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OBAMA'S WHOPPERS

Here are some more examples of why you cannot trust President Obama on health care, courtesy of David Patten at Newsmax.com.
 
  • The president promised no policyholder will lose his or her current coverage. But a study commissioned by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank concluded that more than 88 million individuals would have to shift to a new plan, if the current proposals on the table are adopted. Other estimates issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Urban Institute estimate the number will be lower, but still in the millions. Obama has admitted he can't control whether employers drop their current plan in favor of one that's cheaper. (It should be noted that most of these estimates assume a government-subsidized public option for insurance, however, which Obama now states he does not favor.)
  • Obama said his plan to require insurance companies to cover preventative medicine would reduce Americans' healthcare expenditures. As laudable as preventative medicine may be, the CBO has concluded it will actually increase the costs of medical care due to the large number of preventative tests needs to screen for diseases that the vast majority of people will not develop.

     

  • Obama stated that there are 46 million uninsured Americans, a number very much in dispute. It includes undocumented workers without insurance, workers temporarily without coverage, and people eligible for Medicare who simply haven't needed it yet, but who can obtain it at a moment's notice.

     

  • Obama again stated that a combination of savings, and a tax surcharge on those earning more than $250,000 annually, would make healthcare reform deficit-neutral. Conservative think tanks dispute that. But even if the statement were accurate, it doesn't account for a subsequent budget shortfall that would reach over $188 billion per year by 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal.

     

  • Obama maintains that "any discussion" of the public-option has always assumed it would not be government-subsidized. In fact, he says any suggestion to the contrary is a distortion. But during the campaign, Obama stated that he personally favors a single-payer system that would be paid for by the government. Until Obama recently redefined the term "public option," it was broadly understood to refer to a health-insurance option financed by the government. Moreover, even Obama's "non-subsidized" public-option would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions – if not billions – in startup costs and creation of a bureaucratic infrastructure.
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    OBAMA HELPED CREATE THE MESS

    Campaigning for a Democrat running for Governor of Virginia, Barack Hussein Obama II said he isn't responsible for the mess in Washington.   Nor responsible?  Wasn't Barack Hussein Obama II in the Senate before he became President?  More and more people are realizing his programs aren't working and in fact damaging the country.  All he can do is try to silence their voices.  Hugo Chavez must be smiling.

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    OBAMA'S VIRTUAL BLOCK CAPTAINS

    It works for Castro and Chavez, so why not for Obama?  The Latin American dictators employ "block captains" who spy on people in their neighborhoods and report anyone criticizing the government to the authorities.  Obama has done them one better by taking the block captain concept virtual.  The White House is asking people to report emails and websites critical of Obama's health care plans to an office in the White House.  Too bad Orwell isn't around anymore.  He could write a another novel called "Obamaland".

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    WHAT'S NEXT - A WEEKEND AT CAMP DAVID?

    It wasn't exactly a meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas but it was the best our new, young President could offer.  He had a beer with Sgt. Jim Crowley, who he called stupid, and radical leftist Harvard professor Henry Gates, who called Crowley a racist.  The White House called the meeting a teachable moment, the lesson apparently being that you can call someone a stupid racist and it's alright if you have a beer with the person afterwards.  This wasn't a teachable moment.  It was a political stunt that diminished the Presidency and made the President look foolish.  Oddly enough, the only person who seemed to actually drink any beer was Crowley, who took a sip at the beginning of the photo shoot.  Obama looked like he was going to take a drink but apparently changed his mind and reached for the bowl of peanuts instead.  It was all very bizarre.
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    AP DOESN'T LIST POLITICAL AFFILIATION IN CORRUPTION STORY

    The Associated Press won't tell readers what political party the arrested politicians belong to.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_nj_corruption_arrests_9
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    THE SEINFELD PRESS CONFERENCE

    It’s been said the Seinfeld Show was about nothing. The President gave a press conference last night and said essentially nothing.   He rambled on about how he would provide health insurance to millions of Americans, improve the quality of health care, and reduce costs, all at the same time. If you believe that, there’s a shovel ready job with your name on it. He did acknowledge that Medicare and Medicaid, health care programs run by the government, are going broke.  So what’s his solution? Another government run health care program. More and more people are coming to realize this President’s promises are empty. He simply says anything that sounds good at the time.

