When Bill Clinton finally had to admit he lied about Monica Lewinsky, most of America was willing to forgive him. After all, it was just about sex and a CYA lie to avoid personal embarrassment. I don't personally subscribe to that rationalization but many did. With President Obama's healthcare lie, I don't think Americans will be as forgiving as they were with Clinton. The reason is simple: Mr. Obama deceived the American people and his lie fooled them into voting for him over something that they wouldn't have otherwise agreed to. Furthermore, it is causing huge swaths of them personal harm. Tens of millions of Americans who previously had healthcare coverage that they were perfectly happy with may ultimately lose that coverage because of the new Obamacare insurance requirements. The polls are bearing this assertion out. The president's approval rating has dropped to 37% and some polls even show that many of those who voted for him would vote for Mitt Romney if they held the election today. Ouch! Talk about buyer's remorse. Can you blame them? If LT Dan were a real person instead of a fictional character, he would probably lose his healthcare because it doesn't cover podiatry care.
"But you ain't got no legs Lieutenant Dan."
[Sigh] "Yes, I know that.[Forrest]"
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
And Obamacare is No Exception
Modern liberalism or progressivism or whatever one choses to call it is nothing more than Utopian socialism. This philosophy has its roots in Plato's Republic and was later described in 1516 by Sir Thomas More in his book, Utopia, and still later it was the basis for Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. Each of these works openly admit that Utopianism must be predicated on an initial "necessary" or "benevolent" lie - the idea that, if you can just overlook the initial falsehood of the premise, the result is everything that follows will be better. Unfortunately, we have to learn time and time again that something that has an untruth as its foundation will never bring about some ultimate greater good.
Margarette Thatcher once famously said that the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. While this may be true from a purely practical sense, from a moral and logical standpoint, the "necessary" or "benevolent" lie required in order for socialism to work is its true fatal flaw. Further, socialism is a philosophy that tries to force itself on reality as opposed to capitalism which is a philosophy that attempts to describe reality.
If one begins a mathematical proof with the false premise that 2+2 = 5, everything else that follows is doomed to failure. Regardless of the hoped for ultimate good, any program built on a lie cannot succeed and President Obama's "benevolent" lie, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan, etc...." and Obamacare is no exception.
Margarette Thatcher once famously said that the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. While this may be true from a purely practical sense, from a moral and logical standpoint, the "necessary" or "benevolent" lie required in order for socialism to work is its true fatal flaw. Further, socialism is a philosophy that tries to force itself on reality as opposed to capitalism which is a philosophy that attempts to describe reality.
If one begins a mathematical proof with the false premise that 2+2 = 5, everything else that follows is doomed to failure. Regardless of the hoped for ultimate good, any program built on a lie cannot succeed and President Obama's "benevolent" lie, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan, etc...." and Obamacare is no exception.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
"If" is the New "Period"
Before I get started on explaining the title of this post, I'd like to clarify some terms and provide examples.
A mistake is when you say something you believe is true but that turns out not to be. Example: George W. Bush and WMDs in Iraq. I'm not saying that invading Iraq was a good idea, especially in hindsight, but I'm saying it was a mistake. Everyone believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction including the U.N., the CIA, the NSA, the British intelligence services, the Germans, etc. There is no evidence whatsoever that Bush knew beforehand that there were no WMDs. Therefore, he didn't lie; it was a mistake.
A lie is when you say something you know to be untrue to deceive someone. Examples: When Bill Clinton claimed he never had sex with Monica Lewinsky, splitting hairs over the meaning of sex not withstanding, he knew he had and therefore what he said was a lie. When Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Susan Rice et al, claimed that the attack in Benghazi that killed the American Ambassador and three other Americans was the result of some YouTube video that no one had seen, they knew that wasn't the case yet they repeated it over and over again. That was also a lie - pure and simple. I know Obama apologists would like the public to believe otherwise, but the fact is they lied.
On the other hand, when George H.W. Bush said, "Read my lips, no new taxes." and then raised taxes, that was a broken promise not a lie unless someone can provide proof that he confided to someone that he intended to raise taxes after he was elected in spite of his pledge.
When the Obama Administration calls Major Nidal Hasan's murderous rampage at Fort Hood "workplace violence", well that is just plain delusional.
Now for the explanation of the title. When Barack Obama claimed over and over and over again, "If you like your current plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor - period." he and his advisors were lying. The media has discovered that the Administration knew full well that this wasn't going to be the case. There are emails and memos documenting this. Since this has come to light, the President and his mouthpiece, Jay Carney, have tried to spin this as, "What we said was, ‘You could keep it [your plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed.'" So unless "If" is the new "period", this too is a lie and what a whooper of a lie it is!
A mistake is when you say something you believe is true but that turns out not to be. Example: George W. Bush and WMDs in Iraq. I'm not saying that invading Iraq was a good idea, especially in hindsight, but I'm saying it was a mistake. Everyone believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction including the U.N., the CIA, the NSA, the British intelligence services, the Germans, etc. There is no evidence whatsoever that Bush knew beforehand that there were no WMDs. Therefore, he didn't lie; it was a mistake.
A lie is when you say something you know to be untrue to deceive someone. Examples: When Bill Clinton claimed he never had sex with Monica Lewinsky, splitting hairs over the meaning of sex not withstanding, he knew he had and therefore what he said was a lie. When Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Susan Rice et al, claimed that the attack in Benghazi that killed the American Ambassador and three other Americans was the result of some YouTube video that no one had seen, they knew that wasn't the case yet they repeated it over and over again. That was also a lie - pure and simple. I know Obama apologists would like the public to believe otherwise, but the fact is they lied.
On the other hand, when George H.W. Bush said, "Read my lips, no new taxes." and then raised taxes, that was a broken promise not a lie unless someone can provide proof that he confided to someone that he intended to raise taxes after he was elected in spite of his pledge.
When the Obama Administration calls Major Nidal Hasan's murderous rampage at Fort Hood "workplace violence", well that is just plain delusional.
Now for the explanation of the title. When Barack Obama claimed over and over and over again, "If you like your current plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor - period." he and his advisors were lying. The media has discovered that the Administration knew full well that this wasn't going to be the case. There are emails and memos documenting this. Since this has come to light, the President and his mouthpiece, Jay Carney, have tried to spin this as, "What we said was, ‘You could keep it [your plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed.'" So unless "If" is the new "period", this too is a lie and what a whooper of a lie it is!
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