Top Down Dictator

Obama offered we mere mortals a glimpse of his brilliance in his Robin Roberts' interview on ABC. He told some tall tales to Roberts about how any health care scheme could not raise the deficit-a total fiction as the US has just been forced to raise the debt ceiling as the nation prints increasingly worth less currency apace. Obama described his red lines in what he demands of any plan. Obama is not granting most Americans anything-if forty-five million Americans lack medical insurance as Democrats contend, two hundred fifty million Americans already are covered and most are generally satisfied with their access and their costs. And Obama persists with the lies about no illegal aliens being covered and mocks the existence of death panels. Successive court decisions have forced taxpayers to pay the burden of health care cost for aliens who break into our country-illegals can not be denied care and this will necessitate that any plan the President signs will include care for foreigners who bust in, mocking our sovereignty. As for the death panels, there are finite resources and care will by necessity be delayed by the additional number of patients and I fear an ever shrinking number of doctors who will not be able to practice under the dictates of the Hippocratic oath and their conscience but under ever increasing Federal strictures, with less compensation for greater effort. And there will be rationing-Obama is distorting the truth about the inevitable. Not just on the imposition of a care scheme but on so much else, the President is cutting corners and not being called on it. Even the education speech in which Obama co-opted the conservative message after receiving much flack from parents (Obama would have ignored conservative critics but could not help but hear the throng of unhappy parents), was originally a diktat of what the students could do to help Obama. Local school boards were reportedly bypassed in the matter with the national teachers' unions and Obama working to further subvert local control in his vision of an increasingly Federalized K-12 education system. The only area Obama wants more local control is radio where he can squeeze out powerful national talk show hosts who oppose him by mandating more locally-produced content or airtime addressing local issues. That and more minority station ownership will ensure that more of Obama's critics are silenced as we fall further into the realm of central planning, command economy tyranny.