Posted on 08/05/2009 3:30:29 PM PDT by curth
Obamacare from the perspective of a consumer reporter is a classic rip-off.
Red Flag No. 1 — Tight Deadlines Are Imposed With ‘Now Or Never’ Claims
One of the first red flags flying over a rip-off is the time hustle, the deadline. The con man tells you that you have to sign the contract right now if you want this good deal. You can’t wait until tomorrow -- now or never.
Obamacare involves a variation of the time hustle. We have to get this done before the August recess. Or we have to get this done this year. They say the “stars are aligned” for health care reform. In “this town” unless there’s a deadline, it never gets done. People are losing insurance every day so we have to act immediately (even though much of the bill doesn’t go into effect until 2013). Obamacare advocates imply that unless “health care reform” is rammed through without delay, the economy will collapse. They don’t have time to get it right.
The con man wants immediate decisions. If victims think about it, they will soon realize it is a rip-off.
We’ve seen this time hustle with Cap and Trade and with the Stimulus Bill, the most expensive legislative failures in history. That $787 billion monstrosity was supposed to hold unemployment to eight percent. Well, it is 9½ percent and still rising (and predicted to reach double digits before long), jobs are still being lost, and the economy is still in recession. The urgency of that bill allowed no time for reading. Obama, the con man, is trying the same play for Obamacare, another 1000-plus page bill that nobody is going to read before voting to spend trillions.
When you try to jam through a 1000-plus-page bill that restructures one-sixth of the American
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http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:fcebc179f159929b9bffda1524663968:0ae338c1cf349d54b58e83a90fadbd45/Obamacare-The-No-1-Consumer-Fraud-The-Philadelphia-Bulletin?usc=1
Democrats want the working taxpayers to pay all the bills for everyone.
Attitudes about hard work are going to change, especially when people are punished with higher taxes for working hard.
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