It’s not really about health care, argues Mark Steyn: It’s about government.
And it seems to me that we’ve had quite enough of that, thank you:
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that Obama’s budget plans would generate deficits over the upcoming decade that would total $9.8 trillion. That’s $1.2 trillion more than predicted by the administration.
The agency says its future-year predictions of tax revenues are more pessimistic than the administration’s. That’s because CBO projects slightly slower economic growth than the White House.
The deficit picture has turned alarmingly worse since the recession that started at the end of 2007, never dipping below 4 percent of the size of the economy over the next decade. Economists say that deficits of that size are unsustainable and could put upward pressure on interest rates, crowd out private investment in the economy and ultimately erode the nation’s standard of living.
Still, the Feb. 1 White House budget plan was a largely stand-pat document that avoided difficult decisions on curbing the unsustainable growth of federal benefit programs like the Medicare health care program for the elderly and Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor and disabled.
All that, of course, before Ms. Pelosi rams through another trillion dollar entitlement program designed to”fix” our 70-year old health care crisis.
This is really getting alarming.
Steyn, of course, is absolutely correct. The leftists constantly preach the gospel of being “Pro-Choice”. What they really mean, is that YOU won’t have ANY choice, because THEY will make the choices for you. They want you to make an informed choice, which, by that, is understood you will be informed of what choice was made for you, and how much it will be costing you.
Elections have consequences, and the electorate of America made a VERY poor choice in 2008. Let’s all hope and pray we have the opportunity to fix that mistake and undo the damage(s).
I’ve been making this point in discussions with friends for awhile now. It explains the DESPERATION of the far left to get this done now. I believe it’s how Pelosi is selling her “fall on your sword” pitch to her fellow progressives. Kamikaze leftists, for the greater good and all. This is THE battle to be fought right now. The whole “we are also going to tackle amnesty for illegals” thing that has appeared suddenly, is nothing more than an attempt to dilute the focus of conservatives. It’s important to stay focused on Healthcare. Win or lose, this is the one that will be written about and dealt with for decades to come.
Tim, you have so mashed a woman’s right to choose into the issue of health-care choice that it comes off as a rant. No one forces the choice for someone elses abortion decision.
Umm… in a word, no.
You raise an interesting question however, about that whole “woman’s right to choose” bit. No one ever seems to ask the child’s opinion of the issue. Did you know that doctors performing in utero operations on children use anesthesia? Those who perform abortions, however, don’t seem to feel the need for any anesthesia for the child. Interesting situation, no?
Abortion=murder. Always. Everytime.
I do not EVER want people who subscribe to a forged right to murder children to have any say over my health care. Ever.
I have no problem of an individual woman making her own informed choice. I just don’t want my tax dollars to pay for it. Because then I am forced to pay for it.
Agreed, dwas.
Very alarming, indeed. To use Stephen’s metaphor of the Pelosites as Kamikazies, one almost feels like the USS LAFFEY, when she was attacked by 60 Kamikazies, in that we can see what is coming, but there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it.
Key word dwas, “Informed.” The left doesn’t want that either. Whether it’s reading the bill or seeing the sonogram, informed voters and like informed women they overwhelmingly reject the preferred choice of the Left.
Concur..if I had my choice..I would recommend the adoption option..
ahhh, s/b “informed voters are like informed women…”
read the current issue of Rolling Stone on how the Repubs are stonewalling the agenda of the One. Filled with comments about how the deficits are the fault of GWB, of how the failure of healthcare reform lies at the feet of the Reps, etc. Glosses over things like the CBO forecast a deficit of 298 billion for 2010 back in 2008. Now it is 1.6 trillion. Lessee, now who has had the checkbook the last 14 months?
You read things like that, realize that the 18-25 year old block is almost as large as the over 65 voting block, and think “these kids will get what they deserve – a lifetime of hoping for change”.
Lessee, now who has had the checkbook the last 14 months? And don’t forget that the Dems have controlled Congress since 2006.
I suspect that a few more of the over 65 vote..no need for hope and change..get involved
China is getting antsy — it just sold about half their holdings of our “debt worth” to the Japanese.
Both sides probably look on that as a partial payback for Nanking…
Anybody remember those “bad old days” when that eeeevil Bushitler was running up the tab? Remember how the press railed against him for budget deficits that numbered in the hundreds of billions?
Yeah.
And, if BusHitler were such an eeeeeeeevil man, what does that make Comrade Obama?