Time for a Real Plan

This week, the government reported on the status of the three main entitlement programs: Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. The news was not good; the dates by which the programs are projected to run out of money have moved forward by a year or two. If nothing is done, all three programs will be out of funds within about a decade. This is a major catastrophe in the making. Essentially all Americans over the age of 65 rely for both subsistence and health care on these programs. The poor across the country get their health care from Medicaid. Millions of disabled and widows/children also rely on these programs. In short, all the people that president Obama claims to care about are now in serious danger.

One would think that Obama would recognize this problem and would be working diligently on a solution. Of course, that is wrong; Obama is ignoring the issue. Like the grasshopper in the old children's story, Obama is busy playing aroung with his re-election while making fun of the ants (here the GOP) for working towards a solution. Millions of folks are hearing Obama tell us everything is fine. Indeed, the only thing needed to correct our problems is for us to raise taxes on the wealthy. But that does not work. Even were the Buffett Rule to be adopted and the Bush tax cuts for those earning over $250,000 to expire, nothing would be done to help the entitlement programs. In fact, Obama's soak the rich solutions do not even pay for the rest of the federal government; the situation would get worse, not better.

Obama is supposed to be president of all Americans. He acts as if he is president of none. He is just not bothering to do his job, and yet, he is asking America to extend his contract. Would you extend the contract of a doctor who refused to treat his patients? Would you extend the contract of a sanitation worker who refused to recognize refuse left for collection? How about a miner who would not work in the mines; would you keep him on?

Where is Obama's plan for the future of entitlements? He cannot change the subject. I do not care if Mitt Romney once put a dog on the roof of his car or if Obama once ate a dog in Indonesia. I want to know how Obama plans to fix entitlements. I do not care if Sandra Fluke pays for her own birth control pills or not; she will earn an enormous salary at some lawfirm once she graduates and is not one the edge of existence like those on entitlements. I want to know how Obama plans to fix these entitlements.

It has been three and a half years of silence from the great orator of the 2008 campaign when it comes to entitlements. SILENCE!!! Where is the plan? I have to assume there will never be one. Aparently, Obama studied history only far enough to hear the great dictum of Louis XIV of France: "Apres moi, le deluge."