Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command — 1 Chronicles 12:32
Let’s call ObamaCare what it is: a death panel for jobs.
Oh, ObamaCare will become a death panel for senior citizens, too. Don’t get me wrong. First ObamaCare will take over the health care system. Then it will poison the entire economy. Tax collections will go down 1) because unemployed people don’t pay taxes; and 2) because unemployment people actually consume taxpayer dollars. But ObamaCare will force America to spend trillions of extra dollars. And then as a result of the ensuing desperate times ObamaCare will create, government bureaucrats will start having to make decisions as to who lives and who dies.
Testifying today before the House Budget Committee, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf confirmed that Obamacare is expected to reduce the number of jobs in the labor market by an estimated 800,000. Here are excerpts from the exchange:
Chairman [Paul] Ryan: “[I]t’s been argued…that the new health care law will create jobs and increase labor force participation. But if I recall from your analysis, it was quite the opposite. Is that not the case?”
Director [Douglas] Elmendorf : “Yes.”…
[…]
Rep. [John] Campbell: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, we’ll — and Dr. Elmendorf — and we’ll continue this conversation right now. First on health care, before I get to — before I get to broader issues, you just mentioned that you believe — or that in your estimate, that the health care law would reduce the labor used in the economy by about 1/2 of 1 percent, given that, I believe you say, there’s 160 million full-time people working in ’20-’21. That means that, in your estimation, the health care law would reduce employment by 800,000 in ’20-’21. Is that correct?
Director Elmendorf: Yes. The way I would put it is that we do estimate, as you said, that…employment will be about 160 million by the end of the decade. Half a percent of that is 800,000.
If history is any guide, the CBO is off by a factor of at least ten. So it will probably be more like 8 million jobs than 800,000. But it’s really much worse than that. Our economy is vulnerable. Bad news has a way of unleashing negative consequences that go far beyond and effect that something taken in total isolation would produce.
This 800,000 – or more probably 8 million – is just chicken feed. It is part of a much larger Obama death panel for jobs that has already been underway for some time. As Business Insider puts it:
“Analysis of weekly unemployment data and covered employees shows that 5,977,844 benefit paying jobs have been lost in the last year.”
Here’s the world of hurt Obama has put America in a picture:
That is a very steep slide into a very dark hole. And it is entirely due to the toxic effects of Obama and the Democrat Party on our economy and on our way of life.
Our economy is going to be a victim of the Obama death panel. Unless its blatant unconstitutionality doesn’t get this 2,600-page piece of treason overturned first.
Under Barack MaoBama, everyone is equal under the law.
Except for unions, big businesses and politically-connected companies that are a lot MORE equal under the law.
If you are a union, or a business that can afford a high-power attorney, or politically-connected, the fact that ObamaCare reeks to high heavens isn’t that important. In fact, it’s even a GOOD thing for some companies: their competition will be driven out of business (and why should they care if their competitors’ employees lose their jobs?).
But if you’re NOT a union, or if you CAN’T hire a high-power law firm, or if you DON’T know Harry Reid or one of his ilk, you are just screwed.
That’s the message coming out of Washington.
As of Saturday, November 13, 111 unions and businesses had received waivers from ObamaCare.
That health care law that was supposed to be so great? It’s such a pile of fecal matter that even the unions who pushed for it are begging to be waived from it.
This didn’t make any headlines… The Obama Administration recently handed out 111 Obamacare waivers to special US companies… And, they’re hiding this from the American public. It takes 6 clicks to find out this information on the government’s health care website.
Unfortunately, if you’re a small business or you don’t have the right connections you can’t get a waiver for your company.
That’s the new reality under the Obama-Pelosi regime.
“The bottom line here is that they gave out waivers is an admission of guilt. Basically they’re saying, “You’re right. We screwed up.” That’s the bottom line here. They did not create a law that benefits all of us.”
Here is the list of the 111 special companies that were granted Obamacare waivers.
