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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (15056)3/25/2010 11:22:30 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Barack Obama sends me personal email thanking me for passing health care

Jim Lindgren • March 22, 2010 8:59 am

I received the following email from Barack Obama personally Monday morning at 1:06am:

<same e-mail that you posted>

BTW, the bold in the email above is in the original.

When I read the nonsense in the email above, I can’t tell whether President Obama really believes what he says:

Does Obama honestly believe that “Every American will be covered”?

Does Obama honestly believe that “workers and entrepreneurs . . . are now freed to pursue their slice of the American dream”?

Does Obama honestly believe that “we’ll finally start reducing the cost of care”?

Does Obama honestly believe that we’ll be “creating millions of jobs”?

Does Obama honestly believe that we’ll be “preventing families and businesses from plunging into bankruptcy”?

Does Obama honestly believe that we’ll be “removing over a trillion dollars of debt from the backs of our children”?

I’m afraid that Obama may be right on one thing — this may be what change looks like: we now have the most partisan, most polarizing presidency since Richard Nixon’s.

And maybe Randy Barnett is right; maybe we do need a constitutional convention to try to limit the federal government to something closer to its originally intended powers.

[NOTE: A few minutes after posting this, I added and then removed a brief discussion of the extent of coverage and President Obama’s tendency for wishful thinking–because the latter is an issue that deserves a much fuller treatment.]

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