Obamacare/
Obama Accomplishments
The downside
of social media is that people can spout off opinion, hyperbole, rants, raves,
and kudos and even sometimes lies with limited repercussion or consequence. One can
unfriend them from one's social network or one can block their posts. I do a little of both. I tend NOT to engage on Facebook or Twitter
because hiding behind a keyboard and a computer screen can indeed make one
brave.
A fellow who
I went to high school with is one of these folks. He clucks a constant tirade;
he hates president Obama and the president’s policies. His latest drumbeat the
medical insurance mandate. He states that he shouldn’t have to buy something
that he doesn’t want. Ok, I get that and
to that I say: I don’ want to pay for the care of folks too lazy, entrenched, cheap or
dogmatic; who don’t want to purchase health insurance. I
know that those people are going to cost me and our health care system a whole lot more money by flying without a safety net. So get over it, and do the morally right thing. And while were at it...think about this...
1. Do you want a state of the art health care system?
2. Do you want an accessible health care system?
3. Do you want an inexpensive health care system?
You can only make one choice...1! Anyway...moving on.
This
social media fellow thinks that Obama has done nothing good, he thinks that the president is
one of the Apocalypse' four horsemen. To that I say and site, Washington Monthly
Online, March/April 2012
President
Obama passed health care reform; after five previous presidents failed,
president Obama has now passed a law that will insure 32 million uninsured
Americans. President Obama recognized as
so many before him that health care cost growth is the number one cause of this
nation’s long term financial problems.
Passed $787
billion dollars in economic stimulus, this after inheriting a destroyed economy
from president G.W. Bush. An economy that
left to its own peril would have destroyed for a time the economy of the entire
planet. The great depression of the 1930’s would have looked like a tea party
by comparison. That pun directed at the far right is oh so intended. J
President
Obama passed Wall Street reform to regulate those responsible for the financial
disaster, again inherited from former president G.W. Bush.
President
Obama ended the war in Iraq, which cost this country according to the
Washington Post, somewhere between $4 to $6 trillion dollars. Perhaps my
Facebook friend should think about what kind of health care insurance that kind
of coin could buy for the American people. He should also think about the value
we the people got for our investment in Iraq. Let’s do a cost benefit analysis
on that one? I bet one column would be near empty and it wouldn't be the cost.
President
Obama began drawdown to end the war in Afghanistan. Again a costly folly that perhaps could have been executed with a scalpel instead of a sledge
hammer.
President
Obama had Osama Bin Laden killed. I’m not sure killing anyone should
ever be called an accomplishment. I’m sure none of us needs reminding of September 11, but if you do, here’s a link.
President Obama helped save the
American auto industry. Click the link to see the employment
numbers.
President
Obama recapitalized the banks, otherwise we’d still be in an economic
depression, thanks to the folly of G.W. Bush.
He repealed
don’t ask don’t tell; finally allowing citizens like me to serve this nation in
our armed forces in an open and affirming manner.
He helped
topple Moammar Gaddafi, you know, the dude responsible for blowing up Pan Am
flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Remember that act of terrorism or war that
killed 270 people at Christmas time.
President
Obama, two days after taking office nullified G.W. Bush era policies that
allowed torture of those detained by our military and government. He made us
better than our enemies who torture. It is always better to do as we do and say.
Actions and words should always sync.
