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The Right Prescription
How to Defeat and Replace Obamacare Now
There is life after Roberts’ double cross and Obama’s latest flurry of lies.
Whether Left, Right, Independent, or Confused, no one who is not bought and paid for as part of the Obama political machine is going to like the Obama Double Cross of the American people on Obamacare. Before Obamacare was passed, Obama told the American people over and over, even on national TV, that the individual mandate was not a tax. After Obamacare was passed, Obama sent his lawyers into courts all over the country to argue that the individual mandate is constitutional precisely because it is a tax.
This is the top argument to feature now in discrediting Obama and Obamacare. No one likes a dishonest liar. Even worse when that dishonest liar is supposed to be our nation’s leader. When he sent his own lawyers into courts all over America to argue that the individual mandate is constitutional because it is a tax, he demonstrated that when he told the nation it was not a tax, he knew all along that was not true, and that he was planning all along to double cross the people he was supposed to be leading. That alone disqualifies him from serving as President. The majority of Americans who are still capable of thinking will recognize that we can’t have as our nation’s leader a dishonest double crosser.
Romney and his Republicans must now play in ads all over America the clips of Obama and his Democrats denying in dismissive terms that the individual mandate could in any way be considered a tax. Then they need to dramatize that after the Obamacrats had tricked the American people, they sent their lawyers into court to argue just the opposite, thinking that the American people are too stupid to realize they had been tricked.
Stop the Obama Tax Tidal Wave
Obamacare
consequently becomes yet another of the huge tax increases pending
to take effect starting next year, unless Obama himself is repealed
and replaced. CBO estimates that the health insurance that
Obamacare mandates that employers must buy for each of their
workers, or that every individual otherwise must buy, will cost on
average about $15,000 per year for a family of four, just
to start, growing robustly every year after that. Obamacare tries
to make that palatable by adopting a new entitlement program
providing federal welfare for the purchase of such insurance for
families with incomes ranging over $100,000 per year in a few
years, as the eligibility cutoff rises with health care
inflation.
But those unrestrained health welfare handouts are paid for by taxpayers as well. So the Obamacare mandate tax becomes the entire $15,000 per family cost of the required insurance, including the welfare handouts to help pay it. That is close to $1.5 trillion per year, not the $1.76 trillion CBO now estimates for the next 10 years, which does not count what families and employers are required to pay for the mandated insurance. That $1.5 trillion per year and growing adds up to more than $15 trillion over 10 years! That is the full Obamacare mandate tax.
The employer mandate is a particularly egregious job killer, adding roughly $6,000 to $15,000 per worker per year to start to employment costs for jobs not now covered by health insurance. Even for jobs with current health insurance coverage, the cost of employment would still rise, because the new mandated Obamacare health insurance is likely to be more expensive than the employer’s current health coverage. Employers already seem to be reducing hiring in anticipation of these increased costs when the employer mandate goes into effect in a year and a half. To the extent the employer offsets these added costs by reducing what the worker would otherwise be paid, that means the workers suffer declining incomes.
That would all be on top of the tax increases now scheduled for next year under current law from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, which Obama refuses to renew for the nation’s small businesses, job creators, and investors. Along with the Obamacare tax increases also going into effect next year, that means the top two income tax rates would rise by nearly 20%, the capital gains tax rate would rise by nearly 60%, the tax on dividends would nearly triple, the Medicare payroll tax would rise by 62% for these disfavored taxpayers, and the death tax would rise from the grave with a 55% top rate.
That is all on top of the corporate income tax rate, which is already the highest in the industrialized world under Obama at nearly 40% counting state corporate income taxes on average. As noted here before, even Communist China sports a 25% corporate rate, while the social welfare states of the European Union average even less. Formerly socialist Canada now features a 15% federal rate, with Germany nearly that low. This leaves American businesses uncompetitive in the global economy. But under Obama there is no relief in sight.
Instead Obama has been barnstorming the country for over a year calling for still more tax increases. His Buffett rule would impose on America the fourth highest capital gains tax rate in the industrialized world, along with the highest corporate rate. And he regularly proposes still more tax increases on business, industry, savers, investors, and job creators. That is who he is talking about when he uses the crass term “the rich.”
This tidal wave of tax increases is the perfect formula to drive America into another severe recession next year, before we have even recovered from the last one. That means a return to double digit unemployment, and deficits soaring to over $2 trillion, with wages continuing to decline. Reversing course to avert that historical reenactment of the 1930s will only be possible if we take our last chance this fall to repeal and replace the Marxist infiltrator in the White House.
