Category Archives: Obamacare

by | August 23, 2013 · 6:01 pm

Democrats: Out of Touch with America

Reality Check Ahead

OBAMACARE: Nancy Pelosi described ObamaCare (The Affordable Care Act) as something that “captures the spirit of our founders” and will “put money back in the pockets of America’s patients” (WSJ, House.gov). POLLS show:

Only 37% have a favorable view of the law, down 9 points from a minority of 46% who approved of it at the time the Democrat-controlled Congress voted it into law. Meanwhile, Obama is spending money we don’t have to drum up support for this law that was passed more than four years ago, yet was so bad the very Congress that passed it went and exempted itself from.

RACE RELATIONS: When George Zimmerman was acquitted, Obama and many Democrat leaders said the nation needed to have an “honest discussion about race.” POLLS showed:

Only 35% of Americans agreed.

ECONOMY: In his latest series of speeches on the economy this summer, President Obama has insisted that “America has fought its way back” and has already “recovered” (LA Times). POLLS show:

Only 28% of Americans believe the U.S. economy is recovering.

ABORTION: Democrats are more pro-abortion than ever. In the 2012 election cycle, their TV ads were filled with pro-choice messaging, abortion rights activists were main speakers at the DNC, and the head of Planned Parenthood even introduced President Obama at a campaign rally (Politico).

Only 15% of Americans believe abortion is morally acceptable.

36% don’t know or don’t care about the morality of abortion.

49% believe abortion is morally wrong.

Source:

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/74535-6-shocking-stats-that-prove-democrats-are-out-of-touch-with-the-american-people/

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Filed under Abortion, Barack Obama, Democrats, Economy, George Zimmerman, Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, Race Relations, U.S. Congress

by | August 19, 2013 · 1:33 pm

ObamaCare sucks

NBC: Businesses, Unions And Schools All Warn Of Cuts In Hours Due To ObamaCare [2:33]

Priceless quote: “I never thought it would impact me personally.”

And isn’t that precisely the problem? That the people who voted for these Democrat policies were all looking for SOMEONE ELSE to pay for stuff?

Even the shmucks in Congress know ObamaCare sucks. They exempted themselves from having to abide by the law they wrote and passed!

I'm an adult

H/t Pistol Pete

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by | August 17, 2013 · 10:14 am

It’s going to get worse

Seizing Elian

Under Obamacare, the federal government will have total control over the standards by which parents are allowed to raise their children.

These standards will be enforced via mandatory home visits conducted by entities appointed and funded by the federal government.

Their job will be to identify families that “need” to be visited and to intervene in the home life so as to meet federally mandated benchmarks.

Visitation mandates may include children being required to go to certain schools, take certain medications, receive certain vaccines, or even have limited – or no – interaction with parents.

  • A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to ‘intervention’ in ‘school readiness’ and ‘social-emotional developmental indicators.’
  • A farm family may be subject to ‘intervention’ in order to ‘prevent child injuries’.

Home visit “intervention” will be at the discretion of the agency, which could target families for any reason.

The Health and Human Services’ website states that families in the following “high-risk” categories will be definitely targeted:

  • Mom is not yet 21.
  • A child has low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.
  • Someone uses tobacco.
  • Someone is serving or formerly served in the armed forces.

This will not be a voluntary program.

Failure to allow home visits or to comply with dictates could result in removal of children from the home.

The Obama administration claims the provision applies only to Medicaid families. The statute, by its own definition, has NO LIMITATION whatsoever.

Intervention may be with any family for any reason and parents will have no right to do anything but comply.

Sources:

Obamacare Allows Government To Use Force To Do Home Inspections

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by | August 14, 2013 · 6:18 am

Do business owners have a right to conscience?

In the past, this would’ve been a no brainer for any American. Of course we do! But since the Rise of Obama, the rights of those on the right have been under attack. And that includes the rights of business owners who are refusing to pay for abortion-inducing drugs for their employees.

Courts Reject Obama View That Businesses Don’t Have Religious Freedom

by Mark Rienzi | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/12/13

Can you make money and be religious? The Obama administration and a few courts have said no — at least in the context of forcing business owners to violate their religion by purchasing abortion-inducing drugs for their employees. Thankfully, most courts have rejected this view, leaving individuals and their businesses free to go to work without checking their conscience at the door.

