Enough Already

Obama Care is projected to cost between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion during the first ten years of operation. That works out to an average annual cost of $100 billion to $150 billion, or somewhere between $274 million and $411 million a day.

Personally I am against the federal government getting involved in my health care. The reason, simply put, Big Brother has a terrible track record and can’t be trusted to manage it. As it stands now there will be 53 departments needed to oversee this bureaucracy.

 This bill it seems has been proposed because 35 to 50 million people do not have health insurance. That number of uninsured fluctuates depending upon who is giving the speech.

Friday at the Belgrade, Montana town hall meeting, Randy Rathie, who identified himself as proud member of the National Rifle Association said to President Obama \”You can\’t tell us how you\’re going to pay for this. The only way you\’re going to get that money is raise our taxes.\”

\”You are absolutely right,\” Obama said. \”I can\’t cover another 46 million people for free. I can\’t do that. We\’re going to have to find money from somewhere.\”

The Treasury Department said last week the federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time ever and could grow to nearly $2 trillion by this fall, intensifying fears about higher interest rates, inflation and the strength of the dollar.

The deficit has been widened by the huge sum the government has spent to ease the recession, combined with a sharp decline in tax revenues. And the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continues to spiral.

In the meantime, the U.S. debt now stands at $11.5 trillion. Interest payments on the debt cost $452 billion last year — the largest federal spending category after Medicare-Medicaid, Social Security and defense.

And yet here we are discussing how to spend another trillion plus dollars on health insurance and our leaders don’t know where the money is coming from to pay for it.

What a financial mess we are leaving our grandchildren and great grandchildren all thanks to the federal government.  

We cannot allow the Washington Bureaucrats to continue spending our hard earn tax dollars like there is no tomorrow.  I for one say enough already.

The silent majority must keep up the pressure. We can make a difference.