When you elect amateurs to public office, expect amateur performance.

Never has this been more vividly demonstrated than by Barack Obama’s “No Decision Has Been Made” Administration.  In foreign policy, as he dumbly bows before friendly emperors and apologizes to dictators for his country’s existence, the President’s a worldwide amusement.  At home, by racking-up trillions in debt while claiming to save money, he seems more apt to destroy America than save it.

Perhaps that’s why he apparently decided to slow down and devote a little thought to governing, rather than just shower commands like an out-of-control water hose.  But instead of developing wisdom, he’s become a knee-shaking Hamlet.  Suddenly, prying a decision from him is harder than pulling a bill from Nancy Pelosi’s security closet.  Consider --

AGHANISTAN.  To send troops, or not to send troops, that is the question.  The answer, after months of political dithering while soldiers die:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

HEALTH CARE.  The House and Senate have anguished all year over whether to include a Socialized Medicine Option in their hallmark health takeover legislation.  Beware the primaries of March.  All eyes turn to the President for leadership.  His response:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

ENERGY TAX INCREASE.  It’s called “Cap and Trade”, which nobody understands.  It’s Al Gore’s midsummer night’s profit dream and everyone else’s nightmare.  It’s DOA in the Senate.  What to do, Mr. President?  Reply:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

SECRET BALLOT REPEAL.  The unions wanted it, Obama promised it.  But the public objected, and now it’s lost somewhere in the wilds of Congress.  The SEIU asks, Et tu, Brute?  The President’s clear position:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE.  They’ve got partner rights, but that doesn’t grant Social Security survivor benefits.  Will they get it all?  Is a rose just as sweet by any other name?  Only Obama knows, and you guessed it:  “No Decision Has Been Made.”

IRAN POLICY.  Something is rotten in the state of Iran, like nuclear weapons, but all Obama wants to do is talk.  Will he block Israel?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”

CLOSING GITMO.  He signed an executive order, but the Bush victims are still there.  He may put them on road-greening crews.  Or buy prisons, which also would come in handy for health insurance dodgers.  Out, damned spot?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”      

SECOND STIMULUS.  When one bill fails, pass another.  But there’s method in the madness.  Stimulus Day, named for Obama, will be an annual event, when everyone hands out credit cards.  Maybe April 15?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”         

ETHICS REFORM.  His staff’s stocked with hand-picked tax cheats, socialist hustlers, czars, and other ne’er-do-wells, thus clothing Obama’s own naked villany.  What happened to open, ethical government?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”

When virtually 100% of your decisions have been wrong since taking office, it may be understandable to slow the pace.  But in the current situation, even as we give thanks a lot of junk is stalled, the reason -- incompetence -- isn’t heartening.  

The trouble is the weird notion of socialists, fascists, and other Democrats that government can solve problems.  As someone said, What fools these mortals be!  No government program has ever worked well.  Not efficiently, not cost-effectively.  In fact, bloated government is the problem.

What’s needed is a replacement team in Congress that says “no” to more government as a matter of principle, not amateur ignorance.  November 2010 can’t come soon enough!

The Obama administration’s stench increased by two pungency levels this week.

Increase # 1 was the President’s reaction to the first terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11/2001.  His White House Outfit moved swiftly -- but only to avert the political disaster of being blamed, rather than deal with the actual problem.  A strategy was hatched to depict the killing of 14 Americans by an Islamic jihad fanatic as nothing more than a soldier snapping under pressure.  Most media crawled docilely into line.

Increase # 2 arose when the public wouldn’t fall for the hoax.  As he usually does when things go badly, Obama fled the country -- leaving behind a major stink bomb to distract attention from his Ft. Hood culpability.  His skunk Attorney General hastily announced the 9/11 mastermind and associates would be brought from Gitmo to New York for trial.        

For an America numbed by numerous Obama disasters already inflicted, the breathtaking stupidity of  this new decision was a disheartening reminder that things can always get worse -- and probably will, as Obama tries to cover each failure with some new and bigger outrage.  Just when it looked like a health care calamity might be averted, Obama sets up our largest city for a years-long wave of jihadist attacks!  And in the end, the terrorists could be set loose on legal technicalities.  Were they properly Mirandized?   

How did it come to this?  We thought we elected a responsible President.  But in office, “change” became revolution as Mr. Obama spread the wealth like socialist mayonnaise on a moldy cheese sandwich.  Everyone would be rich except the rich.  Rightfully, they’ll be poor and can begin their own quest for justice.  

As he should have known, socialism doesn’t work.  Today, with skyrocketing spending, plummeting employment, a soaring national debt and tanking poll numbers, “hope” has become despair.  The President’s a blur of sound-bites and news-clips furiously patching the cracks in his promised Utopia.  Clearly, the blather signifies nothing.

Like the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, most of the President’s troubles began with failure to tell the truth.  In his campaign, he never revealed his intent to destroy America in order to save it.  He would be the fair-minded President, and end the partisan bickering in Washington.  Nobody dreamed he would employ a political majority in Congress to ram a sickening government health care takeover down the throats of opponents.  Why?  The only apparent reason is, “we want to, and we can!”

A foretaste of Obama’s debacle came when he announced the closing of Guantanamo.  Intended as a victory bone tossed to liberal dogs yapping at the table, it was just illusion.  Actually, it might take until year’s end to complete the President’s plan.  Later, it was obvious he had no plan.  He simply assumed his Outfit could do the job.  They were the smartest guys in the room, probably the universe.  In reality, all they’ve ever run is political campaigns, and it shows.  These fakers should control our health care?

So far only a few detainees have left, by Obama paying millions to the host countries.  The closing deadline has been fudged, amid worries he will bring jihadists to America -- a threat now realized.   To defuse some future crisis, the Outfit will leak word that most Gitmo denizens will remain in place until the legal process is resolved, probably after Obama's planned second term.       

This has become the hallmark of the Obama administration:  miniscule results, at extraordinary cost, masked by extravagant claims of success.  We’ve seen it recently in the proclaimed large number of jobs “saved or created” by the Stimulus plan.  Media efforts to verify the government’s boasts found them wildly inflated.  As glowing headlines are refuted with harsh realities disclosed by new media sources, the message has gotten out -- don’t believe what you hear from Washington.

Obamacrats believe, when you can’t beat them, silence them.  Enter Political Correctness, a news-management ploy to ban certain words and thoughts that interfere with government goals.  Early on, Bush’s “war on terror” was declared extinct.  From now on, our enemies would be treated with respect.  We’d negotiate, not go negative.  And, oh, yes, don’t anyone say anything bad about America’s Muslims.  It’s unfair to the great majority who are law-abiding.  True enough, but what if PC is carried too far?  People die.

