End The Personal Bribes Members Of Congress Are Getting Not To Reopen ObamaCare

Forbes ^ | April 23, 2015 | Michael Cannon

[Ray76]

The U.S. Constitution vests the legislative, executive, and judicial powers in separate branches of the government that are supposed to police each other. But what if one of those branches violates the law in a manner that personally benefits the members of another branch? That’s what has been happening since the day ObamaCare became law in 2010. For more than five years, the executive branch has been issuing illegal subsidies that personally benefit the most powerful interest group in the nation’s capital: members of Congress and their staffs.

When congressional Democrats passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), they were so desperate to pass a health care law that the ACA did not receive the scrutiny most bills do. Many members of Congress and their staffs were therefore surprised to learn that, as of the moment the president signed the ACA, that very law threw them out of their health plans.

In effect, the ACA gave members of Congress a pay cut of around $10,000.

Big deal, you say. ObamaCare made lots of people take a pay cut and threw millions out of their health plans. Ah, yes, my friends. But those were little people. This is Congress.

Rather than risk Congress reopening the ACA to restore their lost health coverage — because who knows what other changes Congress might make in the process — the administration simply pretended that that part of the law didn’t exist.

Note too the eerie parallel to King v. Burwell: an executive-branch agency ignores the clear language of the ACA to issue health-insurance subsidies to people that just happen to have the effect of preventing Congress from reopening the law. The OPM’s illegal subsidies are thus indistinguishable from personal bribes to members of Congress.

[PGR88]

Obamacare and 100’s of other progressive social engineering schemes implemented by the Government will exist as long as the US government can issue debt and the Federal Reserve can print unbacked, fiat money to buy up that debt.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Whether the GOP decides to continue going after Hussein’s KenyaCare is irrelevant. That lame bastard is going to eventually collapse under the weight of 50 million illegal alien Xenos with their tiny Mexican flags and U.S. “Citizen” coupon certificates.

[skeeter]

I know corruption has always existed in DC, but I have to wonder if there has ever been a more corrupt group of punks and thugs leading this country.

[MHGinTN]

A twist on the classic Cloward-Piven strategy, bring in non-citizens and put them on the dole too. Evil is laughing at Americans’ stupidity while it destroys the Republic right before our eyes.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Enzi, Risch, Paul, Fischer, and Ayotte.

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These five Democrats in R jerseys voted with the Democrats in D jerseys in committee to kill Sen Vitter’s attempt to find out who approved Congress’ end run around Obamacare.

The others I knew were corrupt, by Fischer and Paul ran as reformers. They have been absorbed.

[FreeAtlanta]

I have to imagine that the cloward and piven types are stunned at the amazing resilience that God, our founders, and our ancestors built.

They are doubling and tripling down on trying to destroy it.

Evil, destructive punks. Image our nation without them.

[MHGinTN]

The American economy is a debt based economy. All it takes to collapse such a system is a major creditor refusing the dollar, or a major banking system based on say Gold to start drawing away the debtors to their system, thus moving them to a Gold based system of valuation. The American debt system is based on petro-dollars. What if an alternate energy source suddenly arrived in the hands of the world’s populations at an individual level not requiring a centralized dole of energy? ... Sudden valueless petro dollars! I’m working on a story incorporating just that scenario.