Watching Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann preach gospel from the GE/NBC written bible would be amusing if the effect wasn’t so damaging to the distribution of truth. But then maybe they are in the business of the “redistribution” of truth. Apparently these liberal propagandists, and failed president Jimmy Carter, don’t understand that people don’t oppose Obama because of his race or because of his party. That message is a Democratic Party and GE/NBC smoke screen. Most Americans oppose Obama’s plans because he wants services best provided by a commercial enterprise to be run by government with an abysmal record of financial incompetence; because he wants wealth accumulated by Americans through self-reliance and hard work to be redistributed through an outrageous, increasingly complex tax system; and because he wants to increase the size of a government that has become increasingly inefficient and bloated over the last century.
Let’s look at this from the standpoint of the hard-working, self-sufficient American striving every day to accumulate enough “wealth” to keep their family fed, clothed and sheltered with enough left over for educating their children and possibly enjoying retirement.
Local governments own golf courses, swimming pools and professional music venues. Almost all of those all across the country are losing money. And they do so year after year after year. But local governments excuse that loss by saying that these government-owned facilities improve the overall environment and make their municipality more attractive to new residents and businesses. Yet most of those local governments have shown a trend to increase local taxes over time. For governments this is a “pay raise” on top of a “pay raise”. And these governments still can’t make ends meet.
At the risk of over explaining this let’s talk about what tax rate increases really mean. If the sales and income tax rate is fixed then governments get more money every time a residents gets a pay raise. Let’s be clear — whenever residents get a pay increase the local, state and federal governments also get an automatic pay increase. However, all levels of government are almost consistently striving to increase the tax rate because they can’t live with the same income increases that the rest of us have to live with. Governments want and get an increase on top of the increase. Government income is increasing at a faster rate than individual income!
Clearly something isn’t working in government. If a private corporation increased its prices at the same rate that government increases its tax demand then that corporation would go out of business because potential customers would flock to the competitor’s product.
Could that be why the most liberal in the federal government don’t want competition for a government health care program? They know the government can’t compete on a level playing field!
This is why Americans don’t want government to run a national health program. Local governments can’t even make a profit off of golf courses, swimming pools and professional entertainment venues which they run without having to pay taxes on their revenue. (That is massively unfair competition against commercial enterprise.) State governments across the country, in spite of demanding increased revenue on top of the automatic increase they get when their residents get pay raises, are incurring massive deficits. Deficits so large that if they were a corporation they would have to file bankruptcy. The federal government over the last 70 years has mismanaged social security and associated programs so badly that all of them, according the government that runs them, will be bankrupt within 100 years after they were started.
The government, Republican or Democrat, on any level has shown itself to be incompetent to run a business enterprise — and insurance is a business enterprise. Even the FDIC is showing horrible signs of economic problems.
Keith and Chris need to get off of the GE/NBC/liberal government bandwagon of information redistribution. Within the general population this isn’t about citizen Republicans vs. citizen Democrats and it isn’t an issue of color. It is about Americans who believe in small government and capitalism vs. Americans who believe in large government and increasing socialism. It is about Americans who believe in self reliance vs. Americans who believe in redistributing the wealth.
Chris and Keith either don’t understand this or they are just trying to keep their jobs within the GE/NBC corporation with strong ties to government contracts.
We definitely need to be very careful and suspicious of the administration’s desire to push their new series of proposals through congress at record speed. There is a conventional wisdom in government that when a government tries to push through a new bill in record time that it has high probability of becoming bad law.
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