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moreluck
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Re: Obamanation here today
I was reading an article in Globe. Obama's illegal immigrant aunt has been granted asylum to stay in the U.S.
I already knew this, but at the end of the article it says, "She'll enjoy free medical care, free housing and other benefits others are legitimately entitled to but denied."
I tried to locate the article, but it's in the June 7th issue.....too new still.
I for one am complaining about this treatment. She defied the law and snubbed her nose for years at our laws. This is part of where the money goes to illegals!!!
I was reading an article in Globe. Obama's illegal immigrant aunt has been granted asylum to stay in the U.S.
I already knew this, but at the end of the article it says, "She'll enjoy free medical care, free housing and other benefits others are legitimately entitled to but denied."
I tried to locate the article, but it's in the June 7th issue.....too new still.
I for one am complaining about this treatment. She defied the law and snubbed her nose for years at our laws. This is part of where the money goes to illegals!!!
moreluck
golden ticket member
Re: Obamanation here today
Correctly attributed according to snopes...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/itoldyouso.asp
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Barack Hussein Obama:
"I Told You So, Yes I Did!"
By Howard Galganov
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
[
When Obama won the Presidency with the help of the LEFTIST media, Hollywood And Entertainment Liberals, Ethnic Socialists (ACORN), Stupid Non-Business Professionals and Bush Haters, I wrote:
It won't take six months until the People figure this guy out and realize how horrible a mistake they've made. And when they come to that realization, the damage to the United States of America will be so great it will take a generation or more to repair - IF EVER.
The IDIOTS who not only voted for the Messiah, but also worked hard to promote his Lordship, are now left holding the bag.
Here are two things they will NEVER do: They will NEVER admit to making a Blunder out of all proportion by electing a snake-oil salesman with no Positive social history or management experience of any kind. They will NEVER take responsibility for the curse they've imposed upon the immediate and long-term future of their country.
In essence, the people responsible for putting this horror show in power are themselves responsible for every cataclysmic decision he makes and the Consequences thereof.
In just six months, the Messiah's polls are showing the following:
1. On Healthcare Reform - He's going under for the third time with polling well Under 50 percent, even within his own Party. Even though he might be able to Muscle a Healthcare Reform Bill by using Chicago BULLY tactics against his Fellow Democrats, it will just make things worse.
2. On Cap and Trade (Cap and Tax) - The Fat-Lady is already singing.
3. On the Stimulus Package (Tax and Spend) - His popularity is in FREE-FALL.
4. On the TARP package he took and ran with from President Bush - It's all but Good-Night Irene.
5. On the closing of GITMO and "HIS" war on what he no longer wants called the War On Terrorism - He's standing in quicksand with his head just about to go under.
6. On a Comparison between himself and George W. Bush at the same six months into Their respective first term Presidencies - Bush is ahead of him in the Polls.
7. On a comparison between He Who Walks On Water and the 12 preceding Presidents between WW II and now - Obama ranks 10th.
8. On a Poll just Conducted, that asks who would you vote for today between Obama and Mitt Romney - It's a dead heat. Between Obama and Palin - Obama's ONLY ahead by 8 Points and she hasn't even begun to campaign. It seems to me that Obama Wants to be everywhere where he shouldn't be.
He's personally invested in 'totally insulting' America 's ONLY REAL Middle Eastern ally ( Israel ) in favor of Palestinian Despots and Murderers. He's traveling the world apologizing for the USA while lecturing others on how to do it right, when in fact and truth he has no experience at doing anything other than getting elected.
He went to the Muslim world in Egypt to declare that America IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION while he heaped praises on Islam, where he compared the "plight" of the Palestinians to the Holocaust.
The Russians think he's a putz, The French think he's rude.
The Germans want him to stop spending.
The Indians want him to mix his nose out of their environmental business.
The North Koreans think he's a joke.
The Iranians won't acknowledge his calls.
