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To: Don Hurst who wrote (750332)	10/30/2013 10:00:18 AM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574485

when will they tell us what they are going to do to provide basic health care for the millions of Americans without it This is not the province of government.....

To: Don Hurst who wrote (750332)	10/30/2013 10:03:27 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1574485

MSNBC Host: 'Clintons Represent Style of Honesty Public Craves Right Now'... lololololol the rapist and the killer of Vince Foster, yeah after Obama and his fascist group what we need is a rapist and murderer.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (750332)	10/30/2013 10:58:25 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574485

How the Obama administration made sure people would lose their health insurance plans Patrick Brennan writes about the NBC News bombshell from yesterday in National Review. Excerpt: Much derision has been heaped on White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett’s tweet last night claiming that “nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans” (this is a “FACT,” she noted). There’s actually a little truth to this: Technically, individual-market plans that qualify as grandfathered under the ACA are exempt from some of the law’s mandates — but not all of them. As long as a grandfathered plan doesn’t undergo any “material changes” after 2010, it maintains its grandfathered status, so it doesn’t have to comply with all of the law’s strictures as other plans do on January 1. But those material changes are almost inevitable, in large part because of the ACA — meaning the plan will almost certainly be cancelled and replaced with a more expensive, more comprehensive plan, as millions of Americans have learned and continued to learn. [...]nsurers lose their grandfathered status if the plan has a “material change,” defined as “(1) eliminating or significantly reducing benefits; (2) raising co-insurance or co-payments; (3) raising deductibles; (4) reducing employer contributions; or, (5) adding or increasing an annual limit”… That sounds benign. It sounds as if the plans are only going to be changed if insurance companies change them voluntarily. But actually insurance companies must change the plans because Obamacare requires the plans to cover a whole bunch of new treatments, which will necessarily cause the plans to go up in price, as well. Look: [E]ven these grandfathered plans have to comply with a number of new Obamacare mandates — most important, they have to accept applicants regardless of preexisting conditions and charge them the same premiums, they have to eliminate lifetime-spending caps, and they have to cover dependents under 26 for free (there are other rules that also apply to grandfathered group plans). How, exactly, were health insurers supposed to comply with these new mandates (and other ways the ACA is raising costs) without raising customers’ contributions in the way the law says means losing grandfathered status? Obviously, they could have chosen to raise premiums alone — but then customers who don’t expect to use a lot of health care would switch to plans with higher cost-sharing, which ruins an insurance pool. In other words, the ACA did make it incredibly hard for insurers to continue plans for the millions of Americans who don’t want comprehensive insurance — financially, insurers almost certainly had to adjust them in such a way that they would lose grandfathered status. This isn’t “normal turnover in the insurance market” (though there is plenty of that in the individual market); there’s a reason why an exceptionally large number of Americans are getting cancellation notices this fall. The bottom line is that you can’t keep the vast majority of the plans that Obama said you could keep. He lied. Newsbusters notes that the major news networks are not even talking about the NBC News revelation that the Obama administration knew that their law would cause people to lose their health care. I think the lesson here is that Democrats lie, and the media, being an extension of the Democrat Party, covers up for them. That’s why the Democrats win elections. http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/how-the-obama-administration-made-sure-people-would-lose-their-health-insurance-plans/

To: Don Hurst who wrote (750332)	10/30/2013 11:18:07 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1574485

How to Cure a Climate Change Denier Posted on October 30, 2013 by Anthony Watts Here is a book with a twist – an eco gone rogue and self modified into a climate change “denier”. His experience parallels many, actually, including some of mine (though I’d never join Greenpeace) – Anthony From the description: Paul Caruso once lived in an off-grid eco-community, grew much of his own food and was an active member of Greenpeace. However, over the past few years he has lost his faith in human induced climate change and become a denier! He doesn’t really deny that the climate is changing – he has just come to the conclusion that it is natural variation. It seems that increasing numbers of people are becoming sceptical about the human induced part of global warming and this book attempts to show climate scientists why and, perhaps more importantly, what they can do about it. There are certain specific points that climate scientists are not currently answering and which they urgently need to answer if they want to convince people. ============================================================== “…specific points that climate scientists are not currently answering.” Gosh, ya think? Here is a further description: You can get the book on Amazon here h/t to reader Paul M wattsupwiththat.com

To: Don Hurst who wrote (750332)	10/30/2013 11:23:46 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1574485

