Logical Thought or Talking Points?

Last evening a friend sent me an email she had received from a friend who said she wholeheartedly supported the message below and asked that everyone consider it in preparing to vote this year.  I have prepared my thoughts as I have considered it and they will suffice as today's post.

Wake up people, decisions should not be made on talking points (right or left they are of course form the left).  A modicum of thought, research, and actual logic is required.

My comments follow:

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The talking points of the democratic party are easily written on a card, even spoken ad nauseam by the propagandist media who have voided all journalistic responsibility to actually research and report.  Do you believe what you have written?  Have you actually studied the topics you claim are reasons to support the president?  If so, well, everyone has the right to an opinion  but the superficiality,  lack of actual truth, will ultimately be the demise of individual freedom and if followed nationally, our representative republic.

Item 1:  The affordable healthcare act was never about affordable healthcare.  It was about redistribution and control of 1/7th of our entire economy. While it does have allowances for the acceptance of preconditions, it in no way makes it cheaper for small business to provide healthcare, it does in fact, actually provide a way to remove the employer/employee relationship, tax the employer and employee, and make the employee a ward of the state with regard to insurance which is then subject to the regulation of a bureaucratic board for allowed healthcare services. Who would not want these changes you ask? A freedom loving people who believe in personal responsibility and the innovation and quality of medicine in this country that has occurred because of the free market. Those who choose not to have there live run or effected in every way by an overbearing government.  Those who believe that others should not be forced to pay for the products and services of those those who are illegally here and or are unwilling to be productive citizens.  Those who believe in the constitution of the United States of America and that the limitation of the Federal Governments powers as as specified there in.  The issue of health care is not a federal issue, it is a states issue.  We, as an American people are the most charitable people in the world, we believe in helping others, we believe in free market principals, that the most efficient road to provide goods and services is not through government programs, but through free market competition.  If anything, our medical system has been strapped and stifled by regulation, and is in no way improved by the current healthcare act.  Yes there are issues that need to be addressed, a safety net needs to be available to those who are unable to otherwise receive care, but this, the most inefficient, innovation stifling  overbearing and overreaching piece of legislation that was not supported by the American people, but rather rammed through against their will is not the way.  Do you support a different form of government? In supporting this president one would assume so.

2.  While this administration did end the war in Iraq, they did so in a failure to secure a armed forces agreement, that would allow for the protection of the gains we had made in the sacrifice of capital and human life that was granted there.  As a result, much of what we fought for is lost, that nation is quickly failing into another state of continual civil war and our adversaries are and have been gaining ground in the country since the day of our departure.  Yes, he did end the war, but he did so irresponsibly, without regard for the sacrifice of life that America gave.  He is winding down the war in Afghanistan  and is attempting to do a better job than he did in Iraq.  As you are reading this they are negotiating an armed forces agreement, weather they achieve it or not remains to be seen but the president's defined timeline for exiting the country has done nothing but give hope to those who would oppose us.  It has created a no win situation, a waiting timeline for reinsurance of those we have fought to remove, if you will.  The written statement on the card of reason for support is so simplistic that one has to wonder if there is any understanding of the purpose of conflict in the first place.

3. Because, there are many who believe in personal responsibility for one's own body, and that others should not have to pay for the irresponsibility and personal choices of others. What you fail do see is that every penny that is spent by our federal government is the earned labor and wealth of its citizenry.  The freedoms proscribed in our constitution include religious freedom. The act of force to require the provision of birth control, abortifactants, and other processes that are against the religious moral beliefs of those who are required to pay for them are at the very least unconstitutional, and those measures that terminate life at a point of greater decision is irrepressible.  Life and the sanctity of life is a non-negotiable, that is protected via religious freedom.  To wrap these complex issues into a simple talking point statement promoted by an now godless, moraless, socialistic DNC party, disrespects both women and men alike.  This is not a reason to support the president unless you are blind to the facts. 

