The formerly sleeping giant that is comprised of ‘regular’ Americans has awakened, and the Obama administration is displeased.

They’re not pleased that the American people won’t just let the steamroller of Obama change roll over them. So, as Obama’s mission to enact Marxist and Socialist policies advances, the tactic to negatively label those against Obama policies is ongoing.

Pres. Barack Obama

When Obama speaks on Health Care Reform tonight, he is not speaking to regular Americans. He knows he has angered regular Joes. He knows he won’t convince very many, if any people to his position. But that doesn’t seem to faze the president, who is focused on passing Health Care Reform regardless of the cost. As Obama’s poll numbers continue a major slide downward, the president will address our nation tonight in an effort to convince enough Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate to vote for Health Care Reform, even if their constituents have expressed their opposition to it. Voting against constituents’ wishes puts many Congressional Representatives between a rock and a hard place; next year is a re-election year for many.

The Health Care Reform bills in Congress served to galvanize thousands of Americans to show up at Town Hall meetings, particularly last month, when Congressional members were on break. Despite the denials and statements from the White House about what the Health Care Reform would do, whether it will pay for abortions (it will) and whether it will have a so-called public option (it will), those Americans who voiced their displeasure with the Progressive mission are being re-branded.

So now, normal Americans who take time away from their busy lives to go to a town hall or a protest against Health Care Reform or Cap and Tax are being characterized and re-branded as ‘Angry Mobs’ by the Democratic National Committee.

The attempt to characterize such Americans as a negligible percentage of the population continues to be made. Such labeling of middle America only serves to anger more everyday Americans who are an unseen part of a new movement, made up of Independents, Democrats and Republicans. Consequently, the Tea Party movement and the anger against the majority and freely spending Representatives in Congress gains steam and traction.

And so it is easily understood that the longer this cycle of labeling of Americans who are standing up to make their voices heard goes on, the more vocal that chorus of voices will be, and strident too.

From farmers to white collar workers, repairmen to small business owners, Americans see the political elite in Washington ignoring them. They see the lack of representation. They see the massive spending continuing in D.C. despite a huge deficit and an overwhelming cry to stop the madness. Americans see and feel the disconnect with their representatives. They hear the evening news and read the internet news reports. They are outraged by reports from the AP that Sen. Max Baucus’ plan is to mandate health coverage, and punish those who don’t participate by fining them up to $3,800. Have Democrats forgotten that we’re in a recession? Fines for not participating in the Health coverage is a legit idea? Give us a break. Have the Tea Party protests and those showing up at Town Halls around our great country communicated nothing to representatives in Congress? This is a real grassroots movement that the mainstream media is dutifully not covering, or covering mockingly.

The irony is the Great One, the long-awaited savior for Progressive Democrats, Barack Obama, is himself a community organizer. But the President and Organizer that is Obama does not realize that the more the DNC wages a verbal war on ‘Angry Mobs’ also known as Everyday Working Americans, the bigger the problem.

For when you see 10,000 people at a Tea Party protest voicing their displeasure with the Obama administration and those in Congress who support his policies, what you don’t see are the millions of American citizens who couldn’t be there to voice their dismay with Tea Partiers. This group of Americans have jobs, family responsibilities, and are not paid to show up at these protests. But they vote!

Those in Congress who are still supporting Obama and his policies should beware the numbers of people who are not seen at protests or heard from continuously at their offices. Because the number of Americans greatly dissatisfied, the group the DNC is labeling ‘Angry Mobs’? That’s a majority of Americans. That will become clear in the elections of 2010.

Carry on, fellow Mobsters.

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With the Democrats feeling the heat of America’s anger on Health Care Reform and fiscal self-indulgence with taxpayer’s money, Pres. Barack Obama is now touting morality as the reason for reform.

Problem is, logic is not Obama’s friend. Is abortion moral? Most Americans don’t think so; at least, most Americans do not think federal funds should be used to pay for abortions. But Obama has plainly said in the past that abortion will be part of Health Care Reform. And in April 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked to define reproductive care. She said, “And reproductive health includes access to abortion.”