Here are the 111 “special” unions and companies who are better than everybody else. As the Gateway Pundit piece above points out, it takes 6 clicks to get to this information. And since the government can easily make it 12 clicks – or just delete it altogether – it seems prudent to have a record:
Applicant
Application
Received
Plan
Effective
Date
Number
of
Enrollees
Application
Completed by
Applicant
Waiver
Approved
1
Protocol Marketing Group
10/4/2010
1/1/2011
454
10/25/2010
11/1/2010
2
Sasnak
9/29/2010
1/1/2011
813
9/29/2010
11/1/2010
3
Star Tek
10/1/2010
1/1/2011
1,423
10/26/2010
11/1/2010
4
Adventist Care Centers
10/1/2010
1/1/2011
725
10/26/2010
10/29/2010
5
B.E.S.T of NY
10/7/2010
1/1/2011
1,200
10/27/2010
10/29/2010
6
Boskovich Farms, Inc
10/8/2010
1/1/2011
165
10/28/2010
10/29/2010
7
Gallegos Corp
9/29/2010
1/1/2011
86
10/28/2010
10/29/2010
8
Jeffords Steel and Engineering
10/4/2010
1/1/2011
112
10/28/2010
10/29/2010
9
O.K. Industries
10/4/2010
1/1/2011
1,238
10/28/2010
10/29/2010
10
Service Employees Benefit Fund
10/12/2010
11/1/2010
1,297
10/29/2010
10/29/2010
11
Sun Pacific Farming Coop
10/6/2010
12/1/2010
1,109
10/6/2010
10/29/2010
12
UFCW Allied Trade Health & Welfare Trust
10/5/2010
1-Dec
68
10/25/2010
10/29/2010
13
HCR Manor Care
10/5/2010
1/1/2011
2,666
10/26/2010
10/28/2010
14
IBEW No.915
9/28/2010
1/1/2011
930
10/15/2010
10/28/2010
15
Integra BMS for Culp, Inc.
10/4/2010
1/1/2011
34
10/25/2010
10/28/2010
16
New England Health Care
9/27/2010
1/1/2011
7,454
10/26/2010
10/28/2010
17
Aegis Insurance
10/6/2010
11/1/2010
67
10/25/2010
10/26/2010
18
Alliance One Tobacco
9/30/2010
1/1/2011
138
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
19
Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund
9/29/2010
1/1/2011
2
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
20
Assurant Health (2nd Application)
9/29/2010
1/1/2011
19,024
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
21
Captain Elliot’s Party Boats
10/12/2010
11/1/2010
10
10/25/2010
10/26/2010
22
Carlson Restaurants
9/22/2010
1/1/2011
3,381
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
23
CH Guenther & Son
9/24/2010
1/1/2011
300
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
24
CKM Industries dba Miller Environmental
10/5/2010
11/1/2010
34
10/25/2010
10/26/2010
25
CWVEBA
10/14/2010
10/1/2010
4,500
10/18/2010
10/26/2010
26
Darden Restaurants
9/30/2010
1/1/2011
34,000
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
27
Duarte Nursery
9/23/2010
1/1/2011
283
10/19/2010
10/26/2010
28
Employees Security Fund
9/29/2010
1/1/2011
22
9/29/2010
10/26/2010
29
Florida Trowel Trades
9/27/2010
1/1/2011
297
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
30
Ingles Markets
9/30/2010
1/1/2011
917
10/25/2010
10/26/2010
31
Meijer
10/1/2010
1/1/2011
4,873
10/1/2010
10/26/2010
32
O’Reilly Auto Parts
9/23/2010
1/1/2011
9,722
9/23/2010
10/26/2010
33
