Liz Peek is absolutely correct when she warns us that "a shrinking number of people are supporting a growing segment of the population".

With the possible increase of the income tax on the wealthier in our country from 35% to 40% and the Speaker’s increase of another 5.2% on those Americans to fund Health Care, I see a wicked and evil return to the post Reagan era when some Americans were paying almost 3/4 of their income to taxes, both federal and State.

The monies the President and the Speaker plan to take away from the wealthier in taxes is the monies used for investment in America to create jobs, finance entrepreneurs, expand existing businesses and raise the GNP.  The President and the Speaker will weaken America and their policies will continue to weaken an already poor job market, let alone the continued devaluation of the dollar. 

Once again, can you imagine the deficit Obama will leave for the next incoming president?   Pay attention to how Obama and his administration are going in the wrong direction.   The unemployment at 10.2% is a strong indicator that they were wrong from the start.   Ignoring our largest employer of jobs was the wrong thing to do.   I believe they know that by now.   That’s why they must get the healthcare bill through to save face.   My opinion is that the healthcare bill will never see the light of day.   As of today they don’t have the votes.    And they probably never will because they mismanaged the whole program from the start.   This is the worst administration this country has ever seen.

Divisive and impassioned criticism seems pointless. What bothers me are the naysayers who pronounce the entire Obama administration’s legistlative efforts [the recovery act, bailouts, and health care reform] as fatal disasters facing all Americans.  Sure.  The problems inherited by the current administration were addressed in a crisis environment, and the quick fixes were certainly imperfect.  Yet, there seems to be no clear consensus from the naysayers as to what might work if the administration was back in the hands of the GOP.  Indeed, what political figures would emerge from a party that is experiencing its own inner debacles?

Current,  health care reform  is being attacked.  In fact, many have vehemently stated that they hope that Obama/Pelosi’s health care reform bill will not pass.  Frankly, I’m not sure if there is a sensible/feasible remedy for Americans in need of health care when our current system is so seriously flawed.  Yet, while I do not claim to have expertise to suggest what I believe might work, conventional wisdom tells me that reform is imperative to address the urgent and growing demands for adequate health care … now, rather than later.

So what is that answer to providing health care to American citizens in this economic climate?  Denis Cortese, President and CEO of the Mayo Clinic is among the experts whose ideas about health care reform I agree with.

Please click below, for an interview he had with CHARLIE ROSE in July.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10496 

My point is that criticism is more legitimate if and when alternative solutions are suggested, and thus more compelling [to adopt].

Republicans seem to want to go backward and not forward.  I see an exciting future with a new beginning.  We shipped jobs overseas and will not get them back.    WE must prepare for a new future with green jobs.  This is the future. 

I hope Republicans can start working on a new future in which we have a strong and healthy economy.   This will take a bi-partisan effort.

The Republican mission statement can’t continue to be "I hope he fails". If President Obama and the government fails - our country fails.

I want my country back -