Further, taking up the morality issue for health care reform seems to indicate that Obama and the Dems can’t defend their assertion that health care reform will be deficit neutral. Not when the Congressional Budget Office recently contradicted that assertion.

Certainly polls show that Americans do not believe that the Health Care Reform bills will save money. With his approval rating dropping fast, Obama feels the pressure to get HCR passed, something he promised to do in his campaign. Many supporters warmed to Sen. Obama’s assertion that he was in favor of a single-payer system, public health plan. But many Americans are starting to see that the so-called reform in health care will be to their detriment, and are demanding their Congressmen vote no on the Health Care Reform bill.

In the past week, I’ve heard tired talking points from liberal acquaintances, advocating health care reform. I’ve been called unChristian simply because I am against the Health Care Reform bills in Congress.

Nothing could be further from the truth. I am a Christian, and I do care about people. That’s why I’m vocally opposed to this Health Care Reform. I don’t want to see people denied health care due to inadequate funding from the government. I don’t want to hear about a woman calling the hospital begging for an ambulance, and being told to walk the ‘short’ distance there to birth her fourth child. I don’t want to hear about that same woman deciding to walk as far as she could on the sidewalk leading to the hospital in hopes that a passerby could help bring her baby into the world. That scenario actually happened this week in the UK.

Friends, do you want to hear your parent’s doctor tell you her hands are tied, that the government will not pay for the treatment needed to extend life 5-10 years because it will cost too much? Do you want to hear a doctor offer pain pills to your parents, who could live a fuller life if they received surgery?

You and fellow Americans know the U.S. government is spending too much. You know that it is not logical to expect the same high standard of medical care from the same number of doctors and nurses, expected to treat and care for a huge increase in patients under either health care co-ops or a government-run public health care plan. This expected Utopia the Dems tout falls apart when Americans question how it will work well, especially when the government promises it will cut fees to the medical providers—in the name of saving money.

Instead of Utopia, Americans rightly imagine long lines and wait time to see their doctors and rationed health care. No one denies that improvements need to be made to our current health care system. But this Health Care Reform in Congress will make the problems worse, and beggar our country. Some Democrats falsely state that there are no Republican alternatives to Health Care Reform. This kind of statement is easily refuted; look to Rep. Paul Ryan’s alternative health reform. But no. There is no true debate, and no true transparency among most Democrats in Congress.

Instead of being transparent, most of the Democrats pushing Health Care Reform are sidestepping questions on what the bill will cover and do.

Let’s look at abortion in health care. The majority of Americans do not want abortion to be subsidized by the federal government. But that is just what the Kennedy bill (as yet unnumbered) being considered in the U.S. Senate, will do. It “would result in federally mandated coverage of abortion by nearly all health plans, federally mandated recruitment of abortionists by local health networks, and nullification of many state abortion laws. It would also result in federal funding of abortion on a massive scale,” said NRLC Legislative Director Doug Johnson.

Those that claim abortion will not be part of the HCR bill are either naive or deliberately misguiding Americans.

The longer the Health Care bill lingers in Congress, the more time Americans have to read it. And this is a bill, 1000+ pages, that is not like lasagna. It doesn’t get better the longer it sits in its juices. No, this bill’s foulness is stinking it up across our great land. Americans against HCR are making their voices heard. But the fear is the Democratic majority will do whatever it takes to pass HCR, even if it is against the rules. After all, who will stop any potential Congressional rule-breakers?

At the infomercial, I mean forum, on Health Care Reform hosted at the White House on June 24, Jane Sturm asked a pointed question on how the Health Care Reform will affect the elderly. Sturm mentioned her mother, who received a pacemaker at age 100 and is still living at 105 years old. Obama’s response left me wondering if doctors will only be able to prescribe pain pills for those deemed too costly to treat.

ABC’s Charles Gibson, who co-anchored the ‘forum’ with Diane Sawyer, is shown sitting beside Obama in this video.