The Roberts Double Cross
What is most
clear from the Obamacare decision June 28 is that after 70 years of
dominant liberalism on the Supreme Court, conservatives were all
set up for an historic victory. There were five votes to strike
down the individual mandate as unconstitutional in violation of the
Commerce Clause, five votes to recognize that meant the entire law
had to be struck down, and five votes to put a limit even on the
spending power by striking down the mandatory Medicaid expansion.
Then Chief Justice John Roberts blinked, joining the unprincipled
court “liberals” to save the double time march to socialized
medicine.
There is no silver lining to the Great Wimp Out of John Roberts. The Commerce Clause ruling does not regain any prior lost ground, but just upholds the prior status quo. But this line held regarding the Commerce Clause was obliterated by holding the individual mandate to be a tax. It is not even just that in the future the government can impose a tax on you if you do not buy and eat your broccoli, or buy a new electric car from Government Motors, achieving the same result as any mandate. The decision stands as a historic precedent for holding any future mandate to effectively be a constitutional tax authorized by the taxing power.
The decision at best creates a talking point against any such mandate, enabling opponents to say that the Supreme Court has recognized it to be a tax. But don’t expect the liberal media that intimidated Roberts and elected the Marxist infiltrator to broadcast the point, or even concede it as valid. And don’t expect too many voters to read the opinion. You can see even now right after the decision Obama’s minions pronouncing that anyone who says the individual mandate is a tax is lying. This is the equivalent of old Soviet style disinformation.
The individual mandate is by its own terms a regulation not a tax. That is what Obama and the Democrats insisted it was in ramming it through the Congress. What became the four dissenting conservatives did an excellent job in the Obamacare decision of explaining why under prior Supreme Court precedent the mandate must be considered a regulation enforced by a penalty, and not a tax. What the narrow putative conservative court majority should have done is enforce the democratic process, requiring the Congress to enact an openly constitutional tax to finance socialized medicine if that is what it wanted, rather than allowing it to evade the voters by passing a regulatory mandate publicly denied to be a tax, and then calling it a constitutional tax in court. But what Roberts and the unprincipled, result-oriented court liberals did is affirm the fundamental dishonesty of our politics, refined to an art form of telling voters one thing, and doing the opposite behind closed doors once elected.
Roberts whined in justification of his double cross of the conservatives that put him in office that it is not his job to “to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.” But that is exactly his job when the political choices result in leaders and policies in violation of the Constitution. As the Wall Street Journal put it on Monday, “But the Court’s most important role is to protect liberty when the political branches exceed the Constitution’s bounds, not to bless their excesses in the interests of personal or political expediency.” Transparently, Roberts was intimidated by Obama and the liberal media, the way the Venezuelan Supreme Court used to be intimidated by Hugo Chavez, before he finally just packed the Court with his party cronies, as Obama would do in a second term.
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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Appleby| 7.5.12 @ 7:04AM
It's going to be a nasty shock, I agree, but for those who cannot learn from other peoples' (Canada's) mistakes, perhaps this is the only lesson they are capable of learning. And then there's the surprise they'll get when they discover that socialist medicine does not cover most of what you and your family need, only catastrophic medicine -- and sex-change operations, IVF, stomach stapling, Hollywood style addiction clinics, and cadillac plan maternity, all of which you will be forced to pay for regardless of whether you want it or will ever use it. You will not be able to find a family doctor, and when you do, you will see him for 6 minutes -- because he's a government employee who gets paid by the number of people who come through the turnstile, not by how many peoploe he helps or saves. It will take you six months to get an MRI, because there won't be any machines bought by your doctor anymore, and you will spend a lot of time on a waiting list, and some of you will die there.
Welcome to socialist medicine, and I hope you enjoy it.
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.5.12 @ 5:58PM
So if Romney is elected, and RomneyCare doesn't work out as you wanted it to, what will we do then?
JD| 7.5.12 @ 6:38PM
If we're Republicans, we'll analyze the problems and propose targeted solutions. If we're Democrats, we'll blame Republicans.
Robert| 7.6.12 @ 4:17AM
Romney seems to have learned from his mistakes -- he admits mandated healthcare for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, while accepted statewide in one of the bluest states, does not work writ large across a furious nation, only now seeing through the BIG LIE. He is responsive to the overwhelming opposition to Obamacare nationwide.