And the British can't even come up with a comprehensive opinion of him.
As for the Chinese, he's too frightened to even glance their way. [After All, China now owns a large portion of the United States.]
Maybe if America's first Emperor would stay home more, travel less, and work a little bit instead of being on television just about everyday or stop running to "papered" Town Hall Meetings, perhaps he would have a little bit of time to do the work of the nation.
In all fairness, it wasn't HARD to be RIGHT in my prediction concerning Obama's presidency, even in its first six months, so I'm going to make yet another prediction:
OBAMA WILL PROBABLY NOT FINISH HIS 4-YEAR TERM, at least not in a Conventional way.
He is such a political HORROR SHOW, and so detrimental to the USA and his Own Democratic Party, that the Democrats themselves will either FORCE him to Resign or figure out a way to have him thrown out.
Or - MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, the Democrats will make Obama THEIR OWN LAME DUCK PRESIDENT.
I don't believe the Democrats have nearly as much love for their country as they do for their own political fortunes. And with Obama, their fortunes are rapidly becoming toast.
Correctly attributed according to snopes...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/itoldyouso.asp
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Barack Hussein Obama:
"I Told You So, Yes I Did!"
By Howard Galganov
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
[
When Obama won the Presidency with the help of the LEFTIST media, Hollywood And Entertainment Liberals, Ethnic Socialists (ACORN), Stupid Non-Business Professionals and Bush Haters, I wrote:
It won't take six months until the People figure this guy out and realize how horrible a mistake they've made. And when they come to that realization, the damage to the United States of America will be so great it will take a generation or more to repair - IF EVER.
The IDIOTS who not only voted for the Messiah, but also worked hard to promote his Lordship, are now left holding the bag.
Here are two things they will NEVER do: They will NEVER admit to making a Blunder out of all proportion by electing a snake-oil salesman with no Positive social history or management experience of any kind. They will NEVER take responsibility for the curse they've imposed upon the immediate and long-term future of their country.
In essence, the people responsible for putting this horror show in power are themselves responsible for every cataclysmic decision he makes and the Consequences thereof.
In just six months, the Messiah's polls are showing the following:
1. On Healthcare Reform - He's going under for the third time with polling well Under 50 percent, even within his own Party. Even though he might be able to Muscle a Healthcare Reform Bill by using Chicago BULLY tactics against his Fellow Democrats, it will just make things worse.
2. On Cap and Trade (Cap and Tax) - The Fat-Lady is already singing.
3. On the Stimulus Package (Tax and Spend) - His popularity is in FREE-FALL.
4. On the TARP package he took and ran with from President Bush - It's all but Good-Night Irene.
5. On the closing of GITMO and "HIS" war on what he no longer wants called the War On Terrorism - He's standing in quicksand with his head just about to go under.
6. On a Comparison between himself and George W. Bush at the same six months into Their respective first term Presidencies - Bush is ahead of him in the Polls.
7. On a comparison between He Who Walks On Water and the 12 preceding Presidents between WW II and now - Obama ranks 10th.
8. On a Poll just Conducted, that asks who would you vote for today between Obama and Mitt Romney - It's a dead heat. Between Obama and Palin - Obama's ONLY ahead by 8 Points and she hasn't even begun to campaign. It seems to me that Obama Wants to be everywhere where he shouldn't be.
He's personally invested in 'totally insulting' America 's ONLY REAL Middle Eastern ally ( Israel ) in favor of Palestinian Despots and Murderers. He's traveling the world apologizing for the USA while lecturing others on how to do it right, when in fact and truth he has no experience at doing anything other than getting elected.
He went to the Muslim world in Egypt to declare that America IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION while he heaped praises on Islam, where he compared the "plight" of the Palestinians to the Holocaust.
The Russians think he's a putz, The French think he's rude.
The Germans want him to stop spending.
The Indians want him to mix his nose out of their environmental business.
