The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama, Part 1: The LIes and Deceptions

We are going to spend the next week or so reviewing the performance and results of the Obama administration from a number of different perspectives. We will be covering some new ground besides reposting some previous reviews in different areas that we have done on this administration.

I will be honest upfront and tell you that I see very little positive coming out of this administration. I believe, based on the discussion that we will have over the next week or so, that this is the most inept, corrupt, illegal, and dysfunctional Presidential administration in my lifetime, worse even than the Carter administration. General categories of incompetence include the following broad categories:

• Promises not kept or that were originally never meant to be kept and were just deceptions from the start.
• Government functions that are dysfunctional, obese, inefficient, and ineffective but very expensive from a taxpayer perspective.
• Constitutional violations that are widespread and destructive.
• Law breaking by many different members of this administration that are widespread and destructive.
• Government spending that is out of control, threatening the fundamental existence of this country's economy and democracy.
• Major issues that have not been addressed in any strategic or tactical way, e.g. failing public education, leaky borders, a lost war on drugs, crumbling infrastructure, etc.
• A Presidential leadership team that would rather play golf, attend political fund raisers, appear in nonsensical videos, host athletic teams, and take worldwide and expensive vacations but not resolve ANY issue facing the country.

Now, before any readers get crazy partisan and start accusing me of a hatchet job, consider the following:

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life.
• Up until 2010, I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life (I am over 60 years old).
• Most of my votes through the decades for local, county, and state offices have not been Republican.

Thus, by no stretch of the imagination am a anti-Obama because I am a Republican. I am an American who has looked at the facts and realities of this Presidency, facts and realities that we will lay out over the next week, and have come to the conclusion that this has been the worst, most secretive, most ineffective, most destructive, and most illegal Presidential administration my lifetime and possibly in the country’s lifetime. As someone recently said, the Obama Presidency is a Presidency that Nixon aspired to from a corruption and illegality perspective, certainly not a compliment.

Today we will focus on the multitude of broken promises and lies and/or deceptions that this President has personally spouted out over the past six years. If he had complied with the following promises he would have gone down as a great President. Since he complied with none of them, often acting illegally, unilaterally, and un-Constitutionally, doing the exact opposite of what he promised, he has to go down as the most deceitful Presidency in a very long time.

We will focus on the false biggest promises, lies, and deceptions of this Presidency, culminating with the most blatant lie that recently arose, based on the celebration of the famous Selma, Alabama civil rights march that occurred 50 years ago in 1965. Remember that date, 1965, it is critical to to the unmasking of the lie.

First, the biggest lies and broken promises the first six years of this administration:

