ObamaCare and the Lies by which it Passed

On Friday November 8, President Obama was speaking in Miami Florida at a Democratic fundraiser when he began another of his tirades against the TEA Party labeling them as “a small faction” and telling Democrats in attendance (it was a democratic fundraiser) that Republicans will have a price to pay for defying the American populace. He ramped it up by saying that the small faction, the TEA Party, “will not act on the basic interests of the American people”.  

Here something to consider – Due to the PPACA (ObamaCare), approximately 5 million people will lose their health insurance by spring of next year. When the large company and union enrollment begins as the year delay expires next October, another 12+ million working Americans will lose their insurance. All of these Americans will find themselves having to obtain more costly insurance as a result of a law passed by a very small faction of strictly partisan legislators and only after manipulation of their own rules. These legislators passed ObamaCare without reading it while making the incredible claim that they “had to pass it so we can read it to find out what is in it”.  Now we have read the bill and now we, the majority of Americans are seeing the truth. REGARDLESS of whether Americans like their plan or their doctor and even if the plan hasn't changed they are losing their insurance and are being forced into the ObamaCare collectives at higher cost and lower quality.

Is this acting on the basic interest of the majority of the American People?

I have been saying since 2009 when I actually read the entire PPACA , the ACT was not intended to help those who are unable to obtain insurance, it is designed to destroy the health insurance market in favor of another big government designed program like Medicaid. Any fool who can add will see that the numbers don't add up.  And you have to be really stupid to think that a government program as large as this would run smoothly without cost overruns. Lest we forget, at the time the bill was up for vote, the administration claimed that it would not cost a dime in added taxation and that the cost of insurance for the average family would decrease by $2500 per year.

President Obama sold the PPACA on the basis that it would help the “small faction” of Americans who needed protection because they were unable to obtain Health Care.  He continually misstated that they, the 30+ million uninsured Americans were unable to obtain HEALTH CARE.  This is just not true.  Everyone in America who gets sick or injured has access to very high quality HEALTH CARE, regardless of their ability to pay and it is just about the best quality care available in the world.

What this “small faction” lacks is access to health INSURANCE and while serious, it is a completely different issue. President Obama sold the concept of health CARE for everyone through the PPACA by stating over and over to the vast majority of Americans who have health insurance, “If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.  PERIOD. Nobody is going to take it away”  “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, no one is going to change this”.  He and his small faction of ideological zealots repeated this continually to the American people.  Just like he repeated continually that the mandate was not a tax.  He even continued claiming the ObamaCare mandated penalty was not a tax after the SCOTUS found that it is, in fact a tax on the American tax payer.

So much for truth from the office of the Chief Executive and so much for acting for the will of the majority.  When President Obama repeatedly made the statement that "If you like your insurance you can keep it, PERIOD, he was lying.  When he claimed that "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, no one is going to change this", he was lying again.  Last week he claimed he was sorry that people may have lost their insurance based on what he said. Considering that he had to know that large numbers of people would lose their insurance, why would he actually be sorry when it happened? Logically, many will say he lied yet again.

Even worse, he was lying not by omission, but willfully and knowingly to achieve his agenda, no matter the ultimate cost to the American people.  He lied because he knew that if he told the truth, upwards of 19 million people would lose their current insurance plans as a direct result of the "ACT" and American voters, even union member supporters and rank and file democrats would not stand for it.  He knew that if he told the truth, the "ACT" would never pass.

In an attempt to deceive yet again, he now deflects blame onto the TEA Party and excoriates them as small but vocal factions who are willing to thwart the "basic interests of the majority of Americans".  Funny thing is, President Obama and the extremely partisan Democrat Legislators, a small faction of Americans elected to represent all American citizens, paid no heed to the constituency they were elected to serve and passed the bill against the wishes of the majority by manipulating the senate rules to achieve their goal.

