Why is it that when our dear leader says
"If we don't act now, and pass the stimulus Bill, then disaster will be upon us and unemployment will soar above 8.5%"it is successfully packaged as a dire warning and an undisputed call to action? But when the opposition crunches the numbers and reasons
"It will cost too much, yield minimal results, and burden the taxpayer for generations to come"it is decried as the 'politics of fear'?
Why is it that when our dear leader says
"If we don't act now, and create a National Health Care system, then health care premiums will soar beyond anything anybody can afford"it is successfully packaged as a dire warning and an undisputed call to action? But when the opposition crunches the numbers and reasons
"The plan will increase costs, and erode the level of health care available today"it is decried as the 'politics of fear'?
Clearly Barack "Nostrodomus" Obama was wrong about the stimulus package saving the economy and preventing unemployment from soaring above 8.5%. Do you believe his predictions about looming disaster in health care? Why the rush? He has described the current health care system like it is a ticking time bomb, yet no one knows why? We just know it needs to be fixed now.
The reality is that the blitz strategy is necessary precisely because the plan will not stand up to scrutiny. The regime needs this passed before they get cornered and are forced to explain how this plan is different than the UK and Canada, and how this plan won't kill people with rationed care. Either you have looked at this plan and concluded that the numbers don't add up, and that going in this direction will mean irreversible devastation to the health and wealth of your family, or you are such a pie in the sky optimist blind faith partisan that you are in a fetal position rocking back and forth repeating the phrase "health care; definitely health care" like rain man.
I commented back in June how scary the advent of a national health care system is (Intergalactic Healthcare - "The Public Option"). The dollars, and the irreversable nature of such a plan makes one at least apprehensive if not scared. So back to my original point. Is it a scare tactic to question something that really is big and scarry?
