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The top ten horror stories caused by Obamacare.

The top ten horror stories caused by Obamacare.

I’ve posted many of these stories already, but seeing them all together is somewhat sobering.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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9 comments

  • JGL

    Understand that the American people have been delivered to Obamacare and it represents the ultimate control over the American people. The question we must be forced to objectively ask is:
    Delivered to who’s agenda? (We know who it was delivered by.)

    1. A political agenda driven by a liberal desire to be overly compassionate?

    2. Big business (the insurance and big pharma industries), which would represent the ultimate guaranteed source of un ending and un interrupted cash flow, the tap root directly into the core of the governments ability to tax?

    3. The people who really “run” the world looking to manipulate and control the masses?
    (control those nasty and pushy freedom loving Americans and their damn Constitution. By the way the Constitution is the only thing that stands in the way of what ever is being perpetrated and must ultimately destroyed in order for “their” success)

    Choose one or a combination of all three, please comment.

  • “A political agenda driven by a liberal desire to be overly compassionate?”

    Liberals aren’t driven by compassion at all, they’re entirely driven by the pathological need to control others. The opposite side of the ‘help’ coin is ‘control’. If they really wanted to help people without controlling them, they’d join the church or give to charity. Instead, they pass laws.

  • JGL

    I intended to but failed to put the word compassionate in quotation marks, I agree with your assessment. The professional liberal / Marxist / socialist seeks control under the cover of being “compassionate”, the sheep that blindly follow them emotionally see them as being compassionate and doing the “right” thing for everyones own good because the people themselves are unable to make the “right” decisions for themselves.

    Notice the code words and phrases the the president uses:” because its the right thing to do” or “we can’t just do nothing” which would indicate that any action even an action that is counter to the intent to the Constitution would be better than the status quo. These are all designed to pander to the subjectively (emotional) oriented person.

    The Constitution and law is an objective endeavor not a subjective endeavor and when a politician seeks to apply his or her own subjective opinion on the populous thats when the Constitution and the people who understand what its intent is must dial him or her back.

    So yes, I agree with you :)

  • Don

    Said this before, I’ll say it again. Obama/Pelosi Care is designed to destroy the remaining ‘free market’ health care system and force everyone into the trap that is single payer. The ultimate government control of We The People.

    The hope of these control freaks is as things get worse and worse, the Citizen will demand total fed control. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.

    Which is another reason behind gun grabs. IOW, The ruling class covering all the bases.

  • I’m very interested to find out how many people will refuse to buy mandated health care insurance, and refuse to pay the penalty come the 2014 tax season. The self-employed will find this easier than others to implement (but with no less legal exposure). I expect to see an increasing number of news stories related to the financial burden of Obamacare as the year progresses, and I think a lot of people are going to be sticker-shocked at the real price. Barring other developments, I think the societal cost of the Affordable Care Act (three lies for the price of one) is going to be THE story of 4Q 2013 and 1Q 2014.

  • JGL

    I believe that you will find that the fines will be severe for those who will not do what their new masters demand, this will mitigate any push back. The defiance must come through those representatives in power by defunding and defanging the now law. Think of the future ten or twenty years from now if Obamacare is not eliminated.

    I have a guy that I had a “discussion” with about Obamacare before it was passed and he took joy in after it was passed to needle me about the ridiculousness of the concept of the so called “death panels”. I think it very plausible that a board of bureaucrats would sit and decide who gets what and when and if you fall outside of certain age criteria you will be crap out of luck. And in time it will be very advantageous to be a bureaucrat or know one.

    Also keep in mind I know much, much more about Obama and Obamacare than anyone I know who voted for him and it. I find that so ironic and I have come to understand that the majority of people if they are doing relatively well make their political judgments only on whether they think someone is a likable person not at all is it based on what their political philosophies are.

  • JGL

    Let me ad to that, the Republican party has offered little to nothing as an alternative, in that it is just a variation of a flavor of the same thing. They have lost their way and must be dragged back to the Constitution and away from the big money lobby interests and the dark side of capitalism.

    Which is not to say that capitalism is the evil but the undue influence of big money has tended to turn our country onto the road of Fascism where a government that should be properly regulating becomes a useful arm of the corporate world. The people become the property of the state, the exact opposite of the intent of the Constitution which is the counter balance to the abuse of power.

  • I think we’re long past the point of convincing politicians to act in our best interest, or to legislate in the spirit of this country’s founding. Change, or resistance to an increasingly fascist government at all levels, now rests with the individual. The Founders pledged their lives, property, and sacred honor in the fight against an imperial power that sought to implement restrictions far less onerous than we face now. Should our commitment be less?

  • JGL

    The Syrian people have come to the black or white, sink or swim choices that our founders knew that you may be suggesting. We have a ways to go before we jump off that bridge, although I understand perfectly your position. What must happen may well be past the point of no return, but we live in America and we must continue the kind of fight that we are presented with and fight that fight within the framework of our Constitution.

    This being our reality I suggest we all endeavor to educate the people around us as to what the Constitution actually means in the objective way that it was written and where it really comes from. The Republican party must be cleaned out and populated with next gen politicians that have a solid connection withe the concepts and intent of the Constitution. This is our lot in life, get comfortable with it.

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