Posted on 11/09/2013 6:28:06 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike
‘If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period.” How serious was this lie, repeated by Barack Obama with such beguiling regularity? Well, how would the Justice Department be dealing with it if it had been uttered by, say, the president of an insurance company rather than the president of the United States?
Fraud is a serious federal felony, usually punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment — with every repetition of a fraudulent communication chargeable as a separate crime. In computing sentences, federal sentencing guidelines factor in such considerations as the dollar value of the fraud, the number of victims, and the degree to which the offender’s treachery breaches any special fiduciary duties he owes. Cases of multi-million-dollar corporate frauds — to say nothing of multi-billion-dollar, Bernie Madoff–level scams that nevertheless pale beside Obamacare’s dimensions — often result in terms amounting to decades in the slammer.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
News from the DNC and President-for-Life Obama!
With the great success of the Obamacare program, our Dear Leader has looked out at the fly-over country ... and He sees a right for all Americans that needs to be provided. The inalienable right to transportation!
That’s right! With the passage of the new law, your right to cheap, dependable transportation can no longer be denied. There are currently 43 million Americans without transportation, but not after the enactment of ..... Obama-CAR!
Under Obama-CAR, if you like your current car, YOU CAN KEEP IT! ... as long as it gets 40 mpg city, 55 mpg on the highway. Otherwise, the new Obama-CAR! program will trade your old inefficient clunker for a new Obama-CAR. You will be able to choose any car from the vast array of Obama-CAR! choices ... including white, black or yellow GM (Government Motors) Metro!
Think of it ... a shiny new Metro in your driveway. You will be the envy of your neighbors, at least until they are forced to trade their old inefficient truck or SUV in for their Metro!
The advantages of the Obama-CAR! program are almost too numerous to mention. For instance:
No one can be denied cheap trusty transportation after the rollout of Obama-CAR!
Highways will be more roomy without over-sized trucks and SUV’s crowding everyone out.
No one will be envious of other drivers more expensive, impractical SUV’s or sports cars ... because there won’t be any!
Contact your Senator or Representative today! Let him/her know ... you want your Obama-CAR!
I am President-for -Life Obama and I appoved this message.
The whores in congress gave him Obamacare by ONE VOTE. They should be prosecuted, too.
This was his plan all along and will lead to his master plan for ObamaScare.
Everything is on course.
For a COMMUNIST, fraud is merely a tool of implementation. If they told the truth, they would never get anything done.
Why is it when Nixon ran into problems, some borderline criminal, administration high level sources sprang up and worked to bring him to “justice”. Meanwhile, not one administration source with first hand knowledge of any of the fraud about Obamacare, and other misdeeds, has surfaced? In fact, even under supeona and under oath they obfuscate and outright lie, without repurcussions.
I know this is a rhetorical question but it shows exactly to what level Dems hold omera sacred.
“If he were a CEO in the private sector, he’d be prosecuted for such deception. “
Actually, if you can blame it on a bad business decision then prosecution is unlikely. The law allows you to be an idiot. They’d have to prove that he committed fraud. In politics you’re actually allowed to lie to voters. But if we lie to Congress, we go to prison.
Much as I’d like to see this man in prison there’s the possibility that, like Hitler’s trial, it will make him a martyr. It is better to use the impetus, assuming there is one, to erase all that he and 60 years or so of socialism have done.
Finally, everyone is using the right word. Must keep repeating: FRAUD, FRAUD, FRAUD. In fact, Benghazi FRAUD, IRS FRAUD, Nobel Peace Prize FRAUD, Obama FRAUD. Over and over again like the Left would. Si se Puede.
Did anyone hear Savage last night interviewing the man who was exposing all of BOzo’s ties to the Muslims?
An email to Fox News’ Bret Baier, read aloud on tonight’s “Special Report,”
This message came to us from Bill in Kentucky.
“Putting things in perspective: March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days.
December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day.
What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this progressive federal government to build a working webpage.
Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks, planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa, Invading Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin – all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!!
And in that amount of time – this administration can’t build a working webpage.”
He was lying. He knew he was lying. And there isn’t a damned thing that anyone’s going to do about it.
“The whores in congress gave him Obamacare by ONE VOTE. They should be prosecuted, too.”
That was the idea at Nuremberg.
If you like your vehicle, you can keep your vehicle...
Fine article, detailing all the legal ramifications.
But, Progressives are immune from the results of their shenanigans. So, what’s the point?
IMHO
But he's not in the private sector, and the remedy for lying and thieving politicians is merely to remove them from office.
I doubt there is one, single, solitary government program that delivered what was promised, for the price promised.
Obamacare...?
I think it should be called ZEROCARE.
ExTexasRedhead, thanks for posting the comparative time lines.
Used to be, that reporters (not journalists) would publish such.
Former Pravda and Izvestia writers must be wondering how American progressives achieved this servile press without the threat of the 3 AM roundup and slow train to the Siberian gulags.
soylent green?
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