Socialism has always been the spirit behind the creation of America's Affordable Care Act. It was the same for Social Security, Medicare, and all other programs created in the name of helping everybody. You can decide for yourself whether these programs are good or bad, but any program that involves re-distributing wealth and issuing benefits across all segments of society is a brand of socialism. But there is something ominously different about the career of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Its bringers are running full-speed away from it!
In 1965, former President Harry Truman enrolled himself in Medicare. If it was good enough for everyone, it was good enough for a president. And yet, since the 2012 re-election of President Obama, two years before the expected full-implementation of Obamacare, those of the very segments of society which made this law a reality are tripping over themselves to get their constituents exempted from it.
The first grumblings came from Senate Democrats, worried about their re-election chances in 2014. Montana Senator Max Baucus, one of the chief sponsors of Obamacare, began calling the law "a train wreck." Next, it was the turn of the labor unions, most notably Jimmy Hoffa Jr.'s Teamsters, UFCW, and Unite-Here. Together, they issued a damning statement about Obamacare to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Here are its most insightful passages:
"Like
millions of other Americans, our members are front-line workers in the
American economy. We have been strong supporters of the notion that all
Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. We have
also been strong supporters of you. In campaign after campaign we have
put boots on the ground, gone door-to-door to get out the vote, run
phone banks and raised money to secure this vision. Now this vision has come back to haunt us."
"As you
both know first-hand, our persuasive arguments have been disregarded
and met with a stone wall by the White House and the pertinent agencies.
This is especially stinging because other stakeholders have
repeatedly received successful interpretations for their respective
grievances. Most disconcerting of course is last week’s huge
accommodation for the employer community—extending the statutorily
mandated “December 31, 2013” deadline for the employer mandate and
penalties."
"Time is running out: Congress wrote this law; we voted for you. We have a problem; you need to fix it."
The
Affordable Care Act will “destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work
week that is the backbone of the American middle class.”
This week, in keeping with Obamacare's trend of destroying" the backbone of the middle class", the president just issued an executive order, exempting congressional staffs from receiving the Medicaid-Plus (i.e. Obamacare exchange plan) that was set to replace their existing (and generous) Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) with lower quality coverage. Over the last few weeks, these staffers have groaned that Obamacare will force them to pay thousands of dollars a year in out-of-pocket expenses.Hearing their cries, the president issued his executive order exempting congressional staffers from Obamacare, breaking his own law. This is not the first time the president has broken the Obamacare law. A matter of weeks ago, he waved the employer mandate (delaying it, conveniently, until after the 2014 midterm elections). Does it seem far fetched that labor unions will get an exemption too? Not at all.
The president has already shown us that he has no regard for the rule of law, that he conducts himself as being above the law, and that he will save his privileged, ruling elite, from the very laws he signed to make everyone" pay their fair share." The only segment of American society that will not get an Obamacare exemption is the middle class, in other words, those of us who can not afford to send a lobbyist to Washington on our behalf. The Affordable Care Act (with all its exemptions) is set to create a new American ruling class, unless it is repealed.
Patriot Thought
Sources:
WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324635904578644202946287548.html
Hoffa quotes from:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/16/James-Hoffa-Flips-on-ObamaCare
Yes, when our representative had his last town hall in Cumming, he told us that he did not want the Representatives and Senators to have to be under Obama Care...because the less people under Obama Care the better we'll all be.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT one I'll always remember!
That's how tyrants act.
-Hank
What's breathtaking is that he expected you to believe that congressional exemptions somehow benefited you. As if the several hundred congressmen and senators being exempt would have any positive impact on the other 316 million plus Americans who are not exempt. It's unbelievable that he could tell you that with a straight face. Only a politician could pull that off!
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