Some Questions for the President

Those of us in "the great unwashed" have some questions we would like answered. I'm sure there is an academic response but, humor me, lets just revert to logic.

Questions for the governing elite-

1) If there is a great amount of fraud and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid and the President knows how to correct it, why doesn't he do it? Why wait for sweeping new legislation? If he can and will fix it now, the voters will listen to his new proposals.

2) The President says that the economy has bottomed out and is getting better. The stimulus was by definition, the vehicle of doing this. Only about 25% of the stimulus money has actually flowed into the economy. If he fixed it with 25 % why doesn't he return the other 75% to the folks he took it from. ( Yes, took!)

3) The President says there will not be rationing. If there are 30 million people ( the revised number) coming into the system and the same number (or less) of doctors, nurses and hospitals, how will there be the same amount of services available for the larger number without cutting someone off - either by not providing the service or by stringing it out ( i.e., long lines and adverse conditions for waiting).

4) If the health plan is so great, why are Congress, the Unions and other politically favored groups excluded from participation.

5) Some 81 % in a recent poll showed satisfaction with their current plan. Why should the system be torn apart and rebuilt for the 19%.

6) The President has referred to people being denied health care, yet it is the law that emergency rooms have to treat all, regardless of ability to pay. Isn't this a contradiction in terms.

7) The CBO estimates a cost in ten years of up to 1.6 trillion dollars. Using the figures which government usually uses for decision making, how will the proposed legislation produce a bill that the President can sign given his pledge not to sign a bill that increases the deficit.

8) If the President will not accept earmarks from Congress, why did he sign a budget reconciliation bill that had thousands?

9) Name a government run enterprise that is running in the black and surpassing private enterprises in efficiency and cost?

10) If Medicare is going broke, Medicaid is going broke, Social Security is going broke, Fannie and Freddie are in trouble, and the Post Office is predicting a two billion dollar plus deficit, why should any sane person think that the government can run a national health program. Have you been to a VA or Indian Reservation health facility lately? I have.

11) If we're in trouble from global warming why has the earth's temperature cooled over the last ten years.

12) Why should a day in which this nation was attacked for the first time since 1812, be commemorated by a day of service.

13) When the polls show 52- 80 percent, depending on the policy, to be opposed to the President's proposals, why is he pressing them.

I don't think asking for an answer to these questions, some or all of which have been considered by many citizens other than me, is asking too much.

I won't hold my breath for an answer. I hope this doesn't place me on the "Enemy's List".