{"id":7225,"date":"2009-12-17T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2009-12-17T06:54:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T11:54:49","slug":"well-take-our-chances-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7225","title":{"rendered":"We’ll Take Our Chances Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desperation, thy name is Obama. Earlier this week the President pleaded if we don’t pass health care reform now, no President will ever try it again.<\/p>\n

Today, with virtually every federal agency in financial disarray or on a trajectory of financial collapse, the President implies this time it will be different.<\/p>\n

President Obama told ABC News\u2019 Charles Gibson<\/a> in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government \u201cwill go bankrupt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. President, sir, we have no doubt that you will see to that whether we reform health care or not. The truth of the matter is, the federal government, by any measure applied to any non-public<\/em> entity is insolvent already.<\/p>\n

When private entities reach the end of the fiscal road, they don’t have the benefit of raising debt ceilings and taxes. They die a quick death – that is unless the government decides a bail-out is in order – then they die a slow, painful death. Either way, the competition eats their lunch and steals their talent. Of course, the federal government has no competition, no one to keep it accountable (any more).<\/p>\n

As for a bankrupt<\/em> federal government, the tipping point was probably reached some time ago. We will never pay off our national debt and inevitably it’s weight will come crashing down on our economy making 2009 look like the good ol’ days for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Mr. President, I have to agree with you. The federal government will<\/em> go bankrupt if we don’t pass health care reform legislation.<\/p>\n

But if we do, it will come a lot<\/em> faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Desperation, thy name is Obama. Earlier this week the President pleaded if we don’t pass health care reform now, no President will ever try it again. Today, with virtually every federal agency in financial disarray or on a trajectory of financial collapse, the President implies this time it will be different. President Obama told ABC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}