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Sunday, July 11, 2010

ObamaCare: Dream Turned Nightmare - IBD - Investors.com

"Unsurprisingly, independent actuaries and private sector experts estimate that, in most states, premiums for the youngest third of the population could increase by 35% under the new tight age bands under the law."

That's just one of a series of ObamaCare negatives highlighted by the report, including: 16 million forced into the going-broke Medicaid system, which many doctors avoid like the plague; a free ride for illegal immigrants, with citizens paying their costs; criminalization of the uninsured, with possible IRS harassment on the way; and millions losing the health plans they now enjoy "as employers either drop coverage or purchase more expensive, government-dictated health insurance."

America has had the best health system in the world. Its flaws are directly attributable to government interfering in the free flow of private services — a forced employer-based system, prohibiting interstate insurance, etc. Making the system better was always a worthy dream, but by expanding government instead of freedom, the dream has been made into the nightmare now beginning.

Obamacare is a two-fer--it destroys both the health care system and the insurance companies at the same time.

If you remember it started out as a health care reform and morphed into an insurance reform. Better yet, they got both of them.

why-is-the-gulf-cleanup-so-slow: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Why-is-the-gulf-cleanup-so-slow: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

As the government fails to implement such simple and straightforward remedies, one must ask why.
One possibility is sheer incompetence. Many critics of the president are fond of pointing out that he had no administrative or executive experience before taking office. But the government is full of competent people, and the military and Coast Guard can accomplish an assigned mission. In any case, several remedies require nothing more than getting out of the way.
Another possibility is that the administration places a higher priority on interests other than the fate of the Gulf, such as placating organized labor, which vigorously defends the Jones Act.
Finally there is the most pessimistic explanation—that the oil spill may be viewed as an opportunity, the way White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said back in February 2009, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Many administration supporters are opposed to offshore oil drilling and are already employing the spill as a tool for achieving other goals. The websites of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, for example, all feature the oil spill as an argument for forbidding any further offshore drilling or for any use of fossil fuels at all. None mention the Jones Act.
To these organizations and perhaps to some in the administration, the oil spill may be a strategic justification in a larger battle. President Obama has already tried to severely limit drilling in the Gulf, using his Oval Office address on June 16 to demand that we "embrace a clean energy future." In the meantime, how about a cleaner Gulf?

Could it be Political Profiling?

Thanks to Steve for forwarding this article.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

A Bigger, Badder IRS: Brought to You by Obamacare - Daniel Foster - The Corner on National Review Online

A Bigger, Badder IRS: Brought to You by Obamacare [Daniel Foster]
The National Taxpayer Advocate, tasked with representing your interests within the Internal Revenue Service, says the IRS must restructure — and grow — to handle its new redistributive and enforcement responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act:

Though the IRS's main mission is to collect taxes, it has been given a key role administering health insurance premium subsidies, tax credits for small businesses, assessments on employers and the mandate that beginning in 2014 everyone obtain insurance.
"I have no doubt the IRS is capable of administering social programs, including health care," Olson said. "But Congress must provide sufficient funding and the IRS itself must recognize that the skills and training required to administer social benefit programs are very different from the skills and training that employees of an enforcement agency typically possess."

Moreover, to "reduce the under-reporting of business income," the ACA will require all businesses and tax-exempt orgs to issue 1099s to all vendors with whom they do more than $600 of business (both services and goods) in a given tax year, an onerous requirement that "may impose significant burdens on businesses, charities, and government agencies," and that "may turn out to be disproportionate as compared with any resulting improvement in tax compliance."

More Resident Obama change you can believe in!

Who Will Investigate the Investigators? - WSJ.com

By JOHN FUND
J. Christian Adams,, a former career Justice Department lawyer who resigned recently to protest political interference in cases he worked on, made some news yesterday in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
As expected, he claimed that Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama appointee, overruled a unanimous recommendation by six career Justice attorneys for continued prosecution of members of the New Black Panther Party on charges of voter intimidation in an incident I detailed here yesterday. But Mr. Adams leveled an even more explosive charge beyond the Panther case. He testified that last year Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes made a jaw-dropping announcement to attorneys in Justice's Voting Rights section. She said she would not support any enforcement of a key section of the federal "Motor Voter" law -- Section 8, which requires states to periodically purge their voter rolls of dead people, felons, illegal voters and those who have moved out of state.
According to Mr. Adams, Justice lawyers were told by Ms. Fernandes: "We're not interested in those kind of cases. What do they have to do with helping increase minority access and turnout? We want to increase access to the ballot, not limit it."

With Resident Obama any and all corruption is probable.
Good way to see which courts/judges are corrupt, too!

Transcript: Dr. Donald Berwick's Speech To The British National Health Service - Kaiser Health News

Transcript: Dr. Donald Berwick's Speech To The British National Health Service - Kaiser Health News

Unbelievable!

Barack Obama Will Recess Appoint Donald Berwick

Donald Berwick openly wants to destroy the American medical system.

This quote from Berwick sums up exactly why Barack Obama is bypassing Congress to put Berwick at CMS:

“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.

Berwick has condemned the free market’s involvement in medical practice and declared the United States should be more like Britain, where some people die waiting in line for medical treatment.

Berwick also lambasted consumers in the United States for being able to get the care they want as opposed to need in the United States. He wants to fix this “problem” declaring, “That is for leaders to do.”

Now this is the Obama you can trust. If it's bad for America, Resident Obama is for it.

The NASA (non) feeding frenzy | Western Journalism.com

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

Video - Bolton: 'I’d Reverse all of Obama’s Policies' - HUMAN EVENTS

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Video - Bolton: 'I’d Reverse all of Obama’s Policies'

by Jason Mattera

07/08/2010

John Bolton continued to unload on the Obama Administration, saying that they should “get rid of the illusion that [Iran and North Korea] would negotiate away their nuclear programs.” In fact, in the second part of the former UN ambassador’s exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS, Bolton maintained that Barack’s official policy toward the mullahs in the Middle East is, “Iran will get nuclear weapons and we’ll contain them.”

That position, Bolton noted, would set off a “multi-polar nuclear Middle East” with “half a dozen nuclear weapon states, each looking at the other one every day and saying, ‘I wonder if I should strike him before he strikes me.’ ”