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Obamacare’s Useful Idiots:One by one, the dupes have been double-crossed by Obama & Democrats
am spectator ^ | 9/16/13 | d catron

Posted on 09/16/2013 5:31:23 AM PDT by bestintxas

Remember that March day in 2010 when the President, surrounded by devout supporters, solemnly signed Obamacare into law? It was, as Joe Biden brayed, “a big f——-g deal.” Obama and his army of righteous reformers had finally triumphed over the forces of evil and passed legislation that would drive the moneychangers from the temple of U.S. health care. Many of those beaming down on the President as he wielded his terrible swift pen represented prestigious national organizations and coalitions whose support had made the glorious moment possible. Some of these groups, however, have since seen the error of their ways.

The most recent such coalition to repent of its support for the “Affordable Care Act” (ACA) has been the AFL-CIO. As has been widely reported, that federation of unions approved a resolution during its recent convention declaring that Obamacare will increase health insurance premiums so dramatically that many of its members will have to drop their coverage. In order to avoid this inevitable consequence of their support for the health care law, union goons like Richard Trumka have been putting pressure on the President to honor his backroom promises to provide unions with special dispensations from inconvenient provisions of “reform.”

One of the most controversial union demands, which would have resulted in extra ACA subsidies for union members, was rejected by the Obama administration on Friday:

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama
Sometimes someone stupid deserves to suffer just because he is stupid
1 posted on 09/16/2013 5:31:23 AM PDT by bestintxas
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To: bestintxas

yeah obama LOVES the double cross

thing of it is he has created enemies for himself


2 posted on 09/16/2013 5:35:52 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: bestintxas
Sometimes someone stupid deserves to suffer just because he is stupid

Yes, sometimes the hard way is the only way to learn.
However, the unions are still hoping for a sweetheart deal. They may just get it and then they'll be all aboard again.
And then they will have learned nothing, except that screaming gets them anything they want and they will act even more like spoiled brats the next time.

3 posted on 09/16/2013 5:40:39 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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Obamacare could be boon for identity thieves-— Steps to take to minimize risk of identity theft:

1. Contact the IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit at 1-800-908-4490

2. Order a tax account transcript from the IRS that verifies basic personal data along with details of your tax return filed, which may come in handy if you are checking to see whether someone else filed a fraudulent return on your behalf

The Federal Trade Commission (link at website) also lists several steps you must take if you have been a victim of identity theft.

SOURCE http://www.cnbc.com/id/100918004


4 posted on 09/16/2013 5:43:04 AM PDT by Liz
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STOP OBAMACARE ALERT Contact your state AG---ask him/her to issue a letter of inquiry to groups receiving federal "Navigator" grants. The inquiry should center on questions WRT how the group intends to protect consumer data.

In particular, the questionnaire should ask if the tax-funded "Navigator" program intends to transfer personal/ financial/medical data of the insured to the local/county/national Democrat Party, relevant Unions, banks, investment companies, drug companies, insurance companies. Trial Lawyers' associations and whether "Navigators" have sub rosa contracts with these, and other groups, to provide significant info to enrich databases for pecuniary purposes.

REFERENCE A West Virginia nonprofit has turned down a federal grant it received to help residents navigate new health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act after it received an inquiry from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey about how it would protect consumer information. Clarksburg-based West Virginia Parent Training Inc. did not respond to a letter it received from Morrisey directing it to answer 26 questions about the group's personnel and hiring practices, including employee background checks and employee monitoring programs, the Sunday Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/17M1QVe) reported. (Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD WILL HAVE ACCESS TO SS#, TAX, MEDICAL INFORMATION
Breitbart Big Government ^ | 8/23/2013 | William Bigelow / FR Posted by markomalley

EXCERPT Planned Parenthood is about to obtain access to your Social Security number, tax form, bank account, and medical records.