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    IS THE MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR GAY

    Massachusetts has been agressively pursuing a homosexual agenda.  Isn't it time someone asked the Governor if he is a homosexual?
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    TROUBLE FOR SOTOMAYOR

    There may be trouble brewing for Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor.  She is receiving an endorsement from Justice Binsburg.  Having a sitting Supreme Court Justice endorse a nominee is highly unusual and suggests Sotomayor may need political cover.  She probably will get confirmed, but Obama and the Democrats will pay a price for nominating someone who believes it is the duty of the government to discriminate against white people.
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    MEDVEDEV TO OBAMA - DROP DEAD

    He was supposed to reset our relationship with Russia.  By setting a non-confrontational tone, our young, new, President thought he could turn Russia into a partner who would help us with some of the world's toughest issues.  He traveled to Russia and showed deference by refusing to stop in Georgia or Ukraine, democracies friendly to America but troublesome for the current Russian regime.  So how did it work?  Obama got absolutely nowhere on Iran and Medvedev is threatening to install missiles on the Polish border.  This is yet another failure of Obama's foreign policy. 
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    THE GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD

    You have to appreciate the irony.  This is one of the coolest summers on record in Washington, DC, so what does Congress do?  It passes a bill to stop global warming.  Only Congress would spend hundreds of billions of dollars and disrupt an entire economy to stop something that isn't happening.

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    OBAMA TAKES ON THE RUSSIANS

    So our new, young, President is in Moscow negotiating with the Russians.  It's unclear what he will apologize to the Russians for, but he is a resourceful fellow with a large staff.  I'm sure he'll come up with something.  The Russians are very adept at detecting weakness.  We'll have to see if Obama is still wearing his shirt when he leaves.
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    RECALL FRANKEN

    It's official.  The Minnesota Supreme Court has officially declared the election for the Senate a travesty worthy of Iran and the ayatollahs.  Although Coleman received more votes on election day, votes for Franken magically appeared during the recount.  We deserve honest elections.  This travesty should not be allowed to stand.  Franken should be recalled.

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    WAXMAN COMPARES OIL TO SALT

    This is actually from the so called clean energy bill passed by the House of Representatives last night.  Couldn't someone inform Waxman that we have enormous reserves of oil and natural gas lying off the coast? 

    SEC. 127. OPEN FUEL STANDARD.

      (a) Findings- The Congress finds that--

        (1) the status of oil as a strategic commodity, which derives from its domination of the transportation sector, presents a clear and present danger to the United States;

        (2) in a prior era, when salt was a strategic commodity, salt mines conferred national power and wars were fought over the control of such mines;

        (3) technology, in the form of electricity and refrigeration, decisively ended salt's monopoly of meat preservation and greatly reduced its strategic importance;

        (4) fuel competition and consumer choice would similarly serve to end oil's monopoly in the transportation sector and strip oil of its strategic status
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    OBAMA LIED ABOUT TAXES

    Remember the promise Obama made about cutting taxes for 95 percent of taxpayers?  It was a lie.  The energy bill he supports will tax carbon dioxide raising taxes for 100 percent of taxpayers and even those who don't pay taxes.  Turn on a light - you'll pay a tax.  Start your car - you'll pay a tax.  Buy a head of lettuce - you'll pay a tax.  This is just another example of why Obama's statements cannot be trusted.  He will say anything that sounds good at the time, then do the opposite. 
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    CAIRO SPEECH GAVE GREEN LIGHT TO IRANIAN CRACKDOWN

    Blame President Obama’s Cairo speech, at least in part, for the violence and bloodshed in Iran. He apologized for the prison in Guantanamo, as if the Egyptians have a model prison system. He apologized for having used enhanced interrogation techniques, which he calls torture, as if the interrogation techniques used by the Egyptians are any less “enhanced”.  By rebuking the strong and muscular foreign policy of his predecessor, he showed himself to be a weak and vacillating leader. The Iranian regime took the measure of the man and found him wanting. They knew they could steal an election and murder their own people without any consequences from this President. You have to wonder how the Iranians would have behaved if “W” were still President. 
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