Yes, Barack, You Did Have Scandals, Part 3

Usually I reserve the early days of the month to review the latest political class insanity. Insane quotes, stupid actions, unlawful activities, the nonsense of the political class is usually grouped together early each month.

But let’s get an early start on June’s political class insanity. Barack Obama has been very quiet over the past few months, almost suspiciously quiet. My theory is that he is laying low given that there is a decent chance that he weaponized the nation’s Federal intelligence agencies and resources to spy on the Trump campaign. If he knew or allowed such despicable behavior to happen it would be an incredible affront to freedom and I suspect his lawyers are telling him to lay low and shut up.

But given the ego and narcissism of Obama, he cannot keep entirely quiet and humble. He dared to speak out recently when he proudly said that his administration had no scandals. We have already killed this fantasy in a series of posts beginning with the following post back in 2016:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-1-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

But let’s reminisce using a recent list of Obama’s “Lies, Scandals, and Quotes” that was recently printed by the Gateway Pundit website. Despite Obama’s delusion that he had no scandals, the Gateway Pundit came up with an amazing 108 things to dispute his view. Let’s review this insanity with Part 3 of additional comments that were not included in the original list from the Gateway Pundit. Note: the first 68 points reviewed can be accessed at the following links:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2018/05/yes-barack-you-did-have-scandals-part-1.html

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2018/05/yes-barackyou-did-have-scandals-part-2.html

69. The Russians invaded Ukraine, (and Obama does NOTHING). Comment: Years later and nothing has changed, the Russians still occupy part of the Ukraine.

70. 6 million people losing their healthcare thanks to Obamacare. Comment: Covered already.

71. "The United States maintains a 'rock-solid' commitment to Israel" - Comment: Then why did Obama suggest Israel go back to its pre-1967 borders, surely a national suicide move for the country?

72. Illegal fundraising for Obamacare by Katherine Sebelius (solicitation of money from the companies she regulates) with no penal or cirminal ramifications. Comment: I believe she obviously violated the HATCH Act.

73. Katherine Sebelius' TOTAL incompetence in rolling out Obamacare. Comment: Well, it was not as if she had the market cornered on Obama Care incompetence.

74. Ex-IRS official Lerner takes 5th. Comment: And yet she and others get no jail time for weaponizing the IRS against Obama’s political opponents.

75. Failed to fund our Nation’s military. Comment: He funded the military and but funded it badly, resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted taxpayer wealth while weakening our armed forces' fighting capabilities.

76. Higher Spending and No Balanced Budget—EVER. Comment: Covered in the previous post, first Presidential administration to have four consecutive years of trillion dollar budget deficits.

77. $1.2 Trillion in Higher Taxes. Comment: After a while you lose track of how high the tax increases were.

78. Known Obama supporter appointed to investigate IRS targeting scandal.Comment: Unaware of this situation.

79. Buying clothes at The Gap: "Oh wow; credit card machines had electronic signature pads": Comment: Unaware of this situation.

80. Former Soviet Union laughs at Obama's Ukraine sanctions. Comment: Pretty sure this was not the only time Putin has laughed at Obama and the U.S.

81. Over 70% of Obamacare signups from people who LOST their insurance BECAUSE OF Obamacare in the first place. Comment: Another example of why Obama Care was such a disaster, much of its customer base was simply people who lost their insurance because of... Obama Care.

82. In Maryland: Obama celebrates 60,000 obamacare signups…. BUT 73,000 lost insurance BECAUSE OF Obamacare. Comment: See previous comment.

83. Obama did NOTHING to prevent some 150,000 people being killed in Syria, and he and the LIBERALS are silent on the matter. Comment: Another in a long line of Obama foreign policy failures.

84. On April 6th, 2014 Obama gave a speech on the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda lecturing about “the world’s failure to respond more quickly” and that “we always have a choice . . . we must never be indifferent.” Comment: And yet he stood by and failed when he could have intervened to prevent the genocide in Syria.

85. Obama demands "equality" but only pays women 88 percent of what it pays men. Comment: So close!

86. "We're focused like lasers on job creation!!!" Comment: And yet had anemic job creation success over the entire length of his administration.

87. "Jobs are our number one priority!!!!" Comment: See previous comment.

88. 6 million full time US workers sustain 149 million "benefit takers" in the USA under the "Obama recovery." Comment: do not know what this means.

89. "Republicans still can’t bring themselves to admit that the Affordable Care Act is working." Comment: Republicans never had to admit that Obama Care was working because it never worked from day one: missed sign up targets, higher and higher premiums, higher and higher deductibles and co-pays, doctor and hospital networks getting more and more narrow, Medicaid imploding, national debt exploding, etc.