The question is not about corporations. We know corporations can exercise religion because houses of worship and other religious organizations are corporations. The Supreme Court has repeatedly protected religious liberty for corporations. The question is really about money, and whether the government can force groups that earn money to single-mindedly pursue profits, without regard for any other value.

We regularly encounter businesses making decisions of conscience. Chipotle recently decided not to sponsor a Boy Scout event because the company disagreed with the Scouts’ policy on openly gay scoutmasters. It was “the right thing to do,” Chipotle said.

Starbucks has ethical standards for the coffee beans it buys. Vegan stores refuse to sell animal products because they believe doing so is immoral. Some businesses refuse to invest in sweatshops or pornography companies or polluters.

You can agree or disagree with the decisions of these businesses, but they are manifestly acts of conscience, both for the companies and the people who operate them. Our society is better because people and organizations remain free to have other values while earning a living. Does anyone really want a society filled with organizations that can only focus on profits and are barred from thinking of the greater good?

For many, their conscience is informed by religious views about activities they can or cannot participate in. Some Jewish store owners cannot sell leavened bread at certain times of the year. Some Muslim truck drivers cannot transport alcohol. Some Catholic prison workers cannot participate in executions.

If religious freedom means anything, it means that these people — just like Chipotle, Starbucks and everyone else in our society — are allowed to earn a living and run a business according to their values. In a tolerant society, we should just accept that our neighbors will have different beliefs, and that government-enforced conformity is rarely the best answer to this diversity.

Source @ http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/12/courts-reject-obama-view-that-businesses-dont-have-religious-freedom/

Author Mark L. Rienzi is Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a law professor at The Catholic University of America, and author of God and the Profits: Is There Religious Liberty for Money-Makers?

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by | August 11, 2013 · 4:47 am

If your oncologist said this, you’d fire him

Patient: So Doctor, what’s the news?

Doctor: I have great news. The treatment has decimated your lung cancer.

Patient: Oh, that’s great!

Doctor: Yes, indeed. The treatment has also caused your cancer to spread into your brain, liver, kidneys and blood.

August 9, 2013 Obama presser

Q. Mr. President, you have said that core al Qaeda has been decimated, that its leaders are on the run. Now that we’ve seen this terror threat that has resulted in embassies closed throughout the Arab world, much of Africa, do you still believe that al Qaeda has been decimated?

A. What I said…is that core Al Qaeda is on its heels…but what I also said is that AQ and other regional groups had metastasized.

IOW, the core al Qaeda is decimated and on its heels, but the rest of al Qaeda has gotten way worse. Oooooooooookay.

Video Warning: Listening may reduce your IQ.

CAT Revelation 20 10

Source:

http://twitchy.com/2013/08/09/metastatic-decimation-obama-gets-tied-in-knots-talking-about-al-qaeda-video/

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by | August 8, 2013 · 1:20 am

Remember the days

EVERYBODY should watch this [5:02]

It's the physics, stupid

H/t Pistol Pete

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Filed under Barack Obama, Bill Whittle, Obamacare, Sarah Palin, Taxes

by | August 6, 2013 · 10:44 pm

Free At Last

Elbert Guillory speaks truth to power about blacks and politics [4:17]

Democrats Then and Now`

H/t Pistol Pete

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by | August 6, 2013 · 2:31 am

Schadenfreudelicious!

OFA told its state affiliates to host Happy Birthday, Barack slash Why Obamacare Is Totes Awesome rallies on Sunday, August 4, 2013.

Or, as one tweeter put it,

“Let’s spend our Sunday worshiping the Savior, guys! – OFA”

2013_08 04 Cultic Obama birthday

Tweeters had some fun celebration suggestions:

  • To honor Pres Obama’s birthday, I’m going to fail at something and blame it on the rich.
  • Tomorrow is Pres Obama’s birthday. Send your best wishes to him in an email or text to your own friends. The NSA will pass it on for u.
  • At this point, what difference does his birthday make?
  • I’ll spend the day cleaning my Second Amendments.
  • I’m going to offer to take Barry skeet shooting. We know how much he loves it.
  • Send him some race cards, he’s about out. Maybe a hoodie too.
  • I am going to send him a photo of me, just like he does to me for every other holiday.
  • This morning, my dog created a small “statue” of Obama to honor him on his birthday.

