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President Barrack Obama did a good job in attending and speaking at the Dallas Memorial service. He did the right thing in honoring the murdered police officers and highlighting that the majority of police across the nation are doing a good job and deserve the American people's respect and gratitude and that the country has a problem with too often African Americans being unjustly shot by police officer as evidenced by what happened in Minnesota and Baton Rouge. However, President Obama is absolutely wrong in his views that there is an overall racial problem in America that amongst white Americans there is a malice of heart toward black Americans. Yes, racism and discrimination against African Americans exists in America in select numbers of Americans as it exists for other groups such as gay people, Jewish people and others but this character trait is not the character trait of the American people. And Yes, the African American community is too often treated differently by police and in the criminal justice system and it is wrong and needs to be corrected but it does not stem from a bigotry amongst white America.
President Obama would have offered America better leadership if he stood up for not over characterizing problems as racial problems if he stood up for not making the race problem much larger than it needs to be. Many of the problems President Obama listed are serious problems and deserved to be listed in his speech but he should have been careful to characterize them as socio-economic problems not as race problems. President Obama would have better served America if he focused on constructive solutions to the racial policing problem like identifying best practices that police departments in America that are solving this problem utilize and advocate for the Federal Funding to spread these practices to Police departments across America. To President Obama's credit he subsequently has done that in his Facebook postings and this effort has bipartisan support so he should be able to get legislation enacted into law to implement this helpful action.
President Obama in his speech exhibited less than optimal leadership in muddying up the racial problem in America he would link points together because one point is provocative and really moves people emotionally and he wanted to bring that effect to other subjects he sometimes failed to be clear that he was ending his comments on one topic and moving on to another topic thereby exacerbating the scope of the racial problem in America. His conclusion drawing from facts leaved a lot to be desired at times taking the reality of African American receiving a disparity and harsher sentences in America's criminal Justice system and pointing to that as evidence that white America has a bigotry problem toward African Americans is wrong evaluating sentences is a complicated evaluation that doesn't deserve such simple deductions moreover and this is important many Judges issuing these what you would describe as disparate sentences are African American so intentional racism labels don't really fairly fit the facts.
In Dallas, President Obama would have offered the nation better leadership by calling for people to not let emotion cause us to lose perspective or not be fully responsible about the problem. Many African American communities experience a lack of jobs, failing schools, high crime rates, etc. and that is wrong and that is a failing of government but that is not a racism or discrimination problem that is a socioeconomic problem in America. The racism and discrimination issues raised by the events that brought us here underscore and highlight that America has a policing problem where too often black Americans experience unfairness and have their rights violated by the police.
President Obama does a disservice to America when he characterizes the gridlock and inability to solve problems in America as a bad heart problem in America as the sides in America don't care enough about one another. It is not a caring problem it is a conscience difference matter a difference on beliefs of what the right solutions to solve the problems are. President Obama and his supporters would be better served at scrutinizing their ideology, scrutinizing their solutions to the problem to see if every element passes the good test. President Obama has really failed America in failing to recognize the problems with the Affordable Care Act, he recently wrote an article on the law in a prestigious medical Journal and he still doesn't recognize the good on this issue. The good is that this law has created a health care system that is way to expensive its at alarm level from a cost standpoint. In his article he says the yearly increase in insurance deductibles from the ACA are at the same rate that existed prior to passage of the law this is absolute baloney. He uses half truths to justify the ACA; he says yearly premium rises for employees are at a lesser rate than prior to the ACA assuming that is true could it be that wages aren't rising as fast so employees cannot shoulder higher premiums and how about the employer portion of the premiums. If one looks at the average overall premium cost for family and individual health insurance today it is obvious to a responsible person that cost is too high. Even Bernie Sanders acknowledged that with the high deductibles today people are underinsured because it prevents them from being able to get needed health care.
What is President Obama calling for today for the health care system? Increase of Federal subsidies and creation of a public health insurance option in the 400 or more counties where there is only one option on the health insurance exchange where honesty calls for the conclusion that this would be a permanent nationwide public health insurance bureaucracy which honesty further call for the realization that this will require significant federal subsidies to operate (Claims that it will be like the Medicare system aren't persuasive Medicare can fix prices to hold down cost which often doesn't cover health care provider costs and maybe Medicare's administrative cost is a reasonable percentage but that is compared to a very high overall medical expense which results from seniors obviously have greater health care needs this public options Administrative costs won't be cost efficient any claim to the contrary is dishonesty.). Goodness in fixing this cost problem in America's health care system calls for starting with applying management strategies that have worked at containing insurance costs for thirty to forty years and that involves rolling back the ACA mandates scrutinizing them from the viewpoint of what is really necessary in providing people with health care services. What America needs to move forward is not a change of hearts within the American people but for the American people to start using their consciences in creating and implementing solutions to the nation's problems!
