To Obama: No we can't!

A good captain of a ship or an airplane doesn't sail or fly directly into an oncoming storm. Worst case, he may decide to seek a safe port to avoid the storm completely and resume his trek once the storm has passed. At the very least, any smart captain will make course corrections in the face of danger in order to protect his ship and its occupants. This is the wise captain.

An inexperienced captain will not recognize the dangers ahead and/or limitations of his own skills. He will thoughtlessly head into the storm in some attempt to maintain his course and arrive on schedule. To that end, that decision could result in the fatal loss of the crew, the passengers, and the ship that he was responsible for. All because he couldn't budge from his schedule. This is not a wise captain...this is a fool.

In more than just a few ways, we have an inexperienced captain at the helm of this ship of state that the world calls the United States. In the midst of a recessionary storm, he is totally unwilling to make any course corrections or to find a safe haven until the storm abates. He wants it all. His stimulus package is stalled and the deficits are massive. But, no mind. It's "yes we can"...no matter what!

He presses on to do a massive and expensive redo of health care that, by most estimates, will increase the deficits and reduce the quality of health care in this country. It may not actually provide insurance to the uninsured. But for sure, it will gives us the kind of backlogged medical care that is prevalent in both Canada and Britain and much of Europe.

With "Cap and Trade" he plans to drive energy costs through the roof in a futile attempt to fight a global warming problem that is gaining skepticism by the day; especially since temperatures have remained flat for the last decade even though CO2 levels have continued to rise.

He wants to swamp the social programs and welfare systems of this country by nationalizing illegal aliens.

The best example of his inexperience is the Stimulus Package. It isn't working. Less than 5 percent of the stimulus monies have actually left Washington, D.C. to help the economy. Because of his lack of experience, he failed to understand that construction jobs "aren't" just sitting around waiting to be started as soon as the money is approved. If he had spent more time as a manager of something -- a manager of anything --- he would have known that a lot of approvals and engineering work had to have been done before a single shovel could even be sunk into the ground.

Furthermore, he foolishly promised that his stimulus package would keep unemployment below 8%. Now, without any apology, he is now saying unemployment will top out at 10% this year. What if, as many economists predict, unemployment rises to 11% or higher? What then, Captain? Do we then need another near trillion dollars in stimulus to fix what the first stimulus didn't fix? How many tries does this President need at the trillion dollar trough to get it right?

We don't have a wise captain. He is taking us into a storm that this country may not be able to ride out. The ship may take a while before it actually sinks; but, by all indications, it will.

The bottom line? You can't have it all! No... No, you can't!