Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Forbes reports this morning that administration officials knew that the ACA (Obamacare) would cause “massive” loss of insurance:

If you read the Affordable Care Act when it was passed, you knew that it was dishonest for President Obama to claim that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” as he did—and continues to do—on countless occasions. And we now know that the administration knew this all along. It turns out that in an obscure report buried in a June 2010 edition of the Federal Register, administration officials predicted massive disruption of the private insurance market.

White House spokesperson Jay Carney dismissed this as irrelevant on the basis that these losses represented only “5% of the population”. However the report’s language suggests that the administration thought differently:

But Carney’s dismissal of the media’s concerns was wrong, on several fronts. Contrary to the reporting of NBC, the administration’s commentary in the Federal Register did not only refer to the individual market, but also the market for employer-sponsored health insurance. …

… How many people are exposed to these problems? 60 percent of Americans have private-sector health insurance—precisely the number that Jay Carney dismissed. As to the number of people facing cancellations, 51 percent of the employer-based market plus 53.5 percent of the non-group market (the middle of the administration’s range) amounts to 93 million Americans.

Mitt Romney was widely criticized for correctly telling a group of potential donors that he would not be supported by 43% of voters in the dependency group. The media twisted the meaning of his words to portray Romney as being prejudiced against that group. In reality the media had helped to massage this group to hold a bias against Romney, characterizing him as a hateful, greedy rich guy.

Barack Obama has not only consistently lied to the American people to push a manipulative, controlling plan, he also callously disregarded the affect this law would have on the lives of an estimated 98 million Americans who would lose the healthcare plan they like. There is no way to spin this to protect the President. Sadly there are some that will attempt to do so anyway.

The spinners are out in force smiling like loons and insisting that the Obama plans that will replace the lost plans are better, unlike the “lemons” the insurance companies offered. The problem with this authoritarian meme is that “take the Obama plan or else” just doesn’t sit well with people that have been promised they had the choice to keep the insurance they liked. The arrogant position that Obaam and his ilk must choose what is best for you also doesn’t go over well.

Obamacare forces every American to pay for the plan that the elites decide they will have. This isn’t America. And Ms. Sebelius’ response to the 98 million Americans who will lose their insurance and be forced to pay more? “Pay cash!”

There are legislators in congress who are considering legislation to help the 98 million Americans to keep their insurance and make insurance more affordable and accessible for all Americans. A widely sponsored bill has been proposed:

Some Senate Democrats are jumping on the grandfathering bandwagon. Mary Landrieu (D., La.), locked in a competitive reelection race against Rep. Bill Cassidy (R., La.), now claims that she was unaware that Obamacare would disrupt existing insurance arrangements. “It was our understanding when we voted for that bill that people when they have insurance could keep with what they had. So I’m going to be working on that fix,” she said on Wednesday.

But that’s not accurate. It was well known, as far back as 2009, that millions of Americans would lose their existing coverage under the Obamacare bill. Landrieu still voted for it. In September of 2010, Sen. Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) introduced legislation that would protect small businesses from losing their health plans’ grandfathered status under Obamacare. Landrieu voted against the bill, on a party-line vote.

Obamacare was fraudulently sold to the American people. It was pushed through Congress with bribes and intimidation and created behind closed doors. Detractors were dismissed as ignorant fringe kooks. Obamacare has also been changed outside the legislative process.

The American people have been rolled by Democrat Party extremists. It’s time for the American people to demand repeal.

A better plan is already available. It has been proposed by representatives in the House and would replace this very bad law with a plan that better serves the people and actually works:

The plan, which is mostly the work of Representatives Phil Roe and Steve Scalise, repeals President Barack Obama’s health-care law. It replaces the unlimited tax break for employer-provided health insurance with a new tax deduction — $7,500 for individuals or $20,000 for families — to purchase health insurance, whether through an employer or on their own. It would let insurers sell policies across state lines. And it would put $25 billion into high-risk pools to help people who would still be unable to buy insurance.

The proposal has room for improvement and expansion but the underlying principles in the plan would be far superior to the disruptive, coercive, expensive, and job killing Obamacare!

Americans have been deceived. As much as this administration and radical Democrats would like you to believe, we are not helpless and we do not have to be victims.

We have the power to demand repeal. Call, fax, email and tweet Congress, now! Make your voice heard.

