Will Dems Pay for Passing Obamacare in 2014?

Disaster for Dems

ObamaCare & the 2014 vote

• By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
• Last Updated: 12:09 AM, March 25, 2013
• Posted: 10:42 PM, March 24, 2013

Betsy McCaughey

Democrats hope to retake the House of Representatives in next year’s elections. They won’t — and they’ll have themselves to blame, because 2014 is when ObamaCare kicks in.

With a vengeance.

The authors of the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 election. Some popular provisions went into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent’s plan until age 26. And the White House granted 1,472 waivers to various companies and unions, exempting them from insurance reforms so they wouldn’t drop coverage for employees and members before the presidential contest.

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Kiss of death: ObamaCare’s disastrous impact means Nancy Pelosi, here being greeted by the president last year, won’t be speaker again soon.

Yet a majority of voters on Election Day still opposed the health law (though, obviously, it wasn’t the deciding issue in the presidential race). And opinion will only sour more as the law takes full force starting in January.

People in their 20s and 30s will be clobbered — their health-insurance premiums will double (or more), insurers report. Nineteen percent of the president’s 2012 voters came from this age group. The biggest problem: The Obama law forces insurers to charge young, healthy people more to cover the cost of insuring the middle-aged and those with pre-existing conditions.

Middle-aged folks will benefit somewhat from overcharging the young, but the law’s mandatory benefits package and its billions in new taxes on insurers will drive up costs enough that overall premiums for a family of five will start at $20,000 (before subsidies, if any). Oh — and that doesn’t count the penalty for each smoker, roughly $3,000 a head.

(Subsidies may help some people cover sky-high premiums, though not the smoking penalty — but the letter of the law makes those subsidies unavailable in many states. The federal courts will eventually decide the issue.)

Many workers in industries such as retail, hospitality and home care will lose on-the-job health coverage, forecasts the ADP Research Institute — and many will also be demoted to part-time status because of ObamaCare.

Why? The president’s health law mandates that all employers with 50 or more full-time workers provide its “essential benefit package” if they offer insurance — and that package costs about twice what these industries now offer. Many employers will drop coverage, and pay the (smaller) fine; others will try to avoid that 50-employee limit by using more people part-time.

Even the government’s actuaries admit fewer people will get coverage at work after the employer mandate goes into effect than if the law had not passed.

You will find the rest of the article at this link.

I am praying Betsy McCaughey is right, as it appears the current congress cannot bring itself to even throw a speed bump in front of Obama’s health care plan from Hell. Okay, it really is not Obama’s plan, as it was written many moons ago and has been sitting in a rusty file cabinet ever since, but he will be forever associated with it.

There is just one teeny, tiny problem, though, as filling out an Obamacare application will include an opportunity to register to vote.

That could end up being a double edged sword given the low-information electorate we now have in this country.

And do not even get me started on the potential for voter fraud.

-Dave

October 2012 Statistics On Airport Screening From Department Of Homeland Security

FULL BODY SCANS AT THE AIRPORT:

The T.S.A. disclosed the Airport Screening Results.
Terrorists Discovered
0
Transvestites
133
Hernias
1,485
Hemorrhoid Cases
3,172
Enlarged Prostates
8,249
Breast Implants
59,350
Natural Blondes
3

It was also discovered that 535 members of Congress had no balls.

Thought you’d like to know.      

~Steve~                             H/T  Joseph

John Boehner is a Spineless Pussy

Little wonder this country is screwed, and even less of a wonder why this pr*ck of a POtuS is smiling:

Limp-wristed girly-man that apparently has Rep. Boehner by the proverbial short hairs

And would somebody please remind me just why, exactly, we even need a republican party, given that the repube “leadership” jackasses have now rid themselves of their elephant suits?

And we’re going to fix this in November of 2014?

Right.

-Dave

Congress Set to Spend Still More Money in 2013

Drunken Sailors

The federal government is telling us our accumulated national debt is  somewhere around $16 Trillion.  Sorry, but I am just not buying it – not even for a second. Of course, estimates of our real accumulated national debt are all over the map, and just trying to research this unpleasant and complex topic can leave your head positively spinning as you pull out of the driveway and head straight for your local liquor retailer – credit card at the ready.

Personally, I have settled on a figure of about $134 Trillion. I do not have any hard data to back that number up – perhaps it is coming from my gut, I do not know, but it is a number a little north of the mean of the estimates I have seen – the highest of which was an eye-popping $222 Trillion. The truth, after all, is often times somewhere in the middle. Besides, I doubt there there is anyone out there that knows exactly what our accumulated debt actually is.

