The Daily Beast is just dumfounded at the suggestion that there is a new kind of slavery going on. It’s OK that The Beast doesn’t get the metaphor. Maybe it’s a little too deep for them to understand.
It boils down to this. like slaves were owned, our future generations will be owned by the debt we are putting them in today. China, the debt, becomes the new Massa for generations to come.
The political left has gotten drunk with their “racist” ranting. That’s OK as long as everyone realizes that it just means they have no way to discuss the real problem, the debt, so they do what they do, re-direct the issue to anything else.
When the Obama administration releases health law enrollment figures later this week, though, it will use a more expansive definition. It will count people who have purchased a plan as well as those who have a plan sitting in their online shopping cart but have not yet paid.
The experiment using monkeys is framed as them receiving unequal pay. It certainly, and quickly, brings out a primal behavior. If I were to characterize the behavior, I would see it from a different perspective. Like the motivation and energy that is inherent in seeing a goal and doing something to make that goal.
Let that lab person represent the government providing handouts. Given equally, there is no motivation or drive to do anything more or realize full potential. That is why I would measure compassion, not by how many people I can get on the welfare or food stamp rolls, but by how many people I can get off of them via people realizing their own potential and moving up that economic ladder. Instead of running from side to side.
Dinesh D’Souza & Michael Shermer in debate at Oregon State University. Questions from the student body about Universal Health Care / ObamaCare.
This quote is not from Ben Stein. That, according to Snopes according to Ben Stein. But, does it really matter who said it? Read it for what it says. Who wrote it is irrelevant. I’m guessing he, or she, wasn’t a Democrat.
You can’t keep your health care plan. But Iran can keep their nuclear weapons plan.
For years, decades, Iran has been under increasing sanctions for the purpose of what? Discouraging them from developing nuclear weapons. The kind of nuclear enrichment they continue to do has nothing to do with producing electrical power or anything in the field of medicine.
So easing sanctions on Iran’s financing, without them first dismantling something of their nuclear capacity does what? It enables Iran to continue to develop their nuclear program.
So not only does our president negatively impact Americans with a sluggish economy and an unaffordable takeover of the health insurance and health care industries. Now he’s going all out and endangering the world, the Middle East, and our ally there, Israel, by easing sanctions on Iran without any concessions from them. Did I say he secretly lifted sanctions?
So basically it’s like this. Iran can keep their nuclear weapons program, but you can’t keep your health insurance policy or your doctor, or both.
The boy is dangerous to everyone, everywhere around the world. And yes, I’m calling Obama a boy because his judgement isn’t any better than a 9 year old. And his lies are monumental.
Funny bit by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood on the 2013 CMA. “Obamacare, over six people served.”
Some jerks in cyberspace are accusing the audience of being, among other things, racists because they all laughed and got it. Probably because they’ve tried to check out their health care options like I did and got exactly what the parody portrayed.
But to those jerks I’d say, Yeah right! We would be dancing in the streets celebrating the dawning of government control of our health care if only Barack Obama were white.
How did McAuliff win, steal, Virginia? You do what Democrats do. In a tight race, you enlist the help, or invent the help, of a third party to siphon off the votes of your opponent. It’s dirty pool, but this is exactly what happened in Virginia. The Democrats/media (and establishment Republicans) spin of the aftermath will undoubtedly be how the Tea Party (which isn’t a party but ordinary Americans) has lost its power because they supported Cuccinelli. The media isn’t calling it a landslide. Not only because it was so close, but because more people voted against McAuliff than voted for him. Much to their (and establishment Republicans), the Tea Party is alive and well.
The RNC didn’t help Cuccinelli. They spent as much on him as the SEIU alone spent on McAuliff, and only one third as much as they spent in the last gubernatorial race in Virginia. And only because the tea party supported him.
Were it not for big Obama bundler Joe Liemandt and his “Libertarian Booster PAC”, the “libertarian” candidate (who isn’t a libertarian) would not have gotten on the ballot. And the 7% of the votes he siphoned off of Cuccinelli gave McAuliff his 3% win. Reported robo calls into conservative districts telling voters that Cuccinelli supported Obamacare and abortion on demand, which smells of the SEIU, just added to the dirty tricks that Republicans have to learn how to overcome.The politics of fair play just don’t work any more.
