Obama's Appeasement Policy Could Kill You

On June 5, 2009, President Barack Obama announced to our enemies, particularly militant Islamists that they can come out of hiding. He played the tagged one, the "it" who may call out "Ollie Ollie Oxen Free" when all efforts have failed to find the other players, to say that he has given up, and the players leave their hiding places. Some called his speech in Cairo, Egypt, a realistic statement. However, it totally fails to be realist politics.

The warning that this president will be tested by some world events within six months may be about to come to realization. Witness the farce called a presidential election in Iran . The re-election of president Ahmedinejad is announced a mere two hours after the polls close. How are fourty million ballots counted in two hours? Perchance through some Satanic Verses. Nary a comment from Obama, who feels he now has to avoid “meddling,” to which the Supreme leader of Iran responds by accusing him of “meddling.” Look at the belligerent actions and threats coming from North Korea. The firing of new rockets into the Pacific Ocean drew a rather tepid response from Obama. Appeasing them will only bring on stronger verbal attacks, perhaps physical attacks, perhaps inviting others who espouse terrorism to join in.

Look for more incidents of similar ilk. Al Qaeda may become active again with serious attempts at harming the United States . Others who were associated with the “Axis of Evil” may break away from the friendlier positions that they moved to in recent years. There could be “testing” by still more. China may take a tougher position on trade. The BRIC nations may push even more forcefully for a stronger reserve currency than the dollar.

Job One of the U.S. government must be to protect individual rights and physical safety. This is not going to be accomplished by “using” every crisis to increase government power, by introducing more dictatorial regulation of the financial industry, by forcing everyone to have health insurance. Per Business World, 45.7 million do not have any health coverage, but 14 million are eligible already for SCHIP, Medicare or Medicaid, 17.5 million earn over $50,000 and thus can afford to be insured, and 5.6 million are illegal aliens, leaving less than 9 million who cannot get health insurance.

Most of those could get health insurance for $5,000 per year. However, the Obama administration is proposing to spend $1.8 trillion to obtain health coverage for those who cannot get it today. That tidy sum would amount to over $13,000 per person, rather than the $5,000.

Furthermore, the basic premise of the whole program is to drive down the aggregate cost. However, the only way that can be done is by rationing. Your doctor will be told to eliminate certain tests and drugs that some czar deems excessive.

Protecting the individual rights and safety of Americans is not accomplished by giving the Federal Reserve absolute powers over the entire economy. The Washington Post tells us:

On May 8, lobbyists representing many of the nation's banks and hedge funds huddled with senior White House advisers in the Roosevelt Room, seeking to snuff out an administration plan to increase the Fed's authority to regulate them, when Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner stuck his head in the door.

Fresh from meeting with Obama, Geithner asked the lobbyists what they were up to. When they explained they preferred that a council of regulators, rather than the central bank, safeguard the financial markets, Geithner silenced the discussion with a string of obscenities, according to people who were present.

"I don't believe in rule by committee," he said.

Now as the plan moves to Capitol Hill, skeptics say it gives the Fed too much power. Others say it did not go far enough to eliminate overlapping agencies. Some big financial firms complain that they were cut out of the process.

Geithner and National Economic Council director Lawrence H. Summers, who forged the plan, did not seek a consensus among all of these interest groups. Instead, Summers said, they focused on how to fix the regulatory system's root problems. Whether the solution called for the merger or elimination of agencies was a secondary concern.

Geithner did not think this position up on his own. He was acting on orders from Obama and Summers. Summers is rumored to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, after Ben Bernanke retires. Heckuvva job Larry, at looking out for your own future power!

Obama is going “soft” on potential enemies abroad, taking a policy of appeasement that is likely to invite attack. He is riding roughshod on individual rights of citizens at home. He has this back-assward.

Look to Obama for more conciliatory speeches and backing down abroad, rewarded by tariffs, swipes at the other cheek, perhaps even a missile or two lobbed into our backyard in Hawaii or Alaska . Look to Obama for more crackdowns on freedom at home.

The days of government being the servant of the people as we know it, are surely over.