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund
9/30/2010
1/1/2011
534
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
34
Sun Belt
9/28/2010
10/1/2010
114
10/20/2010
10/26/2010
35
UFCW Local 227
10/12/2010
11/1/2010
1,125
10/12/2010
10/26/2010
36
Uncle Julio’s
9/30/2010
11/1/2010
115
10/25/2010
10/26/2010
37
United Group
9/24/2010
1/1/2011
177
10/19/2010
10/26/2010
38
US Imaging
10/11/2010
11/1/2010
148
10/25/2010
10/26/2010
39
Vino Farms
10/8/2010
11/1/2010
152
10/21/2010
10/26/2010
40
Advanta
9/20/2010
9/1/2011
52
9/20/2010
10/21/2010
41
Agricare
9/23/2010
11/1/2010
437
9/23/2010
10/21/2010
42
Alaska Seafood
9/23/2010
1/1/2010
262
10/15/2010
10/21/2010
43
American Fidelity
9/22/2010
10/23/2010
9,358
10/14/2010
10/21/2010
44
Convergys
9/20/2010
1/1/2011
1,400
9/20/2010
10/21/2010
45
Darensberries
9/28/2010
10/1/2010
1,450
9/28/2010
10/21/2010
46
Gowan Company
9/23/2010
1/1/2011
225
9/27/2010
10/21/2010
47
Greystar
9/23/2010
1/1/2011
1,747
10/13/2010
10/21/2010
48
Macayo Restaurants
9/22/2010
12/1/2010
46
10/18/2010
10/21/2010
49
Periodical Services
9/27/2010
1/1/2011
464
9/27/2010
10/21/2010
50
UniFirst
9/23/2010
9/1/2011
2,659
10/14/2010
10/21/2010
51
Universal Forest Products
9/23/2011
5/1/2010
1,738
10/19/2010
10/21/2010
52
UFCW Maximus Local 455
10/4/2010
1/1/2011
59
10/18/2010
10/18/2010
53
AHS
9/22/2010
1/1/2011
400
10/12/2010
10/14/2010
54
GuideStone Financial Resources
9/21/2010
1/1/2011
354
9/21/2010
10/14/2010
55
Local 25 SEIU
9/29/2010
10/1/2010
31,000
10/7/2010
10/14/2010
56
MAUSER Corp.
9/21/2010
1/1/2011
47
9/24/2010
10/14/2010
57
Preferred Care, Inc.
9/15/2010
1/1/2011
918
9/15/2010
10/14/2010
58
Ruby Tuesday
10/8/2010
1/1/2011
3,219
10/8/2010
10/14/2010
59
The Dixie Group, Inc.
8/27/2010
6/19/2010
269
10/12/2010
10/14/2010
60
UFCW Local 1262
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
5,390
9/20/2010
10/14/2010
61
Whelan Security Company
9/23/2010
1/1/2011
287
10/12/2010
10/14/2010
62
AMF Bowling Worldwide
9/14/2010
1/1/2011
295
10/7/2010
10/12/2010
63
Assisted Living Concepts
9/17/2010
1/1/2011
1,174
9/17/2010
10/12/2010
64
Case & Associates
9/17/2010
1/1/2011
87
9/17/2010
10/12/2010
65
GPM Investments
9/17/2010
1/1/2011
275
9/17/2010
10/12/2010
66
Grace Living Centers
9/14/2010
10/1/2010
534
9/14/2010
10/12/2010
67
Mountaire
9/17/2010
1/1/2011
2,074
9/17/2010
10/12/2010
68
Swift Spinning
9/16/2010
1/1/2011
240
9/16/2010
10/12/2010
69
Belmont Village
9/10/2010
1/1/2011
785
10/4/2010
10/8/2010
70
Caliber Services
9/13/2010
1/1/2011
606
9/13/2010
10/8/2010
71
Cracker Barrel
9/9/2010
1/1/2011
16,823
9/17/2010
10/8/2010
72
DISH Network
9/13/2010
3/1/2011
3,597
9/23/2010
10/8/2010
73
Groendyke Transport, Inc
9/2/2010
1/1/2011
1,322
9/2/2010
10/8/2010
74
Pocono Medical Center
9/24/2010
1/1/2011
3,298
9/24/2010
10/8/2010
75
Regis Corporation
9/10/2010
3/1/2011
3,617
10/1/2010
10/8/2010
76
The Pictsweet Co.