In the aftermath of Ft. Hood, we’ve learned that various government agencies had gathered potentially damning evidence against the Muslim suspect, but were afraid to do anything with it.  The PC gods mustn’t be roused, you know, it could be bad for one’s career.  A lot of info wasn’t even entrusted to the military, though the accused was an Army major.  And so, once again our government bumbled its way to calamity, the lessons of 9/11 overruled by fear and inertia.

As a master practitioner of the art of PC, Obama spread the virus throughout his administration.  He employed it himself by refusing to admit a “terrorist” could have attacked during his reign.  A prototypical “study” has been ordered to discover the obvious.  How many Democrats does it take to state the truth?  Answer: don’t ask.

This rant explores uncharted territory where no rational human has ventured before -- the mind of a Democrat.

What makes them tick?  Why do Donks prevail in so many snooty provinces, like academia, the arts, media and culture?  While Republicans stoically perform the nation’s real but un-prestigious work, like business, construction, and manufacturing?     

The answer is simple.  

Remember "the clique" in high school?  It was a small, self-centered group of the most popular kids.  The football team captain, head cheerleader, senior class president, richest jerk, funniest drunk, etc.  You know the type, pretentious, supercilious snobs.    

Clique members didn't talk to the school's common riff-raff, who were on the outside, trying to get in.  Maybe a persistent wannabe was admitted once in a while, mostly for the fun of tormenting him, but in general the favored few zealously guarded their bubble of superiority and arrogance.

Guess what.  The clique still abides, only it's grown a lot bigger.  It's called the Democratic Party.  

The Donkey Clique is for anyone who seeks self-identity but hasn’t a clue how to earn it.  A way to be different and better, to stand out from the nerdy crowd without achieving a thing.  It wasn’t for nothing that President Obama was given the Peace Prize, when he had achieved no peace.  He’s a clique leader, and that’s enough.  

Say you’re out of high school, but still lack status. You've tried nose-piercing to no avail; people laughed at the snot dripping out.  The snake tattoo around your neck didn’t draw admiring stares.  Dirty, baggy pants; exposed underwear; rainbow-tufted hair; chew tobacco stains; and camel fleas crawling out from your underarms went for naught.

Nobody noticed you.  Then, in desperation, you made a startling discovery.  The nation’s social and leadership elite had one thing in common -- all were card-carrying Democrats!  Just by joining them you could gain instant status.  And you could keep your baggy pants and fleas, they’d be a status symbol among the other anointed!  Your statement of contempt for middle-class moralism!

Oh, it's so heart-warming and touchy-feely good to be among the elite snobs who fancy themselves the best and the brightest.  The great part is, your drugged-out friends, even your dysfunctional family will all be welcomed, even admired.  All anyone has to do is join the party and voila! they have total Moral Superiority (in their own mind) over the slobs who aren’t members.  It’s their version of Muslim extremists deeming everyone else “infidels”, or India’s upper-class shunning “Untouchables”.

As a newly-hatched Democrat, you quickly learn to follow the dictates of  your  clique’s leaders.  It sounds really good -- they want to save the world!  What could be nobler than that?  Feed the hungry, stop pollution, spread the wealth.  It’s so fine, so virtuous.  Shame on those rich, evil Republicans and conservatives who want to do the exact opposite.  Or at least that’s what you’re told, and a good team player doesn’t question the captain.  Besides, the same partisan message is reinforced on all the nightly TV joke shows, not to mention the music blasting from your player.  Your main intellectual sources.

You’re proud to be in the “party of the little guy”, even if it’s financed by millionaires and billionaires.  They’re altruistic and just want to help those less fortunate than themselves.  Well, maybe they make a buck or two in the process -- you notice Al Gore could pocket $1 billion for himself from international efforts to combat climate change -- but overall, they’re swell guys.  Real Democrats, like you.

One thing you do perceive: your party leaders seem to be congenital bosses, who lust to tell other people -- their inferiors -- what to do.  And they’ve found the perfect outlet for their obsession, the government.  That’s pretty much all they’re interested in.  They want it to be bigger and better, so they’ll be bigger and better.  With its colossal power, they can not only force disbelievers to accept their grandiose social engineering, but pay the cost too.  It’s miraculous, and you're part of it!           

Okay, an occasional word of disapproval shows up on alternative media, while you’re surfing.  Bigots claiming the world doesn’t want to be saved, that Democratic programs cost too much, or whatever.  Obviously, these skeptics have to be silenced.  Your clique
tries to make things better, while the opposition resists change.  It’s the intent that counts, not actual results.  So what if there’s been waste, destruction and other unintended consequences?  Saving the world is tough.  With bigger programs and a few more trillion, though, we’ll get it right.  Someday.  So, pay up!

Health care reform is a case-in-point.  Disbelievers call it a dumb-arse trillion-dollar socialist medicine scheme.  But our Donk Wonks in Congress are now perfecting the monstrosity, even though more than half the nation opposes it.  “We got the power, baby, and we’re gonna shove it down your throat -- even if you have to enjoy its benefits in jail, because you won’t pay,” they seem to be saying.

Face it, you can’t beat us, so join us.  Forget all the alleged facts, the issues, the arguments.  It’s our team against yours, and we’ll win.  That’s the Democratic mindset,  the high school clique, frozen in time.          

Ever notice jeans-makers sell their product on TV by focusing-in on the wearer’s butt?  When searching for the Democratic mentality, you have to do the same. 

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GREENHOUSE GAS DETECTOR -- Work with cattle, other animals.  Hold supplied detector to emission area and tally results. Must supply own boots.  Apply to B. Obama at the White House.

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In Virginia and New Jersey, the counter-revolution against Obamaism was born.

Average Americans, fed-up with Democratic taxing, spending and corruption, began taking back their country from its Washington, D.C., invaders Tuesday.  They sent a clear message: fix the economy instead of expanding big government, and tighten Uncle Sam’s belt instead of billing our children and grandchildren for today’s liberal grandee excesses.

The only throwback to old-style tax-and-spend was in an upstate New York congressional district, which got snarled in a decision by GOP insiders to pick a “safe” Democrat look-alike as their candidate to fill a vacancy.  In the age of Obama, they worried, due homage must be paid to media intransigence, political correctness, and similar trivial pieties.