President Obama would have offered America better leadership if he stood up for not over characterizing problems as racial problems if he stood up for not making the race problem much larger than it needs to be. Many of the problems President Obama listed are serious problems and deserved to be listed in his speech but he should have been careful to characterize them as socio-economic problems not as race problems. President Obama would have better served America if he focused on constructive solutions to the racial policing problem like identifying best practices that police departments in America that are solving this problem utilize and advocate for the Federal Funding to spread these practices to Police departments across America. To President Obama's credit he subsequently has done that in his Facebook postings and this effort has bipartisan support so he should be able to get legislation enacted into law to implement this helpful action.
President Obama in his speech exhibited less than optimal leadership in muddying up the racial problem in America he would link points together because one point is provocative and really moves people emotionally and he wanted to bring that effect to other subjects he sometimes failed to be clear that he was ending his comments on one topic and moving on to another topic thereby exacerbating the scope of the racial problem in America. His conclusion drawing from facts leaved a lot to be desired at times taking the reality of African American receiving a disparity and harsher sentences in America's criminal Justice system and pointing to that as evidence that white America has a bigotry problem toward African Americans is wrong evaluating sentences is a complicated evaluation that doesn't deserve such simple deductions moreover and this is important many Judges issuing these what you would describe as disparate sentences are African American so intentional racism labels don't really fairly fit the facts.
In Dallas, President Obama would have offered the nation better leadership by calling for people to not let emotion cause us to lose perspective or not be fully responsible about the problem. Many African American communities experience a lack of jobs, failing schools, high crime rates, etc. and that is wrong and that is a failing of government but that is not a racism or discrimination problem that is a socioeconomic problem in America. The racism and discrimination issues raised by the events that brought us here underscore and highlight that America has a policing problem where too often black Americans experience unfairness and have their rights violated by the police.
President Obama does a disservice to America when he characterizes the gridlock and inability to solve problems in America as a bad heart problem in America as the sides in America don't care enough about one another. It is not a caring problem it is a conscience difference matter a difference on beliefs of what the right solutions to solve the problems are. President Obama and his supporters would be better served at scrutinizing their ideology, scrutinizing their solutions to the problem to see if every element passes the good test. President Obama has really failed America in failing to recognize the problems with the Affordable Care Act, he recently wrote an article on the law in a prestigious medical Journal and he still doesn't recognize the good on this issue. The good is that this law has created a health care system that is way to expensive its at alarm level from a cost standpoint. In his article he says the yearly increase in insurance deductibles from the ACA are at the same rate that existed prior to passage of the law this is absolute baloney. He uses half truths to justify the ACA; he says yearly premium rises for employees are at a lesser rate than prior to the ACA assuming that is true could it be that wages aren't rising as fast so employees cannot shoulder higher premiums and how about the employer portion of the premiums. If one looks at the average overall premium cost for family and individual health insurance today it is obvious to a responsible person that cost is too high. Even Bernie Sanders acknowledged that with the high deductibles today people are underinsured because it prevents them from being able to get needed health care.
What is President Obama calling for today for the health care system? Increase of Federal subsidies and creation of a public health insurance option in the 400 or more counties where there is only one option on the health insurance exchange where honesty calls for the conclusion that this would be a permanent nationwide public health insurance bureaucracy which honesty further call for the realization that this will require significant federal subsidies to operate (Claims that it will be like the Medicare system aren't persuasive Medicare can fix prices to hold down cost which often doesn't cover health care provider costs and maybe Medicare's administrative cost is a reasonable percentage but that is compared to a very high overall medical expense which results from seniors obviously have greater health care needs this public options Administrative costs won't be cost efficient any claim to the contrary is dishonesty.). Goodness in fixing this cost problem in America's health care system calls for starting with applying management strategies that have worked at containing insurance costs for thirty to forty years and that involves rolling back the ACA mandates scrutinizing them from the viewpoint of what is really necessary in providing people with health care services. What America needs to move forward is not a change of hearts within the American people but for the American people to start using their consciences in creating and implementing solutions to the nation's problems!