9/13/2010
1/1/2010
694
9/13/2010
10/8/2010
77
Diversified Interiors
9/28/2010
10/1/2010
300
9/28/2010
10/1/2010
78
Local 802 Musicians Health Fund
9/29/2010
10/1/2010
1,801
9/29/2010
10/1/2010
79
Medical Card System
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
6,635
9/23/2010
10/1/2010
80
The Buccaneer
9/22/2010
10/1/2010
125
9/28/2010
10/1/2010
81
CIGNA
9/17/2010
9/26/2010
265,000
9/30/2010
9/30/2010
82
Greater Metropolitan Hotel
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
1,200
9/24/2010
9/30/2010
83
Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
881
9/24/2010
9/30/2010
84
GS-ILA
9/15/2010
10/1/2010
298
9/15/2010
9/28/2010
85
Allied
9/13/2010
10/1/2010
127
9/13/2010
9/27/2010
86
Harden Healthcare
9/9/2010
1/1/2011
874
9/29/2010
9/27/2010
87
Health and Welfare Benefit System
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
41
9/16/2010
9/27/2010
88
Health Connector
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
3,544
9/24/2010
9/27/2010
89
I.U.P.A.T
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
875
9/23/2010
9/27/2010
90
Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
9/22/2010
10/1/2010
326
9/22/2010
9/27/2010
91
Transport Workers
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
107
9/23/2010
9/27/2010
92
UFT Welfare Fund
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
351,000
9/27/2010
9/27/2010
93
Aegis
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
162
9/21/2010
9/24/2010
94
Aetna
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
209,423
9/16/2010
9/24/2010
95
Allflex
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
34
9/22/2010
9/24/2010
96
Baptist Retirement
9/10/2010
10/1/2010
127
9/17/2010
9/24/2010
97
BCS Insurance
9/13/2010
9/24/2010
115,000
9/22/2010
9/24/2010
98
Cryogenic
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
19
9/20/2010
9/24/2010
99
Fowler Packing Co.
9/8/2010
10/1/2010
39
9/17/2010
9/24/2010
100
Guy C. Lee Mfg.
9/15/2010
10/1/2010
312
9/15/2010
9/24/2010
101
HealthPort
9/17/2010
10/1/2010
608
9/17/2010
9/24/2010
102
Jack in the Box
9/17/2010
10/1/2010
1,130
9/21/2010
9/24/2010
103
Maritime Association
9/17/2010
10/1/2010
500
9/21/2010
9/24/2010
104
Maverick County
9/21/2010
10/1/2010
1
9/23/2010
9/24/2010
105
Metro Paving Fund
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
550
9/20/2010
9/24/2010
106
PMPS-ILA
9/19/2010
10/1/2010
15
9/23/2010
9/24/2010
107
PS-ILA
9/19/2010
10/1/2010
8
9/23/2010
9/24/2010
108
QK/DRD (Denny’s)
9/16/2010
10/1/2010
65
9/22/2010
9/24/2010
109
Reliance Standard
9/14/2010
10/1/2010
varies
9/14/2010
9/24/2010
110
Tri-Pak
9/20/2010
10/1/2010
26
9/20/2010
9/24/2010
111
UABT
9/17/2010
10/1/2010
17,347
9/17/2010
9/24/2010
total
1,175,411
Just scrolling down the list, twenty of of these “waivers” have gone to unions. You know, the socialist “workers of the world unite!” organizations that pushed so hard for the ObamaCare death panels that they’ve decided only others should stand before.
Everything Obama and the Democrat Party told you about ObamaCare – EVERYTHING!!! – was a lie.
Obama assured us that the ObamaCare mandates that would force Americans to purchase insurance (or be punished) was not a tax. That was a lie.
WASHINGTON – AARP’s endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Now the seniors’ lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise partly as a result of the law.
In an e-mail to employees, AARP says health care premiums will increase by 8 percent to 13 percent next year because of rapidly rising medical costs.
