Everyone Lies Except Obama
September 21st, 2009I have watched a good number of presidential speeches to Joint Members of Congress in my lifetime. The one President Obama gave shocked me to the core. How do you sell a bipartisan bill on health care reform by smearing the other party. From the one trillion dollar deficit he inherited, to accusing town hall citizens, Republicans, insurance companies, to labeling everyone who doesn’t agree with him about documented parts of the House Health Care bill as liars, to nailing Sarah Palin. How does that help sell his plan.
If we can get the savings from fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, do it. Don’t promise it and let all of us who know you can’t meet that promise listen to that knowing full well you can’t deliver.
How do you add hundreds of thousands of people with pre-existing conditions and not raise costs?
If you want to throw the other party a bone on tort reform, throw the bone. Don’t promise a little test program in some remote part of the country.
If it’s going to cost $1.2 trillion don’t tell us it will cost $900 billion.
If you are going to add either 45 million to the health care rolls, don’t tell us the present system can handle the inflow. For the first time you took out the 9 million illegals and told us they were never in. Guess for the first time there are only 36 million uninsured.
If you want to make a speech, do it in 20 minutes. We don’t like to hear you speak as much as you like to hear yourself.
If you are going to have a government plan(public option) to compete with private insurers, don’t call it something else. An exchange, for example.
Don’t add $900 billion and say it doesn’t add to the deficit.
Don’t tell us all the doctors and nurses are for your plan when I don’t know a one who is in favor of it. Plus, say the AMA only represents 18% of the US doctors.
Don’t tell us lie after lie and then call everyone who challenged your plan liars.
Don’t pander to your far left and criticize the other 80% who don’t have your ideological beliefs , then say it’s wrong to use ideological perspective to disagree with your plan.
Don’t tell us to win one for the Gipper(Ted Kennedy).
Your speech was not aimed at the public. It was not aimed at the Republicans. It was aimed at the blue dog democrats. You told them in no uncertain terms they would get with it, or in your words, “be called out”. Pass it without a single Republican vote. Do it with 51 votes in the Senate. You haven’t met witih the Republicans on health care since April. Still, you tell the nation you are open to other ideas.
Last speech you insulted the doctors by saying they would do operations that weren’t needed for the money. This speech you insulted the insurance companies.
You came off as an angry man. Angry because the majority of the people in this country don’t want your health care reform. Health care reform, yes, yours, no.
From my experience as a marketer, you don’t sell much with anger. You don’t get support from the opposition by insulting them. You don’t make points by criticizing your competition.
The truth is not what you say it is. Winning at any cost is not good leadership. You get just so many lies and you become branded a liar. One Republican Congressman even yelled out, “you lie”. He was referrring to the illegal alien issue. You branded a lot of people with that, but more and more are beginning to count your misrepresentations. This speech may have tipped the scales. Not for you, but against you.
Charles Krauthammer in a sydicated column this week had a headline: “Does he Lie?” He confirmed that all four committee passed bills in Congress allow illegal immigrangts to take part in the Health Insurance Exchange. You said no, they would not get insurance. This weekend you told ABC during your big telethon that you had no idea that ACORN gets Federal funding. Today’s Wall Street Journal had an editorial confirming it’s only $8 billion slated for ACORN. You were an attorney for ACORN, your campaign gave ACORN $800 thousand to get out the vote for you.
Perhaps Americans are so accustomed to politicians lying, we are immune to the concept. But, the more you lie, the harder it will be to sell your ideas to the public. Health Care Reform may be your first lesson on that.
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Teflon President Loses His Stick
July 28th, 2009All of the issues during the campaign did not stick to the candidate Obama. Not the inexperience, not the Reverend Wright, not Bill Ayers, not the radical left record in the Illinois senate or the U.S. Senate. The man was truly Teflon coated.
At warp speed he has shed the Teflon. The grease is sticking to the pan and it looks like it will just accumulate.
With a lot of help from the media he got a pass on all the tax cheats and former lobbyists he put on his team. He got a pass for going abroad and apologizing for America’s proud history. He got a pass for over 8,000 earmarks in the stimulus bill and the revised budget. He got a pass for the stimulus bill. But on every pass, he lost a few supporters along the way. He was unapologetic for creating record deficits. The czars, a pass. Cramming radical socialistic legislation with unreasonable deadlines, he was getting a pass. Telling us the stimulus bill will reduce unemployment, but it didn’t. Another pass.