But We the People would have none of that.  In both northern and southern states they elected conservative governors dedicated to growing jobs and the economy rather than subservience to liberal ideology.  And today across the country, faint sounds of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” stir.  In millions of patriot hearts, chilled by the specter of  Obama-led catastrophe, there’s new hope.  And not the government-love kind.    

The icy political geniuses who apply the revolution from the White House throne room, while our nascent ruler fronts with words of peace and benevolence, must be shaking in their jack-boots.  How could the Messiah be rejected?

For one thing, people know socialism when they see it.  Free money, free housing, free cars, and free health care can’t flow miraculously from Obama’s stash.  There’s a catch -- he’s dictating what kinds of loans we can’t get, how much business execs can’t be paid, and how tax-aided firms can’t operate.  And now they’re about to enact 2,000 pages of blather directing what kind of health care we can’t have, and who must be taxed for it.

Actually, there’s no such thing as socialism.  The concept was developed years ago by would-be tyrants as a means of winning public approval. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” may appeal to freeloaders, but not those who produce.  In practice, as the industrious balk, “socialism” invariably becomes simple dictatorship -- as Europeans found out when their “Light” brand led to non-elected Eurocrat oppression.  

Yet, the lessons of history are lost on our new D-Generation that largely twitters and twatters in self-absorption.  Part of a “morally superior elite” Democratic clique whose college years are/were spent on sex and drugs, they get their political views from TV comics who turn out to be sex  predators and partisan fakers.  Such “useful idiots” are easily led by the exploitive billionaires who run their party from behind-the-scenes.

If Democrats and their dumb, plodding government could create a Utopian society, they would have done so long ago.  In reality the party’s just a haven for immature minds who lust to tell others how to live their lives, usually for financial gain.  The Founders had it right  -- government is the natural-born enemy of freedom and human progress.  Maybe that painful lesson is being re-learned by a citizenry turning against the insanity on display in our nation’s capital.   

Following is a verbatim parody transcript of President Obama’s decision to send troops to the War Zone, secretly recorded during a conference call with his foreign policy team --

I have reviewed the election process, and I have made my decision.  As I promised, I have based it on careful evaluation of all factors involved, not a hasty response to some arbitrary and needless deadline.  Unlike those responsible for past quagmires, I do not act recklessly on important matters like the safety of our troops in the field.  I do so only if there is an unread bill in Congress costing at least a trillion dollars, which is my personal minimum for getting involved, and I know nothing about the subject.  But I digress.

In deciding on this military solution, I have consulted with the Chief Joints of Staff and my top advisors and czars.  Some of the latter are communists and socialists, or just general thugs.  This is very helpful, because they know how the enemy thinks.  I was asked to heed the words of Chairman Mao, “If in doubt, kill them all.”  But, rather than send thousands of troops to accomplish this, I feel we must employ a broader perspective.  It’s how I recently dealt with the issue of illegal pot use in our nation.  I simply declared it legal.  Problem solved.

Similarly, I know there will be less public concern over the number of troops if there is less flawed media coverage.  Our constitution has been interpreted to provide freedom of speech, but not freedom FROM speech.  To correct this, I have launched a War on Error.  There will be zero tolerance for news media errors, as I define them.  If a media entity doesn’t support my administration, it will be deemed an enemy and I will attack it at the source.

I have initially targeted the diabolical FOX TELEVISION NEWS NETWORK.  So, my decision is, I will send a small cadre of troops, a hundred or less, to hound Fox’s headquarters building for the duration of my presidency.  Nobody will be allowed in or out.  I believe this will solve the troop problem.  

There’s also the minor issue of Afghanistan troop levels.  As part of  the War on Error, I will not jeopardize national security by releasing such information.  At least not until I complete my goal of making everyone in America equally impoverished, which will also deter future terrorist attacks.  If we are broker than them, why would they bother?

This is your Commander in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama.  Heaven help our country, or whatever.

The above is a guaranteed verbatim parody of conceptual remarks.

INT. CAR - NIGHT

ART MAJORS and CANDY WISE, two slightly odd college kids, drive in Washington, D.C., on a stormy night.

CANDY: Where are we?

ART: Somewhere in Washington.  BANG! (o.c.)  Uh-oh!  A tire.

EXT. CAR - NIGHT

In drenching rain, they see the flat tire.  

ART: Hell, no spare.  We need help.  Got your cell-phone?

CANDY: Damn!  Battery’s dead. (checks watch) It’s three AM!

They look around, through the murk see the U.S. Capitol’s lighted dome nearby.  Art heads for it.  Candy follows.

EXT. DOORWAY, U.S. CAPITOL - NIGHT

Art pounds on the door.  It’s opened by HUSTLIN’ HARRY REID, a tall, gaunt, balding butler in a black suit.  

ART: Hello, sir.  I’m Art Majors, and this is Candy Wise, my fiancé. Sorry to bother you, but is there a phone available?      

Harry nods OK, and they enter.

INT. MARBLE FOYER - NIGHT

It’s outlandishly decorated with statues of deceased politicians, oil paintings, etc.  MUSIC blares o/c.

HARRY: You’re lucky, it’s a special night.  Nancy’s having a blast.  I’m sure there’s a phone you can use.  

A young maid, VALERIE SCARRIT, comes down the stairs.

VALERIE: I’m Valerie Scarrit, I’ll take you there.

They follow her, and she sings “The Pelosi Polka” to the MUSIC which grows louder as they approach --

    We love. . .the Nan Pelosi Polka, ya-ya,
    We move it ma-ma, we groove it pa-pa.
    Just grab a lobbyist, like a snake,
    Shake them down or you they’ll make. . .

INT. HOUSE CHAMBER - NIGHT    

They enter the large room, a scene of degeneracy.  Drunken LAWMAKERS, in grotesque costumes/masks, cavort half-naked and sing as a German band plays in the corner.

    So yes. . .her fat monster bills we will pass,
    And all who say “no”, get kicked in the grass.
    Don’t read it, don’t worry, it’s perfect as-is,
    Just vote in a hurry, it gives you a jizz.

At the Speaker’s podium, dominatrix NANCY PELOSI, in see-through vermillion pants-suit, is entangled with BIKER GUYS. She sees the students enter like lost souls in hell.  

    Let’s do. . .the Nan Pelosi Polka so fine,
    Take a big swig of more government wine.
    We got elected, we’re here and in charge,
    So ram it on through, as long as it’s large.

Valerie rips-off her maid’s outfit, leaving only skimpy panties and bra.  She flouts it before Art, who’s stunned. Candy gives her a mean look and dances with Art.