90. "If Republicans want to spend all their time talking about repealing a law that’s working, that’s their business." Comment: See list of Obama Care failures in previous statement

91. 169th round of golf on 4/19/14 while Putin re-assembles the USSR and Jews are being ordered to report in the Ukraine. Comment: Not the only time his tee time was interrupted with world affairs and Presidential duties.

92. Syria uses chemical weapons crossing obama's "red line" and Obama is SILENT on the matter. Comment: Another Obama foreign affairs failure, warned Syria not do do something and did nothing when Syria did it, completely undercutting Obama’s international credibility.

93. 04/21/2014 Obama delays the Keystone pipeline for the 45th time. Comment: Even though just about everyone in the Federal government recommended going forward with it.

94. China has become the #1 economy with "ObamaNomics." Comment: do not know what this means.

95. Iran WILL have a nuclear bomb under Obama. Comment: Not sure what this means but it is pretty obvious Obama allowed North Korea and Iran free reign to develop nuclear weapons during his eight years in office and yes, his nuclear arms agreement with Iran was a joke.

96. There are 92 million unemployed (may 2014) THAT IS 51% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, including retirees. Comment: A biased and unfair comment, a lot of those 92 million people decided they did not want to work although the labor participation rate during the Obama years was the lowest since the Carter administration, reflecting very poor job creation results.

97. In 2013, under the direction of Barack Obama, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement released 36,000 illegal immigrants who had been convicted of murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault, and drunk or drugged driving. Comment: Kate Steinle’s parents were not consulted prior to this insanity.

98. Incompetence at the Veterans Affairs Administration. Comment: Promised to fix the dysfunctional VA at the start of his tenure, followed up with multiple other promises to fix it and never did anything that stopped veterans from dying because of the dysfunction.

99. Almost every photo of Obama at the White house shows Obama with his feet on the historically significant antique furniture….no respect for its historical significance. Comment: No comment.

100. Over 40 veteran patients die after being placed on a hidden VA waiting list that could last for up to a year, while officials at the hospital shredded documents and faked evidence to make it seem as if waiting times were under control. Comment: Again, Obama did nothing to fix the situation despite multiple promises to fix the problem.

101. New Horizons in Presidential Dignity: President Obama does the "Shake Shack Shimmy" during his visit to the sandwich joint in Washington Friday May 17th 2014. Comment: No class.

102. May 17th 2014: Greater than Fifty million working-age Americans aren’t working, according to the labor department, and Obama pushes immigration plan. Comment: No comment.

103. "STINKBURGER"Comment: no idea what this is.

104. King Barry's "executive actions." Comment: When Obama did not get his way within the law and framework of Congress and the Constitution, he would just ignore existing laws and the Constitution and try to do whatever he wanted.

105. Russia signs a contract with Iran to build two more nuclear reactors at its Bushehr power plant as part of a broader deal for up to eight reactors in the Islamic state. Comment: Putin still laughing at Obama and the U.S. all the way to the bank.

106. New Record: Price of Gas Above $3 Gallon for 1,245 Days. Comment: Cannot ignore the numbers. See Keystone Pipeline discussion above.

107. Incomprehensible!! 5-30-14 ILLEGAL negotiation with terrorists: 5 gitmo Taliban terrorist leaders ILLEGALLY released for one American ARMY DESERTER: BOWE BERGDAHL. Comment: Adding insult to injury, Obama hosts the parents of the deserter Bergdahl in the White HOuse but ignores the families of those brave soldiers who died or who were wounded looking for deserter Bergdahl in Afghanistan.

108. Obama negotiates with terrorists to release an army deserter because "we can't leave an American behind" but does nothing for the Marine being detained illegally in Mexico, less than 1 mile away. Comment: Nice example of where Obama's priorities were, a deserter has precedence over a real soldier.

So, that should do it. Over 100 examples of real and potential scandals from the Obama administration. And it is not comprehensive since we already know that Obama signed the assassination orders to kill American citizens without due process, that he ignored a judicial ruling relative to oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, that when the rest of the world went to Paris to support France’s efforts to resist Islamic terrorism after the Paris terrorist attacks Obama stayed home, sending John Kerry and James Taylor afterwards to lamely sing “You Have A Friend,” he allowed his Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) to break the law by using a non-secure email server in her house, he allowed a top national security person (James Clapper ) to lie to Congress regarding Fourth Amendment violations, etc.

The biggest scandal was that the Obama Presidency was a total failure: morally, legally, economically, and patriotically.

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Yes, Barack,You Did Have Scandals, Part 2

Usually I reserve the early days of the month to review the latest political class insanity. Insane quotes, stupid actions, unlawful activities, the nonsense of the political class is usually grouped together early each month.