Obama: The first thing for all of us to understand is we actually have some choices to make about how we want to deal with our own end of life care. … I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good quality care for all people.

Gibson: But the money may not have been there for her pacemaker or for your grandmother’s hip replacement…

Obama: Right, well and that’s absolutely true. And end of life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we’re going to have to make. I don’t want bureaucracies making those decisions but understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another.

At this, Charles Gibson shifts uncomfortably in his chair.

Obama: …What we can do is make sure some of the waste that exists in the system that’s not making anyone’s mom better –that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs– that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care –that at least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn’t going to help. That maybe you’re better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller. ….

Ouch. Are you wondering what will happen to you or your family if Obama’s Health Care Plan is passed? I am. I have parents and grandparents I’m worried about. I have disabled friends I’m concerned about. This Health Care plan would give power to government officials over what treatment is allowable, and what is too costly and not covered.

I’m thinking of all the people who could be deemed unworthy of life-saving treatment due to the high cost, and to the high number of people who may just be issued a painkiller prescription. Are you starting to wonder how the Obama administration thinks of those who are not perfectly healthy? I am. I’m wondering how they’ll rate everyone’s value, and who in the Obama administration will be issuing the valuation guidelines. Will it be Ezekiel Emanuel, who is the health-policy advisor at the Office of Management and Budget? The Dr. Emanuel who advocates the ‘complete lives‘ approach?

For those not familiar with ‘complete lives’ thinking, Dr. Emanuel co-wrote an article in The Lancet in January 2009. In it, the article states that those between ages 15-40 will get the most ‘substantial chance,’ and that those younger and older than that will, well, have less of a chance. How did the article in The Lancet put it? “…the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”

After all, think of the investment the government has made in that younger group, and how much more they have to give to society! Read about ‘complete lives’, and be prepared to be appalled and scared.

Putting a value on life, valuing those who cost less to treat and who have the opportunity to give more to society because they are younger reminds me of what happened in Germany with the Nazi regime. Think about it. How far will the valuing of life go, and who in the government will be making those rationing decisions? Is the point to cull the imperfect from our nation? Or is it a more practical stance, that our government has limited resources to ably and humanely treat all Americans?

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Sadly, the joke is on us. HR3200, the Health Care Reform Bill currently still in the Energy and Commerce Committee, is being held up by the “Blue Dog” Democrats concerned about the cost and scope of the bill. And with good reason.

The government can claim to “save” money by providing health care for all Americans, even illegals, by obtaining cost savings (also known as rationed care).

“With managed care and now with socialized medicine coming, believe me, quality will go down, costs will go up, there will be shortages, there will be lines, and no one’s going to be happy,” Congressman Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) said on CNN a few weeks ago.

According to Robert A. Book of the Heritage Foundation:

A public health care plan would not improve the current health care situation and would likely make matters worse. Far from saving enough to cover the uninsured, it would increase the cost of covering even the presently insured at the current standard of care. A public plan could reduce overall spending only at the cost of substantial harm to patients.

Reducing health care costs by offering a public plan will only accomplish more of what the government has done with Medicare and Medicaid: reduce payments to doctors and hospitals, and ration care. Rationed care is what the U.K. and Canada and other countries have, and it has sent some of their wealthier citizens to our country to get quality health care.

In a previous post, I stated that we are in danger of losing our freedom in this health care legislation. Shawn Tully details what the Health Care Reform will do in his article, “5 Freedoms You’d Lose in Health Care Reform.”

Do not feel safe because you have private health insurance. You will not be able to keep your health insurance, due to language to that end in HR3200. This is a fact that our own Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, either is unaware of or is ignoring.

FoxNews reports: “CBO estimates that only 11 million to 12 million people would sign up for the public plan — making it a much smaller player in the market. The government coverage would be available alongside private plans through a new kind of insurance purchasing pool called an exchange.”

