Political promises carry no meaning

Listen up, President Obama. Your platitudinous puffery laced with errors and constant change does nothing to allay the concerns of what Obamacare portends, other than disaster. Your vague promises have no future legal standing. Remember the Social Security program “trust-me” promises?

Payments into Social Security program were promised to be fixed at only 1 percent of the first $1,400 of annual income (now it is 15.3 percent of $102,000, employee and employer combined). Payments were promised into a lock-boxed independent trust fund (President Lyndon Johnson diverted the money into the general fund for Congress to spend, leaving only a pile of moldy government IOU’s). Payouts were never to be taxed (President Bill Clinton started taxation). And payouts were promised only for contributors (President Jimmy Carter initiated payouts to non-contributor immigrants at age 65). Translation, political promises are meaningless. Note that all who broke the faith were Democrats, saddling future generations with a $50-trillion unfunded liability.

Obamacare is a permanent pile of political pollution. Nothing in the Constitution warrants giving any bean-counter, bureaucratic budgeteer the power of life-or-death decisions or any other personal choice. Not your business.

Once installed, Obamacare would grow like metasized cancer to intrude into every aspect of private life, constituting an invasive tyranny befitting a dictatorial regime with totalitarian characteristics that you and your cronies are exhibiting with increasing clarity.