Establishment republicans need to find their spine and quit trying to be Democrat-Lite. Republicans also better soon embrace their core, as in Tea Party, principles if they really want to avoid the debt iceberg and turn this ship, America, around. Something they appear to have no interest in doing.
Here’s a fun exercise on what I call the Obama Quotient.
Doing a search on Google in two areas on President Obama’s leadership. What he knows, and where the buck stops. From what’s out there, it seems he doesn’t know very much and blames everyone but himself.
4 million visits and 6 enrollments on first day. 248 enrollments by day two. To meet goals (and projected cost savings), the enrollment must be 39,000 per day. So far, the vast majority of enrollees in the state exchanges are going to Medicaid. Which means, they are not contributing to cost reduction, but rather government dependence. Which means, higher costs for everyone else, and increased debt.
I remember President Obama saying (I know, he says a lot of things) that he wouldn’t sign the bill if it added one dime to the national debt. If he doesn’t himself call for the repeal of his signature train wreck of a piece of legislation, then you can add this to his list of lies.
The American people are not deserving of what Obamacare is inflicting on them. It’s not their fault that they believed President Obama when he was running for President and trying to gain public support for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, and even after it was passed into law. This isn’t anywhere near a “read my lips, no new taxes” moment. This was the Grand Deception.
It was nothing short of a Grand Deception because the administration knew that millions of Americans would be necessarily kicked off their plans because of the ACA as early as July 20, 2010. Yet, he decided to play “community organizer” on the honesty and integrity of the American people, and snooker them into accepting Obamacare on his words and promise.
Americans let the ACA pass was because they believed President Obama when he said, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.” And “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.” Which should tell you that for the most part, Americans were happy with the plans they had. And they didn’t have a watchdog media to warn and tell them what was in the law. There was no groundswell of opinion for up-ending the health insurance and health care industries.
Americans believed him because . . . he was the President. He’s still the President, only now they also know what he, democrat operatives in the party, and the media are capable of.
Sad truth is, with him and his acolytes, the end (even lying) justifies the means.
And this “We’re going to work with the employers to lower premiums by $2,500 per family per year.”
In an effort to get to the meat of the penalty that Obamacare will impose on you, in the unlikely event that it would be possible for you to keep your insurance policy that the government (not you) deems unsatisfactory, below you will find the law as is in the Federal Register.
The penalty for not buying a government approved health insurance policy, or not buying an insurance policy at all, begins now at $95 and increases to $695 per year or 2.5% of your income by 2015, after the next presidential election.
The Joint Tax Committee prepared a summary of Obamacare that includes this discussion of the mandate:
The penalty applies to any period the individual does not maintain minimum essential coverage and is determined monthly. The penalty is assessed through the Code and accounted for as an additional amount of Federal tax owed. However, it is not subject to the enforcement provisions of subtitle F of the Code. The use of liens and seizures otherwise authorized for collection of taxes does not apply to the collection of this penalty. Non-compliance with the personal responsibility requirement to have health coverage is not subject to criminal or civil penalties under the Code and interest does not accrue for failure to pay such assessments in a timely manner.
On page 19 of this 19 page law, you will find this:
b)Special rules. Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
(1)Waiver of criminal penalties.In the case of a failure by a taxpayer to timely pay the shared responsibility payment, the taxpayer is not subject to criminal prosecution or penalty for the failure.
(2)Limitations on liens and levies.
If a taxpayer fails to pay the shared responsibility payment imposed by this section and §§1.5000A–1 through1.5000A–4, the Secretary will not file notice of lien on any property of the taxpayer, or levy on any property of the taxpayer for the failure.
The IRS only has the power to deduct whatever penalty you may incur from your tax refund. The Obama administration knows that poor people look forward to receiving their refund check each year, and don’t mind preying on the poor to take it from them. The poor would be wise to consult with their employer on how to not overpay their taxes by completing a new W-4 form so that they will get the maximum in their paycheck and, not expose themselves to government abuse.
Belly up to the counter. Politics are on the menu and Ross is on the grill.
too deep for them to understand.
