By Joseph J. Kusnell for Boomeryearbook.com

We were introduced to our new President when he decided to embark on the John Kerry apology tour. In this tour, he visited every country that is envious or jealous of us and in effect apologized for America’s success. What he hoped to gain other than personal acceptance, I have no idea but he went out and “I’m sorry’ed” himself around the globe and they loved him. Meanwhile his countrymen had to bite their lip since they were suddenly being ripped by the man they had just elected as their President. Certainly the leftists loved that because they hate America but a lot of Americans cringed remembering all the good we have done around the world and all the dead boys we left on battlefields defending people that couldn’t defend themselves.

Honesty is a virtue. At least that’s what I have always been taught. But is it? Is Obama honest?

During the campaign he told Michigan steelworkers, “I will bring back those good jobs”. He never said how exactly he planned to do that but he doesn’t have to. That’s Obama. He deals in platitudes not accomplishments. He is like the doctor who knowing you have cancer, says you are just fine. You leave feeling pretty good but when you go home, you have cancer.

This week he went back to Michigan and addressed those same steelworkers. Now keep in mind this is not even a year later. And what does he say now? “Some jobs are never coming back.” This AFTER he won the election. Think that’s honest?

Obama lives in a fairyland and many Americans are living there with him. But that doesn’t matter because the reality is the reality no matter how much he denies it.
He is no “ALICE” and this is no “WONDERLAND”.

The President told us we have to pass the stimulus because without it, unemployment would rise to over 8%.

We passed it. Unemployment is now 9.5% heading for 10.0%.

The President said he would CREATE 4,000,000 (MILLION) new jobs. After a while, that changed to, “Create or SAVE 4,000,000 new jobs” with his stimulus plan.

So we passed it. At the end of this summer, we will have LOST four million jobs!
Not created. Not saved. LOST. That’s hardly a small mistake.

To save themselves, they now say “oh yes we saved a lot of firemen and policemen and teacher’s jobs.” What the hell does that mean? The stimulus money saved those jobs? You borrow money to pay them so they can keep their jobs? And how do you propose to continue doing that. Know what that is? That’s why they say you can get welfare checks but you have to do community service for them. Great. The teachers and the firemen and the policemen are doing “community service” for their welfare checks.

The guy has no idea what he is talking about. Anyway, how can you possibly count the number of government employees who MIGHT have lost their jobs were it not for the influx of BORROWED money? You can’t. It’s nothing but bull. What is not bull is the unemployment numbers and they are cruising toward 10.0% and now they are saying, “Oh yes, this might get to 11.0% or 12.0% and it might take another year or two (or three, or four?).

He promised no new taxes and they are planing to tax everything in the world from cigarettes, to liquor, to soft drinks, to OBESITY! They are spending money they don’t have at an alarming rate and now even the INTEREST on the money they have borrowed can’t be paid. Where do you think that money is going to come from? It’s coming from YOU and it won’t matter if you call it “taxes”, or “voluntary contributions”, they are going to take it because they HAVE TO. You can’t borrow money from other governments (CHINA) and not pay it back. And we have borrowed TRILLIONS of dollars. That’s because this guy has no idea in hell what he is doing. He does dumb things, the bills go up, and he has to borrow the money from somewhere. But remember fellow Americans, he is borrowing from other countries on YOUR name and MY name. WE have to pay it back and with INTEREST! It’s one thing to say you like the guy but that doesn’t mean he has the faintest idea what he is doing.

Have you ever seen a TV commercial? Who do corporations hire to hawk their products to you? They hire people YOU LIKE. Attractive and popular people that they think you might like to buy from. What is more important in selling their product to you? The product itself or the spokesman who is convincing you to buy it?

The spokesman and that’s why they pay these guys millions of dollars to pitch their product to you. If the product were truly great and reasonably priced, they could sell it word of mouth and save all that money. The more of their commercials you see, the more certain you can be that selling the product is not all that easy.

Take Obama’s green messages. That’s all you see all day long on TV. Well, those ads cost millions of dollars to run. So who is paying for them? You know the answer as well as I do. People who intend to get rich off “green”. That’s why they are willing to spend so much money selling the message, because they intend to make a lot more than they are spending.

This guy’s name is Barack Obama, not Saint Barack. He is what he has always been, a small town southside Chicago politician – as crooked as they all are. Only he doesn’t look the part.

He ran on a platform of promises he could never hope to accomplish. But he knew how people are, you tell them what they want to hear and they vote for you. Then you can do whatever it is you want to do and there is not much they can do about it.

