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Jewish World Review
Dec. 10, 2009
/ 23 Kislev 5770
Government Giveth and Taketh Away
By
Bob Tyrrell
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Do my eyes deceive me? Did I really see President Barack
Obama this week calling for a vast increase in government spending? He
is promising to "spend our way out of this recession." He plans to build
highways and bridges. There will be tax cuts for small businesses. There
will be tax incentives for making our homes more energy-efficient.
Economic stimulus will be extended for unemployment insurance. Checks
for $250 will be sent to senior citizens and veterans. More money will
be sent to state and local governments so they will not have to lay off
teachers, firefighters and police. It is estimated that the president's
eruption of generosity will cost an additional $170 billion, perhaps
more.
He has made this promise despite the fact that fear is spreading
throughout the country that our government deficits are unsustainable.
The so-called independents have forsaken him, owing to their fear that
he is bankrupting the country. For that matter, he has expressed the
same fear … half a year ago.
Yes, this generosity comes from the same president who told a C-SPAN
interviewer last spring that "we are out of money." That grim revelation
came from President Obama in response to this observation by the
interviewer: "You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national
deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?" The
president's response was: "Well, we're out of money now. We're operating
in deep deficits."
About the time the president announced that this nation which is "out
of money" is going to "spend our way out of this recession," the
Gallup Poll spoke. According to it, the president's approval rating is
lower than that of any of his predecessors at this point in their
presidencies, and few came in with President Obama's high favorable
ratings. Today he polls at 47 percent, down from 53 percent last month.
A wit at the Los Angeles Times notes that the pulchritudinous former
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now within a point of the president in
popularity.
What is going on here? I suspect that the citizenry is coming to the
realization that the Democrats who have been in charge of the country
since January are not doing so well. The average American is telling the
pollsters that "the country is going in the wrong direction." One of the
ways the country is going in the wrong direction is not simply with huge
government spending but with huge government, period. Ordinary Americans
are uneasy about trusting their fate to huge government. They know that
government services are inefficient and expensive and occasionally
repressive and subject to corruption. More than that, huge government is
unreliable.
The health care debate has got to be reminding ordinary Americans of
their unease over government promises. Think about it. The same
big-government Democrats who are promising government-secured health
care are promising "health care savings" that are clearly the denial of
Medicare services to the elderly. That is to say, Medicare services that
once were promised to seniors by Medicare's advocates are being taken
from them under the false claim that they are savings. Face the facts;
the Democrats' health care savings are actually health care denials to
those who have been counting on those services for years.
Government does not keep its promises. Yet government is the Democrats'
solution to practically all our current problems. Many Americans who
have followed the health care debate are increasingly aware of this. The
longer the health care debate continues the more aware Americans will be
that they are about to be cheated out of the health care that they now
have.
When Medicare first was passed, it was understood that government would
stand aside from the relations that a patient has with a doctor.
Supposedly, these relations always would be a private matter between the
doctor and the patient, free of government interference. Yet on Page 146
of the Senate's version of health care reform, it is clearly written
that once the bill is passed, insurance plans certified by the
government can only pay the fees of a doctor who "implements such
mechanisms to improve health care quality as the Secretary (of Health
and Human Services) may by regulation require." In plain English,
henceforth government not only will intervene between doctors and
patients but also will control that relationship.
Once again, government cannot be trusted. What government gives to us,
government can take away. So maybe the president will not be spending
that additional $170 billion.
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