Obama lied through his teeth, calling the mandate is a penalty to fraudulently pass it in a tax-adverse congress. When challenged in the SCOTUS, Obama insisted it is a tax to skirt the Commerce Clause. Now that it was rendered Constitutional, Obama proclaims, "It's here to stay!"
Deceit vs honesty. Do you think the American public will not hold Obama accountable?
"Read my lips, no new taxes" didn't work for Bush 41. And he was hijacked into raising taxes by a Democrat congress. Obama lied willingly, barefacedly and egregiously.
It won't work this time, either!
Mimi | 7.5.12 @ 7:06AM
Peter...Thanks for saying outloud the outrage we are all still feeling. Even after the Dem's won with Obamacare via the " TAX" issue, not one day passed and their all crying (LYING), Its a Penalty ...not a tax! Black is always white with these guys and they dare to think they can get away with it....WHAT FOOLS !
We have to ....ALL of us , set a priority to win in 124 days .....2010 should look like a preview. If we take the Senate and Whitehouse, we can crank the ship back on to the LIBERTY course. The John Goodman plan is a good start to like always solve our problems in a way to protect America's FREEDOM !
likejoye12 | 7.5.12 @ 7:07AM
should be more interest..
TLP| 7.5.12 @ 7:58AM
He's a Liar?
He sold this thing as Something Else?
Obviously you're new around here.
Welcome to Earth. Now, what do you wanna DO about this?
I'll tell you what THEY would do. They would Lie, Cheat, Steal, Threaten, and Sell out their own Mothers to get what they wanted, done.
Ask all the Dead Mexicans, MURDERED in an attempt at New Gun Control Legislation.
Ask the folks in The Gulf who's livelihoods are dependent on an Oil Industry that HE Shut Down using Forged Documents along the way.
Ask the Farmers out West who can't get Water for their Crops.
Ask the Midwest Family Farms, who's Livestock has been Slaughtered by HIS Ag Dept. Apparatchiks.
Ask everyone who ISN'T working on a New Pipeline from Canada to Texas or Mining for Ore in the Mountains out West.
Ask anyone who's living through Brownouts, because HE has Shut Down so many Coal Fired Power Plants.
And, ask everyone who is about to see any chance they thought they had at landing a job, leave the Dock for Better Climes, somewhere in Asia.
All these things, HE has done, in the Name with ZERO Public Support. Anyone who ISN'T taking Sh*ts on Cop Cars, and DOES wash their hair, and ISN'T one of the Brain Dead African American Community, is AGAINST this Sack a Sh*t Law.
If only we had a WIZARD, to give us some Courage.
Maxwell| 7.5.12 @ 8:36AM
TKP, I think Mitt should use what you just posted as his new TV ad.
TLP| 7.5.12 @ 9:02AM
I almost wish you hadn'ta said that.
Like the Stink that comes right after the Sound of a Fart, Doctor No Dick is sure to show up, with his One Trick Poney Show, where he places his nose between my cheeks, and takes a deep breath.
You'll see.
The funny thing is that he really thinks that he's SOMEBODY, and not the pathetically small NOBODY, that he is.
Don't take my word for it.
Just look how he Bird Dogs me, after everything I write.
See how the Green Eyed Monster has consumed his little mind, and drives him to madness.
Plus, he's really Fcking Stupid.
loulou| 7.5.12 @ 11:21AM
Ignore him.
Louis Jenkins| 7.5.12 @ 8:53AM
Mr. Ferrara:
Your article is much different from Tucker's. Tucker says we might as well bend over and take it like a pipsqueak, and you say we should fight. We had victory in our grasp, and one man blew it all to peices. Now, why did Chief Justice John Roberts swear Obama in twice? Did he make a mistake or did Obama not hear all of the statements that Roberts had to say? Were there a bunch of exception clauses, which is perhaps the correct solution. Obama swore to uphold the Constitution except on Operation Fast and Furious, except on Obamacare, except on taxation, except on the unemployed...etc.?
Your solutions or alternatives to Obamacare sounds interesting, but for now Obamacare is what we have to look forward to, and increasing taxation.
Romney should keep his eye on the prize- it's the economy stupid. Only by driving this steak through Obama's heart will there be any hope for this country.
Cobalt| 7.5.12 @ 8:55AM
It's about power.