Take at look at something else he has done for you. Let’s discuss the GM debacle.
And remember, what happens to everyone else will happen to you. You can’t sit back and think this doesn’t affect you and your kids, because it does. Everything this guy does affects your life and your future and the future of your kids and grandkids.

GENERAL MOTORS.

GM failed for a lot of reasons but principally for two: (1) UAW costs are exorbitant. If you don’t think so check out Toyoto which uses American workers here in America without the UAW and is doing just fine. (2) American cars have or had the reputation for falling apart after they left the showroom. Why? Poor workmanship is why. Who? The UAW workers is who. The union workers are protected by their union even when they do shoddy work. So the UAW brought down GM and there was little GM could do about it. The union was that powerful.

But the UAW supported our southside Chicago politician, the guy with the big smile. So what does their hero do, he screws thousands of Americans to protect his own people – the union that gave him millions for his campaign and the union workers that voted for him. Hey, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch your’s.

The trouble with that is while you are scratching each other’s backs, you also are going out of business. Putting out a shoddy product is not the way to keep you job for long.

So GM collapsed. But a GM collapse would hut the UAW and its members and they supported Obama big time. SO, we couldn’t let that happen.

Obama took 50 BILLION of your tax dollars and gave it to GM to save those union jobs. How nice.

But that wasn’t enough. The company was in a deep financial hole. There were creditors to whom the owned billions and there were shareholders and bondholders and whatever. But we still had to save those UAW jobs. Obama was obligated because they are his supporters.

So we take the company into bankruptcy. Now that could have happened legitimately before we gave them 50 billion to burn, but it didn’t. Still, better late than never so here we go. We are going into bankruptcy.

There is a thing called structured bankruptcy where you iron out all the details ahead of time and that shortens the process considerably. Generally, bankruptcies take at least a year to make their way through the courts. This being the biggest ever might take 18 moths. After all there is a lot to this mess.

So in they go. First they cut loose dealerships which have been in business for decades. Those people are just screwed. They then screw the bondholders. Then they screw the shareholders. They then screw the creditors. Everybody gets screwed BUT the UAW and its members. This is so crooked; Obama and his crew could have gone to jail. They stole billions and billions of dollars from just about everyone. Even the shareholders are just Americans who may have invested their IRA savings in GM. And they took the hit along with everyone else. Everyone else except the UAW.

They emerged from bankruptcy in one month. ONE MONTH. When they came out, the company was leaner, cleaner, greener and meaner. A lot of people were hurt in this process, but not the UAW. They had to take a little less sure, but they ended up keeping their jobs and getting partial ownership of the company in return. That wasn’t bad considering they were the main reason the company collapsed in the first place cheating hundreds of thousands of people out of billions of dollars.

But even that is not the worst thing about this President. What’s worse is the fact that he said the bankruptcy had to be accomplished in an unheard-of MONTH and gee, it took only one month. Know what that tells us? It tell us the political power of this President and his staff extended into that courtroom and affected that judge and when politics affects justice we are on the way to becoming a third world power. That’s what happens in Venezuela and Cuba and China and Russia et al.

It never used to happen in the United States. But then much of what is happening now never happened before in the United States. We are becoming a Marxist nation and that’s really too bad for all of us I fear some voters who too gullible to see beyond the pretty face and into the heart of this President.

Some women are truly beautiful to look at. Does that mean they are good people? Does their appearance guarantee their goodness? Of course it doesn’t. Same with Obama. Maybe he is, as he once said, over his pay grade.

Remember the freedom riots in Iran. Did he come out in support of those freedom fighters? NO. He had all kinds of reasons why that wasn’t a good idea.

But when the Supreme Court of Honduras expels its MARXIST President, why who is right there to stand up for the expelled President? Our guy Barack Obama. He can find the time to publicly support a deposed Marxist President but not a freedom fighter. He just seems to get along very well with Marxists in general. That’s because in his heart and his philosophies, I believe he is one.

It’s one sad move after another for our America all at the hands of this guy from Chicago, the guy with all the radical friends in the Southside. The guy who went to school on the taxpayers’ dime and now is doing everything he can to change America from what gave him hjs change to excel, to something we really don’t need or want. And if he gets it done, you who voted for him – and your kids – will rue the day you did that.

And now for the very worst, dumbest, pointless plan of all: a national socialist
Healthcare Plan. This defies explanation.

A nation swimming in debt, out of money, is about to spend a trillion and a half dollars on something that is absolutely unnecessary. Check it out.