    Don’t slow. . .the Nan Pelosi Polka at all,
    Tonight is the night we’re having a ball.
    Can’t wait any more to find out the cost,
    We’re taxed-out anyway, re-election is lost.

Before the podium, Rep. BARNEY FRANK, in full drag regalia, scribbles on a piece of paper and holds it up.  

FRANK: I have an amendment, madam Speaker.

SPEAKER PELOSI: Without objection, accepted.  Anything else, Barney?

Frank jambs the slip in a “bill” pile on a table.

Seeing this, Candy is alarmed and turns to leave.  But Harry shuts and locks the door, pockets the key.  Frank arrives.

FRANK: I’m Barney Frank, don’t be scared.  I’m really sweet.  

ART: Uh, our car broke down in the rain.  Can you help us?

FRANK (smirking): Is that really why you’re here?

He nods to Harry, who with Valerie’s help strips Art and Candy down to their underwear.

Rep. CHARLES RANGEL arrives and inspects the scared pair.

RANGEL: I’m Charles Rangel, the ethics expert here.  (to Harry) This isn’t right.  You can’t just mistreat our constituents --

But Harry and Valerie prod them to the Speaker, who has eyes for both.  She sends the bikers away and pounds the gavel.

SPEAKER PELOSI: Shame on you!  You’ve misbehaved in our House.  (to Harry and Valerie)  Take them to their rooms!

Suddenly, Rep. ALAN GRAYSON rides into the chamber on a motorcycle, dressed in black leather.  He stops by Candy.

GRAYSON: Get on, Ho, I’ll help you.          

Scared Candy complies and is whisked away as Pelosi grins.  Harry and Valerie lead Art in the same direction.

RANGEL: (worried) I hope Grayson don’t violate anything.

SPEAKER PELOSI: I’ll show how we do it in Frisco.

INT. DARK ANTEROOM - NIGHT

Alone in a bed, Candy sees Nancy enter, in Art’s clothes.  The Speaker lies down beside her and fondles her.  Soon they’re making love.  Candy enjoys it.  They finish.

CANDY: I can’t believe I lost my virginity here!

SPEAKER PELOSI (in husky voice): Thanks, gotta go now.

INT. SECOND DARK ANTEROOM - NIGHT

Dressed in Candy’s clothes, the Speaker enters and lies down by Art, asleep in bed.  She strokes him until he wakes.

ART: We shouldn’t be doing this.

SPEAKER PELOSI: You don’t know the half of it.

ART: Okay, since you insist.

They make love in the dark, and finish.  Pelosi rises.

SPEAKER PELOSI: (dressing, leaving) Gotta go clean-up.

INT. HOUSE CHAMBER - NIGHT  

Flushed Pelosi, in her pants-suit, drags up to the podium.

SPEAKER PELOSI: Sorry, had to confer with both sides.

She pounds the gavel weakly, to no avail as the raucous NOISE persists.  She half-lifts the 1,000-page bill.

SPEAKER PELOSI: What the hell bill is this, anyway?  Doesn’t matter.  Hope it hasn’t been read?  No debate?  Republicans evicted?  Lobbyists okay with it?  Everyone drunk?  Good, time for final passage.  Everyone will be recorded as voting “yea”. (banging gavel) It’s passed.  

Harry mounts to the rostrum, pounds the gavel once.

HARRY: On behalf of the Senate, I declare our acceptance!  To the White House with it, whatever it is!

He leans to peck Pelosi’s cheek, but she shrinks away.

SPEAKER PELOSI: I know what you want, Harry.  NO!  Let’s get the hell out of here.

Harry throws the bill in the air.  Pages fall all over the place as the mob rushes for the exits.   

Bear with this, folks.  Please read the article before deciding.

First, the context: Democrats have floated massively flawed statistics to sell their health care coup, as well as other grandiose spending programs.  But figures can lie.   

The Democrats'  “jobs” stimulus fiasco is an example.  The Federal Highway Admin. doesn’t actually count jobs created.  It simply assumes 28,000 jobs for every $1 billion spent.  Actually, it’s “job years” in Obamaspeak -- the amount required to fund one worker for one year.  So if all workers on a $1 billion highway project stayed on the job a typical four years, only 7,000 real jobs would be created, not the fake 28,000.

Also, the “jobs created” figures includes the cost of land acquisition for projects.  Thus, if the Feds fund a bunch of low-priority airport improvements as they did recently, the false jobs benefit could be further inflated by the cost of land for new runways.  But, why worry?  The phony data helps sell further “jobs creating” government empires.

Equally bogus is the oft-repeated “46 million people don’t have health insurance” scam.  Gotta overturn our health system to include them, right?  Problem is, that figure is bloated by millions of young, healthy folk who could afford insurance but choose not to buy it.  Plus millions of aliens here illegally.  The number of Americans who really can’t get health insurance boils down to around 15 million, give or take.  But, because they believed the nonsense, coverage-bare Obama-backers will wake up one day and find his plan forces them to buy expensive insurance or go to jail.  And half the uninsured will remain that way even after we're taxed $1 trillion to help them.

Probably the worst data abuse resulted from a new study by Harvard’s Dr. David Himmelstein and others, which claimed 45,000 premature deaths occur every year among those who lack health insurance.  The total was broken-down by state, and even city, for the convenience of media types who predictably produced a river of ink demanding enactment of Obamacare to save lives.

Trouble is, the deaths figure is false.  It was based on a 1993 study in which “researchers” interviewed people, found who were uninsured at that time and then tracked their deaths.  A decade later, they reported how many had died, as if lack of insurance was a cause in every case, and then projected the total nationally.  No effort was made to see if, as was likely, many study subjects had acquired insurance over the years.  All were simply assumed to be still uninsured.  Why let truth stand in the way of useful propaganda?   

Well, as they say in court, Democrats opened the door.  Let’s do some data projections of our own.  Start with a U.S. News and World Report posting of Oct. 26, 2009:

“About 45 million elderly or disabled people get their health insurance from Medicare. In 2008, it cost the government about $450 billion. The figure is growing rapidly, consuming ever larger chunks of the federal budget, something Congress desperately wants to fix as part of healthcare reform.”

That means Medicare costs about $10,000 per senior.  We know Medicare will be cut by $400 billion in ten years under Obamacare, or $40 billion a year.  Simple math -- $40 billion divided by $10,000 -- shows 4 million seniors will lose health care each year, and presumably die prematurely as a result.  In ten years the slaughter would total 40 million, making Obama a contender (with Chairman Mao) for the worst mass murderer in history.  Where’s the headlines?