Suddenly he stepping it so deeply he can’t get it off his shoes. He thought the “talking head” could sell America a slap dash version of health care reform in days. Boy, was he wrong. He held a news conference and drug out the same old tired rhetoric and it didn’t work. The trust me stuff doesn’t work when you’ve over spent your trust bank. Saying the economy will tank if we don’t do it even as your own Congressional Budget Office says it will cost a cool trillion more insults the intelligence of most Americans.
Then, at the end, jump on a racial issue and take the side of the African American friend without facts. Bad night, Mr. President.
Right now your pan looks like a pan in my sink when I was in college and hygiene was not a big issue. God knows what might have been growing in that pan. Your previous pan was squeaky clean. Now, everything is sticking to your pan. Even the stuff that didn’t stick before. It’s looking like you will never get that pan shined up again. Once that bacteria starts growing in that pan there may not be enough antibiotics to kill the stuff.
Mr. President we are getting to know you. The veil is down, the camel has his nose in the tent, and many more Americans are developing buyer’s remorse. Remember how no one invited Cheney to campaign for them during the last campaign. You may find a lot of Democrats who choose not to ask you for help next year. If that happens, you will be a lame duck at the end of next year.
You seem to be like a teenager who is burning rubber so fast your tires may be gone in 6 months.
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Why Should Health Care Be Free?
July 24th, 2009We are being pounded with the dogma that affordable health care should be available to every American. But, knowing there is a large segment of the population that can’t afford insurance or choose not to buy insurance even if they could afford it, that means this segment, now uninsured will get free health care. Today, none from these groups are denied health care. The first group has no assets, so no payment will be collected, you get to pay for that in your insurance premiums. The second group, if they have assets, will find the people who provided health care will expect them to pay. They will work out payments plans, etc.
Isn’t this just like, in a rich country like America, everyone should own their own house? How did that work out?
Americans have always felt we should never be out of pocket for health care? Does that make sense? If you choose to give a new car or flat screen TV greater priority than your health or the health of your family, should you get a pass if you gambled and lost?
There is no logic in any of the bunk coming out of Washington on the proposed health care plans.
If you can get health insurance with a preexisting condition, and millions are in that situation, how does that not increase the cost of health care in this country? Premiums have to be raised to offset that huge incremental cost. Look at Massachusetts. The insurance premiums are now higher than anywhere in the country. For this reason.
If millions now have free health care, how does the system accommodate the load? Just as it has everywhere this plan is in place, by rationing. If you believe rationing isn’t mandatory with this plan, please tell me how a strained system take on 25% more volume without rationing.
The poor today have free health insurance with medicaid. The elderly have it with medicare. Both systems have huge inefficiencies and are beset with fraud. The new proposal is going to take cost out of medicare. How, by reducing the benefits to medicare patients and through rationing.
Today I heard two people talk about how they felt about the new plan. One young woman said she developed cancer and is in remission. She has thousands in bills and is having trouble paying. She had insurance but it was not appropriate for a catastrophic illness. She favors the new proposal. But, she had stage four cancer. If the new plan was in effect, she would be debt free, but dead. The second said he was diagnosed with cancer as a young man. It was a difficult diagnosis and took lots of tests to find the cancer. Without all the tests he would have died. He would not have gotten the tests with the new program.
This is a different version of sharing the wealth, called sharing the health. To provide health insurance to 14 million people uninsured, the rest of the country must accept rationing, the government deciding their health care choices, and higher premiums or higher taxes or both.
To accommodate a few million people who never could afford a new house, we had to destory the economy here and abroad. The same people who created that mess are up to their eyeballs in this mess.
Mitt Romney is polling ahead of Obama if a presidential election were held today. But, until Mitt comes clean on the mess he made in Massachusetts with his health care program, he has no chance.
I guess my thinking is wrong, but I have always felt it is not wrong or unfair to pay someone out of pocket if they save my life, the life of a family member, or make us well.
If everyone in America had to have a catastrophic insurance policy with a deductible tied to net worth, it would solve most of the problems. Just like auto insurance. If you don’t have the policy, you don’t drive a car, can’t get a job, or must pay into a uninsured fund.
