While Obamacare is in disarray with many of the provisions being conveniently delayed until after the 2014 election, and with many companies and individuals struggling with the healthcare reform law, there is one group of people who are doing quite well with the new law as it is slowly implemented.
That group of people just happens to be about 30 or so former Obama regime officials turned lobbyists; these officials just happened to help to craft the law in the first place: Read more…
Almost precisely one year ago Barack Obama drew a red line in regards to Syria; if chemical weapons were used in Syria Barack Obama stated his calculus would change and the United Stated would be forced to do something about it.
Then last week it was reported that chemical weapons were used against the civilians in Syria and today John Kerry made it official. Our government is telling us that it was Syrian President Bashar Assad who used these weapons, but it is quite possible that the rebels got control of these weapons and used them to draw the United States into the conflict on their side.
While our government is claiming it was Assad who used the chemical weapons this is the same Obama regime who falsely claimed for weeks on end that a youtube video was responsible for the terrorist attack in Benghazi which left Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Tyrone Woods dead when everyone knew this was not the case, so forgive me if I feel as if the Obama regime has no credibility.
And speaking of Benghazi.
I found this story over at Conservative Hideout so a hat tip is in order for Matt, he has been doing great work at exposing the ill-effects of Obamacare and everyone should check out what he is up to.
Delta Airlines is estimating that Obamacare will cost the company $100,000,000 in 2014 alone as it tries to comply with the unafforable care act.
More troubling, Delta notes it designed a specific insurance plan for its pilots. But because of “cadillac tax” rules, Delta is going to have to scrap that plan because, though it meets the needs of Delta’s pilots, it runs afoul of government regulations relating to the extravagance of plans.
According to Delta, in 2014 Obamacare will cost the company at least $38 million in direct costs and that is only the beginning. With added medical inflation, Delta claims “the cost of providing health care to our employees will increase by nearly $100,000,000 next year.” A $100 million increase thanks in large part to Obamacare and ancillary cost increases derived therefrom. Yes, I have the letter. From the letter:
The ACA requires large employers to pay an annual fee of $63 per covered participant in 2014. For Delta’s roughly 160,000 enrolled active and retired employees and their family members, this represents more than $10 million added to the cost of providing health care next year. As we discussed, this fee, which is meant to help stabilize the state exchanges as they get started, provides absolutely zero direct benefit to our participants. It is, essentially, a direct subsidy from us and our employees to those who participate in the exchanges.
It is hard to imagine, in an industry already struggling in the aftermath of September 11th, any scenario in which Delta is going to be able to stay in business when faced with these additional costs–unless the government rushes in to save Delta from the problem it created in the first place.
This, of course, is not surprising to all of us who predicted that Obamacare was designed to destroy the private insurance industry with the end goal of creating a single-payer system with the government in control of the healthcare industry. Everything is working according to plan…..
Benghazi: The team responsible for finding the perpetrators of the attack is being pulled out of Libya emptyhanded
After the terrorist attack in Benghazi which left Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Tyrone Woods dead Barack Obama promised the American people he would find those responsible for the attack and bring them to justice. Just for the record Chris Steven was raped before he was murdered in cold blood.
To date the only person who has been held even partially responsible for the attack was the man who helped to create the youtube video the Obama regime falsely claimed was the motivation behind the attack.
But a couple of weeks ago the Obama regime announced that there was a sealed indictment for the suspects in the case and the regime dispatched a team to find the suspects. This gave hope to the Americans who actually believe the regime is serious about bringing those responsible for the attack to justice. I was not then, and am not now, one of those Americans who believe Barack Obama has any intention of bringing anyone else to justice for this attack. Read more…
Pentagon guide labels the Founding Fathers as extremists
A newly discovered Defense Department guide has labeled people who speak of states’ rights and individual liberties as extremists:
A Department of Defense teaching guide meant to fight extremism advises students that rather than “dressing in sheets” modern-day radicals “will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place
Of course we know they are talking about the Tea Party here, and did you notice the way the report likens the Tea Party to the KKK? This is not surprising when you remember the infamous Department of Homeland Security’s infamous right wing extremist report, but this guide go even further by labeling the Founding Fathers as members of an extremist group. Read more…
MSNBC host wonders why the right is determined to make the Christopher Lane shooting about race
Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection strategy was clear: he determined the best way to win reelection was to divide and conquer so he ran what might be the most divisive campaign in history by purposely pitting black against white, rich against poor, man against woman, and gay against straight.
This was never more evident than when the president injected himself into the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case before any of the facts in the case were known. The mainstream media, including the propaganda arm of the Obama regime, MSNBC ran with it. They took a look at George Zimmerman’s name and assumed he was white and then accused him of hunting down a black man for sport. Once they learned that Zimmerman was actually Hispanic they created a new term–White Hispanic–to describe Zimmerman in order to keep the racial aspect to the story they so longed for alive.
Obamacare: UPS to drop 15,000 spouses from healthcare benefits
The Obamacare fallout continues and the hits just keep on coming. One of the trends we have seen as Obamacare draws closer to full implementation is layoffs by companies to get under the number of employees which Obamacare mandates an employer must provide healthcare. A second trend we are seeing is companies cutting employer hours to under 30 hours in order to avoid the now delayed employer mandate.
And now a third trend may be developing as well, according to this story, UPS is dropping healthcare coverage for the spouses of 15,000 employees: Read more…
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