Okay, okay.  The paragraph above isn’t serious, it’s just statistics manipulation to prove a point -- that the Democrats’ hoked-up claims shouldn’t be believed.  There’s no way to prove how many seniors will expire early because heart operations, lung transplants, cancer removal and other medical treatments are withheld under Obama’s wondrous “reform”.  But it strains credulity to say NONE will die!  That’s why the furor over “death panels”, which prompted Democrats to scrap their masterwork’s “end of life” sections.

NO version of the health care monstrosity should be enacted.  All their bills should be trucked to a recycling center and fed into the grinding machine.  Watching sausage being made is less nauseating than Congress’ legislative insanity.

Because Medicare is being seriously de-funded, seniors don’t have much Hope.  They’ll get the short end of the stick under Obama’s heartless “Change”.  Let’s hope someone keeps score of the carnage, so the “Peace Prize” President can be judged on his gruesome results rather than lofty but empty words.           






    

President Obama’s job approval numbers may have tanked, but his popularity remains high.  He still polls in the 50%-plus range, about as good as his 53% election victory.  Therefore, his multi-trillion dollar tax and spend programs must be enacted by Congress.  

At least, that’s the conventional wisdom at the White House and among cheering journalist wonks.  But is this reality, or just a convenient untruth?

Say you’re an average Joe, couched-out in flyover territory, watching fossil TV network news.  You answer the phone and it’s a pollster who wants to know your views on major public policy issues.  Hey, this is your chance to have an impact on national politics!

But first, you want to avoid screwing-up.  So, you’re a little wary when the first question asked is some version of whether you like Obama personally.  You happen to be Caucasian, and are well-aware of the danger of appearing racially judgmental.  Also, it occurs to you that you really don’t know who’s asking these questions.  It could be anyone, including some busy-body trying to stir-up discord.

Even if the caller is legitimate, there’s possible trouble.  Despite the promise of anonymity, you’ve seen news reports of mass thefts of people’s Social Security numbers and other personal information by computer hackers.  If you say you don’t like the President, your name could wind-up on some Racist Enemies data base, rendering you permanently discredited when seeking a job, bank loan, insurance, or housing.      

All these thoughts flash through your mind in seconds.  But you have to answer, since even silence might be suspect.  So you decide it’s better to be safe than sorry.  Just mumble you like the guy personally.  What could be wrong with that?  It puts you with the nation’s open-minded, enlightened, tolerant majority -- not conservatives, who’re pictured in media as dark, hateful and despicable folk who want the President to fail.

Since you’re a poll-savvy person, you know follow-up questions will delve into particular issues such as foreign policy, health-care, etc.  You can state your honest views on these matters with impunity, since it’s politically acceptable to be on either side.  It isn’t racist to support more troops for Afghanistan, or oppose massive hikes in the national debt.

And so you give a positive “liking” response.  The pollster’s questions continue apace, and your doubts about some Obama policies are duly recorded.  All this shows up later in poll results that Americans generally like our first black President, but oppose him on some specific issues.

But how accurate is the majority “personal support” being proclaimed?  How many poll respondents, if any, give politically correct replies on this subject though they wouldn’t vote for Obama again as his leftist views have become evident?  We may never know.

The peril of being pictured as racist, no matter how inaccurately, was shown once again in the recent Rush Limbaugh/National Football League imbroglio.  Totally false “racial comments” attributed to him were planted on internet sites and then quoted without verification by the same journalists who tout their professionalism over “amateur” bloggers.  The NFL folded and denied Limbaugh his right to freedom of speech.  The race-card is increasingly drawn by GOP-hating Democrats when the political deck is stacked against them. 

Such attacks could be made against any person for even the slightest alleged violation of political correctness.  These unwritten mind-reading edicts are promulgated and enforced by liberal media judges and juries who have a vested interest in stifling debate about flawed policies of their beloved Democratic party.  With the government gun available for enforcement, the last free expression available for many Americans is the secret ballot.  And the Donks are moving against this, for union members.    

It’s particularly worrisome that most large polling firms are aligned with and paid by the partisan media.  New questions about their methods were raised this week with one survey’s finding of suddenly increased public support for a socialized medicine option in the health care bill -- just as that measure was being finalized by majority-party Senators.  Shifty wording used in a key question, and interviews of far more Democrats than Republicans, produced the propitious result.  Of course, that was resolved by “weighting” -- or was it?  Only pollsters know all their secretive and labyrinthine techniques.

Let’s hope the poll-genies step-up efforts to insure that results of their Obama popularity questions are accurate, and so inform the public.  They may be trying, but the disparity between personal liking and policies dislike in poll findings is largely unexplained.  

Until a believable cause other than political correctness is shown, many may view the Chief Exec’s popularity ratings with skepticism.  That would be unfair to him, since he deserves to be judged on performance.  Don’t act like he has to be propped-up by polls and media, who may be well-meaning but ultimately damage his cause.    

                 

(One of several occasional articles on America’s most corrupt institutions)

Should we ditch Wall Street?  As in, tear down all the buildings and replace them with wetlands fed by the Hudson River?  So New Yorkers would at least have a place to take off their shirt and enjoy nature, rather than lose it to a bunch of high-toned gamblers?

The theory: We don’t need the New York Stock Exchange and associated money-grubbers any more.  They do more harm than good.  They’re largely to blame for the current worldwide financial crash which is being exploited by President Obama and his Democratic co-conspirators to expand government.  Maybe the Street will be its own victim.  Should we destroy it to save capitalism?

Originally, the NYSE was created to enable entrepreneurs to raise working capital, so they could provide the goods and services needed by a growing population.  Soon an army of associated paper-pushers was added: stock brokers, analysts, money managers, raters, mutual funders, etc.  Plus a whole bunch of government regulators.  As the watchdogs proved ineffective at halting fraud, more regulators were added.  Here's where the theory advances --

Nobody noticed, but the whole bunch are just high-cost middle-men.  They produce no cars, homes, or cans of soup for average Americans.   They merely make, or facilitate, paper trades, extracting extravagant commissions for themselves in the process.

Soon, as the Street's population grew, the middle-men cart was pulling the capital formation horse.  Wall Street became little more than a giant casino, where fast-buck artists wheel and deal in frantic daily money manipulations.  Other than by an occasional Initial Public Offering of stock, the corporations whose paper is the subject of all the activity earn little.  Their stock value may rise or plummet on any given day, though there’s no change in the business basics.  

