You could be an Icelandic fisherman. Or you could set aside a moment to make a list of jobs that you are really glad that you don’t have to do. Or—you could be the guy out on the deck making the video!
President Obama has an unpleasant habit, left over from the campaign, of beginning every speech with a (don’t blame me) reference to the deficit he inherited or the worst crisis or something of the sort. Whatever it is, it’s not his fault.
The Bush administration spent too much. We agree. There was 9/11, Katrina and a War in Iraq, but President Bush didn’t veto some things he should have, and opted for some expensive programs. Congress spent too much. But, let’s face some facts.
For each year of Obama’s term, deficits are projected to be larger than in any year that Bush was in office.
Each color represents the difference between the projected deficits at different points in time. The purple bars represent the numbers as they were projected back in September 2008, the black and red bars represent the differences at other points in time. The orange bars represent the actual deficit numbers during President Clinton’s last year in office (fiscal 2001), and President Bush’s two terms.
President Obama promotes what he calls “a new ethic of responsibility.” The chart above is based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data. It shows a projection of deficit numbers for each year until fiscal year 2018.
Obama rightly notes that he inherited a large deficit in fiscal 2009, but he is responsible for growing the deficit beyond all expectations in 2009 and thereafter. The black bars represents the TARP spending, which Obama voted for in the Senate. The red part is all Obama’s.
Obama’s deficits are frightening. Every month that goes by adds to the deficit. His budget is astounding, and he keeps adding personnel,more Czars and more programs.The August 2009 projections contain no health care spending, assume that “temporary” stimulus spending will stop in 2011, and contain no expenses for cap-and-trade, the proposed new energy grid, the Midwest high-speed rail plan, or any of the other big changes he wants to bring to America.
The stimulus funds spent so far have been largely wasted, and subsequent stimulus is not expected to create jobs. The big investment in Government Motors is no longer expected to produce any pay-back for taxpayers.
We posted a video of Shona Holmes’ account of her health care under the Canadian health care system some time ago, and received all sorts of angry responses from Canadians who insulted us, insulted Ms. Holmes, and were furious that anyone would disparage their “free” health care system.
It was never our intent to insult Canadians, but rather to explain what we believe to be the inevitable problems of a socialized system. There are government run health care systems all over the world, and they are all in financial trouble, with declining quality of care.
Rick Barker, head of Timely Medical Alternatives pointed out that in the U.S. the individual is valued more than the government, or to put it another way, in the U.S., health care is about saving lives; in socialized systems health care is about saving money. There are some 875,000 Canadians on waiting lists for referrals to specialists or for medical procedures.
The Canadian Parliament reported that 100,000 Canadians die each year while sitting on a waiting list for a medical procedure. A two-year wait to see a gynecologist is thought totally acceptable. Canadians are waiting 45% longer than physicians believe to be acceptable. The wait for an MRI is 9.7 weeks. An ultrasound wait is 4.4 weeks. The wait for an MRI in Bellevue ,WA is around 30 minutes.
Here is Canadian Cheryl Baxter with her story. She finally came to America for the surgery she needed. She says her government let her down.
Here’s how one Canadian citizen survived brain cancer, and spent $50,000 of his own money at an American hospital in order to survive.
In Canada, under their socialized system, Lindsay would have died before he received treatment. Timely Medical Alternatives helped Lindsay McCreith of Ontario get urgent brain surgery in Buffalo, New York. From the Timely Medical Alternatives website:
While recognizing that many Canadians believe that we have one of the best health care systems in the world, the founders of Timely Medical Alternatives Inc. also recognize that there are some 875,000 Canadians currently on the waiting list for referrals to specialists or for medical procedures.
Our organization was formed in 2003 to help Canadians from coast to coast, to “Leave the queue” and take personal responsibility for their own private medical services.. Since then we have helped hundreds of Canadians obtain second medical opinions, MRI’s / CT scans / PET scans (within days) and surgery (within weeks). We have helped our clients to regain their mobility, to get relief from chronic pain, to get diagnoses of illnesses and we have, in some cases, helped to save the lives of a number of our fellow Canadians.
Canadian professionals say “Don’t do what we’ve done. We will lose our escape valve.”
While the U.S. Congress debates whether to set American medicine on the path that Canadians have taken, Canadians are beginning to try to search out their own private option. So if we get stuck with ObamaCare perhaps we can go to Vancouver or Alberta for better, faster care.
The videos and much of the information come from Gateway Pundit. You will find much more information at his valuable website.
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