Who is Richard Nelson

I am.

All joking aside. I'm a common guy. I have two kids and wife. I work a forty hour a week job, read a lot, try to play guitar, and love my God, my family, and my country with all my heart. I served in the US Marines for eight years. I believe that it's incumbent upon every American to take action to make this place better. I believe that it is our mission to protect the values that made this country great. I try herein to dig into the issues at hand and provide insight from and to the common man with regard to what is going on with this great nation. I believe that the average American DOES have the intelligence and wherewithal to understand and deal intelligently with complex government issues; I believe that it is our moral imperative!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Transparency & Debt; Business' Ball-n-Chain

Take a look at the article that I've linked here. The Obama administration continues to try and control what we as American's see and don't see.

Debt Limit Raised Behind Closed Doors

The President does not want you to see this publicly because he knows that it's wrong and he knows that you know it's wrong. Raising the debt ceiling and spending more money that we don't have to spend is not the answer and will not fix the problem. How is it that every other bill signing has been done with cameras and fan fare?

Because the government is not a business it does not have to balance a budget or, God forbid, be profitable. When a business is efficient and provides a needed or valuable product and/or service the business is rewarded with profits. Conversely when the business is inefficient or does not provide that needed product or service, they are punished by revenue loss and eventually by going out of business.

The government has none of the above. They are neither rewarded or punished based on need or efficiency. This is the exact reason why the government should NOT be involved in anything that is not part of the original powers set forth by the constitution.

Even with medicine, Doctors must be proficient and accurate or they will go out of business. Introducing more layers of financial cushion between the consumer and the provider only allows for mediocracy and additional costs.

Think about this for a minute... if you only pay the doctor with no one in the middle to absorb more costs, wouldn't the cost come down? The existing insurance companies and eventually the government has to pay for the employees and facilities, etc. thereby adding additional cost to the entire process. Perhaps a system of insurers that only insure for catastrophic illness and accidents but not for normal Doctor visits. I can't help but believe that when there is a need for affordable "normal" healthcare with limited oversight by the government that there'll be entrepreneurial Doctor's that will gladly meet that demand. The government is just simply not structured for this.

This is just one example of how these major problems can truly be solved with simple common sense exercised by the common man. Big executives' and big government's idea of fixing problems is not by re-evaluating a problem and finding simple cost effective solutions. The solutions proposed by massive companies and big government are nothing more than adding layers or bureaucracy and throwing more money at the problem. We see that here. Increasing the debt ceiling and spending more money on things that are not truly needed is just a short term fix. The jobs are temporary but the debt is long term.

Tell your republican and democrat leaders to get out of the business trying "take care" of people. This is not their job. The government will do far more by simply reducing its own drag on society. The over taxation and over regulation does nothing more than act as a dead weight or ball-n-chain on business thereby inhibiting business' ability to function efficiently.

I ask, why did President Obama feel the need to hide this?

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