In the past quarter, even as corporations tanked, big Wall St. firms ripped-off billions. Unemployment and suffering may have been rampant among the lowly workers who make this country tick, but one trader boasted of earning $1 Billion from “quick” (by the minute, or even second?) stock turnovers.  All with zero benefit to the nation.

So, now comes President Obama with a proposal to redress the crapshoot.  His regulators haven’t been able to cope with all the unfathomable new commission- and ponzi-cows, such as asset-backed derivatives, so he has a solution -- more regulators.  The scheme is presented as a populist rein-in of bloated moneyman pay, but it’s a fascist Trojan Horse in disguise.   

As has been noted lately, fascism is an economic system in which private stores and industry remain in place, but they’re controlled by the government behind-the-scenes.  Some would point to General Motors and Chrysler, large banks, Wall Street majors, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, AIG insurance, and planned socialized medicine as examples.  College student loans are among the next takeover targets.

Soon all of America’s top corporations could find themselves subject to such intrusive controls, masked as prevention of  stock market excesses.  They will be virtual captives of  Obama’s whacko czars and bureaucrats.  A lot of health care players, such as AARP and the AMA, think they’ve staved-off such ruin by cutting deals with their future overseers, but that’s not how government expansionists work.  What’s given today can be taken back tomorrow, with little more than the stroke of a pen.

That bring us back to a theoretical alternative -- ditch Wall Street completely.  Because of the computer’s invention, there’s no longer a need for the gamblers' costly services.  Let stocks be sold and bought solely by the companies which issue them, with no middleman rip-off.  All the listed corporations are big boys who have, or could launch,  web sites and easily handle the additional chore.   Regulation would be simple: no transactions of any kind, involving stocks, bonds or other company equities, anywhere else.  Full apples-and-oranges prospectus-type information would be published on web-sites, in plain English.

It’s the capitalist way.  Companies would reap the benefits, and suffer the stock-value losses, of their own business operations.  To prevent gambling, a required minimum stock holding period would be established for investors.  Policies would be set on other details as needed.

You want CEO pay cut?  Make it simple -- no exec of a major corporation could earn more than the Obama-sanctified $250,000 a year in salary, indexed for inflation.  Any additional compensation would be paid monthly in his/her company’s current stock, in an amount approved by other stockholder votes.  It could be re-sold to the company at market price.  And by the way, there’d be only a single category of common stock for all.  No voting stock, preferred stock, or such nonsense.  If the execs do a good (long-term) job they’ll make money.  If not, welcome to real capitalism.         

Oh, well, so much for theories.  The outlook is, Wall Street will continue as the national gambling hall.  Big players will continue cutting their deals with Obama.  In due course, the stock ponzi schemes will crash anew.  Once again, millions of Americans wiped-out financially will demand action.  The government will hire yet another round of regulators.  But greed will abide, until the money swamp is drained and replaced by something more useful.  The question is, what will it be?

If you build a jail in the rural hinterlands, will inmates come?  

The folks in Hardin, Montana, thought so.  The town is so small it doesn’t even have a police force, and there aren’t many options to create jobs.  Even Wal-Mart didn’t want to build there, and starting another sheep ranch was out of the question.

But there’s always a demand for jail space, and they require lots of guards and other staff to attend the reluctant guests.  Hope overcame caution.  Money was raised, and soon a large, modern incarceration facility rose amid the area’s farmland and foothills.

Hardiners thought they had it made when the new project attracted a wealthy out-of-state investor.  He would take over the jail, contract for prisoners, and start hiring.  Only, it was learned the moneyman had a shady past and might become an inmate rather than employer.

So now the prison sits there, finished but empty.  Where will the convicts come from?  As it happens, the Obamacare socialized medicine bill, now working its way through Congress, may generate lots of prisoners.  And they could be headed for Montana.

The plan requires all Americans to have health insurance.  If they don’t get it through their employer, they’ll have to buy it themselves.  If they refuse, under the House bill they can be fined.  If they don’t pay, they can be jailed.  Of course, many might wonder what happened to the constitution.  You can’t be forced to buy cars or bread.  Why insurance?

Obama, who dislikes the constitution because it doesn’t spell-out what the government can do to you, seems to be ignoring such details.  After all, the tattered document is what judges say it is, and our authoritarian president will appoint hundreds of amenable Federal judges.  Senate Democrats look forward to confirming them.

So, under Obamacare, millions of recalcitrant citizens could get in trouble with the law.  More cities likely will build jails to compete for the job bonanza.  But little Hardin has an edge.  It’s in Montana, home-state of big government spending Sen. “Maximus” Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee which hatched the President’s ignoble plan.

To garner reluctant Senate votes for the public-despised scheme, Baucus wrote-in special  favors like legislative candy.  Majority don “Rarely Heed” Reid, who often ignores the wishes of home state voters, got Nevada exempted from some of the bill’s heavy cost.  Many other solons, including Sen. Olympia Snowed (“R”-Me), were courted.  

If the committee's phantom “conceptual” verbiage is ever re-written into an actual bill, why couldn’t Baucus slip in a couple lines for himself?  They would direct that Obamacare jailees from all states be sent to the Hardin facility.  Locals might name it “The Max Baucus Memorial Prison for Health Care Beneficiaries”.  That would be a fitting honor for foisting this mess on hapless Americans.

l.  It was the Olympics Committee’s booby-prize.

2.  He was nominated by George W. Bush.

3.  The Nobel awards are funded by George Soros.
 
4.  The SEIU gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse.

5.  When he leaves to accept, it will reduce White House gasses.

6.  Michelle wanted to shop in Oslo.

7.  He dreamed he won, and the Nobel guys said “Why not?”

8.  The alternative was Joe Biden.

9.  White House Dominatrix Valerie Jarrett’s out-reach.

10.  Something’s rotten in Norway.      

President Obama must hate seniors.  First, he decreed they won’t get a Social Security cost of living increase next year, though rent charges at federally-subsidized housing where many of them live have been hiked.  And, retired federal employees may do without a COL raise, while the President and members of Congress vote themselves a nifty boost.

Worst of all, Obama's health care “reform” bill is a direct assault on seniors.  To finance health insurance for illegal aliens and the young uninsured, whose votes they covet, Democrats are raiding the oldsters’ Medicare program for half a trillion dollars.  