And next year vote the extremists out! (Yes that would include Hillary on ’16…she once attempted to foist a similar plan on the American people)

Posted by Tina

Whatever can they be thinking over there at the Department of Homeland Security? In fact, who is the mental midget behind the idea to lift a 30 year ban on Libyan Nationals so they can come to America to work and train in “aviation maintenance, flight operations, or nuclear-related fields”?
CNS News:

The 11-page proposed rule was obtained by Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).

In a statement on his congressional website, Rep. Chaffetz said that the draft final regulation could take effect without prior notice and comment. The congressmen say the prohibition was put in place in the 1980s after the wave of terrorist incidents involving Libyans.

“The administration justifies lifting this ban by claiming that the United States’ relationship with Libya has been ‘normalized,'” the statement said.

Normalized? Really?

Does the date 09/11/01 mean anything to anyone in that department? Does aviation training ring any bells? Do they not remember that terrorists trained in “flight operations” prior to flying planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon?

Likewise, have they already forgotten the terrorist attack (And scandal) in Libya that resulted in the deaths of Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods?

This doesn’t seem like a smart move to me. Tell me why I’m crazy and the administration is smart.

by Jona Goldberge, LA Times

All we’ve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it…. I’m infuriated because I was lied to,” one woman told this newspaper, as part of a story on how some middle-class Californians have been stunned to learn the real costs of Obamacare.

And that lie looks like the biggest lie about domestic policy ever uttered by a U.S. president.

The most famous presidential lies have to do with misconduct (Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” or Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations”) or war. Woodrow Wilson campaigned on the slogan “He kept us out of war” and then plunged us into a calamitous war. Franklin D. Roosevelt made a similar vow. “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”

Jack: The ACA was written so that if the slightest deviation occurs from grandfather clause exception, the policy gets cancelled for being substandard. in other words if you’re a 58 year old woman you will have to carry that pregnancy rider.

Posted by Jack

I just recieved this letter in my email and i thought I would share it with you. This person really nails it!

The Honorable Supervisor XXXX
XXXXXXXXXX
Oroville, CA 95966

Dear Supervisor XXXXXXX,

I believe that the Butte County Board of Supervisors should endorse the movement by “We the People” to join with other northern California counties to form the new State of Jefferson.

Like the founders of our great nation, in 2013 we experience onerous taxation without direct representation in the state and federal law making bodies. Political power has grown and become consolidated in the metropolitan regions of San Diego being almost 600 miles to our south, Los Angeles, over 450 miles away, finally in the uber-liberal San Francisco Bay Area, which is known for being a “sanctuary city”.

Lawmakers and unelected bureaucrats from these metropolitan areas create onerous regulations which impact the lives of those who live in the rural, farming, and mountainous regions without understanding the needs of our communities. Since the northern counties are sparsely populated, we are virtually ignored as a practical matter by our own politicians. They don’t need us to be elected and they don’t need to serve us to stay in office.

Californians pay high state income and sales taxes, and the highest gas tax in the nation. “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” said our revolutionary founding fathers. Much has changed since the 1760’s, but fortunately not the foundational principles upon which our great nation was created.

Please let me have your assurance that you will work with the people to get us representation by supporting the formation of the State of Jefferson.

Sincerely,

(I think this is a great outline for a letter to send to our supervisors in support of a new state)

Posted by Tina

Both President Obama and Nancy Pelosi promised the American people that the plan they were going to give us would not take insurance from people who liked their plan and that they would be able to keep their doctors!

“If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.” – President Obama

“Keep your doctor, and your current plan, if you like them.” – Nancy Pelosi

That lie is no secret now! People are losing the healthcare plan they like and want to keep. The letters have gone out!

Jonathon Strong at The Corner, National Review, reports that a top Democrat lawmaker admitted today that they knew people would lose their health insurance:

House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer conceded to reporters today that Democrats knew people would not be able to keep their current health care plans under Obamacare and expressed qualified contrition for President Obama’s repeated vows to the contrary.

“We knew that there would be some policies that would not qualify and therefore people would be required to get more extensive coverage,” Hoyer said in response to a question from National Review.

Asked by another reporter how repeated statements by Obama to the contrary weren’t “misleading,” Hoyer said “I don’t think the message was wrong. I think the message was accurate. It was not precise enough…[it] should have been caveated with – ‘assuming you have a policy that in fact does do what the bill is designed to do.'”

