Protests are springing up around the country. Stunned by a pork-laden stimulus package and a kill the economy cap-ane-trade bill, average Americans cried "too much" when the government-will-care-for-you health care bill was launched. The government will save money by running health care? That's Brooklyn Bridge talk. The government will control your life-and-death decisions because it's paying the bills: People understand that and they don't want it.
A reader of a column by the New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman said this:
The display of rage in crammed healthcare town hall meetings around the Country is not necessarily attributable to healthcare alone. It's much broader than that -- our fellow countymen are at wits' end trying to maintain their heads above water. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get such a huge turnout at a town hall meeting in the middle of August? The mob is turning ugly, not because they do not want anyone to "touch their Medicaid," but because the fuse has been lit by those who have taken advantage of middle class Americans and played them for fools.
Zuckerman had said this:
Ruinous tax increases are inevitable if spending cuts remain outside the President's agenda.
Everybody is dazed and confused by all this talk of additional indebtedness in the trillions of dollars. Our soaring national debt will require cataclysmic adjustments to accomplish the restoration of a balance in our fiscal position.
Obama's hatred of capitalism and free markets has led to this debt explosion. Kill the free enterprise system and the government will step in to take care of you. People aren't buying it.
Obama never had a real job so he doesn't know how wealth is created. By choking free markets and individual initiative, he will find his socialist society has no revenues. American citizens will be the losers.
