A recent e-mail crossed by desk, which contained some facts that I found interesting and want to share with you. What follows is the e-mail, with facts confirmed, my redactions, and my personal thoughts.
To place the subject in context, I ask you to consider a quote by former Sen. Daniel Moynihan, a liberal democrat: “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” Or for those of us who love sports analogies: “It ain’t bragging if it is in the record book.” (Yogi Berra). So, as you consider a government takeover of health care and the actual business experience of those behind this monstrosity, you should consider the facts, which my liberal friends are remiss to do. Typically, all conversations with them start in the middle, with a lack of willingness on their part to judge the outcome of their actions against history or establish metrics against which their proposed policies will be judged. They are always in the moment: there is a moral crisis that needs to be solved and if we do not do it “people will be hurting.” If they were to consider the historic performance of their policies – social security is insolvent, medicare is insolvent, medicaid is insolvent, welfare is insolvent, the federal government is insolvent and most (but not all) of this is due PRINCIPALLY to PAST social engineering policies and entitlements which have not economically performed – they would find that their policies have caused more “people to hurt” and no basis for the average American to trust the future economic performance of any policy they might propose. And yes, Republicans and Democrats are at fault, but the root cause of this problem is traceable DIRECTLY to progressive thought in both parties. Progressives are the villains, as I see it.
So here are the facts. A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.
Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%
Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S. 93%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. 90%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage referred to a medical specialist and see one within one month:
U.S. 77%
England 40%
Canada 43%
Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. 71%
England 14%
Canada 18%
Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health:”
U.S. 12%
England 2%
Canada 6%
These statistics speak for themselves!
Now consider the business experience of those persons who are responsible for advising the President on policy and administering the departments that will bring us an enlightened utopia. What follows is a listing, by President and party of the percentage of the president’s cabinet who had business experience prior to entering the administration in which they served.
Pre-1950 Presidents
T. Roosevelt (R) ........38%
Taft (R) ................... 40%
Wilson (D) ............... 52%
Harding (R) ............. 49%
Coolidge (R) .............48%
Hoover (R) ...............42%
F. Roosevelt (D) .......50%
Truman (D) ..............50%
Post-1950 Presidents:
Eisenhower (R) ..........57%
Kennedy (D) ............ 30%
Johnson (D) .............. 47%
Nixon (D)................ 53%
Ford (D).................. 42%
Carter (D)............... 32%
Reagan (R) .............. 56%
G H Bush (R) ............51%
Clinton (D) ............. 39%
G W Bush (D) ........... 55%
Obama (d) ................. 8% !!!
The Obama administration’s cabinet is filled with persons who are the least experienced by far of the last 19 presidents! And this administration is telling our big corporations how to run their business? They know what's best for GM, Chrysler, Wall Street, and you and me? How can the president of a major nation and society – the one with the most successful economic system in world history – talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one or had the responsibility for making payroll? Neither have 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers.
I have never been hired by a poor man. I have never worked for anyone who did not have a track record of success and whom I thought incapable of successfully leading the organization to accomplish its mission. However, many Americans cannot see beyond the veneer of his eloquence and his physical attractiveness to discern his total lack of experience, incompetence, and ideological commitment to move our country toward socialism, which in the history of mankind and through the demonstrated insolvency of our own social entitlements, has consistently proved to be a failure. This is not high school, where the best looking gal or guy or the best athlete who has the best GSA poster should be elected to be leader of the free world. Unless good people become engaged in the political process, understand that it is not government’s role to provide us with goods and services, but to protect our rights – which come from God not the Government and therefore cannot be taken away – we will enter into a period of decline from which it will be difficult to overcome.
I urge each person to actively engage your political representatives and do what you can to stop this administration’s agenda in its tracks. Most importantly, I urge each person to: (1) understand the issues and the facts; (2) test proposed policies against what has historically worked or not worked; (3) vet political candidates running for office based on their moral character, business experience, and elected community service; and (4) take the necessary action to remove incumbents whose progressive views have no constitutional basis or have proved to be unworkable in the real world. What we need is smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and a return to the rule of law, as envisioned in our constitution. Underlying all of this is the need for each individual to be accountable for his or her own actions, within the context of moral code that abandons post-modern relativistic thought.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for a few good men to do nothing." Anonymous
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