But let’s get an early start on June’s political class insanity. Barack Obama has been very quiet over the past few months, almost suspiciously quiet. My theory is that he is laying low given that there is a decent chance that he weaponized the nation’s Federal intelligence agencies and resources to spy on the Trump campaign. If he knew or allowed such despicable behavior to happen it would be an incredible affront to freedom and I suspect his lawyers are telling him to lay low and shut up.

But given the ego and narcissism of Obama, he cannot keep entirely quiet and humble. He dared to speak out recently when he proudly said that his administration had no scandals. We have already killed this fantasy in a series of posts beginning with the following post back in 2016:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2018/05/yes-barack-you-did-have-scandals-part-1.html

But let’s reminisce using a recent list of Obama’s “Lies, Scandals, and Quotes” that was recently printed by the Gateway Pundit website. Despite Obama’s delusion that he had no scandals, the Gateway Pundit came up with an amazing 108 things to dispute his view. Let’s review this insanity with Part 2 of additional comments that were not included in the original list from the Gateway Pundit (note: the first 31 points reviewed can be accessed at the following link: https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2018/05/yes-barack-you-did-have-scandals-part-1.html):

32. Still on vacation in Hawaii on the first day Obamacare is supposed to begin. Comment: Biggest piece of Washington legislation passed in decades, which unfortunately became the biggest failed piece of legislation in decades, and he cannot even be present at its onset to support it.

31. "ObamaCare will lower costs for everyone." Comment: No, Obama Care raised costs for just about everybody.

32. "More Americans will be insured under Obamacare" Comment: This was a true statement but those who got Obama Care insurance policies paid a lot of money for them with very high premiums and high deductibles, faced very narrow networks as far as doctors and hospitals and as a result ended with policies that were often useless or unusable.

33. "Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance….Muslims are our friends" (then he bows to the muslim leaders). Comment: Then why, according to a 2016 study, were the 450 of the 452 major terrorist attacks in 2015 attributed to Islamic terrorism?

34. “That’s the good thing about being President, I can do whatever I want,” Comment: Which you proved dozens of times when you broke the law, violated the Constitution, and shredded the Bill of Rights.

35. "My father served in WW2.: Comment: So did mine.

36. 2011 Arab spring FAIL. Comment: Do not know what this means.

37. America's 2010 Summer of recovery FAIL. Comment: I assume this refers to the most anemic economic recovery this country has seen in about hundred years, an anemic economic recovery that was not limited to the single year of 2010.

38. Hiring a known Palestinian terrorist to work on Obamacare in Illinois. Didn't bother to check her on e-verify. Comment: no aware of this incident.

39. “I promise 100% transparency in my administration.” Comment: Then why did you hound and harass journalists, redact government documents, and make it often impossible for citizens to easily and cheaply use their Freedom of Information Act rights?

40. "Buying health care insurance will be like using Amazon." Comments: Turns out this could not have been further from the truth, buying health care on the Obama Health Care exchange was harder than doing a root canal on yourself.

41. “I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year.” Comment: Not aware this ever happened.

42. "I will bring ALL of our troops home within ONE year."Nope, took a lot longer.

43. “I’ll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so everyone can see who is at the table!” Comment: Never happened, Obama Care negotiations were done behind closed doors with industry lobbyists, never to see the light of day.

44. “I’ll have no lobbyists in my administration." Comment: Ah, yeah, you did.

45. DOJ spying on the free press telephone calls. Comment: Spying was not restricted to the press, it involved just about every American.

46. Blocking veterans from seeing their own WWII memorials during shutdown. Comment: And yet the military golf course Obama played regularly somehow stayed open during the shutdown.

47. Allowing illegals to protest on mall during the same govt shutdown. Comment: Not aware of this incident.

48. Shutting down White House (people's house) tours. Comment: See golf course comment above.

49. Solyndra bankruptcy cost to taxpayers. Comment: Hundreds of millions of dollars lost, an amount that was higher than legally required once the Obama administration put political donors ahead of the American taxpayer during the bankruptcy proceedings.

50. "Obamacare will not be used to fund abortions." Comment: Ah, I believe it was used to fund abortions.

51. Eric Holder -- tooooo much to list with this liar-incompetent. Comment: After lying to Congress and running any number of illegal operations, e.g. Fast and Furious, Obama protected him from any legal and penal ramifications.

52. Millions losing health care coverage. Comment: Despite Obama promising over and over that if you like your current health insurance coverage you could keep it, millions lost their coverage.

