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Once Is Enough

8.22.08 @ 12:01AM

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Little wonder that Obama's slipping in the polls. Dodging the question of when life begins with the archaic disclaimer "That's above my pay grade" as he did at the Saddleback forum will have that effect. Apparently, if the answer to a question isn't in his Teleprompter it doesn't get answered, except by a glib evasion of the issue.

Bringing all seven of Obama's half-brothers to the Democratic convention won't compensate for that revealing gaffe.
-- Stan Welli
Aurora, Illinois

The Peanut President had a popular brother, but unless Jimmy wanted a cold "Billy Beer," the younger Carter was not of much help. Roger Clinton was good for a few giggles, but overall, no one voted for The Boy President because he liked the way Roger rocked out. George Hussein Onyango (also spelled Owango) Barack may not help his brother, but at least he won't be an embarrassment.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

TOO FAIR
Re: Peter Ferrara's Poverty and Welfare in America:

Sen. Obama's citation to the biblical injunction "Whatever you do to the least of these you do unto me" is disingenuous at best, if not hypocritical. This man who lectures us votes to deny even the simplest of caring responses to a baby who survives an attempted abortion. I oppose Sen. Obama because he wants increased government programs, increased government spending, and increased taxes on the working middle class. The middle class is not provided mechanisms to shelter income available to the Kennedy's and Kerry's of the world -- the W-2 salary is fair game for taxes and social insecurity "contributions," and tax incentives phase-out with increased income. How's that for fair?
-- Carl Davis
Atlanta, Georgia

VERY CARING
Re: Philip Klein's Learning to Care About Health Care:

Fantastic article on health care. This should be a must read for every American.
-- J. Gedroic

I learn what the common understandings are from my very excellent daughter, who lives unprotected from the prevailing Left winds at a college campus.

She has personally learned that health care is horribly expensive, and very inconsistent indeed. We should therefore "do" something. I explain to her that care is very expensive because it is those very mandates of governments and lawyers which demand it; that solutions cannot be offered at the same level of awareness that created them. The one who killed his parents is protesting the status of an orphan.

And that there will never come a time when she may fail to discriminate in making choices under any system other than a nationalized one; only, in a nationalized one she will not only not get a choice, but there would be in any case no excellence to seek out.

It is an innoculation that lasts a few weeks.
-- James Wilson

This is an absolutely fantastic article on healthcare and the free market. As with all things, less government regulation and more privatization are the solutions. Just study Galveston County's private retirement plan, in lieu of Social Security. As an employer, I benefit from providing healthcare (pre-tax) for my employees, but not much. I would strongly prefer for them to benefit on a personal level, as well as to personally administer the plan. As you stated, conservatives need to get their heads out of the sand. Thank you for the ammunition to battle the growing Liberal war cries.
-- John Hornsby
Houston, Texas

Consequences of nationalized health care:

Since the proposed extension of medical care is to "everyone in the United States," it will suck in millions of additional illegal aliens, raising taxes even further.

Fewer excellent university students will seek to enter medical school. After all, why study to age 30 for the government wages and respect accorded a bureaucrat?

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