This post was promised to illuminate how Obama lied in his State of the Union when he said he will focus on spending less.  While there’s plenty to discuss on that issue, I simply cannot ignore the current Health Insurance bill that may be illegally and unconstitutionally forced through the House and Senate.  And in a way, I will be discussing how Obama refuses to spend less, and how he continues to ignore what is really important: creating jobs.

But first, let’s remove from the equation all the sob stories that the Democrats are fond of trotting out.  They want these stories to be what is discussed, some of which are fallacious and uncorroborated, in order to tug on our heart strings and cloud your thoughts with emotions.

When trying to figure out how to pay off a huge debt, do you go out and buy a car because it makes you feel good?  Do you reconcile purchasing the car while in debt by reminding yourself how bad you have it, because you have take the bus or the metro?  Of course not.  We live in an uncompromising world, a world that often is not fair. We are forced to make decisions based on fact, not on emotion.

So, when considering one quarter of our entire economy, let’s stick to the facts:

Obama’s approval rating: 48% (Gallup), 47% (Rasmussen)

Americans against the Health Insurance bill: 58% (Gallup), 60% (Rasmussen)

Physicians against the Health Insurance bill: 62.7% (New England Journal of Medicine, read all of the results, they are eye-opening!)

The Health Insurance bill is not about health care, it is about insurance.  Two different things.  That’s why I refer to the bill as the Health Insurance bill, not the Health Care bill.

Insurance Companies are the Devil

Health insurance companies are not medical saving accounts.  They are insurance companies, just like car and life insurance companies –they make bets on how often they will need to pay out based on you, the person.  You have a lot of speeding tickets?  Your car insurance premiums go up.  Pretty straight forward.  You have smoked all your life and have heart disease in your family, your life insurance premiums go up.  Again, this is standard practice based on you, the individual.  The difference is that life and automobile insurance companies can compete across the entire U.S., increasing competition, and giving the customer better value.  Long live capitalism.  Health insurance companies cannot.

Spend, Spend, Spend

Current spending and government growth has put our country on a track that will double our debt in 5 years, and triple it in 10.  Do we really want to add more to this?  The independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has revised its estimate, reporting that this bill will cost the American tax payers another $875 Billion over the next ten years.  That’s 875,000,000,000 dollars.  Or, to put it another way, we will be spending almost $240,000,000.00 every day for the next ten years.

Health Care Rationing

If you have five bananas in a bowl and five people waiting to eat one, simple math tells you that each person gets one banana.  Now, if you add three more folks, then each person gets less than one banana.  They have to ration the bananas.  And, if some of the bananas –say two –don’t like the Health Insurance bill and run away, then there’s even less bananas to go around.  Don’t be hoodwinked by the Capital Hill Cons, or Obama the Orator.  This is simple math.

The Health Insurance bill will add more people to the ranks of Americans receiving government aid for health insurance.  And, as the New England Journal of Medicine survey demonstrated, there will be less doctors to go around if this bill is passed.

Simple math.

What about Jobs?

After 14 months of fighting (with themselves!) over this bill, what has Obama  and his fellow Dems done to create jobs?  Not “save” jobs.  Not create “government jobs”.  What has Obama, Pelosi, Reid or any of the Democrats done to create real, private sector jobs?  Nothing.  Zip.  Nada.  In fact, 8 Counties in California exceed 20% unemeployment.

Worse, they have made it more difficult for small business to succeed, raised their taxes, failed to help increase small business loans, and generally have ignored rising unemployment.  Government jobs are not the solution.  We need to grow small businesses.  That’s economics 101.

Republicans, Insurance Companies are the Enemies

So what have they been doing?

They have waged a campaign to demonize the insurance companies, and painted Republicans as obstructionists.  Right now, the Republicans aren’t even involved.  Other than the one public conversation that Obama dominated (he alone spoke for twice the time that all of the Republicans combined spoke), the Republicans have been excluded from the debate.  They have no power, and are unable to stop the Democrats from passing the bill (at least prior to January 2010 when Scott Brown was elected).  All this time, the Democrats have failed to pass the bill because they themselves cannot pass it.

Why?

The Truth

Because we Americans don’t want it.  And while term limits for Senators and Representatives sound appealing, if we had them, we would have no leverage on them right now.

No, Republicans are not obstructionists.  They are fighting for us.  And we, the American public, are the real obstructionists.  We are obstructing a bill that will destroy this country, and increase our problems.  Meanwhile, the Dems are using unconstitutional means (it violates Article 1, Section 7) to pass the bill, bending rules as they go along to ram this down our throats.

We are winning the war.  But we need to keep fighting.  We can’t be tired now, or give up, or hope someone else will fight the fight for us.

No, all of us, together, must call, must email, must write, must knock on doors, until this bill is dead.  We must do this for ourselves, our freedom, and our children.