53. RECORD welfare rolls. Comment: Again, one of the most if not the most anemic economic recovery ever.

54. RECORD Hollywood parties on the taxpayer's dime. Comment: not aware of this situation.

55. RECORD campaign tours on the taxpayer's dime. Comments: Record number of campaign tours, record number of vacations, and the most Presidential rounds of golf since Eisenhower.

56. RECORD exorbitant vacations on the taxpayer's dime. Comment: At least $100 million in taxpayer expense spent on Obama family vacations.

57. RECORD number of golf games of any president, on taxpayer's dime. Comment: I believe the count was over 300 rounds of golf during his eight years despite his promise that he would forgo any and all vacations and leisure time if elected President.

58. RECORD secret service agents compared to ANY other president, on the taxpayer's dime. Comment: not aware of this situation.

59. Unconstitutional Obama recess appointment. Comment: Which I believe the courts struck down as being illegal.

60. Taking all credit for SEAL Team 6 success. Comment: Of course he did because he is so wonderful.

61. Forcing businesses to violate their abortion religious beliefs with Obamacare. Comment: another Obama attempt to shred the First Amendment which generally failed to work because of court rulings.

62. Obamacare website no-bid contract website-cronyism that cost $634M to build (and the website NEVER worked). Comment: I believe an old college friend of Michelle Obama was given the contract without competitive bidding and which failed miserably and expensively.

63. Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists with arms and money in Syria, on the taxpayer's dime. Comment: Too many tentacles and unknowns to comment but there was certainly something going which likely got four Americans killed at Benghazi.

64. NSA acting as Obama Gestapo, spying in ALL AMERICAN telephone calls. Comment: Shredding the Fourth Amendment.

65. Proposed amnesty for illegal law breakers. More law breaking by his administration.

66. Spying on Americans, on American soil, with drones. Comment: not aware of this situation but not surprised.

67. NEVER having a balanced budget. Comment: Not ever coming within miles of a balanced budget - first administration to have an annual budget deficit of over a trillion dollars, first administration to have four consecutive budget deficits over a trillion dollars and an administration that created a budget deficit almost equal to ALL previous Presidential administration budget deficits COMBINED.

68. CONSTANTLY contracting economy under Obama. Comment: He did not have constantly contracting economic growth during his administration but the economic growth that did occur was the most anemic in generations.

That i will do it for today, another 37 situations that are either unlawful, disgusting, outright lies or scandalous, bringing our two day discussion to 68. Sorry, Barack, it is not looking good for that “no scandals” statement, we still have another 40 items to review.

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Yes Barack, You Did Have Scandals, Part 1

Usually I reserve the early days of the month to review the latest political class insanity. Insane quotes, stupid actions, unlawful activities, the nonsense of the political class is usually grouped together early each month.

But let’s get an early start on June’s political class insanity. Barack Obama has been very quiet over the past few months, almost suspiciously quiet. My theory is that he is laying low given that there is a decent chance that he weaponized the nation’s Federal intelligence agencies and resources to spy on the Trump campaign. If he knew or allowed such despicable behavior to happen it would be an incredible affront to freedom and I suspect his lawyers are telling him to lay low and shut up.

But given the ego and narcissism of Obama, he cannot keep entirely quiet and humble. He dared to speak out recently when he proudly said that his administration had no scandals. We have already killed this fantasy in a series of posts beginning with the following post back in 2016:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-1-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

But let’s reminisce using a recent list of Obama’s “Lies, Scandals, and Quotes” that was recently printed by the Gateway Pundit website. Despite Obama’s delusion that he had no scandals, the Gateway Pundit came up with an amazing 108 things to dispute his view. Let’s review this insanity with some additional comments that were not included in the original list from the Gateway Pundit:

1. "I will have the most transparent administration." Comment: And yet his administration blocked, delayed and redacted more Freedom of Information Act requests than any previous administration. In fact, his administration actually tried to charge the Associated press for information they requested under the law, a completely illegal delaying maneuver.

2. "I have shovel ready jobs." Comment: one of Obama’s lies or false promises, he sold his failed economic stimulus program by saying that his stimulus program funds be used on big public works projects that were ready to go, “shovel ready,” Turns out that most, if not all, of the $800 billion were not spent on important public work projects, most of that taxpayer wealth was wasted on incredibly stupid non-stimulating projects.

3. "The IRS is not targeting anyone." Comment: Ah, yes they are. Congressional investigations and testimony from everyday Americans showed that Obama had indeed weaponized the IRS to prevent non-Democrats from exercising their First Amendment rights.

4. "If four Americans get killed…uh…. it is not optimal." (Benghazi) Comment: I am sure that the families and friends of those that were abandoned by Obama and Clinton in Libya would agree that their unnecessary deaths was “not optimal.” How cold hearted is that?

