A Boy's Wisdom for Obama

I watched back to back episodes of "Extreme Makeover" last night on CMT, and one was about a six year old little boy that had a brittle bone disease. He says he has glass bones. He was excited about boxes, because he could configure them any way he wanted and build things. (At the end of the show Ty Pennington opened the garage door and it was full of boxes...the kid went just nuts with joy!) At the beginning of the show, Ty is sitting talking to the boy about his fascination with boxes, and how he goes about building things with them. The boy says to Ty, "Always think before you build"; from a little boy!

To our President and his ideas. He has no plans for anything. He just makes pronouncements and sets the wheels rolling. I think this is a seriously flawed way to live life, let alone govern. He signs off on closing Gitmo, but has no plan where to put the detainees. He wants to have universal government healthcare, but have any of you seen a plan? What are the cost structures? Who's going to pay for what and how much? What are doctors' and hospitals' responsibilities going to be? He's going to change the power grid, but he has no plans for the architecture. He is going to a cap and trade energy system put has presented no plans how that will work, what specifically needs to be done, who will pay what and how much. (I guarantee that we will all pay higher utility bills because corporations will pass the cost on to consumers). Those are the major things he said he will change. You can count on all the little things he's changing, and keeping hidden, that will have a major impact on our lives, incomes, freedom, he has no plans for either.

Back to the six year old boy, "Think before you build." Saying you plan to do something isn't a plan.