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Supremes: ‘Anyone Can Vote Whether They’re Legal Or Not… As Many Times As They Want’
Chicago’s city limits now extend to the ends of America.
ShareCourt: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.
The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal “Motor Voter” voter registration law.
Federal law “precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself,” Justice Antonia Scalia wrote for the court’s majority.”
“US Military Thugs with Keyboards to Spread Propaganda Using Up to 10 Online Personas Each”
Keep an eye out for ‘Sock Puppets’. This little blog is a natural for their attention.
ShareRumors have long floated around about government shills spreading disinformation on websites that are at odds with the governmental party line. Now it’s official: the US government has awarded a contract to a company in California to create software to manage “online personalities”. The software will allow one person to manage up to 10 personas, and will be used to counter “extremist ideology and propaganda”.
Those who visit forums and websites that tend to object to the actions of the current government won’t be surprised to hear that paid trolls are roaming the internet with the clear purpose of manipulating opinions via social media. Last year, an anonymous author confessed that he had worked as a paid shill targeting several popular alternative websites to spread disinformation.
The online personalities, known as “sock puppets”, will allow the military to “create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.”
US Centcom (Central Command) claims that the project will only target foreign sites.”
Democrat who voted for it: Obamacare not fair
A major proponent of Obamacare says it is “simply not fair” that Congress be forced to take part in Obamacare Exchanges.
Rep. John Larson (D., Conn.), is saying that “this is simply not fair” – as key staff members head for the exits to avoid Obamacare.
Politico reports that “many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain” and notes that “[t]he problem is far more acute in the House, where lawmakers and aides are generally younger and less wealthy.”
What? Obamacare disproportionally hurts those with lower incomes? It may come as a surprise, but it shouldn’t. We’ve known this since before the legislation even passed.
More to the point, why did Rep. Larson vote to impose on the country a health coverage system that “is simply not fair”?
I have always been a little lukewarm on Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) but the man deserves a huge attaboy for the “Grassley Amendment” requiring that members of Congress and their staff get their health insurance from Obamacare exchanges. Live by the damned Leviathan sword, die by the Leviathan sword.
As for John Larson: Can you hear me laughing now? Enjoy your Sandra Fluke Brand All-You-Can-Eat Birth Control Pills®.
ShareWas One of Them Obama’s ‘Organizing For America’?
Bet it was.
ShareBloomberg News: U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.
These programs, whose participants are known as trusted partners, extend far beyond what was revealed by Edward Snowden, a computer technician who did work for the National Security Agency. The role of private companies has come under intense scrutiny since his disclosure this month that the NSA is collecting millions of U.S. residents’ telephone records and the computer communications of foreigners from Google Inc (GOOG). and other Internet companies under court order.”
“Sebelius Orders Health Insurers to Cover Planned Parenthood Services”
ShareHealth and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who led the Planned Parenthood cheering section as Kansas’s governor, is taking her allegiance to new heights with the ObamaCare law. In an April letter to insurers, Sebelius issued a regulation ordering companies to cover Planned Parenthood clinics in their state exchange packages. Planned Parenthood, which she deems as an “essential community provider,” is part of the long list of local organizations that insurers are required to partner with.”
Obamacare killing Congress?
Yeah, I am having a hard time finding even a grain of sympathy.
Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.
The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.
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If the issue isn’t resolved, and massive numbers of lawmakers and aides bolt, many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain just as Congress tackles a slew of weighty issues — like fights over the Tax Code and immigration reform.
Nah, don’t worry folks. They will find a way to exempt themselves while you end up holding the bag. You know that.
ShareMix One Part Narwahl With Two Parts NSA And You Get…
…”Obama’s Secret Data Base Filled with Voters’ Private Info”.
Maxine Waters let it slip on Roland Martin’s TV show.
Autostart video below the fold.
What’s Narwahl? That was the name of Team Obama’s voter database during the 2012 election. The Atlantic did a write-up on it as well. Here’s how they described it:
THE NEW CHICAGO MACHINE vs. THE GRAND OLD PARTY
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Narwhal wasn’t an app for a smartphone. It was the architecture of the company’s sophisticated data operation. Narwhal unified what Obama for America knew about voters, canvassers, event-goers, and phone-bankers, and it did it in real time.
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By the end, the campaign produced exactly what it should have: a hybrid of the desires of everyone on Obama’s team. They raised hundreds of millions of dollars online, made unprecedented progress in voter targeting, and built everything atop the most stable technical infrastructure of any presidential campaign. To go a step further, I’d even say that this clash of cultures was a good thing: The nerds shook up an ossifying Democratic tech structure and the politicos taught the nerds a thing or two about stress, small-p politics, and the significance of elections.”
Narwahl was successful. It combined billions of bits of data about voters nationwide and, some have proposed, crashed Romney’s tech package, ORCA as well.
Now we learn that the National Security Agency has been accumulating information like this and a lot more detailed as well. We also learn that agency after agency of the national government has had improper parts in helping get President Obama reelected.
What this tinfoil hatter wonders is how closely NSA and Narwahl are connected.
The leader of the Narwahl effort was a man named Harper Reed.
Harper Reed Hugs Obama
Their primary team leaders were, besides Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell.
Three members of Obama’s tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell
Since the Obama administration has control of the Narwahl group, the NSA, the IRS, etc., etc., how tough do you think it will be to beat a Democrat candidate fro President in the future? Obama has shown that one of his goals is to destroy the GOP. With this kind of firepower he may just succeed.
SharePat Caddell: “Obama is proving the “conspiracy nuts” right”
Yes he is.
There was once a time when many of us were bashful about airing our deepest conspiracy theories. A few of us openly said what we thought and were promptly sidelined by those who were determined to give the G.W. Bush and the Obama administrations the benefit of any doubts.
They took advantage of them. It has been revealed that our greatest fears have turned out to be true. As a matter of fact the progressives have been able to think up – and accomplish – things the rest of us never dreamed of.
As a proud tinfoil hat wearer I am ashamed that it never occurred to me that they would try to criminalize news reporting. But someone thought it up. That someone was in the Department of Justice. It also never ever occurred to me that the U.S. military would refuse to help an American Ambassador who was under attack. But they did. And the Ambassador, and others, died. We still don’t know the story but it must be terrible. The cover-up is airtight. The deflections, designed to take public attention away from Benghazi, are bad enough. What they are protecting must be much worse.
ShareAnother day, another rate increase warning
Insurance rates to increase 88 percent in Ohio under Obamacare.
ShareDemocrats continue to try to dismiss the evidence that Obamacare will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. But on Thursday, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced that, based on the rates submitted by insurers to date, the average individual-market health insurance premium in 2014 will come in around $420, “representing an increase of 88 percent” relative to 2013. “We have warned of these increases,” said Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor in a statement. “Consumers will have fewer choices and pay much higher premiums for their health insurance starting in 2014.”
Dementia is a hell of a thing…
Here is Nancy Pelosi this week.
Here she is less than a year ago on July 1, 2012
I’d blame the botox but Pelosi’s dementia predates botox injections.
ShareNew Record: Shulman 157 White House Visits, Ingram 165
Everyone has been hyperventilating over the White house records that show that former Commissioner of the IRS Douglas Shulman visited the White House 157 times, often with Obama campaign girlie Stephanie Cutter. Now the Daily Caller is reporting that Sarah Ingram visited 165 times since 2011.
Ingram was head of IRS’ Tax Exempt division when she made all those visits. She was in that post when the Internal Revenue Service targeted groups with TEA Party, Freedom, or some such words in their names.
Since the scandal broke Ingram has been promoted. Now she is in charge of overseeing implementation and compliance for IRS’ new arm, Obamacare.
ShareIngram visited with President Obama six times, according to White House visitor logs. All of Ingram’s 165 recorded visits involved meetings with White House staff.
