Conservative Change and Hope for 2012
It’s hard to think of a president that has been more of a failure
than President Obama. I suspect that Carter is glad this guy came along, so at
least he knows he is no longer the worst president ever. My Hope is that we will have a Change of President in 2012!
The one good thing about Obama is that he may very well be the cause of a Conservative resurgence the likes of which we have not seen in a long long time.
The two years the Obama Pelosi and Reid controlled all was used to ram thru many unpopular Big Government bills.
The way Obamacare was born, it was quite a show of smoke and mirrors. The
Progressives put out such a radical health plan that they never compromised on, which
is so pro union, anti business, too expensive and full of big government that there is
no hope of that any Conservative could possibly endorse. They have the audacity and
arrogance to call this a bipartisan solution when it is actually social
economic suicide. Government is inherently incompetent and corrupt so therefore
should do less. Common sense screams use small government. One size does not fit all so let the individual States each decide what is best for themselves.
Now that the results of this exclusively Democratic piece of legislation that was rammed down the average Americans throat is starting to be felt by all it will be swaying elections for years to come.
President
Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on
March 23, 2010. In just the year since, the law known as ObamaCare has
already
severely crippled the nation’s economy and health care system.
Despite
Obama’s continued pride in his signature health care legislation, a new
CNN poll shows that 58% of Americans disapprove of the way Obama is
handling health care.
The Republican House
passed a repeal of ObamaCare
in January, but the bill was blocked by the Democrat-controlled
Senate. Four House committees are now drafting a replacement bill for
ObamaCare. The House also passed legislation
defunding ObamaCare in March, which was likewise
blocked by the Senate Democrats.
Republican leaders are committed, however, and say that they will be
defunding the health care law through the appropriations process this
year.
These are the top 10 failures of ObamaCare, starting with
those that have had the most serious effect already on the economy,
jobs, and the American people.
1. Explodes the Budget Deficit
One
year ago, Obama said, “This legislation will also lower costs for ...
the federal government, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion in the
next two decades. It is paid for. It is fiscally responsible. “
Today: ObamaCare is projected to cost at least $2.4 trillion
when it is fully implemented. Instead of Obama’s promise to reduce the deficit, the
Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) estimates that ObamaCare will increase the federal deficit by
$260 billion through 2019. The United States has more than $14 trillion
in debt already, and
will hit the current statutory debt ceiling ($14.3 trillion) in the next couple of months.
2. Kills Jobs
One
year ago: Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said
that the health care bill “will create 4 million jobs — 400,000 jobs
almost immediately."
Today: The only jobs that have been
created from ObamaCare are the tens of thousands of new government
bureaucrats who have been hired to deal with all the new regulations and
taxes from ObamaCare.
Contrary to Pelosi’s prediction,
the director of the CBO testified that 800,000 jobs will be lost over
the next decade as a result of the law. Even the liberal Urban
Institute released a report this week that said that the health care law
will have "no noticeable effect on net levels of employment."
Employers are forced to either cut jobs or move workers into part-time
slots that are not mandated to receive health insurance in order to meet
the regulations, according to the CBO.
3. Lose Your Own Doctor and Health Plan
One
year ago: Obama said, “If you like your current insurance, you will
keep your current insurance. No government takeover. Nobody is
changing what you’ve got if you’re happy with it. If you like your
doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. If you like your plan,
you can keep it.”
Today: New regulations could force as many
as 87 million Americans to lose their current health care plans and
their own doctors.
As soon as the new ObamaCare regulations were
announced, companies told their employees that they may not be able to
keep their current health care plans because of the increased expense.
So Obama’s secretary of Health and Human Services started issuing
one-year waivers that exempt companies and unions from complying with
the law if it causes a significant increase in premium costs or decrease
in access to coverage.
ObamaCare is so broken that the Obama
administration has spent the last six months exempting its union friends
and large companies from the law. In this one year, the Obama
administration has already issued 1,040 waivers to unions and employers,
which thereby exempt 2.6 million people from ObamaCare regulations.
But
small businesses and non-union workers who do not have the resources or
access to the administration’s waivers will be forced to drop their
employees’ current health care plans.
4. States’ Budget Deficits Grow to Possible Bankruptcy
One
year ago: Obama said, “It will take four years to implement fully many
of these reforms, because we need to implement them responsibly. We
need to get this right.”
Today: The states, which already
have a collective $175 billion budget shortfall this year, are faced
with such huge new mandatory costs from ObamaCare that some are on the
verge of bankruptcy.
The main cost of the law’s plan to states is
from expanding Medicare to add 20 million more people to the program.
Medicare accounts for an average of 22% of state budgets. The Medicare
expansion will cost the states $118 billion through 2023. States are
cutting other programs such as education and law enforcement in order to
make up for the shortfall in the new federal mandates.
Already,
28 of 50 states have challenged the constitutionality of the health care
law’s individual mandate in court. Judges in Virginia and Florida have
ruled that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. These and other cases are
expected to be resolved in the U.S. Supreme Court.
5. Higher Insurance Premiums:
One year ago: Obama said that the law will “lower the cost of health care for our families.”
Today: Some Americans have already had a
spike in the cost of their insurance premiums of an astounding 20% to 60%. Insurance companies have raised premiums in double-digit increases. For example,
Blue Shield of California
recently increased some of its individual plans by 59%, saying that 4%
of the increase is a direct result of the new health care law.
