Get the Government OUT!
Get the Employers OUT!
Get Americans in Shape- with Tax Deductions!
By Wayne Allyn Root, Author
The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts
In my just released book, “The Conscience of a Libertarian” I suggest a simple program to reform healthcare and dramatically reduce costs. Here it is in simplified form:
First, get the lawyers out of the way. Obama wants to spend an extra $1 trillion (or much more) to “save” healthcare. Instead let's try saving almost $1 trillion in healthcare cost by getting the lawyers out of the way. Almost one trillion dollars is the estimated annual cost of frivolous lawsuits, unjustified jury awards, and doctors practicing defensive medicine. We must enact tort reform, limit damage awards, prevent frivolous lawsuits, and institute a “loser pays rule” to introduce accountability and personal responsibility into our American legal system.
In virtually every democracy in the world, except the United States, the loser of a lawsuit must pay the winner's legal fees. The fact that we are the lone holdout indicates why the United States has the highest rates and costs of litigation in the world. Reform the lawyers…and you reform healthcare.
But the reason why tort reform is never mentioned by President Obama is because he's a lawyer; his wife Michelle is a lawyer; his advisors are lawyers; his friends are lawyers; his top contributors are lawyers. Can anyone spell CONFLICT OF INTEREST? No one wants to eliminate lawyers, or lawsuits. In a free society, consumers have a right to sue, and lawyers have a right to represent them. We should zealously protect that right. But we don't have a right to abuse the system. Our goals should be focused on reigning in abusive lawyers, limiting abusive jury awards, and eliminating frivolous lawsuits. That's how you start the process of healthcare reform Mr. Obama.
Second, get the government out of the way. Repeal all government laws, rules and mandates that prevent American consumers from buying any health insurance policy they want, anywhere in the country. It is government rules, regulations, laws and mandates that make healthcare expensive in the first place. Now Obama wants to solve the problem that government created by adding more government? By adding more government rules, regulations and mandates? Obama suggests that government cure the problems and high costs of government-run healthcare (Medicare, Medicaid) by forcing government to take over all healthcare? He wants to spend an additional trillion dollars to save money? The answer is to allow the American consumer to buy any policy, in any state, that best fits their family's needs, without government mandating what should be included in that policy.
Third, get the employer out of the way. Allow Americans to choose and own their own health insurance- without the employer involved. Allow all individuals to deduct healthcare costs (starting with the first dollar) directly off their income taxes. This allows anyone to change jobs or employers, without worrying about losing their health insurance.
Fourth, encourage personal responsibility with Health Savings Accounts. Consumers don't ask government or private insurance to pay for tire changes, oil changes, or minor car repairs. We are responsible for those. So why should government or insurance be asked to pay for every minor medical need, or routine doctor visit? All consumers should be encouraged to save money in a tax deductible Health Savings or Personal Wellness Account designed to pay for minor medical bills and routine doctor visits. A high deductible insurance plan will pay for everything else (the major bills), so consumers are not bankrupted by accident, illness or disease.
Finally, instead of asking Big Brother to punish Americans for bad choices, let's instead encourage and motivate good behavior with tax reductions. Motivating Americans to exercise and get in shape would save billions of dollars in health costs by reducing the need for doctors and prescription drugs, and preventing disease. How do you do that? Make healthy choices tax deductible. The federal government should make gym memberships, and the purchase of home gym equipment tax deductible. Also, vitamins and health supplements should be tax deductible (from the first dollar). It would save this country (and its taxpayers) billions of dollars to encourage that consumers make healthy choices, thereby reducing the need for expensive doctor visits, medical procedures, or prescription drugs. Shouldn't we be encouraging people to not get sick in the first place?
On the state level, we should eliminate sales tax for vitamins and nutritional supplements. Americans should be encouraged to make healthy choices that prevent illness and disease, and lower the national costs of healthcare.
