With Labor Day just past, it's a good time to remind ourselves that cap and trade and the Obama health care plan are not good for Americans.
Rather than imposing taxes in the guise of saving the globe from mythological human-caused global warming, we should rather insist upon an energy policy that carefully but systematically exploits our vast resources of coal, gas and oil while promoting new energy sources. To grind the vast economic American engine to a halt because of a dubious hysteria over human caused climate changes is, well, nuts.
As for further socializing medicine: The private sector, the one of freedom, liberty and capitalism, has been the driving engine in medical progress.
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are financially broken because they are government programs that are politicized.
Letting government do the same things over and over again, the same way, expecting different outcomes, is the definition of insanity.
Liberty, freedom, capitalism, labor for profit, personal responsibility inter alia, are what made America the great country that it is. Tell our elected representatives to quit biting the hands that feeds us.
Government does nothing productive. It is just the vast embodiment of the word no!
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