From zero to that deductible, you take your risk. If you gamble wrong, it will be a reasonable gamble, since you are covered on the upside.
This means health care is only free to the destitute, as it is now with medicaid.
There is no free lunch and there should be no free health care. It’s like rent.
Tags: catastrophic insurance, health care, rationing, supply and demand
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Americans Are Pretty Smart
July 21st, 2009A used car salesman selling lemons needs lots of new people coming in to look at cars. He gets no repeat business. Once you buy a lemon from a slick salesman, you don’t go back, and you tell lots of friends.
The American public is starting to think President Obama is selling lemons. Once you get a reputations for selling lemons, you don’t make too many sales.
It is incredible how fast the public caught on to this president. He is spending endless hours twisting arms and in on-camera time to sell his Health Care Bill, whatever that bill might be. Seems like Obama is totally indifferent to content, just give me a bill. Suddenly his own party, sensing the public is catching on to their role in lemon sales, are jumping ship. The just sign here and trust me deal is over. Survival instincts are kicking in and the smell coming from the White House could taint their re-election hopes.
The media did not do this, the Republican Party gets no credit, it’s all due to the American people. Unfortunately, this same public bears grudges when trust is broken. Burn your reputation and it’s hard to regain trust.
The American people see how well the government runs the Veterans Administration health care program. The American people go to the post office and the bureau of motor vehicles. The “folks” know the government can’t run anything let alone everything.
There’s an old saying, when the horse dies, dismount. The Obama horse is dead and millions of Americans have dismounted. Rhambo, Obama’s devil in residence is best known for saying “never let a good crisis go to waste”. Rhambo and Obama underestimated the wisdom of the people. Now, they will see the wrath.
Guys, it’s over. Move your used car lot to France. The French don’t seem to catch on when you sell them lemons.
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American People are Stupid
February 14th, 2010This is a core belief shared by left-wing, liberal, progressives. Comprised of politicians, attorneys, professors, actors, the media, labor leaders, and third-generation members of the lucky sperm club, these elitists think they have a lock on intellect. The majority have never run anything, invented anything, made a payroll, advanced through the ranks of a company, made a goal, or lived in the real world. But, they believe the rest of us are incapable of living our lives without their wisdom.
President Obama knows we need health care reform in the form of the 4,000 pages of crap in the House and Senate. If you gave him a test he couldn’t score 50% on what’s in those 4,000 pages of crap, but he just knows we need it. Even though his own Democratic majority can’t cram it through, he is sure we poor fools in the public would like it better if he could just explain it to us. Since he can’t understand it himself, his 26 speeches did little to educate we ignorant minions.
Well, Mr. President, we may not be on the list of what you deem to be enlightened people, but we do know some things. Here’s just a few.
We don’t believe in global warming and you, Al Gore, and you insipid Democratic Congress aren’t going to shove it down our throats. If you try Chicago politics and use the EPA to do it, your party will pay dearly. Every day more facts come out on the trumped up science behind the farce called global warming. There’s an Amber Alert(Glen Beck) out on Al Gore, since he seems to be like a groundhog as winter ravages the country.
We don’t want Gitmo closed. We think it was a bad idea. And, despite your great wisdom, you can’t get it closed. We want terrorists tried in Military Courts and if you don’t understand that yet, you can’t be very smart either.
We want smaller government and if you don’t start giving it to us, you will be a one-term president.
We want less spending. You don’t. We will win.
We don’t want you to put an SEIU attorney in the Department of Labor. You did, and we won again. This was a cute Chicago trick. You couldn’t get card check so you tried to stack the board and mandate it without congressional approval. Cute, but we are smart, we caught you.
Basically, we don’t want any of your ideas. Yours, your progressive left-wing radical elitist friends, or your core group of advisers. We don’t want Eric Holder to be the Attorney General and he won’t be for long. We want Rahm Emanuel gone, and he will be too. We want Janet Napolitano gone, and she will be soon.
In your misguided mind, you may think we are poor simple Bible toting, gun hugging, dumb asses. But, we have your number and we got it in only a year. You approval rating reflects our respect for your leadership. Look down your arrogant nose at us if you will, but most of us would have gotten the message from Massachusetts, but not you. You will get the message in November. Your broken promise of bi-partisanship in Washington will be fixed then. See how you like trying to pass your socialistic programs with a minority in congress.
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