Monday, March 03, 2014

Mr Obama Angered by Push Back : The Crown is Slipping?

The reports now are that Mr Obama doesn't like the job anymore - even when he decided that he didn't need the congress or anyone else to do what ever he wanted to do, too many people aren't buying the power grab like he thought they would.

He's pissed off - now he and the progressive socialist liberal party members that see these last two years of Mr Obama reign as their only chance to lay waste to the Constitution of 1787 and rewrite it to make sure progressive socialism is the law of the land for the foreseeable future. And not just decades, but generations.

Make no mistake, the progressive socialists democrats do not like this country as founded and they have millions of followers that believe the same. They will do what it takes to make sure these last years are not wasted. The chaos they have crated is seen as a means to an end.

They have no restrictions on how they will achieve their ultimate goal of perpetual total power as party leaders and their followers do not believe in the rule of law as we have witnessed Mr Obama rewriting and writing law from the White House.

Progressives are not restricted in their action by moral or legal law. They are lawless and moralless. To believe otherwise will be fatal for freedom and our country.

He Can't Change the Law
                          
 
Eager for results, some will say we quibble over technicalities.  But those who define the vocabulary of the debate win the debate. Quibbling is worthwhile.
 
We quibble here with friends who complain that Barack Obama "changes the law" to escape political punishment for his willfully destructive "Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act."
 
Accurate labeling demands that repeated delays of Obamacare mandates and deadlines be referred to not as "changing the law," but as what they really are, which is "rule by decree." 
 
Memo to the administration: You don’t get to do that here. We think you know it, and suspect you’ll go absolutely as far as you can until someone stops you.
 
Was the President joking when he said "I can do whatever I want?" If so, it was an untimely experiment in self-deprecating humor suggesting wry humility–a concept with which this administration has not previously exhibited familiarity. In any case, prudence dictates the assumption that some people never joke.     
 
But the nationwide glut of unused irony stored up by the past five years’ presidential pronouncements is being rapidly drawn down by the effects of Obamacare manipulations. Trudge on to the 15th paragraph of this Reuters account, and you’ll read that nobody may have standing to sue against these illegal acts because nobody has been harmed by them. Obama has spared people from harm by illegally blocking the application of the malicious law he designed.
 
Nothing more starkly illuminates the Orwellian world we inhabit today. If scornful disregard for "the consent of the governed" is the most glaring abuse in rule by decree, its runner-up is not to be overlooked: Those who bow to today’s decree must know they may be told tomorrow to bow to its opposite.
 
It’s not as if he’s leaving you unharmed intentionally.

Sunday, March 02, 2014

ObamaCare : 3 Things That Can Hurt You

What this says is ObamaCare is not about health care but about "fundamentally" changing it so that it reflects the ideology of the progressive socialists, which is of course, only government can provide health care for everyone effectively, single payer (socialized medicine).

They have known this from the beginning that ObamaCare would be a failure, and that in the end the population will have no choice but to accept the inevitable, government run health care. Then to progressives know government run health care will never work as well as history has proven this every time it has been tried.

But no matter, chaos will reign as a result throughout the country which will demand a further government heavy hand to bring the people under control. I wonder what that will be?

3 Things You Don’t Know About Obamacare That Could Hurt You
 The Foundry

Nearly one in three Americans have little familiarity with Obamacare, and the ramifications are playing out in the media. Since each day brings headlines highlighting Americans who are surprised by changes in their health care situation because of President Obama’s signature achievement, The Heritage Foundation compiled three Obamacare items that might surprise you:

1. Your doctor could be outside the network of your Obamacare exchange plan. This could be true even if the insurer said that physician is in its health care provider network. The California state exchange, called Covered California, has had a systemic problem with this issue. Earlier this month, the exchange pulled its physician directory for the second time because of all the errors.
Since the health plans took effect January 1, many Obamacare enrollees in California have complained that doctors won’t take their insurance, despite being listed as part of the plan’s network. Insurance expert Edmund Haislmaier, senior research fellow in Heritage’s Center for Health Policy Studies, says it’s a combination of insurers rushing to get information to the exchanges and the exchanges not updating their directories quickly enough.
Some health care providers could be negotiating with insurers over payment rates, which delays doctors from being in plan networks, Haislmaier added. “This will sort itself out over time but it’s an issue that is still playing out,” he said, advising enrollees to call their physicians first to verify participation in plans offered by the Obamacare exchanges.

