Pundits are saying that with the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts to replace the liberal icon, the late Teddy Kennedy, that Obama’s health care legislation is dead. The legislation is currently locked up behind closed doors with Reid, Pelosi and Obama representatives, being rewritten with deals being cut to win over votes and reward supporters.
There has been the Louisiana purchase, the cornhusker kickback and now comes the latest sleazy deal last week, the tax exemption gift to the powerful unions that have supported Obama from the first.
Now here is what I understand happened. Correct me if I am wrong.
Say, for instance, if you have health insurance that costs over $8,000 a year, under the current health plan proposal, you will be taxed 40 percent on that plan. That’s a plan that you would pay between $600 and $700 a month to own. That is almost one-half. Now, you will pay that tax if you do not belong to one of the big public unions, say for instance the AFL-CIO, that comes under collective bargaining, or if you are a member of a government union. They will be exempt. That will save union members about $60 billion over the 15-year life of the exemption.
But you, the lowly nonunion member will pick up that tax for the exempt union members. That is Obama’s method of spreading the wealth around, transferring it from you, the nonunion member, to the union member, mainly his supporters. It is an award for their support and to guarantee their future support.
In other words, the unions were rewarded and the rest of us were put into the slave category, the serfs, the wage slaves, who will work our butts off to help pay for the tax exemptions. Oh yes, don’t forget, Congress and the Amish are exempt from the health care plan, too. How in the hell, did the Amish get an exemption? What lobbyist group represents them?
Oh yes, and don’t forget, if you are a young person, who does not want to purchase insurance, say you feel real spunky and healthy, don’t worry, you haven’t been left out. When you file your tax form, you will be asked to prove that you have health insurance. If you don’t, you will be hit with a healthy, rather I should say hefty, Obama health care tax so you can ante-up your portion of the shared health care burden. Remember, under the audacity of hope doctrine, we should happily and helpfully help subsidize our fellow citizen who might not be as lucky or fortunate as you are. Never ever say, or point to the obvious fact, that you are probably better off than your fellow citizens, because you work your ass off and he doesn’t. If you do, then you will be labeled a radical right-wing, wing-nut Tea Bagg patriot, an ungrateful person and above all not politically correct in your assessment of your governments efforts to help the less fortunate.
In addition, you elders will see Medicare cut in half. That means nothing else but rationining and rationing means you will not get some services.
Please tell me what people did before the government got invovled in health care?
I remember in the 1950s health care was affordable and a visit to the doctor or a week’s stay in a hospital was no big deal. When the government got into it in the 1960s prices began to rise and they are still rising.
Everything the government touches, turns to crap. Am I wrong?
Of course, the health care plan might be dead now, as some pundits say. Or Democrats might find some way to crank it back up. They are very clever, the mainstream media is not doing its watchdog job and most Americans are too busy trying to make ends meet in this economy to keep up with what is actually going on, which takes a little research.
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Is health care legislation dead?
Pundits are saying that with the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts to replace the liberal icon, the late Teddy Kennedy, that Obama’s health care legislation is dead. The legislation is currently locked up behind closed doors with Reid, Pelosi and Obama representatives, being rewritten with deals being cut to win over votes and reward supporters.
There has been the Louisiana purchase, the cornhusker kickback and now comes the latest sleazy deal last week, the tax exemption gift to the powerful unions that have supported Obama from the first.
Now here is what I understand happened. Correct me if I am wrong.
Say, for instance, if you have health insurance that costs over $8,000 a year, under the current health plan proposal, you will be taxed 40 percent on that plan. That’s a plan that you would pay between $600 and $700 a month to own. That is almost one-half. Now, you will pay that tax if you do not belong to one of the big public unions, say for instance the AFL-CIO, that comes under collective bargaining, or if you are a member of a government union. They will be exempt. That will save union members about $60 billion over the 15-year life of the exemption.
But you, the lowly nonunion member will pick up that tax for the exempt union members. That is Obama’s method of spreading the wealth around, transferring it from you, the nonunion member, to the union member, mainly his supporters. It is an award for their support and to guarantee their future support.
In other words, the unions were rewarded and the rest of us were put into the slave category, the serfs, the wage slaves, who will work our butts off to help pay for the tax exemptions. Oh yes, don’t forget, Congress and the Amish are exempt from the health care plan, too. How in the hell, did the Amish get an exemption? What lobbyist group represents them?
Oh yes, and don’t forget, if you are a young person, who does not want to purchase insurance, say you feel real spunky and healthy, don’t worry, you haven’t been left out. When you file your tax form, you will be asked to prove that you have health insurance. If you don’t, you will be hit with a healthy, rather I should say hefty, Obama health care tax so you can ante-up your portion of the shared health care burden. Remember, under the audacity of hope doctrine, we should happily and helpfully help subsidize our fellow citizen who might not be as lucky or fortunate as you are. Never ever say, or point to the obvious fact, that you are probably better off than your fellow citizens, because you work your ass off and he doesn’t. If you do, then you will be labeled a radical right-wing, wing-nut Tea Bagg patriot, an ungrateful person and above all not politically correct in your assessment of your governments efforts to help the less fortunate.
In addition, you elders will see Medicare cut in half. That means nothing else but rationining and rationing means you will not get some services.
Please tell me what people did before the government got invovled in health care?
I remember in the 1950s health care was affordable and a visit to the doctor or a week’s stay in a hospital was no big deal. When the government got into it in the 1960s prices began to rise and they are still rising.
Everything the government touches, turns to crap. Am I wrong?
Of course, the health care plan might be dead now, as some pundits say. Or Democrats might find some way to crank it back up. They are very clever, the mainstream media is not doing its watchdog job and most Americans are too busy trying to make ends meet in this economy to keep up with what is actually going on, which takes a little research.
This entry was posted on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.