And AARP adds that it’s changing copayments and deductibles to avoid a 40 percent tax on high-cost health plans that takes effect in 2018 under the law. Aerospace giant Boeing also has cited the tax in asking its workers to pay more. Shifting costs to employees lowers the value of a health care plan and acts like an escape hatch from the tax.
Krugman made his comments on ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” during a roundtable discussion about the economy and the recent findings of the U.S. Debt Reduction Commission.
Here’s the key excerpt:
“Some years down the pike, we’re going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It’s going to be that we’re actually going to take Medicare under control, and we’re going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it’s not going to happen now.”
Let me tell you a few things on health care. Look, we have the only health care system in the world that is designed to avoid sick people. And that’s true and what I’m going to do is that I am going try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people but that means you, particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people…you’re going to have to pay more.“Thank you. And by the way, we’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.”
Unless, of course, you’re a privileged, politically-connected liberal, in which case you can get a waiver from this “we’re going to let you die” verdict that everyone else will receive.
With that on the table, we could still say that there isn’t a death panel in ObamaCare. Because it turns out that there are 160 death panels:
The Democrats who rule this country now are the most evil politicians in American history. And this generation of Americans who voted for them in 2008 is the stupidest generation (or you can call it “the Dodo bird generation”).
You’d better get smart quick. Because these people will – now in their very own words – “let you die” with a “a combination of death panels and sales taxes.”
“So what’s happening at this company tells us a larger story about what’s happening with our nation’s economy — because, in many ways, you can measure America’s bottom line by looking at Caterpillar’s bottom line.”
In that address, Obama provided us with a barometer, a measure, a way to know whether legislation is good or bad in microcosm.
And judging by Obama’s VERY OWN STANDARD, his health care legislation is absolutely terrible:
Farm equipment maker Deere & Co (DE.N) expects after-tax expenses to rise by $150 million this year as a result of the healthcare reform law President Barack Obama signed this week.
Most of the higher expense will come in Deere’s second quarter, the company said on Thursday. The expense was not included in the company’s earlier 2010 forecast, which called for net income of about $1.3 billion.
The charge is expected to be a one-time cost, but Caterpillar has argued that higher taxes and other potential cost increases related to insurance coverage mandates in the legislation will hinder the company’s recovery this year after a 75% plunge in income during 2009.
“From our point of view, a tax increase like this cannot come at a worse time,” said Jim Dugan, a Caterpillar spokesman.
Although the tax doesn’t take effect until 2011, the company said it is required to recognize the impact in the period in which the law was signed. Industry analysts estimated the charge at about 13 cents a share.
That ought to do wonders for the construction sector.
…due to the varying effective dates included in the legislation, we expect that Verizon’s costs will increase in the short-term. These cost increases are primarily driven by two provisions.
The first is a provision that affects the Medicare Part D subsidy for prescription drug coverage. Because Verizon offers retiree prescription drug coverage today, the government provides a 28 percent subsidy to help offset the financial burden of offering that coverage. The subsidy was intended to help employers continue to offer prescription drug coverage for retirees so that these retirees would not have to use the Government Medicare Part D program. However, changes affecting the Part D subsidy will make it less valuable to employers, like Verizon, and as a result, may have significant implications for both retirees and employers.
Let’s take a closer look at Caterpillar and what they say about ObamaCare, since Obama himself said what affected Caterpillar would affect the country as a whole:
Dow Jones Newswires | Caterpillar Inc. said the health-care overhaul legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives would increase the company’s health-care costs by more than $100 million in the first year alone.
In a letter Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, Caterpillar urged lawmakers to vote against the plan “because of the substantial cost burdens it would place on our shareholders, employees and retirees.” Caterpillar, the world’s largest construction machinery manufacturer by sales, said it’s particularly opposed to provisions in the bill that would expand Medicare taxes and mandate insurance coverage. The legislation would require nearly all companies to provide health insurance for their employees or face large fines.
The Peoria-based company said these provisions would increase its insurance costs by at least 20 percent, or more than $100 million, just in the first year of the health-care overhaul program.
