In town hall meetings, the representatives of the people -- those elected as well as those appointed -- are trying to explain to the American people about why the economy went sour and what they should expect in the months to come.
The American people sit there with confused expressions on their faces, nodding and desperately hoping that someone in the government will tell them that this state of affairs is merely a nightmare, that they will wake up and it will all disappear, things will go back to normal again -- this was just a bad movie; they bought the tickets and they just have to see it to the end, so they will learn how they were lured in, so they will never buy the tickets to see such a bad movie again.
But, alas, it is not to be, they are told. The left blames it on the right and the right blames it on the left. More jobs will be lost, more houses will be foreclosed. It will take more time to even see the light of day.
"Look, the stock market is up again! The economy has turned the corner."
"Look, the banks are lending again! Buy now and beat the stampede."
But the only people gambling on Wall Street are the insiders and the only people the bankers are lending money to are their own controlling shareholders and their shills.
The American people do not like it; in fact, they hate it, but they were fooled. Their tax withholdings are gone, they are told. You see, they were not expected to collect; they were supposed to be dead by 65 -- on the average! It is the fault of the baby boomers; why are they living longer, and nobody expected there would be so many of them.
So they sit there in town hall meetings, well in their 60s and 70s, and some even older, and they know that they are not being taken care of properly by the Medicare system, but what are they to do? They are told, "Medicare is broken, and it cannot be fixed," unless the economy recovers and more taxes can be collected.
Well, Obama says, "I am not going to pull the plug on grandma!" So, the only thing he can do -- to remain popular as President; his only objective -- is to print trillions of dollars and keep it safe for an emergency -- a much worse emergency! The trillions of dollars of the Stimulus Package cannot be used; only a fraction of that money has been paid out to the powers to be (the very same people that bankrupted the system, because they cannot be expected to lose their lifestyles!)
Where is the money to fix the Medicare system coming from then? Some of it will be taken from the Medicare services owed to the retired and the disabled tax payers. Some of it will be taken from the doctors and healthcare providers who were lured in the medical profession by the excessive money that was offered them to become doctors. Some of it will come from the tax payers who have medical insurance through their employment; they have to pay for the medical services of those who do not work because of disability or racism, those who have not paid into Medicare and they are not even eligible yet because they are below 66 years of age. So what happens to the new Medicare system regardless of whether the economy recovers or not? It will provide less and less services and poorer care to its recipients, even though Medicare is already not providing for many of the treatments that it used to provide for. Those people who receive Medicare know this to be a fact. There are exceptions of course; but they are the exceptions that prove the rule that Medicare can no longer provide for the number of people it insures.
So what are the doctors going to do? They will have to modify their practices and maybe officially disavow the Hippocratic Oath (they already do not follow it) and treat their profession strictly like a business.
What are we going to do now? Here is an example:
1) We should rebuild the Twin Towers and agree to defend them. We are at ground zero. Shining beams of light in place of the Twin Towers is not going to cut it.
2) We should work for ourselves, do not borrow money for anything and build everything that we need for our own livelihoods.
3) We should pay for our own healthcare, without buying insurance. If there are catastrophic illnesses, we will deal with them as catastrophes. We already know how to do that.
4) We should elect government officials and representatives who are not lawyers, professional politicians or crooks. We should hold them to the condition that they will pass an amendment to the Constitution revoking the right of Congress to levy taxes; only the people through state referendums can vote to tax. Each state will therefore decide what they need for the government to do for them and how much they will pay for their representatives and employees.
5) We should vote only for those representatives who promise to return the power to the people they represent. This is the government of the people, for the people and by the people.Sept. 14, 2009