Of course, the actual amount we are in hoc for is not nearly as important as how we came to this sorry point in our short 236 year history as a nation. Since WWII, America has been on a spending binge with no end in sight, and it gets worse as each year passes.

I may disagree with the numbers, but I am confident the rate of our hideous national debt increase illustrated in the above graph is dead-on.

(Note also that WWII saw the introduction of payroll withholding to help speed up funding for building the war machine that ultimately defeated Japan and helped to crush Corporal Hitler. Only problem is, congress failed to do away with it after the war. What a surprise).

This out-of-control growth in federal spending cannot go on for much longer, as at some point (and I believe it is coming sooner rather than later), America’s financial and economic house of cards is going to come crashing down literally overnight.

Yeah, I know many are saying that we are putting our children and their children in the poorhouse and thus relegating them to a much lower standard of living.

That is, of course, correct, but we are also screwing ourselves in the here and now.

Via heritage.org:

FY 2013 Appropriations Tracker Update: Continuing Resolution Spends Even More

Emily Goff September 28, 2012 at 11:42 am

Members of Congress left plenty of unfinished business as they hustled out of town last weekend, but they did manage to boost spending through another half-baked legislative measure.

The fiscal year (FY) 2013 Continuing Resolution (CR), H.J. Res.117, now on the way to the President’s desk, funds the federal government for six months at an annualized rate of $1.047 trillion—an $8 billion increase. Thus another dose of spend-as-you-go from a Congress that has all but given up on serious budgeting.

The Heritage Foundation’s FY 2013 Appropriations Tracker has been updated to reflect the annualized spending amounts in the CR and compares the agreement to House and Senate versions of the 12 regular appropriations bills as well as an FY 2013 base level and the amounts spent in the pre-stimulus year of 2008.

Usually a CR spends at the same level as would result from continuing the previous year’s policies—in this case, $1.039 trillion. This CR’s additional spending, however, pushes the rate of spending to that consistent with the total spending level of $1.047 trillion provided in the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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You will find the rest of the article at this link.

I do not have much to add here, other than “our side” is clearly not in our corner.

The House of Representatives is the only government entity that is constitutionally authorized to introduce spending bills of any kind, but for whatever reason, they do not have it in their DNA to just say no – and they have had nearly two years to do so.

I am sorry, but John Boehner & Co. are all out of excuses, and we as a nation are pretty much out of time.

-Dave

(h/t: boortz.com)

Post Office Ripped Off by Congress

More proof that we are governed by sociopaths.

Federal Government Apparently Spying on Joseph Farah

Via wnd.com:

Farah: ‘Spy drone’ buzzed my home

‘They will be at war, we will be hunted down’

by Chelsea Schilling

His private property was scouted by a drone that sounded “like a lawnmower buzzing over my head,” WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah revealed on the July 5 Alex Jones Show.

“I’m taking my dog for a walk and guess what I see right over the tree line right above my head is a drone,” he said. “I don’t live in the city, I don’t live in a populated area, I live in one of the most rural places you could possibly live in Northern Virginia and there could only be one thing that this drone was spying on and that would be me, that would be my property because there’s just nothing else around except woods and deer.”

Farah joked that the drone might have been spying on him because he qualifies as a “terrorist” in a new Department of Homeland Security report that defines “extreme right-wing” terrorists as Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty.”

“We’ve got our work cut out for us. More and more, I realize that the liberty lovers out there really have to stick together,” he urged. “Fundamentally, we’ve got to stick together, or we’re going to hang together, as our founders said.

“Look – this is the first term – if he’s re-elected it’s going to be war – they will be at war – we will be hunted down like dogs, keep that in mind, that’s what the stakes are,” warned Farah.

You will find the rest of the article here, along with associated video.

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This is not merely chilling, but downright terrifying when you consider the capabilities these drones provide the government, and I am not referring to just surveillance, either.

Joseph Farah is a private citizen, and as such has the exact same constitutional rights and protections all Americans have enjoyed for well over 200 years.

His startling revelation should have every conservative and libertarian in congress screaming from the rooftops, as what makes them so confident they themselves are exempt from the reach of Big Sis and her shiny new bin of toys?

I fear we have all but lost the America we all grew up in, as what we have now is no-longer recognizable to me.

-Dave 

(h/t: my buddy Earl)

Tyranny in the Guise of a Supreme Court Justice

Judicial Activist John Roberts

I do not have any legal experience, but I do know judicial activism (when courts do not confine themselves to reasonable interpretations of laws, but instead create law. Alternatively, judicial activism is when courts do not limit their ruling to the dispute before them, but instead establish a new rule to apply broadly to issues not presented in the specific action. “Judicial activism” is when judges substitute their own political opinions for the applicable law, or when judges act like a legislature (legislating from the bench) rather than like a traditional court. In so doing, the court takes for itself the powers of Congress, rather than limiting itself to the powers traditionally given to the judiciary. ) when I see it, and yesterday was the most blatant example of judicial activism we have probably seen.

