Open Letter Concerning Health Care Reform

November 19, 2009

Dear Editor,

Back in February, newly- inaugurated President Barack Obama signed into law a nearly-trillion dollar “stimulus” bill which he promised would create or save 3.5 to 4 million jobs. The president urged Congress to pass the bill without delay because of the urgency involved.

According to the president, the stimulus would revive the American economy and prevent unemployment from exceeding 8 percent.

Nine months later, America’s economy continues to hemorrhage jobs, and the national unemployment rate is 10.2 percent, which may actually be closer to 17 percent were the true number of out of work Americans known.

Clearly, the stimulus has failed to produce the promised results. In fact, because the bill has added to exploding federal deficits, many economists believe that the stimulus is, in and of itself, costing America jobs and hindering the prospects for economic recovery.

Unfortunately, the problem has been aggravated by the administration’s jobs creation data which have proven to be inaccurate and unreliable. Those data include claims for creation of jobs in non-existent congressional districts and other irregularities which overstate the actual number of jobs added or saved.

President Obama’s reaction has been to dismiss concerns about the data by stating that accounting is an “inexact science” and that the focus should be on job growth, rather than details.

That argument begs the obvious question: How can one know when, and if, growth is achieved without accurate accounting data?

The president’s cavalier attitude toward accounting and accountability seems to have spilled over into the current debate over health care reform.

Indeed, the numbers used by President Obama and Democrat supporters simply do not add up!

For example, Democrats would have us believe that 30-40 million uninsured people can be added to the rolls of the insured while at the same time reducing health care costs and the deficit!

While optimism is always a virtue, this type of magical thinking must not be allowed to obscure the fiduciary responsibility that the president and Congress have to the American people.

Government run programs are notorious for being poorly managed and almost always produce huge budget overruns. One need only look at this nation’s bankrupt social security and Medicare entitlements to recognize this truth.

With America still in the clutches of economic disaster, we simply cannot afford another trillion-dollar miscalculation by politicians all too eager to ram socialized medicine down the throats on a skeptical public.

Health care reform as proposed by President Obama and Democrats is unworkable, illogical, unfair, imprudent, and perhaps even unconstitutional.

These proposals must be defeated for the health and well being of over 320 million Americans!

Sincerely,

John W. Lillpop
San Jose, Ca

An Obama “Olive Branch” for Osama bin Laden?

Satire by John W. Lillpop

Rumor has it that President Barack Obama has used "back channels" to deliver the following olive branch to Osama bin Laden.

Dear Fellow Muslim:

Praise be to Allah!

It is with great hope and audacity that I present to you an offer for reconciliation between your noble Al-Quaeda operatives and the once-great forces of the United States of America.

Allah willing, of course.

This offer, which must never be made transparent to the media or public, is predicated on the notion that Islam is the new and only super power in the world. It is further understood that the sooner that that reality is accepted by American capitalists and Democracy-crazed politicians, the better it will be for all concerned parties.

As you are doubtless aware, I have taken several steps since January to realign America’s financial and political priorities so as to accommodate a smooth, seamless transition to a Jihad state where Sharia law will replace the archaic and bothersome U.S. Constitution.

Among my early successes is the order to close GITMO, slashing of the U.S. military budget, the requirement that all ‘terrorists’ captured on the battlefield be notified of their Constitutional rights and be offered free legal representation and a free swine flu shot, and on and on it goes.

You can tell that my efforts to “Islamicize” America are spot on because Republicans oppose them vehemently, while Democrats absolutely love them!

My proudest moment to date is the transfer of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York where he will be treated like a U.S. citizen, including processing of his case through the civilian judicial system, a move that damn near guarantees acquittal, or at least an appeal which could take ten years to adjudicate.

According to my Attorney General, Eric Holder, by the year 2019 America should have elected its first openly Jihad president which means that KSM would be pardoned immediately, probably as part of the elected brother’s inaugural speech.

By the way, KSM sends his warm regards and asks that you postpone any further 9/11 attacks on New York until his trial is over. Upon acquittal, KSM plans to move to San Francisco in order to take advantage of that town’s “Sanctuary City” idiocy.

KSM also indicated that he may run for Mayor against that Useful Idiot, Gavin Newsom, although KSM acknowledges that he may too conservative for Nancy Pelosi’s home town. His weight and unsightly facial hair are also issues that he is working on.

It is my sincere hope that this offer will persuade you to unclench your fist and agree to peace with America. To that end, we are prepared to make the following additional concessions, effective upon official acceptance by you:

*All Red States shall be organized into a new United States of Islam, a sovereign and independent nation totally separate from the United States of America;

*U.S. forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan and Iraq and redeployed to prevent Israel from constructing any new settlements and, ultimately, to remove interloping Jewish occupiers from the new Palestinian state;

*All surviving members of the Bush administration shall be tried as war criminals. Said criminals shall be arrested immediately and sent to GITMO for trials pursuant to Sharia law.

*Former President George W. Bush shall be subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, including water boarding, until he reveals the location of Saddam’s WMD. We know that Hussein had the WMD, and we suspect that W. has stockpiled the weapons to use in an extortion attempt against my presidency.

With best wishes for a happy and prosperous holiday season, I remain your devoted servant.

BHO

P.S.: Please tell Rashis, your honorable wife # 44, that we should get together some time.

Allah willing, of course!