THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Please be seated. Before I take your questions, I want to talk for a few minutes about the progress we’re making on health insurance reform and where it fits into our broader economic strategy.
Six months ago, I took office amid the worst recession in half a century.(Largely due to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which were/are corrupt and protected by Democrats. Not to forget that is, the first 2 years of a spend crazy Democrat controlled House and Senate.) We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month and our financial system was on the verge of collapse.
As a result of the actions we took in those first weeks, we’ve been able to pull our economy back from the brink. (He loves to make this sound like the depression.) We took steps to stabilize our financial institutions and our housing market. (In other words the government took over some banks, GM/Chrysler, and got more deeply involved in real estate.) And we passed a Recovery Act that has already saved jobs and created new ones; delivered billions in tax relief to families and small businesses; and extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who’ve been laid off. (You saved government jobs, and created government based jobs. Billions in tax relief, where and to whom? Where did you help that small business that your going to heavily fine now if they don't provide health insurance to employees? Which is gonna kill your "job creation" stat when employers start laying off and reducing hours of employees to avoid paying for your ridiculous insurance. Anyone else get tired of Obama making statements and conveniently leaving out proof or fact.)
Of course, we still have a long way to go.(Could be the understatement of the year, the way your spending.) And the Recovery Act will continue to save and create more jobs over the next two years (Especially if he can get Universal Health Care passed. Just think of the number of employees that the government will have to add in order to "make this work properly." Now of course in 2 years they will be crying for more money and higher taxes, because they didn't realize how bad things were, and government health care will work if we hike the taxes "one" more time.) — just like it was designed to do. I realize this is little comfort to those Americans who are currently out of work, and I’ll be honest with you — new hiring is always one of the last things to bounce back after a recession.( He read that brilliantly didn't he. What he really meant was.......You unemployed people out there may go longer without a job, because I'm about to tax the crap out of the upper class job creators, and small business. And you know those greedy people will not hire you, because they claim they have to provide for their own families.)
And the fact is, even before this crisis hit, we had an economy that was creating a good deal of wealth for those folks at the very top, but not a lot of good-paying jobs for the rest of America. (Unemployment during the first 7 years of the Bush administration was 5.2049% to be exact. Looks like there were plenty of jobs.) It’s an economy that simply wasn’t ready to compete in the 21st century (Yeah, we only had the lowest unemployment in the known industrialize world, with the best health care. All while having the highest corporate tax in the industrialized world.) — one where we’ve been slow to invest in clean energy technologies that have created new jobs and industries in other countries; (Again with the lies, There are no exact descriptions of what constitutes a "green job." This is apparently a world wide consensus according to Time magazine in an article from March of this year.)where we’ve watched our graduation rates lag behind too much of the world; and where we spend much more on health care than any other nation but aren’t any healthier for it.(Well when you have more schools and colleges than any other country in the world, would it not be logical that we would have a higher % of people not finishing? Not to mention the fact that people from other countries come to this country for a college education. Which would logically inflate out enrollment/graduation numbers. Call me crazy. As far as the health care and "not any healthier statement", average life expectancies: U.S. 77, UK 75, Russia 59, China 73, and a citizen of South America 69. There has to be some correlation between living longer, medical systems, and health.)
That’s why I’ve said that even as we rescue this economy from a full-blown crisis, we must rebuild it stronger than before. And health insurance reform is central to that effort. (Really? By all means elaborate.)
This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don’t have any health insurance at all. (Many by choice, and many under the age of 30.) Reform is about every American who has ever feared that they may lose their coverage if they become too sick, or lose their job, or change their job.(And you will get these things on the backs of other hard working Americans, and you will pay for it even if you don't sign up for it. That's right a fine of $2500 a year for not being insured.) It’s about every small business that has been forced to lay off employees or cut back on their coverage because it became too expensive.(Cutting tax's on small business would just make to much sense.) And it’s about the fact that the biggest driving force behind our federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid.(Wait, are they not government run? Not to mention many people on these programs shouldn't be there, but it's government so you gotta meet those quotas. Not to mention the wonderfully ran V.A. health program.)
So let me be clear: If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit.(What about the trillions you've already spent? You don't think that had anything to do with the "rising deficit"?) If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket. If we don’t act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day. (Frivolous law suits don't have anything to do with these problems?) These are the consequences of inaction. These are the stakes of the debate that we’re having right now. (Almost start to chuckle right here, and I'm not sure why. I guess it's because of the absurdity.)
I realize that with all the charges and criticisms that are being thrown around in Washington, a lot of Americans may be wondering, “What’s in this for me? How does my family stand to benefit from health insurance reform?” (Please tell us millions of tax paying citizens are waiting anxiously.)
Part 2 coming soon..........
