The Obama White House is hard at work trying to make sure that you don’t see, or at least don’t believe, what Obama said about his goals for healthcare reform prior to the current push for legislation in Congress. For instance, here’s one video published by the White House:
This particular video is in response to this one:
The ploy here is to make such a clamor about what BHO has said before public groups in 2009 that it will hopefully drown out what he said before “friendlies” (and make no mistake, an AFL-CIO meeting is a friendly crowd for him) in 2003. How can we know what his true intentions are? Answer: We can’t! We cannot trust that what he says today is the unvarnished truth concerning his intentions for the future of healthcare in the United States. He is in full salesman mode today, and will say anything to make you believe that his plans are innocuous where your choices and liberty are concerned. Videos like the one featuring Linda Douglas above are propaganda tools.
Think about this: Obama has said a thousand times, “If you like your current plan, you can keep it.” What did he NOT say? He did not say that you could switch from your current plan to another private plan. Under legislation currently pending in Congress, you could either keep the coverage you had at the time the new system went into effect, or you could switch to the “public option” plan. That’s it: Keep what you have right now, or go with Uncle Sam’s grand plan - no other option. Do you like the sound of that? Where does that leave you when your current insurer decides to exit the business, as Pelosi, Reid, and their minions intend? Then the “public option” has become your “only option.”
Ask your Representative or Senator, “Will I be able to choose from any private plan, or only between what I currently have and the government plan?” I don’t believe you’ll get a straight answer to that question from a backer of government-run healthcare. Don’t let them bob and weave like the White House is currently doing.
The massive energy tax couched as a climate bill, most often called Cap and Trade, is only the latest incarnation of liberal genius applied to energy policy. Remember it was Pres. Jimmy Carter (D) who championed the creation of the U.S. Department of Energy, which was accomplished during his first year in office. (Quick: Name three stellar accomplishments of the Dept. of Energy. Yeah, I can’t either…) Now we have Pres. Obama pushing for a massive additional layer of bureaucracy for energy policy, accompanied by new taxes which will, by Obama’s own admission during his campaign, lead to greatly increased costs to American families for electricity and fuels.
As you think about whether this legislation will accomplish its stated goals, keep the two headlines in this article in mind.
The press in the U.S. has long been referred to as the fourth branch of government, meaning that although without any vested powers constitutionally (other than freedom) it carried a duty to provide a check on government’s power and actions by examining and reporting to the citizenry just what government was seeking and doing in [...]
It’s finally official: GM is going to file for bankruptcy, providing protection from creditors as the company seeks to reorganize. Why didn’t we (by “we” I mean the boneheads in Washington) allow this to happen in the final quarter of 2008, when every thinking person could see that it was both inevitable and the only [...]
Conservatives, you need to read Pat Buchanan’s column regarding appellate judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. I only hope the congressional Republican leadership heeds his advice concerning how to approach her confirmation hearings. Read the column.
President Obama today will conduct his first official meeting of his cabinet on April 20, and is expected to ask members of the cabinet to identify ways that they can trim $100 million from the federal budget.
A natural question would be, is that $100 million per agency or department represented at the meeting? No, this [...]
It’s hopefully not a new idea to you that news organizations are prone to present just about any story as “THE MOST SHOCKING, BIGGEST, UNPRECEDENTED, MUST-SEE MUNDANE STORY WE’VE EVER REPORTED!!!!!” Why? They are deathly afraid you will change the channel when they cut to commercial, or walk past the newsstand without buying that paper, [...]
I’ve seen several mentions of the record deficits in Pres. Obama’s budget being understated. Yes, they’re the highest ever, but they are very unlikely to remain at those levels - they’ll almost certainly go much higher. Here’s one example from Newsweek:
Defense—a.k.a. national security—has long been government’s first job. In Obama’s budget, defense spending drops from [...]
