More Hitler tactics being employed by the Obama team.
Before Zero-care passed Waxman would have hauled them before a committee for NOT doing this.
The good news is that if the CEOs keep quite, their balance sheets will do the talking.
Waxman loves to sit on his raised platform and look down his nostrils at his victims. In reality he’s a mental midget who’d find it difficult to get a job in the real world.
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>> McCarthy: fail to play along with the our Leftist rulers’ script
That’s right folks - we’re not talking about Liberals. These radicals are hardcore Leftists!
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We *want* them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against– then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
— Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged ,
I hope that one of these CEOs will have the balls to speak out against tyranny. Maybe one will. They could have their corporate jet take them to their remote bunker out of the country shortly after giving their testimony. Better have an ex Mossad agent as bodyguard.
The Supreme court ruled decisively (in the McCain-Feingold case) that corporations most definitely do have free speech rights, so this will not survive any legal challenge.
These corporate titans take their oversized bonuses but are too chickensh!t to denounce Nostrilitis Waxman in a committee hearing? What are they paid for?
If they have any cojones they demand an open televised hearing then they say— “Have you no decency Representative Waxman!”
**** Welch pulled this on Joseph McCarthy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch
I don’t know what kind of ground rules the minority on Waxman’s committee have to play by, but if I was one of them, I’d have an appropriate career prosecutor from the Justice Department called as a witness, as well as an enforcemtn officer from the SEC.
And then I’d ask them if it’s okay for entities like those in question to keep their anticipated costs hidden - and if they answer in the affirmative, I’d ask them in what other situations corporations are allowed to hide from the public known anticipated costs that will affect their share value.
Obama media kept touting how little it was going to cost government and how much it would save deficit over 10 years. It never even once honestly told how much it would cost the employers, to the economy, to the private sector, to the employment market. Sure enough, when they all go bonkers, liberal media will the there to sell the sob stories to push for even more corporate welfare and entitlements and government regulations and take over.
I shot off an email to Andy as soon as I saw his post:
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Re: Thugocracy vs. Capitalism
The treatment of those public companies is a perfect example of a little-remarked-upon danger in Obamacare:
government control of the flow of information.
Recall last September when Humana sent a letter to its Medicare Advantage policyholders. It told them their
plans might be cut under the health care legislation. Obama’s HHS “ordered” the company to retract the letter
and “remove any references from its website”. They said the company was lying and scaring old folks.
Of course, we know the health care bill has now done exactly what Humana said it would.
There was also the study released by the insurance companies indicating premiums would rise dramatically.
Within 24 hours Congress had moved to strip the companies of their anti-trust exemptions. Again, they accused
the insurance companies of lying in their report. They clubbed the insurance companies into submission.
Now those thugs control the whole system. No insurance company or health provider will dare release information
that would displease the master. As consumers, we will only be allowed to hear positive information. Negative
results will never see the light of day. And dissent will be squelched. That’s what happens when politicians
control any segment of the economy.
Some of these CEO’s helped cause the economic crisis that we’re in, so I wouldn’t weep for them.
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If subpoenas come, defy them under first amendment rights.
Don’t talk about it. Just lay off workers.