Pay close attention to the Twitter screenshots below. These are the images OFA sent out, not images that their political opponents sent out! Seriously, folks. If you had none or one turn out, would you send out PICTURES?!

2013_08 04 Cultic glow dimmed

2013_08 04 Martinsville

About this next one … someone at PØLITICØ apparently got a phone call. The original headline – “Poor attendance at Obamacare event in Virginia” – was changed to “Obamacare message war goes local.” My guess is some naughty little lapdog is spending some quality time in his crate until he learns how to properly hump the massah … I mean, messiah.

2013_08 04 Only attendee was a volunteer working the phones

To be fair, some of the partays had some actual attendees. Maybe it was cuz they had cake. One of them even featured an ACTUAL EMPTY CHAIR that the royal butt had once graced back in ought nine. I bet they haven’t ever washed it. Ew. I think I threw up a little in my mouth.

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by | July 31, 2013 · 9:53 pm

Just to get this into perspective

Ted Cruz on Obamacare paperwork burden

Meeting the demands of Obamacare will ADD 190 million man hours worth of PAPERWORK every YEAR.

To get 190 million hours into perspective, consider the following:

  • Total time to build the Empire State Building: 7 million man hours.
  • Average productive time one person can work in a year: 2000 man hours.*
  • Average time to build a small, 1,000 square foot house: 500 man hours.
  • Average time to build a new car: 32 man hours.

*Actual man year hours world-wide range from a low of 1,389 hours (in the Netherlands) to a high of 2,316 hours (in South Korea).

Paperwork is a NON-productive labor cost that must be passed on to consumers or, in the case of Obamacare, passed on to taxpayers.

To understand this, consider a small medical office where, typically, the only income is generated by the doctor seeing patients.

  • This one doctor must earn enough from these visits to pay for his own salary, plus rent, utilities, insurance and a minimum of two extra office staff (a nurse and a secretary) who, themselves, do not generate any income.
  • Obamacare will force this doctor to hire additional staff to do all the extra paperwork.
  • The income for that extra staff will have to be generated by the only productive member of the staff … the doctor.
  • Meanwhile, Obamacare will enforce limits on how much a doctor can earn for each service.
  • Net result: Obamacare will increase a doctor’s office costs while decreasing his earning power.

Is it any wonder so many doctors are saying they will retire if Obamacare goes into full effect?

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by | July 31, 2013 · 5:34 pm

Yes, Virginia. Obamacare does include death panels

Well, duh. We all knew that. At least, those of us who were paying attention, as opposed to those who were drinking CØØL-AID.

Now it seems that prominent Democrat (former Vermont Governor, DNC Chairman) Howard Dean has published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal admitting Palin was right to oppose the Obamacare “Independent Payment Advisory Board.” The IPAB is exactly what Palin said.

IPAB: A panel of unelected, political appointees in D.C. with the power to decide who in America gets what health care treatment.

2013_07 Palin was right all along

Dean writes, “The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.

There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system. However, rate setting — the essential mechanism of the IPAB — has a 40-year track record of failure. What ends up happening in these schemes (which many states including my home state of Vermont have implemented with virtually no long-term effect on costs) is that patients and physicians get aggravated because bureaucrats in either the private or public sector are making medical decisions without knowing the patients.”

The Right is delighted to see a prominent Dem like Dean making our case for us. Not that the Left cares. Obamacare never was about lowering health care costs or any of the other rainbow and unicorns crap they claimed it was about. It was, is and will continue to be about

  • increasing the power and wealth of elite Democrat politicians,
  • decreasing American freedoms with a top down control system, and
  • killing all those who are deemed unfit or inconvenient by those in power.

In short, it’s about destroying the FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY that have been the hallmarks of our Christian Constitutional Republic from its founding and replacing them with the HATE, DESPAIR and SELFISHNESS that are the hallmarks of the Atheistic Socialist Dictatorship the Left wants running America.

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