James, Obama gives up too easily? Thank God for small favors. He's already increased the debt four-fold. He is speading money when there is none. He has no concept of what he is doing. I will never forget his speech: "America is the greatest country on Earth. Come and help me change it." Change it into what? A third-world country?
Okay. I could Obama bash all day long and that wouldn't have any real input here. Obama has some basically good ideas, but no real way of implimenting them. He sees a problem and throws money at it.
For instance: Haiti. Port au Prince was literally destroyed during the earthquake. Okay. Let's examine this. You have a country where they don't build for earthquakes, mainly because they aren't in an earthquake zone. Well, stuff happens. Now, we send in people. The inept UN, led by the French -- you know how I feel there -- have food and water lined up on the tarmack and it is not being distributed or used. The UN workers and USAID are strongly anti-American. Fine. You don't like us, who needs it.
I've been for getting out of the UN for twenty years. I'm getting side-tracked here. Obama sends in troops, people and money and let's the UN figure out what to do. I'm sorry. They don't do anything. Why are we sending our tax money to Haiti? If charities and churches and private organizations wish to do so, fine. Why are we required to give them a dime of taxpayer money, especially when we have NO control over it?
Next: Healthcare. You have 15% of the people in America without healthcare insurance. Most of those are either young and healthy or are qualified for state programs that already exist. All the BS about people dying because they have no insurance is Bullshit. Show me one death certificate that says a person died because they didn't have health insurance. By law, if you go to an emergency room, they are required to treat you regardless of your ability to pay.
Instead of tearing down an entire system and bringing in some ill-run cash sucking government megalith, why don't we work on the entire problem one step at a time. Start with tort reform so doctors can afford malpractice insurance. Get low income people a high deductable insurance that covers catastrophic health problems. They are very inexpensive and would cure -- not all -- but many of the ills of the current system. People need to take responsibility for their situations.
Since the 1960s there has been a war on poverty. We've spent one TRILLION dollars on it and poverty is still here at the same level. We have taken incentives for people to work away from them and allows these people to live in heavily subsidized housing with energy assistance, food stamps and a cash allotment. Instead of helping these people to become productive, we have crippled them economically.
Welfare is more or less a state problem with a lot of federal interference. The feds give money to the states and mandate how it is to be spent. Therefore you have a neverending cycle of bureaucracy.
Obama talks very little about immigration. I'm all for legal immigration. However, I would bring all but 10,000 troops home from Iraq and put them on the southern border with orders to shoot to kill anyone sneaking into this country.
I know. I know. There is that cold-blooded bastard talking about killing people again. Well, let's put it this way: If you were sneaking into Mexico from Guatemala, you would be shot by the federalies. Why is it so bad to use there procedures here? We don't need more illegals here. Before you talk about the fruit pickers, that only accounts for 2% of them. Temporary work visas would be a better situation.
Why so harsh? Well, they cost us many more tax dollars than we receive from them in wage taxes; 27% of our prisons are full of illegals and you have to commit a crime over and above the FELONY of being here illegally to go to prison. The hospitals on our southern border are going broke dealing with the illegals. They sneak in and want free healthcare. Don't they know this isn't Canada?
Then there is the welfare incentive for them to be here. We pay many of them to sit on their ass and have anchor babies. Don't get me started there.
Cap and Trade. Well, let's tax everyone because of global warming. It is junk science. The earth warms up the earth cools down. There was an article that talked about the changes in the fishing and the lack of icebergs and the like. The thing was that it was written in 1923. Global warming is cyclical. It always has been. Man's contribution is very small compared to cattle flatulance, which is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas. Don't get me wrong pollution is still bad.
Obama had high hopes on the global warming conference in Copenhagen. It turned into a joke. Sorry Mr. President.
I would say that other than spending a shitload of money on things that give us no return, he has been an abject failure.
George Soros got $2 billion US tax dollars to drill for oil in Brazil. Huh? George Soros has more money than just about anyone on the planet and we are giving him money to drill for oil in BRAZIL.
Obama gives large portions of stock from GM and Chrysler to the UAW, who doesn't want it and wants to sell it. Where is the precident for that?
Obama is about payola. The people that helped him become president are getting taxpayer dollars.
He targets the banks. Excuse me, Mr. President, but members of Congress and YOU got several banks in trouble when you forced them to lend money to people that couldn't pay it back. You and Congress created that problem.
James, I could go on and on, but this is lengthy and wordy enough for now.
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Gone, gone, gone. I've done my time and it's time to move on.
posted March 26, 2010 10:20 AM
