Posted by
TrueBlueAmerican on Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:00:00 PM
After listening to the cabinet positions being filled, there is a sigh of relief from many who feared that President-Elect Obama would fill these posts with William Ayers, or Jeremiah Wright, or heavens forbid the likes of Farrakhan. Let's be serious did we really think that this sleeker-than-Clinton candidate would do something that stupid? It's all about appearances and he plans on making things look normal. Nothing out of the ordinary but just enough to have people think he is someone who can work with this enemies. Yeah, right.
After this President-elect has filled out his cabinet. Let's look at what the man intends to do for his first two years in office. What he has planned is far more dangerous than his cabinet posts. He has indicated that he is going to create 2 million government jobs to fix our schools, roads, energy, broadband and electronic medical information retrieval. Wonderful. How does he propose to pay all these new employees to the government? Spread the wealth? The government has no money to spread the wealth, or they are looking to the taxpayers to send in their checks to the IRS.
It is important to tackle the problem of education here first. As an educator I know how the government has ALREADY tried to fix the problem of internet in the schools and libraries. It's called E-Rate. It is a nifty little program that reimburses schools and libraries for their Internet usage. Urban schools get a bigger kick back than those schools that are private or in suburbs. Barack wants to make sure every school and library in America has the internet and computer. Guess what, they already have them! Could schools use new computers, new software and better equipment. Sure they do. However the last time I checked, the money going to schools came from the property owners who pay for the school districts. This is something to be taken care of on a local level, not on the national level. We have already seen failures in the No Child Left Behind program. This solution will be just a waste of money like the previous programs.
Yes, we want children to succeed in schools but throwing computers at them is not going to make them smarter than the students in other countries. What we need are teachers who are dedicated to teaching the basics of math, science and english. (There are many out there who are very dedicated, but there are others who are willing to take a day off of work, close down the schools just to go to their state capital to protest a new charter school because they are afraid of losing their jobs. Detroit teachers, does this ring a bell? ) It is sad that the verbal skills and math skills are declining in our schools because of the liberal influences that have taken desire to achieve out of the classrooms. Too many educators would much rather give a passing grade than to have the child be accountable for doing their homework and becoming the best that they can be. There is so much potential for the children, but it is not Barack Obama's job to fix it --- he must be stopped.
Hospitals are well equipped in medical technology and computers. The idea of the medical electronic record becoming available has the ear marks of Big Brother. If it isn't scary enough that the men and women in congress who can't control spending to save their lives, they claim they want to save our lives with socialized medicine. With this government controlled medical records electronic system, who is going to be in control of this sensitive information. My Congressman? My Senator? No thank you. Medical information should be shared between a patient and their doctor. No one else. There is no amount of reassurances from the government that could ease the fears that personal medical information would not be used against the patient. For example, a patient goes to the hospital for emergency care. The doctors look up the medical records to see what medications they are taking, what chronic conditions they have and recent surgeries. They find out that John Doe has had three heart attacks, is over weight and has diabetes. Do they continue care with this patient, or do they call the local government office to see if they can proceed with treatment. Who decides if he gets the treatment? Or do they fine poor John Doe for being obese and being a drag on the system? Wait, you say. We are not talking about taking away patient's rights with the electronic medical records. Care to make a bet on that? This is just one more slide towards socialized medicine and big brother watching. By the way, it seems that the Hospitals now are so well equipped with technologies that we didn't have twenty years ago. The thought that they can not get the needed information on a patient seems preposterous. The government should not be involved in healthcare -- he must be stopped!
Energy is a good topic. How about drilling off shore? How about letting the Oil companies go to Alaska to drill for more oil? Why can't we be an oil independent country? Answer: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed and Barack Obama do not want us to be energy independent. Barack proposes to have the American's infrastructure be energy efficient. Which means green energy. The way to bring costs higher to do what oil has done cheaply for many years. It has already been proven that Wind mills, solar energy and other green practices don't work efficiently. Why? It's not always windy, it's not always sunny and the use of these raw resources are not as effectively accessible as oil. Contrary to popular beliefs, we are not running out of oil. There are plenty of resources to go obtain oil. Let's say for the sake of argument that indeed we are running out of oil, and we need alternative energy. Okay, answer the question of why Congress has been opposed to Nuclear power, like France? If as a nation we are going to explore life without oil, wouldn't it be better for the private sector to investigate, create and package the product to consumers? Why would the government want to waste money on an area that they know nothing about? Energy independence should be our Government's goal, but not it's job. It's job is to give incentives to businesses to find a way to make this happen. Barack Obama must be stopped.
The only area left are the bridges and roads. Again, this is a issue for the local government, not the Federal government. The roads and bridges that are in disrepair all happen to be in states run by Democrats. Before anyone gets into a fit, check out who the Governors were for Minnesota and New Orleans, just to pick a few recent disaster areas. It never fails that the corruptive Governments are the one who are responsible for innocent lives being lost. State governments are responsible for funds to keep the roads and bridges safe for its citizens. If they are unable to do this, then the citizen's of that state should demand that their officials do something or get out to of the way for someone who will get the job done right. The Federal government should not be taking care of every crisis that the states encounter. Back to the idea that this will create or save 2 million jobs, it won't. The roads and bridges do not provide jobs unless, everyone who does not have a job goes to work on the roads as a government worker. Well, I guess that's better than flipping burgers, but not a whole lot more. Not everyone is cut out for construction. Perhaps, Obama has a plan for that too, but it is too scary to ask what that is since his "New Deal" will leave everyone poorer. How can such a blanket statement be made? Easy. Anyway you look at it, the only way to implement his grand "New Deal", is to raise taxes. This automatically leads to thinner wallets. Before this happens, he must be STOPPED.
If the Republicans in the Senate and Congress learned anything from this election, it should be this: We the people want a government who represents US. We want lower taxes, smaller government and security. Our soon to be President has detailed what he plans to do, we must fight back and tell him NO. He must be stopped.