Righting the Ship

People are downright OUTRAGED with Obamacare and even his supporters are starting to question his motives, efficacy and foresight.

So, if the detractors know so much about such a complex issue as health care reform, one question lingers on my mind.

Where the hell have you been for the past 8 years, when the previous administration thought it would be a good idea to mix out-of-control spending with irresponsible tax cuts? Why wasn't there mainstream uproar about that?

What the Obama administration is not trying to do is bilk you out of your hard-earned money. What the current administration is doing is reconciling the past 8 years of financial incompetence that had become the norm.

Maybe the public really does want Mr. Obama to look the other way, play golf and make us believe that we're still safe, happy, healthy and rich. Maybe it's better for morale to ignore the financial crisis and the fact if we do not reform health care it's going to be so much worse for our children and grandchildren (because that's who we're concerned for, right?). Maybe it's good for the country that the President, the man who is supposed to make the tough decisions, avoid them until he absolutely has to face them.

Or maybe we should trust that the current administration is staffed with people who know more about the problem than we do ad we should listen to what they are trying to tell us. We need to make recompense for the missteps we have allowed to be made for the past eight years.