If President Obama and our politicians are serious about reducing the national bill for healthcare, then they should encourage Americans to get healthy by reducing taxes for healthy choices. Instead of punishing, mandating or limiting choices- as liberal politicians and Nanny State bureaucrats often do- Libertarians like me want to increase competition in the private sector to lower costs; increase competition on the state level to expand consumer choice; decrease government involvement; and encourage, motivate, and incentivize consumers to make healthy choices by reducing their taxes. That's the Libertarian way.
Oh and one other thing- put someone in charge of this country who has actually paid for the health insurance of others. Obama and I were college classmates. In the 26 years since we graduated Columbia University, he has never created a business, funded a business, managed a business, created real jobs, or paid anyone's health insurance. On the other hand, I've spent 26 years creating small businesses and jobs, and paying for payrolls and health insurance so that others could live the American Dream. Wouldn't it be a refreshing change to have someone running the American economy who actually knows what it's like to run a business, and to pay for the health insurance of others?
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate. A detailed explanation of his plan for reducing healthcare costs and solving the healthcare crisis is found in his new book, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.” The book is available at Amazon.com or at bookstores across the USA. For more of Wayne's views, commentaries, or to watch his many media interviews, please visit his web site at: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
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( 3 / 1664 )The Political Movement of a Lifetime- Every Citizen Must Agree to Vote Against EVERY Incumbent in 2010- A Shot Heard Around the World!
Our 1776
Obama and Paranoid Democrats Denigrate Citizen Protestors by Calling Them “The Mob”
Town Hall Meetings Turn Ugly- But “The Mobs” are Merely the Citizens Reacting to Socialism
By Wayne Allyn Root, Author
The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts
It’s all over for Obama. Only six months into his first term the economy is tanking into oblivion; tax revenues are falling the fastest since the Great Depression; deficits are rising to record highs never before imagined; Obama’s polls already make him (at this point in any Presidency) one of the most unpopular Presidents in modern history; and the citizens are headed for full scale revolt as Obama ignores this economic Armageddon and throws caution to the wind in order to play out his Socialist experiment- spending trillions more on universal healthcare, cap and trade, and soon…a second stimulus. It’s all coming apart at the seams. Obama has created a citizen revolution.
Obama and his paranoid Socialist minions are compiling an “Enemies List” and they are not even shy about it- they publicly announce they want citizens to send them negative emails and stories about his universal healthcare. Note to Obama: Be sure to add this commentary to the list. I’m proud to oppose Socialism.
As riots breakout at Town Hall Meetings, Obama tries to intimidate the citizenry by calling patriots and heroic American citizens unwilling to accept a Socialist takeover of our economy…a mob. Some mob. This mob is as All-American as you can get. The are high on drugs…Geritol. They’re armed to the teeth…false teeth. And they have weapons…canes and walkers. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd and Frank are being attacked by a mob of senior citizens and parents and grandparents…scared and angry because Obama is enslaving their children and grandchildren to a lifetime of big government, big spending, big taxes, big deficits, big debt, and big unions.
These heroic American citizens actually recognize Socialism when they see it. They recognize unsustainable debt. They recognize redistribution of wealth. They recognize Obama’s brand of thug capitalism- when government fraudulently hands ownership of GM and Chrysler to the same unions that destroyed them in the first place. They recognize cronyism in the corporate bailouts and stimulus plans- when Obama transfers trillions of dollars from taxpayers to his campaign contributors and friends (ACORN). They recognize a cover up- when Obama blames the healthcare crisis on everyone BUT lawyers, because he is a lawyer, his radical wife is a lawyer, their best friends and advisors are lawyers, their biggest campaign contributors are all lawyers.
This heroic group of American citizens that Obama calls a “mob” recognizes hypocrisy when they see it- as Obama takes school choice away from minority children in Washington DC, while he sends his precious daughters to elite $40,000 per year private schools. They recognize fraud as Obama demands we all sacrifice- except for union bosses and union employees. This mob sees the truth- that a true hero like Abraham Lincoln saved the union, while Obama only cares about saving the auto union…the teachers union…and the government employees union.
They see Obama staring at economic Armageddon, and yet planning to spread the “Michigan model” to the entire country. When confronted with peaceful but angry citizen protestors, Obama calls in union thugs and goons to intimidate the citizens. It’s amazing what you can buy with billion dollar handouts and bribes to unions.
