Please stop this now

I rather feel sorry for President Obama. I don't like the way his running the country into the poor house and I would never, ever vote for him. But, I feel sorry for him.

His defenders can't stop noticing he's black. Any time someone – like me, say – dislikes his policies and disagrees with his over abundant spending habits, that person is all of a sudden a racist. Maybe we don't like his policies because we don't like his policies. However, his defenders come to his "aid" and call anyone not backing up his ridiculous propositions as being racist.

The poor man can't win for losing. He is a socialist and therefore I don't like him. He wants to tax and spend not only me and my children, but my grandchildren and great-grandchildren into oblivion. He had the most liberal spending record of anyone in the Senate prior to arriving at his new office. It isn't surprising he is willing to spend us all into nothingness. But I can't like him for it; I can't support his policies.

This has nothing to do with his skin color. It has to do with his fiscal irresponsibility. Saying a national health plan won't increase spending or taxes is ludicrous. Where is the nearly trillion dollars coming from? It is coming from the taxpayers. Right now, people without insurance can continue to buy food and clothing while paying for shelter and forego the purchase of insurance. They can also buy vacations and what-not while foregoing the purchase of insurance, but that's a different story.

If there is a national health plan, it will need to be funded. And it will be funded by taxes. Taxes aren't optional. They just take the money and spend it without any conscience whatsoever. The people who are going to be funding this program are the people who can't afford to buy their own insurance. Taxes are withheld before you buy your groceries or pay your rent. You don't even get to decide if you want to buy what the government is buying. They just take your money from you and buy what they think you want.

It is how the government works. Telling me any different is lying. They make a program that looks good on paper without thinking of all the side effects. It is like the law in Nebraska allowing children to be safely dropped off at hospitals after birth, except without a cut off date. Someone drove from Florida to drop their kids off. Lawmakers didn't think it through adequately.

Same with most socialist programs. President Johnson decided we would have a Great Society and instituted plans to make sure no one was neglected who could not care for themselves. What he and Congress didn't realize was the devastating side effects. Instead of fathers/husbands working to support their families, they abandoned them so the government would pay for the dependent children. And what we got was the destruction of inner city families.

Congress is good at looking at their programs intent without looking at loopholes or unintended side effects. There are plenty in the health care plan. But, since we are so focused on the health care plan, no one is watching the borders of our country. Instead of making sure we have safe borders, we are going to be giving amnesty, along with lots and lots of money to illegal aliens who ask for it. I'm not sure if the health care plan is even the real plan, or just a smoke screen to be able to pass a whole raft of stupid laws allowing a whole bunch of stupid things to happen.

And I say all this knowing I don't like the current President's policies. I don't really care what color his skin is. I can dislike what he says and does just fine regardless of his tan. And I wish his defenders would come up with something other than accusing anyone who disagrees with him of being racist. It isn't a racial thing; it's a socialist thing.