Posted on 11/26/2014 4:06:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist and paid architect of Obamacare, has shocked and disgusted many Americans. In 2013, he explained to a University of Pennsylvania audience: "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure (the Congressional Budget Office) did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies." He added that the "lack of transparency is a huge political advantage." Most insulting were his previous statements that "the American voter is too stupid to understand" and his boast of Obamacare's "exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter."
We recall that back in 2010, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." That comment was just as insightful as her response to a CNSNews.com reporter who asked, "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" Unable to respond intelligently, Speaker Pelosi gave her best political response: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" When asked recently about Gruber, Pelosi said: "I don't know who he is. He didn't help write our bill." She was quickly caught in a lie because during the 2009 health care debate, she mentioned Gruber's analysis at a news conference.
One little-noticed feature of Gruber's speeches was the type of place where he felt comfortable talking about the use of deception and mocking American intelligence. His speeches took place at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Rhode Island. Universities are home to the academic elite -- people who believe they have more intelligence than and superior wisdom to the masses. They believe they have been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Gruber and his fellow academic elite have what they consider to be good reasons for restricting the freedom of others. But every tyrant who has ever lived has had what he considered good reasons.
America's elite found on university campuses, in news media and in political office are chief supporters of reduced private property rights and reduced rights to profits, and they are anti-competition and pro-monopoly. They are pro-control and coercion by the state. Their plan requires the elimination or attenuation of the free market and what is implied by it -- voluntary exchange. Their reasoning is simple. Tyrants do not trust that people acting voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do. Therefore, tyrants want to replace the market and voluntary exchange with economic planning. Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.
In a 1991 speech, Yale University President Benno Schmidt warned: "The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind." I watched the videos of Gruber's speeches. Academics raised little concern as to either the dishonesty of Obamacare or the claim that Americans were too stupid to understand.
A study by my George Mason University colleague Daniel B. Klein, along with Charlotta Stern of the Swedish Institute for Social Research, titled "Professors and Their Politics: The Policy Views of Social Scientists" (http://tinyurl.com/qxne3db) concluded: "The academic social sciences are pretty much a one-party system. Were the Democratic tent broad, the one-party system might have intellectual diversity. But the data show almost no diversity of opinion among the Democratic professors when it comes to the regulatory, redistributive state: they like it. Especially when it comes to the minimum wage, workplace-safety regulation, pharmaceutical regulation, environmental regulation, discrimination regulation, gun control, income redistribution, and public schooling."
Focusing only on Professor Gruber's arrogance, we ignore the more important fact that he is highly representative of the academic mindset -- the people who are brainwashing our youngsters.
Dunning-Kruger effect.
It’s time for the university bubble to pop.
Democrat elitists extraordinaires have thought this way for decades. But don’t worry, their sycophants in Big Media have made sure The People haven’t heard anything about Jonathan Gruber. It might hurt the Dems chances in the next election.
These are criminals who will not be prosecuted because they are above the law and forgiven bt executive order
(Rumor floating around)
Orly Taitz started looking at the possible reasons O came up with Lorretta Lynch for the new Attorney General:
I started investigating Loretta Lynch, Obama’s pick for Attorney General and immediately could see an interesting connection. I read an article stating that when Loretta Lynch started Harvard, she co-founded an African-American sorority. There was only one other girl in this sorority, Sharon Malone. The name rang a bell.
The name of the wife of AG Holder is Sharon Malone, she is the sister of a known civil rights leader Vivien Malone -Jones (one of 2 black students who enrolled in all white University of Alabama).
I checked the age: both were born in 1959 and both went to Harvard at the same time. There were very few African American students in Harvard in 1977-1981, so I am rather certain that Loretta Lynch is an old college friend of Sharon Malone, the wife of the current AG Eric Holder.
Why this connection is important? Holder will be investigated by Congress for totally lawless gun trafficking to Mexican drug cartels in Fast and Furious, IRS scandal, VA scandal, DOJ, NSA, EPA, FEC and other scandals. Most importantly, Holder covered up Obama’s use of a stolen CT Social Security number of Harrison J. Bounel 042-68-4425 and Obama’s use of bogus IDs. It seems that a long time college friend of Holder’s wife was picked up as a gate keeper to continue all of the cover up by Holder and shield Holder and Obama from criminal prosecution.
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/
Someday we’ll see another one of these elitists in front of a camera bragging about how the leftist Democrat Party put one over on the stupid American voter by electing to the Presidency of the United States an illegal alien who couldn’t produce a birth certificate or college transcripts, had never before held a job, couldn’t speak proper English unless he read it from a teleprompter, and didn’t even know there were fifty states in the U.S.
Great detective work. You are right!
I have learned that everything in this corrupt evil administration is planned to the inth degree. Even the rioting right before the holidays, the release of the grand jury decision etc... nothing is accidental. Be warned American very rough times are coming!
Mussies in the administration including obungler do not care about the season-they intend to destroy this country.
The contempt begins at the media. Everything that’s wrong with America is enshrined in the media. All these other turds are taking their cue from the media.
The media is the problem.
Orrin Hatch will get her confirmed and then suck her toes.
It’s not so much elitists but rather it’s “Communists hatred of God, America and our Constitution”.
Bump!
And on a related note: Global warming is caused by government grants to academics.
I think that the larger percentage of the American Electorate *are* idiots.
Look who they voted for in 2008, and again in 2012.
Then, look at the poor caliber of people hired to consult by those elected officials. Case Closed.
The 2008 and 2012 elections proved that Gruber's remark is correct.
I think harry “the criminal” reid summed-up the elites’ attitude when he talked about tourists: they smell.
Just like we learned from the Verona Papers that Alger Hiss and other State Department officials really were communists on the payroll of the KGB. I’m still waiting for apologies or even acknowledgement from the left-wing commentariat.
So, the disdain for the ENTIRE American population isn’t disgusting to you? Yes, there are many uneducated, ignorant people in this country. And yes, they ALL voted for Obama. But those of us who saw though him from the start are included in the ‘stupid’ population. And that’s why they went ahead and lied to the American people. ALL of us.
Oh heck, why hold back?
Someday we’ll see another one of these elitists in front of a camera bragging about how the leftist Democrat Party put one over on the stupid American voter by electing to the Presidency of the United States a Muslim Marxist-Communist homosexual illegal alien who couldn’t even produce a birth certificate or college transcripts, had never before held a job, couldn’t speak proper English unless he read it from a teleprompter that his handlers had prepared for him, and he didn’t even know there are fifty states in the U.S.
If that isn’t proof positive the American voter is stupid, then nothing is.
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