Ingram took many of her White House meetings with Jeanne Lambrew, deputy assistant to the president for health policy.
Considering that Ingram and Shulman never visited the White House together, the two IRS officials have been responsible for more than 300 public visits since the beginning of the Obama administration.
Ingram received more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.”
Valerie Jarrett: “Holder Ain’t Going Anywhere Any Time Soon”
Here is the straight scoop from the brains behind the Oval Office, Valerie Jarrett. Holder may be on a hot seat but no one is going to ask him to leave. He is doing what they hired him to do. Obama, Jarrett, and Holder are not afraid of the heat they have been getting. They are in the business of tearing down and reforming the country. They know that the process will be unpopular with many, if not most of, Americans but they are determined to carry their plans to fruition.
This little video indicates that this administration will not bend. They will hold to their chosen course and deal with those who try to resist their efforts. Revolution requires big ideas, determination, toughness and ruthlessness. They believe they have enough of all of those traits to prevail.
ShareWaPo: Get To Know NSA’s Top Secret Program: PRISM
“U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge”
BS. The second slide below tells us when each of the nine companies signed on to PRISM. But they say they have no knowledge of it.
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.
The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. The NSA prides itself on stealing secrets and breaking codes, and it is accustomed to corporate partnerships that help it divert data traffic or sidestep barriers. But there has never been a Google or Facebook before, and it is unlikely that there are richer troves of valuable intelligence than the ones in Silicon Valley.”
The Washington Post has a long article here. They also posted these and other training slides from PRISM. These two explain which companies have been providing information and when they joined PRISM.
Of course anyone with half a brain and the willingness to look at things realistically has known all along that electronic forms of communication are not secure. Someone somewhere has the keys to the treasure. Whomever that is for each company providing services can access all forms of communication that passes through that company. That key is a valuable thing. It makes the holder of it important. He or she can share it with whomever they choose. They can name their price and it will be met; this time using our tax dollars.
Face it. Secure electronic forms of communication do not exist.
Update: Glenn Greenwald tells Piers Morgan of CNN that the obama administration has been ‘Bullying’ anyone who thinks about exposing PRISM:
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal,” he told Piers Morgan. “And that is to destroy privacy and anonymity not just in the United States but around the world.”
Visibly impassioned, and notably distressed by what he’s uncovered, Greenwald called for action, insisting something must be done to address the movements of the National Security Agency:
“It’s well past time that we have a debate about whether that’s the kind of country and world in which we want to live,” he declared. “We haven’t had that debate because it’s all done in secrecy and the Obama administration has been very aggressive about bullying and threatening anybody who thinks about exposing it or writing about it or even doing journalism about it. It’s well past time that that come to an end.”
Update: POLITICO: “Why the gov’t source leaked PRISM”
ShareObamacare popularity continues to sink
Just wait until it takes effect.
President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform law remains unpopular with the American public just months before it fully goes into effect, according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
The poll shows 49 percent of Americans say they believe the Affordable Care Act is a bad idea. That’s the highest number recorded on this question since the poll began measuring it in 2009. Just 37 percent say the plan is a good idea.
As the political battle over implementation of the law heats up in Washington, the numbers mark an increase in unpopularity since July 2012, right after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Obama’s overhaul. Back then, 44 percent of NBC/WSJ poll respondents called it a bad idea, vs. 40 percent who called it a good one.
Obama is off to California to try to convince folks that his health care boondoggle doesn’t suck. If you have to campaign even Californians, you got trouble.
ShareThis Is Samantha Power, Our New Ambassador To The UN
Power was chosen by Obama to replace Susan Rice as our Ambassador to the United Nations. Here she betrays her anti-semitic views in lofty, professorial language. The message is clear, though. She believes that Israel is the evil influence in the middle east.
In a 2007 interview, Power said that America’s relationship with Israel “has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics…” The United States, she explained, had brought terrorist attacks upon itself by aping Israel’s violations of human rights.
