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Obamanomics: A Scam to Grow Government


Posted by Rodney Lee on Sep 22, 2013

That’s right – Obamanomics isn’t a philosophy – it’s a bill of goods, sold to the uninformed masses to grow government and create dependency.

It’s too easy just to say people want free stuff. There is a large swath of politicians who actively preach the notion that only if we “stimulate” the economy with taxpayer money, borrowing, printing and spending – it will make the economy grow and create wealth.

That would never work for your family, your business or your personal life – and you damn sure would never teach your kids such an incredibly bad piece of philosophy – yet, somehow people in this country vote for it. Peter Ferrara at Forbes really nails the proponents of big government and how they convince everyday people that if you’re in debt, you only have to spend more – a lot more – in order to get out of it.

Obamanomics: The Final Nail In the Discredited Keynesian Coffin

Keynesian economics is the false vision of human action which says the way to promote economic recovery and renewed growth is through increased government spending, deficits and debt. If that sounds nuts, that’s because it is.

The idea is that the increased government spending and deficits will increase demand in the economy for more production, and that producers will increase supply to meet that demand, hiring more workers and reducing unemployment in the process. Keynesian economics arose in the 1930s in response to the Depression. It never worked then, as the recession of 1929 extended into the decade long Great Depression. And it never worked anywhere it’s been tried since then, in the U.S. or abroad.

By the 1970s, Keynesian policies had produced double digit unemployment, double digit inflation, and double digit interest rates, all at the same time, along with four successive worsening recessions from 1969 to 1982. Keynesian monetary policy involves running up the money supply to increase demand, with artificially lowered interest rates promoting more spending. That is where the inflation came from.

Ronald Reagan explicitly scrapped Keynesian economics for the more modern supply side economics, which holds that economic growth results from incentives meant to boost production. That results from reduced tax rates, which enable producers to keep a higher proportion of what they produce.

Steve Forbes wrote in Forbes magazine in 2008: “Between the early 1980s and 2007 we lived in an economic Golden Age. Never before have so many people advanced so far economically in so short a period of time as they have during the last 25 years. Until the credit crisis, 70 million people a year [worldwide] were joining the middle class. The U.S. kicked off this long boom with the economic reforms of Ronald Reagan, particularly his enormous income tax cuts. We burst from the economic stagnation of the 1970s into a dynamic, innovative, high tech-oriented economy. Even in recent years the much maligned U.S. did well. Between year-end 2002 and year-end 2007 U.S. growth exceeded the entire size of China’s economy.”

In other words, the growth in the U.S. economy from 2002 to 2007 was the equivalent of adding the entire economy of China to the U.S. economy.

Apparently determined to prove once more that Keynesian economics doesn’t work, Obama’s first major act in office was to pursue the unreconstructed Keynesianism of the nearly $1 trillion so-called “stimulus,” which we now know didn’t stimulate anything except government spending, deficits and debt. Keynesian economics does not work because if the government borrows a trillion dollars out of the private economy to spend a trillion dollars back into it, at best there is no gain for the economy on net. More likely, it is a net drag on the economy, because the private sector in general will spend the money more efficiently and productively than the public sector, and the greater deficits and debt imply future tax increases, which are also contractionary.

While a lot of Americans thought they were electing a progressive, forward-thinking guy, Barack Obama has been nothing but tired, backward, myopic and the most failed President of all time. How he got re-elected is simply a mystery. Or a crime.

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Obamacare’s Fatal Flaw

By Onan Coca / 23 September 2013

CNN Money ran an interesting piece recently covering just a few of the people who would not be signing up for Obamacare in the coming months. The article’s author chose several people from a variety of places along life’s path, and each stand out for their own reasons. There is the older gentleman who won’t sign up for reasons of principle, there is the young family who won’t sign up because they just can’t afford it. But the one that exposes one of Obamacare’s fatal flaws is the person I want to focus in on.

