I had this misfortune of flipping my television over to CNN just in time to catch the candidates in the Democratic debate discussing their health care plans. It is no secret what Hillary wants, she tried it once with Hillary Care. She wants to tell Americans that they are required by law to carry health insurance. Obama’s plan isn’t much better. He doesn’t want to tell everyone they have to have it, just most people apparently.

What happened to the idea of the free market? Let’s look at it like this: Say that the Democrats decide they don’t like the fact that tomato farmers make profits, just as they have decided that they don’t like that health insurance provides make profits. So some idiot Democrat comes up with the idea that the government will start growing its own tomatoes. Furthermore, they will tell each and every American, “You will buy tomatoes from us.” You are happy with the tomatoes you get from Wal-Mart, too bad. You don’t buy tomatoes, so you don’t want to have to buy the governments tomatoes, too bad.

Eventually the government will put the tomato growers out of business because if consumers are forced to take the government tomatoes they will have no need to buy farmer Fred’s tomatoes. So seeing that there is no completion, the government will eventually start to make lousy tomatoes.

Does this sound familiar? It should, sort of. This is almost exactly what happened to America’s education system although there never really was any competition. Lack of competition is what has the public school system so messed up now.

What is the link between tomatoes and education you ask? Well it is hard to not be aware of the fact that our education system is a joke. It soured, because there is no completion.  As for the tomatoes, if the government sees no completion then it isn’t going to do it’s best to make the most delicious tomatoes around. If the government takes over the health care system the same thing will happen. The consumer will suffer, because there is no completion.

Folks, the key word here is completion. That is what makes America as great as it is. If it wasn’t for completion many of us would be lost today. You ladies out their benefit from completion, imagine going into a mall and on the rack, rows and rows of the same boring plain tan dresses, or shoes. Us men benefit, we walk down the beer aisle and take for granted the fact that if there were only one beer company, making only one beer, we would all be drinking 12 proof water.

Beyond all this though is a more disturbing fact. This is the pure definition of fascism. The Democrats want to control the way we live our lives. I have mentioned before that they want to tell us what to eat, what we can do with our bodies. Now they want to tell us what we have to buy, their health care. You are kidding yourself if you don’t realize that they are trying to take the first steps. It starts with health care. Next they will tell you that you can’t own your guns any longer. They will tell you what to wear, what to drive, how to cut your hair. Finally, when you start to complain, it will be Wilson and the Sedition act of 1918 all over again. Bet on it.

  Could someone read my blog please? I am sorry if I sound pitiable but I really would like to break into the consciousness of the blogosphere. Every day I come across blogs of buffoons who get more traffic than many naughty sites get, if that is possible, yet no one comes and reads my delightful and intelligent insights. If you like, I can be like Barack Obama, and pander to you. I will gladly tell you what you want to hear if you would only click on my blog!

 Living in the immediate Houston area, I was hoping to get a chance to see Obama speak lastnight. However, my desire to see what all the hoopla is about in person was not strong enough to go sit through the same rhetoric we have been hearing from him for months. Fortunately, I did get the chance to hear some of his speech on Fox.

Honestly, at first I was really not paying attention to the television because I was going through some stories here on townhall.com. Actually, I probably missed the first half or more of the speech. My ears did perk up when I heard him mention college students and $4000 grants. Obama promised that if elected he would give college students a check of $4000. The catch is, however, that apparently those who receive the checks will have to do community service. Ok, fine, I have no problem with students doing community service. Do you think that he would support recipients of the money volunteering say at, Volunteers for Life (http://volunteersforlife.org/). I doubt it; they would make some insane separation of church and state bologna. Naturally, he would only be open to students volunteering at a liberal approved location, preferably one that will serve as a tool for indoctrination just as the universities do.

Next he goes on to suggest that fuel efficiency standards should be put into law. On the surface it seems like a good idea. Personally, with gas prices as high as they are, I want as much gas mileage as I can get. However, if you want to drive a monster truck that gets three miles per gallon, that is you right as an American. That Obama wants to do this is really no surprise; after all, democrats are the champions of big government, that is, government regulation. Government should simply stay out of private companies business, unless they are breaking the law, obviously. That is the beauty of America, if you want to drive a gas guzzler, there is a manufacturer out there that is willing to provide that product to you. If you want something that drinks less gas, then there will be someone to provide you with that product as well. The truth is democrats don’t want you driving gas guzzlers. They want to tell you what to drive, just like they want to tell you what to eat. Just look at the ridiculous law they came up with in Mississippi to keep overweight people out of certain restaurants. Or the proposed California law where the state tells you where to set your homes thermostat. Or the laws being passed telling people they can not only not smoke in restaurants, that they can not only smoke in parking lots, but that they cant’s smoke in their own cars!

Naturally, being in the sanctuary city that is Houston, Obama moved on to discuss the immigration issue. He referred to it as a “political football.” Across the U.S. polls show that around 70% of Americans want major changes, however he ignores that. Apparently the demographics of Houston don’t follow this trend, or at least the people who filled the Toyota Center last night, because everyone cheered when he promised to provide a pathway for the illegal’s already here. That’s right; he wants to award the law breakers. His idea of a punishment is sending them to the back of the line and having them pay a fine.

Of course when speaking about immigration he did make it a point to remind us all, as if we didn’t know, that America is a nation of immigrants. Yeah you are right Barack. One set of my great grandparents I know for sure arrive here on Ellis Island, just as many other people. However, when they came here they assimilated. They became Americans, they learned the language, they adopted the culture, and they supported our economy by purchasing goods with the money they earned here, not earning that money and then shipping it off to families back in their previous country to stimulate their economy.  

Obama also apparently wants to appeal to those four, maybe five people out there who supported John Edwards because he also mentioned homeless veterans. Now he didn’t go off on the ill-informed tangent that Edwards would have, but he made the mention for a reason. Who knows what Obama’s feelings are on the situation? Maybe he, like Edwards, feels that as a nation we just don’t care about them, so we threw them to the street. Maybe he isn’t living in a dream world and realizes that the majority of the homeless are in the situation because of substance abuse problems, mental illness, or a combination of both. Maybe Barack didn’t mention more on the subject because he really understands that point. However, if he thought it would get him votes he would probably had said anything.

It would be highly dishonest of me to say that Obama didn’t mention anything that I agreed with. Toward the end of the speech I started to get bored and my mind shifted back to what I was doing on the computer. But again, my ears popped up when I heard him say that parents need to limit the amount of time kids spend in front of the television and video games. This is something I find myself thinking and saying to people all the time. Anytime you look at the majority of our youth today, and the ignorant things they say and do (See Jaywalking on the Tonight Show) I immediately know it is because more and more parents are letting the television raise their kids. When I was a kid, I would actually ask my grandmother to drop me off at the library after school. I would go in there and read. Why? My parents were always reading, and I wanted to be like them. Today I am much better off for it. One time I told someone my parents didn’t have cable television. That person asked me with astonishment, “what do they do!?” Read I said. You would have thought I just slapped a baby with a frozen slab of tuna.

In the end Obama went back to his usual hope and change hoopla. Pandering to the useful idiots that is, those who are too dumb or scarred to ask “How are you going to change things.” Obama has yet to specify anything. Ironically, Obama said he wasn’t going to be a leader that told the people what they want to hear, instead he would tell them what they need to hear. Ha, yeah right, that’s all he is doing, that is all his popularity is based on: tell people what they want to hear, rhetoric!