“We can ill-afford cost increases that place us at a disadvantage versus our global competitors,” said the letter signed by Gregory Folley, vice president and chief human resources officer of Caterpillar. “We are disappointed that efforts at reform have not addressed the cost concerns we’ve raised throughout the year.”
Business executives have long complained that the options offered for covering 32 million uninsured Americans would result in higher insurance costs for those employers that already provide coverage. Opponents have stepped up their attacks in recent days as the House moves closer toward a vote on the Senate version of the health-care legislation.
A letter Thursday to President Barack Obama and members of Congress signed by more than 130 economists predicted the legislation would discourage companies from hiring more workers and would cause reduced hours and wages for those already employed.
Caterpillar noted that the company supports efforts to increase the quality and the value of health care for patients as well as lower costs for employer-sponsored insurance coverage.
“Unfortunately, neither the current legislation in the House and Senate, nor the president’s proposal, meets these goals,” the letter said.
It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. ObamaCare won’t create jobs. It will kill them.
Obama said it himself: “You can measure America’s bottom line by looking at Caterpillar’s bottom line.” And thanks to ObamaCare, Caterpillar’s bottom line pretty much stinks on ice. Along with many other companies such as John Deere and Verizon.
In a study prepared for the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, the Beacon Hill Institute found that the current proposal before Congress to reform the nation’s health care system will destroy up to 700,000 jobs over a ten-year period. The study uses a more realistic baseline from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to refute the claim made by the Center for American Progress that PPACA will create up to 400,000 jobs per year over the coming decade.
Rep. John Dingell, known as “the dean of the House” given the fact that his tenure in the House of Representatives extends to 1955, when he inherited the seat from his father, gave us the REAL reason for ObamaCare:
“The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people”
It certainly wasn’t to build a strong economy or create jobs. Businesses are going to be too busy ducking and covering and paying taxes and complying with costly new regulations to worry about expanding. And every new hire will be a fiscal millstone around the necks of employers who will have to pay increasingly high taxes on every employee to satisfy ObamaCare.
It’s becoming apparent that the “death panels” are for businesses every bit as much as they will ultimately be for senior citizens who will die due to medical neglect when their health care resources get rationed.
Do you remember those “Schoolhouse Rock” educational cartoons? You know, like the one about the Superhero “Verb” in action?
How about this one on how a bill becomes a law? It’s worth watching so one can understand how bills used to be passed when our Constitution mattered back in the day.
But, of course, that was before Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi came onto the scene and decided that the constitutional process really didn’t need to apply when they decided to take over one-sixth of the economy.
Now we have this:
Hope and Change is something of a bitch in Obamaland. It’s degenerated into “I sure hope they don’t change the Constitution so much we lose our country.”
It’s rather fittingly ironic that ObamaCare is going to be shoved down our throats with Constitution-schmonstitution shenanigans named “The SLAUGHTER Solution” and “the Self EXECUTING Rule.
God has a sense of humor as He leaves His own clues about what a demonic abomination this takeover of our health care system will become.
Death panels? Of COURSE there are no death panels in this SLAUGHTER-style EXECUTION of our health care system. Why would anybody think anything so silly?
For the record, the entire ObamaCare boondoggle has been one gigantic death panel from the get-go, both in its dehumanizing death-by-bureaucracy substance –
– and by the incredibly despicable political procedure (think the $300 million Louisiana Purchase, the $1.2 billion Cornhusker Kickback, the $5 billion Gator-Aid, the $100 million Hospital Handout, and the $300 million Libby Asbestos Deal, just for starters) used to impose an incredibly unpopular bill onto the American people.
Recently we learned that Barack Obama has re-instituted the “Death Books” that President Bush banned from being used by the Veterans Administration.
On page 21 of the VA book, “Your Life, Your Choices,” you get to answer questions pertaining to the issue: “What makes my life worth living?” And guilt-inducing scenarios to consider such as,“I can no longer contribute to my family’s well being,” and “I am a severe financial burden on my family” to “guide” one to come to the conclusion, life is “not worth living.”