Liberal Greed is Good Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 4 Comments Oliver Stone made Gordon Gekko and his famous quote “Greed is Good” into everything that was wrong with capitalism. A quarter of a century later, liberal politicians like Obama and Bill de Blasio are still running against Gordon Gekko while pocketing his contributions and doing special favors for him. Their class warfare is as nakedly greedy as Gordon Gekko shouting into a brick of a cell phone.Class warfare is the greed of the con artist playing on the stupid greed of his mark who wants to steal from someone else, but lacks the skill and daring to do anything but sign on to someone else’s scheme. The only way to get conned is to get greedy. The con artist plays on his mark’s desire to get something for nothing in a socially acceptable (or sometimes not socially acceptable) way. That’s why every piece of advice about not getting conned begins with “If it’s too good to be too true…” When Obama promised Americans that if they liked their health plan, they could keep their health plan, that everyone would somehow get more while paying less, it should have triggered all those “If it’s too good to be true” alarms. You can’t get something for nothing. Insurance companies are not about to go out of business or even take a serious hit to their profits. So where was all that extra free stuff going to come from? The mandate was another element of the con. Those who had health insurance assumed that forcing lots of healthy people who didn’t need health insurance into paying for policies they didn’t want and wouldn’t use would cover the costs for those who did. And while forcing the “invincibles”, the young people just getting by in a bad employment market to choose between a fine being taken out of their tax refunds or a policy they don’t want or need, may add some cash; it was never going to cover the real cost. That was a distraction. The only way that the numbers would really work was by cancelling policies and hiking premiums. The loud outcry from those who supported ObamaCare only to discover that their policies are gone is that of the greedy mark who thought that he was cheating someone else, only to discover that he was the one being cheated all along. Those Americans who thought that liberal greed was better than the capitalist kind are discovering that they weren't the con artists, instead they were the marks of men who make Gordon Gekko at his worst look like a saint. Capitalists even at their worst occasionally create value. The left at its best only destroys value. Liberalism is an army of Gordon Gekkos raiding everything of value, carving it up and carting away large chunks of it for themselves in the name of the greater good. The cynicism that Oliver Stone attributed to Wall Street is far more deeply rooted in the liberal money grab behind the welfare state in all its many forms, from the non-profit to the corporate. And when they are done, nothing is left. The 99% campaign of Occupy Wall Street was a greedier scam than anything Gordon Gekko would have imagined. It convinced millions that there was a 1% that would pay for everything that liberal politicians were promising them. Members of the middle class who should have known better decided that some nebulous class of billionaires would pay all their bills. But the 1% is better connected to the political powers than the middle class. And when the liberal bill comes due, it’s the middle class that pays. Voters were seduced into believing that liberal greed is good. They thought that they were going to feast at an expensive restaurant on someone else’s dime and now they’re getting the bill. You can’t be conned unless you get greedy. The easiest kind of person to cheat is the cheat who is looking for shortcuts. ObamaCare was a monumental con. It was a shortcut around the economic facts of life that promised everyone a free lunch on someone else’s dime. And too many people who should have known better stopped using their common sense. They forgot the same lesson they were forced to relearn every April about who really pays for everything. Instead they believed that Obama had finally found someone out there who would pay for their lunch. As Gordon Gekko said, “It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses.” Most of those signing on to the ObamaCare election express in 2012 understood that. But they thought that they would win and that somebody else would lose. Some of them may have even been right. But there’s something that every Democrat who holds a non-government job and pays actual taxes, instead of receiving someone else’s money back in the form of Earned Income Credits, needs to understand; the only way to win in the liberal zero sum game is to either work for the government or not work at all. If you work, if you earn money, then you lose. ObamaCare was yet another wealth redistribution scheme. It was a liberal Gordon Gekko with a teleprompter and an easy grin selling good liberal greed. Everyone would win, except for the people being robbed. There are no movies made about the evils of good liberal greed, even though good liberal greed turned Russia, China and Cambodia into charnel houses filled with corpses. The 1% of Communist Party members won and the 99% got a grave, a gulag or a miserable lifeof working in a bad job at low pay. When all was said and done, there was no land or bread or peace. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that ObamaCare doesn’t really offer health care. It takes the health care you had and increases the price you pay for it, makes it harder to access and more expensive to use. When someone promises you more of a finite quantity of something without having to give anything up, you know you’re being conned. But the left has done such a fine job of teaching people that liberal greed is good that their victims are no longer even able to recognize their base emotions as greed. They associate being conned with high moral values. When someone offers them stolen property, they feel that they’re being good people by accepting. “Why shouldn’t you have X, Y or Z?”, the Obamas and de Blasios ask the eager crowds. The answer is that robbery only works if you’re the robber. Not if you’re the one encouraging the robber go about his business in the expectation that he will rob your neighbor down the block who has three cars and two leather sofas and leave you alone because you only have two cars and one leather sofa. Class warfare cons the middle class into thinking that it’s going to be doing the robbing from some nebulous category of “the rich”, when it’s actually the one being robbed. Class warfare makes its victims complicit in its criminality. And like many victims of cons, it leaves them too ashamed to come forward and complain for fear of admitting their own guilt. When New York’s Italian-Jewish Republican mayor Fiorello LaGuardia took City Hall away from the Democratic Party’s Tammany Hall machine, he shook his fist and shouted during his inauguration in Italian, “È finita la cuccagna!” That can be loosely translated as “No more free lunch!” Now Bill de Blasio is campaigning for that same office on the Obama platform of a free lunch. But there are no free lunches. There are just lunches with a clear price tag that you pay for when you’re done eating and hideously expensive “free lunches” that you pay for when the tax bill comes due. Liberal greed, like all greed, blinds people to their own character flaws, it encourages them to think that they can steal from someone else and get away with it when they’re really stealing from themselves. The cancelled policies, high premiums and deductibles are only the first part of the ObamaCare bill. The real bill will take years to arrive and it will be much bigger and uglier. The first phase of the ObamaCare con is wrapping up. Like all cons, those who pulled it off have a choice between flying away to Argentina with briefcases of money or doubling down and convincing the mark that even though he lost money this time around, he can get it all back and make even more money if he commits to the next phase of the con. The next phase of the con is being previewed by Robert Reich and Paul Krugman. The endgame is health care nationalization. It’s an American NHS complete with death panels and unsustainable spending. The only question is will the marks of the ObamaCare con wake up now that their money is as lost as an advance fee sent to a Nigerian 411 scammer or will they go on making the same mistakes all over again. sultanknish.blogspot.com