Romney would do and then drew conclusions about the over all plan. Perhaps the most glaring omission concerned the result of Romney’s Tax Plan. Romney’s goal is to encourage savings and investment which is a factor in growth as well among other things so he has put forth. So if this highly successful businessman (Romney) has calculated that his plan is going to spur growth then that will also increases tax revenue. The TPC conveniently ignored the probability and/or possibility that there will be growth.
As I have read through various sources of commentary a thought continuously flashed in my mind. Both Obama and Romney have outlined what they will do with regard to tax policy. I am asking myself which one has the most credibility? Is it Obama who made many very promising commitments and followed through on virtually none? If so, if he did not follow through on his promises the first four years by what measure could we assume he will even try to follow through when he does not have to worry about getting re-elected? Or would I place my trust in Romney who has demonstrated tremendous ability and success in business? Would it be Romney who has a history of keeping his word?
A comment was made that Obamacare would have zero impact on businesses with 50 or fewer employees. When and if Obamacare gets implemented who would bet that those businesses would not also fall under the same regulations as all other companies? This is not only a reflection of Obama’s history it is a political reality. Would they really allow all of our pizza businesses with under 50 employees operate at a significant competitive advantage over the bigger guys?
Another point/comment made about Obamacare. It is actually going to save money? It is already causing medical premiums to rise. It is already going to cost in excess of double what Obama said it would cost. We went from 850 billion to 1.8 trillion according the government figures. Well, where is the government going to get this 1.8 trillion dollars? They started by cutting out 3/4 of a trillion dollars out of Medicare. If you squeeze the tube of toothpaste you can move the toothpaste but ultimately it has to squirt out somewhere.
Obamacare is going to hang on this economy like a lead weight. There will not be enough doctors to take care of the additional millions of people brought into the system. Even nurses will be in short supply. Your care is not going to be the best because of the sheer numbers of patients flowing through the system. Of course then there is going to be the “grading” system for doctors which will affect their compensation. Who is going to do the grading? It will not be medical people it will be panels of non-medical government people. Doctor’s will penalized for sending patients to the hospital to often. They have an interesting rule where if a patient is released from the hospital the doctor cannot have them re-admitted until a certain period of time has elapsed.
I still recall that member of the British Parliament who came to this country and gave a speech. He said that England is cooked and done. The schools are in disarray, the government is broke, the welfare system is killing them and their national healthcare system has been destroyed. He said that America is headed to the same place as England is now but America has time to turn it around but not much time.
Another comment referenced that Obama did not create this mess. And we know where that conversation would go. Four years and it is still the fault of Bush. At what point does it become Obama’s problem? Trillion dollar deficits are not a huge part of the problem? This president has created more debt in four years than all of the presidents throughout our history. And we do not have the ability to pay it back. When interest rates begin to rise, as they must, we will not have the ability to even pay that.
Which direction at the end of four years are we going? Every summer for the last three years was a “summer of recovery” and never happened. In the last few months we hear that the economy is improving. The new estimate for GNP growth out this week was revised down from a dismal (est 1.7%) to 1.25%. That does not sound like we are improving. Obama says that he has created, what, 4.5 million jobs? But he conveniently does not take into account the total of jobs lost or the people that the government has termed “no longer looking for work”. We have a significant net job loss as most people know.
Putting aside all other considerations there comes a time when it is apparent the current leader has not and is not performing. In any business that person has to leave or the life of the business is in deep peril. The president of the U.S. runs the biggest and most important “business” in the world. Seems like he should be held to a high standard, not a lower one given his performance. The country is not moving forward.
Meanwhile our foreign affairs are in a shambles and many of our enemies think we are weak. And we seem to be laying the groundwork to hand over certain parts of our society to the United Nations. They are sending up trial balloons consistently. The last few months it is the effort to give the UN the power to outlaw our right to have guns. Today Obama made a comment that he can make the decision to send our military to fight somewhere without the consent of Congress as long as the UN gives its approval. Since when? An outrageous statement that somehow did not make it to the mainstream media outlets.
I am reminded of a statement by a great sportswriter in an article he wrote after the assault at the Olympic games in Germany in the 70’s. Actually it was the headline of the article. “Get Off Your Knees America”. He was referring to our timid approach to threats to this country. Showing weakness and an unwillingness to stand up simply invited more aggressiveness towards the U.S. It seems a little like what we are going through today. We have helped hand over Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood which is essentially Al Queda and affiliated groups. There was enough information around to know that this is what was going to happen. Nigeria, Sudan, Libya, Syria going in the same direction? A lot of strange things going on that are no good for this country.