USA or USSA?

Is history doomed to repeat itself? If Barack Obama's financial plan and tax structure, and health care plan are put into place in this country it will be. Obama's financial rescue plan for the United States is full of flaws. The reason that I say it will not work and history is doomed to repeat itself is because while it 'sounds' good, it is not sound. If the rescue plan proposed by Obama were voted into law, many small businesses would fail, because they would have to pay higher taxes and provide health care coverage that is more than a small company could afford. Even if the small business does not go under, it would not be able to purchase equipment or supplies when needed nor would it be able to hire more employees when needed for the business to grow. If another employee were hired, not only would the business have to take into consideration that it would have to also provide the employee with the required health care and benefits that it could not afford due to having to also pay higher taxes.

Most people's homes are worth more than $250,000.00. If one puts it into perspective, that most people in this country have homes which cost more than the businesses that Obama considers to be "Large" businesses, one can see that these are the "Mom and Pop" owned businesses that are "small," family owned businesses, that may be passed down from father to son. A business making $250,000.00 is NOT the 'Giant Corporate American' businesses that Obama makes them sound like they are. Many of these small, family owned businesses are likely to close, and when this happens who is going to be left? The multi million dollar corporations that Obama claims he is going to make pay their 'fair share.' He also claims to have distaste for these businesses because of their "getting through the loop holes" in the present tax structure. Are they really? Does no one realize that the richest, the top 10% of the wage earners in Americans pay 71% of the total taxes in this country? And the other numbers that I find very interesting are that the top 50% of American earners pay 97.1% of all taxes. With these sorts of numbers, do taxes really need to be raised for anyone in our present financial crisis in this country? Wouldn't it make more sense to leave taxes where they are or even give a tax cut to companies who create jobs so that the financial crisis fixes itself, without bailouts? These are last years tax figures according to the "Wall Street Journal." This does not sound to me like the 'rich are getting away with' anything, sounds to me like the rich are paying MOST of the taxes, as it should be.

As far as Obama's ideas on the "Redistribution of Wealth" concept that he is trying to sell, doesn't that change our country to a SOCIALIST society?? Making the United States of America into the United Socialist States of America? Taking from the rich to give to the poor is the idea behind Socialism and Communism. Even the USSR is now a capitalist society. Why? Because it did NOT work. Those who work hard for their money should NOT have to give it to someone who doesn't want to work. Isn't that what this country was founded on? The American Dream has no meaning with this concept in place. What is to become of the immigrant who comes to the "greatest country" in the world and all of it's freedoms and the ability to do or be anything a person wants to? For example the dishwasher who becomes the millionaire, is that still going to be possible? Not in a socialist country. Socialism and communism are outdated and failed lines of thought, except in the one country that stands for everything that socialism and communism are not. Both of those models failed and are no longer what is the normal way countries around the world are ruled.

Obama's plan for health care is a socialist idea as well. This plan has been tried in many countries around the world and is still in use in countries such as Canada and England. These systems are fraught with problems. Ask someone from Canada if they think they get quality health care. I know people from Canada and England and both of those countries have health care systems that are sorely lacking in the availability of doctors, hospitals and other services when they are needed. These systems make it a long wait to see a doctor and specialists are even a longer wait. Everything must be approved by the government before any procedure is preformed. In addition, doctors and hospitals are limited in how much they are allowed to charge. This has made it not worth the cost of the education to become a doctor, and now they have shortages in the medical field that make the health care professionals shortage in the United States look like an overage. Another problem in socialized medicine is that choosing your doctor is not something that you get to do, and a second opinion is not possible either. The problems that instituting socialized medicine in the United States would cause would far outweigh any benefits that would come from the institution of this program. The people who choose to go into the health care field as doctors will not be able to as quickly or easily pay for the school (many years of school) required to be a doctor. Many of those who would have chosen to become doctors will not choose that career. Another concern becomes the fact that the insurance companies and or the government will be 'practicing' medicine and deciding who lives and who dies. They would also decide who qualifies for which treatments and which citizens get them. Would they limit the number of each procedure allowed for each year, and if the allotted number of that procedure was reached, would you have to wait until the next year (if you lived until next year) to have that procedure? Who would decide which procedures would be paid for by the health care program? What about controversial procedures such as plastic surgery (and who decides what is necessary plastic surgery and what is elective?) or sex change (gender reasignment) surgery, or sterilization reversal, or even termination of a pregnancy? Do we really want to leave those decisions up to the government?

History proves that socialism and communism do not work in the long term. Are we destined and doomed to repeat history? Are we to give away all of our rights as American citizens? Is the American Dream a thing of the past? Will all of the immigrants who come here in the future not get the freedoms that made this country great?

I do not have all of the answers, but these are not the right ways to do it either. Hopefully someone will figure out some things that will work.