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While my wife watched Fox New’s Bulls & Bears this morning, I paid little attention, focused on a book I was reading. However, I heard one of the panelists mention that under the incumbent’s heath care tax, costs were rising in general for the insured while services and practitioner selections were shrinking, which was not what the incumbent promised when promoting the law.

 

The panelist then went on to remind listeners that although the incumbent’s campaign promise when touting his tax was that if you liked your plan, provider or doctor, you can “keep them,” the opposite was taking place. Plan options, choices and medical providers were now shrinking.

 

At that point, this guy, Jonas Max Ferris, replied that the incumbent’s promises were only part of campaigning and the truth didn’t matter whereas fewer health care options were better and cheaper for a public that had more medical choices than needed. And that’s when I screamed so loud at the TV that my wife thought I’d lost it completely, and was having some kind of attack.

 

What had actually happened was that this Ferris enraged me altogether with his one short reply that spoke volumes about huge problems that are somehow acceptable today. Because if its proper, and according to him apparently acceptable, for candidates to lie through their teeth when seeking election, then how do voting citizens ever know what to believe and beyond that, what’s the purpose of making speeches at all?

 

What’s more, after looking this guy up to find that he’s an economist, investment advisor and Fox News economic analyst, if he puts no value on words delivered by the President of the United States, I’d have to assume that for him, lying’s a trivial matter and not only perfectly natural, but to be expected.

 

Consequently, as means to an end, anyone hearing his opinion on integrity now knows his words are valueless because he apparently has no moral base whatsoever where his self-interest’s involved. And it’s truly a shame that politics can reduce people to this level.

 

As far as the incumbent goes, although Ferris doesn’t think it’s important, I looked up the incumbent’s campaign promises and found the following:

 

According to Politifact.com in the Tampa Bay Sun Times, there were “37 instances we could find in which President Barack Obama or a top administration official said something close to, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” referring to health insurance changes under the Affordable Care Act.”

 

Here are two samples; “Rose Garden remarks, July 15, 2009. "If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that too."

 

And, “Town hall in Grand Junction, Colo. Aug. 15, 2009: "I just want to be completely clear about this. I keep on saying this but somehow folks aren't listening — if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan.  Nobody is going to force you to leave your health care plan.  If you like your doctor, you keep seeing your doctor."

 

Now, if that's simply meaningless campaign rhetoric, then what does an outright lie look like?

 

If you want to see the rest, here’s a link: Obama- 'If you like your health care plan

 

On another matter, although I planned to find something regarding Bill Clinton’s wife each day if I can, I doubted that even she could keep shooting herself in the foot that often. But, the way things are going, perhaps she can.

Today, Joshua Rhett Miller of FoxNews.com writes that: “As Hollywood hotshots protest the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel over its ownership by Brunei's sultan -- and his recent full-fledged embrace of Islamic law -- it turns out the Brunei government has financial connections to another American institution: The Clinton Foundation. 

The nonprofit foundation lists Brunei alongside Kuwait, Oman and Qatar as donors that gave between $1 million and $5 million through last year. The foundation confirmed the donation from Brunei was made in 2002, in connection with the construction of the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas.” 

 

According to the foundation's website: "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors. Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world."

Furthermore, “In total, the Clinton Foundation has received at least $492 million since its inception in 1997 through 2007. Other notable names or entities within the high-donation bracket include filmmaker Steven Spielberg, the Boeing Company and The Walmart Foundation.”

So, as I keep mentioning, Bill’s wife hasn’t yet officially announced entry in the presidential race, yet negative’s keep mounting anyway, almost daily. Thus I guess the question is, what else will surface when the opposition really starts looking?

That’s it for today folks.

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