After catching grief about his bow to the king of Saudi Arabia in April, I hoped that President Obama would have learned that presidents of the United States don’t bow to foreign heads of state. Nope, this weekend he gave the emperor of Japan a deep bow. The president’s spokespeople said that he was only following protocol. But whose protocol? Protocol for the President of the United States means no bowing. I’m afraid that President Obama just doesn’t get it.
He doesn’t understand that the United States of America is a special nation. It’s not just another country.
He doesn’t understand the difference between a criminal and enemy combatant. The Obama Administration announced last week that 4 of the terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay will be transferred to New York City to stand trial in a civilian federal court for their participation in the attacks on our country on September 11, 2001. By transferring these murderers to American soil and trying them in a civilian court, we are giving them rights and protections that they do not deserve nor are they entitled to. The proper way to handle this would be in military tribunals. But President Obama doesn’t get it.
President Obama insist that the federal government needs to take over the best medical care system in the world. His goals: cheaper and more universal health care. But by socializing medical care in the United States, not only will his goals not be met, the opposite will occur and it will cost astronomical amounts. Both the quality and the availability of health care will be reduced and the costs involved will make it anything but cheaper. But President Obama doesn’t get it.
Another point of the medical care fiasco–while campaigning for the presidency, Barack Obama promised not to raise taxes for the bulk of taxpayers. Only “high-income” taxpayers would see an increase. With the mandated requirement to have medical insurance or face expensive penalties or perhaps jail, everyone will now have an increase in their taxes. And the majority of Americans don’t even want the current system to be changed to a government system. But President Obama doesn’t get it.
The next big push I expect to see is Cap and Trade legislation–another short-sighted program that will have extremely high costs and little return. All in the name of saving us from global warming or climate change or whatever this foolishness will be called next. But President Obama doesn’t get it.
The last time the federal government got massively involved with trying to fix the economy during a time of crisis only lengthened a depression that would have lasted a few years into one that lasted more than a decade. Only World War II, not the government’s interventions, got us out of the Depression. But, unfortunately, President Obama doesn’t get it.
Hopefully, some of our politicians will get it and will act as leaders and as statesmen. They will understand before it is too late the proper role of government isn’t in involving itself in every nook and cranny of our lives. Hopefully, someone will understand that the marketplace can make better decisions than bureaucrats. Hopefully, someone will understand the true nature of the murderers that want to destroy our country and everything it stands for. Hopefully, someone will get it–and will get it in time to stop the naive foolishness exhibited by President Obama.
Tags: 9/11, health care reform, Obama, taxes
