"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." ― George Orwell
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
THE PLUNDERING OF AMERICA SLIPS INTO HIGH GEAR…
Well it would seem that Barry "Almighty" will be able to reach yet another rather impressive, in a progressive sorta way, milestone as president. Word now comes to us that federal tax revenues will reach, what I think is the staggering amount of, $3 Trillion in 2014 for the first time in our nation's history. So says, and quite proudly, the White House Office of Management and Budget. And yet we still hear rumors, and on nearly a daily basis, that Barry will soon be demanding that we working Americans, the number of which has apparently been on the decline during Barry’s tenure, hand even more of our heard earned money over to the government.
The $3,023,004,000,000 estimated tax revenue is the most inflation-adjusted revenue the government will bring in compared to every previous year. What that means is that $29,673 will now be collected for each and every full-time employee working more than 35 hours per week, and it also represents $9,534 for each person living in the United States. Now imagine if you will how that money could be much better spent by those who are working to earn it instead of being forced to hand more and more of it over to a federal government that is now, quite literally, out of control. It has become the equivalent of bureaucratic money pit.
The last record revenue year was fiscal 2007, when the federal government brought in $2,899,644,380,000, adjusted for 2013 inflation. The 2014 revenue will show an increase of $123,359,620,000 over 2007. Barry "Almighty" and congressional Republicans agreed on a bill at the end of 2012 to increase the top income tax rate to 39.6 percent from 35 percent, and increase dividends and capital-gains tax rate to 20 percent from 15 percent. The measure also reduced exemptions and deductions for individuals making more than $250,000. And yet, we have still managed to accumulate, because irresponsible spending, a $17 Trillion national debt.
Now imagine the state that our economy might now be in if each and every one of those full-time employees had an additional $20,000 in their pockets with which to make purchases. But no, that money is needed to cover the costs of supporting the Democrat voter base, the parasite class. And it is further proof that what Barry is actually trying to do here is not to raise those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder up, but, instead, to drag the rest of us down. Such is always the goal of the socialism that Barry is so desperate to inflict upon our country. Wouldn’t you think that $3 Trillion would be more than enough to cover the cost of operating the government?
If simply covering the cost of operating the government was truly Barry’s objective here, that would be one thing. But it’s not; it’s nowhere near being that. You see, his real goal here, which has its basis in his plan to "fundamentally transform" America, is far more sinister. His plan, as well as being the plan of his fellow Democrats, is to do all that they can to spend this country right into oblivion. And the goal here is to bring our entire economic and financial structure crashing down on itself. And if we are truly stupid enough to elect another Democrat in 2016, be it Hitlery or anyone else, we can expect this plundering of our country to continue unabated.
Friday, November 15, 2013
IS THE LEFT COMING UNRAVELED OVER OBAMACARE?
Apparently everybody isn’t quite onboard with Barry’s call, on Thursday, for millions of canceled healthcare policies, as if by waving a magic wand, to be restored. Those lawmakers and activists of the far more liberal/progressive persuasion, have since been busy criticizing him for not holding firm on enforcing Obamacare. His decision to allow insurance companies to, essentially, ignore the law for a year and continue offering substandard coverage could now end up costing him the support of the left.
Some leftist loon by the name of Anna Galland, who’s the executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, said the members of her bizarre little group did not want Barry to bow to critics of the Affordable Care Act. "They don't want to see this law eviscerated by death by a thousand cuts. They want to see the law strengthened, they want to see the website work, and have the law do all the good things it's already doing," she said, adding there is "deep concern" about the proposed changes.
And then, of course, there was Sen. Bernie Sanders, that flaming Socialist from ‘The Green Mountain State’, who also said that the solution to the problem is not to undo Obamacare. Asking, "Do we want to encourage policies that are totally inadequate? No we don't." Adding, "We want to move toward a situation where everybody, regardless of income, of age has strong coverage." This doddering old dolt went on to say, "Am I in favor of policies which are inadequate? I am not."
Many in the leftwing media who have been highly supportive of Barry and his signature healthcare law and often lash out at his critics, have also weighed in. MSNBC’s resident weirdo, Ed Schultz, tweeted, "Ed's advice to President @BarackObama: Next time "you give it to them!!" And the popular leftwing blog Daily Kos has started a petition calling on Barry to start blaming insurance companies for the cancelations rather than apologize for people losing their current coverage.
"Some insurers are using confusion created by the new law to hoodwink their customers into enrolling in much more expensive plans," the petition reads. "The actions of some of these companies proves why we needed healthcare reform in the first place: insurance companies are greedy, and cannot be trusted. "It is time to set the record straight," it continues. "Tell President Obama to stop apologizing for the despicable conduct of private insurance companies, and hold them accountable."
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, meanwhile, observed that the left is really frantic about Barry's backpeddling on Obamacare because it represents all they stand for. "At stake," he wrote in the Washington Post Friday, "is more than the fate of one presidency or of the current Democratic majority in the Senate. At stake is the new, more ambitious, social-democratic brand of American liberalism introduced by Obama, of which Obamacare is both symbol and concrete embodiment."
But seriously folks, with this disaster called Obamacare now proving to be not even remotely close to being what the Democrats promised it would be, at this point, the best thing they could do for themselves, politically speaking, would be to go along with any plan that calls for it to be scrapped. Let’s face it, the only way that the Democrats were even able to get this debacle passed in the first place was through the rather artful use of every political shenanigan that was available to them.
REMEMBER…IT WAS EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT WHO VOTED ‘FOR’ OBAMACARE…
Before delving into things too deeply here, let’s not forget the fact that it was every single Democrat in Congress who was eager to vote for this monstrosity commonly referred to as Obamacare. And now, many of those now doing some of the loudest howling about it, are, in fact, some of those very same Democrats? Particularly those up for re-election next year. And if it can be said that Barry’s one-year reprieve for Americans losing health insurance, announced yesterday, achieved anything, it just might have achieved at least one political aim: to slow a Democrat rush toward a Republican bill to curtail Obamacare coming to a vote today in the House.
Now with that being said, I think it safe to say that Barry’s rather silly little hour-long attempt at contrition yesterday over his signature health-care law, fell far short of quelling what may be a longer-term political crisis that seems to be engulfing both Barry, and his decrepit party of power-hungry malcontents. A crisis that goes well beyond the botched rollout of what is rapidly becoming an even more unpopular program than it was just a few month ago. Democrats running for re-election in 2014, particularly those in the Senate, are continuing to push for revamping the law. However, according to aides, it doesn’t appear that a Senate vote isn’t imminent.
However, the more immediate pressure came from House Democrats who will vote today on a measure from Republican Fred Upton that would let Americans keep, through the end of 2014, insurance plans that don’t meet the health law’s stringent requirements. By proposing a similar move administratively, it’s claimed that Barry limited what could have been an embarrassing series of defections by Democrats. And something that lays bare the blatant hypocrisy of the Democrats doing all the ‘complaining’, Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen said at most 20 to 25 Democrats would vote for the plan, now that Democrats think the administration has taken action.
Republicans, and rightly so, dismissed the Barry’s transparently political move, and described it as what it really was, which was nothing more than an attempt to insulate his party rather than to actually do something to help those millions of Americans who have already received cancellation notices from insurers. "Dressing up the same failed policy and pushing it past the 2014 elections is cynical politics at its worst," Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said in a statement. Obama was trying to fix a "broken promise by making more empty promises," and "hoping to shift the blame to states and insurance companies."
In their 2014 campaigns, I think it safe to say that every Democrat can be said to be bracing for attacks from Republicans that they perpetuated a false pledge to voters about the supposed benefits of Obamacare. What Barry attempted to do yesterday was nothing more than to deflect such accusations, saying lawmakers who promised people that could keep their insurance plans "were making representations based on what I told them and what this White House" indicated. He went on to say, "It’s not on them -- it’s on us." At the same time, Barry said he’s aware that the law’s debut has already hurt Democrats. What goes around, comes around!
Two of Obamacare’s biggest supporters, Democrats Mark Begich of Alaska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana are now trying to do their best to dodge the Obamacare bullet. Begich, who is facing re-election in a state Obama lost by 14 percentage points in 2012, has co-sponsored legislation that would extend current plans for two years. Landrieu, whose state Obama lost by 17 percentage points last year, has her measure that would ensure people could keep health insurance plans they liked. Barry’s action "was a great first step, and we will probably need legislation to make it stick," Landrieu said. "We made a promise and we didn’t keep it."
