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What has Obama Done to This Great Nation?
(by Luigi Luciano - April 26, 2010)
What has Obama Done to This Great Nation? By Luigi Luciano I am so glad to be back and writing again. I was away for a while and a lot has happened to this country since then. Most of which is bad for anyone living here. Since my last article the government is now a majority owner of the a major auto manufacturer. Got its foot in the door to the health care industry. Became the largest employer in the country. Unemployment is at is highest in decades. The debt grew by 3 times from where is was and now we are in a deal with Russia to disarm 30% of our Nuclear weapons. Sounds like real change to me. Only change for the worse. #1 Let me start with the one that really gets the liberals going? Health care reform. When the bill was passed over 70% of ALL Americans (at least the ones that work) were against the bill. The cost of the bill, the increased premiums and the ultimate goal of having the government run health care people is what people are unhappy about to name a few. I believe that all Americans believe in the need for health care reform it is just a matter of how that reform is brought about. Instead of opening up competition in the insurance industry and allowing people to purchase polices across state lines which would drive down costs for people like you and me they went in a whole different direction. Open competition, restrict lawsuits and you will see a huge decrease in rates. In fact anytime the government has less involvement in anything it is a good thing and usually costs less. So the bottom line is premiums have already gone up now for families because the new rules do not kick in for another 4 years and the insurance companies want their premiums to be higher now for a higher average later. Obama will enforce this law so if you do not have health insurance you will be fined and the IRS will take the money directly from you. In fact he hired over 15,000 new IRS people already. It is a mess, it is wrong and if you were wondering why he has it set to start 4 years from now instead of next year it is because it would be after the next Presidential election. If it were enforced today he would not win re-election. Lastly when this started Harry Reid and Pelosi said we have to pass a bill now because there are 3 million people dying every year because of lack of health care. So I guess it was ok to pass the bill and have it kick in 4 years from now when according to their own words more than 12 million people would have died before the bill went into effect. #2 The Stimulus bill. Obama said last year if we do not pass this bill now unemployment would raise to 10%. So the bill passed and billions went out to save jobs. Today we are close to 10% unemployment and rising. So I guess the urgency of passing this bill to save jobs actually just pushed us further in debt and was another lie. Just another lie. #3 The national debt. Obama has spent more money than all the other Presidents before him combined. Now the Liberals who are still blaming everything on George W Bush will say it was his fault. Get over it already. This administration has been reckless with spending and borrowing and has gotten us so far in debt that we will never get out of it. Worse is they are not through spending. We now have a 12.5 trillion dollar debt thanks to team Obama. How do we get out of this? Last weeks USA Today had an article about the Value Added Tax (VAT) being considered by the administration. First they tell us that the money for the new health care will covered from saving on Medicare now they say we need another tax to cover the debt that will only go higher once the health care bill begins. VAT tax is used by many socialist countries. It adds a tax to every stage of production and then a tax to the consumer. One more lie. #4 The Obama team says this will be the most transparent administration ever. He said and I quote from his website “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.” So he hold health care meting behind closed doors and doesn’t allow CSPAN in. Cuts backroom deals to get votes. Another Lie? You decide. #5 The Obama team said we need to bail out the auto industry. GM and Chrysler took money. Ford the only true American car company did not. Another decision by Obama that we must bail them out now. The result. GM reports 4.3 billion loss for the last half of 2009 while Ford Motor Co posted its first full-year profit in 2009 since 2005 and said it expects to stay profitable in 2010. The government owns 60.1% of GM and the unions 39% .Obama maybe free market does work? #6 Now Obama is excited that he is signing an agreement with Russia to disarm 30% of our nuclear weapons. Sounds good I guess. Especially to the Iranian and North Koreans who are building nuclear weapons and made it clear they would attack us if we attack them. See if they would have made that statement if Bush was still president. In fact the administration said it is good to lead by example so countries like Iran will see we are compassionate and caring. I’m sure while their people are beheading an American they will do that with compassion as well. You see the pattern here? A president was elected on hopes of change. We have seen his change and it is not good change. All the changes put into place by this administration are changes that will destroy this once great nation. The inexperience of a leader has been revealed. The lack of respect for our leader and this country has been revealed. When people like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro endorse the policies of Obama they cannot be good. I am not sure what the supporters of Obama still see in this man. He cannot speak without having something written in front of him. He lies outright and doesn’t seem to care. He does what he wants not what the will of the people he works for wants. I am a firm believer that things in life happened for a reason. Obama was elected for a reason. Based on what he has done in a little over a year I cannot see one find reason other than to think that we were meant to cursed as a nation with a president like Obama. I guess most people are feeling the same way I do now given his polling numbers. The same polling numbers the Democrats used daily against Bush. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for April 9th showed that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. That means that about 81% of Americans believe he is not doing a good job. I what to know who the 29% are so I can sell them the Brooklyn Bridge! Comments? Email listentoluigi@gmail.com
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