Posted on 09/08/2009 6:01:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them.
The words of convicted swindler Bernie Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and sophisticated. If you go by words, you can be led into anything.
No doubt millions of people will be listening to the words of President Obama on Wednesday night when he makes a televised address to a joint session of Congress on his medical care plans.
But if they think the words he says are what matters, they can be led into something much worse than being swindled out of their money.
One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation's medical care before the August recess — for a program that would not take effect until 2013!
Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid. If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years — more specifically, until the year after the next presidential election?
If this is such an urgently needed program, why wait for years to put it into effect? And if the public is going to benefit from this, why not let them experience those benefits before the next presidential election?
If it is not urgent that the legislation goes into effect immediately, then why don't we have time to go through the normal process of holding congressional hearings on the pros and cons, accompanied by public discussions of its innumerable provisions?
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Dr. Sowell is absolutely right.
bttt
I wish TS would run for President.........*sigh*.
Why even pass it in the first place?
I truly believe that the seniors will defeat this.
He’s nearly 80, and he’s said himself that he’s just too much of a crank to run for office, or even work in government. I don’t think he suffers fools *one bit*, and that’s a requirement to get along.
I agree and I love your tagline.
The pix are getting better and better.
he wanted to get re-elected in 2012 before the public experienced what its actual consequences would be.
But the better way to put it is this:
They delayed the effectiveness of the bill until 2013 because they knew it was going to fail, and they wanted to get out of Dodge before it went into effect. They want to be retired and collecting their pensions before the mob descends on Washington.
Yes...just a pipe dream. Been having them a lot lately...
Listening to a Liar [ (Black) Stanford Econ Professor Sowell Calls Obama a "Liar"]
Listening to a Liar (Thomas Sowell)
Also, there were two other postings today with another headline, but I don't remember what that headline was.
Can’t blame you.
The reason they put it after the next election is so the public can’t see how bad they got bufu’ed before Barry runs for reelection.
Bingo.
thouworm, as you were saying.
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