The Socialist Trifecta

In virtually every speech that President Barack Obama gives on the current economic crisis, he references a trifecta of Socialist policies that he puts forth as the priorities of our nation and those we must focus on to heal the economy: health care, education, energy.

1. Health care in the United States is the best in the world. Nowhere else is there the amount of care and quality of care equaled. Liberals will trot out statistics showing that Americans are less healthy than citizens of other nations (which is true), but this is not the fault of our health care system. Liberals also cite the costs of our health care system, which is true, but the real reasons behind the high costs are the lawyers who game the system (the ambulance chasers) and those who are uninsured seeking (and receiving) free services. Those "free" services are then paid for by the increased prices doctors and hospitals charge for their services (TANSTAAFL).
2. Our education system is broken. Read The Six-Lession Schoolteacher by John Gatto. Gatto was the 1991 New York State Teacher of the Year and his essay is a damning insight into the Socialist mind-control of public education in the United States of America. Pouring more money into broken schools (and putting that money into the NEA and Socialist teachers and adminstrators) is not the answer.
3. T. Boone Pickens is right. The U.S. is transferring huge amounts of money to our enemies through our dependance on foreign oil. However, the Democrats are not pouring money into the construction of nuclear power plants and research into fusion technology. Democrats also oppose in the installation of wind and solar power farms in places where they could generate the most power.

Finally, the emphasis of the Obama Administration is placing on these three issues (and the way they plan to address them . . . through unwise and profligate spending) is far from the medicine the economy needs. The Democrats are using the economic crisis to implement the Socialist agenda they've been pining for but have never been able to fully realize. In the immortal words of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel:

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste . . . And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

The Obama administration is truly not allowing a crisis to go to waste. They have used the Administration's honeymoon and the virulently Socialist power of the Democratic Majority to push Federal spending through the roof and to channel power to shadow organizations (cf. Organizing for America) and acting swiftly to dismantle American credibility in the foreign policy realm.