Obama Misses The Point

To the Editor:

The American majority thinks Washington is broken because it spends too much. President Obama and the Democrats have been pushing massive changes fueled by massive borrowing and spending without knowing how or if they will work. Programs like Obama-care and its real $2 billion price tag is questionable when Social Security and Medicare are going bankrupt. In a recent Democratic fundraiser President Obama said, “Part of the problem is that facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day all the time because we’re hard-wired to not always think clearly when we are scared.” Are you really scared or just miffed at all the excessive spending?

What Obama misses is that the American majority is not buying when he is selling. By a super majority of 68 percent they rejected the 2,400-page Obama-care bill that most congressmen did not read prior to the Democrats in Congress approving. And the onerous part of all of this was the congressional special deals and arm twisting coupled with a total lack of transparency.

While Obama calls Republicans obstructionists, they are not in control of Congress and were not able to stop any of this. Another point Obama does not appreciate is that the “American Dream” is a good job, not more food stamps. Higher corporate taxes will only make US companies less competitive and drive more jobs overseas.

Obama has only himself to blame because he ignored his centric inaugural speech and chose to push hard left tax and spend socialist programs. He even said this himself in a recent New York Times interview. He said that all this spending reinforced the point, “He’s the same old tax-and-spend liberal Democrat.” The real problem Obama and Democrats have is his very unpopular socialist priorities that have us on a path to national bankruptcy with government bureaucrats in charge of our health care.

Do not forget that in addition to our federal deficit of some $13 trillion dollars, 17 Democratic-run states have pension deficits totaling about $131 billion. Thus it is not just Washington that is broken by the Democratic leadership.

Besides bankrupting our country, the bigger problem with Obama-care is that it is an end runaround our US Constitution and results in changing our federal government from one of “limited powers” (powers and authority specifically enumerated in our constitution) to a federal government of unlimited powers. And it does this without the legally required national constitution referendum.

This November we should remember that every Democrat and some Republications running for reelection ignored the majority opinion of those who pay their salary. These elitists think that “We the people” applies only to them. Now is our opportunity to vote and thus inform them who “We the people” really are.

Daniel Kormanik

85 Great Ring Road, Sandy Hook                             October 20, 2010