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October 8, 2007

Believe Hillary’s Promises? You Can’t Fix Stupid

I do not know the origin of the phrase “You can’t fix stupid”, but it is a fitting description for the millions of people who seem to never question the unrealistic and unfunded implications of anything Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders say.

This nation has a funding problem with the Social Security structure, a spending problem with Medicare and Medicaid and a large budget deficit – and Hillary wants to give every baby born in this country a government paid savings account just for being born. Are people really too naïve to even wonder where the money will come from? Oh yeah, as always, just take it from the rich again, and roll back those tax cuts that they did not need.

According to Hillary, her plan for “universal health care” will only cost $110 billion, and it will not be a bureaucratic system at all, even though it would be mandatory that everyone buy health insurance. Do the sheep who blindly follow her really think that she can create a new social program that stays within budget for the first time in history? Or, do they really believe that the “health insurance police” will not be another government bureaucracy?

A week ago, Hillary appeared on three Sunday morning TV talk shows and was asked to respond to some of the criticism about her universal health care plan being unrealistic. In all three instances, she began her response with laughter, which sounded more like an annoying cackle. One political commentator suggested that maybe she had been coached to laugh when asked a tough question about her plan.

Making unrealistic and unfunded promises to buy votes is no laughing matter. But since her followers and supporters are willing to follow her off an economic cliff, maybe that’s why she is laughing.

Now that President Bush has vetoed Congress’s version of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), as expected, the Democrats in Congress and a few renegade Republicans with the usual help of the media are saying “Bush Stops Kids Health Plan” (USA Today, October 4, 2007).

The article does not bother to report the reasons. Congress’s version more than doubles the previous authorization, and expands eligibility to middle class families making over $80,000 a year. The president said he would veto the bill and he did. He also said that he would sign a version that focuses on covering poor children, not one that provides an incentive for some families to drop their private coverage.

But that’s not an issue to the muted followers of the Democratic leadership because they see it as spending other people’s money, while pandering for votes to increase control in Congress and win the presidency.

I know it is not politically correct to call someone stupid. Nor is it nice to call someone ignorant. But at least ignorance can be fixed if someone is willing to consider the facts and connect the dots.

Democrats in Congress and their presidential candidates are showing more and more that they are factually challenged. Worse yet, when they have the facts, they refuse to connect the dots.

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