Obama, Valerie Jarrett and their handlers (the people calling the shots) are all about imposing their will on us. They don't give a screaming poo poo if we like it or not. They just care about having the power to redistribute wealth, and neuter and weaken The United States of America.
Lie, cheat, steal, etc., anything goes if they can get away with it.
Obama and Company do not care what we think about them.
Cobalt| 7.5.12 @ 9:22AM
Mr, Ferrara's article makes a lot of sense. Much could be done at the state level about healthcare.
However, any real display of power at the state level, would be heresy to Obama. In the future, many new elected officials will be "bought and paid for" by the current administration. The pork barrell is still operating in Washington, and votes are always for sale.
Truncheon| 7.5.12 @ 9:27AM
So our solution is to defeat Obamacare, and in its place enact a similarly complicated and obtuse leveraging of existing government ponzi schemes.
This is why, in the long run, the left wins. Even the right turns to government for solutions to things government has no business being involved in.
The problems in healthcare are entirely due to government involvement. The solution is to withdraw government utterly.
Truncheon| 7.5.12 @ 9:30AM
Which is to say, all efforts directed towards other than a complete weaning, advance the teat.
RadicalRighty| 7.5.12 @ 9:38AM
Two questions:
Who will tell the American people that Obama lied about the mandate being a tax?
Does the GOP now wish they had made a bigger deal of Kagen NOT recusing herself from the Obamacare case?
JD| 7.5.12 @ 6:40PM
1. No one.
2. No, because they wouldn't have gotten her recused; they just would have given the media something else to spin against them.
Hardcard| 7.5.12 @ 9:47AM
I caught some pictures of roberts arrival in Malta for vacation. No his wife was not in the photos he appeared to be "ALONE". Food for thought.
missbosslady| 7.5.12 @ 10:02AM
I'm glad to see here a few that react as I do to the word 'replace'. Everytime I hear it I cringe.
I do not want another Big Government program to replace a horrid Big Government program!
I get the feeling that the statists on the Right are just angling to replace the statists on the Left. Six of one/half dozen of the other.
We are doomed if a majority can be convinced that either way the only solution can be provided from central planners.
Wake up folks!
Repeal - Yes!
Replace - Hell No!
MK48| 7.5.12 @ 11:34AM
As I sit here watching fireworks displays and smelling the aroma of BBQs it feels more like a wake than a celebration. It appears to me that unless a lot of Americans wake up, get off their posteriors and start taking effective action very soon, this may well be the last 4th of July celebration we ever see. We the people have allowed anti-American radical socialists to infiltrate and corrupt our government so completely that they have little reason to fear that citizens of this nation will interfere with their plans. Right now the enemy in Washington and their co_conspirators spread out all over this country are preparing for the final takeover. I suspect the date for a war with Iran is already agreed upon by Obuma and the leaders or Iran. That will be the signal for Obuma to declare martial law across the U.S. and while Americans are glued to their television sets watching Obuma's propaganda networks spin whatever story they are told to broadcast, Obuma's "peoples army" will be tightening the noose around any remaining patriots who might actually put up a fight against being disarmed and rendered helpless to put a stop to the final solution. Citizens of this country have become so apathetic and complacent that there will probably only be pockets of resistance. Obuma has succeeded in dividing Americans so deeply that I have little hope that many will unite and act effectively once the situation becomes obvious.
cicero| 7.5.12 @ 10:06AM
"Show me a politician who leaves office with more money than he entered with, and I'll show you a thief." Harry S. Truman
The current group of thieves are no different than those who went before. Obama never had a job that paid more than minimum wage, and yet he now has a net worth of over $10 million. The Clintons are another case in point. The object of politics now seems to be not to lead the country, but to aggrandize your bank accounts. It is high time that the people take back the country. This will entail the dismantling of the Federal beauracracy, and no less.
If Romney runs on a platform of a little less of the same, he should lose. It is time for the middle class, who has to pay for all of this thievery, to declare war, and throw the whole lot out.If the Republicans won't do it, I'll meet all of ou at the organizational convention of the Freedom Party next year.
missbosslady| 7.5.12 @ 10:18AM
EXACTLY!!!!
Bill84728| 7.5.12 @ 12:32PM
Some quotations from Thomas Jefferson:
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Ronsch| 7.5.12 @ 1:19PM
Mr. Ferrera,
You had me going good until you started spouting Goodman's BS about the socialist ideals of "health care for all" (i.e. "safety net.") It is not necessary for all of us (taxpayers) to provide for everyone else. You want heathcare, go out and earn it...unless you are severely disabled, inform, or aged.
francisdesales| 7.5.12 @ 2:05PM
Agree.