In 2002 she sat for an interview with Harry Kreisler, the director of the Institute for International Studies at Berkeley. Kreisler asked her the following question: “Let’s say you were an advisor to the President of the United States, how would you respond to current events in Israel? Would you advise him to put a structure in place to monitor that situation, at least if one party or another [starts] looking like they might be moving toward genocide?”Power’s response as seen in the video below is her advice to the President:
“Alienate” the American Jewish community, and indeed all Americans, such as evangelical Christians, who support the state of Israel, because Israeli leaders are “destroying the lives of their own people.”
Pour billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money into “the new state of Palestine”
Stage an American ground invasion of Israel and the Palestinian territories by recommending a “mammoth protection force” and a “military presence” that will be “imposed” by “external intervention”? — Interestingly she considers the exact same thing the height of arrogance and foolishness when it was done in Iraq.
Power says, “What we need is a willingness to actually put something on the line…and putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import. It may more crucially mean…investing literally billions of dollars not in servicing Israeli military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine.”
Update: Our new Secretary Of State John Kerry has her back, too. He says Israel’s failure to make peace with the Islamo-fascists is fueling Islamic terrorism around the world.
Land swaps… How totally Carteresque.
ShareKathleen Sibelius Is A One-Woman Death Panel
Sarah Palin was right. Death panels exist. Sebelius is one by herself. From CBS:
Time is running out for a little girl in Pennsylvania. She needs a lung transplant, but rules prevent children her age from getting lungs from adults. Her parents are fighting to change that, and now the battle is now reaching all the way to the Obama administration.
There’s a complex ethical dilemma at the center of this case, but for many, it seems unthinkable not to intervene.
Sarah Murnaghan, 10, has end-stage cystic fibrosis. Doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia say a lung transplant is her only chance of survival.
Sarah’s mother Janet Murnaghan said, “When we came down to the ICU last night our doctors told us they thought we had weeks. Not months.”
Because of longstanding transplant policy, Sarah is only eligible for lungs from a child donor, as opposed to adult lungs, which are far more available. Janet Murnaghan said, “To say that Sarah and the other children that are waiting are going to be left to die, it’s just really devastating, and just not a human response.”
Auto start video below the fold.
ShareIRS Leaked Donor List To Left Wing Political Enemies
This is why they demanded things like donor lists.
ShareNational Organization for Marriage Representative: Yes, We Have Smoking Gun Proof the IRS Leaked Our Confidential Donor List to Our Chief Political Rival, Human Rights Campaign
You’ll remember that Californians who donated to help pass Proposition 8 were boycotted.
The IRS gave NOM’s chief political rival its donor list. I believe so that a similar boycott could be had.
This was, of course, illegal. And making it worse is proof of consciousness of guilt — whoever leaked the document took pains to redact the internal stamps and markings that would show it was leaked from the IRS.
But NOM was able to go to an expert to “see under” the black bars of redaction.
But Eastman shed light on another potential controversy involving the IRS — the unauthorized disclosure of tax document information. He recalled how information on their donors was leaked last year and published on the website of the Human Rights Campaign, which Eastman described as their “principal political opponent” on the marriage issue. The documents showed Mitt Romney’s political committee as a donor.
Asked by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., if he had “proof” that the IRS leaked that material, Eastman said that he did.
Eastman explained that while some information was redacted in the posted version, his group’s “forensic” specialists were able to strip layers from the document and found “the original document that was posted there had originated from within the IRS.”
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Furthermore, the IRS has “stonewalled” his demands for an investigation into the crime.”
So, The Washington D.C. Capitol Police Are Even Now Targeting Tea Party Groups
The investigations now going on in Washington have done nothing to decrease the intentional hassling of Tea party groups.
OUTRAGE – Capitol Police to Tea Party: Show Us Your Websites or Forget Your Rally
ShareThe Tea Party Patriots were planning a rally in Washington DC on Wednesday June 19th.
But they ran into a wall.
The Capitol Police want to see their websites first.
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June, 4 2013: Jerry Bell contacted me to inquire about the permit.