With the advent of ObamaCare, consumers buying health insurance through health care exchanges will be required to speak to “navigators.” “Navigators” are supposed to help consumers find the best coverage and ascertain whether they are eligible for a federal subsidy.

Any “navigator” will have access to the federal data hub, which holds information from the Department of Health and Human Services, the IRS, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Defense Department, the Office of Personnel Management, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Peace Corps.

Planned Parenthood received $655,000 from the Obama administration to hire navigators. In Iowa, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland received $214,427; in Montana, Intermountain Planned Parenthood, Inc. got $295,604; and in New Hampshire, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England raked in $145,161.

And there is not much scrutiny over who these “navigators” will be; HHS will not require background checks or fingerprinting, and a previous criminal conviction, even if it was for identity theft , will not trigger a rejection. To make matters worse, the administration has cut the new employees’ training from 30 hours to 20 and reduced screening.

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OKLAHOMA WINS FIRST OCARE BATTLE: Quoting AG Pruitt--- "Obamacare was meant to be so open-ended that it could mean anything. We are seeing thousands of pages of new rules being written, both by HHS and the IRS. The open-ended interpretation of Obamacare enables this.....if the law doesn't contain a particular provision, no problem. They just make it up as they go along."

"Such is the case that involves the OK lawsuit."

“The court rejected the federal government’s argument that Oklahoma lacked standing to challenge the law, allowing us to proceed with this pivotal case,” “We’re optimistic the court will recognize what states have known for months that the IRS disregarded the law by making the large employer mandate effective in Oklahoma or in any of the 33 other states without a state health care exchange.”

REFERENCE Oklahoma challenged implementation of the Affordable Care Act after the IRS finalized a rule that would allow the federal government to punish “large employers,” including local government, with millions of dollars in tax penalties in states without state health care exchanges, which is not allowed under the health care law.

“Congress provided a choice for Oklahoma and other states in implementation of the health care law, and the IRS is attempting to take that away by rule,” General Pruitt said. “The administration miscalculated how many states would support this law, so now they’re using the IRS to push through provisions that Congress did not pass.”

5 posted on 09/16/2013 5:44:08 AM PDT by Liz
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To: bestintxas
The “leaders” of the CHA, Big Pharma, the AMA and the AFL-CIO constitute but a sample of the useful idiots exploited by the President and his congressional accomplices in order to foist Obamacare on the American public.

Hopefully the list expands to college students, actors, journalists... hey, we can dream, can't we?

6 posted on 09/16/2013 5:47:55 AM PDT by paudio (Liberals teach Whites about guilt and shame better than Christian churches do...)
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To: bestintxas

There once was a woman from Niger...


7 posted on 09/16/2013 5:51:57 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: bestintxas

The Obamacare Bill is a work in progress.

We didn’t pass the bill and find out what is in it.

Because what is in it is being redefined daily.

The Bill is changing even as we speak. It will continue to change. The Bill gave regulatory power never before seen in any law. the Bill can be almost anything the government says it is. They can and ARE making it up as they go along.

You can read it today, it will be different tomorrow.


8 posted on 09/16/2013 5:56:55 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: bestintxas
Our ONKY hope is to BERATE the Congress...Democrats AND Republicans to STOP EXEMPTING THEMSELVES AND THE PRESIDENT!!! If it's good enough for us PEONS, then it better be good enough for the CONGRESSIONAL and PRESIDENTIALELITE!!

Let's ROLL....write OP-EDS or just write letters...lots of them....call Talk Radio....go to Town Hallswhatever to SHOW THEIR HYPOCRISY!!

9 posted on 09/16/2013 6:00:51 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Venturer

The fact that they have fought to hard to get it and keep it in place tells me that there are agendas at work here and that providing healthcare is the least of them


10 posted on 09/16/2013 6:09:11 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: yldstrk
yeah obama LOVES the double cross

thing of it is he has created enemies for himself

I really expect the unions to turn on the Democrats next election. Just like the tea party promises that they are done with the Republicans after yet another back stab.

