Obama endorses 'choice and competition'

Americans mostly ignored something in President Obama’s speech to Congress last week. “My guiding principle,” President Obama told Congress, “is, and always has been, that consumers do better when there is choice and competition….”

Yes, that’s what he said. I looked back at the text of the President’s speech and wondered: Exactly where does our government give citizens “choice and competition” now?

• 1. The government provides our children’s public education. Do they offer us choice and competition? No.
• 2. Our government provides daily postal service. Any choice or competition? Nope.
• 3. The Feds provide health insurance for our nation’s poor and elderly. Choice? Nada. Competition? Nyet.
• 4. Our government provides the health care of our nation’s proud service men and women. Do they get choice or competition? Nie. (That’s “No,” in Polish.)
• 5) The government controls the future retirement savings of all American citizens, our Social Security. Are we offered choice and competition? Not even.

If our government currently gives American citizens no choice or competition in these five areas, then how well are they doing their job? President Obama knows, “(Americans) do better when there is choice and competition.” Therefore, it stands to reason, Americans would do much better with choice and competition in health insurance, health care, public education, postal service, Medicaid, Medicare, Veterans’ Care and Social Security.

Now that’s the kind of change we can believe in, but it will come at the expense of current governmental power. That's not going to happen with the current crew in Washington...

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