While Obama seems to have relieved at least some of the immediate political pressure on Democrats with yesterday’s ridiculously empty announcement, he has to do more to repair the damage, at least according to one Democratic pollster, some bimbo by the name of Celinda Lake. "He mitigated some of it, he needs to keep on it and mitigate it more," said Lake, the president of Washington-based Lake Research Partners. "What I heard the president say is, ‘I’m going to be part of fixing it,’ but what I also heard Democrats say is they’re not going to wait for the president -- they’re going to go ahead and fix it themselves."
As bizarre as it may sound, Lake made the claim that Democrats still enjoy greater credibility on health-care issues than Republicans according to public polls, and they need to exploit that advantage by being more aggressive than they have been to date in making their case on the law. "I don’t know why we’re not taking a tougher stand with the insurance companies -- you’re not going after Mother Theresa, you’re going after Darth Vader," Lake said. "We should say, ‘They sold people policies that they knew they were going to have to discontinue, this is wrong, and we’re not going to let it stand.’" So her advice to Democrats appears to be, "Lie your assess off!"
Democrat Jeff Merkley, of Oregon, followed that same leftist approach, telling reporters that insurers must "honor their side of the bargain." "It requires not only the government side, but it requires insurance companies to keep offering the polices and not cancel them on folks," he said yesterday. "I’ll be certainly calling on insurance companies in Oregon to continue to extend the individual plans that citizens currently have." Karen Ignagni, president and chief executive officer of America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group, warned that Barry’s move "could destabilize the market and result in higher premiums for consumers."
Look, the bottom line here is that we do not have the luxury of allowing ourselves to be bamboozled, yet again, by these sleazy Democrats as they attempt even more political trickery in what is nothing more than an effort to distance themselves from this debacle of their own making, Obamacare. Many Democrats are now trying to make it appear as if they are completely guiltless. But to a person they voted in favor of making sure that those who had healthcare coverage, that they liked, would be forced to lose it. The most important thing was to ensure that the government would be put in charge of what kind of healthcare would be available to whom.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
AMERICA’S ’10 MOST WANTED’ WHEN IT COMES TO OBAMACARE…
As you may recall, it was just last week that we heard Barry "Almighty" apologizing for misleading, actually lying to, the American public when he was telling them, "if you like your insurance, you can keep it, Period!" The reason that Barry was so determined to make such an assurance in the first place should be pretty obvious, because without it, it is highly unlikely that ObamaCare would have passed, even in the rather questionable manner that it did. But to be fair here, Barry was far from being the only politician fudging the truth. Most Democrat lawmakers repeated this claim on the campaign trail and in meetings with constituents. And if Barry apologized, then shouldn’t we demand apologies from those who were as equally culpable.
Now what follows below is a list which, while I cannot take credit for assembling, that was Breitbart News, I did come up with, what I thought, was a rather appropriate name for. I call this list of the Top 10 Senate Democrats who should follow Barry's lead and apologize to the American public, Obamacare’s "10 Most Wanted". These particular lawmakers went all-in on what they knew were the numerous false claims that were made regarding all that this horrific piece of legislation would do. And they did so for purely partisan reasons while knowing full well that millions of Americans would not be able to keep their health insurance if this debacle was to actually become a reality. They were lying and they knew they were lying.
Number 10 on our Most Wanted list is Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA): "If you like the insurance that you have, you'll be able to keep it." (MSNBC’s Hardball, 12/16/09)
Landrieu, like all Senate Democrats, provided the deciding vote on passing ObamaCare. After 3 years, it is hard to remember all the parliamentary tricks the Democrats used to pass a bill that almost none of them had read. Landrieu, who is up for reelection next year, lied on TV. She should apologize.
At Number 9 is Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC): "We need to support the private insurance industry so that people who have insurance they're happy with can keep it while also providing a backstop option for people without access to affordable coverage." ("Republicans Vent As Other Compromise Plans Get Aired," National Journal’s Congress Daily, 6/18/09)
160,000 residents of North Carolina has lost their health coverage. Sen. Hagan has been most aggressive in trying to separate herself from ObamaCare. No wonder, since even a Democrat poll has found her now in a statistical tie with any of her possible Republican challengers. In September, Hagan held a 12-17 point lead. She is up for reelection next year and should apologize.
Coming in at Number 8 is Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK): "If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want."
Begich won his Senate seat in 2008, after DOJ staffers trumped up false charges against the sitting GOP Senator Ted Stevens. Begich is running for reelection in Alaska, without the Obama wave and without a mythical DOJ investigation. He should apologize.
At Number 7 is Sen. Michael Bennett (D-CO): "We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it. If you have your doctor, and you like him or her, you should be able to keep them as well. We will not take that choice away from you."
Sen. Bennet heads to DSCC, the party arm to elect Democrats to the US Senate. He will have an outsized role in races across the country. He said his position on ObamaCare was based on a "basic principle." He should apologize.
Then at Number 6 we have Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): "Again, if you like what you have, you will be able to keep it. Let me say this again: If you like what you have, when our legislation is passed and signed by the President, you will be able to keep it." (Sen. Murray, Congressional Record, S.6400, 6/10/09)
Let me say this again, as a senior member, and now Chair of the Budget Committee, Sen. Murray must have been in a position to know that these claims were false. She won her first race for Senate campaigning as a "soccer mom" in "tennis shoes." Insert your own joke. 290,000 residents of Washington have lost their health insurance. She should apologize.
Rounding out the top 5 we have none other than that corrupt old socialist, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA): "One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ‘grandfathered plans.’ If you have a plan you like --existing policies--you can keep them. …we said, if you like a plan, you get to keep it, and you can grandfather it in." (Sen. Harkin, Congressional Record, S.7675-6, 9/29/10)
Sen. Harkin has a long history of being a rather sleazy politician. As Chair of the Health Committee in the Senate, Harkin would have had more intimate knowledge of ObamaCare than most other lawmakers. His yowler here is he tries to claim that the "put in" language to ensure people could keep the plan they like. That is a sin of commission. Harkin, who is retiring, should absolutely apologize.
And at Number 4 is none other than Sen. ‘Little Chuckie’ Schumer (D-NY): "If you like your insurance, you keep it." (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/24/09)
Schumer, who was in a position to know the inner-workings of the law seems to have lied. Asking him for an apology, though, is like asking Anthony Weiner to become modestly self-aware. Still, he should apologize.
Coming in at Number 3, and leaving a long trail of slime behind him, is Sen. ‘Little Dick Durbin (D-IL): "This bill before us on the Senate floor makes it clear that if you have an insurance policy that you like, you can keep it. If you like the doctor that you're currently doing business with, you can continue to use that doctor." (Sen. Durbin, Teleconference, 12/4/09)
Durbin is the Number 2 Democrat in the Senate, amazingly. He seems preternaturally disposed to obscuring the truth. He actually said the legislation "makes it clear" that you can keep your insurance. He either can't read legislation or he was intentionally misleading the public. In any event, he should apologize.
At Number 2 we have that beady-eyed little shit, Sen. ‘Dingy Harry Reid (D-NV):"In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it." (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.8642, 8/3/09)
Core principles, apparently, aren't what they used to be. Sen. Reid emptied out the parliamentary cupboard to get ObamaCare passed. As Majority Leader, he had to have a keenunderstanding of what was in the bill and what the consequences would be. The White House, at the time, was aware of the fact that many Americans would lose their health insurance. Surely, Sen. Reid was privy to the same information. He should apologize.
And coming in as being the Number 1 Senate Democrat on our ‘Most Wanted’ list is...
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT): "That is why one of the central promises of health care reform has been and is: If you like what you have, you can keep it. That is critically important. If a person has a plan, and he or she likes it, he or she can keep it." (Sen. Baucus, Congressional Record, S.7676, 9/29/10)
Sen. Baucus wrote most of the bill that became ObamaCare. He has been steeped in health care policy for decades. He was in a position to know, and had to know, that the "central promise" that people could keep their current health care coverage was a lie. He should apologize, but unfortunately, he has chosen to retire rather than face the voters. I can only hope he does not go softly into the night.
