Onyma you have got to be Joking......what is the effect on the populace, I can answer that two ways one we currently have the best medical system in the world does it need some things fixed sure it does but we don’t need to completely change the system to a socialized set up , if you have a cut that need s stitches you don’t amputate the arm. Why has the government not proposed fixing the system we have.... because that would not create another huge government bureaucracy would it? What is going to happen is all the best doctors are going to a/ retire or b/ leave the country because they can’t do business the way Obama care will force them to. I have government run health care now thru the VA and I can tell you what you will have to deal with when a bureaucrat gets a hold of your health care. Just ask any one who has VA health care the care is great if you can justify a need for treatment you can wait in line and then travel hundreds of miles to get it. That is exactly what we will get with this bill. Now as for the military we have the most capable military in the world and just like health care it is expensive not as expensive as health care for all even the people not paying into the system but expensive none the less.

The Heritage Foundation


WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2009


For Obama, killing the production of the F-22 while Russia is expanding its fighter forces more than at any other time since the end of the Cold War. The Russians plan to field 300 Su-Fullback strike aircraft by 2022 and an additional 300 Sukhoi Pak fifth-generation fighters was purely symbolic. While he sends our nation spiraling into trillions of new debt, his $1.75 billion in savings by cutting the F-22 amounts to a third of one percent of the overall 2010 defense budget. So if killing the F-22 was not about savings, what was the motivation? The New York Times reports: “Senate aides said that some Democrats who otherwise might have voted for more planes sided with the President out of concern that a loss could have hurt him in the fight for health care reform.”

So at what cost to our national security did Obama trade political momentum for his domestic initiatives? . Meanwhile, China has ordered an estimated 76 Su-30MKK Flanker-Gs and can produce an additional 250 under license, including at least 100 “knock-down kits” to be assembled in China. If China modernizes its 171 Su-27SK/UBs to the Su-27SKM standard and assembles another 105 Su-27SKMs under license, it will have roughly 626 multi-role fighters available for air superiority missions. This would place China in the same league as the U.S., which has 522 F-15A/B/C/Ds, 217 F-15Es, and a planned end strength of 186 F-22s.

The fighter gap is often considered to be far in the future, but the reality is that future short falls must be addressed today. The President’s fighter cuts would eliminate one of the two remaining fifth-generation fighter production lines. This would severely limit the options available to Congress if it wants to restart production at some later date. The cost to the taxpayer would also be much higher than if production continues.

use yor head there is a big picture.