Each week after I write my column I think that perhaps the next week I'll be able to write about something other than our president. But each week he surprises me with another attack on our freedoms.
On Wednesday, he outlined additional government controls on our monetary system under the guise of assisting us.
I am not sure how much more assistance that I can take. Up to this point, nothing that the government has done has helped.
The bad news keeps coming and the only solutions offered by the government are more spending and more controls - read as less freedom.
It seems the government plans being implemented or proposed so far this year are following closely what the government did in the 1930s.
It did not work then, and it will not work now.
President Barack Obama spoke to the American Medical Association (AMA) about national health care. As in the past, he states there is no time to wait, we must act now.
Since our Congress does not read the laws that it passes, he wants to make sure we also will not read them since they must be passed rapidly.
The health care cure plans for a third of the current uninsured to be covered and it will cost a mere $1 trillion. Since I have an engineering degree and spent a lot of time studying math, my education tells me that if one third costs one trillion, then three thirds, all of the supposedly uninsured,will cost $3 trillion. The current deficit is predicted to be nearly $2 trillion, so another $3 trillion should not be too much of a problem.
As an aside, each program or policy our government has dictated over the decades all came with estimated costs and in each case the estimates were not even in the ball park.
If any of us made these types of mistakes in our lifetime, we would be in jail or totally discredited.
Next week, ABC will be airing its news from the White House and then there will be a program about the president's proposed national health care also from the White House.
No opposing views will be presented. Nothing like bipartisan discussions.
One may ask, "How can things such as that happen in America?"
We may be an aging population, but there is still a huge percentage of the population working or looking for work.
They are too busy to remain informed about what is happening on a daily basis. As a result, a large percentage of them still get their news from the mainstream TV and reading one newspaper.
Major themes about evil companies, corrupt CEOs, greedy banks and abusing military personnel convince far too many citizens that government and government programs are the savior.
Emotions overrule facts and reasoning. Intentions supersede results. Trying to convince an individual ora group of individuals about proposed programs or laws by using facts and past histories in too many cases falls upon deaf ears.
Class warfare has been very successful for the left and trying to convince uninformed people about who pays the most taxes, what happens when tax rates are reduced, why businesses move to lower tax areas and its results are all looked at as foreign and probably false.
The demise of our education system and recommended corrections are looked at with disdain. Pouring more money into education and paying teachers more are the only acceptable solutions in their mind.
Spending less money on the military is always a great method to save money and no argument to the contrary makes any sense to them. Reducing and capping executives pay is a winning proposal and receives much support as was seen when Obama did it.
All is not lost. I sense a groundswell building in this country. More of our citizens are becoming concerned about its direction.
They may not be able to articulate exactly what is bothering them, but they do not feel right and are starting to look more closely at what the government is doing and trying to do.
There are still enough people who remember World War II and the Cold War. We did not always have cruise control or power steering along with GPS in our cars.
Summers were hot and fans only did a passable job. Schools were safe and students learned. Children could go out and stay out until it was dark, and parents were not worried.
Families looked out for each other while grandparents did not worry about where they would go in later years.
We may not be able to recapture all of those, but some remain within our reach if only we dare to make them happen.
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