2. You might get a better deal if you buy insurance outside an Obamacare exchange. Unless you live in the District of Columbia or Vermont, you can buy health insurance outside the exchanges, either through an insurance agent or directly from an insurer. The biggest disadvantage is that such health plans aren’t eligible for Obamacare’s subsidies.
But some Americans don’t qualify for Obamacare subsidies anyway, such as those making more than 400 percent of the federal poverty level (about $45,960 for an individual or $94,200 for a family of four). For them, buying an “outside” plan could be slightly cheaper.
That’s because in the 36 states where the federal government runs the Obamacare exchange, the Health and Human Services Department imposed a 3.5 percent user fee on the premiums to pay for running Obamacare’s website, HealthCare.gov.
Haislmaier looked at a sample of plans sold both on and off the Obamacare exchanges in those states, comparing the premiums with non-exchange premiums offered through the private, web-based health broker eHealth.com.
He found that for the same plan with the same enrollee characteristics (location, age, and family status), premiums were roughly 2 percent to 3 percent less when buying outside the exchange. “For people who already know that they will not qualify for subsidies, it makes sense to just bypass the Obamacare exchanges altogether,” Haislmaier said.

3. You can’t buy subsidized insurance plans from the Obamacare exchanges after March 31.  Lots of news stories have focused on the tax penalty hitting uninsured Americans after that deadline, of course.
But unless you qualify for a special enrollment period triggered by a major life event—a death, marriage, divorce, adoption or birth of a child, an out-of-state move—you’ll have to wait until open enrollment starts October 15.
Depending on the state laws, consumers may be able to buy coverage outside the exchange, but those non-exchange plans won’t be eligible for the government subsidies.

This story was produced by The Foundry’s news team. Nothing here should be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of The Heritage Foundation.

Steve Moore Explains Minimum Wages : Heritage Video

Watch the video to understand how the minimum wage increases will cost jobs and poverty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q35JXf35q_s

The real minimum wage will be “zero” for individuals who lose their jobs as a result of the federal minimum wage increase, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Chief Economist Steve Moore.
“You know what the minimum wage is going to be for those people who lose their job? It’s going to be zero. Their wage is going to go from $7.50 to zero,” Moore said Thursday on CNN’s Crossfire.
Moore and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader joined CNN’s Van Jones and Newt Gingrich for the on-air debate, during which the panel argued about this week’s Congressional Budget Office report on the effects of increasing the federal minimum wage.

According to the CBO, a wage increase to $10.10 “would reduce total employment by about 500,000 workers” and could even put up to 1 million workers out of work.
Moore noted that raising the federal minimum wage would  exacerbate America’s existing unemployment problem.

“The reason Americans aren’t getting a raise right now is because [there are] 20 million Americans that are unemployed,” he said.

Arguing that rampant unemployment is the nation’s most pressing issue, Moore pushed for a dialogue on job growth policies rather than minimum wage. “I don’t think the government should set prices and I don’t think it should set wages,” he said.

Reagan Proposed Solution for Bureaucrats in Washington : It Worked

The frustration with Mr Obama is building as we speak and with the new revelations coming from Russia and South America that the world is coming apart only adds to the anger and fear that our domestic lives are failing as well. 

Maybe the worst part of all this is that we will have nothing to leave our kids except empty promises of how things will get better.

The next generation is not stupid but terribly distracted by social networking to fully understand their circumstances.

One thing is for sure. and that is if the voters decided the progressive socialist liberal left democrats are the answer to all our problems in 2014 and 2016, our fate will be sealed.

Saturday, March 01, 2014

Mr Obama Makes Promises : Wink - Wink

" I promise to up-hold the law and secure and protect the United States of America so help me God"

"You can keep your doctor if you want. You can keep your current health plan if you want. Period"

" If you cross my red line there will be consequences"

Florida Bill Expands 'Stand Your Ground' Law : Warning Shots First

It's amazing that we still have pockets of people that are willing to step up to the plate and actually do what they say they will do. I wonder where this kind of thing will appear next?