So there you have it America, ten members of Congress that, just like Barry "Almighty", who were blinded by political ambition and their hunger for near limitless political power and who were able to look you dead in the eye and tell you something that they knew was a lie. And for no other reason than because they saw an opportunity to gain for themselves something that they had only been able to dream about been since the days of FDR. That being, of course, a way for them to control the American people that would allow them to hold over the head of every single America citizen how they would go about being able to acquire healthcare and what healthcare options would even be available to them. Obamacare has never been about anything but control.
FILE THIS ONE UNDER…”NO SHIT!”
Now here’s something that shouldn’t really come exactly as a news flash to anyone, Americans hate Obamacare more today that they did three years ago. Unless, of course, you’re a lazy, scum-sucking, Democrat, in which case you absolutely love it! On average, though, at this point in time that we are now find that up to fifty-five percent of Americans are saying that they disapprove of Barry "Almighty's" signature health care law, which is up from the 47 percent who disapproved of it just a couple of weeks ago. Approval numbers also dipped in Gallup's Nov. 7-10 poll with only 40 percent saying that they like the law, down from 44 percent in late October.
So the breakdown by political affiliation regarding who supports this disaster and who doesn’t, and by how much, is essentially what you would expect it to be. According to the poll, 73 percent of Democrats, 39 percent of independents, and 8 percent of Republicans now approve of the debacle that will be forever known as Obamacare. Now I’m quite sure that it comes as absolutely no suprise that that growing parasite class in this country, most, if not all, of whom call the Democrat Party home, remains very much in favor of it. What Gallup did was to ask people, "What are some of the reasons you approve (or disapprove) of the 2010 health care law?"
Among those who disapprove, the leading complaint is philosophical in nature and are indicated as follows:
--37 percent cited "government interference/forcing people to do things."
--21 percent mentioned said Obamacare "increases costs/makes health care less affordable."
--11 percent said they had lost their insurance.
-- 8 percent said Obamacare is "not working/a big mess/hurting people."
-- 8 percent said Obamacare is "not well planned/poorly designed/website issues."
Among the morons who approve of the law, they do so for the following reasons:
-- 23 percent said Obamacare "makes healthcare accessible to more people."
-- 15 percent said the law is "fair/right that everyone should have health insurance."
-- 14 percent said it "provides more health insurance options."
-- 14 percent said it "controls costs/Makes health care more affordable."
-- 12 percent like that it "covers people with pre-existing conditions."
According to Gallup, the implications that were revealed regarding Barry signature legislative achievement are pretty dire, to say the least. Let’s face it, Americans have always been pretty divided on the issue of Obamacare, but lately they seem to be tilting much more significantly toward disapproval. After all, 5 Million folks have now lost the insurance coverage that they had been promised they could keep, period. The pollster said, "That more negative evaluation may not have as much to do with the content of the law as the implementation of it, in particular how that squares with the president's earlier characterization of how the law would work." Duh, ya think?
This brilliant pollster went on to say, "How the administration handles these challenges to the implementation of the law, plus any new ones that emerge in the coming months, could be critical in determining the trajectory of the "disapprove" line in Gallup's trend chart for the healthcare law." Ok, so I need this pollster to be telling me this why exactly? Isn’t that all pretty much commonsense? Look, it doesn’t matter how bad this thing gets, the moochers among us are always going to be in love with it because it costs them nothing. And while I feel sorry for the many who have been forced to lose their coverage, I feel no such sympathy for those who voted for this creep and are now loosing theirs!
So the breakdown by political affiliation regarding who supports this disaster and who doesn’t, and by how much, is essentially what you would expect it to be. According to the poll, 73 percent of Democrats, 39 percent of independents, and 8 percent of Republicans now approve of the debacle that will be forever known as Obamacare. Now I’m quite sure that it comes as absolutely no suprise that that growing parasite class in this country, most, if not all, of whom call the Democrat Party home, remains very much in favor of it. What Gallup did was to ask people, "What are some of the reasons you approve (or disapprove) of the 2010 health care law?"
Among those who disapprove, the leading complaint is philosophical in nature and are indicated as follows:
--37 percent cited "government interference/forcing people to do things."
--21 percent mentioned said Obamacare "increases costs/makes health care less affordable."
--11 percent said they had lost their insurance.
-- 8 percent said Obamacare is "not working/a big mess/hurting people."
-- 8 percent said Obamacare is "not well planned/poorly designed/website issues."
Among the morons who approve of the law, they do so for the following reasons:
-- 23 percent said Obamacare "makes healthcare accessible to more people."
-- 15 percent said the law is "fair/right that everyone should have health insurance."
-- 14 percent said it "provides more health insurance options."
-- 14 percent said it "controls costs/Makes health care more affordable."
-- 12 percent like that it "covers people with pre-existing conditions."
According to Gallup, the implications that were revealed regarding Barry signature legislative achievement are pretty dire, to say the least. Let’s face it, Americans have always been pretty divided on the issue of Obamacare, but lately they seem to be tilting much more significantly toward disapproval. After all, 5 Million folks have now lost the insurance coverage that they had been promised they could keep, period. The pollster said, "That more negative evaluation may not have as much to do with the content of the law as the implementation of it, in particular how that squares with the president's earlier characterization of how the law would work." Duh, ya think?
This brilliant pollster went on to say, "How the administration handles these challenges to the implementation of the law, plus any new ones that emerge in the coming months, could be critical in determining the trajectory of the "disapprove" line in Gallup's trend chart for the healthcare law." Ok, so I need this pollster to be telling me this why exactly? Isn’t that all pretty much commonsense? Look, it doesn’t matter how bad this thing gets, the moochers among us are always going to be in love with it because it costs them nothing. And while I feel sorry for the many who have been forced to lose their coverage, I feel no such sympathy for those who voted for this creep and are now loosing theirs!
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
ME THINKS I SMELL A MUTINY BREWING…
It would seem that Barry has now been provided with something that would pretty closely resemble an ultimatum and from none other than some of the very same Democrats who have helped him, repeatedly, screw the American people. Apparently he now has until Friday to come up with some sort of a cure for his ailing piece of signature legislation, or possibly face serious defections by top Democrats who, minus that elusive cure, would then be willing to support a House GOP bill to change it. Political pressure from both sides of the aisle has been steadily growing and will no doubt come to a head on Friday when Republicans take up a proposal by Rep. Fred Upton, the purpose of which is to allow individuals to keep their current healthcare coverage even if it does not meet the standards set out by Obamacare.
"We've got to get out of the bunker and fix these problems," said some nameless, faceless senior Democrat congressional source, referring to the fact that millions of Americans are now losing their current plans because they don't comply with the idiotic requirements of Obamacare that demand far more comprehensive coverage, including such things as mental health and prenatal care. "In the absence of a solution that Democrats can support from the White House, you will see more and more Democrats voting for the Upton bill," this faceless, nameless source went on to say. Steny "The Gasbag" Hoyer of the People’s Republic of Maryland, even went so far as to indicate that he might support the Upton bill if he does not see movement from Barry on the question of allowing individuals to keep the insurance they have now.
Last week, as you may or may not recall, Barry "Almighty" apologized to those people who have had their insurance plans canceled despite him promising, repeatedly, that everyone would be able to keep their current health coverage, period. However, too bad for Barry, but it would appear that his apology has been viewed as being too little, too late. The latest Quinnipiac University poll showed that Barry's approval rating has dropped to 39 percent as the problems plaguing the Obamacare rollout on Oct. 1 have persisted well into November. The poll found that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of Barry's job performance and 39 percent approve, which is his lowest approval rating in the Quinnipiac poll since he became president. But, again, as I have said before, I seriously doubt that that bothers him very much.
And ‘Gasbag’ Hoyer also told reporters on Tuesday that Barry needs to come up with a solution "sooner rather than later." He said earlier that he hadn't ruled out supporting Upton's bill, but his spokesbimbo has since told CNN that he's now opposed to it. And then Slick Willie’ Clinton, in what was most likely nothing more than an attempt by the ex-president ‘to distance Hitlery, his old ball and chain, from what now appears to be Barry’s sinking Obamacare ship, exerted a little pressure of his own on Barry to make good on his promise. "I personally believe, even if it takes a change in the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they've got," the old ‘Slickmeister’ said Tuesday during an interview with the website OZY.com.
