Obama Decries “Fear-Mongering” on Healthcare, as He Fear-Mongers Himself

- Scott Miller

This guys is too much… the Statist is always in a hurry, and Obama is no different. As he races to socialize our healthcare system, today he is in front of the American Medical Association. From his speech we get these two headlines… this from the AP:

Obama hits ‘fear-mongering’ on health care changes

CHICAGO – Pushing again to get the health care system overhauled, President Barack Obama is arguing that people must beware of “scare tactics and fear-mongering” that have killed such efforts in the past.

Obama said “we know there are those who will try to scuttle” the program no matter what. He said that “because these fear tactics have worked, things have kept getting worse.”

Then there is this one from Reuters:

Obama: Government could go broke if healthcare not fixed

CHICAGO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, making his case for healthcare reform to America’s doctors, said on Monday the U.S. government could suffer the same fate as troubled automaker General Motors and go broke if the healthcare system is not fixed.

“When it comes to the cost of our health care,” Obama told the American Medical Association, “the status quo is unsustainable.”

So in the same speech the Obamarxist on one hand decries “fear-mongering” by his opponents, and on the other hand fear-mongers himself. This from the guy who has perfected the art of political fear-mongering to get his agenda passed.

Plus, note to Obama THE GOVERNMENT IS ALREADY FREAKIN’ BROKE!… or did you somehow miss your $2 trillion deficit?

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Obama’s Schitzo-Economics

- Scott Miller

This from Bloomberg.com

Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’

May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”

Earlier this week, the Obama administration revised its own budget estimates and raised the projected deficit for this year to a record $1.84 trillion, up 5 percent from the February estimate. The revision for the 2010 fiscal year estimated the deficit at $1.26 trillion, up 7.4 percent from the February figure. The White House Office of Management and Budget also projected next year’s budget will end up at $3.59 trillion, compared with the $3.55 trillion it estimated previously.

Two weeks ago, the president proposed $17 billion in budget cuts, with plans to eliminate or reduce 121 federal programs. Republicans ridiculed the amount, saying that it represented one-half of 1 percent of the entire budget. They noted that Obama is seeking an $81 billion increase in other spending.

Entitlement Programs

In his New Mexico appearance, the president pledged to work with Congress to shore up entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. He also said he was confident that the House and Senate would pass health-care overhaul bills by August.

“Most of what is driving us into debt is health care, so we have to drive down costs,” he said.

So Obama supported the $700 billion Bank bailout that Bush signed. Then comes into office and immediately pushes a bill to spend another $1.3 trillion as a payoff to all his constituencies under the guise of a “stimulus” plan. Then he sends to Congress a $3.6 trillion one year budget… and now suddenly he begins to get the hangover from his massive spending binge, and he is calling for spending restraint? Talk about schitzo-economics!

But the last line is extremely telling… “Most of what is driving us into debt is health care, so we have to drive down costs.” So medicare and medicaid are driving us into debt, but these are entirely government run healthcare programs. According to Obama’s twisted liberal logic, having government take over everyone’s healthcare will somehow miracuolously bring down costs with no impact on quality. If gov’t run healthcare costs are out of control now, just wait until they get their hands on the whole system.

The fact that our existing gov’t entitlement programs are driving us into debt doesn’t deter the statist, no he wants to create the mother of all entitlements with a national healthcare entitlement. Somehow the statist believes that he’s got a better plan. A plan that will defy the history of every other nation that has gone down the road of national healthcare. It won’t.

The fact is that national healthcare system are systems of inferior care, they are systems of long waits for basic treatment,  denial of life saving treatments, and rationed care for all. This is inevitable because the only way that the government can effectively control costs on such as massive entitlement is to limit care. It is what they are doing today with medicare, and it is what they will do with a national healthcare system.

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