5. "ObamaCare will be good for America." Comment: it is good for America only if you think that millions of people losing access to their preferred doctors, hospitals, and insurance plans is good, if you think that paying higher and higher premiums and deductibles is good, if you think adding to the soaring national debt is good without reducing health care costs is good, if you think exposing your personal identity information to identity thieves is good, and crashing the Medicaid program is good. Obama Care is not good.

6. "If you like your doctor, you can keep him, period." Comment: Millions lost access to their preferred healthcare options, period.

7. "Premiums will be lowered by $2500." Comment: Health care costs went up and up for millions with very few, if any American families, ever seeing this mythical $2,500 savings.

8. "If you like your health insurance, you can keep it, period." Comment: Millions lost access to their preferred healthcare options, period.

9. "I did not say you could keep your health care." (Regardless that 29 recorded videos show I did). Comment: Yes you did, dozens of times.

10. "No one making less than $250,000 will see their taxes raised one dime." Comment: Just about everyone making less than $250,000 saw their taxes go up.

11. "Benghazi was because of a Youtube video." Comment: No it was not, it was caused by Islamic terrorists.

12. "If I had a son…" Comment: No Comment.

13. "I am not a dictator." Comment: And yet you unilaterally changed laws dozens of times, particularly when it came to Obama Care, without the consent of Congress or American voters.

14. "I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds division, conflict and cynicism." Comment: And yet he told a Latino audience that they needed to “punish their enemies,” he told a White House Easter Prayer Breakfast that Christians were hateful, he said his grandmother was “a typical white person,” i.e. a typical white person is a racist.

15. "You didn't build that." Comment: an insult to every American business owner who risked money, time, and resources to build their business into a successful enterprise.

16. "I will restore trust in Government." Comment: confidence and trust in government are at historic lows according to unbiased polling organizations.

17. "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." Comment: And yet Obama hosted a “beer summit” shortly afterwards once he realized that the Cambridge police had acted professionally and non-racially.

18. "I am not after your guns." Comment: No American liberal/Democrat ever meant that to be a true statement.

19. "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure." (Senator Obama in 2006) Comment: And over the next decade President Obama almost doubled the national debt, adding a mind numbing almost $10 TRILLION to the national debt, making his Presidency a “leadership failure.”

20. "I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics." Comment: Nice sensitivity towards those less fortunate than himself.

21. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Comment: let’s tax the hell out of most about everyone since it will give us more control over their lives.

22. "The Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk". Comment: Never happened.

23. "It's not my red line it is the world's red line." Comment: No, it is your red line, as it applies to Syria’s use of chemical weapons, video proof is available.

24. "Whistleblowers will be protected." Comment: I believe that the Obama administration went after more government whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. Not great protection.

25. "We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks, with interest." Comment: maybe yes, maybe no, depending how you measure payback.

26. "I will close Gitmo." (Guantanamo) Comment: Hey, Gitmo is still open.

27. "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't, -- but she is a typical white person." Comment: see above reference to this racist statement.

28. "I am not spying on American citizens." Comment: It was eventually found out that his administration was sweeping up just about every electronic communication of every American without due process or court warrant, shredding the Fourth Amendment in the process.

30. Nelson Mandela funeral smart-phone "selfies". Comment: Classy, taking selfies while joking around at a funeral.

31. Government shutdown is all the GOP's fault. Comment: No, it was the fault of everyone in Washington, a dysfunctional group of people in both parties that never resolve any issue or problem and yet get rich in the process.

That will do it for today, 31 situations that are either unlawful, disgusting, outright lies or scandalous. Sorry, Barack, it is not looking good for that “no scandals” statement, we still have another 69 items to review.

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May,2018, Part, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: A Broken Mediciad System, Higher Costs and Lower Quality, and Trump's Simple Yet Elegant Solution

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and copays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care., To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

1) In our last Obama Care disaster post, we discussed the reality of ow Obama Care has led to the destruction and heartbreak of the Medicaid program. By overwhelming the Medicaid program with able bodied Obama Care patients, perhaps upwards of 21,000 American Medicaid patients died as they waited on Medicaid waiting lists to get the health care they desperately needed. Thus, a program (Obama Care) that was supposed t5o make Americans healthier actually hastened the death of at least some folks.