And following Clinton's remarks, we had House Speaker John Boehner releasing a statement saying, "I applaud President Clinton for joining the bipartisan call for President Obama to keep his promise to the American people. These comments signify a growing recognition that Americans were misled when they were promised that they could keep their coverage under President Obama's healthcare law. The entire healthcare law is a train wreck that needs to go." Unlike Boehner, I wouldn’t be too quick to congratulate ‘Slick Willie’, he had an ulterior motive here for sure. Adding his voice to old Slick’s, we had ‘Little Dick’ Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, who told CNN that both Democrats and Republicans "need to be open to constructive changes to make this law work better."
Look, like I have said before, every single one of these scumbag Democrats who thought that this whole cockamamie scheme of government controlled healthcare was such a shit-hot idea, should not now be allowed to create for themselves, some sort of an escape clause that will allow them to dodge a very big bullet that they essentially shot at themselves. What needs to happen here is for this thing to be formed into a nice little noose that we can then very firmly place right around their necks. And then come next Election Day we can have us a little public hanging, metaphorically speaking, of course. Democrats must not be permitted to escape the punishment that they now so rightfully deserve. And we must never forget how these crooks felt that it was acceptable to put their political ambitions above the people.
SOME DEMOCRATS NOW RUNNING FROM OBAMACARE?
It’s now appears that, with each passing day, we hear from yet another Democrat who seems to have developed some new found concern for those Americans who continue to lose their healthcare coverage despite the fact that like it and wish to keep it. But I have to wonder, where were all of these voices of concern when the requirement that very specifically called for Americans to lose their existing coverage, was being voted on, and by these very same Democrats. These folks wanted to make very sure that there would be absolutely no way that Americans would be able to keep those plans.
Now these scumbag Democrats can claim until the cows come home that they knew nothing like this was actually going to happen, but I think we all now know that to be a lie, and one of the worst kind. Because at the time this thing was ‘passed’, these Democrats were blinded by the fact that finally, after decades of dreaming about ways to make the government the sole provider of healthcare, they were finally going get it. The particulars were really of little concern to them, what was most important was to finally be able to shove socialized medicine down the collective throat of the American people.
And now in 2013 I think it very safe to say that a majority of the American people hate Obamacare more today than they did back in 2010. Because we now know that all of the warning bells that were being loudly sounded about it, were pretty much right on target. And now many Democrats, at least those who now view themselves as being on the endangered species list for 2014, are now running away from it like scalded dogs, and as fast as their little legs will carry them. But we should not permit such obvious pandering to spare them from the retribution that their actions demand.
They put their own political desire far above the needs of the American people. They saw an opportunity to acquire for themselves something that they had only been able to dream about since the days of FDR. They had a blatant socialist in the White House, and sufficient majorities in both houses of Congress to MAKE it happen. And, even then, they had to resort to political trickery to get it through Congress and to Barry’s desk. They were not about to be denied, they would have this, no matter what. Well now they have it, and they MUST now be forced to reckon with the political consequences that they have earned for themselves.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
THE NATION’S WORKFORCE CONTINUES TO SHRINK…
If Barry keeps going the way he’s going, by the time he’s done being president there won’t be anyone left working here in America. And at the rate which he seems to be moving, it would appear that he’s trying to make that happen sooner rather than later. He’s already been able to convince over 11 Million people that there are much better things to do than going off to work every day. And as we have seen over the years, Barry has been quite creative in coming up new ways that now allow a near endless stream of taxpayer funded ‘benefits’.
And in the process of completing what he calls his "fundamental transformation" of America, Barry managed to attain for himself yet another impressive milestone this past October. The percentage of Americans, 16 or older, who now have a job or are actively seeking one has dropped to a 35-year low. In September, the labor force participation rate stood at 63.2 percent, but in October it dropped to 62.8 percent, the lowest it has been since back in those glorious days of the Jimmy "The Bonehead" Carter.
When Barry "Almighty’ first took office on that fateful day back in January 2009, the labor force participation rate stood at 65.7 percent. But by the beginning of 2013, the start of Barry’s second term, it had already dropped to 63.6 percent. And since January it has continued to plummet, hitting the 35-year low of 62.8 percent in October. The number of Americans not in the labor force has now climbed by 11,034,000 since Barry took office, rising from 80,507,000 in January 2009 to 91,541,000 in October.
And despite the fact that 11,034,000 Americans have now dropped out of the labor force since Barry took office, we’re somehow supposed to believe Barry when he tells us that the national unemployment rate remains as low as the 7.3 percent it was in October. In January 2009, it was 7.8 percent and since then it has never dropped below 7.2 percent. Now imagine what the unemployment number would be if all or most of those 11 Million folks were still considered as being part of the nation’s workforce. I doubt it would be anywhere near 7.3 percent.
And when you consider how much smaller our workforce has become, it becomes pretty obvious, pretty quickly, just how misleading, even meaningless, the unemployment numbers put out by this administration really are. I mean what’s the point of even putting out such numbers when you have such a significant percentage of the working population who are no longer working or, for that matter, even looking for work? The numbers cease to be an accurate gage when trying to determine the true strength, or weakness, of our economy.
And when you add together the fact that we have100 Million Americans who now receive some form of government ‘benefits’, the 49 Million Americans who are now on food stamps, and the Millions more who are simply allowed to go on disability once their unemployment benefits end, and then you throw in the fact that over 11 Million fewer Americans are working today than when Barry first took office, you can very plainly see that Barry’s mission to ‘fundamentally transform’ this country seems to be right on track.
OBAMA, AND THE CREATING OF A PERMENENT DEPENDENCY CLASS…
Strange, I suppose, that it should take place during the presidency of a black man, but it’s now being reported that the number of blacks, 16 and older, who have taken it upon themselves to participate in the nation’s workforce has hit a 31-year-low, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But then maybe it’s not so strange that it would take place during the presidency of this particular black man. I mean Barry "Almighty" always has been a very big supporter of reparations, so maybe he sees this as being the best way for him to move forward with that.
Anyway, the participation rate for blacks in October 2013 was 60.7 percent, and that’s the lowest that it’s has been since 1982. Blacks who have no job and are not bothering to even look for one, increased to 11,988,000,000 in October 2013, up a grand total of 1,683,000,000 from when Barry "Almighty" first took office in January 2009. It was then that the number stood at 10,305,000,000. Additionally, that is a 64 percent increase since 1982 when participation rate for blacks stood at 60.8. So we have something else by which we can measure the Barry presidency.
The unemployment rate among blacks also has increased, reaching 13.1 percent in October 2013. That is an increase from last month, when the unemployment rate for black was 12.9 percent. When Obama became president in January 2009, the rate was 12.7 percent. But I think it reasonable to assume that the number is considerably higher. This administration is notorious for grossly understating unemployment numbers. They seem to ignore completely the fact that there are now 11 Million fewer people in the workforce than there was when Barry first took office.
But let’s face it, and I mean no offense here, how many of these people have a genuine interest in doing anything other than living off the rest of us? These folks seem to possess very little self-esteem. And how many actually take pride in being able to support themselves and work to avoid, at all costs, having their needs met by others? More often than not, where they find themselves in their life is not the fault of others, as the race-baiters would have them believe, but is, instead, the direct result of a lifetime of bad choices, in other words, a series of self-inflicted wounds.
Blacks have allowed themselves, and quite cheerfully so, to be manipulated by a blatantly corrupt political party. And in exchange for what? What have blacks gotten in return for their 50+ years of blind loyalty to that one political party? I mean other than a lifetime spent in poverty, which does afford to them the luxury of not paying taxes and provides to them the ability to sponge off others. But is that really worth it? Wouldn’t you think that there would be at least some interest in actually making their lives better? But you see, that might require them to have to work.
Monday, November 11, 2013
OBAMACARE, THERE SEEMS TO BE A RUMOR GOIN’ ROUND…
Ya know, I’ve never been a big believer in predictions, be they political, or otherwise. But I must admit a recent political prediction did sort of catch my attention. You see, supposedly the whispers have now begun amongst those on the left that even if HealthCare.gov is fixed by the end of the month, which most say is pretty unlikely, Obamacare will likely be repealed well in advance of next year’s election. And if the website continues to fail, the push for repeal, particularly from Democrats considered to be on the endangered list, will occur very rapidly. The website is but a sideshow, the real problem is the number of people and businesses who are losing their health plans or having to pay a lot more for the same plan.
