He can't do for you what he says he can?

Can we apply common sense to Obama鈥檚 campaign promises.?


Healthcare

Obama鈥檚 plan says he will 鈥淲ork with employers to supply healthcare鈥?as long as employers pay a 鈥渕eaningful鈥?portion of the premiums. 鈥淢eaningful portion鈥?What does that mean? It means it鈥檚 not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy.

The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine.

We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our 鈥渇ree鈥?hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them.

Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn鈥檛 you? More to the point, why should I pay for you?

Socialized medicine will give you鈥檙e a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn.

Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10鈥檚 of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community?

The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled 鈥淰A Takes the Lead in Paperless Care鈥?

鈥淪ince 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.鈥?

Any 鈥淎uthorized鈥?person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate.

鈥淪top giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas鈥? Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here!

If you vote for one over the other because you 鈥渓ike鈥?one candidate or 鈥渉ate鈥?the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote.

Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer!

All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama鈥檚 plans will hurt this country.

Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O鈥檅ama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

No. I do not pay attention to what politicians say, but rather look at what they have done. Since Obama has no track record, that is hard to do. However, he ran in Illinois for the state senate, on a platform of lowering taxes. Once in, he voted every single time to raise taxes. Since he has been in the US senate, he has voted 95 times to raise taxes. He never voted to lower them. Now, he has said that he wants to give the middle class a break and tax everyone who makes over 250 thousand a year. That was a couple of days ago. Yesterday he changed that saying that he wanted to tax everyone making over 200 thousand a year. Today Biden said that they plan on taxing everyone making over 200 a year. Well, since he has repeatedly voted to raise taxes on someone making 42,000 and above, I think that is the closest to the truth. Plus, he plans on taxing your inheritance, 48 percent across the board. Plus, he is eliminating the 500,000 tax exclusion for the first 500,000 that one makes on the sale of their house. Instead of taxing the remainder that you have made out at 15 percent, he plans on raising that to 28 percent. Yet, the law has it capped at 25 percent. Obama is the Tax Master and he will tax your sneezes if he knows about them.
I agree with you on his socialized medicine. I much prefer a 5,000 tax credit given back to my family.
My sentiments exactly about your take on his position on Iraq. 76 out of 99 senators voted for the war and they were privy to the intelligence reports. Barack was not involved and I am sick of hearing him brag. That man talks about his accompishments, but I don't see any. I prefer to judge a politician by what they have done, rather than what they say they will do or have done.
Great post. Thanks! You are a patriot!
McCain/Palin 08

he can not do it but only if he orders the US govt. to take over the healthcare business-nationalized and nationalized all other business

Can Obama do it?

YES, HE CAN.

Seems you have put a lot of time and thought into this "question", what are your views on McCain's plan?

Yawn! Too long. Why answer your question when your mind is already made up?

I pay $300 a paycheck for health insurance. Thats $600 a month. I had to use my insurance last easter for my son, who was knocked unconcious and taken to the E.R. The bill was $1,000. Insurance paid $400, leaving me with a $600 bill.
Privatized health "insurance" is a joke. I am getting raped and there is nothing I can do it. Short of a catastrophic injury or major illness, it isn't worth a damn (and thats provided the insurance company doesn't find a reason to deny my claim)
Anything is better than this mockery health care. INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE GETTING RICH OF OUR HEALTH AND THIS IS THE WORST OF CAPITALISM!!!!

Under Obama's healthcare plan, employers that do not provide insurance will have to contribute to a fund that will become the government insurance entity. On the surface this is not a problem. However, employers will soon discover that it is cheaper for them to eliminate health benefits and just contribute to the government. The result is government run - socialized - healthcare delivery.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

The same can be said for Mccain.
No matter who enters the White House, there will be broken promises. That's what politics is all about.
George Herbert Walker Bush is the best example I can think of.
"...read my lips, no new taxes".
He raised taxes.

It's all going to come down to which candidate is the better candidate in the mind of the individual voter.
After the embarrassment that Bush has caused this country in the previous eight years, I have to throw my support to the one that is not a Republican.
Conservatives have no one to blame but themselves.