Barack Obama has been traveling around the country selling his healthcare initiative. In his talks, he has emphasized that those of us with health insurance will not notice any difference. We will still have our health insurance. His plan will only add a government option, now called a public option, to allow those uninsured to get health insurance. That is true, if you only consider the time period from the time the law is put into place until about six months out, maybe less. After that time, the companies that have health insurance will dump their health insurance plans for the less expensive “public option”. At that point, everyone will notice that things are different and it will be too late to do anything about it. That is exactly the scenario that Barack Obama is trying to set up.

Why is our President going around the country and not telling the American people the truth? Is he afraid that the American people cannot handle the truth? Is he afraid of what the American people would do if they knew what the truth really is? Those are the profound questions that are hounding the President as he goes from talk to talk not telling the whole truth.

First of all, he is not telling us the truth because he knows that if we really knew what was going to happen, we would not approve. That would mean that his takeover of the health system in America would be dead in the water before it ever took sail. We would be on the phone to our Congress men and women and demanding that they scuttle this travesty before it sees the light of day. The only people that would support it would be the communists and the other Marxist types that haunt this country.

The second question is tied up in the first one. Yes, he is afraid of the public finding out the truth. The truth is the worst thing that can happen to Barack Obama and his socialist healthcare program. He has to lie to the American people to get them to see that there is a problem. And he has to lie to the American people to get them to agree to a solution to the problem that they could not see. First of all, his facts are all wrong. There might be 46 million people without health insurance at any given point in time. That does not mean that there are 46 million people that cannot afford health insurance like Barack Obama and his minions like to tell us. A lot of that 46 million, about 13 million, are the illegal aliens that should not be here in the first place. So, the facts of the matter are not even agreed upon by any expert at any level.

Yes, Barack Obama is afraid of what the American people will do when the American people find out. If they find out before he imposes the socialist health care program on America, he and the Democrats are toast. If they find out before the 2010 elections, the Democrats will take a licking. If the awakening is put off long enough, they will be dependent on the government health care and then the Democrats know how to play them like a fiddle. The secret of this question is when the American people find out. If they find out early, the Democrats are in big trouble. If they find out late, the Democrats are in the driver’s seat.

The problem is now, that a lot of us know that he is not telling the truth on this issue. Since he is not willing to trust the American people with the truth about a vital part of their lives, what other lies is he hiding from the public? The question then becomes, how trustworthy is Barack Obama and the Democrats? This is an issue that the truth would help. Since it is important to every American, the truth would help every American make an informed decision. Democrats seem to believe that lies are better than the truth. When people find out the truth, just answer with more lies and wait for another day. That is part of why we are in the mess we are in. Republicans are not blameless in the not telling the truth game, but they tell the truth far more than Democrats. In this issue, Republicans are trying to get the truth out. Democrats are trying to get the bill passed with no debate and no information getting to the public. That is not how to run a Republic.

We should have politicians that tell us the truth. A politician that tells the truth all the time is a rare thing indeed. Politicians seem to think that the way to get ahead is to tell lie after lie. When caught in a lie, just answer with a lie. That is not the way to get the trust of the American people and keep it. Barack Obama has embarked on the wrong trail if he thinks that not telling the truth to the American people will get him respect as a President. Presidents that tell the American people the way things are will get more respect than a President that lies to the public. Look at the list of Presidents and the best ones are the ones that have a reputation of telling the truth. Obama is on the wrong road. He shows no sign of leaving that road any time soon.