Wilson will genuinely talk with you in his own words about the issues of today. He will not cut and paste them from another source.
Health Care
So, we want to provide affordable health care for everyone. It is a good idea, but how do we do that? If the approach is to expand something that is inefficient and losing money, it will likely not work. In other words, we have to improve the efficiency of the current programs before they are expanded. We cannot expand something that is losing money and expect it to magically start making money. Expanding something that is losing money and inefficient will generally only serve to exacerbate the situation. It is actually a rookie mistake. I know, when I was a new business consultant, I tried to help a small business borrow a million dollars to expand their break-even business. Their banker called me and had to walk with me to the business and tell them this was not going to work. After putting together nearly a thousand individual budgets, I can personally say the approach rarely, if ever, works. So, here we are, trying to follow this same rookie mistake with the United States. Like almost every banker will tell you in southern Minnesota, go back and increase your efficiencies and profitability first and then come back and see me.
Here is the letter to the editor I wrote on March 19th in the full form regarding costs:
We need more truth and less politics. There is a lot that Congress is
not talking about. In December, many leading economists came to an
agreement on a credit card limit for America. Several of these
economists reported that same limit (60% of GDP by 2018) before the
Senate Budget Committee in early February. By now, Congress should be
well aware of the urgency. The bottom line is our deficits will need to
be reduced by as much as 5 trillion by 2018 from the current projections
in order to avoid a possible financial crisis in America. The good news
is by immediately committing to such a credit card limit and
implementing a plan by 2012, America can likely avoid such a crisis
according to December's report from the Peterson-Pew
Commission on Budget Reform. Unfortunately it is not happening. For
example, the health care bill scored by the Congressional Budget Office
on Thursday (March 18th) will save the nation a projected 138 billion
over the next decade. That savings could amount to less than 3% of the
needed action. Congress cannot seem to get ahead of the problem. If you
want to hear more truth contact us at www.stevenwilson.org.
What
about the Conrad-Judd Task Force proposed in January? It would have
begun the needed action. However, it missed approval by seven votes as
23 Republican and 22 Democrat senators voted against it. America, this
is a "We the People" moment in history. We need to start taking action
ourselves. If you would like to review new ideas from our innovative
policy team, contact us at www.stevenwilson.org.
What about that debt commission President Obama ordered? I asked David
M. Walker (the rock star of the national debt) if the new debt
commission guaranteed a vote. He told me it did not.
The action
will need to come from "We the People." Are you in the game?
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