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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (10064)	10/3/2009 12:13:11 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 42652

>> LBJ, FDR, probably Kennedy and Carter. Off the top of my head. I think this is a large part of the problem. The Left simply has lost all context for what liberalism is and has been in the past. FDR would NEVER, EVER had considered a national health care program such as what Obama is trying to do -- that is, one which creates a persistent, unfunded drain on the American treasury. FDR believed that if his programs became a drain on the treasury they would have been failures. He SAID it, he repeated it. FDR HIMSELF -- not anyone else -- was determined to cut federal expenditures in '36 (which led to the continuance of the Great Depression) because he believed the budget was out of control. He wanted liberal programs, but not at the expense of American fiscal soundness. It was only after FDR's death that the programs like SS and Unemployment have run amok. FDR would never have accepted these programs as they are today. Obama shows no signs of the slightest fiscal restraint, and in only a few months has become the most egregious wasteful spender in American history. By a mile. "Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits… In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now." - John F. Kennedy JFK's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis was exemplary, and Obama has shown NOT THE SLIGHTEST indication he has the moxy to perform in this manner. Perhaps he'll rise to the occasion, eventually. But thus far Obama's liberalism has literally crippled his foreign policy.