But a National Review article recently listed out the ways that Medicaid could be fixed to actually serve those it was originally designed for (the disabled, the blind, the elderly poor, etc.) and not be a dumping ground for Obama Care abled-bodied adults:

• States that expanded Medicaid under Obama Care should stop wasting limited resources on able bodied adults coming into the program under Obama Care.
• Current enrollees would be able to stay on Medicaid but would be rolled off once their incomes rise enough to exceed Medicaid’s income thresholds, freeing up more resources for the truly needy.
• One way of stopping new states from expanding Medicaid to able bodied adults would be to eliminate the funding that these additionally able bodied adults would get from the Federal taxpayer, i.e. if a state wanted to expand Medicaid then that state and its taxpayers would pick up the entire tab.
• Medicaid rules should be changed to force able bodied adults currently on Medicaid to get a job to reduce the government’s cost of Medicaid for these able bodied adults.
• Anti-fraud efforts should be stepped up to recover and prevent the billions of Medicaid dollars lost every year to fraud and criminal activity within the program.
• For example, a recent inspector general report found that Federal taxpayers spent definitely more than $628 million on about 366,000 ineligible Medicaid recipients just in California alone and just in California’s Obama Care expansion alone. 
• Imagine how much more waste goes on across the country if $628 million exists solely in a fraction of California’s Medicaid population.
• But the California situation is likely worse since that same report found that another 70.055 California Obama Care expansion Medicaid patients were “potentially ineligible” which could cost taxpayers upwards of another $402 million, meaning that a billion dollars in waste in just a subset of California Medicaid patients.
• Maybe some of that wasted billion dollars could have saved the 384 California Medicaid patients that died while on the waiting list for medical care in that state.

What a mess that can be fixed but which Obama and Obama Care never cared about fixing. It is like they took a broken down, 50 year old pick up truck that was designed to two two tons and decided it could tow 4 tons without any new enhancements to it. As a result, the program wastes more taxpayer money than ever, it provides a low level of medical care, and it has helped kill upwards of 21,000 Americans. Truly an unfolding disaster.

2) David Thornton, writing for the Maven website recently explained how as we get closer and closer to the 2019 Obama Care sign up season, costs for Obama Care policies, as they do every year, are going to jump up again in cost:

• The state of Maryland is one of the first states that has proposed new insurance rates for 2019 available and those rates for Obama Care like individual insurance policies are seeing an average rate increase request from insurance companies of a whopping 32%.
• The proposed increases for the state range from 18% to 91%.
• And as always, insurance policy customers, both Obama Care policies,and employer policies, will show higher deductibles and co-pays going forward into 2019 despite the many promises Obama made about Obama Care “bending the cost curve” or a typical American family saving upwards of $2,500 a year on their insurance costs.
• This last point was highlighted by a real life example of the writer: “There are also hidden limitations that you only find out about when you have a claim. As an example, my wife had to go to the hospital in an ambulance last year. Six months after her hospital stay, we received a bill from the ambulance service asking us to pay more than $4,000 for a 30-minute ride. When I followed up with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, our insurance company, I was told that the ambulance service was out-of-network. When I pressed further, I found that Blue Cross did not have any ambulance providers in their network in the entire state of Texas. As a result, Blue Cross paid less than $1,000 on a total claim of more than $5,000.”

Higher costs, lower quality, the hallmarks of Obama Care.

3) Let’s finish up with a good news/bad news Obama Care situation:

• According to a recent Breitbart article by Rhona White, a recent study from Avalere Health estimated that 3.2 million Americans will drop their Obama Care policies in the coming years.
• This is good news because of an executive order Donald Trump signed that made it easier for people to get better and less expensive health insurance coverage from so-called Association Health Plans (AHP).
• An AHP is a health insurance plan that is sponsored and populated by people in an industry, trade, or professional association that pools their buying power to negotiate and get better health insurance costs from insurance companies.
• According to Dan Mendelson, president of Avalere Health, “Consumers are always looking for a new low-cost health insurance option but migration of healthy people to a new product will ultimately take a toll on what is presently being sold in the market.”
• The Avalere study estimates that those that drop Obama Care policies and join an AHP insurance poll will save about $9,700 a year on average vs. a policy they could get in the private insurance market.\
• So the good news is that millions of Americans will save thousands and thousands of dollars a year in insurance costs. The bad news, according to Chris Sloan, senior manager at Avalere, “The proposed rule would lead to millions of individuals and small businesses shifting into a new form of coverage, likely reducing their premiums, but leading to higher premiums in the markets they leave behind.” 

That means that there will be fewer and fewer Obama Care policy holders which will put pressure on the insurance companies to raise rates over as smaller and likely less healthy base which will drive more people out of Obama Care policies which will cause the insurance companies to raise rates….and the Obama Care death spiral continues.

All of which raises a good point: why didn’t Obama just do this eight years ago, allowing people to more easily join an AHP? It may have allowed millions and millions of Americans to get lower cost health insurance many years ago without all of the hassles, bureaucracy, and failures of Obama Care? Another example where government and politicians’ “solutions” made a bad situation worse.

