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Obama says one thing but he means another

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Humpty Dumpty, the fabled character in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass,” said, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

Like Humpty Dumpty, President Obama can use words and make them mean whatever he chooses them to mean.

His previous claims of 46 million Americans being uninsured morphs into 30 million in his speech to Congress.

He compares a government-run health plan to the present-day Medicare as an example of how a government program could work. But Medicare cannot be sustained and is going broke.

He says his health plan will not add to the deficit. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office disagrees.

He claims to support the free enterprise system but encourages and supports the elimination of the secret ballot in union elections, government-imposed contracts on employers and a tariff on tires made in China, thus risking an all-out trade war.

He asks for bipartisan cooperation but pushes a leftist agenda that would permanently shift the political center to the left.

Viewing Obama’s leftist-socialistic agenda, more and more Americans are responding to his campaign slogan of “yes we can” with an equally strong answer: “no you don’t!”

Alfred V. Eade

Olean


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