Town Hall Gunman gets a D in fashion

All over the internet I’m hearing “Gun-toting Man Draws Scrutiny Outside Obama Town Hall.”

Many are pointing to the shirt, which read "It Is Time To Water The Tree Of Liberty" as an obvious threat to take the head of the President, but what I’ve gotten from it is that he just doesn’t know how to pick quotes.

If the shirt had used the Jefferson quote, “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” If he had said that then he would have been displaying a great message.

Maybe this was not the message he meant to send, but it is what America should get from his actions. Of course the Democrats will make sure that the message they send it, “Those crazy conservatives are willing to kill for Rush Limbaugh.”

Health Care Reform: Passing the burden from businesses to government

Health Care is the biggest issue being talked about right now, and it seems like the citizens aren't for the reform that is being planned. That may change as time goes on, but right now the people of the nation seem to be wary of more spending because of how large the deficit has grown to.

What really bugs me about the issue is the fact that it shows exactly where my views with Obama differ. Both of us see that the insurance companies are the problem, but our methods to fix it are completely different.

I see insurance companies as a hindrence to the free market. With insurance companies paying the cost doctors and patiants are in the dark about the actual cost of what they are recieving. The insurance companies make the decisions instead of the patient.

Right now Obama is trying to fix it by taking away the insurance companies and adding the government. What bothers me about this is that it takes the patients choice to choose away even further, and now the government is who you go to for Health Care.

If it continuos to be an option that is fine, but if it is an option that is underwritten by the government every year than it won't be good because it would drive private insurers out of the sector. The more people to be under the government model the more it would have to be subsidized, which would just keep costing the government more and more money.

Obama is saying that that fixing health care is how we fix our economy. Right now it is hurting businesses because they have to pay for employees insurance. So, instead of strangling businesses we are going to strangle the government? That just seems bad.

Why not make it the individuals who have to save money for procedures and doctors visits? I'm sure hospitals would compete for yearly plans and stuff for normal services. It would save money because people could shop around for the best price, people could rate doctors online, and everything could be dealt with in the free market.

Right now the free market doesn't exist in health care, because the patients and the doctors don't know the prices of anything anymore it would seem. The government is trying to compound the problem, not fix it.

Cash for Clunks. Success?

The first advice my economic teacher gave my High School class was that a new car is basically the worst investment someone could make. They always go down in price, in fact they go down substantially in price as soon as they leave the lot.

Apparently the US government hasn’t taken any classes in economics. We are using billions of dollars to help Americans buy new cars, many of which will have to take out loans and get more into debt in order to pay for the car.

The money being given out isn’t enough to bankrupt the country or anything of the sort, but it really makes no sense to call it a success.

This is what happens when the government gives money directly to the US people. Of course people are going to take advantage of a free $4,500.

If nothing else, this “success” shows the governments failings in the past. This upped sales in a section of the economy that billions of dollars directly to the company couldn’t help.

Americans having more money to spend is a good thing, but not in just one sector. We’ve spend hundreds of billions of dollars to help companies get off the ground, instead we should have given the money back to the tax payers.

They could spend it on the companies that offer the best services, which in turn would allow those companies to grow and the old failing companies would not even be missed.