That will do it for the unfolding disasters of Obama Care for this month: a Medicaid system in much need of reform, higher healthcare costs and lower quality, and a simple solution that Obama Care completely missed. More next month as the disasters keep on coming.

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May, 2018, Part 1, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: Adding To The National Debt and Fatal Medicaid Waiting Lists

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and copays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care., To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

1) One of the many lies Obama told us about Obama Care was that it would not add “a single dime” to the national debt. Given the hundreds of other times he lied during his administration, it should not be s surprise that this was a big fat lie also:

• According to a recent Tim Brown article on the Freedom Outpost website, the Federal government will spend $685 billion just in 2018 and that number will grow to $1.2 TRILLION by 2028.
• These figures come from the latest analysis from the Congressional Budget office.
• Other interesting forecasts and another indication of Obama Care’s failure, the CBO says that in 2018, about 244 million Americans under the age of 65 will have health insurance while 29 million will not and that by 2028, only 243 million will have health insurance and 35 million will, thus killing Obama’s promise that ALL Americans will get health insurance coverage under Obama Care.
• The Federal payment for health care will grow from 3.4% of GDP in 2018 to 3.9% in 2028, killing another Obama Obama Care promise that this legislation would “bend the cost curve” downward which it obviously is not doing.
• Just the Medicare expansion within Obama Care will require an additional $842 billion in Federal taxpayer subsides vs. what would have been required without Obama Care by 2028.

How do you count the number of ways Obama Care failed? Some days it is really hard to count that high.

2) Part of Obama Care was to loosen the requirements for people to get healthcare insurance and coverage under Medicaid. Medicaid originally was supposed to be reserved for the poor, disabled, the blind, the elderly, and the really truly needy in our country. Along comes Obama Care and those truly needy people are joined by millions of other fully functional, not as poor people, as reported by a recent Nicholas Horton National Review article:

• While Medicaid was designed to be a safety net only for the truly needy in our society, Obama Care overwhelmed the system by adding almost 13 million not truly needy people to Medicaid roles.
• This caused there to be more able bodied Americans being served by Medicaid than truly needy Americans being served by Medicaid, a complete bastardization of the process and original intent.
• This overwhelming of the Medicaid system has resulted in at least 21,904 Americans dying while on Medicaid waiting lists since Obama Care expanded eligibility, according to a recent analysis by the Foundation for Government Accountability.
• Thus, Obama Care, which was designed to save lives, was designed so poorly that it has resulted in the incremental deaths of potentially over 21,000 Americans.
• The article explains more fully what is happening: “To put a finer point on it: Expansion states have chosen to spend tens of billions of their dollars on non-disabled adults instead of helping those on the waiting list. They’ve chosen to further strain the safety net by adding nearly 13 million more adults to welfare instead of helping people with traumatic brain injuries and other serious disabilities get the care they need. And we now know that at least 21,904 of these needy individuals have died before ever getting those services.”

As often happens, a government program that is supposed to fix a problem actually makes it far worse, i.e. Obama Care was supposed to make people healthier but in this case made waiting lists longer and increased the fatality rate of those on waiting lists.

That will do it for today.Huge incremental costs from the Obama Care while still leaving almost 30 million Americans without healthcare insurance many years after the legislation was enacted. A Medicaid problem that has been overwhelmed by Obama Care that has resulted in long waiting lists for Medicaid patients needing medical treatment, delays that potentially have already killed upwards of 21,000 people. Broken promises, higher costs, dead Americans, the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. More to follow.

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May, 2018: Why I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.”This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) The Joe For America website recently did a review of all of the research and scientists that has come out that show that global warming never really existed or stopped long ago:

• According to the author of the article, Scott Osborn on April 7, 2018, “Over the last few years, global warming has taken a strong hit as proof of serious data manipulation has surfaced, and now scientists are coming out of the closet everywhere showing true data that man-made climate change never even existed. Hundreds of scientists involved in a plethora of recent scientific papers are admitting that the scare about global warming is based on hysteria and false science.”
• In 2018 alone, 46 peer reviewed research reports have been published to debunk the global warming theory.
• During 2017, 150 graphs taken from 122 research papers were also published in peer reviewed publications which showed that current Earth temperatures are not unusual relative to history, i.e. they do not “fall outside the range of natural variability.”
• The Global Warming Policy Forum explains that the contemporary warming of the 20th century “does not stand out in the 2500-year perspective” and is “of the same magnitude as the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Climate Anomaly.”
• Global warming is not an issue according to a number of research reports including McGowan et al., 2018, Northern Alaska (Hanna et al., 2018), the Tibetan Plateau (Li et al., 2018), South Korea (Song et al., 2018), Antarctica (Mikis, 2018), to cite just a few among dozens of others.
• Global warming advocates often point to Greenland as being the leading indicator of worldwide global warming but a study by Mikkelsen et al., 2018 shows that Greenland temperatures going back over 150 years are lower now than they were in the 1930s.
• In fact, another study, Westergaard-Nielsen et al., 2018, examined the most recent and detailed trends based on MODIS (2001–2015) and concluded that if there is any general trend for Greenland it is “mostly cooling”.
• The article republishes some graphs of historical temperatures over many decades and the result is always the same: no big deal going on relative to global warming:

 

• A study by Cerrone and Fusco, 2018 found a large increase in the south pole sea ice and that south pole cooling has been going on since the 1990s.

More reasons why it is perfectly sane to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

2) Libertarian journalist, John Stossel, writing for the Constitutional News Network website on march 20, 2018, pointed out the joke that the Paris Climate Agreement was:

• As most know, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the agreement, that was never legally binding since Obama was too lazy to get Senate approval of the agreement as required by the Constitution, and correctly calling the agreement a “massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries.”
• Of course, people like Al Gore, Barack Obama, and other global warming advocates went crazy to see the country pull out of their supposedly Earth saving agreement.
• But we know now, even admitted by people like Al Gore, that the agreement would not have done if anything to curtail global warming, assuming that it even exists.
• Manhattan Institute senior fellow Oren Cass actually read the Paris accord and concluded it was so bad that it landed “somewhere between a farce and a fraud.” 
• He went to state that the to get the accord, “They stapled it together and held it up and said, ‘This is amazing!'”
• And while Obama and John Kerry along with their cohorts in the mainstream press claimed that India and China, major greenhouse gas producers were also sacrificing, that was a big lie: “They [China and India] either pledged to do exactly what they were already going to do anyway, or pledged even less. China, for instance said, ‘we pledge to reach peak emission by about 2030.’ Well, the United States government had already done a study to guess when Chinese emissions would peak, and their guess was about 2030.”
• Even more comical was Pakistan which promised that after it reached an undefined peak in the undefined future, it would then begin to reduce emissions and undefined amount.
• According to Case, the U.S. as represented by Obama, was the only country that was serious about reducing this country’s greenhouse gas emissions (by 26%), killing off U.S. economy while the rest of the world committed to nothing and intended to do nothing.

Solving a problem that does not exist, way to go Barack.

3) Up until about 20 years ago the Earth’s temperature had been rising slowly. However, as we have shown and a multitude of scientists have shown, in the past two decades there has been absolutely minimal if any, global warming. This flattening out of the trend showed that all of the gloom and doom forecasts of global warming advocates were incredibly wrong and thus held no value in supporting what was becoming a myth, global warming.

But indeed, there was warming up until twenty years ago or so. While global warming alarmists said this was a horrible, horrible trend, there are some other scientists who observed that that long ago global warming might have actually been a good thing:

• According to a recent article on the Constitution website, Robert Murphy, an economist with the Institute For Energy Research, says that higher temperatures have resulted in better harvests and fewer elderly deaths in the winter.
• Murphy claims that one of the major climate forecast models, the FUND model, and the model Obama used to establish a “social cost of carbon” showed that global warming actually had a net positive benefit, “showed global warming was a net positive through about 3 degrees Celsius of warming — a full degree higher than what the U.N. considers “dangerous.”
• Environmental economist Richard Tol’s work concluded that global warming, at least short term, would provide a net benefit to society and humanity: “Tol’s paper examined projections from 27 models and found net benefits from “initial warming,” then net costs to society after that. Tol said net costs appear around 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — that could be 40 to 50 years away.”
• Tol also concluded that, “Plants grow faster and tolerate drought better if there is more carbon dioxide in the air.” 
• Satellite data shows that the world has greened up over the past few decades which many researchers attribute to extra carbon dioxide being in the air: “Scientists on the CO2 Coalition, a nonprofit, publicly argue that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations are more of a benefit than a burden. One of their members, scientist Craig Idso, has catalogued a slew of studies pointing to the benefits of more atmospheric CO2.”

So in essence, we are living in the best possible scenario from a climate perspective. The warming that did exist but which stopped growing about twenty years ago boosting farm and foliage growth. But it not get so high that it has caused catastrophic climate conditions on the Earth which means that we do not need any kind of international agreement on climate change control and that Trump was right to pull us out of it for the many reasons listed above. Hopefully no, based on all of the science and the realities we now know, people like Al Gore will please just ...go….away.

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