Over the Coals

Barack Hussein Obama was interviewed by Jim Lehrer on PBS as part of the President's effort to pass universal health coverage. Just imagine the potential for graft if a public option on medical care passes and the government ultimately ends up controlling the health care sector, one-fifth of the US economy. And what the government already controls, it does so well-a Social Security system with empty "lock boxes", public schools that fail at education but succeed at indoctrination, a nightmare of Byzantine, labyrinthine regulation (only becoming worse) to strangle small business. Yet, Obama care will somehow be different with "efficiencies", "best practices" and elimination of waste. This is balderdash! We have a President who is determined to overturn the free market. During the Lehrer broadcast, Obama described his belief that the banks had "no remorse" for causing the country a near depression by taking undue risk on derivatives. Obama made no mention of government's failings including the government sponsored entities FANNIE MAE and FREDDIE MAC that enabled subprime loans to exist and started the slide, nor did he bring up laws forcing banks to issue subprime loans (to many of Obama's own voters who sought loans they neither had the capacity or in some cases, the desire to pay back) or face charges of "redlining", or Federal regulators being asleep at the switch and allowing the decline to start and then to snowball without intervening or raising the alarm. No the failure was not government's in Obama's eyes, but capitalism itself. Yes, Obama's quarrel is with competition-based free enterprise-the President loves government, larger more encroaching bureaucracy and hates the private sector, not withstanding his laughable assertion that he has enough on his plate fighting two wars and conducting the usual duties of a President to try and take over health care. Obama seeks to monopolize as much power in the hands of government as possible before more Americans wake up to freedoms lost and start to squawk. With the demand for a health scheme before the August recess of Congress, Obama continues to speed through as much as possible before the public can mobilize politically to resist. Citizens wake up, your freedoms are fleeting.