Do you see how they massage the lie to make it seem plausable? the President said we could keep our plan…period! He said it over and over again. The Democrats continued to spin this morning in hearings by saying it’s the insurance companies fault! Isn’t that what Democrats always say? Somebody else did that thing that makes you so angry…we just want to help you?

Insurance companies are being forced to drop those plans because they do not comply with what MUST be covered under the new law.

The administration is also attempting to shift blame as this Valerie Jarret Tweet suggests:

FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.

Sorry Ms. Jarret, the reason people are losing their plans is because the Obama/Pelosi plans dictates that they change. The excuse that insurance companies often change their plans anyway is no excuse. The law now imposes rules that can only be changed by government.

The Democrats keep insisting that the new law gives people choices and that people didn’t have choices before. That isn’t true either. The lies just pile up one on top of another!

CBS reports that more than 2 million people are “getting booted from the existing health insurance plans.”

PBS reported that some plans for people with pre-existing conditions are being cancelled:

The main reason insurers offer is that the policies fall short of what the Affordable Care Act requires starting Jan. 1. Most are ending policies sold after the law passed in March 2010. At least a few are cancelling plans sold to people with pre-existing medical conditions.

The President of the United States stood before the people and lied to them. He told this gigantic lie in order to get the will of the people behind his plan to “fundamentally transform” the American healthcare industry. He lied, Nancy Pelosi lied, and every Democrat who repeated the promise that we could keep our insurance if we liked it also lied.

Will you hold Democrats responsible for this lie? Will you hold the administration accountable for the tyranny of this law? Will the media do its job and hold this administration accountable throughout the next year as we approach election day?

We’ve been scammed…do we care?

We know that socialist radicals in the Democrat Party don’t mind a bit! They believe in power being vested in government. They believe in the power of government over the power of individuals. They believe in government power to control decisions and to redistribute our wealth. They do not believe in freedom, in freedom of choice, of conscience, or of personal consideration. Your individual needs and choice do not matter.

Where: Marie Calendar’s Rest., Chico Mall, Chico, CA

Chico’s Finance Officer will speak about the City funds. Open to the public. A representative from the State of Jefferson will also be there to make a short announcement.

by Jack

“An unidentified female student was sitting outside the Chico State University library listening to music when two men she did not know approached her at about 5:20 a.m., according to an email announcement from the University Police Department. First thought it’s 5:20 in the morning what in #$% is she doing alone on a deserted campus at this hour? What an idiot. So, one of the men reportedly began walking with the woman. This is allegedly a black guy she’s never met before, now he’s suddenly walking with her, putting the moves on her and she can’t get rid of him. It’s too late to run and she’s alone. Then he jumps her near the Physical Sciences Building. This guy reportedly attempted to sexually assault her, but she was lucky this time and she got away. But, imagine if he had a knife to her throat or a gun to head, that pepper spray wouldn’t have done her much good and we might have had a real bad outcome.

The only smart thing she did during this whole episode was grabbing the pepper spray from her purse and spraying it on the man’s face.

What do you want to bet this is one young female who won’t be taking walks alone in the dark again. But, there’s plenty more that will…

The would be rapist is described as a 20-year-old black man, tall and thin build with a tattoo under his eye.

Now this is an even better candidate for a Darwin…”Alleged drunken driver, two passengers injured after attempting to beat train; large amount of marijuana found on scene.” According to the story the three occupants were banged up pretty good, but excaped death by a measure of around 3 feet. if the train had hit a little closer to the cab these three morons would be taking a permanent dirt nap.

Thanks go to RHT for this heads up…

The final source for lead in the United States will be forced to shut down thanks to the new EPA standards that the Obama administration is mandating. Apparently the facility would cost $100 million to bring up to code, and the company that runs it would rather strip the site and sell it than spend the money to refurbish it.

Wonder who is going buy up the company, the Chinese? If they do, we will have handed over our last source for making bullets to China, ain’t that dandy? You people should be very alarmed at what Obama and the liberals are doing to us. The healthcare, the reckless spending, the depressed economy, the gun grabbers, this is all serious stuff and it’s putting us at risk.

The lead factory shutdown could spark another run on ammo and drive the ammo prices up again.