They see Obama demanding we all go “green”- while Congress orders new private jets that cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and will use more fuel in a few flights than millions of citizens in their cars for a year combined.
And this angry “mob” of seniors recognizes a future of healthcare rationing run by government bureaucrats who will decide who lives and dies based on hypocrisy, cronyism and unsustainable levels of debt. They rightfully wonder whether union members will receive special privileges from the healthcare commission, while the rest of us are left to die?
Yes, Obama you have a Citizen Revolution on your hands- just as I predicted in my new book, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.” But I’m not preaching or desiring violence. We don’t need violent revolution in America. We have freedom. We have free speech. We have elections. And we have a right to THROW THE BUMS OUT.
I am asked on hundreds of radio talk shows, “What can we do to stop Obama from Socializing America?” The answer is simple. Let your voices be heard. Call radio talk shows. Attend Town Hall meetings with your Congressmen. Write letters to the editor. Hound your elected officials, from the U.S. Senate down to the local dog catcher. Let them know first hand of your outrage. We need protests from those people that work for a living, and create jobs, and build businesses, and pay far more than our fair share of taxes. It's time to shout, scream, clench our fists in rage, and most importantly, offend. The time for politeness and manners is long since past. This man Obama and his mob of Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank and Rangel are trying to destroy our economy, highjack capitalism, and enslave our children and grandchildren to a lifetime of crushing debt; redistribution of wealth through destructive taxes; a perpetual welfare state; and a Big Brother takeover of every aspect of our lives. It's time to take action before there is no economy or country to save.
But the best thing we can all choose to do is to take back power peacefully- through elections. In 2010 and 2012 we can execute a plan to THROW THE BUMS OUT. And I don’t just mean Obama and the Democrats. Throw them all out. Every single incumbent. Even the Republicans, and the so-called Blue Dog Democrats. They are all guilty. They are all part of the problem. It is through the compromises of “moderate” Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats that big government, big spending and big taxes have been enabled. It was Bush who started this mess- with excessive spending, record-setting growth of government, stimulus plans, and bailouts. Bush and the Republicans enabled Obama. They opened the door to Socialism. Our job as citizens and taxpayers is to vote against every single incumbent politician in the country.
Let’s send a message heard ‘round the world- just like our Founding Fathers in 1776. Let’s start over with a brand new government…with a brand new Congress…with citizen politicians who want to dramatically reduce the size and scope of government…and return power to the people- just as the Constitution demands.
But don’t just vote against every incumbent. For the first time in your life, vote for third party candidates who will actually cut government, not just talk about it. Vote for Libertarians (like me) who don’t support corporate welfare or bailouts. Who won’t vote for earmarks. Who don’t support the expansion of the welfare state. Who don’t want to punish success. Who don’t believe it’s greedy to want to keep more of your own money. Who have no interest in becoming career politicians.
Vote for citizen politicians who actually want to affect dramatic change in Washington, and then go back home to their families and businesses. Who want to actually reduce their own power…who want to make their own office less important…who want less control over your life…who actually believe in personal responsibility…who actually want to cut their own budgets…who don’t want to “bring home the bacon” to their own districts, but instead do what’s right for the entire country. Who will choose to vote NO on any bill that increases spending, raises taxes, or grows government.
This is the Citizen Revolution that is within our grasp. This is our 1776. Let’s set the goal right now: Not one incumbent shall remain in office by November of 2012. Not one. That’s our goal. THROW THE BUMS OUT.
Every last one of them.
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate. His new book is entitled, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.” For more of Wayne’s views, commentaries, or to watch his many national media appearances, please visit his web site at: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
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( 3 / 1416 )Cash for Clunkers: More Proof of the Failure of Government-Run Anything
New Book About the Failures of Government
By Wayne Allyn Root, Author
The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts
My new book describes the failures, mistakes, lies and losses of government at every level, from every program, literally from the inception of government. The list is long- Amtrak, U.S. Postal Service, Hurricane Katrina, The VA System, the Walter Reed Hospital scandal, the post Iraq war planning, the public school system, and of course Medicare and Medicaid- the government run healthcare programs that threaten to eat up the entire U.S. non-military budget and single-handedly bankrupt our country.