Questions asked:
** Is the purpose of your event to promote government accountability?
My answer was yes. This was also indicated on the application
** Have you ever had an event on Capitol grounds before? If so, when was the last one?
My answer was yes and March of 2012.
** Have you ever had any opposition to your cause show up at these events in the past?
My answer – possibly. If there was any opposition it was a small amount. Nothing ever escalated beyond civil conversation.
** Do you know of any opposition that will be at your June 19th event?
My answer – not at this time because we haven’t publicized the event yet because we wanted to make sure we secured the permit first.
** Have you invited any members of Congress to the June 19th event?
My answer – I have informed some Members of Congress, but official invites have not been extended because we are waiting for approval of the permit.
** Does your organization have any social media sites like Twitter or Instagram? I know that you have a Facebook page.
My response – yes we do, but I’m not sure why this is relevant to the application.Then he thanked me for my answers. Then I asked when he thought it might be approved and I went into details about this permit, including the timeline of events, and he asked me to submit the timeline to him in writing.”
Obamacare benefits are targeted specifically to you!
That’s right. There will be a “special focus” of Obamacare designed to specifically benefit you… if you are a member of the “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday said that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community will be a special focus of Obamacare because “for too long…[they] were pushed to the side.”
To honor Lesbian, Gay, Bixexual and Transgender Pride Month in June, the administration is drawing attention to new benefits under Obamacare targeted to the LGBT, which Sebelius said have had their access to health care limited and who, she added, have higher rates of tobacco use and are at increased risk for mental health illness.
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community shall be the focus of special governmental benefits.”
What? You’re not lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgendered? Not to worry. You will also be a special focus of Obamacare.
Obama threatens to veto any budget that doesn’t increase spending
Obama: End the sequester or get vetoed.
The White House sought to pressure House Republicans into a budget conference with the Senate on Monday, warning President Obama would veto any 2014 spending bills based on the House GOP budget.
In Statements of Administration Policy, the White House said Obama would veto all spending bills unless they pass Congress “in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery and enables sufficient investments in education, infrastructure, innovation and national security for our economy to compete in the future.”
That language suggests the administration, like congressional Democrats, wants to use the conference to turn off the automatic spending cuts to domestic discretionary spending known as the sequester. The statements warned that average Americans would be hurt if Congress fails to restore some of these cuts.
He wants his green boondoggles. He wants his non-stimulating stimulus. He wants his army of flying monkeys in the IRS and other federal bureaucracies. He wants his massive, centralized, administrative bloat.
Do you think college is expensive?
It isn’t much cheaper when it is free. College in Sweden is free but Swedish students are piling up the debt.
85% of Swedish students graduate with debt, versus only 50% in the US. Worst of all, new Swedish graduates have the highest debt-to-income ratios of any group of students in the developed world (according to estimates of what they’re expected to earn once they get out of school)—somewhere in the neighborhood of 80%. The US, where we’re constantly being told that student debt is hitting crisis proportions, the average is more like 60%. Why?
The article gives a lot of reasons why but the overarching reason is because nothing is free anywhere, ever. In Sweden college isn’t free. It is paid for through heavy taxation. This means that parents have no disposable income to support young adult children. The result is heavy debt by young adults.
The bottom line is that the ironclad laws of economics will not be breached. There is no such thing as a free lunch or free tuition. The tab will be paid directly or indirectly but it will be paid.
ShareDems: “Rick Perry Isn’t Playing Fair!”
Perry’s campaign to lure businesses to Texas must be working. The democrats in charge of California and Illinois work hard at driving businesses away. But their only response to them actuially leaving is to cry foul.
Maybe they’ll find a way to outlaw defection… and Rick Perry.
ShareGov. Rick Perry’s high-profile efforts to lure jobs to Texas from other states may be good business and smart politics back home, but they’re infuriating to prominent Democrats around the country.
And now at least one Republican business leader says Perry’s taking the Lone Star swagger a little too far.
