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Keith Olbermann’s recent hour long monologue about the horrors of our American health care system was a political rant in favor of the public option. One can understand his concern for his father and his desire to have a health system that could have extended his father’s life. We all understand that whether or not we have lost a loved one to sickness. Keith Olbermann has our sincere condolences for the horrible loss he has suffered.

We readily agree that health care is about improving the odds of life. At least in the term that has been allotted to us. Eventually the odds of life for all of us are zero.

We strongly disagree that a government health care program will improve the odds of life in the short term, we disagree that it is the responsibility of the government to assure our health, and we disagree that the current health insurance system is stylized blackmail. In fact, we disagree with Olbermann on almost everything except for his compassion for those who are sick and for those who have suffered the loss of those they love.

Olbermann, and MSNBC in general do not understand, or do not want to understand, why it is that most of us oppose what is called the public option. On the other hand, maybe they do understand but have become the conscious spin merchant in the media world for the public option.

Most Americans do not want the public option because most Americans no longer have full trust and faith in our government. Olbermann says health is not about politics. Of course it is about politics when you put the health plan in control of politicians! How clear can that be? Put the health plan in control of politicians by putting it under the public option and the health of all of us will be under the control of politicians who base their decisions on what they need to do to get enough votes to stay in office. Our health will always be secondary to that for most of our elected politicians. The evidence is too strong for most Americans to believe anything else.

We still have not heard of any federal government legislator who is unhappy with their own nationwide smorgasboard menu of health plans. They have had their special health plan for decades and never complain. If they truly cared about their constituents they would have been arguing for all of us to have the same plan they enjoy long long ago. Or, if they thought that the currently proposed public option would have been better for them they would have voted it in for themselves sometime in the middle of the 20^th century.

Olbermann claims there is misunderstanding about the public option. How insulting can he be? Probably about as insulting as the federal “public servants” who keep claiming that the majority of Americans are in favor of the public option. The truth is that most Americans understand perfectly. We understand that our federal government is already too intrusive in our lives and has too much control over all of us. We understand that sending more money to Washington under the guise of a public option increases the government’s power and dramatically increases the government’s visibility into the most intimate details of our lives and the lives of those we love.

Olbermann claims that the proponents of the public option are being “out terrorized” by the opponents. He asks what the opponents are afraid of . The answer is simple. We are afraid that our federal government has become too powerful over our individual lives and that the public option will increase that power dramatically. To put it succinctly, we are becoming afraid of our government. Every move the White House and the legislature make increases the power of Washington and increases our taxes while decreasing our liberties.

Thomas Jefferson said, “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”

The public option, by Jefferson’s definition, is bad government!

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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September 18, Hardball Chris Matthews

The racism talking points from NBC corporate must be getting pretty dog earred. Hopefully Brian Williams, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow are using hand sanitizer as they read from the same script every night trying to foist charges of racism on the American public. Maybe “American Public” is an overstatement when referring to MSNBC’s viewing audience — “trying to foist charges of racism on a handful of people” would probably be more appropriate.

After finishing his segment on racism, Matthews interviewed Douglas Brinkley, a left wing historian, who has written a book entitled, Teddy Roosevelt: The Wilderness Warrior.

Apparently Matthews would like to see the Fairness Doctrine applied to best selling books. During the interview with Brinkley, he lamented that there was too much “right-wing crap on the best seller list these days.”

It’s true, the New York Times best seller list is dominated by conservative books:

#1 Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin
#6 A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O’Reilly
#7 Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin
#8 Castrophe by Dick Morris

Coming in at #21 is Teddy Roosevelt: The Wilderness Warrior, by Matthew’s leftest friend, Douglas Brinkley.

Given everything that has happened with the socialist administration, and the control they want over American lives and minds, it would not surprise this editor if Obama appointed another radical as the New York Times Best Selling List Czar.