President Obama 100 days..
Well apparently since FDR , this mark has to be acknowledged somehow..
First 100 days presiding over 330 millions Americans in the USA is a date for reflection.
Today , thinking of president Obama one cannot stop remembering all those many trillions dollars in his budgets and stimulus packages!
The first big one was to prevent AIG , that monster of insurance company, to go belly out..Why? Simply because that smart company did in fact insured all big western countries against any losses in their sub-prime and real estate investments!
After the huge collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , basically all banks went bankrupt!
So America has to give to the major banks of Germany, France and so on..billions and billions of US Dollars, that was the deal , that was what AIG had to pay from its empty coffers!
President Obama second agenda after so much money wasted was to cover all Americans by his own Health Care insurance!
Where does he find that colossal mountain of dollars to pay for it?
He does not have it ! the USA does not have it! So let’s print it..but that will be forbidden by any rule of good governing..
What then?
According to some analysts..President Obama said last week that some adjustments have to be made in correcting some expenditures! And basically the savings in Health Care spending in an universal coverage has to come from the removal of proper medical care to OLD PATIENTS. In other words since the most expensive medical bills a person had to pay for his or her survival is in their last six months of life, the idea is to prevent or reduce those expenditures. How? Simply by extending indefinitely the waiting list for crucial tests, MRI, Scans, and preventing “unnecessary” procedures such heart, kidneys, hip transplants..type of surgery usually very costly..
In other words , and it does make accounting profitable, since old men and women lifespans are short , what is the benefit to prolong it? WHY CARING FOR SICK OLD PEOPLE?
Why adding such tremendous expenses to the universal health care system? Is it “logical” for the good of the many young and healthier citizens to pay big premiums for their old people medical expenses?
Is that thinking morally acceptable?
And ..here we are ..!
A lot of old taxpayers having paid 65% of their incomes in various taxes to the State throughout their active lives, will be denied good care when they will be the most vulnerable, during their retired years!
Hope and Morality are excellent virtues!
Balancing budgets are also great virtues!
Giving hope to millions of people and not having the money to pay..that is a great problem to reconcile!
So ..100 days of change..100 days of ambiguity ..100 days that seem so long and so costly…!
Let’s hope that the next ones will be more..realistic!
Let’s the dream of the first American to settle in the USA carry on..
Let’s the freedom of choice to the American be secured.
Let’s the USA and its Allies enjoy democracy in secured borders and harmony!
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