Perry’s forceful recruitment campaigns, featuring radio and magazine ads as well as personal appearances, promise low-tax, pro-growth policies in Texas —and they also trash the business climate in places like California (“…I hear building a business in California is next to impossible”) and Illinois (“…an environment that, intentionally or not, is designed for you to fail.”)
Those attacks hit where it hurts and have touched off an angry political backlash against Perry outside the Texas borders, with Democrats mocking his attempts to steal jobs as clownish – and warning the Republican governor to keep his hands off. In a memorable put-down, Gov. Jerry Brown said Perry’s incursions into California were about as effective as breaking wind.”
“Press Banned From Revealing Details of Eric Holder’s Press Briefing on His Abuse of Press Freedom”
Not many journalists attended the ninety minute ‘Off the record’ meeting with the Attorney General Eric Holder. One group who did were press people from the Washington Post. They report that one of the rules laid down by the DOJ was that no one could report what was said by Mr. Holder… except that Holder said he would “Protect journalist’s rights” after violating them.
Holder and President Obama are playing a nefarious game here. They have been doing it for a long time. It goes like this: Say one thing and then do the opposite. Some of the press are seeing through it. That’s the reason many stayed away from this meeting. But some are still in the tank. Some like the WaPo. This cartoon accurately portrays the relationship between the Obama administration and the news media:
ShareEric Holder pledged to take “concrete steps” to address the actions of Eric Holder — up to and (possibly) including backing legislative action that would curtail Eric Holder’s ability to abuse Eric Holder’s power…
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Holder and aides “completely endorsed the president’s statement that reporters should not be at legal risk for doing their job,” said Martin Baron, The Washington Post’s executive editor, who was among the participants. “They acknowledged the need for changes in their own guidelines and the need to have a more rigorous internal review.”Reassuringly, Eric Holder has “completely endorsed” a principle that Eric Holder has already explicitly violated. How many times has Eric Holder done so? Eric Holder can’t quite say. Click through to witness the pitiful spectacle of journalists quoting each other and vaguely discussing a meeting they’ve been barred from describing in any detail.”
PJ Media: “What’s The Difference Between Good Men And Evil Men?”
I’d say he is right on. His post deals with Barack Obama. He has an image of his carefully researched opinion. I’ll post it below. It’s worth a read. The last part of it deals with good versus evil men:
What’s the difference between the good man and the evil man? Self awareness. The good man knows he has evil in his heart and strives to continually check his own flawed nature. The evil man denies that good and evil even exist. Thus the evil in his heart festers and grows like a cancer for decades. And when the evil men take control of governments the result is the same: more people die.”
“Why Benghazi Is A Crime More Evil Than Anything A President Has Done In Our Lifetimes… In 60 Seconds” From David Swindle at PJ Media:
If you are fat, you are going to pay
Obamacare will nail you for some pre-existing conditions…
ObamaCare does prevent insurers from charging more for pre-existing conditions, or from charging as much as they currently do for older people who use more health care.
But when it comes to smoking and being overweight as well as other health problems, if employees don’t participate in wellness programs, they could pay more.
Ed Haislmeier of the Heritage Foundation says “on the one hand they’re trying to ban discrimination based on health status, but on the other hand they’re trying to say that some discrimination based on health status is good discrimination.”
Goodman adds that “it is definitely the nanny state trying to tell us what we’re going to do, and unleashing the employers to be the agent of the government in telling us what we’re going to do.”
That’s right. The Central Bureaucracy forces your neighbors to cover you sex change operation and buy you all-you-can-eat birth control bills but, by God, you are going to pay if you are not an approved person.
They have plans for you.
Many employers already offer wellness programs, but the new 123-page regulation tells them exactly how they must operate.
“This is just one more massive regulation on top of the thousands and thousands of pages that have already been issued that employers have to deal with,” says Capretta. “I think the whole system is starting to choke on so many rules.”
Now, fall out for corporatist PT. Remember, a good citizen is a fit citizen. You want to be a good citizen, right?
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