Posted on 11/12/2014 4:32:18 AM PST by Liz
Outed as a congenital liar, Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said that "lack of transparency" was a major part of getting Obamacare passed because “the stupidity of the American voter” would have killed the law if more people knew what was in it.
Gruber, the MIT professor who served as a technical consultant to the Obama administration during Obamacare’s design, also made clear during a panel quietly captured on video that the individual mandate, which was only upheld by the Supreme Court because it was a tax, was not actually a tax.
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed…..."
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish my colleague Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”
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Gruber's lies and omissions---and the huge slush fund hidden in Obamacare raises questions WRT where all that money is going ----and if cashing-in was the incentive in getting the thing passed?
The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest.
Egged on by Pelosi, Democrats slavishly votes Obamacare byb an historic straignt-party line vote.
But not one Democrat told Americans about Obamacare's Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).
THE PAYOFF--WHO GETS THE MONEY? In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion and in 2015 and on, $2 billion
What is the reason why Gruber/Obama/Pelosi didnt reveal that Obamacare contains a multi-billion dollar slush fund? Exactly who is cashing in?
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies
the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which
subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
It is fraud but it goes far beyond that. Justice Roberts will go down in history as one of the most hated people of his time. I bet he will confess that he was blackmailed and his family and life threatened on his deathbed.
I have said, many times, that if ALL politicians and gov’t employees and their families were required to use Obamacare, the whole thing would go away so fast, the blinding vanishing flash would hurt your eyes...
Not to mention the secret Obamacare multi-billion dollar slush fund.
Starting to sound like it’s past time for RICO investigation.
Contact Information
Jonathan Gruber
MIT Department of Economics
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg E17-220
Cambridge MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-8892
Fax: (617) 253-1330
Email: gruberj@mit.edu
Support Staff:
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Phone: (617) 253-8887
Email: arditi@mit.edu
From: http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj
Residence of Jonathan Andrea Gruber, 3 children and 8 parrots
12 Skipper Way
Gloucester, MA
(purchased for $750,000 in 2008.
Professor Whitney Newey
MIT Dept of Economics Head
Phone: (617) 253-6420
Fax: (617) 253-1330
Email: wnewey@mit.edu
MIT Department of Economics
77 Massachusetts Avenue E19-760
Cambridge MA 02139
Headquarters Support Staff:
Kara Nemergut
Phone: (617) 253-3807
Email: nemergut@mit.edu
Academic Support Staff:
Emily Gallagher
Phone: (617) 253-8884
Email: emily@mit.edu
And I'm pretty crappy at building good websites. Maybe we should partner.
President Walker, tear down this monstrosity!
There is no way that der Fuehrer was not the major part of this attitude and lie. That said, only a reminder; the first article of impeachment the democrats wrote against Nixon was that he lied to the American public.
PING
If you’re in tight with any of zer0’s people, give ‘em a call. I know I can pi$$ away money with the best of them.
Oooooooo....scary.
Gruber can put that pic in his book. My limited success with Paint. I was so excited to share it!
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