President Obama asks his critics of health care

President Obama said about those who criticize his health care plans, "I've got a question for all of those folks. What are you going to do? What's your answer? What's your solution? And you know what? They don't have one. … Their answer is to do nothing, and we know what that future looks like."

The president is practicing the magician's art of deflection. The president is assuming that the government should do something about health care when there is nothing in the constitution that authorizes the government to do so. The general welfare clause does not apply because government run health care is not promoting the general welfare of the states, but is creating a nation of dependents, which harms the general welfare of the states.

If however your critics come up with another, plan you will adopt it and claim it as your own, and create a legacy that you brought Universal Health Care to the United States.

What to do about health care? Mr. President, get the government out of the health industry. Allow people to become doctors and nurses without a license. Allow people to build hospitals without government permission. We know that creating more supply than demand will reduce the cost of a product or service. Stop requiring hospitals to treat everyone. Allow people to grow their own opium for pain relief.

Medicare is another failed government program that you are trying to save. It has increased the cost of health care. It encourages office visits for so many obese people who could cure their own symptoms by dieting. It spends billions on keeping dying and terminally ill old people alive a few more weeks. The government cannot afford the Medicare program. Eliminate Medicare and the cost of health care will drop drastically.

Of course my suggestions will fall on deaf ears. That's because people have a desire to tell others what to do. Their desire to help others is a desire to rule others. Too many people use the democratic process to impose their will on others, to tell them how to live, by using the force of law. No law should be used except to protect life and property.

I believe we need a constitutional amendment that allows members of congress to be selected the same way we select jurors, and for one or two year terms. I believe this because people who seek office under the current system are seeking self actualization, and rarely succeed.

The current elected politicians ruling the country are never fulfilled. As Abraham Maslow said, only about two percent of people ever feel self actualized. Politicians are always striving for self actualization and seldom succeed, thus they will continue to try and win our love and respect by any kind of sophistry and non constitutional law.

Mr. President, relax. You will feel self actualized quicker.

Charles Tolleson