Listen carefully, very carefully from now on when President Obama speaks. Listen not only to what he says; listen to what he doesn’t say. Here are some key examples:
1. Obama says that Universal Health Care must be passed and passed very quickly to reduce the cost of health care.
a. Obama “doesn’t say” what he actually means by reducing the cost of health care, how this will be accomplished, what health care will mean to you, the individual. As all common sense people know, everything has a cost either in dollars or in product or service. Obama doesn’t say” that health care will be rationed to save money; in other words you won’t receive health care the same way that you used to receive health care. He “doesn’t say or explain” that statistical analysis will be used to justify the denial of health care primarily based on age and probability of recovery.
b. He “doesn’t say” or explain how spending 2 trillion on health care by borrowing from foreign countries actually generates a savings.
c. He “doesn’t say” that all of this spending will NOT result in everyone being covered anyway … because it’s not enough money.
d. He “doesn’t say” that you will give up your freedoms; freedom to choose your physician, to choose your hospital, to choose when you will get your care.
e. He “doesn’t say” that up to 35% of the 46 million uninsured DON’T WANT IT; these are mostly young people who have done the math and decide that it isn’t worth it based on their age … not because they can’t afford it.
f. He “doesn’t say” that 25-30% of the 46 million are illegal aliens and, at the least, should pay for the health care they receive without any subsidy from legal aliens and citizens as a simple matter of right and wrong.
2. Obama says he doesn’t wish to “meddle” with the internal situation in Iran or other countries.
a. Obama “doesn’t say” that he doesn’t wish to meddle with Israel. On the contrary, he creates a moral equivalency between the building or expansion of settlements in the West Bank and the fact that Israel has no partner in any serious peace negotiation because there is no Palestinian representative willing to recognize the State of Israel or even admit to any sense of legitimacy.
3. Obama says that we have to get back to fiscal responsibility and a “pay as you go” system.
a. Obama “doesn’t say” that this is quite a statement since he just spent 10+ times more than any other modern day President in just the first 100 days of his administration and how that can make any sense at all.
b. He “doesn’t say” that all Americans, rich, middle class and poor, will pay huge new taxes on virtually everything we pay for.
c. He “doesn’t say” that under active consideration is a VAT (Value Added Tax) or National Sales Tax that we will all pay in addition to everything else. He further “doesn’t say” that the so-called tax cut on 95% of Americans is ultimately a ruse to help mask the real agenda of huge, unprecedented spending, taxation, regulation and huge infringements on our liberty we all face dead ahead.
4. Obama says that he has saved over 100,000 jobs so far and projects 600,000 saved jobs in the next 90 days.
a. Obama “doesn’t say” that he has no idea how he can say this because there is no known metric for measuring “saved jobs.”
b. He “doesn’t say” that we have lost an additional 2+ million jobs since inauguration day.
c. He “doesn’t say” that the unemployment rate is now more than 1 percentage point higher than he said it would go.
5. Obama says that he doesn’t want to be in the auto business or the banking business or the insurance business.
a. Obama “doesn’t say” that he is in the auto business and could have avoided it completely by letting the natural course of capitalism, the bankruptcy laws and the free markets deal with it as it has always done so well and efficiently.
b. He “doesn’t say” that he did it to protect the labor unions for the votes and to shoot the finger to the capitalists that invested in the bonds of the auto companies.
c. He “doesn’t say” that the he didn’t readily accept repayment of the TARP from the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley because he doesn’t want to relinquish control and authority over executive pay.
d. He “doesn’t say” that he has no interest in returning AIG back into the free market instead opting to maintain control of the largest insurer in the world affecting financial relationships across the country and around the world.
6. Obama says that he wants to make sure that all stimulus money is well spent and accounted for and that “no one messes with Joe” referring to Joe Biden who was put in charge of making sure of all of this.
a. Obama “doesn’t say” that the stimulus isn’t really about stimulus anyway. It’s mainly a political document that serves to reward all those constituents, mainly the labor unions that supported him and the Democrat Party.
b. He “doesn’t say” that the stimulus hasn’t resulted in 1 provable new job, at least in the private sector.
So, when President Obama speaks … LISTEN … but not just to what he says or how he says it … LISTEN to what he doesn’t say. The real truth about what drives this President and his policies can be found just by careful listening.
Arthur Cooper
On Tuesday, California voters sent a resounding and complete rejection of new and confiscatory taxes on a whole range of Propositions. Too bad all states couldn’t do the same thing through this process of voting on specific proposed increases in spending and taxes. California has been a very “blue” state voting for liberal and democratic politicians, particularly over the past 15 years. Tax increases on income, sales, property, etc were all defeated on Tuesday. These were not squeaker votes; they were all landslides with 60%+ plurality. So Hurray for California, hurray for limited government and hurray for the individual … FINALLY!