Posted on 05/16/2011 9:34:17 PM PDT by Nachum
Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district.
That’s in addition to the 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services approved.
Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers.
Other common waiver recipients were labor union chapters, large corporations, financial firms and local governments. But Pelosi’s district’s waivers are the first major examples of luxurious, gourmet restaurants and hotels getting a year-long pass from Obamacare.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Full title: Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district
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The American MSM are all over this!
Oh...wait...
You know what really pisses me off?
The people getting whacked the hardest by inflation on food and energy are the poor and retired folks on a fixed income.
And the MSM wont say a peep.
“Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers.”
This is criminal. She pushes through this HC nightmare, and then exempts her district.
If there was any justice, she would be tried and jailed.
Will our spineless house demand an investigation?
No. They get discounts on the same businesses.
When is a reporter going to FOIA the rejected requests and blow the lid off the whole thing?
Is it really a surprise to anyone that the Dems are using this as a campaign cash raising tool? And you can bet that the Repubs will do the same thing when they get back into power. Once again the little people pay and the elites skate. There is no rule of law any more, just the rule of the rich, the powerful and the connected.
Doesn’t Greta Van Susteren have a restaurant?
The people in her district finally saw what is in the bill.
Pelosi own a high-end restaurant chain called “Piatti.” and a large winery in the Napa Valley. Both are non-union and staffed mostly by “hispanics.”
Pelosi own a high-end restaurant chain called “Piatti.” and a large winery in the Napa Valley. Both are non-union and staffed mostly by “hispanics.”
Billionaire business mogul Penny Pritzker is a member of one of America’s richest families and was the Finance Chair for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. It was Pritzker that led the prolific, and illegal, fundraising that helped power Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. She was the chair of Chicago-based Superior Bank’s board for five years.
Pritzker was into subprime lending before it became all the rage starting in around 2000. Prtizker's chairmanship was to concentrate on sub prime lending, principally on home mortgages, but for a while in subprime auto lending, too, after the Pritzkers' bank acquired its wholesale mortgage organization division, Alliance Funding, in December 1992.
Back then they called it "predatory lending."Superior Bank went belly up in 2001 with over $1 billion in insured and uninsured deposits; 1,406 depositors lost much of their life savings. This collapse came amid harsh criticism of how Superior’s owners promoted sub-prime home mortgages.
On Nov. 1 [2002] the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pointed the finger at Ernst & Young, Superior’s auditor, in a fraud suit filed in federal court here. But that action came two months after a group of Superior depositors accused the bank’s owners and directors, including two members of the Pritzker family, of racketeering....[snip]
...Pritzker is chairman of Classic Residence by Hyatt, luxury senior living communities in 11 states; chairman of The Parking Spot, which owns and operates off-airport parking facilities in nine cities; chairman of the credit data company TransUnion and chairman of Pritzker Realty. She also sits on the board of Global Hyatt and plays a role in numerous non-profit groups, including serving as chairman of the Olympic village portion of Chicago’s bid to win the 2016 Summer Games.
>>When is a reporter going to FOIA
Reporter? They still have those?
Wonder what the minimum campaign donation is to ‘win’ a waiver?
These waivers are for one year only so......
You gotta beg for your new waiver yearly
Do ya think a campaign contribution to Ms Pelosi or the Hussein Oboingo re-election committee just might help smooth the way? Do ya?
It may be difficult for a lot of these joints to get group health insurance because they are staffed mostly by rump rangers vulnerable to AIDS.
Thanks Nachum.
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