Why are Republicans falling for the Democrats "necessity" of implementing universal healthcare? Where in the Constitution is the Federal Government required to provide this? Strategically, the Democrats are choosing the battleground and the Republicans cave in by even arguing it. Where is the talk about limited government? The Republicans should just stick to their principles and focus on the economy and the Fed's proper place in the lives of individuals, not this power grabbing Obamacare. One look at the VA should let us know how effect Federally run health care will be...
JD| 7.5.12 @ 6:45PM
Democrats are the dominant messengers of America. They redefine words and they redefine people, and they hammer their redefinitions over our heads until even we start to believe them. The Doctrine of the Big Lie works - that's why Hitler used it!
loulou| 7.5.12 @ 1:34PM
I don't want to hear about Repeal and Replace.
I want to hear about REPEAL!!
NoBlahBlah| 7.5.12 @ 1:56PM
Wipe the commies from the political scene with the Vote in November.
Repeal o'Choom'BaScare (no replacement)
Prosecute the traitors and thieves to the full extent of the law.
Repeal the XVII Amendment
Repeal and Amend the XXII Amendment to Limit the Presidency to One Term in office, however any individual may seek non consecutive terms.
Repeal and Amend the XXVI Amendment to 25 years of age limited to Citizens that pay Federal and State INCOME tax. They will be eligible to vote IF they provide State Approved documentation of their payments and Citizenship at the polls.
Amend the Constitution to limit the terms of ALL appointed Federal justices including the SC.
Amend the Constitution to strengthen Aticle II, Sect. 2, Clause 2 regarding their authority to Approve all Presidential Appointments.
I know, I'm dreaming but the Founders had it right, all the nonsense in between has created a Heap of Problems
RCV| 7.5.12 @ 6:20PM
...right - abolishing slavery and giving women the vote, outlawing poll taxes etc. Those new-fangled Amendments sure messed up that perfect colonial society.
JD| 7.5.12 @ 6:46PM
Straw man.
Controse| 7.5.12 @ 2:24PM
It seems to me it will be much better for our country if 100 million citizens defeat ObamaCare and all it means for our present and future liberty than if 5 citizens had done the same. The Roberts Double Cross is the mother of all wake up calls. The end of this flirt with tyranny will be a constitutional amendment specifically forbidding taxation for not doing something.
Jack London| 7.5.12 @ 4:46PM
I wonder why you did nothing to fix healthcare while you had 10 years of GW. Now finally we have action that is not costing anything like the lies regurgitated once again by Ferrara (how do you tell if Ferrara's lying? His fingers are on the keyboard). And all you can do is cry like babies.
RCV| 7.5.12 @ 6:16PM
Yes, isn't it amazing how suddenly Republicans have these legislative solutions for people being denied insurance for pre-existing conditions, or being cancelled when they get ill, or not being covered for preventive care.
We didn't know you cared! (That's because you don't!)
JD| 7.5.12 @ 6:50PM
GWB was not "ours", he was a liberal ruling under a liberal euphemism ("compassionate conservatism"). Even then, the Democrats filibustered everything he did that didn't echo THEIR agenda (NCLB, TARP, and oh yeah, MEDICARE PART D, which WAS a medical expansion!)
The only "legislative solution" to an economic problem that CAN exist is one that removes the cause of the problem, in the event that a legislatively removable cause exists. In this case, one does, and it's existing legislation by Democrats. But you won't consider that a solution. You'll call that "lies", the same way you cry "lies" when ObamaCare's effects on the cost of health care are accurately reported.
loulou| 7.5.12 @ 9:12PM
Furthermore, US healthcare is the best in the world and does not need to be "fixed".
RCV| 7.9.12 @ 2:09PM
We just need to be sure more people have access to it.
TLP| 7.5.12 @ 6:18PM
I wonder what you'll do, when they give you the Pain Pill, instead of the Transplant, that you so desperately need.
Have a nice day.
Dumbass.
PatriotGal2257| 7.5.12 @ 8:40PM
I saw this article in a comments section on Pajamas Media a while back and when the inevitable crashing and burning of the healthcare system in this country occurs, here's what's likely to happen: http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.....7-09.html. It made perfect sense in the 50s and it makes perfect sense now. Oh, of course, the commies and the statists will bitch and moan, but hey, life's rough.