4.  Talk is cheap, actions show the measure of the man.  While he signed the act, his own administration pays women in same level jobs 18% less than their male counterparts. He does not believe in the equality of all, his entire campaign is based on division of classes, the haves and havenots, the entitled and the evil overlords.  His definition of equality is not that every one has the same opportunity and human potential but that regardless of effort your reward should be equalized and redistributed, not equally by the way, but as the government sees fit to maintain their power base. Anyone who has studied world government in the least bit, with any objectivity understands where this leads and it is not what America was founded on.  Our foundation is on the principle that all men are created equal, that the human potential of man is unlimited, and that the right of man to pursue life liberty and happiness in just that, an individual right that is not to be infringed upon by government.  This President's, and I guess your position by your statement of support, does not reflect that foundational principal but does reflect much of what are failed and often disastrous principles of government that have lead to the extermination of vast populations in many parts of the world.  The presidents record on this is not a reason for support although his words sometimes sound nice.

5.  His investments in green energy for the most part has not been based on sound economic principal, providing incentive to develop, sound market initiatives that will be self sustaining in a free economy. Rather they have been paybacks to campaign supporters, who have in turned failed in their initiatives because not only were they not qualified in the industries, but the industries were propped up on artificial government subsidies relying on the false assumption, that by necessity energy prices will escalate at astronomical rates do to lack of supply and that will overcome entry barriers for inefficient alternative products.  This is not sound investment.  This is simply, at best a waste of taxpayer money and more obviously simply an another attempt to shore up power by paying off huge donors.  Innovation occurs not out of pouring money into economically inefficient research, it comed from the desire to fill a need that is driven by market forces.  To force an economic climate that simulates need in the hopes of overcoming an eventual problem is both dishonest, and destructive to the country.  That is what you have been experiencing in in this presidency, an unwillingness to use resources existing in an attempt to force development of alternative energy.  It will not work, has never worked and can not be subsidized indefiantly. Failed policy is not a reason to support a president.      

6.  When will the left finally recognize that no child left behind was a good idea, gone awry?  The admirable objectives have been largely voided by a corrupt power hungry administrative oriented teachers union who have clearly stated that the child is not their prime concern but their power and ability to control policy. The solution to problems in our education system is not more money to a corrupt system. It is found in the structure itself.  Once again we can rely on our constitution that reserves the power of education to state governments not the Federal government.  Like other usurped powers of the states who have the constitutional obligation for the care for their citizenry, education is a reserved power of the states.  Solutions to local needs are never more efficiently met by a distant body with other priorities.  The problem is the same at the college level.  The president has not made funding more available. He has only moved the burden to a federal agency.  This is not more efficient and in reality only serves the interest of politicians and the educational union to more easily direct available funding to institutions of their choosing. Massive federal takeover of free enterprise is neither efficient or a reason to support this president.

7. Yes, and they do, have and always will.  The question is what is a fair share?  Are you a socialist, marxist or communist?  If so you will support the presidents definition of "fair"  meaning equality trough redistribution (previously addressed). We already have a progressive tax rate system that is more than "fair" in fact it unequally shifts the overwhelming burden of taxes to those who create wealth.  What is fair?  What should I, you, or anyone else be required to turn over to a bloated inefficient government, who's priority is power and scope is way beyond its charter? Please define fair and equal because the presidents definition of either is not constant with America's foundations and as the official elected to uphold those foundations, sworn by oath, this is not a reason to support his positions either.  

8. This shows you absolute gullibility to leftist talking points, the president has not added 2.6 million jobs.  We are in the hole 5+ million jobs.  Millions of Americans have given up looking for work, the assistance roles have doubled, economic growth continues to slow each year, not expand.  The president's fabrication of "saved or created jobs" rhetoric has doubled the american debt, only shifted jobs to the public sector, adding tax burden rather than economic growth, and his policies are a disincentive to private enterprise investment, the actual creator of economically beneficial job production. Only a "useful idiot" as the left likes to refer to the general populace, or a Keynesian economist (the ones who subscribe to destruction to recreate the world in a more perfect sphere) would attribute what has occurred in the last 4 years a positive influence.

Your talking points of the left may give you solace as you accept the "new norm" that this administration has put before you, you may even think that you are somehow a humanitarian by supporting them but you points are void of reality, facts, and supporting principals that are the foundations of freedom and individual pursuit of liberty and happiness that is enumerated by the founding documents of this nation and supported by the blood of countless Americans in preservation.  In short, your support of this administration, based on the points you have put forward are: either uniformed, or anti-american. I will let you decide which.

I am always happy to have a continued discourse based on fact if you should choose to engage in such a manner.

David A. Roskelley