What could Gulliver do when he woke up after being ship wrecked? Nothing! He had been tied down by a bunch of threads. While he was unconscious the people of Lilliput bound him down. If he would have only woke up earlier, before the binding was complete, He could have easily dispatched the threads with a flick of the finger. But alas he did not wake up until after the binding was complete.

Are we the people of America asleep? Will we wake up in time? Will we be able to throw off our bindings?

Are our politicians doing things while we sleep?
Are they attempting to bind us down??
Will we awake before it is too late?

I see President Obama’s desire to overhaul the nations health care system as the bindings used in Lilliput to restrain Gulliver.

The economy is the excuse he is using to push for changes?

From http://www.drudgereport.com the headline ‘WE’RE OUT OF MONEY’.

“In a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: “We are out of money.”

C-SPAN host Steve Scully broke from a meek Washington press corps with probing questions for the new president.

SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?

OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we’ve made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we’ve seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades.

So we’ve got a short-term problem, which is we had to spend a lot of money to salvage our financial system, we had to deal with the auto companies, a huge recession which drains tax revenue at the same time it’s putting more pressure on governments to provide unemployment insurance or make sure that food stamps are available for people who have been laid off.

So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don’t reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can’t get control of the deficit.

So, one option is just to do nothing. We say, well, it’s too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care. We can’t afford it. We’ve got this big deficit. Let’s just keep the health care system that we’ve got now.

Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything…”

So, Let me restate the ideas from this interview.
1. We are out of money
(Really? Who would have guessed)
2. Being out of money was not caused by any decisions we have made on health care, however bad decisions made over the past several decades have brought us to this point.
(Not my fault, But I am blaming others)
3. Problems: Financial, Auto, Recession
– Forcing government to provide more welfare services
(Who says that the government. Has to provide more?!)
4. Short term problem:
(Not identified)
5. Long term problem: Medicaid and Medicare
(Welfare. Umm, created by the government)
– It is out of control.
(Really?

You may have noticed that Nothing was said about servicing the Massive debt. I will call it the $63 Trillion dollar gorilla.

Wake up America!

Please wake up!.

We are going to be bound down like Gulliver. But for us … They will not release the cords that hold us bound. They will only make the cords tighter, stronger and more firm.

BTW, You can download a e-copy of Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Our freedom is a stewardship. It was purchased with the blood of our ancestors and passed on to us as a sacred trust. We absolutely must not break the chain. Shame on the generation who looses the precious freedom due to apathy failing to preserve it for their progeny. America was intended to live forever free!

May we demonstrate by our actions that we are worthy of their sacrifice.