Have you seen this great article by Thomas Sowell?

Here is an article written by Thomas Sowell. Title: Listening to a Liar



';Hubris-laden charlatans'; was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.



To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone's intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.





Did we really need CBO experts to tell us that there is no free lunch? Some people probably did and the true believers in the Obama cult may still believe the President, instead of believing either common sense or budget experts.



Even those who can believe that Obama can conjure up the money through eliminating ';waste, fraud and abuse'; should ask themselves where he is going to conjure up the additional doctors, nurses, and hospitals needed to take care of millions more patients.

If he can't pull off that miracle, then government-run medical care in the United States can be expected to produce what government-run medical care in Canada, Britain, and other countries has produced-- delays of weeks or months to get many treatments, not to mention arbitrary rationing decisions by bureaucrats.



Obama can deny it in words but what matters are deeds-- and no one's words have been more repeatedly the direct opposite of his deeds-- whether talking about how his election campaign would be financed, how he would not rush legislation through Congress, or how his administration was not going to go after CIA agents for their past efforts to extract information from captured terrorists.



President Obama has also declared emphatically that he will not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations-- while telling the Israelis where they can and cannot build settlements and telling the Hondurans whom they should and should not choose to be their president.



One of the secrets of being a glib talker is not getting hung up over whether what you are saying is true, and instead giving your full attention to what is required by the audience and the circumstances of the moment, without letting facts get in your way and cramp your style. Obama has mastered that art.



Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe. No message has been more welcomed by the gullible, in countries around the world, than the promise of something for nothing. That is the core of Barack Obama's medical care plan.



President Obama tells us that he will impose various mandates on insurance companies but will not interfere with our free choice between being insured by these companies or by the government. But if he can drive up the cost of private insurance with mandates and subsidize government insurance with the taxpayers' money, how long do you think it will be before we have the ';single payer'; system has he has advocated in the past?

Mandates by politicians are what have driven up the cost of insurance already. Politicians love to play Santa Claus and leave it to others to raise prices to cover the inevitable costs.



Politicians have driven privately owned municipal transit systems out of business in many cities, by simply imposing costs and restricting the fare increases needed to cover those costs. The federal government can drive out private insurance the same way that local politicians have driven out private municipal transit and replaced it with government-run transit systems.



Barack Obama's insistence that various dangerous policies are not in the legislation he proposes sounds good but means nothing. Unbridled power is a blank check, no matter what its rationale may be. No law gave the President of the United States the power to fire the head of General Motors, but TARP money did.



When there are ';advisory'; panels on what treatments to approve and the White House's existing medical advisor has complained of Americans' ';over-utilization'; of medical care, what does it take to connect the dots?



Bottom line: Obama is utterly and completely untrustworthy, nothing he says can be believed based upon his well-established propensity for shameless lying to the American people.Have you seen this great article by Thomas Sowell?
Thank you I hadn't seen it as was in DC marching!Have you seen this great article by Thomas Sowell?
His loss of trust is starting to show in the polls! It seems every time he opens his mouth his numbers drop, people are starting to wake up...
I'm too tired (almost 3am), but I'll give a star so I can read this later.
I hadn't seen this one, which is a great article and 'spot on';.
No, but thanks. This is a good read and oh, so true. Thank God for American heroes, like Joe Wilson. He said what so many Americans were saying at home. He stood up for America. I just wish that we had more people like him.
It started many years ago right here in America. The american people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened, The demo party has adopted the platform. In a speech given by Norman Thomas in about the 1950's he was a socialist party candidate



Our Congress is the supreme law of our land, it gives sole responsibility to the house for originating and approving appropriations and tax's Nancy P'lousy is leader of the majority party. she and fellow

house members, not the president, can approve any budget they want!!



This is what communism brings to a nation, scarcity, brutality.poverty. sound familiar? and a tactic that is beginning to take root here. One being a snitch on others. We are indeed ahead on the marxism point Only the mentally challenged or the ones that have nothing to loose or don't care about the USA and voted for him, won't understand this. this nation is done.
actually, i googled ol' tommy, and he is quite the conservative, isn't he? (never mind answering, i know he is). That said, i will take the economic uncertainty of a government plan over the economic certainty of losing health care from a private company due to any expensive illness i may get in the future.
I check Sowells colums from time to time, another good article from a master of common sense economics.

Of course since Sowell is black and critical of Obama they will call him an uncle tom. Same with Walter Williams.
I so agree. I just wish you had a way to make this sink in where it needs to, rather than to the choir here. I have never heard so much shameless rationalization in my life. I think to myself, if these people are our leaders and decision makers in our country then, as my friend puts it...we are so screwed.