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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Honey_Bee who wrote (4700)8/10/2013 1:26:48 PM
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Who Is Valerie Jarrett & Is She The One That Gave The “Stand Down” Order In Benghazi?



To: Honey_Bee who wrote (4700)8/10/2013 3:48:15 PM
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Fifteen Million forced to buy health insurance against their will.

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Townhall.com ^ | August 10, 2013 | Noel Sheppard


When President Obama said during his press conference Friday, "The one unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care," the liberal media predictably echoed his sentiments.

Yet if they did a little research, such folks would find that almost half of that 30 million are those being forced to buy health insurance against their will.





One such clueless individual is the Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson who said on MSNBC's Politics Nation Friday, "I think that Obama framed it very nicely today when he said that they want to shut down the government so that they can deny 30 million people health care."

Framed it nicely?

Only if folks such as Henderson will repeat the President's claim without doing some homework.

For instance, the folks at the Libre Initiative released a study last month with interesting statistics about ObamaCare (emphasis added):

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act say there are good reasons to force people to buy health insurance. Many young and healthy people use little health care, and they decide not to buy insurance - even though they might be able to afford it. Even worse: the law itself makes insurance more expensive for many young people. But forcing these people to buy insurance provides more money to pay for care for older and unhealthier people, who may use more care than they can afford.

How many people will be forced to purchase health insurance against their wishes? According to a new study: 13.7 million.

In other words, almost 14 million people are being forced by the government to buy insurance when they would prefer not to. The IRS will penalize them on their Taxes every year – and penalties increase over time. Without the law and the government penalty, millions of Americans would choose to spend their money on food, or educating their kids, or entertainment. They might even spend their money on things the law does not cover - like their spouses, or dental care, or a family member who is among the millions not eligible for coverage under the ACA.

As such, almost half of this magical 30 million are being legally compelled to purchase something they don't want so that the other half can either get it for free via extensions to Medicaid or buy it more cheaply than the rest of the nation.

It makes sense that the White House doesn't want to admit how large a percentage of the newly insured this represents, but shouldn't the news media?

Also missing in this discussion is how premiums will indeed go up for many Americans.

According to the website ObamaCareFacts.com, "For many low to middle income Americans insurance will become more affordable, however those making above 400% of the federal poverty line may find themselves paying more."

The federal poverty line varies by size of household. For a married couple under 65 and without children, the line is $15,374. So if they make more than $61,496, their premiums will likely go up.

The line for a single parent with one child is $15,825. Said person making over $63,300 will see his or her premiums go up.

Keep in mind that the median household income is currently $50,054. That means that contrary to claims being made by the President and his supporters, a lot of people are going to see their premiums rise.

So when you look at the total picture, many people in this country are going to be spending more on health insurance than they ever have, all against their will, so that roughly 16 million additional Americans can either get it for free or far more cheaply than the rest of us.

It seems a metaphysical certitude that if the media reported that rather than mimicking White House talking points this law would be even more unpopular than it already is.



To: Honey_Bee who wrote (4700)8/10/2013 4:25:56 PM
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19 Very Disturbing Facts About Illegal Immigration That Every American Should Know
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By Michael Snyder, on August 9th, 2013
endoftheamericandream.com

Most Americans have absolutely no idea how negatively illegal immigration is affecting this nation.
The following are 19 very disturbing facts about illegal immigration that every American should know…

#1 57 percent of all households that are led by an immigrant (legal or illegal) are enrolled in at least one welfare program.

#2 According to one study, the cost to U.S. taxpayers of legalizing current illegal immigrants would be approximately 6.3 trillion dollars over the next 50 years.

#3 The Obama administration has distributed flyers that tell illegal immigrants that their immigration status will not be checked when they apply for food stamps.

#4 The Department of Homeland Security says that it has lost track of a million people that have entered this country but that appear never to have left.

#5 One out of every five children living in Los Angeles County has a parent that is in the country illegally.

#6 In one recent year, taxpayers in Los Angeles County spent 600 million dollars on welfare for children of illegal immigrants.

#7 Thanks to illegal immigration, California’s overstretched health care system is on the verge of collapse. Dozens of California hospitals and emergency rooms have shut down over the past decade because they could not afford to stay open after being endlessly swamped by illegal immigrants who were simply not able to pay for the services that they were receiving. As a result, the remainder of the health care system in the state of California is now beyond overloaded. This had led to brutally long waits, diverted ambulances and even unnecessary patient deaths. At this point, the state of California now ranks dead last out of all 50 states in the number of emergency rooms per million people.

#8 It has been estimated that U.S. taxpayers spend $12,000,000,000 a year on primary and secondary school education for the children of illegal immigrants.

#9 It is estimated that illegal aliens make up approximately 30 percent of the population in federal, state and local prisons and that the total cost of incarcerating them is more than $1.6 billion annually.