It’s important to remember here, why it was so important for Barry to promise, again and again that "if you like your health insurance/doctor, you can keep your health insurance/doctor" in the first place. For your first clue all you really need to do is to start with a search of the old memory banks for all information related to the collapse of Hillarycare back in 1994. Remember now, when Hillarycare first hit the street in September 1993 it was to high public support, according to the early polls. This was not a surprise. Opinion polls for decades have shown a large majority of Americans support the general idea of universal health coverage. But Hillarycare began to come apart as more of its bureaucratic details hit daylight.
The most important of those little details was the fact that people couldn’t be sure that they would be able to keep their doctors or select specialists of their choice. The Clintons, of course, refused to consider any compromise, and, even with large Democratic Senate and House majorities, the bill was so dead it was never even brought up for a vote. Thus the reason behind why Barry was so desperate to portray Obamacare as simply expanding coverage to the uninsured, and improving coverage for the underinsured while leaving the already insured undisturbed. But the redistributive arithmetic of Obamacare’s architecture could never add up, which is what the bureaucrats knew early on. Actually, as early as 2010.
Now wouldn’t you think that a clever bunch like those on Barry’s team would have most certainly seen this little snafu coming and reacted by making time to prepare a pre-emptive strategy? Or, did they know it was coming and, in typical arrogant fashion, simply figure that Barry, being the silver-tongued devil that he is, would be able to sweet-talk the American people into seeing how this was all for their own good? But now that people are losing their insurance and finding that they may not be able to keep their doctor after all, Obamacare has quickly become somewhat of a political disaster having an adverse impact on both Barry’s credibility and approval rating. But the Democrats are also taking a pretty significant hit.
So we shouldn’t be surprised that the latest rumor circling around Obamacare has to do with those senate Democrats who are beginning to see themselves as being the equivalent of a political endangered species. And supposedly, it will be they who will wind up being the ones leading the charge for repeal, which some say could come as soon as January, after they get an earful from the folks back home over the Christmas break. They’ll call it "reform," and dress it all up in calls for delaying the individual mandate and allowing people and businesses to keep their existing health insurance policies. But with the political damage will likely continue, with it being said that momentum toward repeal will become, pretty much, unstoppable.
If our Tea Party Republicans hold true to form, they will resist "reforms" to Obamacare in favor of complete repeal. Democrats, as to be expected, will try to turn the tables and set up Republicans as the obstacles to reform, hoping to inoculate themselves from what is likely to be mayhem at the polls next November. The House might do well to insist that the Senate go first, especially since they can rightly insist that the Senate needs to clean up the mess that they made. And Barry may very well give Democrats a pass on a repeal vote, and veto any bill that survives. After all, what’s he got to lose at this point? He’ll never have to face the voters again, and his job approval rating is already pretty far into the toilet.
THE WILD, WACKY WORLD OF POLITICS…
I’m thinking that the years must finally be starting to take their toll on old John "The Maverick" McCain. As we all know, there comes that time for us all when, whether we like it or not, we pass round that proverbial bend, where it’s time for the keys to be taken away, and when it’s no longer safe for us to be allowed to stray any further than the front yard. And apparently, that time has now officially arrived for the senior senator from Arizona.
And main the reason I even bring that up is because it would seem that old John recently felt the need to inform some reporters that had apparently gathered around him, that he currently has no plans to run for president again. That, despite the fact, or so he claims, that there have been some who have begged him to make another go of it. Personally, I don’t know of anyone in their right mind who would beg old John to make another run for the White house.
"Particularly since the shutdown, I’ve had a spate of emails and letters and phone calls saying, ‘Run for president again,’" McCain said, according to the Arizona Republic. "As you know, I’m seriously thinking about running for re-election to the Senate. But I think, in the words of the late Morris K. Udall, as far as my presidential ambitions are concerned, ‘The people have spoken—the bastards.’" Although, I doubt he would have been as bad as Barry.
"I can assure you, I don’t see it," McCain added. "It’s not on my radar." All I’ve got to say to that is, "Thank God for small wonders!" It’s bad enough that we now have what are younger versions of himself now talking about 2016. And oddly enough, even though McCain shut the White House possibility down, at least one pollster has said he’s seen some renewed interest in a possible McCain 2016 run. Well, as we know, you can’t fix stupid.
Bruce Merrill, someone who is supposed to be an Arizona political scientist and pollster, told the Republic that he’s recently fielded multiple calls from reporters asking about the possibility of a third McCain bid for the White House. Granted, ‘The Maverick" has always been a favorite of more than a few in the media, but other than a few weirdoes in the media, who else out there would really be wanting this old fart to run again?
And in all honesty, McCain no longer has any business being a senator, let alone being president. I think it safe to say that he long ago outlived what little usefulness he may have once provided. He’s repeatedly proven that he’s no conservative by his support for amnesty and for bogus climate change. So it is very plainly time for old John to just ride off into the sunset never to be seen or heard from again. He’s done about all the damage that he can.
DEMOCRATS SEE OBAMACARE AS A POLITICAL ‘WINNER”…
So let me see if I have this right, it has now been stated that up to 140 Million people are very likely to lose their current healthcare coverage, with untold millions already having done so, and yet, Debbie Wizzerman Schultz, Democrat member of Congress, as well as the chair of the Democrat National Committee, recently made the claim that Obamacare will actually be something that congressional Democrats will not only be able to run on, but win on, in 2014. Now let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that this brain-dead boob is correct in her claim and that the American people will come out en masse in support of Obamacare and vote for Democrats next year. What would such an act say, if anything, about the intelligence of the American people?
Debbie made her rather bold claim during what was an appearance on ‘Bull Dog Candy’ Crowley’s CNN show, "State of the Union", this past Sunday, and she sounded quite confident that Democrat congressional candidates would win if they chose to run on Obamacare in the 2014 midterm elections. "I think, actually, Candy, that Democratic candidates will be able to run on ObamaCare as an advantage leading into the 2014 election," Wizzerman Schultz told ‘Bull Dog’ Crowley. ‘Bull Dog’ had been asking Wizzerman Schultz about the perception that the Obamacare issue had made the Virginia governor’s race much closer than expected, causing scumbag Terry McAuliffe to lose a lot of ground in the closing days of that campaign.
The dumber-than-dirt Ms. Wizzerman Schultz said, "I think Obamacare, because Americans have been feeling the benefits since 2010, where young adults can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26, where on January 1 if you have a preexisting condition, like I do, as you know, as a breast cancer survivor, the peace of mind … that those Americans are going to have knowing that they can never be dropped or denied coverage for that preexisting condition, the preventative care that's available without a co-pay or a deductible, those are benefits that Americans have already been feeling and will increasingly feel as Obamacare is fully implemented." The benefits that Americans have been feeling since 2010? Benefits, WHAT benefits?
Anyway, at the end of this nutty little exchange, "Bull Dog" Crowley once again asked Wizzerman Schultz: "And just a yes or no, because I've got to run. You believe that Democrats will win running on Obamacare in 2014?" To which Wizzerman Schultz spewed more of her typical drivel, saying, "I think because Americans reject the Tea Party extremism, they want us to focus on creating jobs and working together, and because they will feel—." "That's not exactly a yes," interjected Crowley "--the benefits of Obamacare, yes," concluded Wizzerman Schultz. I suppose she could be right, after all, America has become what is, today, essentially nothing more than a nation of sheep in this era of Barry "Almighty."
Personally speaking, I’d like to think that there are still enough Americans who are able to look at this disaster and recognize the fact that much more is being lost than we could ever hope to gain from this thing called Obamacare. And in so doing, they will then choose to hold accountable those who, through what was nothing more than pure political trickery, brought it into being and told us all that we would need to first pass it in order to then see what was actually in it. The endless stream of lies that have been told in the effort to convince Americans that it was something that it most definitely is not, continues to today. Come 2014 the American people will have one of their few remaining opportunities to kill this debacle, Obamacare. But, will they?
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
DESPITE LOUSY JOB PROSPECTS, BLACKS STILL SUPPORT THEIR BLACK PRESIDENT…
Well then, I have a question for any black person who may somehow managed to have gotten themselves lost and ended up here. And please take no offense, I ask only out of an attempt to educate myself regarding how it is that the mind of a black person actually works. My question is this, "What was it, exactly, that motivated you to vote for Barry "Almighty"? Was it really nothing more than the fact that he’s black like you? I just find it as being more than just a little risky to vote for someone for no other reason than because of his, or her, race.