“For some folks, health insurance just isn't a good deal. Take Jessica Birge, 29, who is studying nursing and works as a medical assistant. Her job gives her $100 a month for medical expenses, though she does have dental and vision coverage through her employer. But she doesn't have a lot of medical expenses since she rarely goes to the doctor, opting instead to go to a local clinic for her annual exams. Though she knows she needs insurance in case she gets into an accident, she doesn't think Obamacare is very affordable. "I don't really want to pay a penalty, but it's more economical for me to pay $300 a year [in fines] than $200 to $300 a month for insurance I don't use," said Birge, acknowledging she may get insurance in several years, when the penalties get more onerous.”

Ms. Birge’s story points out the hole in the Obamacare scheme. For millions of Americans in their early 20s through their early 30s, there is no reason to pay for the health insurance Obamacare offers because they are just too healthy. For these folks, it would simply be easier and cheaper to pay the penalty and be done with the system for that tax year. Without these millions of workers paying into the insurance scheme, there will be no way for prices to be made affordable in the healthcare program.

This hole in planning unmasks the Obamacare scheme as nothing more than a way to move forward the administrations European style socialist agenda. Without the money pouring in from millions of young American workers, the insurance will not make healthcare more affordable and millions of Americans will be without healthcare insurance. These were the two main reasons given by the Democrats for needing to pass Obamacare, and the system they created simply perpetuates the problem they sought to solve.
The only thing that Obamacare does now that is different from before? It makes the government play a major role in healthcare. Consider it – before Obamacare, healthcare prices were rising. Now – healthcare prices are still rising. Before Obamacare, millions of Americans were without health insurance. Now – millions of Americans will be without health insurance. Before Obamacare, people could move freely between health insurers, some using insurance provided by their employer others engaging the insurance companies directly. Now – the government will have a role to play in any insurance engagement.

The only thing that changes was that the government got involved. I would argue that this is not a change for the better. Getting the government involved will create a new, giant bureaucratic system that will be needed to engage both insurance companies and the regular citizen. More bureaucracy always means more government waste.

If you think that the designers of the Obamacare plan didn’t foresee the problems that would develop because of the plan, then you are fooling yourself. These problems were brought up by Republicans and normal thinking people, long before Obamacare was passed. The Democrats and the administration just swatted them aside and said they wouldn’t be problems at all. The real truth of the matter is that they didn’t care that Obamacare wasn’t really a solution to the healthcare problems we faced. That wasn’t the point. Obamacare was the Trojan horse sent into the walls of our country, not to improve healthcare, but to ensure centralization of power in Washington, D.C.

Obamacare was designed to make us (we, the people) weaker and the federal government stronger.

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SMOKE ON THIS: Rand Paul wants Justice Roberts, all federal workers, to enroll in Obamacare

By Clash Daily / 24 September 2013

Arguing federal workers should not get special treatment, Rand Paul says he does not want taxpayers subsidizing the personal health care plans of any federal employee — including Chief Justice John Roberts — anymore.
With some in Congress arguing lawmakers and their staff should not get subsidies to cover their health insurance as President Obama’s health care law goes into effect, the Republican senator from Kentucky told The Daily Caller on Sunday that he’s going to start pushing a constitutional amendment that goes even further.
Paul’s proposal — outlawing any special exemptions for government employees — would mean all federal workers would have to purchase health insurance on the new Obamacare exchanges instead of getting taxpayer-funded subsidies. Some critics say those subsidies amount to special treatment. The Obamacare health insurance exchange opens Oct 1.
“My amendment says basically that everybody including Justice Roberts — who seems to be such a fan of Obamacare — gets it too,” Paul told TheDC by phone on Sunday from Mackinac Island in Michigan, where he won a straw poll of potential Republican candidates for president in 2016.
“See, right now, Justice Roberts is still continuing to have federal employee health insurance subsidized by the taxpayer,” Paul said. “And if he likes Obamacare so much, I’m going to give him an amendment that gives Obamacare to Justice Roberts.”
Roberts famously voted to uphold the constitutionality of Obama’s unpopular health care law when it went before the Supreme Court last year.
Paul’s constitutional amendment says no federal employees should get special exemptions from laws. The senator also plans to push a proposal requiring that Congress and all federal employees rely on Obamacare for their insurance.

