You all are nothing but special interests
The president took aim at critics who say the health care bill would add to the budget deficit and praised the Senate for standing up to special interest groups.“I just want to be clear, for all those who are continually carping about how this is somehow a big-spending government bill, this cuts our deficit by $132 billion the first 10 years and by over $1 trillion in the second,” the president said today at the White House. [...]
But the Congressional Budget Office Sunday revised the original numbers, now estimating that the deficit reduction under the bill could actually be half of the more than $1 trillion forecast for 2020 to 2029.
The voters, those people that Obama pretends to appeal to when pushing for the biggest piece of fascistic legislation in American history, are ignored while a host of big businesses/labor/trade associations make a deal with the devil and politicos whore themselves.
But you, voter? Are you the individual who Obama promised you could keep your insurance? Are you the doctor who wonders if you’ll be able to even keep practicing for $35/a visit? Or the small business owner wondering what new “mandates” will be foisted on you? Even with the IRS in charge of enforcing a constitutionally-questionable, individual mandate for insurance, how many will still duck it and help make a hash of every ostensible promise that has issued forth from Obamacrat’s mouth in their rush to statism?
Indeed, in a fascist medical system, how long before the individual mandates aren’t just about carrying the insurance but how we will be individually mandated on our own health practices? What will be the punishment for exceeding a Health and Human Services determined BMI? Will restaurants nationwide go where California has gone and even further, be legally required to refuse service to certain “health compromised” people?
Why not, since the Obamacrats have tried to make mandated, universal healthcare a moral obligation via law (obviously raping the language again, since the touchstone of morality is choice); and if it is that we are legally obligated to be responsible for each other, we will be legally obligated to give up liberty to eat or exercise as we please. Indeed, we may be legally obligated to die for the benefit of others.
Thank you to the 52 of Nov. 2008. You voted for a “good man”, you got a taller, thinner Hugo Chavez.
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UPDATE: Democrat Whores for Trial Lawyers
Judging by Federal Election Commission data on the political contributions of people associated with the top 15 class-action plaintiffs’ law firms, it’s no accident that malpractice reform is not part of health care “reform”: Trial lawyers are investing heavily in their Democratic friends who control the White House and both chambers of Congress.Since Jan. 3, 2009, 581 contributions worth $1,261,023 have been made by donors identifying themselves as employees of the 15 firms (contributions by employees who did not identify their employer are not reflected in this data). Democratic candidates and committees received $1,241,978, or 98 percent of the total. The most generous of these lucrative sources of Democratic campaign cash was the Dallas-based Baron & Budd, best known for the late Fred Baron, who was finance chairman for former Sen. John Edwards’ 2008 presidential run. Thus far in 2009, Baron & Budd employees have contributed $212,958 to 21 Democrats, and not a cent to Republicans.
Comment by No one you know on 12/21 @ 3:49 pm #
I’m just holding out for those red jumpsuits that you always saw in the propaganda reels of Mao’s China. You remember the ones where everyone was forced to exercise? Spiffy!!
Comment by Squid on 12/21 @ 3:54 pm #
Red jumpsuit? Are you sure you weren’t watching MST3K?
Comment by Joe on 12/21 @ 3:57 pm #
Can I get a red beret and little green parrot? Because that is just the shits!
Comment by Joe on 12/21 @ 3:58 pm #
Especially when you can nationalize the profits from Cheveron and divert them to yourself and your pals.
Comment by JD on 12/21 @ 4:00 pm #
Anytime he says “let me be clear” he fucking lies straight out of his ass next. The idea that this could ever reduce the deficit is preposterous, and the entire meme is founded on lies, stacked on canards, stacked on lies.
Comment by AJB on 12/21 @ 4:09 pm #
I unironically wish this were true.
The current health care bill is a corporatist handout to the insurance companies. It’s hardly socialism.
Comment by Joe on 12/21 @ 4:12 pm #
Fashion statement: Commie-pirate-tard-scout, it is a hard look to pull off.
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Comment by Joe on 12/21 @ 4:14 pm #
“The current health care bill is a corporatist handout to the insurance companies. It’s hardly socialism.”
Well, it is a hybrid of fascism and socialism, kinda like Peronism in Argentina.