But no story paints the picture of why government shouldn’t and cannot possibly be allowed to run national healthcare (adding up to 17% of the United States economy) like the story of a brothel called The Mustang Ranch. My adopted home state of Nevada is the only state in the nation with legalized prostitution in rural counties. The sex industry is obviously lucrative. It’s impossible to lose money, selling sex. Brothel owners have been retiring as multi-millionaires since the days of the Wild West. But no brothel in the history of Nevada ever made more money than the infamous Mustang Ranch. The owner made tens of millions of dollars, perhaps over one hundred million dollars. But he refused to pay his taxes. He was indicted by the IRS, fled the United States, and now lives on his mega-million dollar fortune in Brazil, a fugitive from justice.
But it’s what happened next that defines the failures of government. The greedy federal government actually decided to take over the management of the Mustang Ranch. And under the management of our federal government, the most successful brothel in America went bankrupt in one year.
The moral to the story:
IF YOU CAN’T MAKE MONEY RUNNING A BROTHEL, YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY RUN THE HEALTHCARE OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!
Next time President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid tries to tell you that the government can run healthcare more efficiently than private industry, tell them that the people that run government are so incompetent that they can’t even run a brothel.
Some other observations of the week:
The federal government can’t run a “Cash-for-Clunkers” program either. More proof of the utter incompetence of government bureaucrats and politicians. They estimated the cost of this program would be $1 Billion dollars. That was actually the cost for 4 days of the program.
The moral to the story: When Obama, Pelosi and Reid estimate the cost of government-run universal healthcare at $1.2 Trillion, simply assume that number is greatly underestimated.
By the time it’s through, the bill for nationalized healthcare will be in the trillions of dollars per year. Cash for Clunkers ran through all that government money so fast, simply because the government was giving away free money. Trade in your car, and Uncle Sam will hand you thousands of dollars- no questions asked.
Well what exactly is universal healthcare? FREE MONEY. It’s a program that pays for your every health and medical need. If ou think Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupting the nation, you ‘aint seen nothin’ yet! People that have waited years, perhaps decades, for checkups, tests, operations, dental fillings- will all rush to the doctor within minutes of hearing it’s all free. The system will be overrun and overwhelmed. We’ll have instant lines, chaos, and confusion. The quality of care will deteriorate within days. Rationing will be necessary within a short period of time (you know like “Grandma is 80, let her die”). The $1.2 Trillion budget will be gone in a matter of months…or weeks. Like everything government estimates, the numbers will multiply dramatically and tragically. Government-run healthcare will bankrupt America...just as it bankrupted Medicare and Medicaid on a smaller level…and the most successful and profitable brothel in the history of Nevada.
One more observation of the week- about Obama’s Infamous Beer Summit:
Please have someone inform Obama that we are broke. As in busted, insolvent, indebted (to China) and bankrupt. No more free beers for guests at the White House. From now on entertain at your own expense, or make it a CASH BAR. The taxpayers can’t afford to pay for free drinks every time you make a misstatement.
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate. His new book was just released last week entitled, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.” The book is available at Amazon.com or at bookstores across the USA. For more of Wayne's views, commentaries, or to watch his many media interviews, please visit his web site at: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
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( 3 / 867 )First Sotomayor, Now Disgraceful Attack on Police
Obama's True Radical Leftist, Socialist and Reverse Racist Colors Are Exposed
Obama's Polls Dropping Like Lead Balloon- Now Among Lowest Rated Presidents in Modern History
By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee
Author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts”
I'm sorry to say it but “I told you so.” Obama is a radical socialist, with a chip on his shoulder. And finally America is taking notice. His true colors are showing and his polls are dropping like a lead balloon. Later today a Rasmussen Poll will be released showing that after only 6 short months, Obama's glow is gone. His approval ratings are plummeting into negative territory. Remarkably, someone with such strong support and goodwill from the American people only weeks ago, has lost that support almost overnight. Rasmussen, the most accurate pollster of the 2008 election, will show that Obama's support is actually below 50% for the first time. Among independents, his support is a remarkably low 37%. Obama is rapidly becoming the most unpopular President in recent history. His poll numbers are already slightly lower than George W. Bush at the same point in his Presidency (about 6 months in), and those same ratings place him 10th in popularity out of the last 12 U.S. Presidents (and quite possibly headed for last place).