PatriotGal2257| 7.5.12 @ 8:40PM
OK, let's try again with a good link: http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.....07-09.html
ReaganConservative4ever| 7.5.12 @ 10:36PM
Everyone and anyone with constitutional conservative common sense knows that Obama and his minions are just lying and deceiving the American people, as anti-American liberal socialist-marxists always do.
This current Congress full of Obamacrats and weak kneed gutless appeasing capitulating compromising RINO Republicrats will never repeal Obamacare. They have neither the desire, nor the will to do what is right for the people, for Freedom and Liberty. They could care less about these virtues and Rights. They only care about themselves, their power, their money, their selfish self-serving interests, and their political ideological agenda of expanding govt. to the eventual destruction of America as a Constitutional Republic.
Thus ours is not to try to reason with those who have no reason, no logic, no values and principles of goodness whatsoever, ours is to only defeat them.
And when we finally do repeal Obama and his Obamacare, it will not be due to these weak kneed gutless Republicrat RINO's, but it will be due to the patriotic American People's unrelenting unwaivering tireless efforts to remove Obama from office, getting a political Majority in the US Senate, and installing as many Reagan Tea Party Conservatives in Congress as possible in the House of Representatives.
threeleafclover| 7.6.12 @ 2:18AM
I know how to defeat ObamaCare. First we defeat Obama. But not the way we are going about it now. Here's how:
Monday morning Romney goes on TV, holds up his college diploma. Says, "In my right hand, I hold my college diploma, in my left a transcript of my grades. They will be published online for your inspection and you may call the university for verification. I have given permission. I invite my opponent to do the same.
For a $3.00 donation (same as your chance to have dinner with Obama, what could cause more trauma? - - except in this case, you actually get something for your three bucks) you will receive a photocopy of my valid transcript. You will know the courses I took and the grades I got, the instructors I had.
Trouble with Republicans is - when they take the gloves off, there are just more bulky gloves.
threeleafclover| 7.6.12 @ 2:29AM
And when Obama publishes his, we will see that Harvard actually has a Black Studies Program, including:
Shuck and Jive 101
Community Organizing - Stepping Stone to White House
Modern Day Marxism - Make it Work for You
Writing Made Easy - Get Bill Ayers to Ghost For You
Photo Shopping Your Way to the Resume of Your Dreams
Activism - Let's You and Him Fight
PHILLIPBERNAL| 7.8.12 @ 4:24PM
Regards healthcare, how about everyone pay for their own healthcare? Stop telling me that I must pay for someone else’s healthcare. It is morally wrong for the government to mandate that I or even my employer pay for another person’s healthcare. Regards the so-called poor, which is a euphemism for minorities, well guess what? This is America. Get an education, get a job, and pay for your own damn healthcare. It is called personal responsibility. What about old people? Well, they had an entire lifetime to arrange their healthcare. We are free citizens with rights AND RESPONSILITIES. I am obligated to take care of me, my spouse and children, and my parents in their old age. You want a solution? Get the government out of healthcare. My healthcare is none of the government’s business, period. The only place for government in healthcare is for the armed forces. Everything else will fall into place when the government is out of healthcare. Medicare and Medicaid will go away. Trillions saved right there. Government interference, incompetence, corruption, and non-accountability cease. Government will no longer regulate the health insurance industry. Health insurers will be thrown into a real free enterprise arena. Sink or swim baby. Churches will once again take their rightful places as providers of healthcare for the “poor”, “old people”, and the truly mentally or physically infirm as they once did before the gubmit got involved.
Timely Renewed | 7.9.12 @ 4:00PM
We can not count on the Supreme Court to defend the Constitution. Even if Obamacare is repealed, that will still leave in place 75 years of Supreme Court decisions which have allowed the federal government to expand far beyond its original constitutional limits. We must now resort to the ultimate power the Framers left us - amendment. Only constitutional amendments restating and re-affirming those original limits will save our Republic. Of course, Congress will never initiate such amendments. Therefore, we must first reform the amendment process to enable the states to initiate and enact amendments without having to go through either Congress or the unworkable and dangerous mechanism of a convention. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com
Anyone But Obama| 7.11.12 @ 11:10PM
One problem. Romney is acting like Boehner, a wimp. Not only can't the GOP put up a decent candidate, they put up wimps or ones who couldn't get elected dogcatcher.