The North Koreans think he's a joke.
The Iranians won't acknowledge his calls.
And the British can't even come up with a comprehensive opinion of him.
As for the Chinese, he's too frightened to even glance their way. [After All, China now owns a large portion of the United States.]
Maybe if America's first Emperor would stay home more, travel less, and work a little bit instead of being on television just about everyday or stop running to "papered" Town Hall Meetings, perhaps he would have a little bit of time to do the work of the nation.
In all fairness, it wasn't HARD to be RIGHT in my prediction concerning Obama's presidency, even in its first six months, so I'm going to make yet another prediction:
OBAMA WILL PROBABLY NOT FINISH HIS 4-YEAR TERM, at least not in a Conventional way.
He is such a political HORROR SHOW, and so detrimental to the USA and his Own Democratic Party, that the Democrats themselves will either FORCE him to Resign or figure out a way to have him thrown out.
Or - MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, the Democrats will make Obama THEIR OWN LAME DUCK PRESIDENT.
I don't believe the Democrats have nearly as much love for their country as they do for their own political fortunes. And with Obama, their fortunes are rapidly becoming toast.
Re: Obamanomics
Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine states with the highest income tax rates. People and businesses change the location of income based on incentives.
On or about Jan. 1, 2011, federal, state and local tax rates are scheduled to rise quite sharply. President George W. Bush's tax cuts expire on that date, meaning that the highest federal personal income tax rate will go 39.6% from 35%, the highest federal dividend tax rate pops up to 39.6% from 15%, the capital gains tax rate to 20% from 15%, and the estate tax rate to 55% from zero. Lots and lots of other changes will also occur as a result of the sunset provision in the Bush tax cuts.
Consider corporate profits as a share of GDP. Today, corporate profits as a share of GDP are way too high given the state of the U.S. economy. These high profits reflect the shift in income into 2010 from 2011. These profits will tumble in 2011, preceded most likely by the stock market.
Given what's going to happen to tax rates, this conversion seems like a no-brainer.
The result will be a crash in tax receipts once the surge is past. If you thought deficits and unemployment have been bad lately, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine states with the highest income tax rates. People and businesses change the location of income based on incentives.
On or about Jan. 1, 2011, federal, state and local tax rates are scheduled to rise quite sharply. President George W. Bush's tax cuts expire on that date, meaning that the highest federal personal income tax rate will go 39.6% from 35%, the highest federal dividend tax rate pops up to 39.6% from 15%, the capital gains tax rate to 20% from 15%, and the estate tax rate to 55% from zero. Lots and lots of other changes will also occur as a result of the sunset provision in the Bush tax cuts.
Consider corporate profits as a share of GDP. Today, corporate profits as a share of GDP are way too high given the state of the U.S. economy. These high profits reflect the shift in income into 2010 from 2011. These profits will tumble in 2011, preceded most likely by the stock market.
Given what's going to happen to tax rates, this conversion seems like a no-brainer.
The result will be a crash in tax receipts once the surge is past. If you thought deficits and unemployment have been bad lately, you ain't seen nothing yet.
moreluck
golden ticket member
Re: Obamanomics
Obama was on TV this morning (what a surprise, we hardly ever see him) and he was showing a couple guys who started a few restaurants. He was crowing like he had created at least 10 jobs!! Oh my!
"Look at me" "Look what my plan has done!".....What a joke!! He's pathetic.
Obama was on TV this morning (what a surprise, we hardly ever see him) and he was showing a couple guys who started a few restaurants. He was crowing like he had created at least 10 jobs!! Oh my!
"Look at me" "Look what my plan has done!".....What a joke!! He's pathetic.
Babagounj
Strength through joy
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAna...Overhaul-Probably-Not-Govt-Analysis-Concludes.
By DAVID HOGBERG AND SEAN HIGGINS, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
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Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.
Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans.
