by Marjorie

Created on: July 28, 2009   Last Updated: July 29, 2009

Is President Obama changing America for better or worse?

I read with interest all of the articles in both the better or worse positions. I voted for worse and want to expound on that position.

Obama and the people he has chosen to surround himself with are definitely taking a bad situation and making it worse by the power of ten. Each program they push is exponentially worse for America then the problem that existed in the first place.

Let's take health care, the most current issue on the table. It's also the most important issue they've addressed. The cold blooded callous included in this bill scares the bejesus out of even many democrats in Congress.

Rationed Health Care, an issue to be overseen by bureaucrats based purely on dollars and not compassion. When your child on chemotherapy has cost the system more than his allotted and fair amount, then what? He's used up his fair share of benefits allowed for his age group, then what? The President and his minions don't address that question, the then what?

Senior citizens must learn to tolerate the pains that come with being old. They shouldn't expect costly procedures to diminish the pain or reduce it to a tolerable level. This is a stupid and incredibly shortsighted idea. Let's say and elderly woman needs a hip replacement because the hip socket has worn through and is now wearing on the pelvic bone (it happened to a family member of mine).

But she's sixty eight and according to this democratic regime, no longer productive and not deserving of the cost of a hip replacement. Before her hip totally crippled her, she babysat grandchildren, did laundry, helped with light cleaning and occasionally cooked her fabulous Italian meals.

Now she's wheelchair bound and in unimaginable pain. No one can quit their job to care for her. She now needs assistance to do the simplest things for herself. So off to the Extended Care Facility she goes. She lies in bed, with nurses and technicians taking wonderful care of her, maybe. Women in her family live well into the eighties and nineties.

This wonderful facility charges anywhere from $6500.00 to $10,000.00 dollars a month for the care and nursing skills required. Do the math idiots! A hip replacement would have cost less in the long run and would have returned this woman to her family. But the bill in Congress has some provisions for her, some pretty scary ones as you will see below.

Obama's numbers are grossly inflated and that can be easily proven. In reality the

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