Another Miscalculation

It was announced today that the government's "Cash For Clunkers" program has, prematurely, run out of cash. The administration's spin doctors immediately went to work explaining that the untimely insolvency was due to the unanticipated popularity of the program.

This is, yet, another miscalculation by the administration. Remember Obama's promise that, if the stimulus bill passed, unemployment would not rise above 8%? Today it is, almost, 10%! Another miscalculation!

How many major miscalculations can the United States endure before it goes the way of the Cash For Clunkers program? If the hotly controversial Cap-And-Trade tax and the National Health Care program, now being considered, become law, we will all find out, first hand, what it is like to be an instantanneous debtor with an impossible debt load to manage.

As our taxes rise and inflation takes hold, Obama's promise NOT to raise taxes on those earning under $250,000 will ring hollow. He has already reneged on that promise by failing to veto the, recently enacted, Federal tobacco tax which doubled the price of tobacco products overnight. Regardless of your position on the evils of smoking, tobacco is a legal product and injesting it is a legal activity. The vilification of tobacco is merely a smoke screen to justify his breach of the public trust.

Unfortunately, enough of our fellow citizens bought the hype of the undefined "change" that Obama was selling. Only now is this "change" being revealed.

Miscalculation after miscalculation! It is now becoming clear that, if Obama gets what he wants, we had all better purchase lawn chairs. The wait outside of the Federal courthouses, for those seeking to file bankruptcy, will be a long one.

Let 'Em Eat Cake.

It has often been said that the Democrat’s view of the solution to all problems and, indeed, even the salvation of the Earth is to raise taxes.

Right now there is a push to finance a, fundamentally flawed, national health care bill. In the grand tradition of the Democrat Party, the solution is simple, TAX SOMETHING. In this case, John Kerry of Massachusetts has proposed a plan that would place an excise tax on health insurance companies, driving up the premiums for those of us who utilize private health insurance.

Just like Cap-And-Trade, this will be a vicarious tax which will be passed along to the consumer in the form of higher premiums, making health insurance less affordable, thusly pushing health care consumers towards the, already troubled, national health care plan.

If HR 3200 is such a good plan, why isn’t congress lined up to sign up?

The fact is, if you read the health care bill, linked at the bottom, you will realize that it is a nightmare. The, unmitigated, hubris of our Congress and President, to believe that they can bring a workable national health care plan to the people where Canada and the U.K. have failed, is just astounding. Made more astounding when one considers that Congress and the President will NOT be forced to utilize this plan which would replace the top-of-the-line health plan that they all enjoy. The rest of us will be watching as our private health insurers all go out of business, forcing us all on to the national health plan envisioned by HR 3200. A health care plan in which bureaucrats will be making medical decisions regarding subscribers. A medical plan which embraces a culture of death as it encourages senior citizens to hurry up and die.

This health care plan, which will eliminate private health care, is good enough for the unwashed masses, but certainly NOT good enough for our legislators and President. If the peasants have no bread, then let them eat cake!

Clearly the Congress and the President continue to establish their kingdom as the rest of us are left to support their lavish lifestyles.

For the National Health Care Plan being considered right now, CLICK HERE.

For a step-by-step tour through this bill's features, CLICK HERE.

A Pandemic In The White House!

Now that the White House faces a quarantine ever since President Obama, apparently, contracted a severe case of the Joe Biden Foot-In-Mouth disease, there is a more basic observation which the State Run Media has failed to discover.

President Obama made the judgment that, while not knowing the facts surrounding his friend Professor Gate's arrest, the Cambridge Police Department acted "Stupidly" and used "Racial Profiling" in Professor Gate's case, stating at one point that, "Race remains a factor in our society." He has, since backed away from these comments.

These, thoughtless, statements have implications far beyond Obama's assertions that the Cambridge Police Department is "stupid" and racially profiles individuals, it goes directly to the heart of President Obama's perception of the political process. Virtually all of his actions are the product of faulty reverse engineering.

He, first, makes broad and sweeping promises and then, when the fulfillment of these promises becomes impractical or impossible, he backpedals. First he was going to close Guantanamo Bay within the first year of his term. Now, not so much. Then he was going to release the harsh interrogation photographs. Now, not so much. Then he promised that, if his stimulus package was passed, national unemployment would not rise above 8%, that was 2 percentage points ago. He twisted arms in the House Of Lemmings and now we are faced with the possibility of Cap And Trade (AKA Cap And Trick) legislation. An energy tax which will drive the price of carbon based energy so high that food, heat, water and virtually everything that relies on carbon based energy for the manufacture or transportation of a product, will be OUT OF REACH for most of us. Once again, as with the Cambridge Police Department, his philosophy is "Act now and worry about the repercussions and details later."

Now, we are confronted by another one of Obama's follies, a health care bill which is so full of problems that it should take the rest of Obama's term just to fix it. However, President Obama wants it passed NOW, without delay and, by his own admission, he hasn't even read the bill and doesn't know any of it's details. Details such as a requirement, on page 425, that when someone attains the age of 65, they will be counseled, every five years, to consider the possibility of ending their own life.

National Health Care has been an abysmal failure in both Great Britain and Canada, as people are waiting on lists for medical treatment, some of which will die while waiting. There is no expectation that a national health care plan will work any better here.

The Obama/Cambridge Police Department flap is merely the, most recent, example in a series of episodes regarding President Obama's impetuousness. An impetuous nature that I defined in my post of May 16, 2009.

This contagion is something that Barack Obama and Joe Biden share. The only difference being that President Obama's shoe has a bit more polish on it when he places it, unceremoniously, in his own mouth.

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