A Masterpiece Of Charlatanry For The Naive

Below is an excellent piece by Thomas Sowell regarding Obama's charlatanry.

...the charlatan-in-chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.

To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpah and an insult to anyone's intelligence.

To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already shown this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.

…Even those who can believe that Obama can conjure up the money through eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" should ask themselves where he is going to conjure up the additional doctors, nurses and hospitals needed to take care of millions more patients.

If he can't pull off that miracle, then government-run medical care in the United States can be expected to produce what government-run medical care in Canada, Britain and other countries has produced — delays of weeks or months to get many treatments, not to mention arbitrary rationing decisions by bureaucrats.

Obama can deny it in words, but what matter are deeds — and no one's words have been more repeatedly the direct opposite of his deeds — whether talking about how his election campaign would be financed, how he would not rush legislation through Congress, or how his administration was not going to go after CIA agents for their past efforts to extract information from captured terrorists. (READ AT Investor's Business Daily)

Presidential Visions For Our Own Good

Some good reading about Obama's Health care PLAN - yea it's a plan alright - the most liberal leftist we've ever had for a President is going to plan our medical care. Thomas Sowell writings can be read at Capitalism Magazine.


Obama's Cronies vs American Citizens: Whose Medical Decisions?: Part 1

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5623

Obamacare's Phony Arguments: Whose Medical Decisions?" Part 2

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5622

Obama's Bait and Switch: Whose Medical Decisions?" Part 3

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5625

The Obama Vision: Whose Medical Decisions?" Part 4

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5624

Obama Healthcare Shenanigans - Don't Believe Him

Obama the magician will now make health care more affordable for everyone and government will direct the orchestra. They will make crucial decisions of life and death and with that, they will throw the elderly out of the boat because there are going to be too many of them-so let them die. Thomas Sowell does a good job of showing us the con job that Obama is foisting on us. Don't believe this scam - we must fight tooth and nail for a PRIVATE health care system..Government stay out!

The government does not have some magic wand that can "bring down the cost of health care." It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.

It can decide not to spend as much money on the elderly as is being spent now. That can save a lot of money-- if you think having a parent die earlier is a bargain.

The idea of a "duty to die" has been making some headway in recent years around the fringes of the left. It is perfectly consistent with the fundamental notion of the left, that decisions should be transferred from ordinary citizens to government elites.

Liberals don't have to advocate it. But, once you have bureaucrats empowered to decide what treatments you can and cannot get, they may well decide that money spent keeping some 75-year-old grandmother alive for a couple of more years could be better spent politically by enabling ten younger people to have acupuncture or visit a shrink.

Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale.

Those pushing for government-controlled medical care say that you can keep your doctor. But bureaucrats in Washington will decide whether what your doctor prescribes will be allowed. Talking about your doctor is another distraction from the crucial question of who will actually have the power to decide, which can be the power of life and death. Read the whole article here at CAPMAG.