Liars and socialism run wild; or do they?

President Obama made two speeches recently, one about schools and education and one on the new health-care reform plan, which have generated a lot of controversy.

The education speech directed towards children about schools was thought to encourage children to stay in school and do well. Obama’s speech about health care was a proposition that health care should be socialized, but if people already have sufficient coverage, they do not need government sponsors.

In terms of the back-to-school speech, many have felt it was a simple, straight-forward speech, while many others feel that there is an underlying message that has been overlooked that has sparked a mass controversy. Many believe that Obama’s speech tended to address the problems with the United States and how he felt people could fix them.

"I believe this is the greatest country on Earth, and I try to teach that to my children," Bill Hogsett, a parent in Dallas, Texas said. "I don’t want them hearing that there’s a fundamental flaw with the country and the kids need to go forward to fix it."

The most well-known controversy came during Obama’s address to Congress about a new health care reform plan. When addressing that the new heath care plan would not cover illegal immigrants, Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "you lie."

Both sides have expressed that Wilson’s comments were distasteful and disrespectful to the president. The Republicans have even rebuked Wilson for his actions.

The speech about health care reform is said to be a major contradiction from what the House and lawmakers really want.

As a major viewer of politics, Mary Sabo, a former student at Jonathan Law High School, sees Obama’s speech as a major contradiction to the ideas that the House has put forward and sees this struggle for health-care reform as one that seems unlikely of becoming passed any time soon.

"Obama said in his speech that if an individual has sufficient healthcare, they can elect to keep it and if they don’t, they can elect or choose to receive the government sponsored healthcare which completely contradicts the stance that the House has, which is that health care should be completely socialized, meaning that everyone would have government healthcare and no one would have private insurance" Sabo said.  "They need to come to some sort of a consensus otherwise this bill is never going to get passed."

Others feel that the White House needs a fired up liberal base to pressure lawmakers to vote for the proposed health care plan.

"Obama and his Party need to stop changing their minds about the right course of action and stay true to the public," senior Jamie Dowers said. "It is one thing to be unsure of what to do, but it not good to change many of the policies you used to get elected and I do not like to see that in politicians but it is very common unfortunately now a days where everyone wants to get elected by any means."

The controversy over the school speech seems to have subsided a little bit over time but the debate over a new health-care plan still rages on.

(Some information is courtesy of CNN.com, Washingtonpost.com)