Now commonsense would seem to indicate that since we have a black man as our president there would now be underway at least some attempt, the purpose of which would be, to improve the employment prospects for blacks in this country. But apparently not, and oddly enough it would appear that that same black man now in the White House appears more determined than ever to make matters as bad as he possibly can for those in the black community. And that just doesn’t seem to make any sense to me. But for some reason, it apparently makes sense to blacks.
And so as I look over the recently released employment numbers, I found it personally deplorable that the black youth unemployment rate, for ages 16-19, it now at the level that it is, which is a rather astounding 393%, or nearly four times, higher than what’s now being touted as the national unemployment rate. A number that is a hysterically fictitious number that is so far removed from reality as to make totally unbelievable. The source for these numbers is the data that was released just today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
As of October 2013, the unemployment rate for this particular demographic stood at 36.0 percent, which was an increase over last month’s rate of 35.1 percent. The supposed national unemployment rate, as least the one currently being advertised by this administration, currently stands at 7.3 percent. But I would argue that the actual unemployment number is much closer to 14 percent. And as I have stated before, if the size of the nation’s workforce was the same as it was back when Barry took office, the unemployment rate would be roughly17 percent.
Fewer black youths held jobs in October with the number of employed decreasing from 487,000 in September to 444,000. So the bottom line here is that 43,000 fewer black youths held jobs in October. Additionally, the participation rate for black youth has decreased from 29.4 percent in September to 27.3 percent in October, a decrease of 2.1 percentage points. And yet, what I find as being more than a little confusing, is how Barry can still command what is overwhelming support from those in the black community. Ordinarily that would be strange.
Strange because from my perspective that would seem to call into question the true motives behind Barry’s continued support from blacks. I mean, do they even care whether or not they have a job? Or has it become second nature for them to simply live off the government, which is in reality they’re choosing to live off those of us who do work and are forced to pay more and more in taxes. Let’s face it, it’s a little difficult to maintain any amount of sympathy for those who seem to have no conscience and who possess no desire to work to support themselves.
And I guess if blacks really wanted to work, we’d be hearing a lot more complaining about the fact that there are no jobs. And it’s actually their disdain for work that is most likely forms the biggest roadblock to them voting for Republicans. Because, for example, it’s the Democrats who think it unfair to expect welfare recipients to perform any manner of work in return for receiving their ‘benefits’. Whereas, it’s usually Republicans who are pushing for such work requirements. But blacks see themselves as being above having to work for what they get.
OBAMA CONTINUES WORK TO SHRINK THE LABOR FORCE…
Unfortunately, Barry continues to meet with great success as he works to perpetuate the kind of economic environment that actually does nothing more than to encourage individuals to see the wisdom in leaving the American labor force far behind. Proof of his success comes to us in the form of figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just today. You see, the number of Americans who have now been actively encouraged by Barry to no longer participate in the nation's labor force climbed to a record 91,541,000 in October.
From August to September, again according to BLS, Americans not participating in the labor force climbed from 90,473,000 to 90,609,000, with a one-month increase of 136,000. And in October, it climbed again to 91,541,000, an increase of 932,000 during the month. Now keep in mind here that in January 2009, when Barry first took office, there were 80,507,000 Americans not in the labor force. Thus, the number of Americans now not in the labor force, has increased by a staggering 11,034,000 during Barry’s tenure as president.
Another indicator which also makes very plain the level of success that Barry seems to be having in achieving what is really nothing more than the wholesale destruction of our economy, is something called the labor force participation rate. That number stood at 62.8 percent in October after having decreased by 0.4 percentage points from September when it was at 63.2 percent. Now, also keep in mind, that again when Barry first took office back in January 2009, the labor force participation rate stood at 65.7 percent.
The overall national unemployment rate, which is supposed to be the percentage of people participating in the labor force who actively sought a job and did not find one in October, was 7.3 percent. That was a slight increase from the 7.2 percent unemployment rate in September. When Barry took office in 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent, but let’s not forget that in 2009 there were also 11 Million more people in the labor force. So that 7.3 figure is far from being an accurate reflection of the unemployment situation in this country.
The percentage of American women, many of whom seem to have some sort of twisted fascination with Barry, participating in the nation’s labor force hit a new low at a rate of 56.9 percent in October. Additionally, the number of women holding jobs declined by 357,000 from September to October, and the unemployment rate increased for women from 6.7 percent to 6.9 percent. In October the labor force participation rate for women was 56.9 percent, down from 57.1 percent in September and 57.3 percent in August.
So in looking at all of these numbers it becomes very obvious very quickly that Barry’s effort to move people off of the payrolls of private companies and onto the government dole has been very successful indeed. And with the results being what they are, there is absolutely no reason to assume that he will not continue those efforts as he attempts to get an many people as he possibly can firmly addicted to the government teat. Because it is those people who are far more likely to become reliable Democrat voters. With Barry, it’s always about politics.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
BLUE STATES DOING THEIR BEST TO PUSH OBAMACARE…
Man I tell ya what, you just gotta hand to all those blue states as they work to pull out all the stops in their effort to make sure that Barry’s signature legislation debacle becomes all that it can be, and more. For example, Delaware, the state where folks re-elected ‘Slow Joe’ Biden to represent them in the U.S. Senate six times, as of two days ago had managed to enroll a grand total of four people in Obamacare, while at the same time having paid $4 Million to four community organizations to act as marketplace guides. For all you liberals, just in case you can’t do the math, that would be at the cost of $1 Million per enrollee. A bargain, right?
One of these organizations, the Brandywine Women’s Health Associates in Wilmington, Del., enrolled three people, while another stellar little group, Christiana Care Health Services in Newark, Del., enrolled one person. The other two other community organizations - Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care in Easton, Md., and Westside Family Healthcare in Wilmington, Del., didn’t manage to complete one enrollment, application or create an account. Overall, 31 enrollment applications have been completed, and 218 accounts were created for possible enrollment. All of this comes courtesy of a report from one of Barry’s cheerleaders, the AP.
Now of course state officials had a ready-made excuse at the ready, blaming the extremely low enrollment numbers on, what else but, problems with the Obamacare website, healthcare.gov, which has been plagued with what have been termed as ‘glitches’ since it was launched back on Oct. 1. Look, these computer problems are only the tip of the iceberg for this disaster. It’s been said that nearly 130 Million people are going to be losing their coverage, and for what? So 30 Million folks can still be without insurance? With each passing day it becomes more apparent why this thing was created, and lowering costs and broadening choices are not that reasons.
The desire of the Democrat Party to come up with some way to tightly control the population goes back to before FDR, and now they think they have it in Obamacare. And it’s going to take us all, regardless of our party affiliation, working to together if we are to ever have any hope of ridding ourselves of it. Because what’s going to have to happen here is for us to elect a congressional majority of conservatives who would recognize the need to scrap it. But are there enough Americans actually willing to do take such action? That’s the million-dollar question. Or would they rather just live with it? I guess it’ll depend on how much they come to hate it.
OBAMA IS DESPERATE TO CREATE MORE DEMOCRATS…
Apparently, while speaking to what was described as being a group of business leaders there at the White House on Tuesday, Barry "Almighty" made it quite clear that that he’s rather eager to get this whole amnesty thing done with. He said he doesn’t know any reason why a "pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens could not be enacted before the end of this year. And, I guess, in what was an attempt to make his point, he argued that there are "some very conservative folks" who "believe that now is the time to get this done." I assume he’s talking about Marco Rubio, who, even now, is backtracking. I doubt it’s the true conservative folks who are in any big hurry to move on amnesty, but the not-so-conservative folks most certainly are!
"These businesses understand that," he said. "They understand that if we are serious about border security, if we do a better job of streamlining the legal immigration system, if we are holding employers who aren’t doing the right thing accountable, and we provide a pathway to citizenship for those who have paid a fine, learned English, are getting to the back of the line, taking their responsibilities--that all together, these businesses are going to have more customers, we’re going to see people who are currently working here, out of the shadows, paying taxes and getting right with the law." Well those in Congress don’t work for those businesses, who they work for is "We the People!" Barry supports none of these requirement, he wants blanket amnesty.