Well, the number of people who would voluntarily sign up for the public health plan may be correct; 11-12 million. What the CBO is forgetting is the number of people who will be thrown into the public health plan because it will become too difficult and expensive for businesses to continue funding private health insurance for their employees under Health Care Reform.

And what the Obama administration has been trying to keep quiet is that the Health Care Reform bill, if passed, would use taxpayer money to expand abortion services. Would you be happy to pay for someone else’s abortion? Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life Committee Legislative Director points out the reality of the Health Care Reform Bill in a letter to Members of Congress:

“In its current form, this bill would predictably result in the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade, driven by mandates and subsidies emanating from multiple provisions of this bill.

The bill contains provisions that would result in federal mandates requiring inclusion of elective abortion in virtually all health insurance plans, both private plans (which would be required to conform to federal standards in order to participate in the government-operated Exchange), and the new “public plan.” Other provisions would result in health networks being required to establish new abortion providers in order to provide local access to elective abortions. State laws placing procedural requirements or other limitations on abortion ( e.g., waiting periods, or parental notification laws) would be subject to nullification by federal regulation or lawsuit.”

It’s not that hard to believe that abortion ‘rights’ and services will be greatly expanded under Health Care Reform when you consider that in order to rein in health care costs, euthanasia seems to be an option the government is considering. It’s a slippery slope America is going down, with the current legality of abortion. Since an unborn baby can be aborted, why should an older person’s life, especially one with expensive health problems, be considered any more valuable by the government?

Fred Thompson recently had Betsy McCaughey, a conservative and former NY lieutenant governor, on his radio show. McCaughey, who has read the entire 1,000+ page Health Care Reform bill, expressed outrage that the government would mandate quality of life consultations for senior citizens. Carrie Budoff Brown of Politico writes:

On Thompson’s radio show, as well as in a New York Post op-ed and other interviews during the past week, McCaughey has said the provision requires senior citizens to submit to end-of-life consultations. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity touted the New York Post article on their shows. “Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner,” McCaughey said to Thompson.

The bill expressly says if you get sick somewhere in that five-year period, you have to go through that session again — all to do what is in society’s best interest or your family’s best interest and cut your life short. These are such sacred issues of life and death. Government should have nothing to do with it.”

In the 1,000+ page Health Care Reform bill, ironically named H.R.3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, a variety of ways to cut costs are detailed. Do not be fooled by those saying you will be able to keep your private health insurance coverage. This Health Care Reform plan will make it so difficult to keep private health care insurance that the majority of people will be covered by the public health care plan. Of course, that is by design. How can the government hope to have ‘affordable’ health insurance if only a small percentage of Americans have it? Here’s the kicker. Our U.S. Senators and Representatives who ‘toil’ away for us passing laws in Washington, D.C. will not be covered by the public health care plan. Oh no. They’ll be covered by a top notch private health insurance plan.

If this is such a great plan, why wouldn’t our esteemed leaders in Washington, D.C. enroll in it pronto?

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Americans are starting to hear some of what is in the 1000+page Health Care Reform bill, and they’re getting scared. Understandably so.

“The Health Care Bill…is going to destroy the small business sector….and is the single greatest threat to freedom and liberty,” said Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal at last week’s ALEC convention in Atlanta, Ga.

Moore noted that Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel has proposed an 8% increase in taxes on small businesses which do not provide health care insurance. A recent Wall Street Journal article underlined the difficulties small businesses will face as taxes sharply increase in a difficult recessionary environment. Payroll taxes and capital gains taxes will also be increased under Rangel’s proposal. The top tier of taxpayers will see a 58% combined federal and state tax rate, Moore noted.

“Another implication of the Rangel plan is that America’s successful small businesses would pay higher tax rates than the Fortune 500, and for that matter than most companies around the world.”

The bottom line is that Rangel’s proposal has a very ugly outlook for small businesses.

How will health care affect the regular, working American?

Heritage Foundation: “Yearly premiums for the typical American with private coverage could go up by as much as $460 per privately-insured person, as a result of increased cost-shifting stemming from a public plan modeled on Medicare.”

