The intrusions into our lives goes on and on. Believe me when I tell you that you do not want universal health care. What Americans do want, however, is affordable health care. Unfortunately, the Democrats are far too involved with the American Bar Association and especially those who specialize in medical malpractice and drug product liability litigation, to eliminate that cost from our medical bills. In addition, the Democrats will not step up and address the profit margins of the health insurance companies of the nation, so that part of the equation will not be addressed.

What Obama is willing to do is to take on the medical profession, which really is made up of fewer than one million men and women, and turn it into a government service for you and I. You can, however, be sure that neither he, nor his family, nor members of Congress or their families, will be affected by the new level playing field in health care. I suppose that it will take the actual experience of waiting 6 months for an appointment, an exam, a test or the refusal to be allowed the newest drug or treatment, in order to prove to the American people that universal health care is not the end all, be all, that the Democrats propose it to be. But what the hell, you didn’t expect to live forever, did you?

I noticed a quote by Tim Geithner, our Secretary of Treasury, referring to attitudes of Americans in the future, as the government’s stimulus and bailout packages gut the American landscape and take their toll on the working man and woman. Neither he nor the Obama administration had any idea what they were doing in the first place, and certainly did not realize the impact their programs would have on the unemployment picture or on the industrial infrastructure of this nation. However, Geithner did have this to say, when asked what changes he could foresee in the attitudes of Americans in the labor force when industry begins to hire again. Geithner said that he could see the average American worker being more interested in the work he was offered to perform, rather than the income he would make from his labor.

Please, give me a Soviet break. What is he going to come up with next, a five and seven year industrial and agricultural plan, as did the Soviets under Stalin? Ambition and hard work is what made America great in the first place, and no true American is going to accept a job, by which he supports himself or herself and the family, by first considering if he or she is going to enjoy the job offered. When you want to pay the mortgage and put food on the table, you ask about the pay scale and compensation, and not whether or not the job will be fulfilling and enjoyable.

How many of you can truthfully tell me that, if you had the chance, and the pay scale was commensurate with the life style you desired to lead, that you would have done what you did in your working life, or that you would have chosen something else. Most of us do what we have to do – not what we want to do. Sometimes I wonder where these elitists spring from or whether or not they were just produced in some laboratory on the campus of Harvard. One thing is for sure – a fine education is no substitute for good old fashioned “in your face” experience.

I suppose that Mr. Geithner’s naivety demonstrates the naivety of the entire administration. They are so inexperienced, that everything they are doing is new to them and thus, done on a hunch that it will work out for the best. Unfortunately, that is why old men legislate and young men go off to die in war. It isn’t right, but bad things happen to good people, and there is nothing that “wishin’ and hoping” is going to do about that.

Another example of the Obama quest to be all things to all people is his new FDA run tobacco industry. If tobacco is so bad, don’t grow it. If smoking is so bad for our health, then close down the tobacco and cigarette industry. I cannot think of a more cost saving piece of legislation, insofar as health care is concerned, but that won’t happen. All of those vested interests and lobbyists that Obama railed against in his campaign pay too much money to Congressmen and women, when campaign time is present, for that type of thoughtful and cost saving legislation to ever be enacted.

So now there is one more level of mismanagement in the tobacco industry, and you can be sure that the cost of smokes will rise, but the level of smoking will stay about the same. And while they are at it, why not just legalize all the other bad weed and drug concoctions that are being used openly by Americans? I can assure you that doctors treat far more patients whose illnesses are related to cigarette smoke than to heroin or meth. Then again, the latter don’t have lobbyists in Washington, for if they did, the law would be different.

If you want freedom, do not look to this administration to further your desires. Intrusive fascism or socialism is not the direction to take if you desire freedom and liberty. Just ask the Iranians.

JLK