Whew, you had me worried there for a second. We all know how things in Argentina went soooooo well.
Comment by bh on 12/21 @ 4:14 pm #
“The current health care bill is a corporatist handout to the insurance companies. It’s hardly socialism.”
See also: the banks, car companies… The tax money is traded for governmental control. That’s why it’s economic fascism. Shhhh… we’re not supposed to say that though. Wouldn’t be pragmatic.
Comment by JD on 12/21 @ 4:18 pm #
AJB’s track record of abject mendoucheousness continues apace.
Comment by Darleen on 12/21 @ 4:18 pm #
AJB
It is fascism. The insurance companies are operating at the pleasure of the Feds. The bill (at this time) limits their profits, will mandate what they will cover but does give them new “clients” via an individual mandate.
There is no real “free market” here, just a veneer. IE fascism.
Doctors and patients are mere afterthoughts.
Comment by geoffb on 12/21 @ 4:19 pm #
Up is down. Over is under. War is peace. Slavery is freedom. Property is theft. And we have always been at war with [insert name here].
Is it any wonder that Jeff gets attacked for what he teaches? Really?!!!
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 12/21 @ 4:19 pm #
So, you oppose the bill, then? Well in that case no sex for you with these twits.
Comment by dicentra on 12/21 @ 4:21 pm #
Are you sure you weren’t watching MST3K?
Joike and the ‘Bots were funny, not scary.
So that would be a no.
Comment by .38 +P on 12/21 @ 4:26 pm #
Just because this bill supposedly “…cuts our deficit by $132 billion…” doesn’t mean it’s not incomprehensively expensive. It just means they plan to fleece us $132 billion more than the trillion or two dollars they expect it to cost. We are so screwed…
Comment by Darleen on 12/21 @ 4:27 pm #
TSI
W.T.F? If any person under 30 thinks the healthcare bill is a “good deal” for them, just WAIT until they get their mandate bill.
GEEEZ! what losers!
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 12/21 @ 4:33 pm #
#16
I get the feeling that our children are going to be pulling rickshaws for Chinese tourists, by the time they call in all our IOUs. We are so over the falls.
Comment by Frontman on 12/21 @ 6:25 pm #
“There is no real “free market” here, just a veneer. IE fascism”
Yep. Even fascism needs infrastructure.
Comment by Frontman on 12/21 @ 6:49 pm #
I smell the spoor of moby(s). I would just as soon not be in the same room.
Comment by Darleen on 12/21 @ 7:20 pm #
Attention, two possible moby[s] at what was #20, #21 now unapproved.
Carry on.
Comment by Daniel W. Rasmus on 12/21 @ 8:19 pm #
I’m not as upset about the deficit as I am about the apparent deception. My representatives, as did most, failed to keep us informed. Both sides of the aisle said what they wanted to say, not what was in the bill. We may need reform, we don’t need reformed rushed and unreasonable.
Comment by Matt on 12/21 @ 8:23 pm #
AJB seems to be saying the democrats are the corporate whores.
Comment by LTC John on 12/21 @ 8:23 pm #
#6 – honesty at last. Wishing for a full blown socialist dictatorship, instead of a half-baked corporatist muddle. Me, I’d rather have the State butt out.
Comment by Squid on 12/21 @ 9:06 pm #
AJB may wind up being right, but that’s only because the insurance companies have the better minds working their strategy. It’s an all-out gambit by the Administration to take over the health care sector, but I’d be really surprised if the health-care sector doesn’t take over the government instead. It may take ‘em a few years, but they’ll get it done.
Comment by LTC John on 12/22 @ 7:43 am #
#25 – Al hamdu ‘lillah I work in the CGL field, not health. I’d rather not be part of that Titanomachia/Ragnorak/Armageddon/Kralizec.
Comment by B Moe on 12/22 @ 7:49 am #
If anyone were harboring any doubts that AJB was anything other than a complete idiot, this should remove them.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/22 @ 8:05 am #
AJB’s motto. Democracy is two wolves looking at a lamb and voting on who gets to have it for lunch. Liberty is a well-fed lamb debating which wolf to let eat it first.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/22 @ 8:08 am #
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Actually in his mind the wolves would be fighting over who gets to eat the lamb, not voting.