Why Don't Democrats Stop Lying To Us?

By Don White

"I know that there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate and there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness," Obama said. "I need you to spread the facts and speak the truth."

What about your lies, Mr. President, and those of Congress?

I reserved early last week for Florida Congressman Alan Grayson’s “town hall meeting” which I was told had to be a teleconference call because he said there were too many people to get into one hall or one stadium.

While it is true, Grayson’s district, District 8 in Central Florida, is large, measuring 150 miles north and south, it is not true that proponents and opponents of the health bill could not fit into a stadium, such as the Citrus Bowl in Orlando.

Well, I got my questions together, and knowing he voted for Cap and Trade and believing he will vote for Health Care. My questions were:

1) The president and Congress have better retirement and health insurance than what they are proposing for the masses, we the proletariat.

Would a fair-minded Representative Grayson support an amendment that would require his health and retirement plans to exactly mirror what Democrats are foisting onto the people? In other words would a member of the bourgeoisie (brzhwäzē`), allow his lowly masters to have what this highly superior class voted for themselves?

Eighty-one percent of Americans believe Congress and the president deserve no better health care than the people themselves who pay the premiums with their tax dollars.

According to a Tim Foley article in HealthCare.Change.Org if you and I were living in France, we the average person would get “a comprehensive benefits package – “as good as members of Congress get,” we might say – to every citizen. Regular access to a primary care doctor – heck, even to the point of getting house calls – makes you healthier.”

The average American makes $45,000.

Some people run for Congress to get a world-best lifetime pension plan. When they retire they get the same amount per year until death as they were paid while active in Congress. Senators make more. We all know Social Security is broke, but let's just dream for a minute.

House members make $174,000 a year, and let’s say that when they retire they would have been in office for ten years. That equates to $1.74 million retirement pay, a pretty good way to ease into your deathbed, wouldn’t you say?

Senator Alan Burris (D- IL) who took Obama’s Senate seat (he was a controversial Rod Blagojevich appointee) admitted that he lied to the Senate during his confirmation hearings because to him it was just a small thing, and anyway he planned to be a one-term Senator just so he could get the great retirement benefits. Lie a little, cheat a little, get thrown in jail – it doesn’t seem to matter to these folks if they get what they want in the end.

2) I wanted to say the government plan eliminates competition, rather than increasing it as Democrats say. You state the government option would add one more choice for people. That can’t be true.

Grayson said the government plan was more efficient. By statute it had to render 85 percent of the premium back as health benefits to the people, compared to an average of 70 percent for private health policies, and the government plan could be purchased for less than any private plan. If that is true, it wouldn’t take long before the government plan wiped out private health insurance in America. Everyone would opt in for the government plan. Isn’t this counter to Obama’s intentions? Your own statement is that the government plan would bring competition to the marketplace, but what it does is just the opposite. It eventually will eliminate competition.

3) Is there any provision for tort reform in the Obama bill?

There was none in the original thousand-plus-page version of the bill. But tort reform – like capping doctor and hospital liability at say $100,000 per occurrence – needs to be included. Otherwise, medical practitioners will continue to game the system by ordering superfluous test after test to pad their fees and protect them in court if the patient sues.

When various states introduced no-fault insurance to America thirty years ago, we made provision for tort reform, and that is one of the only reasons that no-fault works fairly well today in the various states. Even so, it still has its blemishes.

Doctors and hospitals are defensive. They order many unnecessary tests in auto insurance and health. Thus, the national health care bill should include punitive language that if doctors were caught duplicating tests and unnecessarily treating and not sharing their findings, they would be fined or would lose their license.

The American Medial Association is such a strong lobby that it will be difficult to get that kind of language in the bill, but it should be there.

In reality, here’s what happens. The patient complains about a doctor. So they have another doctor come in and act as an expert witness to audit his bills. Have you ever seen one doctor anxious to testify negatively about another doctor’s billing practices? It won’t happen. The referee must be a non-medical person or a retired doctor and even then there is plenty of opportunity for fraud.

The Obama bill doesn’t even address insurance fraud.

I was not given an opportunity to speak in this town hall and it ticks me off.

This was a telephone town hall meeting, and while a couple of the participants said they thought it was a wonderful idea, I thought it stunk on ice. The reason these few said they liked it is because they are lazy. They didn’t want to travel to the stadium. They liked to ask their one question, then get cut off without a chance to rebut or ask a follow-up question. I stayed on the phone for the entire two hours, and still they didn’t call on me. I wonder why?

There is nothing wrong with having a teleconference like this if, and it’s a big if, all of the district’s electorate had an equal chance to actually attend a live town hall. Congressman Grayson surprised me when he said that they had held a live town hall meeting earlier that week.