By calling the individual mandate a tax instead of a penalty(which even Obama denied it was a tax), John Roberts ignored the Constitution and changed the wording of the law to suit his ruling instead of judging the law on its merits and constitutionality.

What John Roberts has done is open up a Pandora’s box of taxes that the democrats can exploit at will starting with the 21 NEW taxes  that Dr. Eowyn detailed  in an earlier post. So this opens up new territory for the tax happy liberals and new intrusions into our lives. I can see in the future that liberals could tax us if we decide not to drive an electric or hybrid vehicle, if we decide not to eat healthy we get taxed, if we decide not to use solar panels on our houses, we get taxed, and these are only scratching the surface. We are now on the fast track to complete government control over our lives.

I for one will not be a slave to government control, I will not allow a dictator to tell me what I can or cannot do, I will die fighting against it first, I don’t fear the fight and I don’t fear death, but I’ll be damned if I will submit to tyranny by a government that seeks to control every aspect of my life and a supreme court justice that spits on the Constitution.

JUSTICE ROBERTS, YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL!

Tom in NC

Obama Defecates on Constitution Once Again

Via  thehill.com:

Obama makes election-year change in deportation policy

By Jonathan Easley and Jordy Yager – 06/15/12 10:03 AM ET

The Obama administration announced Friday it will stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country at a young age.

The politically charged decision comes as Obama faces a tough reelection fight against Republican Mitt Romney, with Hispanic voters in swing states seen as a key bloc.

The change in policy could allow as many as 800,000 immigrants who came to the United States illegally not only to remain in the country without fear of being deported, but to work legally, according to a senior administration official speaking to reporters Friday.

Obama is set to make a statement at 1:15 p.m. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the new policy Friday morning.

“Young people who were brought to the United States through no fault of their own as children, who meet several key criteria, will no longer be removed from the country or entered into removal proceedings,” said Napolitano in a conference call with reporters on Friday morning.

“This grant of deferred action is not immunity, it is not amnesty, it is an exercise of discretion so that these young people are not in the removal system,” she said. “It will help us continue to streamline immigration enforcement, ensure that resources are not spent pursuing the removal of low priority cases involving productive young people.”

The new policy will not grant citizenship to children who came to the United States as illegal immigrants, but will remove the threat of deportation and grant them the right to work in the United States.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the policy change will apply to those who came to the United States before they were 16 and who are younger than 30 if they have lived here for five years, have no criminal history, graduated from a U.S. high school or served in the military.

A memo from Napolitano ordering the “prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children” argued that those covered by the order “only know this country as home.” It said these people “lacked the intent to violate the law.”

The new policy will apply to individuals who are already in deportation proceedings, the memo said.

The policy change will accomplish portions of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, legislation that has stalled in Congress amid Republican opposition.

You will find the rest of the article at this link.

I would ask just exactly where are the congressional republicans, but that would be utterly pointless given that those spineless wonders have been pretty much AWOL for the last eighteen months.

I really do not see that changing – not even for something as assinine as this.

Our country as being transformed into a dictatorship in broad daylight, right in front of God and everybody, and the sheeple do nothing.

And what is even worse, the government body charged with reigning in the power of the executive branch, the United States Congress, has apparently abdicated its oversight responsibilities.

-Dave

(h/t: Matt Drudge)

H/t also our Grouchy & moxielouise!

~Eowyn

My tax return was returned

Yesterday, I got a surprise in my mailbox.

I had been good this year and filed my taxes on time. But the IRS sent my Tax Return back!!

On the form listing all the reasons for tax returns to be returned, the IRS had checked off the box for “dependents”.

But on my tax return, I had dutifully followed the instruction to “List All Dependents”:

• 12 million illegal immigrants

• 3 million crack heads

• 46 million people on food stamps

• 87 million civilians not in the labor force

• 2 million people in over 243 prisons

•  535 fools in the U.S. House and Senate

• and one illegal Kenyan immigrant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

But the IRS apparently finds my response inadequate. So I sent it back with a question:

“Did I forget someone?”

H/t our beloved Lady Wendy.

~Eowyn

Barnhardt: All the rat bastards in D.C. know Obama is not a citizen

For more on Jon Corzine and the collapse of MF Global, go here.

For how we know every “rat bastard” in D.C. knows Obama is not a citizen, see:

“Congress Admits It Did Not Check Obama’s Eligibility,” November 10, 2010.

“DC Politicos Already Know Obama Ineligible,” Apr 22, 2010.

~Eowyn