Why is this happening? First and foremost Obama over-reached. His ambitious, radical pro union, big spending, big tax agenda has finally caught up with his image. Some liberals might actually understand that. But what liberals don't understand is the powerful negative effect that his appointment of Sonia Sotomayor (and her reverse racist beliefs) had on Obama's image. I'll discuss that in a moment. But the real straw that broke the camel's back was Obama's comments about the police. In an unheard of example of audacity, a President of the United States weighed in on a local confrontation between a white police officer and a black Harvard professor (who happens to be Obama's buddy). Without knowing of the details of the case, our President called the actions of a courageous police officer doing his job and risking his life “dumb” and defended a buddy who cursed out the police officer. The real radical leftist has appeared and it is shocking to America, especially white America, who gave Obama the benefit of the doubt that he was in fact a nice, moderate, “uniter, not divider” who had finally put race aside. But in Obama's radical world, race is never put aside.
I wrote commentaries well before the election warning America that we were dealing with a radical leftist with Socialist views. He entered the Presidential race ranked the most extreme liberal of any of our 100 U.S. Senators, yet claimed to be a moderate and “uniter, not divider.” I knew better. You see I attended Columbia University with Obama. Same class, same major (political science, pre-law), same year of graduation (1983). And what I witnessed at Columbia was classmates so extreme in their radical left-wing views as to make me physically sick. I saw classmates who literally hated America, hated capitalism, and rooted for the death of a conservative President. I sat in political science class in 1981 in stunned disbelief as my classmates cheered, high-fived and celebrated like it was New Years upon hearing the news that President Reagan had been assassinated (that was the first erroneous report we heard- that he was dead).
I debated my classmates for 4 long years about capitalism and free markets, and heard their views up close and personal. They weren't moderate Democrats simply looking to protect the lower classes. They were radical Marxists and Socialists looking to destroy capitalism, tax and unionize businesses to death, and greatly expand government and the welfare state in order to hand power to “the disadvantaged.” I met classmates- both white and black- who seemed to openly despise and resent white people (and especially wealthy white people). And who openly hated policemen and called them “pigs.” This is the world that Obama hails from. It is a world view that disgusted me then, and now more than ever.
Most of my Ivy League classmates wound up going into any one of 3 professions- media/journalism, education and law. Is it no wonder our country is so screwed up? These are today the biased, radical, leftist-bordering-on-Socialist journalists who openly shower Obama with adulation, and denigrate and slander any political leader with a conservative or capitalist point of view. These are today the educators who brainwash our children from a pro big government, pro tax, pro-union, pro affirmative action point of view. And most importantly, these are the lawyers who spend their lives suing businesses (thereby killing jobs) and running up the cost of health care with frivolous lawsuits. One of the primary reasons that health care is so expensive is because of lawyers (like Obama and wife Michelle). What we desperately need to do to save healthcare and lower costs is to implement tort reform, not universal health care run by government. But you'll notice Obama doesn't mention that. Why? Because he's a lawyer. Like so many politicians from the left, he protects lawyers and refuses to fight for tort reform, instead fraudulently blaming others for the health care crisis that in so many ways his profession has contributed to.
Obama's first 6 months in office are now showing his true radical colors. He is not like the rest of us. He is not a moderate. He is not a uniter. His smile and calm demeanor hides a radical viewpoint. He is out to help only one group- Democratic voters. Obama's tunnel vision is about helping the poor, disadvantaged, minorities, union members, and government employees. And of course anyone who represents them- lawyers, union bosses, government bureaucrats, and lobbyists. In Obama's radical leftist view the rest of us can go to hell.
