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Posted on 10/10/2013 9:49:39 PM PDT by sourcery
In the current fight over the government shutdown, Republicans are simply representing the views of the American people.
Americans didn’t ask for Obamacare, they don’t want it, but now their insurance premiums are going through the roof, their doctors aren’t accepting it, and their employers are moving them into part-time work — or firing them — to avoid the law’s mandates.
Contrary to Obama’s promises, it turns out: You can’t keep your doctor, you can’t keep your insurance — you can’t even keep your job. In other words, it’s a typical government program, but this one wrecks your health care.
Also, the president did raise taxes on the middle class in defiance of his well-worn campaign promise not to. Indeed, Obamacare is the largest tax hike in U.S. history.
Among the other changes effected by this law are:
– Obamacare will allow insurers to charge 50 percent higher premiums for smokers, but prohibits insurers from increasing premiums for those with HIV/AIDS.
– Nationally, Obamacare will increase men’s individual insurance premiums by an average of 99 percent and women’s by 62 percent. In North Carolina, for example, individual insurance premiums will triple for women and quadruple for men.
– Health plans valued at $27,500 or more for a family of four will be taxed at a rate of 40 percent.
– No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting Obamacare.
– A 62-year-old man earning $46,000 a year is entitled to a $7,836 government tax credit to buy health insurance. But if he earns an extra $22 in income, he loses the entire $7,836 credit. He will have more take-home pay by earning $46,000 than if he earns $55,000. (If he’s lucky, he already works for one of the companies forced by Obamacare to reduce employees’ hours!)
– Merely to be eligible for millions of dollars in grants from the federal government under Obamacare, education and training programs are required to meet racial, ethnic, gender, linguistic and sexual orientation quotas. That’s going to make health care MUCH better!
– Obamacare is turning America into a part-time nation. According to a recent report by economist John Lott, 97 percent of all jobs added to the economy so far this year have been part-time jobs. Ninety-seven percent!
– Obamacare is such a disaster that the people who wrote it refuse to live under it themselves. That’s right, Congress won a waiver from Obamacare.
Responding to the people’s will, House Republicans first voted to fund all of government — except Obamacare. Obama refused to negotiate and Senate Democrats refused to pass it.
Then the Republicans voted to fully fund the government, but merely delay the implementation of Obamacare for one year. Obama refused to negotiate and Senate Democrats refused to pass it.
Finally, the Republicans voted to fully fund the government, but added a requirement that everyone live under Obamacare. No more special waivers for Congress and their staff, and no waivers for big business without the same waivers for individuals.
Obama refused to negotiate and Senate Democrats refused to pass it. So as you can see, Republicans are the big holdup here.
A longtime Democratic operative, Karen Finney, explained the Democrats’ intransigence on MSNBC to a delighted Joan Walsh (aka the most easily fooled person on TV) by comparing House Republicans to a teenager trying to borrow his mother’s car. “No, I’m not negotiating!” Mother says. “It’s MY CAR!”
This wasn’t a stupid slip of the tongue that other Democrats quickly rejected. Finney had used the exact same metaphor to a panel of highly agreeable MSNBC guests the day before. (MSNBC books no other kind of guest.)
The left thinks the government is their car and the people’s representatives are obstreperous teenagers trying to borrow the government. Which belongs to Democrats.
That’s not how the Constitution views the House of Representatives. To the contrary, the House is considered most reflective of the people’s will because its members are elected every two years.
As a matter of fact, the Republicans who mistakenly assume they have something to do with running the government represent most of the people who pay taxes to run it. So it’s more like a teenager who is making the car payments, maintaining the car insurance and taking responsibility for registering the car being told: “It’s not your car.”
But the Democrats refuse to even negotiate. It’s their government – and if you Republicans think you’re going out dressed like that, you’ve got another thing coming! Needless to say, they absolutely will not consider the Republicans’ demand that Democrats merely live under Obamacare themselves.
Instead, Democrats say “the Koch brothers” are behind the effort to defund Obamacare.
They say Republicans are trying to “burn the whole house down” (Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz); “have lost their minds” (Sen. Harry Reid); are trying to negotiate “with a bomb strapped to their chest” (senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer); are “legislative arsonists” (Rep. Nancy Pelosi); and are engaging in “blatant extortion” (White House press secretary Jay Carney).
The MSNBC crowd calls Republicans “arsonists” every 15 minutes. They ought to check with fellow MSNBC host Al Sharpton. He knows his arsonists! In 1995, Sharpton whipped up a mob outside the Jewish-owned Freddy’s Fashion Mart with an anti-Semitic speech. Sometime later, a member of the mob torched the store, killing seven Hispanic employees.
Every single Democrat in the country uses the exact same talking point: We “refuse to negotiate with a gun being held to our head.”
Which means the Democrats will not negotiate at all — not now, not ever. House Republicans have already passed three-dozen bills defunding, or otherwise modifying, Obamacare. Senate Democrats and liberal commentators had a good laugh at Republicans for passing them.Now they’re paying attention!
If you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed to Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the government if they are required to live under Obamacare.
That’s how good it is!
It's 77%, not 97%. Sheesh!
She must have been reading about the fraudulent AGW “consensus,” and got her numbers mixed up.
yeah, they own it alright
– Health plans valued at $27,500 or more for a family of four will be taxed at a rate of 40 percent.
How does that work? They will have to pay 40% on the cost of the plan because it’s cheaper because of obamacare? I don’t understand.
The people who wrote this law and the ones who passed it can’t do simple math because they weren’t taught it. In their school the question was:
The government gave Johnny five apples. He ate one and gave another one to Suzy. How many apples will the government have to give to Johnny so he once again has five apples?
Ann nails it yet again!
Should be We Owns the Government.
Fixed it so it is right for our dumbass rulers.
When it was a Fine it wouldn't suit Roberts who made it a TAX..
It just seems this monster simply needs to be taken back to court because of all the convoluted issues with it. Some call it a Tax, then it is a penalty, just depends who is being interviewed and for what purpose they want for the moment to continue their charade and shell game on us.
Congress pay your taxes.
9/03/2013
A stunning 97 percent of net jobs added this year have been part-time jobs
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-stunning-97-percent-of-net-jobs-added.html
“Some call it a Tax, then it is a penalty, just depends who is being interviewed and for what purpose they want for the moment to continue their charade and shell game on us.”
Now, now. There’s nothing about Obamacare that America hasn’t already experienced. All one has to realize is that the Affordable Care Act, known also as Obamacare, operates just like any neighborhood protection racket, where local gangsters extort money from individuals or businesses while forcing them to accept their product (e.g., Obamacare). As is the case with any protection racket, competition is strictly prohibited, and prospective patients will be forced to forgo the health insurance that was previously available in our now obsolescent free markets. Protection money will be collected in the form of monthly “premiums”. Even if some unenlightened citizen is found to have consulted with an unapproved provider, his broken fingers eventually will be attended to by authorized Obamacare personnel.
Democrats own the government, so why blame the Republicans for their own shutdown?
Why not? It worked the last time, and now they have even greater control of the media that most "low information voters" get their opinions from.
It's called the "Cadillac Tax" [humorous reference to the late, damned General Motors — I will buy the best car, so long as it's not made by GM].
It applies to so-called "gold-plated" plans.
It infuriates the union thugs who managed to negotiate such plans while channeling their members' dues to support 'Rat candidates.
May God damn the Unions! May He also damn the federal government!
We must insist that the Cadillac Tax remain in force unless and until the Whole Baby is flushed down the toilet with the bathwater!
See here.
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