I have to ask the question: When will George W. Bush FINALLY leave the White House? He obviously is still in charge and the current president is too weak to remove him from his former position. This is obvious by the fact that every time the Congressional Budget Office comes out with a status report, the so called president and congress continue to blame it on the real acting president, President Bush.
Granted, George W. did have a budget deficit of $459 billion in his last year (although Barack did suspend his campaign to vote for a large portion of it), but he should be ashamed that he has now run up a budget deficit of $1.4 trillion dollars for 2009.
If we had a president that had the nerve to remove his predecessor, then we could get back on track to removing this incredible debt that is being laid at the feet of the American people and our future generations.
I mean, the currently elected president has already made strides. He has borrowed/printed 245 billion to bail out Wall Street, the stimulus plan of approximately 1.1 trillion dollars was money we had in savings anyway – right? Not to mention his increases in unemployment and food stamps. I thought I heard that Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid were finally in the green, so this would be an opportune time to push through the Health Care Bill at a cost of at least 900 billion dollars, tied in with the Cap and Trade Bill that has an economic out come that can only be estimated by the way it has failed in every country it has been tried in. I do have to admit that the Cash for Clunkers program was an act of genius that actually stimulated the Japanese auto industry by giving them 4/5 of the 3 billion dollars taken from American taxpayer’s pockets, those that are still working that is.
Let’s face it; this economy belongs to the current president Barack Hussein Obama and to the Democratic Congress. They can not blame anyone else any longer for their ineptness and absolute failures. What they have done is nothing short of abject failure and what they propose to do is nothing short of destruction of our economy and way of life.
On a more serious note, due to the handling of the Charlie Rangel scandal, where anyone but a Democratic congressman would be behind bars, I must say that Truth, Justice and the American Way are absent in the Democratic Party or at least the ones represented in the Democratic Congress.
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How do you feel about our current method of health care funding? Do you favor a system whereby citizens contribute vast sums to private insurance which they will loose at job loss & change, and retirement? Is that a good design characteristic? Take a former colleague of mine who lost his job the other day. Twenty five years of professional work, twenty five years of contributing to health care insurance and in the next moment he and his family have zero medical coverage; he's contributed six figures to our health care funding system (as have I and a lot of others) and because he lost his job five people have been separated from the benefit of their contributions. Do you see a problem with that situation? I'm going to assume that as a savvy guy, you don't think that's "a good thing"; that you wouldn't intentionally design a health care system with that characteristic. It's kinda like a safety valve that doesn't work under a worst case scenario. You say you're a problem solver. What do you propose? Identify to me the type of private financial entity that addresses that rather huge defect. Tort reform doesn't address this problem. Medical savings plans depend on private insurance and don't address this issue. Market competition won't unless you think that it can reduce costs to the point of near irrelevance; at least an order of magnitude, which isn't going to happen. So, tell me how you'd address this issue. Tell me how you're going to redesign our health care funding so that people contribute during their earning years and aren't separated from the benefit of those contributions simply because of job loss and the usual concommitant inability to pay. Tell me how you're going to do it without government involvement in the funding?
ReplyDeleteOr are you like a retired Navy Chief I know, who doesn't think that attribute is problematic, doesn't like or trust the govt (but was an enforcer for it his entire working life), and doesn't realise that his TriCare (health care) is a single payer system that I help fund.