Posted on 08/12/2009 10:18:27 AM PDT by usalady
Speaking to a town hall of mostly ObamaCare supporters on August 11, 2009, the President compared the money-losing U.S. Post Office as an example of how a government-run program can compete with private enterprise. Oops!
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I have this idea....taxing the guys who make over $250k a year and make them pay for the failing post offices in America. It would be a surcharge on their taxes. Then I’d allow everyone to just mail anything they wanted....for free.
How is the President of the United States ignorant of this? How are his handlers?
Someone loose their teleprompter?
The sad thing is that the Post Office COULD be a profit-turning organization.
Obama’s an idiot.
If Palin had said something so stupid the media would be all over her for weeks.
But wait! There’s a video!
Is he really this dumb, or did the wireless device in his ear make him say it?
Ok, to be fair, he was using the analogy to show that there would be private sector competition to the boondoggle he is throwing out there, because the government plan will have problems inherent to government run plans.
That said, he forgot to mention that his plan makes it so that employers in the private sector will find it financially beneficial to get rid of their Employee Health Care. Through taxation, increased labor costs, etc, employers one by one will start dropping plans, until the government plan is the only one left. A small businessman will find his bottom line effected less by paying the fine for NOT providing a health care plan than jumping through all the hoops and paying all the taxes to provide one.
Not matter what he says, he has always been for a single payer government run system. Obama said it back in what 2003, when running for Congress, that it would take 10-15-20 years to get rid of the private health care market. He, along with his cronies in Congress know EXACTLY what is going to happen.
His intellectual dishonesty is breath taking at times.
The best reason not to support 0bamacare came from the President's own mouth.
It is stupid because private sector business cannot survive if they do not make money (profit) but government run entities don’t have to make money—in fact they are allowed to continue forever losing money.
(Amtrack, Post Office etc)
How can a government business that has unlimited funds and doesn’t have to earn a penny, create fair competition with similar private sector business?
Just F.O.S.
I bet this was a double face palm moment for our buddy Rahm. Now that’s a video I’d love to see.
Yes, but you wouldn't let old people mail stuff or people with dementia or the very young or disabled. They would only be able to mail based on their usefulness to society.
I’m surprised that line didn’t kill support for ObamaCare outright.
Rather starling coming from someone who, as a candidate, claimed to have taught constitutional law as professor. This and various other utterances expose that lie.
Comparing the operation of a constitutionally mandated function like the United States Post Office with the operation of American Businesses is nothing short of ignorant. Especially when you realize the actual topic is an unconstitutional health care bill.
For the uninitiated, what makes health care reform unconstitutional is the fact that the Constitution does not provide the herein granted power required for Congress to generate such legislation.
The proper method for Congress to write such legislation would be to add the power to do so by amending the Constitution.
Thank you for the reply MosesKnows, would it be possible that if this administration were to get this -unconstitutional- bill to pass (without an amendment) that charges would be brought against the offender(s)?
Doubtful. The socialist liberals are striving mightily for America to abandon the Republic and the rule of law and become a Democracy, which the rule of the majority. In a Democracy, the majority can ignore the law.
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