Florida Bill Would Allow Warning Shots Against Attackers
February 28, 2014 by                     
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) — A bill filed in the Florida Legislature would expand the State’s “stand your ground” law, allowing people to fire warning shots when attacked, supporters say.
The bill’s sponsor, Republican State Representative Neil Combee, said the bill is an attempt to “get some protection for the people who find themselves in a bad spot and don’t want to shoot somebody,” the Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday.
“As it stands right now in ‘stand your ground,’ you have to shoot somebody,” Combee added.
The proposal was born after the conviction of Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville, who fired a warning shot during an alleged domestic violence incident. An appeals court overturned her 20-year sentence and she faces a new trial.
Most cities in the United States prohibit warning shots out of concern about the danger to bystanders.
The bill, which passed out of a House committee on a 15-2 vote, faces opposition in Florida’s upper legislative chamber.
“It’s encouraging more violence, the same as ‘stand your ground’ encourages escalation rather than de-escalation of violence, by taking away the responsibility to try to retreat,” said Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chris Smith.
Brian Malte, senior policy director for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said the bill was an example of how the National Rifle Association used Florida as a testing ground for new gun laws.
“It seems like throughout the years they’ve been using Florida as the legislative laboratory for what we would call the ‘guns anytime, anywhere, anyplace’ mantra,” he said.
Marion Hammer, the NRA’s Florida lobbyist, said the warning-shot bill was not authored by her organization, but the NRA supported it.

Hospital CEO Explains Layoffs : ObamaCare!

Here is a video of a hospital CEO explaining layoffs that occurred because of ObamaCare. Another nail in the coffin of health care for all of us.

The president and CEO of McLaren Northern Michigan hospital explains how layoffs at his hospital are resulting from patients avoiding visits to the doctor because of deductible increases under ObamaCare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PQu4utuu60U

Heritage Foundation Review of 2015 Obama Budget (Video)

Heritage’s Romina Boccia previews the new taxes and spending in President Obama’s forthcoming 2015 budget plan on Fox Business: 

ObamaCare Opinion Poll : Negatives Going UP

(National Center for Policy Analysis)
Health reform. NCPA President John Goodman participated in a conference this week to discuss a vision for health reform. Several lawmakers were among the participants, including Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) and Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), each of whom have sponsored their own health reform legislation. The conference was excellent and worth viewing. One overarching observation was the lack of consensus that still exists among lawmakers and policy wonks on how to replace Obamacare. To explore the possibility of agreement among Republicans, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is convening a meeting today of committee chairmen and other interested lawmakers to discuss moving forward. I'm not holding my breath.

Tax Reform Proposal : Congress Recoils in Fear


Just think if someone really tried to get a 'flat tax' pushed through congress and the possibility of having a president sign a bill like that, what would the results of this be on the tax preparation industry?

Think about all the lawyers and businesses that do tax preparation today, let alone individuals that have one-man businesses that do preparations? Do you think there would be push back?

Now, think about ObamaCare and when this disaster is fully ingrained in our health care system, how would we ever get rid of it?

(National Center for Policy Analysis )
Tax reform. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) proposed legislation this week that would overhaul the tax code for the first time in a generation. His proposal would reduce the overall number of tax brackets from seven to two (10% and 25%) and lower the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 25%.

 The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimates that the Camp plan would reduce the effective rates on most capital gains and dividends and increase the gross domestic product by as much as 1.5% to 1.6% per year. For more detail and analysis about the Camp plan, see NCPA Senior Fellow Pam Villarreal's blog post on the topic.
 
As with any large-scale effort like tax reform, special interest groups (and their lobbyists on K Street) lined up to denounce, praise, disavow, or take credit for bits and pieces of the Camp plan. Echoing the sentiments of garden-variety Representatives and Senators who do not want to spend time during an election year explaining a complicated tax reform plan, the Speaker of the House downplayed the proposal and the Senate Republican Leader simply said there was "no hope" for tax reform this year. But Camp's office is taking the long view, reminding everyone that the 1986 tax reform law was actually introduced as legislation years before that.