The Obama administration passed spending bill after spending bill the first few months in power. The reason? The recession. Already, his moves have made put America more in the red than any other president has in history… but he is not done. Now he wants to pass a health care reform plan that will end up costing $1 trillion according to the Congressional Budget Office but, knowing how government works, it will probably cost more. His reason: the recession is linked with the burden of the health care system. In the current economic climate, with rising unemployment, many people are even more worried about losing their employer-based health insurance. It is an interesting idea, health care partly leads to the recession and the recession leads to less and worse health care, but it is an idea not based in reality. The recession was caused by “a fundamental misallocation of capital” mainly a housing bubble in the US, whether government caused it or free markets caused it is a matter of debate. By linking the recession and the health care issue, he is banking that he can wield his political broadsword before the business cycle takes over and we get out of the recession. That is why he has been so adamant about passing health care reform NOW! Otherwise, people will not be losing their employer based health insurance and the public will not be in the panic mode that the administration wants to generate. Right now, in touting how he has saved the economy with his Stimulus package, pulling it back from “the brink” as he said, it looks like the conditions for passing government-based health care reform are fading away. Like Obama’s new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Unfortunately for the Democrats, contrary to their lack of understanding of free markets, recessions eventually come to an end. Funny how Obama benefits when America is in crisis, and fails when America is prospering. Actually… it’s not funny at all.

These are not the only outrageous claims that the president has made in order to panic the public into accepting his plan. To cite a few: in order to dispel rumors that he wanted a full government-run single-payer system, he denied ever supporting such a system, this is an outright LIE. See video. The quote: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.”

In order to scare us into his plan, he tries to turn class-based anger on the “greedy” insurance companies by saying that they have been making record profits. This is a lie. To further scare us into a government-based system, he recently claimed that some doctors have opted to remove tonsils unnecessarily and have amputated diabetics’ feet simply for profit. Specifically, he implies that doctors may choose not to perform preventative treatment because of the amount of reimbursement and simply perform the amputation because it pays more. Outrageous.

These are just a few things that he has said that stretch the truth or tear the truth to pieces. It seems that the president insists on making the American people deathly afraid of greedy insurance companies who maliciously and purposely let people die every year and greedy doctors that will remove tonsils and amputate limbs for profit. This tactic of making outrageous claims is behind the Democrats’ insults aimed at concerned citizens at town hall meetings, calling them unruly mobs. Citizens have the right to petition government, we still have a first amendment… I yesterday saw Chris Matthews of MSNBC raise his voice at a protester who dared carry a non-concealed weapon to a protest, a right guaranteed by the Second Amendment, saying at one point “your carrying a Goddamn gun!” Fortunately, the guest, William Kostric, was calm, explained his point pretty clearly, and was able to avoid being cornered by Matthews on various points, but this only illustrates the point that liberals in the media are marching in lockstep with the Imperial Democrats that now control Washington. Here’s the video:

We, as Americans, cannot allow ourselves to be herded by threats, outrageous claims, or fear. We must think critically and independently. We must use conscience and, most importantly, facts in the face of so much confusion and emotional response. America’s spirit will not be broken by those who try to intimidate its people, our external enemies have failed and our internal ones will too.

-AG