Posted by
Mike Redeker on Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:44:28 AM
Well, the ABC/
Nobama Infomercial is now over, and it seems to be everything that it was billed NOT to be. And in prominent
Nobama
fashion, the President said 'a lot' and really didn't say anything new.
In fact, if the American public has learned one thing about this
President it's that we have to listen to what he doesn't say, read
between the lines and take what he does say and interpret it to mean
the opposite. I think that's what we used to call 'double-speak'!
I
had to wonder how spontaneous the questions were because Diane Sawyer
and the cameras were at the right location at the right time
every time. Was this just a matter of Lady Luck, or were these questions
pre-selected and planted? And given the history of
Nobama's
articulateness while thinking and talking off the cuff, I can't help
but think that the President didn't know about these questions ahead of
time, because his responses were smooth and absent of his '
uhms' and '
ahs'
that are so typical when he speaks without being prepped or without Mr.
Teleprompter. In addition, there were NO follow up questions or
rebuttal allowed, and you could see on the faces of the audience the
desire for follow up. In particular, it seemed to me that the president
of
Aetna and the president of the American Medical Association certainly had more to say.
Dr.
Obama casually mentioned health care for children and the need for
children to be covered. I'm certainly for all that, however, he left
the audience with the impression that what the government is currently
doing has support from the American public. Isn't that program called
CHIPS? And didn't the child-hating, evil President Bush veto an
increase in funding this program two times?
Hmmm. Maybe
because it costs to much because of inefficiency. But what we didn't hear from
Nobama
is that he slipped increase funding into one of the stimulus bills as
an earmark - one of the massive bills passed that no one was able to
read before they voted on it. And what about the
Universal Health Care for Children in Hawaii?
Do you know about that? Hawaii, a state about as far left as you can
get had a government run plan for free health care for children. But as
the saying goes, there's no such thing as a free lunch, which is
precisely what Hawaii found out. Once this plan was introduced people
who were paying for health care dropped out of the private sector
insurance to opt in for the government run program. That wasn't
supposed to happen, but it did. And after only 7 months Hawaii had to
discontinue the program because the government couldn't afford it.
Was this brought up at all in the
infomercial?
No. Do the words 'the government is out of money' and 'that's not
supposed to happen that way' sound familiar with this administration?
In fact, it's just the opposite. Dr.
Nobama
constantly says that if you're happy with your current plan you can
keep it. But he never deals with human nature who would like to get
something for nothing.
Dr.
Nobama's ire was up when he talked about the
CBO
(Congressional Budget Office). This is a non-partisan group who
crunches numbers based on the information they have and they try to
come up with realistic forecasts of costs of government programs.
Accountant
Nobama doesn't like their numbers because it doesn't agree with what he wants the public to hear. He claims that the
CBO
isn't giving him credit for the money he'll save from Medicare and
Medicaid and some of the other proposed 'savings' he has planned. Boy,
this sure sounds like something out of
Obamaworld with regard to 'jobs saved'. How do you measure what jobs are 'saved' when more people are getting laid off every week?
Obama's savings plan is one that we can live without. In fact, our health and wallets would be far better off.
Hmmmm.
Just takes some common sense to put 2 + 2 together. There's no free
lunch! The American people on every level will pay for this government
plan.
But one of the things that was most disturbing was Dr.
Nobama's
response to end of life care. He said that as a culture and society we
must make decisions for ourselves concerning end of life. In the
'system' - code word for socialized medicine - decisions will have to
be made to see what will help and what will not. Dr.
Nobama
said that there might be a point where the patient would be better off
without the surgery and to simply take pain pills. Well, which
government paid doctors will make that decision? What will be the
criterion upon which those decisions are made? And will the medicine be
available, or will there be a waiting line for Mom & Dad, Grandma
and Grandpa to painfully wait in while they're waiting for the back
order of drugs to arrive. This is what's happening in England and
Canada.
And what about
euthanasia
at end of life? Who will make that decision about our elderly family?
Will it be a doctor who is pro-life? The doctors' worldview and
approach to when life begins and the sanctity of life is vitally
important in decision making. None of this was specifically addressed,
but reading between the lines and given
Obama's record on the sanctity of life this will mean early death for many.
Why
can't the government simply focus on the 15% of Americans that don't
have health insurance and leave the other 85% alone? Why can't the
government
let the private insurance companies work out the problem among
themselves while the government works on the 15%? That should cost a
whole lot less that what Accountant Dr. Obama will propose and the bill
Nurse
Pelosi will write and ram through the House.
Freedom
loving Patriots, there's no free lunch. And this is dangerous. Call
your US Reps and Senators. Tell them you want bipartisanship on
health care reform. Let them know that you want the liberty and freedom to make your own choices.
Sign the petition.
Stay informed America. This is your right. This is your liberty. This
is your freedom. It's all about common sense and exercising your
freedoms.
The Silent Majority is Silent No More.
God's blessings.