Read more at dailycaller.com


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Is Everybody Wrong' About Health Care Except Obama?








That, in three simple words, was the question a reporter asked President Obama last week.

“Yes, they are,” the president said with a straight face. “People will look back and they’ll be asking, ‘What was the argument about? Why is everybody fighting this so much?’”


Why? Well, here, Mr. President, are just a few of the many, many reasons:


• You can’t keep your own health care. The president spent the past four years assuring Americans that “if you like your plan, you can keep it.” Not so, said doubters, but he castigated them as obstructionist naysayers playing politics.

Except they turned out to be right: You can’t keep your plan. But the media say: wrong. Companies are killing coverage they once offered to employees and heading into government exchanges. Huge companies like Home Depot. More — many more — will follow. What does it mean? Millions of workers will soon be forced to choose only from government policies.


Just as bad, other giant corporations, like the country’s largest drugstore chain, are opting for private exchanges in which workers will need to buy their own insurance. What it means: fewer choices and higher costs (as companies likely won’t raise contributions when premiums rise — as they always do).


• Your health records no longer will be private — and neither will your sex life. “Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?” That’s just one of the questions you’ll soon be forced to answer.


Why? Because once the government’s involved, everything is its business. Doctors and hospitals won’t get your tax money unless they comply with every jot and tittle of the law. And the president is hiring tens of thousands of IRS workers to police his program, so he’ll have the firepower to get your data.

What’s more, the government will be storing all your health records. Think they’re safe? The feds can’t even keep a low-level NSA worker from pilfering America’s most secret intelligence. Please. Soon, anyone who wants to know can find out if you have a faulty thyroid or get a monthly Viagra supply.



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posted on September 23, 2013

Obamacare Administrator: So, We Might Have to Tweak the Definition of "Start"





Buried in an update into my Continuing Resolution post on Friday was a quote that deserves much more scrutiny. By way of background, you’ll recall that one of the law’s principle legislative authors has described its roll-out as a “huge trainwreck,” while a high-ranking HHS official has admitted that his primary goal is to avoid a “third world experience” come October 1. You may also remember reports over the summer about implementation lagging badly behind schedule, red flags of which the administration was aware. Then came the series of unilateral delays — on the employer mandate, on verification standards, on out-of-pocket cost limits, and on publishing the coverage rates to be offered in state exchanges. Earlier this month, an expert on the law testified before Congress that “not a single state appears to be completely ready” to administer Obamacare. Those significant postponements won’t be the only setbacks. As I noted on Friday, health insurance experts and officials are pointing to ongoing computer glitches so glaring that they could paralyze the enrollment process:

The Wall Street Journal [reports] that the exchange software, for which the government has spent upwards of $88 million, still can’t correctly calculate the amount of subsidies that an individual applicant is eligible for. “There’s a blanket acknowledgment that rates are being calculated incorrectly,” one senior insurance executive told the WSJ. “Our tech and operations people are very concerned about the problems they’re seeing and the potential of them to stick around.” The WSJ article was authored by Christopher Weaver, Timothy Martin, and Jeniffer Corbett Dooren. “If not resolved by the Oct. 1 launch date,” they report, “the problems could affect consumers in 36 states where the federal government is running all or part of the exchanges.

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Tweak the definition of "Start" is that like when they tweaked the definition of "IS"

posted on September 23, 2013

Medical School Official Urges Denial of Care for Obamacare 'Nonbelievers'





More and more leftists are becoming unhinged and revealing their brutal inner totalitarian. The latest is a fundraiser at the University of California, San Francisco, one of the nation’s top medical schools. An official at that medical school took to Twitter to propose that the those who are “nonbelievers” in Obamacare be denied medical care. The use of the term “nonbeliever” reveals that progressivism has become a religion. Disagreement on political policies is now a matter of faith, not political debate, at least ont he left side of the spectrum. Here is a copy of her tweet (the original has been deleted and her account suspended):


Of course, the ultimate boss of Ms. Handler would be the new president of the University of California, Janet Napolitano. She, and the Board of Regents, should be queried as to whether Ms. Handler’s public expression of hate is something that the University will tolerate.

