Nationalize the Banks, But Privatize the Military

In the world of the Obama Administration the world is viewed as not as it should be thus the world will have to change for the Administration. This seems to be written in jello just above the door entering the Oval Office.

In a rush to pass its stimulus legislation, that was not even read by members of Congress, and to try to nationalize banks that didn't want a government partnership, the Administration is attempting to control wider and wider swaths of business, industry and jobs in the United States. The Swedish model, if you will.

The Administration has stated that they know more about these areas than the private sector does and has urged Congress to pursue what they perceive as wrong-doing and to replace "incompetency" in the private sector with government actions to right the crippled ship "Economy." If continued, the ship will sink.

Thus, in the Administration's world view, if something is working and is competent, then the Administration must privatize it to punish it. Enter the privatization of medical care for soldiers wounded and maimed on the battlefields to which the United States government sent them to fight our nation's battles.

The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.

"It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan," said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. "He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it."
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"I only hope the administration will really listen to us then. This matter has far more serious ramifications than the President is imagining," concluded the Commander.

Some of those ramifications will be that soldiers who are Reserve and are self employed or that work for small business won't get the medical coverage they need and once that is realized by volunteers serving in the military, they will no longer see the military as a viable alternative, no matter how strongly they believe in the mission. Our military will then not be able to meet the recruitment levels needed to sustain a volunteer force thus, once again, forcing the Obama Administration will need to step in to fix it by instituting an unpopular draft which will dumb down the forces at a time when a creative and intelligent military is so desperately needed.

This would be a win-win for the Administration because they can keep the military more directly under their boot and at the same time make our military, a shining success, unpopular. Both of these objectives are sought because this Administration loathes the military, their mission and the whole ethos of the their culture.

To wed the Administration's fiscal irresponsibility to its anti-military culture, maybe they can make Congressman Barney Frank head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and he can do for the military what he has done for the housing industry.

Just as the Administration is killing business with its tainted kindness of control, it can kill the military with its illogically driven hatred through something as basic as medical care for serving our country.

How simply diabolical. How simply naive. How simply progressive.