The "midrange estimate is that 66% of small employer plans and 45% of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfathered status by the end of 2013," according to the document.
In the worst-case scenario, 69% of employers — 80% of smaller firms — would lose that status, exposing them to far more provisions under the new health law.
The 83-page document, a joint project of the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the IRS, examines the effects that ObamaCare's regulations would have on existing, or "grandfathered," employer-based health care plans.
Draft copies of the document were reportedly leaked to House Republicans during the week and began circulating Friday morning. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., posted it on his Web site Friday afternoon.
the document showed that the arguments in favor of ObamaCare were a "bait and switch."
By DAVID HOGBERG AND SEAN HIGGINS, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
View Enlarged ImageInternal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.
Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans.
The "midrange estimate is that 66% of small employer plans and 45% of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfathered status by the end of 2013," according to the document.
In the worst-case scenario, 69% of employers — 80% of smaller firms — would lose that status, exposing them to far more provisions under the new health law.
The 83-page document, a joint project of the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the IRS, examines the effects that ObamaCare's regulations would have on existing, or "grandfathered," employer-based health care plans.
Draft copies of the document were reportedly leaked to House Republicans during the week and began circulating Friday morning. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., posted it on his Web site Friday afternoon.
the document showed that the arguments in favor of ObamaCare were a "bait and switch."
tieguy
Banned
Babagounj
Strength through joy
Re: Obamanation here today
Obama Issues Executive Order Mandating “Lifestyle Behavior Modification”
President Obama on Thursday, June 10, quietly announced a new Executive Order establishing the “National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council.”
According to Sec. 5. of the Executive Order that details the President’s “National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy,” the Council will be charged with carrying out “lifestyle behavior modification” among American citizens that do not exhibit “healthy behavior.”
The President’s desired lifestyle behavior modifications focus on:
Whether you are a child, a parent, a worker, or retired, the President’s approximately 25-member “Advisory Group” will soon be present in every aspect of Americans’ lives, as the Executive Order prescribes. Specifically, our new so-called lifestyle behavior modification advisors will be actively carrying out the President’s orders in:
Obama Issues Executive Order Mandating “Lifestyle Behavior Modification”
President Obama on Thursday, June 10, quietly announced a new Executive Order establishing the “National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council.”
According to Sec. 5. of the Executive Order that details the President’s “National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy,” the Council will be charged with carrying out “lifestyle behavior modification” among American citizens that do not exhibit “healthy behavior.”
The President’s desired lifestyle behavior modifications focus on:
- smoking cessation;
- proper nutrition;
- appropriate exercise;
- mental health;
- behavioral health;
- sedentary behavior;
- substance-use disorder; and
- domestic violence screenings.
Whether you are a child, a parent, a worker, or retired, the President’s approximately 25-member “Advisory Group” will soon be present in every aspect of Americans’ lives, as the Executive Order prescribes. Specifically, our new so-called lifestyle behavior modification advisors will be actively carrying out the President’s orders in:
- worksite health promotion;
- community services, including community health centers;
- preventive medicine;
- health coaching;
- public health education;
- geriatrics; and
- rehabilitation medicine.
"refusing to pay market value for a service, procedure, or medicine"? Market value for Tylenol is what? Seems to me it's only the Federal government and insurance companies that can avoid being raped by big medicine.
diesel96
Well-Known Member
The Medicare “doc fix” is back in play on Capitol Hill, and its mere mention provokes a torrent of scorn and vitriol rarely seen among the generally mild-mannered community of policy mavens who inhabit the nation’s think tanks and universities.
“It’s one of the worst pieces of legislation I’ve ever seen,” said Stuart Altman, a former adviser to Congress on Medicare who now teaches health policy at Brandeis University. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt so vindictive about a piece of legislation in my life.”
“It’s a charade,” said Henry J. Aaron, a health policy analyst at the Brookings Institution. “Congress takes care of things but doesn’t actually do anything. They haven’t been willing to write up the full cost of changing the system, so the projected deficits don’t look as bad as they are.”
