Stephanie
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historic alright...in dividing this country and a historic failure as a decent human being in not caring FOR ALL the people he represents...he cares only for those who donated to his campaign
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An "Historic" President
Derek Hunter | Jul 07, 2013
President Obama is historic. That refrain has been beaten into our heads time and again since Jan. 20, 2009. This is historic, that is historic. Everything is historic. Wed probably know even more historic stuff if only we and not the National Security Agency had the job of reading journalists private email. But theyre right, Barack Obama is an historic president, and the Hindenburg was an historic dirigible.
What we hear far less about in the media is the fact that, by almost every method of measure, this historic administration has been an unmitigated historic disaster.
With the latest round of unemployment numbers, weve just passed the longest recorded stretch of unemployment above 7.5 percent. Were well on the way to nationalizing 20 percent of the nations economy and making the federal government the sole arbiter of our health care. Weve turned out backs on allies and embraced enemies. Things have gone so horribly wrong that the only thing missing to make this truly historic is news President Obama has taken up the fiddle.
It was announced this week, conveniently at the start of a long holiday weekend, that President Obama was delaying the start of the employer mandate portion of his signature legislative accomplishment the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. By delaying the implementation of this portion of the law, something not provided for in the law itself, the president has moved from ignoring laws passed by his predecessors (DOMA, immigration) into the rarified historic air of ignoring laws he passed himself.
But more than the historic aspect of it, its incredibly damaging to millions of Americans, which may well be the point of the action.
Obamacare has always been a means more than an end. The progressive dream of a single-payer health care system is the end, but its an end the American people never would accept all at once. But, if the system in which they found themselves failed so miserably, maybe even collapsed, single-payer would be a much easier sell.
Heres how it could play out.
Obamacare was a mess from inception, one that would never work. Costs for both consumers and the government skyrocketed when the opposite not only was promised but offered as one of the main justifications for passage. Another was to provide coverage to the uninsured, but the Congressional Budget Office estimates that even when fully implemented Obamacare would leave 30 million Americans without health insurance.
all of it here
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SNIP:
An "Historic" President
Derek Hunter | Jul 07, 2013
President Obama is historic. That refrain has been beaten into our heads time and again since Jan. 20, 2009. This is historic, that is historic. Everything is historic. Wed probably know even more historic stuff if only we and not the National Security Agency had the job of reading journalists private email. But theyre right, Barack Obama is an historic president, and the Hindenburg was an historic dirigible.
What we hear far less about in the media is the fact that, by almost every method of measure, this historic administration has been an unmitigated historic disaster.
With the latest round of unemployment numbers, weve just passed the longest recorded stretch of unemployment above 7.5 percent. Were well on the way to nationalizing 20 percent of the nations economy and making the federal government the sole arbiter of our health care. Weve turned out backs on allies and embraced enemies. Things have gone so horribly wrong that the only thing missing to make this truly historic is news President Obama has taken up the fiddle.
It was announced this week, conveniently at the start of a long holiday weekend, that President Obama was delaying the start of the employer mandate portion of his signature legislative accomplishment the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. By delaying the implementation of this portion of the law, something not provided for in the law itself, the president has moved from ignoring laws passed by his predecessors (DOMA, immigration) into the rarified historic air of ignoring laws he passed himself.
But more than the historic aspect of it, its incredibly damaging to millions of Americans, which may well be the point of the action.
Obamacare has always been a means more than an end. The progressive dream of a single-payer health care system is the end, but its an end the American people never would accept all at once. But, if the system in which they found themselves failed so miserably, maybe even collapsed, single-payer would be a much easier sell.
Heres how it could play out.
Obamacare was a mess from inception, one that would never work. Costs for both consumers and the government skyrocketed when the opposite not only was promised but offered as one of the main justifications for passage. Another was to provide coverage to the uninsured, but the Congressional Budget Office estimates that even when fully implemented Obamacare would leave 30 million Americans without health insurance.
all of it here
An "Historic" President - Derek Hunter - Page 1