The next bubble to burst

President Obama is fond of taking a 'conservative' point and twisting it to fit within his plans. Take, for instance, the issue of 'competition'... Who in their right mind could be against that? But he is not talking about free market competition. He is always referring to a government public option being used, not to compete really, but to use government largess and power to squeeze the insurance companies into a shape the government desires.

They often take a fringe argument and attempt to make a big deal out of it as they have and are with the so called 'death panels'. My complaint is not that they may 'knock off grandma', my complaint is that the government plans to PAY doctors for providing the service! That is tax payer dollars for every doctor in the country for providing end of life guidance which is required by law. Think about THAT people...

The president also spoke about the poor soul who has an ill family member but has to tell them that 'they cannot receive the treatment they need because they cannot afford it'. How many of you know ANYONE in this country who cannot get medical care?! My uncle just died of cancer not long ago. The man barely worked a day in his life for anyone other than himself. He certainly had no health care insurance. But he also received very good medical care for his condition. In St. Louis. There is NO ONE in this country who cannot get medical attention! Illegal aliens, regardless their heritage, get medical care in this country! Medical care IS being delivered to virtually anyone and everyone in this country who needs, or even just desires, it. That is what this is all about in truth. Cost, astronomical cost and the impending collapse of the entire medical industry. It's not about us... We have the 'safety nets', they are in place. Our problems are all based in cold, hard cash... or better stated, the lack thereof... Our problems are all STILL based on impending economic collapse...

I think it should be obvious, to nearly everyone, that president Obama and the democratic party cannot and will not discuss serious tort reform as it pertains to health care. They cannot because the trial lawyers are one, particularly large and lucrative, group into whose pockets their hands are thrust. This is why the democrats cannot even think about talking to republicans.

It is STUPIDITY! It only clearly shows that they ALL are in the pockets of special interest. This is ALL so obviously about preventing the collapse of their 'dream economy'. The very same economy that has turned into a nightmare for so many hard working Americans. This is clearly about the health care of, not us, but the health of our 'insurance companies', the health of our 'drug companies', 'hospitals', and 'doctors'. They paint the picture for us in the way they wish for it to be seen. As a serious debate about providing quality, affordable, health care access to all Americans. And it is a beautiful picture. But they lie, they obscure the facts, they use misdirection to fool as many as possible. Just as they do with the unemployment number. They play with the unemployment number so as to be able to report it as 9.7% when the REAL number is widely recognized to be closer to 17%. They lie and cover up and conceal the truth.

I found it interesting to hear president Obama taking credit for saving the economy. For preventing it from falling off a cliff. At what cost I ask? The number I see most often lately points somewhere near 24 TRILLION DOLLARS of tax payer money 'on the hook' through a myriad of Federal Reserve programs, bailouts, stimulus packages and the like. Our economy is not 'fixed'... Our economy is merely artificially propped up for the short term. Our incompetent leaders can never seem to think beyond the next election cycle. They live in the now, for the future is grim indeed. China and India the new world powers, America in slow decay. Demographics tell the complete story for any who would like to invest the time.

Just LISTEN to what they say is all that is necessary to clearly see what is really going on.

Still the president talks about the 14,000 Americans a DAY who are 'losing their health care coverage'. It is a distortion of the truth at best. I want to know a real number. I want to know what percentage of that 14,000 a DAY are making a conscious decision to voluntarily drop their health care coverage as a way to cope with joblessness, with mortgages which need to be paid, with credit card companies/banks/loan sharks who persistently demand their usury interest rates. At 500.00 per month for family coverage, a conservative estimate, that equals 6,000.00 per year in cost for a struggling American family. So people, many people, are just dropping it to concentrate on more immediate matters that need attention. Perhaps a place to live. Perhaps food for the table. Job loss is a nasty thing to have to deal with after all...

Listen to their plans to 'fix' health care and you will clearly see that their 'solutions' are NOT directed to save us. Their solutions are directed to save the entire medical industry. Because it is the next bubble to burst.

The solution that bothers me the most is the one that is so clearly unconstitutional! They suggest what we must do is force every American into a corrupt system! They suggest 10's of millions of Americans are not 'doing their part' by shoveling money into the insurance industry. So they propose to forcibly 'take it' from those who choose not to pay it. Against their will if that be the case. They propose a government run public option into which to force the dissidents who choose NOT to hand their money over to the insurance companies. To compare this to mandatory auto insurance is obfuscation. It is NOT the same. The average auto weighs tons and is capable of causing great harm. In my own opinion the forced purchase, by government, of auto insurance is likely unconstitutional as well. I can see it being required to cover collateral on a loan but that is another subject entirely... And one that does not apply to personal health care coverage.

Never in the history of our country has this been done! It is outright theft and most certainly unconstitutional.

Americans would be forced to purchase a heretofore optional product from a company, non-profit or not. How is that NOT a HUGE direct tax on 10's of millions of Americans?! At a time of great economic upheaval?! And just how much of that 'tax' will be secretly funneled into the pockets of the insurance industry, the drug companies?

They already hammered millions of Americans with a tax increase when they raised taxes on cigarettes by 6.00 a carton. Assume for a minute that 20% of the population still smokes, which I think is close, assume that the average smoker smokes one pack a day. That is a carton every 10 days for the average smoker. That's a 216.00 per year tax increase per average smoker times say 45 million smokers who are still either hopelessly addicted (me...) or freely choose to smoke. That's 45 million x 216.00 = $9,720,000,000.00. That is nine billion, 720 million dollars... Pretty nice tax increase huh? I think it pales in comparison to what they are attempting to do now.

What this entire health care 'debate' boils down to is the United States government 'taking' money, forcibly, from Americans citizens and handing it over to corrupt greedy insurance and drug companies to prop up a financially FAILING health care industry. It is but one more MASSIVE bailout. One more feeble attempt to prop up those that have destroyed THEMSELVES through their own business models. They seek only to prop up the medical industry just as they are currently propping up the banks, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the auto industry. It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck... it is ONE MORE MASSIVE BAILOUT and nothing at all more than that. Obviously they would choose to call it something other than a bailout... How about just calling it 'quality, affordable health care access for all Americans'???

These are but a few of the reasons that I will be 'the last short standing'.

Greg