Today President Obama hypocritically complained that the opposition to his socialist health care agenda are trying to frighten Americans away from supporting him.  This after Obama has declared repeatedly that health care is the preeminent fiscal problem that threatens to consume us all.  This, of course, is a lie.  What threatens us all is the 57 trillion dollars in Government social security commitments that we have no way of paying for.  Medicare and Medicaid are just two elements of an enormous ponzi-like problem that no one, including Obama, has the guts to deal with the way it should be.  What threatens us is a Marxist Socialist President piling on welfare programs on top of an already failed welfare state.

As we have oft quoted:  Albert Einstein once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results".  We already know that welfare states don't work, yet the Obama Administration ignores reality, and drive us deeper and deeper into that terrible no-win morass, expecting different results.  Socialist health care is not "new", nor is it change we can believe in.   Graveyards around the world host their fair share of victims of socialized medicine.

And we do not even have to look beyond our borders to see what socialized medicine hath wrought.  Barbara Wagner of Oregon experienced the icy dehumanization of socialized medicine when she was denied expensive chemotherapy by The State in favor of cheaper hospice care or assisted suicide services.  The much maligned stereotypical calloused health care provider is supplanted by The State, only worse, because at least there is a fairly speedy appeals process with private providers, and then there is always public pressure, but once that massive State bureaucracy takes hold, many patients will be dead by the time The State gets around to hear appeals.  You can sue a private provider, or at least seek arbitration to resolve disputes - good luck suing The State.

The health care insurance system we have in place today isn't perfect, but replacing this system with another even more imperfect system, where Government enters the relationship between you and your heath care providers, is demented.

President Obama is placing tremendous pressure on Congress to come up with and pass legislation.  He had claimed that the long-term financial peril is too great to sit around and wait.  Unfortunately for Obama, he has already played the scare card with the trillion dollar "stimulus" package (we call it Porkzilla).  So, he is forced to calibrate somewhat the language of healthscare to justify the rush to implement a hopelessly flawed socialist program, the contents of which, Obama has admitted he himself is not familiar with, and some elements of which run in direct contradiction to his own claims on how the program would work.

The rush to socialize medicine is not about a clear and immediate danger to our economy, though that's the heart of Obama's claim, the genesis of the rush to socialist health care legislation is because Obama knows that the more time that goes by, the more the legislation can be studied, the more ugliness will be found and vetted,  more questions/doubts will be raised, the more hard facts trickle out to the American people and the more support will wane .  In the full light of day, the majority of Americans will reject socialist heath care once they fully understand what it means.  Our current system is flawed, but it is no where near as devilish as socialized medicine.  Even now, with hard facts dribbling out of a biased press, support among ordinary Americans is waning.  Even more encouraging to us than the general drop in poll numbers is that even in lower income brackets people are baulking over the tax-the-rich solution.

President Obama promised a transparent debate on the health care solution, and thus far, there has been little open debate, and a whole hec of a lot of back-room deal making going on, as well as a concerted effort by the Obama Administration to cut short debate so the ugly details don't see the light of day until it's too late.  The promise of transparency is just another lie from a professional politician, yet Obama sold himself to be the breath of fresh air who rejected the 'business as usual' paradigm in Washington.  It was a load of bull, we knew it, why didn't so many others see straight through it?  There is  no transparency, and Obama wants you knowing as little about the contents of this legislation as possible, otherwise a compelling majority of ordinary Americans would flatly reject this.

The $57,000,000,000,000 bill isn't coming due next week, and whatever meaningful solutions can be crafted to refine our existing system, can be done in the full light of day by a cautious, thoughtful, and deliberative Congress.  President Bush and his Congress rushed into TARP, which turned out to be a $700,000,000,000 mess, Obama and his Congress rushed into Porkzilla, which is an even bigger mess (with talk of a Son of Porkzilla coming attraction), and now another attempt at a rush job leading to yet another trillion dollar fiasco in the form of socialist health care.  Right now, it seems to us the greatest danger to the long-term financial health of the United States is President Barack Obama.

The buck really doesn't stop with the President.  In a democracy, the buck stops with us - the electorate.  President Obama is merely a public servant, and it's time for us to step in and be heard - enough of this. 

You shouldn't be scared by the proposed health care legislation failing, but you should be terrified by the prospect of it passing.