Yelling out ‘lie’ at the Joint Session of Congress speech on health care
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For the first time in my memory, the word “lie” was yelled out in a Joint Session of Congress Presidential speech.

How uncivil!

‘But he apologized’

“But he immediately apologized,” you say.

Apologized?! Oh, you’re talking about South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson who yelled “You Lie!” when Obama falsely said illegal aliens would not be covered by his health plan.

I’m talking about the other guy who yelled the word “lie,” as well as the equivalent words “bogus,” “false,” “misinformation,” “scare tactics,” “wild claims,” “demagoguery,” “distortion,” “scary stories,” “tall tales,” and “misrepresent” during the speech. He did not apologize. He never apologizes. His name is Barack Obama.

Obama swore on a stack of Lincoln Bibles

In 1988, George H.W. Bush—Bush “Senior”—said,

Read my lips. No new taxes.

Later, he reneged on that promise and lost the 1992 election to Bill Clinton because of it.

Obama frequently does the same. He swears on a stack of Lincoln Bibles that he will take only federal money for his presidential campaign. He and McCain both put that promise in writing. Then Obama realized he would be able to raise more money than that and reneged.

Obama solemnly condemned earmarks and said there would be no more earmarks if he were elected. Then, he got elected and signed a $400 billion bill that was 100% earmarks.

He swore he would withdraw from Iraq and close Guantanamo as soon as he was inaugurated. He did neither.

Once, when called on one of his broken promises, he said it was “just a campaign promise.” In other words, he is the boy who cried wolf when it comes to making promises or claiming there is a crisis. No one can trust him, not even his hardest core supporters.

In his 9/9/09 speech to Congress on health care, he again swore on a stack of Lincoln Bibles that

• no one will be forced to change doctors or health plans
• the plan would not increase the deficit
• no one will withhold care from seniors
• no illegal aliens will benefit from the plan
• government will not take over health care
• government will not force private health care providers out of business
• Medicare and Medicaid benefits will not be cut
• etc.

Each of these solemn promises is a barefaced lie. Some are simply mathematically impossible. Some are brazen lies that contradict the plain words of the various plans or Obama’s own videotaped past statements about his intentions.

You can see fact-check articles revealing Obama’s lies in the 9/9/09 speech at:

• http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/10/obama-speech-fact-check/
• http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/28334503.html
• http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090910/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_fact_check
• http://www.factcheck.org/2009/02/fact-checking-obamas-speech/
• http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/10/politics/main5300380.shtml

With regard to illegals, Senator Boehner said such coverage is not explicitly banned in both house and Senate versions and two amendments that would have explicitly banned it were voted down by Democrats in committee. Furthermore, illegals deliberately come to the U.S. when they are pregnant to have their child and he or she is automatically a U.S. citizen if they are born here even if the parents were illegals who acted in bad faith. If U.S. citizens are all covered, the born-in-the-U.S. children of illegals would be covered

Civil?

Obama used perhaps the most uncivil, tongue-lashing, mean joint session of Congress address to complain about the lack of civility of his critics. He is the meanest, most trash-talking president since at least Nixon. Nixon had two unpleasant assistants named Haldeman and Erlichman, but they are not in the same league as Obama assistant Rahm Emmanuel. No mailing of dead fish, for example.

Obama has an odd definition of “civility.” Civility is when he angrily calls you every name in the book in a loud angry voice. Incivility is when you represent your point of view zealously in the various debates over current federal policy questions.

Dialog

It’s like his definition of a dialog on race. Blacks complain and whites take notes.

Rent control

New York City had rent control since World War II. At one point, landlords there were abandoning 30,000 apartment units a year. Why?

The city limited rents to less than fair market value. Over time, the disparity between fair market value and the rent controlled rent grew bigger and bigger. It never stopped getting bigger. Wealthy celebrities like Alistair Cooke were caught living in lavish, super cheap, rent-controlled Manhattan apartments.