1. Obama promised if you liked your doctor you can keep your doctor under Obama Care. But millions couldn’t.
2. Obama promised if you liked your hospital you can keep your hospital under Obama Care. But millions couldn’t.
3. Obama promised if you like your current insurance policy, you can keep your insurance policy under Obama Care. But millions couldn’t.
4. Obama promised that it would a simple, easy process to obtain health insurance coverage via Obama Care’s online exchanges. But this process turned out to be a total meltdown disaster. 
5. Obama promised that Obama Care would not add a single dime to the national debt. But Obama Care could add upwards of a trillion dollars to the national debt.
6. Obama promised the average U.S. household will see their annual health insurance costs go down up to $2,500 a year under Obama Care. But costs, premiums and deductibles, almost always went higher under Obama Care.
7. Obama promised that his budgets would cut deficits by 50%. But his budgets created record setting trillion dollars annual deficits for years.
8. Obama promised he would close the prisoner detention center at Guantanamo. But he didn’t.
9. Obama promised he would operate the most transparent administration of all time. But he ended up operating the most secretive of all time.
10. Obama promised that if elected President he would give up his free time and vacations and dedicate his time and life to serving America. But he has set records for the number of golf rounds played and campaign fundraising events attended in addition taking his family on exotic vacations around the world.
11. Obama promised that he did not want to pit Red America against Blue America and wanted to be the President of the United States of America. But he then went ridiculed those that "cling to their guns and bibles,” typical red state stereotypes.
12. Obama promised that there were shovel ready projects across the country around the country just dying to get their hands on his economic stimulus funding. But no discernible shovel ready jobs were ever identified or created.
13. Obama promised he would not use national security letters to spy on citizens who were not suspected of a crime. But he allowed the NSA and other government entities to spy on just about every U.S. citizens’ electronic communications without cause or a warrant.
14. Obama promised to revisit the Patriot Act and overturn un-Constitutional executive decisions issued during the Bush administration. But he signed legislation to renew the Patriot Act, rescinded few if any Bush executive actions, and allowed the Federal government to greatly increase its snooping on Americans without cause.
15. Obama promised that Federal contracts over $25,000 would be competitively bid. But he then allowed the company of his wife’s friend to build the failed Obama Care Federal exchange website without competitively bidding.
16. Obama promised he would reject sweeping claims of inherent Presidential power. But he then proceeded to dare Congress to stop the use of his “phone and pen” and abuse of Constitutional power and illegal executive decisions.’
17. He promised to eliminate any income tax burdens for seniors earning less than $50,000 a year. But then made no changes to the tax code to accomplish such a giveaway.
18. Obama promised not to sign any non-emergency bill without allowing the American public a five day window to review and comment on the pending legislation. But he then signed the Obama Care legislation without even allowing much of Congress, never mind the American public, to read it and understand it, giving rise to the infamous Nancy Pelosi quote that even Congress had to pass the legislation to know what was in it.
19. Obama promised not to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. But he illegally, unilaterally, and un-Constitutionally entered the U.S. into the Libyan civil war that has resulted in a new terrorist haven in the Middle East and led to the murder of four Americans at the Benghazi consulate.
20. Obama promised to bring the nation together and not accept politics that breeds division and conflict. But he then stood silent as his political allies and supporters proceeded to call anyone and any citizen who held different views from his administration racists, terrorists, Ku Klux KLan members, and other slurs.
21. Obama promised to “ solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States.” But he then proceeded to unilaterally and illegally act in so many ways to ignore or shred the very tenets of the Constitution that he swore to uphold.

Quite the list of infamy. But a recent deception or lie belongs on this list, one that recently came to light in the context of the 1965 Selma, Alabama civil rights march. First, consider the exact words form an Obama speech in 2007 as he was ramping up his run for the Presidency:

“This young man named Barack Obama [Barack Obama Sr., the current President’s father] got one of those tickets [to study in the U.S.], and he met this woman who’s great-great-great-great grandfather had owned saves.”

“But she had a different idea. There’s some good craziness going on, because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that in the world that it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. But something’s stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together… Barack Obama, Jr. was born.

“So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama. I’m here because somebody marched for our freedom. I’m here because somebody marched for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants.” 

The actual videotape of this speech can be accessed at:

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/03/265964-flashback-obamas-last-selma-speech-claimed-1965-event-led-1961-conception/?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9&listID=%7BlistID%7D

So the President claims that the 1965 civil rights march inspired and gave hope to his mother and father, so much so that his birth was a result of their inspiration. But we have a little problem with reality here.You see, according to every resource I can find, our current President was born in 1961, FOUR years BEFORE the historic civil rights march in Selma. Thus, there is no way, short of time travel, that his parents were inspired to have a child because of the march, making his speech and claim in 2007 either an outright lie or he has a terrible mind for math and reality.

Not a big deal in itself but when put in the context of many other lies, a travesty and insult to our intelligence, we start to see a pattern of deceit. Why would we believe anything this man says, given his track record of being out of integrity? And if a leader has followers that cannot trust him, then he is not a leader at all, he is just a house of cards without substance and without integrity. Without substance, without integrity, the cornerstones of this Presidency.

More over the next week as we look at this failing Presidency from a number of new and previously covered angles.

