Tax and Spender

The ruse is over. For anyone who actually believed that Obama was a centrist or was going to govern from the middle, your world was shattered last night. If the fact that he signed the largest spending bill in history did not convince you, his speech to Congress did. Obama is a liberal in the truest sense of the word.

So what are we confronted with? We have a leader who is the atypical tax and spender. Obama believes that government is the answer. He likes it bigger and bigger. The more power the government has, the happier he is.

Obama is going to get his wish. He has the most liberal Congress that I can remember. Any organization that is headed by a representative from San Francisco is going to be way out there. And this one is.

I believe most people understood that Obama was one who would say anything to get elected. Hell, what politician won't? However, there were some who actually believed in "change you can believe in". What a ruse that is. He is no different then any other power hungry politician. Everything that he is doing is par for the course with Washington. Lobbyist in the administration is nothing new. Neither is unscrupulous people serving in the cabinet. Overall, Obama is atypical of Washington.

After last night's speech, my beliefs were confirmed. Forget the rhetoric of slashing the deficit in half. This guy is going to waste so much money over the next few years that the debt will grow by 50%. He will make Bush look conservative and he spent like a drunken liberal.

The issues confronting California and New York will be confronted by the country. Those two states have been run by tax and spend liberals for decades. Now, they are broke. This will be the United States in a couple of years. The only thing saving our asses right now is the fact we can print money. Wait until nobody has confidence in it. Then all hell will break loose.

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An Addiction

Have you ever seen an alcoholic at an open bar? He (or she) is like a kid in a candy store. It is like a license to steal. Drink all you can for free. It is an alcoholics nirvana.

I bring up this analogy because it provides a visual for our current political leadership (the last set of leaders falls into this category also). This morning, I read that our fearless government executives in Washington are proposing another $410 billion in spending. This is coming on the heels of the $800 billion stimulus and the trillions which the banks are getting. We have certainly entered the twilight zone.

This is a royal screwing of the American people. Forget about what the money is used for, at this point none of it matters anymore. When we are dealing with numbers so big, it is impossible to monitor it all anyway. The TARP money is an example of that.

What I find interesting is how immune we suddenly became to the numbers being thrown around. There was a time when a billion dollars meant something. Do you truly understand how much a billion dollars really is? Yet, today we talk in terms of hundreds of billions of dollars. This is a sum we will never be able to pay back.

There is a simple truth which most people fail to understand: money is a drug to politicians. They cannot get enough of it. Their entire power is based upon the money they control. When they control more money, they control the people through the use of handouts. Look at the expansion in the welfare system. The joke of a stimulus package put in stipulations that states received more money for putting more people on the dole. This gives the states incentive to make more people dependent. Hence, more power for those with the money (Washington). It is ridiculous.

Where will this all end up? I am not certain. I hope there is a peaceful resolution to all this. However, my instincts tell me this is not likely. The economic fundamentals simply do not compute. We cannot spend like this and hope that everything will be okay. We are already going to be confronted with massive inflation when recovery does hit. To counter this, the Fed will raise interest rates, which will stunt growth due to lack of lending. Thus, our recovery will be slowed (or stunted) because of the choices the politicians made now.

I believe we are going to see a major revolution in this country. There will come a day when the people who are being handed the tab for all this crap are going to say "enough". The amount of working taxpayers is decreasing. Each time the government removes an independent from the tax rolls while putting them in the dependent category, we see a shift in the amount of people contributing. This means that fewer will have to give a larger portion. At some point, people say "no more". It is time those morons in Washington paid attention. But, alas, they wont.

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This is the model we are following?

The present United States leadership is intent upon moving us towards a European style of government. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of healthcare. This is the one area that we are almost guaranteed to see the Federal Government take over. The fact that Tom Daschle had to drop his cabinet bid will only delay what is Obama's plan: the full nationalization of the heathcare system.

Opponents of this style of coverage have long pointed to the inefficiencies in countries with that style of healthcare. The fact that Canadians often choose to pay out of their pockets to have expensive operations done in the U.S. as opposed to the free ones at home ought to tell us something. These people would not make this choice if the free healthcare was adequate.

Before we just headfirst into this argument, it is crucial to remember that the government is the organization which allows about 1/3 of Medicaid expenditures to be fraudulent. If it would just eliminate the fraud, we would see a 33% increase in effectiveness. Of course, that will not happen.

Anyway, back to the initial point. Socialized healthcare is full of abuse and inefficiency. For those who want to "sell" us on the wonders of this plan, I think they ought to read what really happens in countries with socialized medicine. Here is an article out of wikipedia that I am sure you will find very interesting. It details so of the issues they have in England with this concept.

Well, this is what we have to look forward to. Perhaps Americans will start taking their chances with the medical practitioners in Mexico.

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Free Is Never Free

Especially when the government is involved. I wrote a number of times on here how the government, specifically, the leadership wants to take this country to the left. It seems that they want a model that is similar to England.

Now, we have a report out of there of how Free education actually costs the average citizen money. Read this article to see the heist in education across the pond.

And people think that the same thing will not happen here. The bottom line is that there are only so many ways to break up a dollar (or a pound or euro). Ultimately, goods and services need to be paid for.

And we want these same fruitloops running our healthcare?

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