Would you and your older family members be happy being ‘covered’ by the public, government-run health care plan? What, you say? I have private health insurance. Yes, but if the Health Care Reform bill is passed, it is very likely you will not keep your private health insurance for long.

My friends, this is not all the Health Care Reform bill will do. The 1000+ page bill also dictates to young children, and that is an issue I will cover in a later post.

I urge you to stand up for freedom and for all Americans. As radio talk show host Herman Cain pointed out recently at the ALEC convention, “People aren’t just concerned anymore, they’re fearful.”

People are fearful of all the things that are being passed in Washington, D.C. No one has read the bills, but they’re passed anyway. Mr. Obama even said recently that he hasn’t read the Health Care Reform bill, but is out campaigning and lobbying hard to get it passed. Let me say that again. Mr. Obama has not even read the Health Care Reform bill, and he has said he is not ‘familiar’ with the bill. Yet he is very sure that it’s a great idea and he wants it passed ASAP. Does that make sense to you?

Remember the mess that resulted from people not reading their sub-prime mortgage contracts? The chickens from that debacle have already come home to roost. God help our nation if Health Care Reform passes. Health Care Reform will take away the liberties and freedom that Americans have always considered the bedrock of our culture. Only now, that bedrock is about to be cut into and disfigured by the machines of socialism.

If that isn’t what you want, it’s time to make your voice heard. My friends, we must not be discouraged from action. Listen to Mr. Cain’s words of wisdom: “We are the people in charge of this country. Our vote counts, and our voice counts.” Make sure, my friends, that your voice is heard in Washington, D.C. After seeing only a small part of what is in the Health Care Reform bill, don’t you think that we are in a legislative fight for our freedom?

We’re not sure why, but on Friday, June 26, eight Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted for the Waxman-Markey bill, H.R. 2454, thus ensuring its passage. The final vote for H.R. 2454 was 219-212. It is significant that 44 Democrats voted against H.R. 2454. If only those 8 Republicans had voted against the bill, commonly known as Cap and Trade, it would have died.

As the afternoon wore on that fateful day, June 26, it looked as though there weren’t going to be enough votes to pass the Cap and Trade bill. To be sure, there must have been some behind the scenes deals being made in order to get the needed votes for the bill’s passage. News reports Friday said Pres. Barack Obama was making phone calls to sway reluctant Democrats to vote for the Cap and Trade bill. Twitter conservatives were furiously tweeting late Friday afternoon, asking people to call certain U.S. House Representatives who, at the 11^th hour, had mysteriously changed their votes.

Deal-making on Capitol Hill produced results. And there are some things to ponder.

Three of the eight Republicans who voted for the Waxman-Markey bill on Friday, June 26, are from New Jersey.

Hmmm.

Do you find it interesting that of the eight Republicans who voted for Cap and Trade, three of them are from New Jersey? Is that a coincidence, or does that spell earmarks? Did these same 8 Republicans decide to vote for Cap and Trade because they truly thought the taxing bill was a great idea? When we can actually read the 1500+ page Cap and Trade bill, we may discover the answer to the niggling question of why these Republicans crossed party lines to vote for a bill Obama wants passed into law.

It’s too bad the Democrats never gave anyone a chance to read the bill before they demanded its passage. Few, if any, in the U.S. House of Representatives really know the depth and breath of what they voted for; but that’s transparency, Obama style.

The bill now moves on to the U.S. Senate, where its passage is questionable. Are Republicans across the U.S. sufficiently motivated now to demand change? Only time will tell.

Here is the contact information on the Republicans who voted yes on Cap and Trade in the U.S. House of Representatives Friday. Contact their local district office numbers, as Congressmen are on vacation for the July 4 holiday.

Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA)

• Palm Springs District Office Phone: (760) 320-1076

• DC Phone: (202) 225-5330

Rep. Michael Castle (R- DE)

• Wilmington District Office Phone: (302) 428-1902

• DC Phone: (202) 225-4165

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL);

• Northbrook District Office Phone: (847) 940-0202

• DC Phone: (202) 225-4835

Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ)

• Westfield District Office Phone: (908) 518-7733

• DC Phone: (202) 225-5361

Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)

• Mays Landing District Office Phone: (609) 625-5008

• DC Phone: (202) 225-6572

Rep. John McHugh (R-NY)

• Watertown District Office Phone: (315) 782-3150

• DC Phone: (202) 225-4611

Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA)

• Mercer Island District Office Phone: (206) 275-3438

• DC Phone: (202) 225-7761

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)

• Hamilton District Office Phone: (609) 585-7878

• DC Phone: (202) 225-3765

After my recent eye exam, I commented to my optometrist that Health Care Reform seems like a big Medicare plan. My optometrist agreed, said she thinks Health Care Reform is a bad idea, and relayed stories of friends who live in the U.K. but come here to the U.S. for some medical treatment, because they feel medical care in the U.K. is not good enough.

We’ve all heard of the Canadians who come to the U.S. to obtain medical care, because the wait for treatment can be so long in Canada. And when it’s your health at stake, does one want to wait for months?

Now, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has unequivocally stated that the Health Care Reform bill will mean “quality and affordable health care for all Americans.”

What’s more, Gibbs states that the Health Care Reform will not add to the deficit. Now, that’s a statement we can take to the bank, right?

No wonder some Democrats were so dismissive of the Congressional Budget Office, which came out with a ‘preliminary’ analysis of the Health Care bill on June 15, and mailed a letter with that analysis to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Here are excerpts of that letter:

“The attached table summarizes our preliminary assessment of the proposal’s budgetary effects and its likely impact on insurance coverage. According to that assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010–2019 period.”

Hey Gibbs! Didn’t you say that the Health Care Reform bill will not add to the deficit? Here we have the CBO stating that our deficit will increase by $1 trillion from 2010-2019. Hmmm. In order to not increase the deficit with a $1 trillion health care bill, that must mean we will be paying a lot more in taxes.

“Once the proposal was fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million.”

Wait a New York second! So we’re going to pay oodles of money to fund Health Care Reform, the cost of which is unknown, increase our deficit by at least $1 trillion by 2019, pay lots more in taxes, and all that will still leave millions of Americans uninsured? Read the CBO report yourself here.

Anyone else thinking of this Health Care Reform as a boat with too many holes to sail? Or will Congress plug the boat enough for it to sail, only to sink with our money in it, later?

Obama bet that spending wads of taxpayer dough would make our economy better. Instead, numbers show that the government spend-a-thon has actually worsened unemployment.

Check out the unemployment graph by Innocent Bystanders, showing the unemployment rate with and without the ‘recovery plan.’ The numbers seem to point to a common sense reality: We would have been better off not spending billions of dollars we don’t have on a recovery plan.

Hmmm. Does that mean that spreading the wealth around (Obama’s favorite thing to do), promoting socialism, and attacking capitalism is bad for America and Americans?

Do you find Pres. Barack Obama’s speech on health care reform this week incongruous with his assurance that health care reform will not cost the taxpayer?

“The only change you’ll see are falling costs as reform take hold.” Obama claims that Americans can keep the insurance plan they have and the doctors they have, if they like them, with health care reform.

Let’s think for a minute. Why is health care so expensive? Could part of the problem be that Medicare and Medicaid pay so little to doctors and hospitals that more of the cost is shifted to private health insurance providers? Could it be that the government-run Medicare and Medicaid have a prevalent fraud problem? Granted, costs are also high to pay for the uninsured visiting the ER for routine care. But let’s play a ‘what if’ game.

If the government were to provide universal health care, doctors and hospitals would be paid less, and it stands to reason there would be a drop in the quality of care as well as health care rationing. Why? Because to keep costs contained, the government will be forced to pay less for everything medical.   And doesn’t it follow that health care will be rationed to keep health care costs down? The Canadian health care system has plenty of examples of health care rationing, and extremely long waits for health procedures.