Obama talks nonstop about “sacrifice.” Yet he hasn't asked anyone of the key groups of his voting bloc to sacrifice a thing. His entire bloated spending spree is about hiring millions of new federal government employees and handing trillions of dollars to the states so that they can save the jobs (and raises) of state and local government employees. And of course handing out welfare checks that he calls “tax cuts” to people who never paid income taxes in the first place.
Americans- especially white Americans- were THRILLED to elect a black President to once and for all prove that racism is dead. To show the world that America is the greatest nation in the world. To show that the color of a person's skin is no longer a factor in success. But what they didn't understand is how much Obama himself does not believe in those principles. It didn't take long for Obama to show his true colors. He came out with guns blazing with his radical Socialist ideas- the biggest government spending programs in history; gigantic new taxes that threaten to wipe out the upper middle class and small business owners (coincidently, the two groups that make all the contributions to Republican, Conservative and Libertarian causes); radical and risky trillion dollar ideas like Cap and Trade and Universal Healthcare in the middle of a depression; Card Check- a law designed to unionize every large (and possibly small) business in the country, and turn our entire U.S. economy into one big Detroit, Michigan; apologizing and genuflecting to every radical, terrorist and anti-American murderer in the world; and appointing a Supreme Court nominee who thinks a Latina women can make better decisions as a judge than a white male…and backs up that reverse racist view by throwing out the test results of hard-working, heroic white firefighters who passed an exam for promotion- simply because they were white. (Author's Note: I don't personally believe there is such a thing as "reverse racism." You are either a racist or not).
Sometimes winning is not a victory. In this case, I believe that the Sotomayor nomination was deadly for Obama's image among the same moderate, independent and even conservative voters who took a chance and voted for Obama to end the issue of race forever. They didn't take that chance, and give Obama the benefit of the doubt, so he could smash them in the face with a reverse racist, affirmative action queen. He may have won Sotomayor the lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, but he lost his benefit of the doubt with middle class and blue-collar white voters.
But next came Obama's Waterloo- his decision to weigh in on the police confrontation in Cambridge during a nationally-televised press conference. On a personal note, I'm a white male. Yet in my lifetime I've had guns pulled on me three times by police. Were those incidents frightening? Of course. Was I shaken? Of course. But in all 3 cases, the police were correctly doing their job. And of course, being white, I could not blame the incidents on the color of my skin. Did it ever occur to President Obama or that Harvard professor that any homeowner- white or black- would have experienced the same thing in a similar situation.
Guns weren't drawn on me (by police) because I'm white- they were drawn on me because police were simply trying to defend property or protect society. They didn't care about the color of my skin. They were simply doing their job. The same thing appears to be true in the controversial incident in Cambridge. Was a gun pulled on Obama's friend because he was black? Or because he appeared to be a burglar breaking into a home? Obama wasn't there and should not have weighed in. That was a big mistake. But more importantly, when a policeman shows up at a home because a neighbor reports witnessing a break-in, that policeman's life is in danger. Any hesitation could result in his death. He may never see his wife or children again. His job is to pull his gun and ask questions- no matter the color of the skin or the importance of the person he is confronting. That Harvard professor should understand that it was his property that this policeman was protecting. It was his neighborhood and neighbors that this policeman was protecting.
That professor should have been smart enough to show respect to a police officer with a gun drawn asking questions. That professor's only response should have been to treat that officer politely and do exactly as he was asked. He should have shown his I.D. and politely and nicely defused the explosive situation. When a policeman's life is in potential danger, he has every right to treat the situation seriously. He has every reason to question the intruder and to not assume that he is the law-abiding homeowner. Those kind of assumptions get a policeman killed. Without being there to see the actual events as they unfolded, a U.S. President has only one reasonable choice- shut up and stay out of the controversy.
Obama made a big mistake. He just couldn't help himself- the real Obama (the radical leftist who doesn't support the police) came out. I believe this minor controversy, when combined with the negative impact of the Sotomayor nomination, may eventually be seen as the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for the political image of Barack Obama. From this point on, the bloom is off the rose, and the benefit of the doubt is off Obama. The moderate uniter is now rightfully seen by middle America as the radical Socialist divider.