The draconian theft, along with the addition of  30 million or more insured with no increase in the number of doctors, inevitably will lead to health care rationing for the elderly.  Many medics will quit the low-paying Medicare program altogether, while others will banish seniors to the waiting list’s end.

As life-prolonging health care is withheld or postponed on a massive scale, the result is predictable: many of the elderly -- perhaps millions -- will die early, as they do now in other countries which reap the benefits of socialized medicine.  That’s why seniors strongly oppose the Democratic plan for government takeover of  U.S. health care.

Ordinarily, the self-styled “party of the little guy” presumably would be concerned over political ramifications of alienating a major base group.  Yet the Senior Doomsday Bill is being rushed through the Senate in the usual way for trillion-dollar Obama schemes -- poorly understood, and with only a guess at the cost.  

Unread?  Heck, the bill hasn’t even been written yet!  Senators merely glance at vague “concept” summaries in their mad dash for government expansion.  Even Democrats from retirement states, like Florida’s Bill Nelson, double-deal on seniors with seeming impunity.  He offered a gimmick amendment “grandfathering” current Medicare Advantage members, while supporting calamity for future seniors.  Why such clumsy bravado?

Democrats have a political ace-in-the-hole: Dead seniors don’t vote.  If enough succumb to Obamacare’s hemlock prescription, the party’s future candidates won’t face retaliation.   Missing senior votes will be replaced by those of aliens, granted suffrage by the pending immigration reform bill.  And, as “person(s) within” the U.S., they’ll also get health care coverage, from the Supreme Court, under the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection of the laws” clause -- the real reason a blanket “public option” is so ardently sought in the bill.

But, in their power-abusing sprint to make history, Democrats haven’t given enough thought to a factor that has long plagued such ambitions -- taxes.  Their budget-busting “health” measure has enough hidden fees and taxes to sink not just a battleship, but the whole fleet.  And those who’ll shell out -- notably including liberal sons and daughters of doomed seniors -- don’t realize it yet.  When they do, there’ll be political hell to pay.

Most of the thumb-sucking offspring voted for homily-chanting Obama and his cohorts in Congress.  In time they’ll learn, when you vote Democrat, you deserve what you get.  The uncaring kids are headed for the poor-house.  That could be the seniors’ final revenge.  

Fresh-back from the G20 Summit, where he surrendered American economic sovereignty to the likes of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, President Obama made a triumphant trip to Denmark to collect his due -- Olympic Games in Chicago.

The Windy City’s president exuded confidence.  After all, he would be dealing with  internationalists, America’s superiors but his peers, whom he had courted ever since  organizing the White House.  He had jetted the world apologizing for United States misdeeds under outlaw George Bush, guffawed with dictators ranging from Ahmadinejad to Hugo Chavez, and extolled the joys of losing as practiced by the U.N., World Bank, IMF, and other globalist artifacts.  Surely, all that groveling deserved reward.

But unexpectedly, a Danish ghost must have intervened.  Obama’s hardball pitch, the First Goddess’s breathless cheerleading, and offers by gangland dignitaries were refused.  The Cubs failed in the National League Central, and Obama’s slumlord pals lost their bid for billions in real estate gold.  Brazil got games.  Mighty Obama had struck out.

Of course, Obama did douse one foreign policy fire -- his failure to talk with the lead general in the Afghanistan conflict.  That officer had pressured him to send more troops NOW, the type of order Obama likes to give but not receive.  The solution?  A photo-op on Air Force One, after which the general was sent away.  Soon a twisted version of their chat, reflecting Obama’s superior military expertise, would be leaked to the NY Times or other courtesan press gofer.  Meanwhile, eight more American soldiers died in suspended motion battle as their wavering Commander-in-Chief consulted his political staff, which in turn sought guidance from red-hot teens at the Huffington Post and other turgid zones.      

Admittedly, Obama ran a fine campaign with his hope and change mantra.  Swooning liberal-guilters, Democratic hard-liners, indoctrinated college grads, and down-and-outers who read the solution to their problems in Obama’s easy promises gave him a slim 53 percent victory.  But now he’s running against a tougher foe -- performance expectations.  And as the unemployment rate soars, national debt mounts, and poll numbers tank, it’s increasingly worrisome that 24/7 campaigning is all the President can do.

Our chief executive is nearing the start of his tenth month in office, and blaming all the inconvenient problems on George Bush will no longer suffice.  Nor will retreating to a hidden stall for a quick nicotine hit.  It’s time for Obama to scrap his grandiose socialist takeover and spending plans, and deal with what really concerns Americans -- jobs and national defense.  Their message: Get off the tube, roll up your sleeves, and get to work!  
     
    

Late-night humor shows may be the next Obama takeover target.  He’s already socialized everything from auto-making to student loans, and he’s after health care.  But Jay Leno is faltering in prime time, and David Letterman has turned un-funny with his blabber about sexual conquests of female subordinates. 

There’s nowhere to go for comic relief from bad news about the economy, Democrats gone spending-wild, and Presidential dithering while crazies develop nuclear bombs.  But wait!  No crisis can be wasted.  In his weekly radio dissertation, Obama stepped up to the mike with the season’s funniest whopper -- 

( R)eforming our health insurance system will be a critical step in rebuilding our economy so that. . .small businesses can grow and expand and create new jobs again.

Wow!  Passing Obama’s Doomsday socialized medicine bill -- with its trillion-dollar cost financed partly by massive new taxes on small business owners -- will stimulate job growth?  It doesn’t get more laughable than that. 

After all, 20,116,783 Americans have lost their job since the president took office.  That’s the total of initial weekly unadjusted unemployment claims through Sept. 26, as reported by the U.S. Labor Dept.  The raw figures show he’s one of history’s top job-killers. 

What about the Democrats’ near-trillion-dollar “stimulus” plan?  That’s creating a lot of work, right?  Um, actually they timed it politically, so the bulk of spending will take place next year, just before the elections.  There’ll be signs aplenty fronting projects all over the nation proclaiming how many jobs they’re creating.  Funny, huh?   

By that time, millions of families will be ruined.  Worried about re-election since their jobs plan didn’t work, Dems are now talking-up a new “stimulus” spending measure.  Another Obama laffer in the making.  But the joke’s on us.

The Feds can use any bogus Obamacare job-creating figure they want, since they don’t actually count jobs.  Under the stimulus program, for example, they simply assume 28,000 jobs are created for every $1 billion spent.  In a four-year $157-million highway project in Pinellas County, Florida, that works out to 4,400 “man-year” jobs.  But real-world economists point out that if every worker stays on the job four years, only 1,100 jobs will have been created. 

