Posted on 09/13/2009 5:45:45 PM PDT by Ebenezer
President Obama is right: This nation shouldn't allow tens of millions of its citizens to be left without health care. Those Americans suffer physically and financially, and the country is diminished because of it.
He is also right that it is time for our leaders to act. As the economic downturn leaves more and more people without health insurance, the well-being of thousands of families is eroding week to week.
The president made that case persuasively in his address to Congress and the nation Wednesday. It was high time that he stepped in. After a fractious August, during which both ends of the political spectrum tried to dominate the debate, the president reeled the conversation back toward middle ground.
"I believe it makes more sense to build on what works and fix what doesn't, rather than try to build an entirely new system from scratch," he said.
He went on: "The time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action."
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So we went from "representative" to "leaders."
Individual Americans are the leaders. And we are coming for you.
Uh, correcti0on:
Its “Dear Leaders” to you!
Yes, advice from that liberal paradise, NOLA.
Where decades of complete democratic dominance in all aspects of government on the Federal, State and Local level have resulted in no poverty, no disease, perfect health, schools that are the envy from coast to coast, low crime and no strife.
Clearly they are in a position to share their success story with and lecture the rest of us.
They aren't left without health care. They simply don't have insurance.
In a nation of 397 million, roughly 40 million don't have insurance. Ten million are illegals, another ten million make over $50 grand, another fifteen have other government programs available to them.
That leaves five million without insurance, and for them, the Left wants to ration health care, stunt research and development, leave in place lopsided tort law, and completely bankrupt the federal government with a massive new entitlement.
It really isn't hard to understand why Obama and the Democrats are getting their asses kicked over this.
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