Government Performance

Let's see, the current version H1N1 (swine flu), was detected over a year ago and the government promised us that hundreds of millions of vaccinations would be available. Over the summer they promised 40 million by today. September they dropped that down to 28 million, and actually there was less than 12 million vaccinations produced.

The government is promising us that they can reform health care and deliver more people with service for less money?

I don't know. They promised to reduce poverty with the Great Society. It failed. They promised the Patriot act would only be used to track terrorists. FBI and IRS use it to spy on US citizens. Obama promised "When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it". Stimulus package was signed in less than 5 hours. Obama said "I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House." White house is filled with around 24 exceptions to this rule. To top the cake, we were promised open and honest debate on health care to be televised on CSPAN. Instead we are presented a the newest Democrat only creation a 1990 page bill created behind closed doors, with lots of back door deals.

I don't trust the government; they have repeatedly proven they are untrustworthy. Their performance on implementing programs to actually help people is dismal. The adherence to what they say they will do is worse.

On its face this sounds impossible to provide 50 million people with insurance without spending “one more dime”. Could we add 50 million students to our education system and not spend one more dime?

How can anybody believe that it will actually improve health care, and not do for all of the USA what the Great Society did for inner city minorities?