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You’re Going to Want to Check Out the Sign We Found Posted at a Recently-Shut Down Restaurant in Texas


Oct. 4, 2013 10:52pm Jason Howerton

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A recently-shut down Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Carrollton, Texas, currently has a sign posted outside that reads: “Closed by Obamacare.” After being tipped off by a reader, TheBlaze traveled to the location to confirm the sign’s authenticity.



It wasn’t immediately clear whether or not President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, which made its very bumpy debut earlier this week, actually forced the location to shut its doors. Attempts to call the phone number associated with the location only resulted in exchanges with an automated messaging system announcing the number is no longer in use.


Anti-Obamacare sign posted at Carl’s Jr. location in Carrollton, Texas. (Credit: Jason Howerton/TheBlaze)

(Credit: Jason Howerton/TheBlaze)




It is entirely possible that the sign is more of a political statement than a statement of fact. However, TheBlaze is currently working to obtain more information about the sign and reason for the Carl’s Jr. location’s going out of business. We have reached out to the restaurant chain’s corporate office and this story will be updated should the company respond.



Carl’s Jr. CEO Andrew Puzder recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal explaining why he believes Obamacare can’t work:

The rising cost of insurance affects people whether they purchase insurance through their employers or an exchange, since both depend on private insurers. If insurance costs go up, taxpayers also may end up paying more to foot the bill for the higher cost of subsidized insurance. This is particularly concerning since the administration has announced that it will be unable to verify whether applicants for subsidies actually qualify for them. The subsidies are likely to be very popular.



The Obama administration seems to recognize the looming trouble and is urging professional sports organizations and parent groups to encourage young workers signing up for coverage. Maybe that will be effective. It’s certainly preferable to ill-advised attempts to postpone, and thus change, the law by fiat rather than by legislation. Maybe the administration will even do what it should have done in the first place: Take the time to develop a bipartisan, market-driven approach that might actually work.

And Obamacare didn’t get off to a good start this week either.



The Obama administration is taking down its health overhaul website for repairs this weekend. Even the very few that were able to get a health insurance quote faced lengthy wait times and high monthly premiums.



For example, Obama supporter Chad Henderson went through the Obamacare application process and discovered he would pay $175 per month under the president’s health care plan. He is a healthy 21-year-old male who earns $11,500. His monthly premium will be 18 percent of his yearly income if he decides to purchase the plan.


Many others encountered a screen that told them to wait, and they did, sometimes for hours. Refreshing the screen only sent them to the back of the line.


Quite a few got hung up trying to create security questions to protect their accounts. The drop-down menus providing the questions would not populate. As a result, consumers could not advance through the application process and learn if they were eligible for a tax credit to help pay premiums, much less pick a plan.


Some who did make it through were timed out because they took too long comparing plans.
At the end of the first day at most a handful of people had managed to successfully enroll through the federal site.



The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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FEDs Now Blocking Children From Going To School And Families From Visiting Dead Relatives

1 hour ago | Politics, US | Posted by Michael Lotfi

• October 8, 2013

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Cades Cove Cemetery, Tennessee

It is perhaps worth mentioning that when government builds the roads- it also gets to close them whenever it feels like it (just because). The latest round of political theater from the Obama administration has hit in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. In an attempt to make residents of Tennessee suffer, the only safe road for school buses to travel on has been shut down. Furthermore, the feds have stepped in and shut down family cemeteries no longer allowing living relatives to visit their deceased loved ones.
The Great Smoky Mountains is one of the top tourist destinations in America. Blount County, Tennessee, a small mountain community, lays within the Great Smoky Mountains. The government shut down the park, thus cutting off the revenue stream for the county. It has been verified that the feds also shut down the Foothills Parkway, which is the main travel route for school buses in the community. Other alternative routes through the mountains are at extremely dangerous elevations with crumbling roads through the mountains’ cliffs. In fact, a school bus cannot even travel on the alternative roads. Regardless of the danger, the feds came through and shut down the road during school hours. This forced schools scrabbling to find a way to get children home safely.
Now, the schools are no longer running buses for the safety of children, and parents are being forced to take their kids up and down the treacherous alternative routes.

Purposefully putting children in danger at a calculated time wasn’t enough for the feds. They also went after family cemeteries.

Cades Cove is a beautiful destination in the Smokies. The community was donated to the federal government by hundreds of residents more than 75 years ago as a gift to the United States. The deceased have living relatives that still visit their graves every week. In the cemetery you will find veterans from the Civil War, WWI & WWII. You will also always find fresh flowers upon the graves. Now the feds have barricaded the churches and cemeteries within the park and will not allow loved ones to visit.
Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell has requested that the feds allow local government to manage the park during the shutdown at no cost to the federal government. The feds have not yet responded to his request.
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Are we impressed with them there FEDS yet????