But what about the expenses of operating the buildings: insurance, property taxes, utilities, employees, repairs, replacing roofs and such? The city did not control those. Those expenses marched onward and upward year after year. Inevitably, there came a point where the operating expenses—not even counting the mortgage payments—exceeded the total controlled-by-the-City rental income. In order for the landlord to continue to operate the building, he would have to subsidize the tenants from his personal savings or another job.That’s when they walked away. They had no choice.

It took decades for rent control’s bite to get that bad in New York City.

Obama’s plan on health care costs is the same, only he’s going to create the 30,000 abandonments a year situation overnight.

He is going to sign a federal law that dramatically cuts the health industry’s income while also forcing them to do far more than they have been previously. Here are actual quotes from the bill on what the federal government will force on the industry:

• against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition
• against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need it most
• no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime
• limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses
• required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies
• As one big group, these customers will have greater leverage to bargain with the insurance companies for better prices and quality coverage
• all insurance companies that want access to this new marketplace will have to abide by the consumer protections I already mentioned
• for those Americans who can't get insurance today because they have pre-existing medical conditions, we will immediately offer low-cost coverage
• businesses will be required to either offer their workers health care, or chip in to help cover the cost of their workers
• keep insurance companies honest is by making a not-for-profit public [federal government owned] option available in the insurance exchange

Obama does not believe in capitalism

Here is a paragraph from his speech where he reveals he does not understand the most basic tenet of capitalism or believe that capitalism is better than government run businesses.

I have insisted that like any private insurance company, the public insurance option would have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it collects. But by avoiding some of the overhead that gets eaten up at private companies by profits, excessive administrative costs and executive salaries, it could provide a good deal for consumers.

He fails to see that profit and salaries are incentives that cause people to work hard and be efficient and cause investors to invest in the businesses thereby provide needed capital for expansion and improvement. He thinks profit and high salaries are simply an extra cost that can easily be outlawed and the quality of the resulting government produced products and service will be the same or better as when they were provided by free enterprise and cost less!

Has this man ever heard of the post office? Or Amtrak? Or the Soviet Union? Or Cuba? Those last two places sure as hell cut out the profit and the high executive salaries.

He says the government will pay for his Santa Claus list of what he wants be cutting out waste, fraud, and abuse.

Many have asked the obvious question? If you can do that, why have you not done it already? What does this yet another new health bill have to do with efficiency?

When in the history of the universe has any government ever cut out waste, fraud, and abuse. Waste, fraud, and abuse are synonymous with government. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you,” is an old punch line to the question, what’s the biggest lie ever told.

How many people work for the government? About half of them. [we wish]

President Ford said in 1975, “If government made a six pack of beer, it would cost $80.” Adjusted for inflation, that’s $320. Furthermore, government beer would take eight months to get and would taste like crap.

If government did abortions, they would have a ten-month waiting list.

Why did Wilson apologize?

Obama lied during his speech. Wilson “called him out on it.” What’s wrong with that? Indeed, during that very speech, Obama himself said,

If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out.

That is precisely, exactly, 100% what Joe Wilson did. What’s good for the goose…

Obama can dish it out, but he can’t take it. Obama starts fights, but he can’t finish them.

When he calls you a liar, you’re supposed to sit there and take it. When you call him a liar, you’re being uncivil, or racist, or paid to do so by the insurance companies.

NO health care

The bottom line of Obama’s health care if anything like what he says he will insist on becomes law is that we will have no health care. Within a year or so, insurance companies will go out of business, doctors will retire early, others will change careers, applications to medical school will drop. Increasing numbers of current medical school students will drop out and switch to law or MBA programs. HMOs will go out of business. Drug companies will stop making drugs for humans. Medical equipment companies will switch to nonmedical products.

Basically, Obama and his supporters think no one should make a profit on health care. And if they get their way, no one will. He will say,

See. We told you those health care providers and insurers were no damned good. Good riddance. Don’t worry. We’re the government and we’re here to treat you? Get in line.

And that will be the ultimate medical malpractice tort reform, because you can’t sue the federal government for malpractice.

John T. Reed