According to Obama, there are 43,000,000 (million) Americans who have no health care insurance. I am not sure where that number comes from and I am not sure they are truly Americans (illegal immigrants?), but I will take him at his word.

In order to ensure that these forty-three million people are covered, Obama wants us to chuck our free enterprise health care system and go for a government controlled socialist system. (He also keeps mentioning the private insurance companies refused to pick up patients with ‘pre-existing conditions’.

Let’s get rid of the second nonsense first. If pre-existing conditions are a problem, people with them could have been accepted into Medicare as are cancer victims and that would settle that. We don’t need to throw out the baby with the bath water.

But let me just talk to you a moment about these pre-existing conditions. Let’s see if you were running a private insurance company, you would want to cover them.

I walk into your insurance company office. I ask how much for a policy. You tell me I am 45 years old and have a family and my policy will cost me $650.00 a month. That’s $7,800.00 a year.

We sign a contract. “Oh by the way, “ I tell you, “I also have advanced cancer.”

This is going to cost you about one million dollars of your money to treat me, someone you didn’t even know a half hour ago. The money you get would be $7,800.00 a year and the money you have to pay out will be over one million dollars. Would you do it?

If you say sure, you will be out of business before you can say “thank you”.

Of course you can’t cover pre-existing conditions. You couldn’t do that in any business. You can’t be responsible for something you had nothing to do with.
If pre-existing conditions are a problem, then we have to take those people and put them into Medicare so we all share in the financial burden of caring for that individual. It doesn’t require a totally new system; it just requires a slight internal modification. Anything else is ridiculous.

So the real problem is the so-called 43 million who are uninsured. Let’s talk about them

To being with, who are they? (I wish I really knew. I wish anyone really knew. But we’ll pretend they are real and not just an excuse to expand government control of our lives.)

The forty-three million fit into three groups. The first and smallest are young people who don’t think they need health insurance. They will have to be given coverage no matter how we do it so we needn’t spend a lot of time on them.

The second group, larger than the first and smaller than the third, are people with NO money. No jobs and no income. They are indigent.

Well if they don’t have insurance it’s their own fault because they are eligible for MEDICAID. That’s a system in place to take care of these very people. So how are they a problem? The problem is to educate them that they can be insured with or without money. I think the real problem is these are non-citizens. Nevertheless, if they are real, they can be insured right now without money. So we don’t need a national healthcare system to take care of them. MEDICAID is their answer.

So that leaves us with the only group that may be a real problem. The people with not ENOUGH money to afford healthcare. Let’s say there are 25 million of them (although I don’t believe it).

There is an IRS program in existence right now known as the Earned Income Credit. This is for families with children. If you don’t make much money and you have kids, you can get a tax CREDIT. That’s not a deduction; it’s a credit which is money sent by the government to you.

Since this is all based on average income, let’s modify that IRS program in such a way that people without much money will get back a tax credit in the form of a voucher, which will pay for their health insurance.

Let’s say they need $5,000.00 a year for health insurance for their families. So we change the rules for the EIC credit establishing a minimum which guarantees anyone with insufficient money to buy their own health insurance will get back a credit voucher to buy it for themselves.

Since we estimate there are 25 million such families, that cost will be five thousand dollars times 25 million families or 125 BILLION dollars a year which is 900% CHEAPER than inventing a brand new government controlled health care system which will cost an arm and a leg for everyone while producing service far inferior to that we currently have.

Why would we want to do that? I wonder. It seems there must be another reason for these are simpler fixes for what’s broken in the current system. Then with the government not having to take over and run a complete health care system, they can concentrate on helping the profession become more modern in its technology. They can combine data records and cut out duplications and waste and let the medical people in this country who have produced the finest health care in the world, continue to do so.

Isn’t this a better way? If it is, why don’t they just do this and leave everything else alone? I will tell you why.

It’s because they are not after improving health care which they will not do. And it’s not after lowering costs because that too, they will not do. It will actually cost us all a lot more.

So why?

To grow the federal bureaucracy. To make the Federal government the be-all, and end-all of our lives. To put the people in government in positions to run our lives.

To take our money, and spend it as they deem necessary for “our own good”.

That’s why.

It’s about power and about the loss of freedom.

You couldn’t sell this package of poison without a super salesman making the pitch. So that’s what they found.

Barack Obama – super salesman. Nice guy. Easy smile. Just enough to make the pitch and not enough to get in their way.

We are all being taken.

Funny, I think he is too.

Freedom was hard won – but it can be easily lost.

They say politics makes strange bedfellows. Well, it’s true. To understand that, always follow the money.

JOEY

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