Progressives are showing signs of coming apart as the fantasies about Obama and the progressive agenda are running into reality. Recently, we have seen Michigan State University Professor William Penn caught on tape indoctrinating his class about evil Caucasians who “raped” the country, instead of teaching them creative writing, which is what the taxpayers of Michigan were paying him for. He has been “punished” with a paid vacation, no longer required to teach his classes, but still collecting his paycheck, much like Lois Lerner and the State Department officials who allowed the massacre of an ambassador and 3 others in Benghazi.

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http://bighealthreport.com/9770/medical-school-official-urges-denial-of-care-for-obamacare-nonbelievers/



Take that you dumb sheeple!!!!

Hey as far as I am concerned those politician's and puppets who want it can keep it, Leave US out of it!!!!

IRS: Compliance Burden for Obamacare Individual Mandate Tax Totals 7.5 Million Hours Each Year

Final IRS rule uses the Orwellian term “Shared Responsibility Payments” 63 times
The IRS today released its final rule on the Obamacare individual mandate non-compliance penalty tax. Key numbers for taxpayers:

7.5 million hours: Taxpayers will be forced to spend a total of 7.5 million hours each year complying with the new tax.

30 Minutes: Taxpayers will be forced to spend up to 30 additional minutes filling out paperwork each year, just for this one new tax.

63: The number of times the final rule uses the Orwellian term “Shared Responsibility Payments” to describe what is actually a tax.

Americans for Tax Reform takes a look back at well-known “Shared Responsibility Payments” quotations throughout history:







Posted by John Kartch on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 1:39 PM EDT


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Guess What Happened to This U.S. Rep’s Private Health Plan After He Opted Out of Obamacare (and He’s Not Alone)

Sep. 22, 2013 8:59pm Dave Urbanski


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When U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Col.) got the word that he could opt out of Obamacare or keep his current health-care plan — which you might be surprised to learn is a private plan — he took a road some might say is less traveled…and then hit a big pileup:
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He breaks it down a bit more:
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Instead of heading down a woe-is-me path, Gardner harnessed his unfortunate news to get a conversation going about what’s happening to people’s health-care plans in the wake of Obamacare:
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Suffice it to say, Gardner isn’t alone:
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Twitchy ran with an earlier post that goes into similar territory and reports similar health-care plan outcomes:
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So…how’s your plan (if you’re blessed with one, that is) holding up?
(H/T: Twitchy)
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Other must read stories:

• Ted Cruz's Anti-Obamacare Plan Just Picked up a Big Endorsement
• These GOP Senators Say They Won't Support Ted Cruz in Bid to Prevent Dems From Restoring Obamacare Funds in Senate
• The Bizarre Anti-Obamacare Ads That Are Creeping a Lot of People Out
• Regulatory Burdens of Obamacare: The Poor Will Pay More (op-ed)
• 4 Surprising Ways Dogs Improve Your Health (sweetrelish.com)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...hes-not-alone/

Obamacare Navigators Won’t Have To Pass Background Checks

3 weeks ago | Politics, Swann TV, Truth In Media, US | Posted by Ben Swann

• September 3, 2013

Published on Sep 3, 2013
Ben Swann takes a look at HHS navigators and the massive amounts of private and personal information they will collect and store in the Federal Data Hub under Obamacare. Plus, we ask the question, does private information even exist anymore?




