Results Matter !!

Medicare premiums to rise 17 percent in 2005, largest ever
Friday, September 3, 2004

BY MARK SHERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year, the largest increase in the program's 40-year history, the Bush administration said Friday.

Note: President Bush has said several times: "...not on my watch" in reference to terrorism, economic stagnation, corporate crime, setbacks in the Israeli-Palestinian situation, etc, etc, yet more bad news comes every day from almost every angle, whether one looks at the economy, job losses, fundamentalist extremism, worldwide condemnation of Americas actions in the Middle East, the Federal Budget Deficits, US Military readiness, Medicare and Medicaid funding problems, perscription drugs pricing and availability, on and on.

Does this man not see the problems? If he has not been able to do anything about them in four years why should he still be considered for re-election as CEO for another four years? Would stockholders or corporate America accept this kind of performance from a CEO of any other company? Also remember in the 2000 Campaign, Pres. Bush used every opportunity to speak of his "business experience", and how he would run the country from a "business perspective".

What seems to be keeping him in the running is the electorates fear, fear of the unknown, fear that without him things would be worse, and the fear that having supported him in the past, these same supporters would have to admit to themselves that they made a mistake in selecting him in 2000.

Get over it folks! He is a failure as CEO, and should be replaced. If the electorate needs someone to bolster their faith, strenghten traditional family values, and work toward universal human rights and the dignity of mankind, then I suggest they take themselves to religious and social agencies that actually work in these fields, and not mearly expend their meager efforts in lazily assigning political blame onto those who do their work in these areas but are not in accord with Bush's principles, practices, and allied methods. Bush himself said: "Results matter". Yes, they absolutely do !