Recent Rubbish from the Administration

Why, pray tell, was Hillary Clinton in India signing an agreement to allow US companies to bid on nuclear power projects in that country when the Obama administration is unsupportive of nuclear power in the US? HC correctly stated that allowing US firms to participate in the Indian projects would provide high paying, high technology jobs to US workers. Well if it works in India don't you think the same logic would apply in the US where even more high skilled design, manufacturing and construction jobs would be created by an aggressive push to make nuclear power the backbone of our electrical production infrastructure?

As has been posited before in this space, the only intelligent solution to our energy independence problem is to create a battery-based all electric ground transportation system fueled and recharged by electricity from nuclear power plants. Not only will this free us from dependence on foreign oil but to the extent that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is of concern, this is the silver bullet solution. As much as it is hyped by the Obamaites and their MSM camp followers wind and solar ain't going to get the job done.

On the Health Care Reform issue tonight we will hear the "Savior" himself pitch his vision to the country. I suspect that he will reiterate the phrase that I have heard more than a few times this week that, "The worst thing we can do is to do nothing." Well here's a newsflash. That statement is not only false, it is dangerous. Despite all the liberal hand wringing on this issue and despite its shortcomings, the US health care system is still the best in the world when it comes to choice and quality of care. It may not be the most universal in its availability, but no one can argue that if you are really sick you need to be in the US for the very best care.

So the response to the above claim is "Rubbish." The worst thing we can do to the health care system in the US is to legislate changes that restrict choice, mandate coverage, increase costs (which even the CBO says is inevitable) and in the end ration care. In every country where there is universal national health care, treatment options are always rationed because at the end of the day that is the only way to contain costs.

Speaking of costs, the real way to address the problem with the cost of health care in the US is to enact meaningful medical tort reform. The ugly truth is that it is the trial lawyers who drive up the cost of malpractice insurance and the over prescription of tests and drugs as the docs try to defend themselves from these ambulance chasers. But do you think tort reform will play any part in a democratic drafted bill. Forget about it. The dems are in the pocket of the trial lawyers association and its hefty contributions to their campaigns.

When Obama complains that his plan is not about politics and that the critics are just taking partisan shots, I just want to puke at the hypocrisy of that statement.

And why, one has to ask, is Obama on such a rant about the need to move quickly. The answer is simple. He knows the only way to ram his wrong headed socialist agenda down the throats of the American people is to do it so quickly that no one has a chance to really understand what he is doing and what the consequences - both intended and unintended - might be. This is a stealth health plan and BHO is trying his best to get it passed under the radar of congress and the American people.

My friends, watch your wallets and your health care options because both are in serious jeopardy if Obama gets what he wants.