We spent a lot of time focused on health care, and deservedly so. Its a big deal. It continues to unfold over the coming weeks, but there are many, many other things in the world that need to be talked about. While we’re at home, worried about the effects health care will have, watching the rest of the pork be pulled out and explained and shoved down our throats as to why its good for us....things continue to get worse.
The horrible thing is, President Obama hasn’t done much to make things better. The President of the United States is supposed to be a man of honor who goes out of his way to ensure everyone has a voice....to uphold the First Amendment. What has he been doing since health care passed? Why, wouldn’t you know it, he’s out bandstanding throughout America, mocking conservatives for their stance against health care, telling them to ‘bring it’ and being overly derisive against a massive portion of America. Oh yeah, he’s also capitalizing by selling shirts that say “Health Reform is a BFD (Big F----- Deal) [you can view those and his other PR ideas at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fbtshirtpoll ]
I sit back and try to rationalize these actions, but I can’t. I really, really can’t. Wasn’t this the SAME constituency who, years ago, DEMANDED Governor Schwarzenegger’s head on a pike for calling them ‘girlie men’? These are the same people who become outraged and cry absolute bloody murder when something a little off color is said in public. These are the same people who cried foul when, at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday, Trent Lott spoke up and said things would be better if he had been elected president. Yeah, I get it. Thurmond ran on the Dixiecrat ticket, which was largely racist. Take into context what he said and where- he made a comment speaking well of this man, the longest tenured Senator in US history, on his birthday. Looking into beyond that is so absurd, but thats what they did. They shamed him out of his leadership position and eventually out of Congress altogether because they had their panties in such a bunch.
Grow some thicker skin. Obama is out trashing conservatives left and right these days. He’s making t-shirts about it. Throwing everything in our face. Yeah, change and bipartisanship. That’s exactly what he’s doing. Its sickening. This man speaks out of one side of his mouth then goes out and does something else. He makes cries that bipartisanship needs to happen, yet he impedes the process by mocking conservatives for their ideas.
You know what? I’m glad health care passed. Its going to ruin him. Its going to ruin Democrats. Its the death knell. You know why? “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”-George Santayana There’s an elephant in the room nobody has addressed yet. Why has nobody brought up what happened to countries who turn to socialized health care?
It’s because those countries lose power. They become less viable. They lose military strongholds. They cut funding across the board. The great thing about America has always been our ability to act alone- the pioneer spirit. We do things together as a people. We overcome amazing obstacles because of our individuality. We fight for everything we accomplish and recieve.
Health care ruins all of that. Gone will be that pioneer spirit. You get free health care. Why try and better it? Look at Canada. Canada had the 4th largest Navy in the world. What happened when socialized health care came into effect? Well.....Canada is laughable as a military power.
Same with Great Britain.
Same with most of Europe as a whole.
Well, you say, that doesn’t matter. We don’t need a big military anymore. We can cut costs and shrink the military to pay for this needed reform.
Can we? Can America afford it? Can the world afford it?
Like it or not, America is a world stabilizer. We keep things in check. Our military power protects those states, I’m looking at you Canada and Britain, that don’t have strong militaries to pay for their health care. What happens when we shrink our hard power to pay for health care?
I’ll tell you what happens- we lose. If you pay attention to the news at all, you’ll see Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid a visit to President Hugo Chavez and his country of Venezuela, to bolster support.
Now, if you know anything about politics, you know what a horrible person Chavez is, how poorly his country is run, and how much he hates America. With Obama in office, you see what is happening? Countries that wouldn’t have paid him the time of day out of fear are talking to him, seeing what he needs.
Russia has promised to help them develop nuclear power and a space program. China and Iran stand behind Venezuela.
Who are America’s three biggest threats with nuclear capabilities.
China.
Russia.
Iran.
If you remember, during the Bush Administration, Putin was a strong ally of the United States. This would have never happened.
Today? Russia scoffs at us and Obama’s insistence on ignoring Russia and what they bring to the table.
It’s a scary thing to look at. As we push toward this new health care program (I know I said I wouldn’t talk about it, but I guess it tied in. Oh well.....), the rest of the world prepares to step in when we, same as our allies, fall into the same military weakness that prevents us from having a strong presence in the world.
If things don’t change....if this isn’t repealed...if we don’t figure this out...we could very well be saying goodbye to the last Superpower.
If you’ve ever taken a history class, you have learned about the rise and fall of the great empires- Rome, Egypt, Mongols, British....
Welcome to the accelerated decline of the last great empire.
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