Now,
the CBO projects that the average American family will pay $2,100 more
on health care premiums when the law is fully implemented (an increase
of 10% to 13%).
6. Crushes Businesses
One year ago: Obama said that the law will “lower the cost of health care” for businesses.
Today:
While the economy is barely growing at all, companies are facing a
government mandate to provide health care for their employees. The law
will cost at least $50 billion to employers because of these new
mandates.
Even the CEO of Starbucks said this week that his
company is struggling to meet the ObamaCare regulations. His company
spent $250 million last year on health care benefits, and the costs are
expected to rise by double-digit percentages. He said that if his big
company is struggling, then he believes that “under the current
guidelines, the pressure on small businesses, because of the mandate, is
too great.”
7. Fewer Americans Have Access to Health Insurance
One
year ago: Obama said, “And we have now just enshrined, as soon as I
sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic
security when it comes to their health care.”
Today:
Employers are facing huge increased costs or fines, and so will be
forced to find ways to make fewer employees eligible for health
benefits. Experts estimate that as many as 35 million American workers
will lose health care benefits because of the higher cost put on
companies from ObamaCare.
Also, an estimated half-million
children will lose health care
because of the new law. Big health insurance companies such as Anthem
Blue Cross and Aetna have already dropped offering child-only policies
in 19 states because they are too costly under the ObamaCare
regulations.
8. Senior Citizens Lose Medicare Coverage:
One year ago: Obama said, “We’re not going to mess with Medicare”.
Today:
The health care law cuts nearly $530 billion in Medicare over the next
decade, with $200 billion coming from the Medicare Advantage. As one in
four seniors is currently enrolled in the Medicare Advantage program,
approximately 7 million of them will lose access to the popular
program. Many seniors have already been cut off their plans.
There
are 46 million seniors in the Medicare program, but the ObamaCare
provisions could drive the program into bankruptcy and prevent doctors
from accepting it. Physicians will have a nearly 30% cut in
reimbursements next year from ObamaCare.
Even the Obama
administration’s chief Medicare actuary reported, “Providers for whom
Medicare constitutes a substantive portion of their business could find
it difficult to remain profitable and, absent legislative intervention,
might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing
access to care for beneficiaries).”
9. Overburdens Small Business
One
year ago: Obama said, “This year, we’ll start offering tax credits to
about 4 million small businessmen and women to help them cover the cost
of insurance for their employees.”
Today: Obama has already
conceded that a provision in his law is so onerous to small-business
owners that he asked Congress to fix it. The provision mandates that
small-business owners file a 1099 tax form for any business transaction
over $600.
Congress is working to pass
the 1099 fix now, but the effect on small businesses has already hurt
the economy. Small businesses are the primary source of job creation in
the U.S., so their burden this year with the 1099 provision and other
mandates from health care has helped keep unemployment at almost 10%.
More
than 40 million small businesses are subject to this new regulation.
So the Internal Revenue Service requested to hire 1,270 new bureaucrats
to help handle the paperwork for the flood of 1099 forms and other
provisions in implementing the new taxes from ObamaCare.
10. Tax Hikes
One
year ago: Obama said, “Millions of people will get tax breaks to help
them afford coverage, which represents the largest middle-class tax cut
for health care in history.”
Today: The ObamaCare law
includes more than $813 billion in total tax hikes over the next decade,
which include the penalty for not having health insurance, and taxes on
health plans ($60 billion), medical devices ($20 billion), and
prescription drugs ($27 billion).
After President Obama signed the health care law last March 23, he
said this: “And now that this legislation is passed, you don’t have to
take my word for it. You’ll be able to see it in your own lives. I
heard one of the Republican leaders say this was going to be
Armageddon. Well, two months from now, six months from now, you can
check it out. We’ll look around and we’ll see. You don’t have to take
my word for it.”
Mr. President, as you instructed, the American
people have looked around the country and they have checked out
ObamaCare. And, frankly, they still think it looks a lot like
Armageddon.
In
a surprise move, the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) has announced a
lawsuit against the Democratic Party and its leadership for the alleged
theft of intellectual property. The plaintiffs claim that the entire
so-called "new" Democratic agenda is, in fact, the product of a
decades-long, painstaking campaign by CPUSA theorists, agitators, and
underground subversive cells - which makes it the intellectual property
of the Communist Party USA, protected by American copyright laws. "They
stole our entire platform, rebranded it 'progressive', and claimed it as
their own," declared a CPUSA spokesperson at a press conference in San
Francisco. "And we communists say, not so fast! Not in this country
anyway, where we still have property rights and the rule of law, thank
God! Actually, let me rephrase that..."
The
Communist Party representative explained that government ownership of
the auto and financial industries, redistribution of wealth, and free
rationed healthcare have always been among the glorious CPUSA
objectives: "We held on to these goals through all the difficult years
of factional infighting, purges, denunciations, and heroic espionage on
behalf of the Soviet intelligence services."This may seem like a
foreign idea to you, but we sacrificed everything for it - our friends,
our neighbors, and our nation. We suffered from all kinds of ulcers and
split personality disorders by blindly following Stalin's directives. We
risked our chances of promotion within US government agencies by
dutifully advancing Soviet foreign policy. And for what? So that some
spoiled Democrats could ride on our backs to power while throwing us
crumbs in the form of minor cabinet appointments? 
