America In Danger – The Blog

Are we expected to believe that the President’s address to the nation’s school children is a spur of the moment talk and can’t be finalized or released until Monday – the day before it’s to be given? The preliminary reports on this indicated that it was to be a plea to the school children to help the president – with what exactly wasn’t revealed. Now with the backlash from parents and school districts, Mr. Obama’s speech writers may be retuning the talk to avoid accusations of attempts to brainwash our children. The President addressing school children on the importance of education, staying in school, studying hard, etc. is a good thing. A president co-opting children to sway parents to embrace the health care take-over, global warming, Iranian nukes, or any other contrived agenda is just dead wrong.

We all need to read the released talk on Monday and if it contains any political agenda we should demand that it not be shown in our child’s school and failing that, demand that our children be excused from being forced to watch.

Government prescribed curriculum has already diminished the quality of education and has likely lead to some of the societal issues we see in the younger generation.

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The ongoing support of ousted Honduran president Zalaya by the Obama administration is really no surprise when you consider that both Obama and Hillary were trained by leftist organizer Saul Alinsky. It is questionable why the Administration would attempt to subvert a legitimate action taken by the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court. If we look closely at the CNN yellow journalism with their near hysterical and absolutely false reports of an eight year old child gunned down by government forces for protesting the ouster of Zalaya, we can see a pattern emerge that has been used over and over again. The supposed weapons of mass destruction, the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the proposed Operation Northwood, and others too numerous to mention were all intended to control public opinion thus providing the impetus for unconstitutional government action. Don’t be surprised if we see a sudden crisis take place to provide Washington with their desired emotional push by the unthinking masses for the health care takeover.

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“I am committed to getting health care reform done—done soon and done right,” Baucus said in a statement. Senator Baucus D-Mont. Senate Finance Committee Chairman may have his sentiments in the right place but his logic and common sense have left the building. Mr. Baucus’ statement is oxymoronic in that rushing into this so-called health care reform can have nothing but disastrous results from the imposition of over 40 additional layers of bureaucracy administering our medical industry.

The government run medicare program, currently headed for bankruptcy, is a prime example of the government’s inability to administer health care. Granted, with myriad costly and the intrusive government regulation of existing health care there needs to be reform, however, the reform needs to be a reduction in government intrusion, the regulation of ambulance chasing attorneys, limitations on medical corporations and a return to paying for what you receive. Where are the incentives for private physicians that can make allowances, as it once was, for a portion of their practice to be charitable?

Contrary to popular belief, the insurance companies are not the excess-profit villains in this issue, just check the salaries paid to their execs, and the ROI to stock holders. The insurance industry while profitable is not the biggest problem.

There is no magic bullet that will fix all the problems and provide free health care to everyone but, there is a piece of bad legislation that will place excessive cost and a huge burden on everyone.

These pie-in-the-sky pieces of legislation always result in destruction of private sector jobs and end up costing all taxpayers.

The question that has to be asked: is the situation so bad right now that a slow, steady, and reasoned path to reform must be sacrificed for a thousand pages of convoluted and open-ended political double speak?

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