I got home to watch the speech, it was a pretty dull but mostly annoying 48 minutes.

The first 15 minutes or so, it was the "likable Obama" the guy who won- the charming guy, the guy folks admire. 

Then came the all-knowing-arrogant professor Obama-- the one who has never worked a day in his life in the private sector, yet knows everything about how to run and reform private industry. 

Lastly there was the nasty-Chicago-style Obama.  He berated and belittled the opposing party- and any Americans who oppose his health care reform plan- for the remainder of the speech.  NOT very Presidential. 

He's really bringing it down to the gutter, "We will call you out!"  That's some inspirational rhetoric there...

The Republicans stood up and clapped many times when they had no business clapping, Washington etiquette I guess.

No etiquette when SC Rep Joe Wilson yelled "you lie!" when Obama said "The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally"

The Democrats REJECTED a provision which would have required government agencies to check two databases before registering people on any public plan in order to ensure that they are not here illegally.  It was a very simple 2-page document called the Heller amendment.  This is like saying "no Minnesotans can sign up for this plan, but we're not going to verify if you're from Minnesota"...it's lying by omission.

Obama was the one spreading misinformation tonight...left and right.

My two very favorite lines from the speech though were at the very end-- these two gems of big government bravado from the President:

In 1933, when over half our seniors could not support themselves and millions had seen their savings wiped away, there were those who argued that Social Security would lead to socialism.

That's EXACTLY where it's leading us- it's just taken 70+ years! In 1933 the life expectancy was 60 and you could collect social security at age 65-- 5 years AFTER the life expectancy.  The program paid out $35 Million in benefits in its first year.

Today life expectancy is 78, and retirement age is 66!!  You start collecting 12 years BEFORE the life expectancy.  The program paid out nearly $500 Billion in 2007, not including disability payments.

And then this: 

In 1965, when some argued that Medicare represented a government takeover of health care, members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans did not back down.

45 years later, here we are, debating the final solution "Medicare for All", a government-takeover of our health care.   In 1966 Medicare was a $3 Billion program, with an estimate to cost $12 Billion by 1990.  Medicare actually cost $107 Billion in 1990- today it costs over $400 Billion a year. 

Do the math and you can throw every single one of the President's promises about cost-control and cost-savings and cost-estimates right out the door.  He's wrong.  These politicians are ALWAYS wrong when it comes to spending other people's money and the size of these programs.

There were two things that have almost completely removed the customer from the true cost of their health care--1. employer based insurance and 2. government programs.... Medicare is the biggest part of the problem, it's completely skewed the marketplace and now Obama wants "Medicare for All". 

This plan will do NADA, ZERO, ZILCH to "drive down the cost of health care."  This legislation will bankrupt this country.