The cost of how to pay for universal health care is an elephant in the room, errr, White House. The Heritage Foundation calls the lower cost of a public health care plan ‘a shell game.’

Recent statements from Mr. Obama quote him urging Congress to consider taxing the ‘wealthy’ to pay for health care reform. How does Mr. Obama define the ‘wealthy’? Could it be $160,000 for families and $80,000 for single Americans? You see, Obama’s definition of wealthy can change to include more Americans. You may be wealthy and not even know it! And let’s not forget the VAT or the proposal to tax sugary drinks and alcohol to ‘help’ Americans be healthier (and help pay for the high cost of health care reform).

Can our President be honest? Obama claims that under his health care reform plan, Americans can choose between the public plan and a private plan. But the numbers just don’t work for me. And Obama’s supporters in Congress don’t seem to be spouting that same line. Remember Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, co-sponsor of HR-676, who said the end goal is a single-payer system and the end of the private insurance industry. Whoa. Has our Congress even considered an alternative to Obamacare?

Look at Obama’s speech in 2003, where he states he is a ‘proponent’ of the single-payer universal health care coverage. “Everybody in, nobody out,” Obama said.

Obama waxes eloquent in his speech this week, “What we can’t accept is reform that just invests more money in the status quo.” He adds, “We must attack the root causes of skyrocketing health care costs.”

Well, it sounds wonderful. But notice that Mr. Obama gives no details of how he is going to accomplish his goal. Nebulous must be Mr. Obama’s second middle name.

“We’ll eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in our health care system,” Obama stated.

Really? Just like there is little fraud in the government-run Medicaid and Medicare system? How reassuring. You’re not skeptical, are you?

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I was on Twitter Monday when I read about the attack on two recruiters at the Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Information later came out that the attack was allegedly carried out by Muslim domestic terrorist suspect, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad. Horrified, I watched the news that night, waiting for a statement from Pres. Barack Obama.

It never came.

I thought of the presidents I have grown up under and can remember: Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. All of them would have made a statement about the horrific attack on the two Army recruiters, albeit each in their own way. By their past actions, you know our previous presidents would have denounced the attack on the two young recruiters at the Army-Navy Career Center. You can imagine past presidents also would have asked the American people for prayers for Pvt. William Long, 23, who died in the attack, and prayers for Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula, 18, who was wounded.

Is the silence from Pres. Obama surprising?

No. It does not surprise me that Pres. Barack Hussein Obama has not issued a statement on the alleged attack by suspected Muslim domestic terrorist, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad. But it greatly saddens and scares me that our commander-in-chief seems to think so little of the assault on the dedicated defenders of our country, that he issues no statement of support for our soldiers serving at recruiting stations across America. Fox News is reporting that the accused gunman’s computer has revealed troubling details.

“A senior U.S. official tells FOX News that more targets were found on the computer of a man charged in the fatal shooting at a military recruiting center in Arkansas — suggesting the accused gunman may have been part of a larger plot to attack military targets and may not have been acting alone.”

Perhaps Pres. Obama is characterizing this attack as a domestic ‘man-caused’ disaster rather than domestic terrorism. Remember, Pres. Obama dislikes the word terrorism and prefers the phrase ‘man-caused’ to be used instead.

What are they thinking – the recruiters who serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines? Do you think they are expecting ramped up security around their recruiting stations? Do you wonder if our soldiers are resentful of their commander-in-chief publicly ignoring the attack?

Do you think Pres. Barack Hussein Obama is making an injudicious statement with his silence on the assault on Pvt. Long and Pvt. Ezeagwula? Is silence about an attack on America’s soil what we should expect from our president?

Update:  The White House finally got around to (unobtrusively) releasing its crafted statement to the press on Wednesday.  Remember, the shooting of Privates Long and Ezeagwula occurred on Monday.

The statement from President Obama reads (courtesy of the AP),

“I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”

Two days.  That’s how long it took for Pres. Obama to come out with that carefully worded statement.  Unbelievable.