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March, 2014, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care, Part 5: Missing Every Target Imaginable, The First Insurer Bailout Is On Record and More

This is the fifth post this month relative to the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care, as we slog our way through the never ending nightmares that this legislation spawns. The first in this month’s update can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/03/march-2014-unfolding-disaster-that-is.html

Today’s disasters start now:

1) Theoretically, if you do not have health insurance coverage by the end of this month, you are supposed to pay a fine for being so negligent of Obama Care’s tenets and PR campaign. As we discussed earlier this week, this is really a shadow/faux deadline since the President recently, unilaterally, and un-Constitutionally decided that if you have any kind of self-determined “hardship” you can exempt yourself from this requirement. 

This is a new concept in government, self exempting yourself from a Federal law without proof. When we first reviewed this idiotic action by the President, we fantazied of exempting ourselves from other Federal laws, specifically the law that requires me to pay Federal income tax. I doubt the President would allow me to flaunt that law even though he is flaunting his own pet piece of legislation and the tenets it laid down.

However, the penalty is still on the books and the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that from 2015 to 2024, the mandate penalty, which the Supreme Court ruled is essentially a tax, could cost Americans upwards of $51 billion. The irony and hypocrisy here is another broken promise/lie that came directly from the President’s mouth: the Obama Care legislation promised not to raise taxes on the middle class. Another promise broken because you can bet that the vast majority of people that end up paying this penalty, or tax, will come from the middle class and lower class.

Adding insult to injury, this administration thinks we are too stupid to realize this is another Federal tax. In pure Orwellian, and “1984” misspeak, the administration does not call this a tax, they call it the “shared responsibility payment.” If it smells like a tax, the Supreme Court calls it a tax, if it hurts to pay it like a tax, it is still a tax. 

2) How many times over the past three years did the President utter these words or similar words:

“No matter how we reform healthcare, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.”

This turned out to be one of the President’s biggest lies or deceptions. Millions of Americans have lost access to their current and preferred health insurance policies, their preferred doctors, and their preferred hospitals, all as a result of Obama Care. White House and other government documents prove that this administration and the writers of the legislation knew that tens of millions of Americans would lose access to their current health insurance and medical situations years ago but said nothing. Or even worse, lied about the reality.

But in the second example of showing how stupid this administration thinks we are, one of their favorite press representatives, Dan Pfeiffer, was recently on Meet the Press where he insisted that Obama Care was not causing millions of Americans to lose access to their doctors. It was the health insurance companies that were causing the lost access. 

Come oneMr. Pfeiffer, never in the history of the country have millions of Americans lost access to their preferred doctors in such a short time. Is it just a coincidence that the first time happened as Obama Care rolled out and that Obama Care had nothing to do with it? 

Please, do not insult our intelligence with such idiocy. If you are going to lie, at least make it believable whether it is lying about lost doctor access or telling us a tax is not a tax. Your lack of creativity in you PR deceptions are boring and insulting to us. 

3) On March 13, 2014, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the House of Representatives Ways and Means committee that nobody knows how many Obama Care enrollees have actually paid their Obama Care health insurance premium bills. Yes, in another epic screw up by the people that put the information systems specs together for Obama Care, no one seemed to think that actually counting the number of people that actually sign up for and pay forObama Care policies was important.

But as always, Kathleen Sebelius, the point person in this administration on operationalizing Obama Care had a lame excuse: “People are buying a product in the private market. As soon as we have accurate information, we will give it to you. But we do not currently have information about how many people have paid.”

Unbelievable that they do not have any way to count how successful or unsuccessful they are. As we discussed previously, can you imagine the Chairman of Amazon going to his Board of Directors and telling them that he knows how many people put products in their Amazon virtual shopping cart but he has no idea how many of those items in the shopping cart were actually paid for. He would be fired on the spot for incompetence.

The administration does think it knows that 4.2 million Americans have signed up for Obama Care insurance policies through the health insurance exchanges. But they do not know 1) how many of them were previously uninsured, 2) how many of them were younger and healthier, a requirement for the Obama Care financial model to work, and 3) we now know they have no clue how many have actually paid for their Obama Care policies. These are basic data collection processes that should have been primary specs in the website development. 

