The Pursuit of Control

Dear President Obama,

I know that you and your friends in Washington aren’t familiar with the concept, but you should all try telling the truth.  I don’t mean tell the truth sometimes, when it fits your agenda, I mean all the time, just be honest.

You say you want competition in the healthcare industry, but before you were president you said that you support a single payer healthcare system and the rumors are you are pushing a public option plan behind closed doors.

You promised to be the most transparent administration in this country’s history, yet you surround yourself with ’special advisors’ that aren’t subjected to senate approval and that have, at best, questionable backgrounds.

You said illegal aliens wouldn’t receive health care coverage in the proposed healthcare reform bill, but the bill says the stipulation denying them benefits won’t be enforced.

You said Afghanistan is the war we should be fighting, but you won’t do what it takes to win it. In fact you won’t even let some testify in front of Congress so that the American people might hear what they have to say.

You said the stimulus bill is working to save jobs, yet we continue to hemorrhage jobs every month and some say we are heading for a terrible ‘double-dip’ recession.

President Obama, I know that those on both sides of the aisle have difficulties in telling the public what they really think, but not many are as shameless in their lies as you. Your approval rating has dipped below 50%. It seems like every time you get up and speak about healthcare reform another lie is uncovered, another point drops off of your approval rating and more and more people change the channel. Despite your efforts to mask your true beliefs we’ve all seen them. They can be found in the words of Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones and Valerie Jarrett and they can be found in speeches you’ve made to unions and community organizations.

President Obama, the truth can set you free, and whether you decide to grow up and be honest with the American people or not, in 2012, the truth will set us free.

In typical Nancy Pelosi fashion, when asked about the possibility of a value-added tax on PBS’s “The Charlie Rose Show” Pelosi said “I would say, put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny it deserves.”

Is this really surprising? Has Nancy Pelosi ever met a tax she didn’t like? No. This is expected, what made this a true Nancy Pelosi moment was her rationalization for the VAT.

Nancy said companies that import cars are at an advantage because they don’t have the burden of healthcare and pension costs built into their vehicles, their respective VAT’s pay for those things for them.

Nancy’s argument only comes close to making sense if all of the auto workers in the US were moved to some sort of public option and their pensions were entirely government funded, so what is Nancy really saying?

This doesn’t have anything to do with a VAT. This has everything to do with bloated, out of control union deals that drive up the cost of vehicles. The argument for a VAT is simply ridiculous and will end up driving up costs on everything from a new car to a gallon of milk. It’s irresponsible and ignorant to say that a VAT would make our auto industry more competitive and would in some way be better for the American people.

This is just a backwards way of taxing the American people while being able to not calling it a tax on the middle-class. Instead it would simply drive up the cost of goods and services and wouldn’t ever show up on your sales receipt.

No wonder congressional approval is plummeting!

Pelosi makes some other interesting comments in the entirely too long interview, if you’re looking for a headache watch this:

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