Is even 1,100 jobs reliable?  A contractor with $103 million of the project’s total told a local newspaper his company had 200 employees in the area a year ago, but by March only 40 were working.  Maybe next year it’ll be more.  So, $44 million in the stimulus portion of funding creates next to no actual jobs.

Bottom line:  Don’t believe the job growth being touted by the President.  It’s more like an audition for a humor show.

1.  The system is broken and must be fixed.  Yes, health care costs too much and there’s waste and fraud aplenty, mostly because of government intrusion like Medicare.  But, since government is the problem, vast expansion of government control isn’t the solution.  Most people probably would support small fixes, such as helping to make health insurance available to Americans who can’t afford it, but not by junking all plans.  

2.  You can keep your existing health insurance under Obamacare.  This promise, repeated endlessly by the President, simply can’t be met.  There is a guarantee in HR 3200, the House bill, but it’s nullified by the next provision if the insurance company makes any change in your policy.  For example, if it raises the premium rate, all policies are cancelled and you must re-apply.  If your ap is rejected, tough.    

3.  You can keep your doctor.  This is even more dubious.  A survey found nearly half the nation’s doctors will seriously consider retiring if the government takeover is approved.  Yours could be among them.  Also, when 37 million more people are forced to buy health insurance but no new doctors are provided, many overstressed docs will drop existing Medicare patients.  If someone tells you otherwise, ask to see the bill’s unequivocal doctor-retention guarantee.  Clue: there isn’t, and can’t be, any such pledge.

4.  No benefits are included for undocumented aliens.  All you have to do is check media reports of vote-hungry House liberals demanding health-care benefits for undocumented aliens be added to their bill.  There’s a voracious Democratic appetite for this, and they won’t stop until it’s satisfied.  A provision could be slipped into the Senate/House conference committee version, or included in the big “immigration reform” bill coming your way soon.  Or it could be dumped into an unstoppable “Christmas tree” measure rushed through Congress at session’s end.  If nothing else, Justice Sotomayor’s caring Supreme Court will decree inclusion.  Somehow, some way, if Federalized health care is enacted, benefits for aliens will become part of it.  Who’ll pay the bill?  You.

5.  No funds are included for abortions.  This one is seriously devious, because it’s true, but only technically.  The catch is, there’s no “Hyde Amendment” barring use of any of the bill’s funds for abortions.  Absent this, all medical treatments available in underlying law are funded.  This includes abortions.  So, if an untainted Hyde Amendment isn’t added to the final bill, which doesn’t seem likely, your taxes will pay for limitless abortions on demand, probably including the notorious partial-birth variety.     

6.  Health care is a right.  Obamacare is being sold as a way to cover some 37 million Americans who currently lack health insurance.  Of course, about a third are young healthy people who don’t need, and have chosen not to buy, such insurance.  For them the new program is a requirement, not a “right”.  And if they refuse to go along with the government’s demand, they could be jailed.  The dictionary defines “right” as “a justified claim or entitlement, or the freedom to do something.”  Freedom is “the ability to exercise free will and make choices independently of any external determining force.”  But you have no choice under Obamaspeak “rights”.  What’s next?  The right to Federal auto insurance, fire insurance, life insurance?  With so many new rights, we’ll need more jails.               

7.  The plan won’t increase the national debt.  Sure.  That’s why Congress is raising the debt by more than a trillion bucks -- the first of endless increasing installment on government health care and other Obama spending programs.  Does anyone actually believe you can add 37 million newly-insured without increasing costs?  Or that the government, which is famous for $500 pliers and $15,000 toilets, will be more efficient than private companies?  How many bureaucrats does it take to run a government health-care system?  Answer: they’ll be added faster than anyone can count.         

8.  The plan will be paid for, largely by elimination of waste and fraud.  This fake claim is trotted-out for every health bill ever proposed.  If there was any truth to it, the massive waste and fraud would have long-since been eliminated.  For that matter, the Feds are free to cut out such abuse any time they want, under existing law.  But that would violate the first principal of bureaucracy: when one law doesn’t work, pass another.  The truth is, everyone is going to have to pay drastically higher taxes.  Plus, seniors will pay with their lives when $500 billion (half a trillion) is meat-axed from their Medicare program.

9.  No “death panels” are included.  See section 123 of HR 3200, which creates a Health Benefits Advisory Committee.  This “panel” will recommend benefits to be provided under government-care.  It will likely follow the dictates of sect. 1191, which specifies Obamacare priorities such as reducing treatment of “high-cost chronic diseases.”  Specific “end-of-life” goals involving seniors are dealt with in sect. 1233, and by sect. 1236 which creates demonstration programs under Medicare for “shared decision-making” by doctors and patients.  Such life-termination provisions are said to be dropped, but could be resurrected unread in an even more-disguised form.  Overall, sect. 14l creates the bill’s main bureaucracy, a new “Health Choices Administration”, which will draft regulations to implement the bill’s vague and open-ended authority for health-care meddling.  Picture a Pentagon-sized building where drones spend their days stamping “REJECT - OVER AGE 65” on health-care applications submitted by seniors or their doctors.           

10.  Obamacare fees are not taxes.  HR 3200 requires Americans to buy health insurance policies.  Those who don’t will have to pay a chunk of their income to the government.  The Baucus Senate measure imposes charges on health insurance policies costing above $8,750 for individuals and $23,000 for families of four.  The President calls both of these “fees”, not taxes, since he vowed no new taxes on the middle class.  Fees are okay.  But the House provisions originated in the Ways and Means Committee, and the Baucus blast comes from the Senate Finance Committee, both of which handle tax legislation.  Both will be part of the Internal Revenue (tax) Code, and payments will be collected by the Internal Revenue Service.  So they’re taxes.  By the way, didn’t candidate Obama ridicule John McCain for proposing a tax on health insurance premiums?  Yes, but don’t be shocked.  After all, this article is about falsehoods.  

Speaker Pelosi wants to add Baucus’ tax to her bill.  Like the notorious “Alternative Minimum (income) Tax” which was enacted to punish the wealthy but now affects most Americans, the new health insurance tax is unadjusted for inflation.  As health costs rise, families may have to shell out $35,000 a year in Federal taxes on health insurance premiums by 2016.  If taxpayers don’t revolt, such a huge revenue flow could enable Obama partisans to surpass Venezuela’s Chavez in socialist expansion.

Those clever, sneaky Democrats!  Obamacare is actually a cash-cow for other programs, disguised as a health plan!