November 6, 2013

Charlatan in Chief

By Tammy Derouin

While watching the news this past week, certain words kept coming to mind.  Lies and deceit were at the top followed by fraud, swindler and con artist.  The Obama administration didn’t disappoint when more evidence of corruption began to surface.  We were once again dazzled with the usual response of surprise, shock, finger pointing and blaming others.  It’s now seemingly effortless to redirect our attention from the facts.  Simply dangle a sucker in front of our noses.  How many times are we going to take the bait?  

The amount of deceit that has been perpetrated against the American people in the health care act alone should have brought this administration to its knees.  No, a scandal this large should have led to the exit of our Charlatan in Chief followed by most of Congress.  While crimes against our country by those in power continue to increase, the accountability and consequences decrease.

New York Magazine put together a video of President Obama lying to the American people regarding health care.  They captured him stating twenty-three times that those who liked their doctor or their current health care plan could keep it.  Now we are learning the Obama administration knew at least three years ago, that anywhere from 40 to 67 percent of those who have individual health insurance would be dropped.  Their plan wasn’t going to meet the requirements of Obamacare.   

The administration is forcing Americans to make a purchase or suffer the consequences.  Now we are being told that even if we currently have what the government is forcing us to purchase, it doesn’t meet the standards as determined by the government.  The administration is assuring us that replacement plans will offer much better coverage.  Now there’s a pill as large as the actual law.  Government subsidies will be available because the cost of health insurance has sky-rocketed.  Now who said the cost of something would necessarily sky-rocket under his plan?  Oh yeah, Obama said that about the cost of electricity.  Your bills have gone up, right?  Well, he didn’t lie about that one. 

Government subsidies will help individuals pay for the over-priced product they are being forced to purchase.  Here’s the problem, the government gets its money from the tax-paying population.  The tax-paying population is dwindling as more Americans are receiving government assistance.  The more the government takes, the fewer tax-payers there are to pillage.  Eventually, the tax-payers will have nothing more to give.  The government will collapse because the government doesn’t make money, it spends money.

All the underhanded details of how the government is going to control your life are available in the Affordable Health Care Act.  The approximate 2,000 page law that was rushed through Congress, you know, the one we had to pass to see what was in it.  Aren’t new discoveries fun?  Stay tuned, as we will soon discover the law is about control, not your health.

It didn’t take Obama long to blame the insurance companies for dropping millions of Americans.  It was spelled out in his law and he knew it.  In true Obama form, he acts shocked, states he is unaware and then blames someone else. Equally disturbing is his lack of knowledge, or so he would have us believe.  How many times has he said he didn’t know, he was unaware or he found out about it just like everyone else, by watching the news?  The latter only implicates him more because he controls the news.

Why are we so surprised?  We have been lied to by the Obama administration from the beginning.  We accept the lies even when the evidence is right in front of us.  We ignored the truth when we were told exactly what he was going to do, fundamentally transform America.

I did a search using “list of Obama’s lies,” WOW!  It’s overwhelming to see them all listed in black and white.  Truth is stranger than fiction but he’s turning fiction into truth.  Michelle Obama said, “We’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.”  A promise you can take to the bank, just do it before it collapses.

The biggest lie of them all was when he said, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” 

When all the lies have become truth and the transformation is complete, whose fault will it be in the end?  It will be ours, for willingly accepting the sucker. 

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

James Madison