In health policy circles, the “doc fix” has become emblematic of Washington’s worst habits: a potentially solvable policy problem run amok for about a decade now, bogged down in pure politics and accounting gimmicks.
The “doc fix,” a last-minute infusion of funds to head off a looming doctor pay cut under Medicare, hits the floor this week via the tax extenders bill and, if passed, will stabilize Medicare payments through 2013 at a cost of $63 billion over the next 10 years, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
Without those funds, physician payments stand to drop 21 percent June 1.
The “doc fix” stems from the method used by the government to pay doctors who serve Medicare patients. Ever since Medicare was created in 1965, the social insurance program has experimented with various formulas to determine the rate of doctor reimbursement. Officials have created complex formulas with wonky names — the Medicare Economic Index in the 1970s, followed by the Volume Performance Standard in the 1990s. Each has been shuffled out in favor of a new formula.
The most recent incarnation of the Medicare reimbursement formula is called the Sustainable Growth Rate, put into place in 1998. The government uses the formula to set an overall target amount of spending for certain types of goods and services. Using Medicare spending in the late 1990s as a baseline, the SGR factored in overall economic growth to create a yearly budget.
“It was enacted during a time period when physician payments were not growing rapidly,” said Paul Van de Water, an economist at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. “It was assumed that the relative slowdown was likely to continue.”
But a formula that may have seemed sound in 1997 did not account for one huge detail: Medical spending has grown at a much faster rate than inflation. The SGR turned out to be totally unsustainable, leaving doctors with a reimbursement rate that did not keep pace with increasing medical costs, thus requiring a fix — not of the formula but of the payment.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37719.html#ixzz0qo12mry2
“It’s one of the worst pieces of legislation I’ve ever seen,” said Stuart Altman, a former adviser to Congress on Medicare who now teaches health policy at Brandeis University. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt so vindictive about a piece of legislation in my life.”
“It’s a charade,” said Henry J. Aaron, a health policy analyst at the Brookings Institution. “Congress takes care of things but doesn’t actually do anything. They haven’t been willing to write up the full cost of changing the system, so the projected deficits don’t look as bad as they are.”
In health policy circles, the “doc fix” has become emblematic of Washington’s worst habits: a potentially solvable policy problem run amok for about a decade now, bogged down in pure politics and accounting gimmicks.
The “doc fix,” a last-minute infusion of funds to head off a looming doctor pay cut under Medicare, hits the floor this week via the tax extenders bill and, if passed, will stabilize Medicare payments through 2013 at a cost of $63 billion over the next 10 years, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
Without those funds, physician payments stand to drop 21 percent June 1.
The “doc fix” stems from the method used by the government to pay doctors who serve Medicare patients. Ever since Medicare was created in 1965, the social insurance program has experimented with various formulas to determine the rate of doctor reimbursement. Officials have created complex formulas with wonky names — the Medicare Economic Index in the 1970s, followed by the Volume Performance Standard in the 1990s. Each has been shuffled out in favor of a new formula.
The most recent incarnation of the Medicare reimbursement formula is called the Sustainable Growth Rate, put into place in 1998. The government uses the formula to set an overall target amount of spending for certain types of goods and services. Using Medicare spending in the late 1990s as a baseline, the SGR factored in overall economic growth to create a yearly budget.
“It was enacted during a time period when physician payments were not growing rapidly,” said Paul Van de Water, an economist at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. “It was assumed that the relative slowdown was likely to continue.”
But a formula that may have seemed sound in 1997 did not account for one huge detail: Medical spending has grown at a much faster rate than inflation. The SGR turned out to be totally unsustainable, leaving doctors with a reimbursement rate that did not keep pace with increasing medical costs, thus requiring a fix — not of the formula but of the payment.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37719.html#ixzz0qo12mry2
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