Barry further said that providing an amnesty to illegal aliens--n.b. a "pathway to citizenship"--would grow the U.S. economy above "the growth that's already taking place," and reduce the federal deficit. "We know that the Senate bipartisan bill that already passed would grow the economy by $1.4 trillion above and beyond the growth that’s already taking place," said Barry. "We know it will reduce our deficit by $850 billion." How, exactly, do we know that, because Barry says it? You mean just like when he said that all of those folks who happened to like their health insurance plans would be able to keep them, PERIOD! Now that worked out real fine, didn’t it. Look, this pathetic piece of shit is simply not to be trusted.
And then in what was another attempt to bolster his case Barry said, "So this is something that has strong bipartisan support." Adding, "Keep in mind that my predecessor, George W. Bush, was a strong supporter of this. We have a fascinating cross-section of people--some unlikely bedfellows, some very liberal folks, some very conservative folks--who all believe that now is the time to get this done." Ok, and just because Bush was a big supporter of this doesn’t mean that it’s something that has strong conservative support. And as I seem to recall, Bush took a great deal of heat for choosing to support what was being called, "comprehensive immigration reform." Because that was nothing more than a codename for "amnesty."
Barry’s desire to get this amnesty legislation passed and onto his desk has absolutely nothing whatsoever to with "growing the economy." If Barry truly was interested in doing that, he would be working on getting those 10 Million folks who have left the workforce, since he first came into office, back into the workforce. It’s very clear that his motivation here is purely political, and if the House Republicans, and John Boehner specifically, decide to assist him in this little endeavor, they will be essentially cutting their own throats! What Barry wants to do here is to create even more folks who will become totally dependent on the government, and therefore reliable Democrat voters. This cannot be allowed to happen. It must not happen!
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
THIRD PARTY INSANITY…
Ok gang, it’s time to get our shit together before next year’s election gets here and we are once again caught with our collective pants down. The tactic to be employed by those on the left in future elections was on full display in the Virginia race for governor. This Sarvis guy, the supposed Libertarian candidate, was ‘put’ into the race for no other reason to split the vote on the right. And guess what, it worked like a charm. Sleaze-bag McAwful gets to pretty much walk to a win with only 47 percent of the vote. My God, just how stupid are we? This election should have been a no brainer, but nope, we had morons on our side voting for Barry’s decoy candidate, Sarvis.
With 98 percent of the vote counted, McAwful had 1,029,836 votes, Cuccinelli had 993,419 votes, and this fraud Sarvis had 143,012 votes. The race did turn out to be considerably closer than some recent public opinion polls had indicated it would be. A Quinnipiac poll completed Nov. 3 had McAwful up 6 points over Cuccinelli, and a PPP poll completed that same day had McAwful up by 7 points. The RealClearPolitics.com average of all polls had McAwful up 6.7 points. Nonetheless, in the actual polling on election day, McAwful ended up squeaking out a 1-point victory, with a third-party candidate, Sarvis, drawing off 7 percentage points.
This is what pisses me off about all of those supposed political geniuses clamoring for a third party. It’s insanity, pure and freakin simple. Every single election would end just like the one in Virginia if we were to use that as our election strategy, we would always be close but no cigar. That would be the Democrat Party’s wet-dream. And in Virginia the Democrats even went so far as to kinda help things along by actually funding the third party guy. What we need to do, what we must do, is to field true conservative Republican candidates, which in my view Cuccinelli was, and leave the third party candidates to be voted for by those on the left.
OBAMA COULDN’T CARE LESS IF YOU ‘APPROVE’…
At the risk of sounding like a broken record here, I’ll ask again, does anyone really think that Barry is the least bit concerned about how low his so-called approval rating may actually go? I mean really? Much is being made about the fact that Barry’s approval rating has now fallen below 40 percent for the first time in two years.
In Gallup’s daily poll documenting a three-day average, Barry’s overall job approval rating is said to now stand at 39 percent. Fifty-three percent of us are now said to disapprove of his job performance. The poll's margin of error is 3 percentage points. The last time Barry's approval rating was that low was the summer of 2011.
Barry has received some pretty sharp criticism from Republicans of late for not honoring the promise he very clearly made to Americans before in the run-up to the healthcare reform law’s passage and his 2012 reelection campaign. "If you like your health plan, you can keep it," Barry previously said, nearly thirty different times.
Some insurance companies, however, have now been forced to send cancellation notices to their subscribers as part of ObamaCare’s guidelines. And as a result, Barry has now had to clarify, in effect to tell a lie to explain his other lie, what he really meant to say at various healthcare rallies when touting the new marketplace.
It has been said that nearly 130 Million people could end up losing their insurance coverage, coverage that they like, because of Obamacare. And when all is said and done there will still be 30 Million people without coverage. But let’s be real here, the goal of this thing all along was never to ‘improve’ the system, but to ‘use’ the system.
To use the system to better control the population by dictating exactly what sort of medical treatment you will be able to obtain for yourself and your family. To put you under the heel of the government and to make you much more compliant regarding the demands made on you by the government. That’s what this is truly all about.
It’s all part of the "fundamental transformation" plan that Barry ran on back in 2008. And that is what’s important to Barry, not he approval rating. He doesn’t really care if the people actually approve of what he’s doing. People like him never do. He’s on a mission, a mission to destroy. And he has been very successful in that effort.
Far too many people continue to operate under the assumption that Barry is just like past presidents. But to view him in that manner is at best very risky and, at worst, downright dangerous. We must view him not as our president, but instead as our adversary, even our enemy. And we must now stand united against him and his many minions.
Our country is now quite literally hanging by a thread, and it doesn’t help matters that Barry has been busy spending vast sums of our taxpayer money in an effort to persuade people to stand with him. And unfortunately we now have very little time left as things are already beginning to come apart at the seams. We stand on the verge of losing everything.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
OBAMACARE…IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL, STUPID!
Let me tell you something. There is absolutely no creature to be found anywhere that is more devious or dishonest than a Democrat. Nothing proves this better than the man who is now our president. For example, in April 2010 after Barry signed Obamacare into law, he was videotaped, at least 29 separate times, saying: "If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you." Now we’re finding out that that wasn’t quite, shall I say, accurate. And then, just today, Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat from the People’s Republic of Maryland, was asked whether that statement was true or false.
Now of course this pond scum, Cardin, being ever the good and loyal Democrat that he is, refused to provide a yes or no answer to the question, choosing instead to answer it with what was nothing more than another lie. He made the idiotic claim that what Barry had said was in fact "accurate" and that only certain plans were being changed or rejected. "Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a lot of people lost their insurance coverage or saw weakening," Cardin said. "There’s now basic protection in the plan. This lying sack of shit then went on to say, "So I think the fundamentals of what the president said are accurate."
The entire exchange between Cardin and the reporter asking the questions went as follows:
Reporter: After President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, he said, "If you like your insurance plan you can keep it. No one will be able to take it away from you." What that a true or false statement?
Cardin: Well I think if you take a look at the fundamentals of the Affordable Care Act, the only people who are getting notices now are those whose insurance companies had sub-par policies or changed the rules under the grandfather clause – they were grandfathered in, and they decided to make modifications.
We are talking about a very small number. So therefore I think the president’s plan basically does allow those who are satisfied with their insurance to be able to keep it as long as their insurance carriers don’t change the plan – don’t affect the grandfather clause or at least apply with basics. Now let me say…
Reporter: Because I asked whether it was true or false.
Cardin: Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act a lot of people lost their insurance coverage or saw weakening. There’s now basic protection in the plan, so I think the fundamentals of what the president said are accurate.
So as we continue to see, time and time again, when it comes to something that they really want, Democrats have absolutely no problem in being able to look you dead in the eye, and then lying right to your face. Now what this should tell you, unless, of course, you’re a complete moron, is that this entire Obamacare nightmare has absolutely nothing what-so-freakin-ever to do with ‘improving’ our healthcare system. What it does have everything to do with, is to put the Democrats in complete charge of what kind of medical treatment you will be able to obtain for yourself and your family. And what better way to assume control of you?
Democrats are constantly on the prowl for more effective methods that allow them to better rig the political game to increase the odds of them always being able to come out on top. Over time they have become extremely efficient at creating ways that allow them to, essentially, purchase the votes of the ignorant and the poor. They have been so successful that they are now within striking distance of their goal, that being the tipping point which once passed, those who make up that growing parasite class will forever outnumber those of us who are forced to pony up more and more of our hard earned money to pick up their rapidly escalating tab.
