Do you believe the attack on Benghazi resulting in four American deaths was prompted by a video? Do you still believe you can keep your doctor and your health plan? Will Lois Lerner at the Internal Revenue Service ever be held responsible for her actions? Do you believe the president was never informed of the National Security Agency surveillance? Would you enter your private information on the government healthcare website with confidence?
President Barack Obama seems disengaged from and uninformed about the circumstances and effects of his policies, his directives, his so-called legacy. The illusion is that we are rudderless, drifting from one crisis to another with a commander in chief at the mercy of circumstances and obstacles beyond his control, instigated by Republicans, and who is doing his best to create a beneficent progressive utopia.
The purpose of these crises serves to justify the expansion of governmental power and dominion over our lives and economy. By appearing to be a bystander, he absolves himself from blame and responsibility for the chaos that ensues all the while engaging in double-speak and untruths.
With regard to healthcare, the latest excuse is that only 5 percent, 15 million or 20 million people, are going to lose their plan. If you kill a person, shouldn’t you go to jail even though the person you killed was only one person out of 300 million? Since when do you destroy people and it does not count because it is too small a percentage?
Ed Konecnik
Flushing