“The 2007 edition said go to Compassion Choices. That’s the Hemlock Society. The 1997 version referred you to an organization that was the American Euthanasia Society. I think the bias of the document’s clear. Why would Americans be given such a poor document, a poor planning tool, on a subject so important?”
What is frankly just as frightening as the Veterans Administration trying to steer veterans toward a renamed version of the Hemlock Society is the fact that they’ve clearly altered the page with gibberish in a clearly last-second attempt to cover-up what they were doing.
Here’s a printscreen of the relevant PDF page (52) that I downloaded on Monday, August 25:
I’m no investigative reporter, but when I tried to learn what http://www.choices.org was under the heading, “Advance directives,” I went to the site – and discovered that it was geared toward providing children with education resources so they wouldn’t drop out of school. It had nothing whatsoever to do with end-of-life decisions. And when I called 1-800-989-9155, I discovered that it was Loesche America – an engineering and construction firm.
In other words, it was a hastily orchestrated scam perpetuated by government employees to hide the truth from the American people. That should scare you.
Why did the VA scrub their website? I would argue that they did so because someone had a guilty conscience. Democrats KNOW this stuff is evil; and they KNOW that the American people would reject them if they knew the truth about what Democrats are trying to do.
And what is that truth? Let me just use the phrase that Sarah Palin was so demonized for using: “death panel.”
Hats off to the Gateway Pundit for punditry. Following the Obama remark about people getting wee-weed up, GP pointed out that “It looks like Dear Leader was a wee bit off” with his budget. To the tune of $2 trillion. Which, clearly, really is something to get wee-weed up about.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.
The higher deficit figure, based on updated economic data, brings the White House budget office into line with outside estimates and gives further fuel to President Barack Obama’s opponents, who say his spending plans are too expensive in light of budget shortfalls.
The White House took heat for sticking with its $7.108 trillion forecast earlier this year after the Congressional Budget Office forecast that deficits between 2010 and 2019 would total $9.1 trillion.
“The new forecasts are based on new data that reflect how severe the economic downturn was in the late fall of last year and the winter of this year,” said the administration official, who is familiar with the budget mid-session review that is slated to be released next week.
Well, at least they didn’t say, “Because of George Bush…” or “Due to the evilness of the Republicans’…” So maybe they’re growing in maturity to match their skyrocketing deficits over at the White House.
Barack Obama is going to quadruple George Bush’s highest deficit ever – and that is if his other incredibly rosy projections (which continue chugging merrily along like a magic-powered choo-choo train) pan out. Obama has demagogued and demonized Bush at every turn, but he can’t blame the boogeyman for his deficits.
Barack Obama underestimated his own spending deficit by $2 trillion; nearly 29% off in just six months. That aint exactly good budgeting. Rather, it is unprecedented BAD budgeting. Obama had all kinds of bogus assumptions, fuzzy math, and rosy scenarios. And the new $9-plus trillion figure doesn’t take into account all the other stuff that Obama is intending to do, such as spend well over a trillion more on his government health care takeover.
Let me put it this way: I have believed that Barack Obama would be the downfall of this country from the day I heard his reverend for 23 years shout, “No, no, no! Not God bless America — God damn America!!!” while Barack Obama’s fellow congregants leaped to their feet and cheered wildly. I thought he would be a complete and unmitigated disaster – and I never dreamed he would do this much damage this quickly.
Speaking of terrible budget nightmares, Obama’s somehow transforming his “half” of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Plan into $23.7 Trillion isn’t exactly great budgeting either. Did somebody say we were supposed to stop spending after we got to $350 billion? Oops.
So when Democrats and liberals talk about the projected costs of health care, just realize that neither they, or the CBO – which at least usually TRIES to be accurate in its projections – have any credibility whatsoever.
In another issue, Democrats have been mocking the word “death panel,” but…
… The whole damn SYSTEM is one great big giant death panel. As well as being a gigantically expensive one.
If Democrats get control of health care, they will explode it with massive bureaucracy, they will have no choice but to ration health care, and people will die.
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