Sorry union guys but when Obama talked about Cadillac health care plans who did you think he was talking about? Really? There are three groups with great plans... CEOs and upper level corporate officers who are rich enough to pay for their own health care if Obamacare screws up their plans. Government workers who are untouchable. And non-government union workers. You had to expect this was coming.

11 posted on 09/16/2013 6:13:11 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Why is our military going to be used as Al Qaeda's air force in Syria?)
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To: bestintxas

I believe God put stupid people on Earth as an example to the rest of us.


12 posted on 09/16/2013 6:14:20 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: bestintxas

Correction: They are not useful idiots. They are useless idiots.


13 posted on 09/16/2013 6:29:03 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: bestintxas
My Grand Father told me when I was in grade school that....

"Everybody pays for an education son; some people just pay a whole lot more than others."

14 posted on 09/16/2013 6:30:30 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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Get to your black base voters, whom you’ve done nothing for,.all worked up. Pick on some security guard who’s doing his job.

Accuse him of being racist ,even though he is part black..But his last name sounds “jewish. Who’s doing surveilance in a posted private gated watch area of a mixed races of modest means a where there’s been robberies and burgalries by young blacks.

Now call that surveilance stalking, the area he’s patrolling owned by rich “whiteys”,and the guard of course he’s white.That person he’s watching a 10 year old black kid a “victim” and a saint. Not six foot two 160 pound 16 year old, who gets killed fighting over a gun. .

Now paint a target on the security guards back .Ain’t that neat ?

What better way to discourage any investigation into malfeasance and corruption by organizing the base for riots in the streets ? Think it’s too far fetched ? Think it’s not working ? Look again http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3051558/posts

To date the political opposition known as Republican has yet to mention or comment on this example of how this regime operates. Time to ask them why ?

The Republican leadership was given the opportunity as they have in the past,while running the 2012 campaigns for Senate, House, and President an opportunity to spell out what was in Obamacare but didn’t http://www.theusmat.com/ or even mention Democrats had refused any reference to God in the Democratic at their 2012 convention .

Or comment on the the “Gated Community” episode which was used to furthur hyphenate; black from “hispanic,” from “white” Americans, which included Jews. Thus discarding the American Melting Pot history in favor of the socialist agenda.

By doing this the demo-coms created a unconsionable use of the security guard incident to furthur their socialist agenda. That has resulted in martyrs because of its inflamatory assertions.. Which the political opposition ignores while claiming to search for “demographics” in other directions. Any the Republican “establishment has stood by and said and did nothing.

You are encouraged to Print up or email -pass it on....Why ? Time to expose citizens to the face the facts that they may believe whatever activity they get involved in is perfectly legitimate and legal. If it suits their purposes this regime and its adhearants will paint a target on their back. Wether it’s a black hispanic who gets turned in a “white hispanic” or union members losing their health care benefits if Obamacare gets funded.


15 posted on 09/16/2013 6:51:19 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: bestintxas

Many of them are willing to go along though as they’ve been promised the end result will be back-door single payer.


16 posted on 09/16/2013 7:09:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bestintxas

I have tried to find a better descriptor than stupid but have failed to do so.

The one thing that participants in “revolutions” never understand is those who back a “revolution” but who are not part of the interior power base are among the first to be betrayed by the “revolution”.

During the history of the 20th century that political truth was found in every “revolutionary” movement from Mexico to South America to Africa to China to Europe and all points in between.

In the first part of the 21st Century this outfall of a “revolution” has spread into non-lethal political events.

When it comes to the progressive/liberal/socialist/communist/democratic cabal if you outside a hand’s reach of the “revolutionary” leadership you are a victim in waiting. Do you see why the education system has been so badly watered down? It’s easer to dupe a target if he doesn’t know and understand the rules.


17 posted on 09/16/2013 7:19:54 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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