September 2 2009
Boston Harbor 2009
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Vol. 4 Issue 9
On December 7, 1941, upon receiving word
from his fleet commander in the
Pacific, that they had successfully attacked
the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor,
Japanese Naval Marshal General Isoroku
Yamamoto turned to his
commanders and said, “I am afraid we have
woken a sleeping giant and
filled him with a terrible resolve.”
If you believe, if we do not learn from
history we are doomed to repeat it,
President Obama has done just that. He has
woken a sleeping giant with a
terrible resolve. Only this time it is not a
foreign enemy we are fighting it is
our own government.
He has not attacked us with planes and
bombs; he has attacked us with
rhetoric and sound bites that have attacked
our sensibility. However, he is
fighting with his head in the sand. When he
stood in front of the press and
explained that my “pediatrician would rather
take out my child’s tonsils
than treat the symptoms with pain killers
and antibiotics because he gets
paid more from the insurance company,” I
went into my usual rant at the
one-eyed digital monster that I keep
screaming at which never answers me.
“You idiot,” I screamed. “You really expect
the American people who have
half a brain to believe that idiom?” My
pediatrician will send me to an ENT
surgeon to remove them and cure my child. He
will never see him again for
tonsillitis. So he is taking money out of
his pocket, not lining it with
medical insurance checks. What about the
economic effect of mom or dad
staying home with a sick child and missing
time from work. No income, no
taxes no money to pay for your new health
care bill.
If that wasn’t bad enough he then told us
at a staged town hall meeting, “If
you have diabetes and need your foot
amputated the surgeon collects
$30,000 to $50,000 from Medicare for the
surgery.”
“In fact, Medicare pays a surgeon between
$740 and $1,140 for a leg
amputation," said the American College of
Surgeons (ACS), which is care
that includes evaluation of the patient the
day of the operation and follow-
up care that is provided for 90 days after
the operation. Private insurers pay
a variation of the same amount, said the
group, adding that it is "deeply
disturbed" over the President's "uninformed
public comments."
Then the President told us “health care
costs in the U.S. are almost twice
what they are in the UK and Canada.” Here is
a quick economic lesson for
you Mr. President. It is twice as expensive
because we get twice as much
care. Consumer education 101, “You get what
you pay for.”
Canadian doctors have a new medical
referral program. They refer their
patients to the U.S. for care that they
cannot get at home.
It was Benjamin Franklin who said,
"A
slip of the foot you may soon
recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
never get over."
So how stupid do you think we are Mr.
President. The American people see
right through your arrogance.
You told us the “Cash for Clunkers”
program would cost $4,500 a vehicle.
So what has it done? It has accomplished the
same thing Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac were able to do. Only this time
instead of homes they cannot
afford, poor people are purchasing expensive
vehicles they will not be able
to afford. Let us not forget the used car
dealers and auto mechanics that
will go out of business. Oh! By the way Mr.
President that $4,500 per
vehicle is more than $7,000 when you factor
in the cost of the new
government agency you set up to administer
it.
Obama is to be congratulated. He is the
first President who has revealed the
ability to get the American people, no
matter what their party affiliation out
of their chairs. He is not the new FDR; he
is the new Paddy Chayefsky who
got Howard Beale out of his chair in the
movie “Network.” (Those of you
who are too young, my suggestion is you rent
the DVD and watch it
carefully). The American public is starting
to believe he has no idea what
he is doing. The polls are showing the
results of that statement. It is just
one failed policy after another. He
continues to act with enthusiasm and a
smile on his face.
Winston Churchill said,
"Courage is going
from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Congress is being led by a mad woman from
San Francisco; that’s mad with
capital M and two D’s. She is running
Congress by the 11th commandment.
“When it comes to her congressional agenda
the first ten don’t apply.”
F. Lee Bailey once asked, “Do you believe
the Bill of Rights could get
through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get
out of committee.”
Let me explain this in simpler terms.
It’s called Robin Hood economics.
When you rob Peter to pay Paul?Paul will
side with you every time. You
can’t sit home watching your 60” TV, wearing
your Gucci loafers, sipping
your $50 dollar wine, driving your new BMW
and tell me you can’t afford
health insurance. Start taking
responsibility for yourself. Stop waiting
for
the government to bail you out.
Helen Keller said, "The most pathetic
person in the world is someone
who has sight, but has no vision."
When I think of where our President and
his Chief of Staff originated from
and how they are products of the powerful
Chicago political machine. I can
only wonder if Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was trying
to tell us something.
As for the Tea Parties and Town Hall
meeting attendees; Dr. Margret Mead,
the great anthropologist, said, “Never doubt
the power of a small group
of people to change the world. That is about
the only way it has
ever happened in the past.”
Take heed town hall attendees
“First they
ignore you, then they laugh
at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Ghandi
As for a history lesson Mr. President you
should have studied Gandhi not
Saul Alinsky.
And that is my opinion,
Michael Solomon
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