Posted on 04/25/2013 8:23:59 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
Talk about the ultimate vote of no confidence in ObamaCare when lawmakers start exempting themselves!
What about a denial of equal protection claim from those of use who are still under its mandates? The basis for granting waivers to so many seems arbitrary and capricious, and accordingly the rest of us shouldn’t be subject to the crappy law either.
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Hi Suckers -
I knew this would happen - and all the “waivers” for their cronies, friends, campaign donors, unions being paid off
The system is well beyond broken when the electorate and the government can vote itself huge freevies paid for by OPM
- Paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson
It destroyed Rome
“Greecian Formula” too liberally applied gets rid of the gray but everything turns red and then completely black -
- devolve
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The fact that they know it is a failure and know it is unsustainable makes continuing to do it INTENTIONAL and GROSSLY NEGLIGENT. Sounds like some kind of treason to me if it could be proven.
Not positive, but I think some of the big unions got a deferment on Obamacare until 2019 not a total pass.
Only republicans should be exempted. Democrats must face the full bruit of this abomination they crafted and shoved down everyone’s throat.
As republicans had nothing to do with this abomination and are indeed at the forefront of trying to protect innocent people from its illfull effects they deserve an exception and this exception should apply not just to the republicans in congress but registered republican everywhere.
Make Obamacare a precondition of the democratic party membership.
In a proper and ordered society many of those who play games in Congress would be in prison AT HARD LABOR!
You mean they didn’t exempt themselves when it was passed? How did that happen?
I guess they didn’t know what was in it...
So did I.
According to the Forbes article, the president and congress are not exempt from Obamacare. I remember clearly the discussions about their exemption back in 2010, and have never heard before today that they aren’t exempt. Did that exemption get removed from the bill before it was passed? Is the government lying now about being exempt? Does anyone here know the truth on this issue?
I’m not surprised. They regularly want rules for the peons, and exceptions for themselves.
They don’t want to live under what they impose on us.
Imagine that.......
Thanks Sequoyah101.
If they do we vote them all out.
An email I received which tells it as it is.
April 3, 2013
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Washington, DC, 20510
Dear Senator:
I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses shortly after his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those virtues he felt important - honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the laws of our various governments. I have served my country, paid my taxes, worked hard, volunteered and donated my fair share of money, time and artifacts.
Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few things abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. I have calculated that all the money I have paid in income taxes my entire life cannot even keep the Senate barbershop open for one year! Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped actuarial types know what the Senate dining room costs the taxpayers. So please, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us.
Last year, the president spent an estimated 1.4 $billion on himself and his family. The vice president spends $millions on hotels. They have had 8 vacations so far this year! And our House of Representatives and Senate have become America’s answer to the Saudi royal family. You have become the “perfumed princes and princesses” of our country.
In the middle of the night, you voted in the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. “Obama Care,” a bill which no more than a handful of senators or representatives read more than several paragraphs, crammed it down our throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it substituting your own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance.
You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the “one percenters,” consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises while making 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income, and give up nothing while you (as well as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due to sequestration (for which, of course, you plan to blame the Republicans, anyway).
You understand very well the only two rules you need to know - (1) How to get elected, and (2) How to get re-elected. And you do this with the aid of an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated with a certain economy of truth, and by buying the votes of the greedy, the ill-informed and under-educated citizens (and non-citizens, too, many of whom do vote) who are looking for a handout rather than a job. Your so-called “safety net” has become a hammock for the lazy. And, what is it now, about 49 or 50 million on food stamps - pretty much all Democrat voters - and the program is absolutely rife with fraud with absolutely no congressional oversight?
I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What changed you is the seductive environment of power in which you have immersed yourselves. It is the nature of both houses of Congress which requires you to subordinate your virtue in order to get anything done until you have achieved a leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan, it appears that the second oldest profession (politics), bears a remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest.
As the hirsute first Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834 - 1902), English historian and moralist, so aptly and accurately stated, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” I’m only guessing that this applies to the female sex as well. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in this country than Congress?
While we middle class people continue to struggle, our government becomes less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and ever so much more dictatorial, using Czars and Secretaries to tell us (just to mention a very few) what kind of light bulbs we must purchase, how much soda or hamburgers we can eat, what cars we can drive, gasoline to use, and what health care we must buy. Countless thousands of pages of regulations strangle our businesses costing the consumer more and more every day.
As I face my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and my government tell me “You’ll just have to take a pill,” while you, Senator, your colleagues, the president, and other exulted government officials and their families will get the best possible health care on our tax dollars until you are called home by your Creator while also enjoying a retirement beyond my wildest dreams, which of course, you voted for yourselves and we pay for.
The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero as your staff will not pass it on, but with a little luck, a form letter response might be generated by them with an auto signature applied, hoping we will believe that you, our senator or representative, has heard us and actually cares. This letter will, however, go on line where many others will have the chance to read one person’s opinion, rightly or wrongly, about this government, its administration and its senators and representatives.
I only hope that occasionally you might quietly thank the taxpayer for all the generous entitlements which you have voted yourselves, for which, by law, we must pay, unless, of course, it just goes on the $17 trillion national debt for which your children and ours, and your grandchildren and ours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up the tab.
My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has either lost his or her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-election and continue to destroy this country I deeply love and put it so far in debt that we will never pay it off while your lot improves by the minute, because of your power. For you, Senator, will never stand up to the rascals in your House who constantly deceive the American people. And that, my dear Senator, is how power has corrupted you and the entire Congress. The only answer to clean up this cesspool is term limits. This, of course, will kill the goose that lays your golden eggs. And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring it up.
Sincerely,
Bill Schoonover
3096 Angela Lane
Oak Harbor, WA 98277
What the Feral Government does not understand is that after they get done Crushing the free market Medical industry, and insurance market there will not BE an alternative for them. You can’t hire special care providers if there are none anymore.
Idiots in the middle of the ocean scuttling the ship, only do discover there are no lifeboats.
Good, would not want to overburden the already floundering Obama care.
Just another reason why we should not vote for either party.
Congress jerks don’t do crap but talk. All the work is done by aids and they’re exempt, too. What I want to know is if a congress jerk loses re-election does he start living under the same rules as the rest of us? And when someone gets elected does that person all of a sudden become exempt? What generation of “family” is exempt?
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