THINGS I WISH OBAMA WOULD SAY

Things I wish I would hear from President Obama and the Democrats that I know I never will:

(While playing as tape of Mitch McConnell stating that he wishes Obama would fail)  The Republicans say they love this country, but they want me to fail.  That’s like saying you love the patient, but you want the surgeon to fail.  It’s saying that you love the defendant, but you want his attorney to fail.  Someone should tell them that if the surgeon fails, the patient dies.  If the lawyer fails, the defendant goes to jail.  What is more important?  Your love of country or your hatred of me?  Apparently they hate me more than they love their own country.  Doesn’t that sound sad?  Do you really want to be led by people like that?

On the Public Option For Healthcare:

The same people who told you Medicare would be the end of freedom are now saying that the public option is socialism.  It’s nothing more than expanding Medicare coverage.  If you’ve ever had to go to the emergency room of a hospital with a real emergency, then you know that the place is crowded with people who should have been at a doctor’s office, but they have no insurance.   They hospitals tack the cost of caring for these uninsured people onto your bill when you go to the hospital.   You’re already paying for these uninsured people’s medical care.   And you have to wait hours for emergency care, because people have nowhere else to go.  Does that make sense? 

On Deficit Spending:

Once again, the fear mongers are telling you that we are putting our great grandchildren into debt.  They are saying that the way they grew up, they didn’t buy anything that they couldn’t pay for immediately.  My opponents must be awfully rich.  I don’t know about you, but when I bought a house, I had to take out a mortgage.  I went into debt. That was deficit spending.  Would you rather take out a loan to get your child a college education or just tell your kid he or she can’t go to college?  If you would borrow to educate your child, then you would engage in deficit spending.  What about a car or a major appliance?  No note, no car.  Obviously, we have to use common sense and not go borrowing money for things like unnecessary wars, like the last Republican administration did. But if the investment is worth it- whether it is educating our children or putting Americans back to work- then we might have to do a little deficit spending.  We cannot bring down unemployment without spending some money.  When the unemployed get back to work, they pay taxes.  Is there a better investment for America than getting our people back to work?

On Taxing the Rich:

First, let’s set the record straight.  We were never going to increase taxes on the rich.  We were going to let a temporary tax cut for the rich expire.  The tax cut was temporary because we could not afford to pay for it.  In the second place, the Republicans keep telling you raising taxes on the rich will kill jobs, while offering to lay off teachers and policemen as an alternative.  Does that make sense?  And in the third place, I’d like to know how taxing the wealthy is going to kill jobs.  If we return $100 in tax money to struggling working class people, they are going to spend it on things they need but could not afford.  That stimulates the economy.  If we give $100,000 in tax money to the wealthy, who already have millions in banks and investments, they are only going to add it to the money they already have saved.  They already have more money than they can spend.  That will not stimulate the economy.  Somebody is trying to insult our intelligence.  I’m not going to say who it is, but I will say that their first name is “Repub” and their last name is “Licans.”

On Deregulation:

The Republicans are calling me all kinds of dirty names because I believe in regulations.   They are telling you that government is evil.  I have to admit there are a number of things the government could and should do better.  But, we’ve had all kinds of life and job destroying oil spills already, with regulations.  Can you imagine what would happen without them?   There was a time when rats, rat poison and even human fingers got mixed up in the ground meat we bought.  That’s why we have regulations.  We had ten year old kids working twelve hours a day, seven days a week in coal mines.  Kids who never saw the sun.  Regulations stopped that.  Every time we deregulate, people on Wall Street do things that wreck our economy and get millions in golden parachutes for their efforts.  We wind up bailing them out because nobody regulated them and we don’t want our economy to go through another depression.  The same people who want me to fail, tax breaks for the wealthy while throwing teachers and police out of work, who want no regulations on large corporation that are so big they can wreck our economy, also want the votes of working class people.  Again, somebody is insulting our intelligence.