Posted on 08/05/2013 9:56:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s official, the United States has a Ruling Class and it is no longer being hidden or denied. Obama and the Congress have just decided that they don’t want to play by the same rules as the rest of us. Big surprise that the Office of Personnel Management, under pressure from Capitol Hill and Obama, has said that they will issue a ruling that states government can keep making contributions to the health care premiums of members of Congress and their aides. In other words, “we” the “serfs” will be paying for Congress and their staff to keep their “Cadillac health plans” and subsidies while we, the hard-working taxpayer lose ours or face enormous premium hikes.
Here is another example of how this administration and Congress randomly decide which laws they like and which ones they don’t. For those of us paying attention we remember that Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R-Iowa) added a clause into the original text of the Affordable Care Act that said members of Congress and their aides MUST be covered by plans created by the law or offered through an exchange.
Before Obamacare, Congress and their staff were covered by a health care plan that was considered “golden”. This was being paid for by the taxpayers. Under Obamacare and Grassley’s provision, Congress and staff would be subject to the exact same treatment as the rest of us. In other words, if government payments stopped, lawmakers and their aides would have been looking at thousands of dollars in additional premium payments. (Just like the rest of us.) Before Obamacare, the government contributed almost 75% to their premium payments.
When they finally got around to “finding out what was in the bill”, Capitol Hill started wringing their hands and hyperventilating. With Grassley’s provision in there, that would mean that, gasp, they would have to live by the same rules as the rest of and they just could not let that happen.
All sorts of complaints were being made. For instance, “staffers don’t make enough money to pay those premiums”; or “they will look for more lucrative jobs” in order to afford them. Really? How about the rest of the American people out there? Do you think that they can afford higher premiums on the part-time work that they now will be forced into because of employer cut-backs? The best line came from Nancy Pelosi who said that if Congress lost these Capitol Hill workers, a “tremendous intellectual resource” would be lost. You just have to shake your head in disbelief.
Congress is not the only one in the Ruling Class crying foul. Just last week, IRS Chief, Daniel Werfel stated in no uncertain terms that he wanted to keep his health care and didn’t want any part of Obamacare. That also went for the rest of the IRS. The unions began making noise a few weeks ago and I will bet you dollars to donuts they will get their wishes granted by King Obama.
This just proves the hypocrisy of Washington and it is why the American people are at the breaking point. We did not elect these people to make up their own rules as they see fit; to change the laws to benefit them and not us. We also didn’t elect the President to sign executive orders to get his way just because Congress didn’t agree with him.
When will this madness stop? Just when you think they can’t stick it to you again….they do. How much will we take before it’s time for another revolution?
They have nothing but scorn for the people who go out and work and pay exorbitant taxes to pay for their rich lifestyle.
The ruling class deserves our scorn.
All federal employees will end up being exempted I guess
@SultanKnish, best description of the woeful history of “A Schizophrenic Elephant” http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/a-schizophrenic-elephant.html
The Republican Party’s biggest problem is mental illness. The big elephant party is suffering from a severe case of split personality disorder. It’s an old problem that has only gotten worse over the years.
It can be hard to remember sometimes while swimming in the media bubble that depicts the Republican Party as some offshoot of the John Birch Society, the KKK and the Confederacy, that it’s the exact opposite. All of the organizations mentioned got their start opposing the Republican Party....spent generations running on Lincoln, the Civil War and Unionism. It followed the politics of what would much later be described as Eisenhowerism. And those politics were reasonably successful. Big government and big business got along really well. Industries boomed, land was opened up and a big country got bigger and bigger. Not everyone was happy, but not everyone mattered......
Willard on installing ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE:
"Conservatives are such fools.
Their childrens' organs will be ours."
No kidding.
Let's see, fourteen years to do the job (the equipment and software with which they started is long obsolete), one year to finish, and they're 41% done (which is probably BS).
Yep, they're right up to speed.
A law must apply to all, or be invalid.
No one has the right to ‘waive’ provisions of a law, or to grant ‘exemptions.’ Doing so is actually selective enforcement, which also renders a law invalid.
“Not quite, as I understand it Obamacare gives government the ability to go into your bank-account and directly take the monies.”
I agree and I am trying to figure out how to stop that....I already under pay my taxes to ensure that they will not take it out of a refund, but I am not sure how to protect my savings.
The Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare was a tax. So essentially the OPM is going to pay these people’s “health care” tax.
What’s next, OPM paying their federal income taxes? Capital gains taxes?
Can’t the We the People sue under the equal protection clause?
Either 0bamacare is a "TAX" as specified by the SCOTUS and everyone is subject to it, or it is not, and therefore unconstitutional.
Texas, Oklahoma, & spreading up and outward.
Or, we could just put walls around the cities and make them their own non-contiguous state.
Same way they excuse Al Gore for his private jet use...
as long as it’s only the elite few that are given the option, it can “work” if no one else is given the choice.
Well, it’s quite the conundrum. What do you do when the lawmakers and enforcers are the lawbreakers? It’s easy to deal with corruption on an individual basis, but what do you do when most lawmakers are above the law? Constitution protections, for example, are worthless if all three branches collude to ignore them.
We like to think our leaders respect the law, but it’s clear they don’t. Democrats and many Republicans believe they can pretty much do whatever they please—AND THEY DO!
Like I wrote. The DHS says bitter clingers are potential rebels. I KNOW who the real rebels are, and they’re running the country! I don’t know what we can do about it, but I know, and they know, they’re in open rebellion. That’s what happens when statists reach the point where they control all the levers of power. They don’t even need to be surreptitious about it anymore.
As an example, read this. And after you do, ask yourself if the Federal government could stand to leave such a governor/state alone? (Especially if they demand Article 4, Section 4 of the US Constitution be followed, compelling the FedGov to provide assistance expelling invaders.)
I am believing that every damn one of us deserve to lose our freedom. We are allowing the Obama administration to violate every right we have. There is no anger or outrage. Sometimes I wonder what we are all waiting for.
In fact, that is a good question. What are we waiting for? What do they have to do to get us riled enough to do something about it?
They are going full bore because they sense that we are not going to do much about anything they do to us. They are going to take your guns. Then it will be too late.
Your comment was a good one, of course, but I pinged you to point out the GovernMental yoonyuns freakin out over ObamaMamaCare creatin a new tax on alla them there GovernMental "Workers" in the "Workers Paradice of CA!"
Actually, Obamacare gives them first dibs at your bank account—even before you! You won’t have the option of not paying the fine or premium—they’ll take it out first.
Some agree with you.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Sometimes I wonder what we are all waiting for.
In fact, that is a good question. What are we waiting for? What do they have to do to get us riled enough to do something about it?
Excellent question: I think we're living in the tale of the Emperor's New clothes where nobody wants to say the obvious truth.
I think much of this is due to indoctrination by the schools: those in authority deserve to be in authority because if they were unfit for it they would not be in that position, but they are in that position so any question of their authority is, obviously, incorrect.
This is also evident in how the Several States are rolling over for every assumed authority that the FedGov declares it has. (See Wickard, Raich, Kelo, Affordable Care Act, Arizona's SB1070 — in addition to: Fast & Furious, IRS Targeting, NSA spying, and so forth.)
What is astounding is that Governors have a lot of power, and yet they refuse to act on it. Of 48 letters sent and [presumably 47, as one was NKA,] read I have received 4 replies, none of which indicate that the letter was really read by the Governor.
By the time I got there, the Cadillac tax was the third on the list.
Also Utah & Arkansas.
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