Giving Away The Farm

"A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will have more money left over after taxes for a new car, a a new home, new conveniences, education and investment. Every businessman can keep a higher percentage of his profits in his cash register or put it to work expanding or improving his business, and as the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues."

– John F. Kennedy (D), Sept. 18, 1963, radio and television address to the nation on tax-reduction bill

Last week, the White House said they believe the recession has ended. With the latest report, the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%. This doesn’t count 571,000 people that stopped looking for jobs because of frustration with being out of work for months which would make the rate closer to 17%. The number of people that found part time jobs because they couldn’t find full time jobs has risen to approximately 103,000 which is also omitted from the 9.8%. EVERY sector of the US economy had massive job loss in September except for one, healthcare. In September, the healthcare sector added 16,000 jobs alone. 83% of American’s have jobs but not for long if Obama can help it. The Bush tax cuts end in January and Obama doesn’t plan on extending them. There will be tax increases across the board for individuals, businesses, and investments. History has shown us that this will lead to less investment and fewer jobs. Obama also intends to push forward with Cap and Trade so businesses will be forced to lower their emission standards to be “greener” consequently pushing costs up for the entire energy sector.

The leaders of this great country have failed us. They continue to approve massive amounts of spending and income redistribution that is making a bad situation worse. Since money is power, the more money our leaders confiscate under the flag of “societal protection” the larger, more powerful and more intrusive our government becomes in our lives. We being relieved of our personal liberties without a shot being fired because we have migrated from our constitutionally forged beliefs in the individual and the opportunity to pursue happiness. We instead are being led down the road to the promoted benefits of the Nanny state and expecting Uncle Sam to provide for everybody’s happiness. Private property and liberty are inseparable. People in the majority have, over time, become more enamored by their piece of the hand-out, than preserving their hard earned money and freedoms so many have paid so dearly for. No matter how much the government spends, nothing gets solved. So they push for more power, more money, and more debt. Some of the wealthiest people in this country are left wing. They say “I can live off 50% of my income.” What they don’t realize is it’s much more than that. It’s our freedom and liberty that’s at stake.

The latest Nanny gambit is the nationalization of our health care system. For the promise of care for all, we will hand over egregious amounts of additional money and power to the few. The Health Care Sector was the only growing sector in the US economy last month and Obama wants to choke the life out of it. At the same time Obama’s administration pulls the wool over our eyes about the economy, they lie to us about his own healthcare plan. Government run healthcare will compete with private healthcare he says. For the same job, the public sector gets paid on average 40% more than the private sector. How can any private sector company compete with the government? He preaches cutting costs, while he increases expenses. The government trashes us, demeans us, lies to us, tax us, and regulate us. The problems with healthcare today stem from the governments preexisting involvement the system. Here in California, I can pick from 6 healthcare companies. 6 out of 300+ in the country! Why does this matter you ask? Some states require insurance companies to include things like acupuncture, breast implants, chiropractor visits in all plans, even if you don’t need them. In Wisconsin, the average person pays $2,400 per YEAR on healthcare coverage while states like Massachusetts and California pay close to $8,500 per year. All of this and we haven’t accounted for the real issue at hand…LIVES. Look no further than the disastrous Canadian healthcare system. There is their cancer death rate which is 16% higher than in the US. Their colon cancer rate is 25% higher due to waits for colonoscopies and their death rate (once afflicted) is 41% as opposed to 32% in the US. Contributing to all of these numbers is an eight week wait for cancer radiation therapy. People in Great Britain and Canada have been denied care, denied more expensive medication that would be available elsewhere, and have been subjected to long wait times. They have death panels in Britain that forecast death. If through their diagnoses they determine you don’t have long to live, they can withhold food and medicines. Instead they put you on permanent sedation until you pass away. Experts have argued that this sedation could mask improvements in a patient’s status. Doctors in Great Britain have admitted there have been instances when patients have wrongly been put on this “pathway.” Why do this? What’s the hurry? Money. In 2007-2008, 65% of deaths in Great Britain came about after continuous deep sedation. Obama wants this…here? Someone should wake him from his sedation! Once the government can decide who lives and who dies, who lives well and who lives poorly, we’ve lost everything.
 
Obama resents our history and our customs. He looks at it as if America hasn’t done good to the world, rather America has wronged the world. We no longer have weight in decisions on events around the world. In little more than a half of year we’ve found out who Obama is and what he’s capable of. He’s capable of destroying our economy. He’s capable of destroying job creation. He’s capable of destroying the auto industry and the energy industry.

Obama believes in a centralized government and an expanded government. He rejects the state and more importantly the individual which is a blatant rejection of the Constitution. Obama wants to enslave people to the Federal Government. When’s the last time this man supported a policy that would bring more liberty? More competition? More private property? More National Security? Politicians should always refer back to the Constitution when making decisions. We’re talking about principles, our founding principles. Conservative principles ARE founding principles. This is who we are.