“What?” Yes, I had been sabotaged, lied to. No wonder we get upset with these Democrats. It’s the lies that upset us, and their refusal to face the people, who have a right to remove them from office and I hope they will.

That was the very meeting thousands of Republicans, Independents, and Conservatives like me wanted to attend. Why? So that we could confront the deceptive Congressman, let him dare lie to us as we were looking him in the eye. It’s a legal axiom – the accused has a Constitutionally guaranteed right to confront his accusers in person. The opposite should be a right when it comes to representative-voter relations.

Why would I want to go to the trouble of going to a town hall? So I could size him up, cross-examine him and ask follow-up questions. Grayson is a slick operator and is no dummy. I wanted to see how nervous he got when I backed him into a corner. I wanted to ensure that it wasn’t just another Obama-type rubber-stamp meeting full of like-minded Democrats – which I know the one I wasn’t notified about was. If I had had wind of it, their strong-armed union henchmen wouldn’t have let me in the door anyway.

It was one of those Obama-like meetings where people don’t get upset because they have drunk from the Obama Kool-Aid of liberal politics and don’t have a quarrel with Obama Care. I do. So to me it was grossly unfair and un-American. I had been lied to by a man named Tyler in Grayson’s Washington D.C. office, an intern, who said the only town hall they were holding was on the telephone. UNTRUE, and totally UNFAIR!

Here are some other Grayson lies, false impressions, fabrications, and innuendos:

1) No one tightened the screws down on this representative like I wanted to do, but Grayson left the impression that the government health care plan he had was the same as that which Congress would pass for all Americans. A total fabrication of the truth.

2) There would be no health care for illegal aliens. Just the opposite is in the original bill.

3) Seniors and the disabled wouldn’t have to worry. There would be no rationing of their care. Except by Rhom Emanuel's pseudo-doctor brother who advises the president.

4) Medicare and Medicaid would survive and still be operable and funded after the new health care plan was installed.

5) Eighteen thousand people die each year because they have no health care.

6) Only if this government bill is passed will Big Pharma cut $80 billion off their prescription

charges; only then will Health Care Insurance Carriers cut from their bottom lines and from premiums $150 billion. Those promises were not based on Congress passing a terrible health care bill that hurts people. Ask the lobbyists from these organizations and realize that Grayson was again stretching the truth

7) “This is not a bill that creates socialized medicine.”

8) The bill doesn’t raise payroll taxes.

9) He said 35 percent of Americans are for, 35 percent against, and a like number

undecided on this bill. That’s just plain baloney and he knows it. He said an overwhelming

majority are for a public option. Grayson suggested going to PolingReport.com

• I did so and found the above numbers untrue, according to the NBC poll. Here’s the breakdown the poll gives on nationalizing health insurance. Forty-two percent believe the Obama bill is a bad idea, while only thirty-six percent believe it is a good idea.

• Will Obama’s health care plan result in the quality of our health care getting better or worse? Forty percent said it would get worse, and only twenty-seven percent said his health care plan would make our situation better.

• Forty-Seven percent said the Obama public health option was not a good idea, while forty-three percent said it was.

These figures were from August 15, 2009 NBC polling and NBC is not a conservative broadcaster. Next week these numbers could be even worse for Obama supporters because they have been deteriorating for the past several weeks. I can only assume that with the large staff of people at the Congressman’s disposal, he knew the current numbers but rejected them and lied about it to make his point, just as he lied about many other things.

10) Finally, Grayson told thousands of people, his large telephone audience, that health care in America was a Constitutional right of every citizen in America. It is not.

He points to the Preamble of the Constitution which says: “We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Nowhere does it say that to “promote the general welfare” includes guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans. Neither does the commerce clause allow it. It is not in the constitution because the Founders did not intend to do for people what they should do for themselves. This is not Europe. It is America.

If healthcare ever become a “right” of people, you can see the slippery slope we as taxpayers would be on. Next, people would demand their so-called “Constitutional right” to “life” should include a provision that taxpayers pay for their homes, food, clothing and other things people are accustomed to providing for themselves.Obama has already done some unConstitutional things in the area of providing certain people preferential treatment in buying houses.

In the above ten ways, and many more, Alan Grayson lied to or mislead the people of Central Florida. He should be removed at the next election.

Fortunately, people are not as dumb as Grayson would make them out. A majority of Americans do not want a government option in health care.

They can see through Grayson’s deception and lies, and though he got 172,000 votes in the last election less than a year ago against Congressman Rick Keller’s 155,000 votes, we feel this liberal attitude personified by people like Grayson is losing favor with the people. A recent poll says only 22 percent of Americans call themselves liberal, while 41 percent call themselves conservatives. If the election were held tomorrow, he and most of the Democrats in Congress would lose, partly because people don’t like being lied to – an old far left trick. And that’s why we’re so darned mad when they refuse to open the door to us to town hall meetings.

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