When all is said and done I got to give Obama credit for hitting the ground running and no matter what anybody says about him spending weeks and months in other countries he clearly got the machines rolling here before he did anything else.
I'm excited about his health care and just waiting for him to define it more clearly. I strongly feel that we need a UHC at the very least that covers and better yet REQUIRES the following. Annual medical and dental check ups for all Americans. Simpy discovering more problems sooner will drive down health care issues in the future because can nip them in the bud. Our current system says hey if you have a heart attack we've got your back. Stroke? Yeah we gotcha! Our emergency rooms will not turn away a patient, And we've all heard the horror stories of people going in for nothing. What we need to do is start checking early and often so we can stop these things from building up. Anyway I'm digressing faster than usual.
Cap and Trade is a dangerous idea. It is no doubt a good thing that needs to be handled but the way that Obama is going about it is not the right way to go about it. How do I know you ask? Simply because I haven't had the time to read through the hundreds of pages on it and seemingly nobody else has. Everybody is lying. The left is screaming it will create more jobs the right is screaming it will destroy jobs and drive energy costs through the roof. Fact is nobody knows and that's not good.
Last year as annoying as it was to watch things get pushed through based on fear and knee jerk reactions it was justified. The world was ending. The stock market lost over 50% of it's worth in a single year, the housing market plummeted, the auto industry was about to collapse as was the banking industry. There is a saying that a good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed next week. That's what happened as 2008 came to a close. Now we are watching the Stocks rally, we are watching home prices rise, consumer confidense rise, unemployment is slowing (and it is a lagging indicator anyhow). By all signs we are pulling out. There will likely be a pit or two in front of us but it seems like we are getting out of this. Now is the time to start working ASAP on staving off wild inflation, to set in place rules to prevent a similar collapse in the future.
It's really not the time to do something that many believe will hurt the economy. Particularly not on partial info. If this is a good idea a truly good idea show me the numbers. Show me exactly what this hopes to accomplish and what a realistic worst case scenario is. Make me believe because right now. . .I don't.