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate. His new book is entitled, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.” For more of Wayne's views, commentaries, or to watch his many media interviews, please visit his web site at: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
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( 3 / 1684 )The Feds Have Run Amtrak, U.S. Postal Service, Public School System, and Everything Else They've Ever Touched into the Ground, but Obama Wants to Put Them in Charge of Health Care?
The Federal Government Can't Even Run a Brothel!
How Does Obama Keep From Laughing At His Own Press Conference?
By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee
Author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts”
I'll give him one thing- our President has audacity. World-record levels of audacity. He even wrote a book about it. But he ought to change the name to “the Audacity of Lies and Confusion.” His health care lies and confusing logic were on special display at last night's press conference. Let's examine just a few.
*The definition of audacity: Obama said we must “tame” the costs of health care because they are the driving force behind our massive federal deficits. Huh? He's the driving force behind our massive federal deficits! He's the one spending like a drunken sailor. He's the one bankrupting America. He's the one ordering the Federal Reserve to print money at record speed- making our savings worthless, and eventually driving the value of the dollar down dramatically. He's the one that spent $800 billion on a worthless stimulus plan that hasn't helped the economy. He's the one who promised he'd create or save 3 million jobs, while instead losing millions of jobs. He's the one that wants to spend trillions more on government-run universal health care in the midst of a depression. He's the one that wants to pass Cap and Trade, which will cost industry and consumers trillions of dollars more, all while doubling and tripling our electric bills and gas bills in the middle of a depression. Talk about AUDACITY! He's a living, breathing “driving force” of debt and deficit. Obama isn't the solution; he's the problem.
*Now to the REAL audacity. He says that government is the key to bringing health care costs down? Really? You mean the very same big government and liberal tax and spend politicians that have brought us our deficit of almost $2 trillion; while our national debt climbed to $11 trillion; while the shameless corporate bailouts reached $11 trillion; while our total national debt (including Social Security and Medicare liability) climbed towards $100 trillion; while unfunded liability for government employees climbed above $5 trillion. According to Obama we should trust that THOSE fellows, who brought us all that debt and deficit, have the answers to lowering health costs? Obama wants to put them in charge of 17% of the U.S. economy? And he promises they'll run health care less expensively and more efficiently than it is run today? Who writes Obama's comedy routine? This guy is good!
*More audacity: Obama thinks we should put in charge of 17% of the U.S. economy the very same people who ruined and bankrupted the public school system; ruined and bankrupted the U.S. Postal Service; who promised Amtrak would be profitable in 3 years and it's now enjoying it's 30th consecutive year of massive losses (for a total of $30 billion lost by taxpayers). Obama wants the people that ran the Hurricane Katrina operations to effectively run health care? He wants the same bureaucrats who run the VA System that operate on the wrong body parts of our veterans, and manage to lose laptops with the personal financial information of tens of millions of veterans; and mismanage billions of taxpayer dollars; to now run the entire health care system? He wants the same government that runs Walter Reed Hospital to run the entire health care system? You know Walter Reed- the hospital that welcomed our wounded veterans home from the trauma of war…only to face deadly mold and dangerous, disgraceful living conditions in their hospital rooms.
If government is suddenly so good at running things profitably and more efficiently than private industry, why didn't they run all the agencies and programs above profitably and efficiently? Were all those just a “trial run?” Well I have news for you: as Donald Trump would say, “You failed and you're fired.” Instead Obama's solution is to reward government, expand it, and give them more control over our lives.