#10 The federal government actually has a website that teaches immigrants how to sign up for welfare programs once they arrive in the United States.

#11 The Obama administration recently introduced the very first “unmanned” border station along the Texas-Mexico border.

#12 The Obama administration has sued individual states such as Arizona that have tried to crack down on illegal immigration.

#13 According to the FBI, there are approximately 1.4 million gang members living in our cities. Illegal immigration has been one of the primary factors that has fueled the growth of these gangs.

#14 As I have written about previously, there are only about 200 police officers assigned to Chicago’s Gang Enforcement Unit to handle the estimated 100,000 gang members living in the city.

#15 Mexican drug cartels make approximately 6.6 billion dollars a year “exporting” illegal drugs to the United States.

#16 It is an open secret that Mexican drug cartels are openly conducting military operations inside the United States. The handful of border patrol agents that we have guarding the border are massively outgunned and outmanned.

#17 According to the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, Mexican drug cartels were actively operating in 50 different U.S. cities in 2006. By 2010, that number had skyrocketed to 1,286.

#18 Overall, more than 55,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006. That same level of violence will eventually show up in major U.S. cities unless something dramatic is done about illegal immigration.

#19 It is being projected that the Senate immigration bill will bring 33 million more people to the United States over the next decade.

One of the very few things that the federal government is actually required to do by the U.S. Constitution is to defend our borders, and unfortunately the Obama administration has willingly chosen to leave our borders completely wide open. In fact, you can go down to the Texas border right now and watch illegal immigrants hop right across the Rio Grande.

Several retired Border Patrol agents recently drafted an open letter to the American people on the subject of illegal immigration, and what they had to say was quite startling. The following is an excerpt from that letter that was in a recent Breitbart article

“Transnational criminal enterprises have annually invested millions of dollars to create and staff international drug and human smuggling networks inside the United States; thus it is no surprise that they continue to accelerate their efforts to get trusted representatives in place as a means to guarantee continued success,” the Border Patrol agents wrote.

“We must never lose sight of the fact that the United States is the market place for the bulk of transnational criminal businesses engaged in human trafficking and the smuggling, distribution and sale of illegal drugs. Organized crime on this scale we are speaking about cannot exist without political protection.”

According to those retired border agents, by refusing to secure our border the Obama administration is openly facilitating the trafficking of drugs into the United States…

“Most heroin, cocaine, meth, and marijuana marketed in the United States is produced outside of our country, and then smuggled into the United States,” they wrote. “The placement of trusted foreign employees inside the United States is imperative to insure success in continuing to supply the demand, and returning the profits to the foreign organization. Members of these vicious transnational crime syndicates are already well established in more than 2,000 American cities and their numbers are increasing as networks expand and demands accelerate. These transnational criminals present a real and present danger to all Americans, and they live among us.”

Sadly, in politically correct America you can’t even talk about the problem of illegal immigration these days without being labeled as a “racist”.

For the record, I believe that all people deserve love and respect no matter what they look like or where they are born. God created us all and He loves us all very much. I have long been a very strong advocate for racial reconciliation in this country, and I will continue to be.

And there are tens of millions of Latino-Americans in this country that are hard working, law-abiding citizens. They have done things the right way, and it is extremely unfortunate that they often get lumped in with millions of illegal immigrants that willingly choose to break our laws.

Unfortunately, we have a system of immigration today that greatly rewards lawless behavior. We have made coming into this country through the front door exceedingly difficult, but we have left the back door completely wide open.

So hard working, law-abiding people that want to do things the right way are kept out, but those that want to come here and commit crimes or abuse the system are free to come on over any time that they would like.

What sense does that make?

Our immigration system is completely broken, but these days we cannot even have a rational debate about these issues. In politically correct America, illegal immigrants have become a “favored class” of people that you are never supposed to say anything bad about.

In fact, one activist recently went out and actually got people to sign a petition that said that we should let illegal immigrants out of prison no matter what crimes they have committed

What in the world is happening to this country?

I would love to hear what all of you think. Please feel free to express your opinion by posting a comment below…







To: Honey_Bee who wrote (4700)8/10/2013 11:06:04 PM
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Obama’s not to be trusted on foreign policy



Telegraph UK ^ | August 10, 2013 | Janet Daley



To: Honey_Bee who wrote (4700)8/12/2013 11:08:43 AM
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Obama Thinks Only He can Save Us from His Reckless Policies



To: Honey_Bee who wrote (4700)8/12/2013 12:21:58 PM
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There's something wrong with an American president warning DISABLED VETERANS that their benefits might be cut because of HIS sequester, and in the next breath he's flying off on ANOTHER multi-million dollar vacation with his DOG transported there on an Osprey helicopter.

Where's the outrage?

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To: Honey_Bee who wrote (4700)8/15/2013 1:54:55 PM
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Pelosi Pushes To Make California Sanctuary For Illegals...