This is not to say the TEA Party Patriots are blameless. They were not willing to consider what the other side was saying in their zeal to have their voices heard.  They didn't listen to a common sense approach to regulating the Health Insurance industry and they didn't bother to differentiate between the progressives replacing the word INSURANCE for CARE.  No one is entitled to Health Care, but a case can be made that everyone should be entitled to access affordable Health Insurance. Had the TEA Party activists listened, they may have been able to limit the damage of the PPACA legislation to controls on the Health Insurance industry.  Had they listened, Americans might not be experiencing the fiasco of the government monstrosity which is ObamaCare. This is only speculation because the stacked house Obama experienced in 2008 through 2010 allowed him to push through any laws he wanted and the Democratic majority legislature rapturously fell right in line with his request.

Yet, the worst action taken by the TEA Party activists was shutting down the government in an attempt to defund ObamaCare.  The reason is because ObamaCare will fall on its own as the majority of Americans actually experience what is in it.  Had the TEA Party legislators focused where they should, on budget issues, If the house stood firm with the budget they passed, forcing the Senate to act or be the cause of the shutdown, if the house held Obama to a dollar cut for every dollar of increased revenue (ie...the debt limit increase) the American people would see who is truly putting the screws to them and it sure as hell isn't the TEA Party Patriots. Had Cruz and the House TEA Party contingent not forced the issue, had they played the cards they drew rather than going “all in” too early, it would be Democrats jumping ship and demanding that ObamaCare be modified or abolished and Obama's ability to vilify would be minimized.

So, let’s not fret about who is or isn’t truly the “small faction” or to what degree the President lied. Let’s accept the facts and show the president that the majority of Americans have the basic interests of America in their hearts and minds.  It is time for the majority -- true blue American Patriots -- to stand up and rally the support of your friends and neighbors to show President Obama and Harry Reid that we are NOT a small minority. We are the majority common sense voice of America and we will be heard.

Marathon Bombing, Suspect #2

After the capture of Suspect #2 in the Boston Marathon bombing incident, many people were appalled that the suspect, an American citizen, was given his Miranda rights.  Of course we read him his rights.  We are a nation of laws and believe in the rule of law.  If we lose sight of this, we are no better than those who intend to harm us.  A couple of "radicalized Islamists", the surviving participant an American citizen, practiced their religious belief here in America and committed an atrocity upon innocent Americans. Why? Because they don't agree with our Politics. I don't agree with our politics either, but you sure as hell don't see me or any other Christians, Jews, Hindus or LDS members acting out this way in the name of their chosen religion do you? 

Here is the issue for me,   I believe the American citizen committing this act of violence still has rights and one of them is to have miranda invoked. I believe in the rule of law and I believe in the freedoms we (used to) have in America.  I believe we have the right to speak up in opposition but not act out in a violent manner.

I'm against the US government policy of Nation Building (ie..intruding). I am against the government sending Billions of dollars in "aid" every year to middle eastern and other countries which is wasted, has little oversight and never reaches those intended. I am opposed to our government selling arms across the globe to whatever faction happens to be the flavor of the month only to find out that the winds have changed a year later and we have supplied people who wage Jihad against us. I am adamantly opposed to the US invasion of ANY sovereign nation (ie...Iraq and soon Syria). I advocate that we cut back our military presence around the world and both the size and footprint of our standing armies to the absolute minimum. We do not need to and should not be policemen to the world. And I am completely opposed to the concept of using drones to kill anyone the president deems appropriate.

But that being said, we, not Iran, Iraq or any other middle eastern country, were attacked here in America by muslim fundamentalists who teach and preach jihad, murder of infidels and the use of Sharia Law in America. I do not accept this as a reasonable religious tenet and I will continue to speak out against it. For any muslim supporters, if this offends your sense of morality, well, you have the right to state your case, but understand, I have not found any arguments the least bit persuasive because the arguments forgo the single major difference between Christians and Islamists, Christians are not teaching children from an early age to HATE and execute those who disagree with them. Would that it were different and it's great that only a small percentage of the Islamic world advocates Jihad, but that percentage has placed a target on the backs of Americans TODAY, not 50, 100, 200 or 500 years ago, they are plotting against us TODAY and it only takes a small percentage to end up killing you or me or other Americans who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Better to be prepared than dead as far as I'm concerned.