You don’t say.
Howard Rich, Netrightdaily:
[…] while history is unlikely to witness a repeat of anything approaching the horrific genocidal barbarism perpetrated by the murderous Nazi “New Order,” that doesn’t mean American politicians of both parties aren’t still employing the same propaganda techniques utilized by its reviled leader.
In fact, after Bush Republicans used “The Big Lie” to grow government and rack up huge deficits (while telling us they were for “limited government and less spending”) President Barack Obama is now using it to expand government further and rack up even larger deficits under the banner of “hope and change.”
Of course Americans still searching for “hope” amidst our ongoing economic malaise know that the only real “change” has been the cost of these lies – which keeps adding up at the expense of our liberties.
How many “Big Lies” has Obama told? Frankly, it’s becoming difficult to keep track of them.
Most recently, the top actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid – a pair of programs that shouldn’t even exist in the first place – revealed that millions of American seniors will have to pay increased out-of-pocket health care costs next year for “less generous benefit packages” as a direct result of Obamacare.
This is due to government’s failure to acknowledge basic economic realities – which is already costing taxpayers hundreds of billions each year (even as these programs’ unfunded liabilities continue to soar).
Last month, a Kaiser Family Foundation report showed that family health care costs are up by 14 percent in 2010 – with even larger increases forecast for future years, again as a result of Obamacare.
“Health reform mandates new levels of coverage that will increase employers’ costs at least until 2014,” a Kaiser analyst noted.
Beyond higher costs, “Obamacare” is already reneging on government promises regarding prescription drug plans – another benefit that never should have been subsidized by taxpayers. According to a study released earlier this year by Avalare Heath, as many as 3.7 million seniors could be forced out of their prescription drug coverage under the new law next year – ostensibly so the government can provide them with “more meaningful choices.”
All across the country, Obamacare’s costly new mandates are driving Americans out of their existing coverage and forcing them to pay increased out-of-pocket expenses – perpetuating the worst inefficiencies of government-run health care.
“This much is clear: If the law with its expensive mandates remains on the books, millions of Americans are going to lose the health care plans they have now — plans the president repeatedly promised they could keep,” Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe wrote recently.
Obviously, these ill effects don’t even begin to address the damage done by Obamacare’s individual mandates and costly tax hikes – which not only trample on the Constitution but also violate Obama’s promise not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $200,000.
Of course we’ve been lied to by this administration before. Obama promised to bring transparency and accountability to government, but then he negotiated his health care bill in secret so that he could steer billions of dollars to his biggest labor union supporters. Then Obama removed new disclosure requirements for these union leaders – making it impossible for the public to know how they’re spending all of this taxpayer-funded largesse.
And who can forget “The Big Lie” of Obama’s so-called stimulus plan – which administration officials said would save or create more than 3 million jobs and keep unemployment below 8 percent? Clearly those assumptions – along with Vice President Joe Biden’s promised “Summer of Recovery” – were diversions designed to fool the American people.
When I read pieces like this, I’m often most surprised that people are at all surprised.
Call me perspicacious, but from day one, this guy’s game was obvious to any “conservative” with a pulse. All that remained was for us to divine his motivations.
OUTLAW!
Howard Rich is lying about the Bush Republicans as this chart which was produced in a Microsoft Office product clearly shows
Bumblefuck has created a historically unprecedented class for himself in terms of fiscally ass-raping our economy, and his record could not be more dissimilar to that of Mr. Bush and Team R.
He told so many outright, verifiable, lies during the 2008 campaign that I can’t see how anyone would be surprised that he’s a liar. And I’ll never regret not signing on to the idea that it was somehow wrong to oppose his policy initiatives from day one.
I mean, he told us what was going to happen in advance, regardless of the reassurances of Noonan, Zuckerman, et al that “he’ll never really try anything like that-it would be political suicide…”
Well he’s sayin’ sayonara right now to a whole bunch of congressional types that he hoodwinked into being Kamikazes, with the help of Reid, Pelosi, Soros money, and the MFM.
And he’ll keep right on pushing too.
I’m still waiting to see how he’ll stay in power after losing in 2012; what crisis will arise that will warrant him overriding the will of the electorate?
“No, he’s never do that, it would be political suicide…”
Yeah, so was passing Obamacare.
If you have reasonably devined Obama’s motivations, you just might conclude that the Obama Adm.is now trying to enact the second stage of Marxist Communism, the phase where representative government is eliminated – here simply by having Congress vote on Bills without having the time,interest, or need to even read them, and in spite of the obvious lack of public consent of the “governed”; and the bourgeois middle class is attacked into non-existence by the unsurprising attempt to ~”strip everything it has off its back” and otherwise control everything we hard-wired ignoramus proles do.
The “workers” never revolted, but apparently they were always going to be punished and enslaved anyway.
wow. just… wow.
Bumblefuck has created a historically unprecedented class for himself in terms of fiscally ass-raping our economy, and his record could not be more dissimilar to that of Mr. Bush and Team R.
Thank Gaea we skipped out on that snowbilly in the #2 slot, eh? Who KNOWS how much damage she could have done…?
Own the outcome, sappyfeet. Own the outcome.
what are you talking about Mr. Drumwaster? I threw dignity to the wind and voted for those Team R weewacks in 2008. Cause of I knew how dangerous the dirty socialists were. And I admired Palin right up until she bailed on her job for the monies and the fame and deluxe apartment in the sky.
This is not my outcome to own. This outcome is McCain and Palin’s to own cause they ran an insipid and inept and uninspired and cowardly campaign. And they failed. They failed Team R. They failed America.
Spectacularly.
Please don’t feed the trolls.
Call me paranoid, but I’m cringing in anticipation of the “October Surprise” we’ve yet to see in the next two weeks and a bit worried about the reaction of the O’bots to the coming Demogeddon. Clearly the ‘bots are near totally unhinged at this point by the eminent demise of their socialist dreams. Comment that the sky is blue at any of the major news sites and they’ll scream “lies! lies!” They’re totally bereft of rational arguments and beginning to threaten violence. It wouldn’t take much to push them over the edge from rhetoric to action. Things could get really ugly….
So, Palin was not a dumbass before she bailed; just after?
You are a very strange bird, hf. Palin hasn’t changed at all. What’s changed is your perception of her. So, if you’re right now, you were a cumslut whorebag-supporting idiot before she quit.