*More audacity: Obama forgot to tell you this story. Government can't even be trusted to run a brothel. Yes, they did that and failed too. The federal government took over the most successful legal brothel in Nevada history (the Mustang Ranch) and ran it into bankruptcy in one year. I have news for you: IF YOU CAN'T RUN A BROTHEL, YOU CERTAINLY CAN'T RUN THE ENTIRE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
*More audacity: Remember that unfunded liability of $5.3 Trillion for our federal government employees? That pitiful, unimaginable number involves free health care for life for a couple of million government employees. Now Obama has the audacity to look us in the eye and say that if we extend free health care (run by government) to everyone in America we'll cut costs and lower the spending? Wow, David Letterman can't top our President for knee-slapping humor. A couple million government employees with free health care have run up a $5.3 trillion dollar tag. That number happens to be 5 times more expensive than our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That number happens to be roughly half of our entire national debt. That number for out-of-control healthcare costs for government employees threatens to bankrupt America. Now Obama wants to give EVERYONE in America- all 300 million of us- free healthcare and this won't bankrupt America? This idea will lower our costs? Where did Obama learn his math? Any Columbia University economics professor that ever gave Obama a grade of A must be a socialist.
*More audacity: Obama uses Medicare and Medicaid as the examples of the “driving forces” behind massive deficits- and he then says his universal healthcare plan will lower the costs of health care. He says this with a straight face? Government-run universal healthcare is nothing more than Medicare and Medicaid expanded to cover everyone. That's exactly what Medicare and Medicaid are- government run health care programs for a few of us- older people and poor people. Obama actually tells us with a straight face that they threaten to bankrupt us. But his answer is to expand those programs to include everyone. And choose the same government that is losing trillions of dollars running Medicare and Medicaid to run the entire system. This is madness. This is INSANITY.
*More audacity: Do you know why Medicare and Medicaid's debt and insolvency now threatens to overwhelm the entire budget? Because no program that is built around government paying for all your bills can ever work. If I'm paying my own medical bills, I'm careful. I avoid doctor visits. I refuse costly tests that are unnecessary. But if government is paying the entire bill, most people will choose to go to the doctor far more often. And they'll say yes to every test. Heck, why should they care? They're not paying.
How do I know? I've paid for my own meals and travel most of my life. Result: I'm frugal. I fly coach. I search for the best prices. I don't order alcoholic drinks at lunch. I search for specials on the menu. When I'm paying, I try to keep the price down. But when I'm doing business with people who have company credit cards, guess what happens? The sky is the limit. First class travel. The best hotels. Order whatever you want at lunch. Why should I care? I'm not paying. It's only human nature.
The same thing happens every day with Medicare and Medicaid. Right now, I pay for my own health care, so I never go to the doctor. I mean never. But if the federal government agrees to pay for everyone's medical bills- IT'S PARTY TIME. The entire country will go to the doctor every month. Heck maybe every week. If Obama is promising that costs will go down with someone else paying the bill for everyone, he is either a big comedian or a big liar.
*More audacity: Obama said at the press conference that the only way to bring down the cost of health care is to take the profit motive out of it. What? Is he joking? Government takes the profit motive out of the public school system, Amtrak, the U.S. Postal Service. Yet they all bleed billions of dollars per year. They all get worse every year. He's right… government really does take the profit motive out of business. With government involved, you can only lose trillions of dollars.
*More audacity: But here's the best line of Obama's comedy routine: Obama says that he wants to “free” doctors and patients from worrying about the best treatment options. What a guy this Obama is. He really loves us- just like Jesus. He wants to remove all the responsibility and worry from our shoulders. Do you understand what this means? Do you understand what he is really saying? Neither doctors nor patients will any longer have the right to decide anything. This is a deceptive way of saying that Big Brother will control our lives. Big government will make all decisions. Big government will decide life and death. Big government will decide if you are “allowed” to get the latest treatments (based on how expensive they are). Big government will decide what treatments are deemed “acceptable” or not. Your life will be in the hands of the very people that have run Amtrak, the U.S. Postal Service, the public school system, Hurricane Katrina, and even that bankrupt brothel in Nevada. Now don't you feel better?
But hey, the good news is that Obama is looking out for you. All your worry and stress and responsibilities are gone- thanks to Obama. You no longer have to make any decisions. They will all be made for you. You see where this is going? This is the very definition of Big Brother. Stalin, Mao, and Karl Marx must be looking down with smiles. Be frightened. Be VERY frightened.
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate. His new book is entitled, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.” For more of Wayne's views, commentaries, or to watch his many media interviews, please visit his web site at: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
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