As Barack Obama’s favorability ratings continue to slip in poll after poll, we continue to see more of the same, or, as we often unfortunately see both in business in politics, an acceleration of what’s not working. The bailouts aren’t creating jobs, so by all means increase them. Debate on Health Care “reform” is bringing about no results, so accelerate the debate.

At times like these, one must exit the current paradigm and review new approaches.

With Health Care, we continually hear that there there are not enough doctors for the growing, aging population. This is the accepted standard from which we accept the scarcity of medical inteventions. Such scarcity of medical interventions is the basis from which all other responses follow. But what is being done to accelerate the growth of new doctors entering the system? 

Perhaps our government could provide something of real value instead of bailing out systemic points of failure. If tort reform is off the table, then why doesn’t government, for example, provide low cost, high quality medical education to students who would be mandated to work in the public option health care field for a number of years before moving on to the private sector? How’s that for mandatory public service? No, they wouldn’t make as much money at first as the top private sector doctors, but then, they wouldn’t have a million dollar medical school loan to pay off either. And these doctors wouldn’t upset our precious system of predatory health insurers and predatory malpractice litigators who feed off health care, keeping the costs of that morally bankrupt system so egregiously high.

Quality medical professionals today avoid Medicaid reimbursement rates like the plague, and we plan to cut them further. People who pay for private insurance do receive higher quality care than those who receive Medicare and Medicaid today. Must the greedy HMO’s demand monopoly status while practicing health care denial for profit too? Or are we really that terrified of repercussions from our current high-cost medical education system? I seriously doubt that their interests are as “special” as those of the HMO’s.

As for the financial debacle, we see our current “consumptive” state of affairs as something immutable. Must we continually attempt to stimulate the Keynesian engine of consumption to re-inflate debt bubbles, when American consumers clearly have changed their behavior in response to the crisis - why does government push so hard against a behavioral change that it recognizes as prudent and appropriate?

Here’s where Obama the cheerleader, instead of gloating over re-animating the corpse of the insolvent monetarist empire, and claiming to have valiantly saved civilization in the process (a feat doomed to unwind anyway), could look the American people square in the eye and say:

We need to once again be the very best in the world at something other than high stake games of chance. We used to make the best cars, the best trains, the best planes, the best of everything, and we can do it again, but I need your help. I’m counting on America’s innovation and brilliance to literally dazzle the rest of the world with new products and services that are of such high value and in such high demand that our REAL Gross Domestic Product literally wipes out our debt with unprecedented job growth and unprecedented global demand value. And instead of continually rewarding failure, we will refocus on supporting that effort and success.

If in so many words I heard something like that from Barack Obama, I’d fall out of my chair. People wouldn’t give a damn about school kids praising Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, if he started acting like that. Because a moral shift to positive thinking without the behaviorist CON job of cheating, stealing, and lying about how successful we are at cheating, stealing, and lying – regardless of how schmaltzy it might seem to some – is the kind of cheerleading America can use, much moreso than this continued behaviorist CONfidence game in the propped up DOW.

Yes, there’s a lot more to be done than challenging America to do the right thing, but it would be a refreshing start towards more positive thinking without the CON.

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