WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE HERE, PEOPLE?

So now, as those of you who have paying attention already know, our illustrious members of Congress, as well as, it seems, their just as illustrious, and grossly over-paid, staffers, will not now be losing their very substantial health-care subsidies, the cost of which is covered by we the taxpayers, when Obamacare is implemented because of a little exception proposed Wednesday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). So these crooks get to dodge that very big bullet which the rest of will still be forced to take right between the eyes.

You see, under the current system, the government, really the taxpayers, covers most of the cost of health-care premiums paid by members and their staffers. But because of an amendment to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, proposed by Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, that said that members and staff must enter into the exchanges or be covered by insurance "created" by law, those subsidies were kinda thrown into question. So I guess Sen. Grassley was pretty confident that this pond scum would be looking for a way to exempt themselves. And he was right!

So the potential existed that staff members were likely to lose their subsidies, which then led to fears of what was hysterically referred to as a "brain drain" from the Hill would occur if staffers left as a result of the increased costs. A brain drain? Seriously? You gotta be kidding me! I mean, doesn't something normally have to actually exist before it can be drained? I mean, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the collective brainpower of those on Capitol Hill is pretty weak at best. After all, this is the freakin brain trust that has gotten this country into the shape that it is! Just sayin!

But never fear staffers, for here comes Barry here riding to your rescue while the rest of us get screwed. Because last week, when Barry came to the Hill to meet with pretty much the same pathetic bunch of Democrat shmucks who 'passed' this debacle, he informed them that, by golly, he was going to be getting personally involved to sort out all the confusion. And it wasn’t too long after that the White House said that OPM would issue some new guidelines this week. Well, those guidelines have now been released, and they're really quite the scam.

You see, these new guidelines will now allow for members, and their supposed too brilliant to lose staffers, to retain their rather extravagant little taxpayer funded subsidies received from the government, an exception in exchange for giving up "premium tax credits" that they would otherwise be eligible for under Obamacare. "The amount of the employer contribution toward their Exchange premiums is no more than would otherwise be made toward coverage under the [Federal Employee Health Benefits Program," the OPM release notes. Well ain’t that sweet?

But then the shit starts to get a little deep with the effort to somehow defend this indefensible action with the claim that this is really no different that what's available to average Americans. You see, some dope by the name of Jon Foley, who’s the OPM Director of Planning and Policy, actually said in a statement "These proposed regulations implement the administrative aspects of switching Members of Congress and congressional staff to their new insurance plans, the same plans available to millions of Americans through the new Exchanges."

So I ask you all again, "Where in Hell is the outrage here?" Why aren't people flocking into the streets in droves? Am I the only one who sees this as being completely unsat! That these same lying scumbags who shoved this disaster down our throats should not now be permitted to escape, or circumvent, the same requirements that the rest of us are going to be forced to comply with should be seen as being unacceptable. They created this monster, so therefore, they should be made to suffer its consequences right along with the rest of us. They may think that they are somehow better than us, but they are not!