In my previous post, I wrote concerning de-funding Obamacare, official name 'Affordable Care Act' (ACA). There has been a lot of talk, pro and con, regarding such a move by the Republicans in the House; however, some Republicans and the liberal Democrat side of the aisle, maintain such a move would precipitate a shutdown of the government. Well, on the one hand that could be a relief considering the politicians don't seem able to actually represent their constituents anyway. We can rightfully assume the bill would never pass in the Senate and the President wouldn't sign it even if it did because that is his 'signature' piece of accomplishment.
* 92% of federal workers don't want 'Obamacare'
* the healthcare act requires employers with 50 employees to offer government approved health insurance to employees who work at least 30 hrs. or more a week or face a fine of up to $3,000 per employee; consequently, many businesses are beginning to either reduce their work force or limit hours worked to less than 30 hours - effectively doing away with the 40 hr. work week
* according to an unpublished CRS memo - the Obama administration has missed half of the healthcare act's legally imposed implementation deadlines
* The ACA contains forced inspection provisions such as 'forced visits' on homes the government considers high risk such as: families in communities identified by states as needing services to improve parenting and child care; families with a history of substance abuse; families containing tobacco users; families with children with disabilities, etc.
* the IRS (that pillar of piety, transparancy and goodwill) will oversee the entire project and have full access to all, and I mean ALL, of your records - medical, financial, property holdings, etc.
I guess this is what Nancy Pelosi meant when she said, "we have to pass our bill so we can know what is in it". Well, it's passed and we still don't know ALL of it!
Just recently in his weekly address, this is what President Obama had to say about the Republicans and the healthcare bill:
"But there's also a group of Republicans in Congress working hard to confuse people, and making empty promises that they'll either shut down the health care law, or, if they don't get their way, they'll shut down the government. Think about that. They're actually having a debate between hurting Americans who will no longer be denied affordable care just because they've been sick - and harming the economy and millions of Americans.....many Republicans are more concerned with how badly this debate will hurt them politically than they are with how badly it'll hurt the country. A lot of Republicans seem to believe that if they can gum up the works and make this law fail, they'll somehow be sticking it to me. But they'd just be sticking it to you." [emphasis added] This is really great presidential talk, don't you think? And really, who is confusing who and exactly who makes 'empty' promises?
This all begs the question we must ask of ourselves, our Senators and House Representatives - if this healthcare law is so great, why does the administration have to pay organizations such as Planned Parenthood (for example) over $655,000 as "Navigators" to promote Obamacare?
It is a foregone conclusion that even if the House finds its backbone and actually passes a budget, omitting any funding for the Affordable Care Act (which they should begin NOW to call it) the Senate won't pass it and the President wouldn't sign the bill anyway which would precipitate a 'government shutdown'. But anyone with any modicum of sense knows (1) that's what the President wants because (2) he fully intends to blame it on the Republicans because (3) he knows it's a real piece of bulldunghy! 'Defunding' the government is not as ominous as it sounds, which will be covered in my next post.
Sources for this post: (not necessarily in order)
*www.personalliberty.com
*www.townhall.com
*www.forbes.com
*www.citizenlink.com
*www.americanthinker.com
*www.examiner.com
*www.theblog.heritage.org
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