Posted by
novelator on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:42:36 AM
Over the weekend, particularly on Sunday, Obama took to the airwaves to
sell healthcare insurance. Unfortunately, his sales pitch had several
flaws, the most notable of which was the auto versus healthcare
insurance argument to support what he claims isn't a new tax.
From CNN:"What
it's saying is ... that we're not going to have other people carrying
your burdens for you any more than the fact that right now everybody in
America, just about, has to get auto insurance," [Obama] said. "Nobody
considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair
way to make sure that, if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the
costs."
Perhaps no one has told Mr. Obama that Americans are not
currently required from cradle to grave to own a car or carry car
insurance. Hell, even those Americans who hold a driver's license are
not "mandated" to purchase auto insurance unless and until they
actually put a car they own on the road and get behind the wheel of
said car. This is why the comparison of auto insurance to healthcare
insurance doesn't work.
Just because our purported president
says a "mandate" for all Americans to purchase healthcare insurance
isn't a new tax doesn't mean it isn't. And since when did Obama, or the
Congress, presume the authority to tax me or my fellow Americans, our
children or any baby born in America for the right to live? I did not
choose to be born, yet I am here, but that doesn't mean I want my air
taxed or my very life taxed to death. As many of the signs at tea
parties across the nation read: I am not your ATM, Mr. Obama.
I
highly resent the fact that Obama, Baucus and the Congress appear to
assume that I and the rest of my fellow Americans are so stupid as to
not be able to reason. I'm insulted by the obvious assumption on their
part that we the People will swallow any kind of BS they wish to offer
in support of their attempt to take total control of our lives under
the guise of "healthcare reform."
Regardless of the sales pitch,
no one but the most brainwashed among us is fooled: a government
"mandate" for all Americans to purchase anything, especially healthcare
insurance, IS a tax. There might've been one born every minute,
according to PT Barnum, but it's becoming increasingly obvious to a
growing majority of the American People that they all work in
Washington DC--for the moment, anyway.
Either our purported
president has no ability to reason, he possesses no common sense
whatsoever or he is just lying through his teeth to sell this new tax
on all of us, young and old, newborn to senior citizen. I leave the
reader the absolute freedom to be the judge of that.