It is called the Federal Data Hub. Massive amounts of information gathered on every American and shared between government agencies. Agencies ranging from the the IRS to the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services. The best part there is no opting out.
So who all has access to this information and the bigger question does private information even exist anymore?
The step toward truth is to inform.
There is as we speak an army of new federal government employees being hired by the department of Health and Human Services. Why does HHS need all these new employees? The answer is simple, the massive new healthcare law, The Affordable Care Act is behind schedule and the Feds need to start signing Americans up for the health care exchanges as quickly as possible.
So what kind of information is going to be collected?
When individuals sign up for federal insurance exchanges, they are required to enter their personal information into a new Federal Data Hub. We are talking about information like medical records, Social Security numbers, tax information, and bank account information. This is done by allowing seven government agencies, including the IRS, Department of Justice, Social Security Administration and others, to share and verify information in order to determine eligibility for an insurance subsidy.
In short, basically everything about you will be shared among multiple agencies. Remember, no actually agency can see or access any information, people working in those agencies do. So who, specifically, will be able to access this information?
They are called Navigators. Men and women who are being hired to work for between $20 and $48 dollars an hour. Sounds like specialized work that will required highly trained individuals, but, not so much. The requirements to become one of these navigators do not even include a high school diploma. And even though these navigators will have access to just about every piece of personal information on Americans enrolled in this exchange, they are not even required to pass a background check.
That is what the house committee on oversight and government reform has been told by HHS.
Navigators will only have to take a 20 to 30 hour online course about how the 1,200 page ACA works.
Interestingly, there is another role of these navigators that deserves a mention. There is more to the role of the Navigators than just signing Americans up for the healthcare exchange.
These Navigators will also be responsible for registering Americans to vote. According to People’s World Magazine in California,

“California’s Secretary of State Debra Bowen is designating the state’s new Health Benefit Exchange, Covered California, as a voter registration agency under the National Voter Registration Act. That means Covered California will be incorporating voter registration into every transaction – online, in-person and by phone – it has with consumers.”
So, to be clear these Navigators will have access to every bit of your personal and financial information, federal employees who haven’t even been given so much as a background check.
Of course, HHS says you have nothing to worry about. Marilyn Tavenner the head of HHS’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services testified before Congress saying,
“I want to assure you and all Americans that, when they fill out their [health-insurance] marketplace applications, they can trust the information they’re providing is protected,”
But how would any American know that? Even with background checks how can Americans trust that a Federal Data Hub that involves the gathering and consolidation of so much information not be attacked by hackers or compromised by those inside the departments?
We don’t know what will happen but we do have evidence of how some other expansive government agencies with even less intrusion into your life are functioning. An audit by the Government Accountability Office of the Transportation Security Administration points out major problems in that agency. That includes TSA agents accused of taking bribes from drug traffickers in Los Angeles or 56 cases alleging theft since 2010 including a 2011 incident involving a screener at Orlando International Airport who pleaded guilty to stealing more than 80 laptops and other electronic devices valued at $80,000.
In all, there were 426 cases of neglect of duty and 384 cases of ethical violations like bribery or credit-card abuse. Then there are the agents who are caught sleeping on the job but the biggest problem here isn’t even the behavior of the agents. According to the GAO Half of workers accused of sleeping on the job received less than the lowest penalty called for by agency policies. In all, the GAO found over 9,600 cases of misconduct in an agency that only has the power to allow you to get on an airplane.
What you need to know is that when it comes to the National Data Hub, there is a bigger question here than just one of whether or not HHS navigators might be overstepping their role by registering voters with this personal information. A bigger question than whether or not the information compiled in this data hub is susceptible to fraud, or corrupt workers.
The most important question, does personal or private information exist anymore? Chances are the feds would say no. After all, we know the NSA believes they have the right to read your emails and listen to your phone calls. So why wouldn’t they have the right to any and all of your private information? Even your banking information. The federal apparatus that is nearly complete is telling you that you don’t have the right to withhold anything about yourself and your life from government.
But that is simply not true.
The rights to privacy are all but gone in America today. Consider this, you do not belong to the state. Your money, your business, your private correspondence and conversations, your identity belongs to you and you alone. Those in power know it but the population has forgotten it. It is time that we remember.
And that is full disclosure.

http://benswann.com/obamacare-naviga...ground-checks/



I brought this over because you may have missed it! I don't think it should be a "what difference does it make" thingy!!!! Basically a little refresher course!!