While the Liberal Media (Ministry of Truth) is obsessed with the “fight” in the Republican Party because it suits their needs to play up the “Civil War” as they stealthy took a Republican seat in Congress. (Obama appointed the sitting Republican to Secretary of The Army so the seat would open up).
Saul Alinksy Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
And BOY do they enjoy the “war” in the Republican Party.
Problem is, the National “I just wanna be Liked” Republican Party is too happy to oblige.
And The Democrats are one giant step closer to running every aspect of your life from first breath to last.
And make no mistake about it. That IS what they want.
Health Care, Cap & Trade (aka “Global Warming”), Net Neutrality, Bank Regulation, Financial Market Regulation, all based on the government’s need to control everything “so this doesn’t happen again”. And it must be passed NOW!!
Chop! Chop!!
So if they control every aspect of your life, you’ll Be secure. You’ll just have no Freedom.
And the security is an illusion.
But who needs it anyways.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.–Ben Franklin
And do keep in mind , the bill won’t be fully implemented until 2013, but tax hikes will take effect immediately.
So a medical overhaul was sold to voters in the 2008 election as a cost-containment plan. Yet the trillion dollar-plus, nearly 2,000-page plan Congress is about to pass will cause costs to skyrocket, likely triggering a full-blown fiscal crisis.
And it’s all by design, because only in a state of panic will Americans agree to convert to a Euro-style, single-payer government health system, with rationing and waiting lists and low-quality care. That’s a scenario we can expect in the not-too-distant future.
“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”-Rahm Emanuel, White Chief of Staff.
And the Republicans have come out with Plan #4 of their own. Naturally, no one in the media actually cares.
The Republican plan increases incentives for people to use health savings accounts, caps non-economic jury awards in medical malpractice cases at $250,000, provides various incentives to states with the aim of driving down premium costs and allows health insurance to be sold across state lines. (and undoubtedly some Tort Reform which the Democrats have completely thrown under the bus).
“As Leader Boehner has made clear, our proposal will focus on the No. 1 concern of the American people—reducing health care costs, and we do it at a price tag our nation can afford,” said spokeswoman Antonia Ferrier, though Republicans have not said how much their bill would cost.
“Our proposal will help struggling middle-class families and small businesses by increasing access to affordable, high-quality health care,” Ferrier said.
Democrats immediately dismissed the Republican plan as insubstantial. Ours is vastly superior and we think the American public will think that,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said.
And don’t expect any “fair” reporting on it either. And don’t expect them to care “what you think”. Not really.
Expect derision, scorn, and contempt. If they even bother to even mention it, that is.
Just Watch.
Oh, and even more has come about the massive taxes and tentacles of bureaucracies that the Pelosi Bill has in it’s nearly 2,000 pages.
And they are betting you’re either tired of it all,too stressed out from the economic crisis they ballooned or just not interested.
Too busy bailing out your own Titanic to notice who REALLY ripped open the wounds (instead of patching them)?
After all, if you won’t vote against them, why should they care what you think?
IBD & ATR:
This means more taxes, of course. Oh, they say only the rich will be affected. And to be sure, the rich do get taxed in this bill — mainly with a new 5.4% levy on those earning more than $500,000. This will raise the new top rate from 39.6% to 45% — highest since the Carter years.
The House Democrat leadership will tell you that this is a new tax on “the rich.” This is absurd. The truly rich will re-arrange their finances in such as way as to never pay the tax. It’s much more likely that this tax will hit small and medium-size employers, who pay taxes on their owners’ 1040 forms. At this level of income, most unincorporated businesses take the form of partnerships and Subchapter-S corporations, whose taxes are paid at the owner level.
According to the IRS (Table 1.4 of the Statistics of Income), these small business employers earned a net $414 billion in 2007. Of this, some $236 billion—57 percent—was earned in households with AGI of $1 million or more. The 5.4 percent surtax will tax these businesses some $13 billion per year. That money has to come from somewhere, and the answer is “jobs.”
The new 5.4 percent surtax can be expected to raise $13 billion per year in new taxes from these successful small and mid-size employers. By way of illustration, if this tax were paid for entirely by cutting wages for these 38.6 million employees (of small businesses), the average wage would decline by over $300 per year—another hidden cost to the radical Pelosi-Rangel-Obama plan to create a government healthcare system.
But don’t worry, the government has your back. They can give you all kinds of “free” help and there’s this nice “free” health care… and you didn’t that nasty old job or that $300 bucks anyhow. Look what you get in return!
But remember last year’s solemn pledge — actually, it was a promise — that the bottom 95% of taxpayers wouldn’t see their taxes rise one dime during the new administration? Well, kiss that one goodbye. In fact, the 1,990-page House bill contains 13 separate tax hikes on Americans, hitting virtually every income class.
Among them: an Employer Mandate Excise Tax, an Individual Mandate Surtax, an Excise Tax on Medical Devices, a Surtax on Individuals and Small Businesses, a tax on non-qualified Health Savings Account distributions and a cap on Flexible Savings Account spending.
There’s even a Medicine Cabinet Tax. We are not making this up.
If you’re shocked by all this, you shouldn’t be. This is how Congress works these days: Promise one thing, deliver another, and count on constituents being too distracted and frightened to notice what exactly is going on.
It would be bad enough if this was just about taxes. But it isn’t. GOP critics scoured the bill and found it contains the seeds of 111 new bureaucracies. They range from a new Retiree Reserve Trust Fund and Health Insurance Exchange to a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research and an Office of Indian Men’s Health (one of 10 new entities just to handle Native American health care).
It even contains — get this — a “program of administrative simplification.” This bill has Leviathan written all over it.
And where there’s new Bureaucracies, there are 1,000’s of new Bureaucrats to tell you what to do and how to do it.
Alinsky Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
If the size and power of the insurance industry scares you — health insurers posted revenues of about $405 billion in 2007 — consider that Democrats want to control a $2.5 trillion chunk of the economy that dwarfs what insurers make. That’s why Pelosi & Co. villainize that industry — so you’ll let them take over.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employers who tell workers to stay home when they are sick will have to give them paid time off for up to five days under new federal legislation proposed on Tuesday. Paid sick leave is not required by U.S. laws.
But don’t worry, they’ll just absorb the cost. They are “rich” after all. And the Government knows better.
So the economy continues to tank.
10% unemployement is just around the corner and is likely to be setting up shop in your living room for years to come.
So, who’s up for More Spending!
