Posted by
Eric Jay on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:00:00 AM
The budget deficit for the United States has exceeded the
fateful $1.0 Trillion for the first time according to the Treasury Department. Economists and the Treasury had predicted the shortfall to be $94.3 billion but it seems that tax receipts have fallen in the first nine months of the year.
We are headed toward unprecedented spending increases with socialized programs. Whether it be the massive new entitlement of Health Insurance (not Healthcare reform, state the reality) outside of MediCare or the planned economy through bailouts.
When President Obama forces the hand of legislators to enact the 'HealthCare' reform to nationalize our health care system our deficits will increase beyond anything seen in peacetime. When the economy crashes again due to higher taxes with the new 'Cap and Trade' along with taxing small business and the wealthy to fund nationalized healthcare we will be headed for a crash of unknown proportion(s).
One need only look at California to see what happens when spending is out of control with budget deficits looming as far as the eye can see. Only bankruptcy, a start over, or perhaps as the Obama Administration likes to say 'hit the reset button.' Heaven forbid if the Democratic leadership would read their proposed legislation (as a start) or truly look at the nationalized healthcare fiascoes in Canada, Great Britain and others. But no!
Alas, they (Democrats and bureaucrats) know best. When we have a debate as to how to best reform our healthcare access, using Healthcare Saving Accounts, portable insurance and other reforms that include market reforms and patient involvement will we have some measure of success. The CBO continues to say the reforms proposed will do nothing to lower costs and merely grow deficit spending and higher taxation.
The number of uninsured that is batted about is such a farce. A great many of those uninsured's are young, many can afford to purchase insurance and chose not to, and end up with insurance in a few years after going without coverage. The number when whittled down shows that the true number of uninsured is closer to 11-12 million. Why are we discussing forcing every American to buy insurance, every employer to provide insurance or faces stiff tax penalties? Why are we talking about the Federal Government covering every American?
When the liberal notion of Helathcare Reform is realized what's next? Cable in every home? HD TV's in every home? Cell phones, web access? Perhaps the Federal Government should buy me a house? Or shall our Goverment Motors (GM) provide a hybrid car in every garage?
When the liberal socialist agenda is enacted through the 'Change' we can believe in will Americans wake up and smell the coffee? When we become the United Socialist States of America will we truly have a discussion as to what our founding fathers' republican government experiment, created in 1776, and profoundly standing as the one true 'Shining City on a Hill,' means when it speaks about its governance? Or will it be too late?
It seems that we have lost sight of the notion that:
| We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
We seem to forget that our government was and is set up to give everyone not only equal rights, but equal opportunity to "Happiness," not guaranteeing of equal success. Hey, want to have a discussion about the wealthiest nation on God's green earth providing some measure of safety, security and, okay, health. Let us not look to the government to, as our president is advocating, provide:
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"... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
~then candidate for President, Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber
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We were given ample warning as to how President Obama was likely to govern. While I wish the president and his family all the very best, wishing no harm in any way, I vehemently disagree with his governance, his socialistic tendencies as it pertains to governing. We need to find Republicans who are willing to go to the mat against Obama/Pelosi/Reid, sticking to the principles of Republican governance.
It is time to grow backbones and not just be a loyal opposition but a true opposition to stop the creep of the federal government into our daily lives. I must say I can never see some bureaucrat in D.C. telling me and my doctors what procedure is necessary. I cannot believe that as the reform now stands it is likely that our government will pay for abortions. Sadly, our legislators are not even willing to read their own legislation as occurred with the abominable TARP bailouts.
We are truly headed in very much the wrong way...