Deception at Core of Obama Plans

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And yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.

What's going on? "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."

Things. Now we know what they are. The markets' recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions -- the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic -- for enacting his "Big Bang" agenda to federalize and/or socialize health care, education and energy, the commanding heights of post-industrial society.

Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy -- worthy and weighty as they may be -- are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.

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I've been saying this since he won -- everything else is secondary to his ultimate agenda of an astronomically huge government with its vise-like tentacles reaching as far as they possibly can. His priorities are not the economy, people in foreclosure, lost jobs . . . his priority is first and foremost socialism. (yeah I know you're thinking 'thank you Captain Obvious'). Just pointing it out for those who refuse to stop lapping up the shit Obama spews out of his pie hole.

 

[spymaster]

Socialism...which will inevitably lead to communism when it "doesn't seem to work." I think I hear the USSR calling from the dead...

 

[WillowTree]

What's going on? "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."

Things. Now we know what they are. The markets' recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions -- the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic -- for enacting his "Big Bang" agenda to federalize and/or socialize health care, education and energy, the commanding heights of post-industrial society.

Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy -- worthy and weighty as they may be -- are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.

If I'm reading this right the obamalama team is purposefully letting wallstreet, everyones pension, and business fail on purpose,,? wow. that is truly evil. sounds just like a Chavez manuver.. Marxist to the core.. I recognized that from the beginning. I hope you Democrats are happy at everybody's misery!

 

[rayboyusmc]

You're hearing what you want to hear, not what is.

As to healthcare, it is part of the economic problem. Some of those who opposed it before have seen the light unlike others who oppose for the sake of opposing.

Wow, a president who can mulit task. That hasn't been seen in a while.

In the room was Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), who proudly reminded the crowd of 150 that he was instrumental in killing "Hillarycare" in the 1990s. Yesterday, he announced that he supported the principles that have been outlined by Obama.

Also at the summit was Chip Kahn, who 15 years ago, as an insurance lobbyist, helped mastermind the iconic "Harry and Louise" ads that attacked the health-care overhaul proposed by President Bill and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Kahn, who now represents hospitals, said Obama has "successfully launched the process we need to achieve health reform, which we all want, and brought together congressional Democrats and Republicans with stakeholders to begin to forge a consensus."

Karen Ignagni, who runs the nation's leading insurance association, told Obama, "You have our commitment to play, to contribute and to help pass health-care reform this year."

"That's good news," Obama said, sounding a bit surprised. "That's America's Health Insurance Plans," he said, referring to Ignagni's group.

Healthcare adds 1500 to every automobile. Our current system is broken. It needs to be fixed.

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[editec]

Had we done something to truly solve the health care crises back when American was thriving (like in the 60s!) our economic circumstances would likely be somewhat better now.

I agree with Obama that the health care problems we are facing need resolving, of course.

But to date nobody's come up with a plan that I think will work in the longer run.

 

[twogreen2c]

The Obama and Democratic plan is to bankrupt us all. After many lose their jobs and forced to take jobs earning less and see over half of their 401K savings disappear, it will be easy for Government to come along with a proposal of us turning over our 401K accounts to them. They will "sweeten" the deal by adding a lump sum contribution into your account, which we could only hope would be at least what we and our employers have paid into the social security tax system on our behalf. Then once Government controls our 401K accounts, these jokers will probably get us a friggin 3% return on our money with a monthly distribution barely enough to survive on. And life span is the wildcard Government is placing their bets on. Because national health care will be in place, and senior citizens will be deemed not worthy of anything but basic cost effective treatment, the Government will come out with a net gain. Of course, that gain would be applied to those who didn't pay squat into social security and have no retirement savings.

Do you think this is far fetched? I don't. Look at the state of our country today. We are in bad shape with a community organizer running the show. My God, is this really happening?