Politics and Insights from History

September 18, 2009

Dear Mr. President,

Your speech to Congress on the 9^th was nothing more than a rehash of the weekly primetime speeches you have given promoting you health care bill. You love to say that we are in the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But there you are wrong. The 1970s under Carter’s failed administration were far worse than what we are facing now. Then there was double digit unemployment, rising inflation, cost of gas and oil rose exponentially.

You continue to talk about the success of your stimulus bill. Well, if an unemployment rate of 9.7%, money going to ACORN, pig farms, and the building of nonexistent infrastructure is success then I congratulate you. You succeeded in failing to revive the economy. But then, economic revival was not your goal was it? Your bill was designed to waste money and fund government programs meant to keep people dependent on the government. It was meant to make people desperate so that when you proposed universal healthcare we would accept it. But it didn’t work. Yes, unemployment is up and we are far from economic recovery, but we do not want government healthcare. Many have learned what it entails and the sacrifices we would have to make, but you politicians get to avoid it. The people have learned that the proposed health care bill has nothing to do with ensuring people have access to health care, which they already do, but has everything to do with controlling the economy. You know as well as I that if the government controls 1/6 of the economy and controls the health of the people, it controls the nation and its people. The people will be slaves for your government regime. That is something Americans do not want.

You are shocked by the protests and are speechless. You first claimed you knew nothing about it. When that didn’t work you played the race card painting the protesters as dumb, ignorant, hillbilly, right wing, Nazi loving, racist extremists. (Or at least your supporters did and you never condemned them for saying such things.) When that didn’t work, you and your people insisted that we are the minority and that the “silent majority” support you. The thing is, Mr. President, we are the silent majority, but we are silent no more.

You accuse the opposition of using scare tactics in order to stop reform. All we have done is tell the truth about what has happened in other countries that have done what you propose. It is you who is using scare tactics. You portray our current health system as a crisis. You are telling the American people that we need your health reform in order to avert catastrophe. You did the same thing when it came to passing you stimulus bill. You portrayed our current economic situation as a crisis. You droned into our heads the belief that if the government didn’t do something, we would go bankrupt, unemployment would go up, more jobs would be lost, more homes foreclosed on. Well, the people listened and allowed you to pass you Recovery Act, as you are now calling it, and the country is bankrupt, the deficit is higher than ever, more jobs have been lost, unemployment nearly doubled, and more homes have been foreclosed on. You took a crisis that did not exist and turned it into one giant mess. Now you want to do the same with our health care system.

Whenever the government gets involved in the free market, it chokes it, until the government is the only one left to provide what the private sector used to. You know this, and that is your goal. So you and your cronies dismiss us as liars and as a violent angry mob. The truth of the matter is, Mr. President, you fear us. You are afraid of the people. You fear an armed uprising. The truth is you have an insatiable need for everyone to love you. You have an enormous ego and need people to worship you.

You say that you do not want Canada’s system of health care. Then why are you pushing for a bill that creates exactly that? You are attempting to play the moderate who isn’t for a complete takeover of the health care system, but is for tighter regulations on insurance companies. In the end, no one knows what you are for or against. But again we know the truth, don’t we? You are, and always have been, for complete government takeover of the health care system because once you get control of that it will be easy to take control of everything else.

You brought up Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to garner support for your supposed reform. However, Theodore Roosevelt never specifically called for health reform. In 1912, he did run on the Progressive Platform for president and one of their platforms was universal healthcare. However, the people voted against it then and have ever since.

You constantly talk about the increasing cost of health care and how people are being forced to pay for “somebody else’s emergency room and charitable care.” Well, isn’t that what your universal health care would do? Government run health care forces people to pay for someone else’s health care. Government welfare is forced charity.

The bill you propose will dictate how much coverage insurance companies will have to provide, whom they can cover, whom they cannot, and put price controls on prescription medication. These measures will force insurance and drug companies out of business. These are businesses. They have to make a profit to stay in business. They have the right to cover whom they choose and to put caps on how much they will cover. But by forcing these companies to provide more than they can afford you force them to close.

Next you propose a bill that requires everyone to carry insurance whether they want to or not. This is not freedom of choice. This ensures that everyone will be on the government plan because those who lose their insurance when their current provider disappears will be forced onto what the government offers.

The thing is, not carrying insurance, companies denying coverage, drug companies wanting to make a profit, these are not the causes of the increase cost of health care. Part of the cause is newer technology and innovation. But the real culprit is the government. Government regulation of insurance companies forces their premiums to rise. Medicare and Medicaid are government run insurance programs. The bureaucracy they created and the amount of paper work that has to be filed takes money. This is where the waste is. The majority of the waste is on the part of the government, not individual people or companies.

You want us to believe that a health bill costing nearly $900 billion dollars will not add to the deficit. Tell me, how can spending $900 billion when we have no money not add to the deficit. Mr. President, you are spending money we do not have. It will add to the deficit. Do not insult our intellect. You say spending cuts will pay for this. What cuts? What government spending will be cut to pay for it? Once again you cannot give us specifics. Only generalities.

It is ironic that you would mention that the “unique and wonderful things about America has always been our self-reliance, our rugged individualism, our fierce defense of freedom and our healthy skepticism of government.” You are correct. These qualities are what make America great. Yet at the same time you are a hypocrite. You are proposing a bill that will kill these characteristics. You are proposing a bill that will make Americans dependent on the government, stripping away our individualism and liberty and stretching the government far beyond the boundaries that our Founders intended.

You talk about a collective responsibility earlier in your speech that Americans have to provide affordable health care for all. You said that we all share the costs, the responsibility, the successes and failures. You say that social justice is the character of our country. Social justice is code for socialism and redistribution of wealth. Social justice is the antithesis of freedom, rugged individualism, and the American character. Social Justice led to Social Security and Medicare, two programs that you claim are great achievements. Mr. President, they are utter failures. After nearly 70 years Social Security went bankrupt; after 40 Medicare has suffered the same fate. And they are but the tip of the iceberg.

Your speech, like so many others you have given in the past, was nothing more than pious rhetoric. You intend to fool the public with deceptive altruism. Mr. President, when are you going to stop campaigning and start leading? Anyone can deliver a speech especially when they have a teleprompter in front of them. In the past three years you have taken the campaigning to a fine art. But not everyone can lead. To be a leader you must be honest, honorable, possess integrity, and sacrifice (privately). You are none of these. Mr. President, you are nothing but a soulless man in a fancy suit.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty