Thieves and Fools, Part V

This post is the fifth installment of an ongoing series, entitled : If you think your health care is my responsibility, you are a thief. If you think our health care system would be better if the government would intervene, you're a fool.

Whenever President Obama and his ilk make promises about Americans being able to keep their doctors and health care plans if they want to, we ought to expect he's fudging things a bit. In just a few months, the president has managed to spend almost the entirety of his administration breaking the oaths he swore when he was convincing citizens to elect him.

When asking for votes, he said he would publish all legislation on the White House Web site for five days of public scrutiny before considering signing it. After elected and safely in office, Obama signed the "economic stimulus bill," the single largest spending measure in Congress' history, multiple days short of that goal.

When asking for votes, he said 99 percent of Americans, everyone but the filthiest rich, would see a net tax cut, and would never see a single cent in tax increases on sales taxes, income taxes, personal property taxes, etc. His words: "I can make a firm pledge ... Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." After elected and safely in office, Obama signed an enormous increase on tobacco taxes, nearly doubling the tax on a pack of cigarettes.

Today, Bloomberg News reported on a health care reform plan under construction in the House of Representatives. Details remain sketchy because the would-be health care Nazis are playing things close to the vest; the more people hear about the socialization of the health care industry, the less people will like it. What is clear is that Obama's "not any of your taxes" pledge will again be cast aside. Six hundred billion dollars (at least) in tax increases will accompany the House Democrats' proposal.

Now Obama is campaigning for support for dramatic nationalization of our health care system and he is promising non-nationalization. "When you hear people saying socialized medicine, understand, I don't know anybody in Washington who is proposing that," he said.

The president did not tell the truth about taxes last summer, and he is not telling the truth about socialized medicine -- or keeping a doctor or a health care plan you like -- this summer. Hopefully enough Americans realize this before it's too late.