WE CAN’T GO ON LIKE THIS…
So on we go, seemingly without a care in the world as we continue to strap onto the backs of our children, and even our grandchildren, more and more debt that we apparently think that they will be only too happy to pay back for us. What brings this to mind is the fact that the debt of the federal government jumped by another $409 Billion in the month of October, according to the U.S. Treasury. That amount equals approximately $3,567 for each household in the United States, and is the second-largest one month jump in the debt in the history of the country.
The single greatest one-month increase in the federal government's debt came back in October 2008, when Congress enacted the bogus Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to bail out the financial industry. In that month, the debt subject to the legal limit climbed by about $545 Billion. At the close of business on Sept. 30, 2013, the last day of fiscal 2013, the federal debt subject to limit stood at $16,699,396,000,000. At the close of business on Oct. 31, 2013, the first month of fiscal 2014, the debt subject to limit stood at approximately $17,108,378,000,000.
If our kids only knew what lies in wait for them. This level of putting off payment to tomorrow for those things that we want today takes living beyond your means to a whole new level. Maybe I’m assuming too much here, but as children we’re taught the dangers of spending more than you’re able to repay. It’s called, living within your means. But that concept seems to be completely foreign to those charge of our government, mainly because they’re spending other people’s money, and plus they have the luxury of being to simply print more money.
But how much longer can we go on doing this? Democrats, and a few too many Republicans, seem to think that we can go on like this indefinitely. And they seem to have been quite successful in convincing a goodly number of the American people that the concept is actually possible. But unfortunately, to actually believe that it’s possible is to, essentially, deny reality. Because while the rhetoric may sound pretty plausible, it’s really nothing more than a fairytale dreamt up by those whose desire is to bring down our entire financial and economic system.
There is something very sinister underway here, the warning signs are everywhere, and readily apparent, but you have to want to see them. Sadly, too many Americans would rather look the other way. Because when your vision is clouded by the fact that you’re on the receiving end of some supposed ‘benefit’ or ‘entitlement’ that could be lost in exchange for sounding the alarm, you tend to remain silent. And by remaining silent, those doing the spending feel emboldened to keep things going as they have been. But the time has now come for the courage to do what we all know what must be done.
Monday, November 4, 2013
COMMUNIST VAN JONES, WORKS TO DEFEND OBAMA…
Ya know, these days it seems that no matter where you choose to look what you’re apt to see and/or hear are never-ending stream of wacked out liberals expending what is a great deal of time and energy doing nothing more than to claim that any and all opposition to Barry’s blatantly socialist policies is based on nothing more than purely personal reasons or as having as it’s source something as insignificant as Barry’s race. But in reality, opposition to both Barry, and his leftist policies, stems not from his race but from something far deeper and far more important, belief in our Constitution.
Now one of the most recent examples of this rather imbecilic behavior came from none other than Barry’s former green jobs czar, and that self-proclaimed communist, Van Jones. It was during something called a roundtable discussion, the topic of which was the rather botched rollout of Obamacare, on ABC’s "This Week with George "Stephy" Stephanopolous," that Jones actually went so far as to say that Barry "Almighty’s" detractors actually suffer from a condition that he called, "Obama Derangement Syndrome." Well, that’s not exactly accurate, if we ‘suffer’ from anything, it’s more like ‘Love of Country’.
Jones said, "It's silly season. Literally, they have this sort of Obama Derangement Syndrome where Obama is this absent, weak, ineffectual dictator and tyrant who's destroying America." Well look, no offense to this moron, Mr. Jones, but all one really has to do here is nothing more than to provide just a cursory glance over all that has transpired during the last 4 and a half years, to be able to recognize, and pretty quickly, that those ‘qualities’ now being attributed to Barry, are pretty much right on the mark. After all, he did come into office with the promise to "fundamentally transform" America.
Now as many of you have, by now, probably heard, unless you’ve been living under a rock, the Obamacare website, Healthcare.gov, has been plagued with all manner of, what some have politely described as being, glitches since it was first unveiled back on Oct. 1. Barry has since been criticized for supposedly not knowing about the potential problems with the site and then taking the necessary action to quickly getting them fixed. After all, the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is his signature piece of legislation. But I guess Jones is of the opinion that Barry should bear none of the responsibility for the debacle.
Because according to Jones, "No matter what this president does, they roll out a narrative that says either he's absent, and he's not paying attention or he's a dictator and tyrant trying to steal your rights. These things can't be true at the same time." Of course they can be, and they are. Now, Jones, as you may recall, resigned from his White House environmental adviser position back in 2009 amid controversy over some rather unsavory statements he made and some obviously questionable behavior described as being social activism but that was in reality, inciting violence.
Jones went on to say, "Part of what's going on - what I'm disturbed about - is I know this president is not a hands-off leader. He is famously engaged. I’ll tell you what – when you work in the White House, you write something, you know one person in that building’s going to read it, and his name is President Obama." Adding, "And so something went wrong here, but the idea that somehow he’s inattentive, he’s not paying attention – all that’s ludicrous." Well, if Barry is not guilty of being inattentive, then the only other possibility is that he knew all along that this website was going to be exactly the mess that it turned out to be.
Look, at the risk of offending Mr. Jones, Barry really isn’t any kind of a leader, hands-off or otherwise. It’s been claimed by many different people that Barry knew nothing about the website problems, he knew nothing about ‘Fast & Furious’, he knew nothing about NSA listening in on foreign leaders, he knew nothing about the IRS making things difficult for conservative groups, and he knew nothing about Benghazi. I would think this rather strange behavior for someone who Mr. Jones choses to describe as being famously engaged or as a hands-on leader. But then what do I know, I’m not a communist.
OBAMACARE…THIS THING JUST KEEPS GETTIN’ BETTER AND BETTER…NOT!
Further proof that this thing called Obamacare is nowhere near being what Democrats said it would be comes to us via a Duke University health expert, who states that sixty-eight percent of privately-insured Americans may end up not being able to keep their current health coverage once Obamacare becomes fully implemented. And this, of course, is despite the fact that Barry made repeated promises that anyone who wanted to keep their plan would be able to do so. And as much as the Democrats, including Barry, would like you to believe that it’s all the fault of a few "bad apple" insurance companies, that, too, is nothing more than a lie.
And as has been recently reported in The Daily Caller, an analysis performed by healthcare economist Christopher Conover at the Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research at Duke University found that an estimated 129 Million people could actually end up losing their previous health coverage due to a combination of factors including the cancellations of existing plans as well as changes and supposed "improvements" to existing coverage that will be required under the new healthcare law. And I think that to assume that this is simply nothing more than some sort of design flaw, is to be more than just a little naïve.
As Mr. Conover told The Daily Caller, "Bottom line: of the 189 million Americans with private health insurance coverage, I estimate that if Obamacare is fully implemented, at least 129 million (68 percent) will not be able to keep their previous health care plan either because they already have lost or will lose that coverage by the end of 2014." As early as 2009, Barry made the promise, "If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period." Barry knew when he said it that it was nowhere near being true. And it was not a question of him misspeaking as has been claimed by the liberal rag, The New York Times.
And as we have now seen the White House has recently been essentially forced to admit that what is refers to as being a ‘small’ number of people would not be able to keep their plans. Conover said that Barry had to have known it was inaccurate to say that everyone could keep their existing health plans. "If President Obama himself believed this the first time he said it, he was poorly advised," he said. "It's pretty inconceivable that President Obama was not aware that he was engaged in some degree of truth-twisting." Barry looked each and every American square in the eye and he lied. Again, and again, and again!
Conover went on to give a further breakdown of the figures, saying that between 18 and 50 million people will have their existing plans entirely taken away, including 9.2 million to 15.4 million in the non-group, or individual, market and 9 million to 35 million in the employer-based market. The rest, he said, will retain their old plans but have to pay considerably higher rates for Obamacare-mandated "bells and whistles." He added, "It's true that some Americans will end up with cheaper coverage, but not the vast majority. Study after study shows premiums on average will be higher in the non-group, small group and even large group markets."
So with it now being so painfully obvious that Barry lied, I find myself being a bit curious about how many of those who will now lose their health insurance plans, voted for Barry. And I wonder if they might now be rethinking the wisdom of that decision. There has always been a mountain of evidence that made it very clear that that which Barry is so desperate to bring about here in America, i.e., government control of healthcare, has never worked anywhere that it has ever been tried. So how do we stop it? Americans are going to be required to rise up or, as a consequence of not doing so, be saddled with that is, essentially, a third world healthcare system.
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