Rick Siegel Prespectives on Freedom and Liberty

Obama is trying to pass a health bill and the debate is fast and furious. There is no end to the debate and all sides seem to have different stories, themes, agendas, and lies from truth cannot be separated. There is a reason to this madness.

There is no health bill. There is debate without information and all sides just make up what they want. There is no text of the bill to study; there is nothing – just talk. The talk is all lies because there are no facts to collect.

Obama, for all his eloquence does not hide this fact. For the most part his changing story matches the missing facts, where is the bill? Why can’t anyone see it of find it? Is this like the bailout of banks where our debts pile high and the banks make billions on investing with the debts on our backs? Where is this American? You keep the profits and we share the losses? This is a farce. We are left with no information except the rumors all sides put out. Obama still only claims the “other side” is racist and exaggerating, but he does not offer the bill and say, “read it yourselves!”

How is this a debate? One side claims the bill has death squads and will pay for Mexican abortions in the US. Obama tells us this is impossible, or at least not in the bill. In the meantime there is no bill. Who is lying? They all are. We know that. They make a living in politics. A place where lies make friends, honesty is dead, and money is made by the dishonest. Laws are made in the dead of night taking your money away, your children away, and your property and all you can do is wait to elect another liar with a large budget to get his face implanted in your brain.

A good third of all political representatives are on trial for one crime, extortion or another. They pass bad laws; give contracts for billions to friends. They might even go to jail for their crimes for a year, but in the end, we have the bad laws on the books, the contracts are in place and everyone is happy the bad representative went under government care in an open “prison” with tennis courts and room for the wife.

The missing statesman, the missing bill, how do you debate without at least the information?