The bad news for the administration and the legislation is that a recent Mckinsey survey found out three things:

1. The percentage of people signing up for Obama Care policies that are younger and likely healthier (27%) is substantially below the threshold (40%) the administration says it needs for the legislation to be financially viable = bad news.
2. Of people signing up for Obama Care policies in the survey, only 27% of them were previously uninsured which implies that Obama Care is doing a bad job of hitting its target market (the previously uninsured) = bad news
3. The percentage of people in the survey who said they signed up for Obama Care policies AND were previously uninsured (27%) AND have paid for those policies was 13%, implying that less than half of those that signed up for Obama Care insurance policies actually followed through and actually paid for them = bad news.

If these survey estimates are valid, and given the high quality reputation of McKinsey as a consulting and marketing firm they probably are close to reality, this says that quite possibly less than half of the 4.2 million people that have signed up for Obama Care policies have actually followed through and purchased those policies. 

This puts the real number of Obama Care insured Americans not at 4.2 million or so but closer to about 2 million or so, far short of their 7 million goal by March 31, 2014.

5) And the McKinsey estimates might indeed be true, based on some early real life experiences of a major health care insurer. Kentucky base Humana insurance has indicated that it will ask for a payment of $450 million out of the Obama Care insurer back up fund to cover losses it anticipates on Obama Care policy holders.

It seems that Humana is already realizing that the Obama Care effort is severely missing its target mix of customers, not providing enough younger, healthier customers to offset the higher percentage of generally older and sicker customers coming across from the Obama Care health exchanges. 

Thus, it looks like McKinsey is right on this point and if they are right on the other points, Obama Care is not hitting its target market, its target enrollment estimate, and its target mix. In baseball that’s three strikes….and you’re out.

And we are out for today. More disasters to review, at least through tomorrow.

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January, 2014 The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care, Part 1: The Top Ten Broken Promises

Every month since August, 2013 we have had to devote many posts each month to the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. It is a piece of legislation that continues to rain down horror, fear, expenses, and negative health impacts on millions of Americans. It is easily the worst piece of legislation ever enacted by Washington and the most lied about piece of legislation by those who supported its enactment. 

The biggest liar of all has been President Obama, whose was able to place three of his lies in the Washington Post’s “Top Ten Lie List of 2013.” One of his three lies in the top ten included the biggest lie of all, the “Lie of The Year,” when he promised “that if you like your health insurance policy you can keep you health insurance policy.”

The August set of Obama Care disaster posts began at the following link:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/08/part-1-august-2013-obamacare-update.html

The September posts began at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-2013-obama-care-update-part-1.html

The October posts began at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/10/october-2013-obama-care-disaster-update.html

The November posts began at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/11/november-2013-unfolding-obama-care.html

The December posts began at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/12/december-2013-unfolding-disaster-that.html

We promise to devote only five to six days this month to the disaster that is Obama Care. It is not that we will run out of material in that timeframe. There are enough disasters to start a new blog and file daily reports on how bad it is. I am currently sitting on well over two hundred articles, analyses, research papers, and personal experiences of suffering Americans around the country regarding the disaster that is Obama Care. 

However, rather than wade through all of them, I will blitz through what I can in five or six days. That should be enough to prove again this month that Obama Care is the worst piece of legislation ever passed, it will have severe financial impacts at the household level and national economy level, and needs to be completely repealed as soon as possible, replaced with a plan that attacks the true root causes of how high health care costs.

Today we will focus only on an excellent article that recently appeared on the Newsmax website. It neatly summarized the ten worst program promises of the Obama Care saga (not all of the broken promises, just the ten most epic broken promises). The article and summary were written by Newsmax’s Cathy Burke and appeared on Sunday, 29 Dec 2013.

The following is Ms. Burke’s set up to the ten epic broken promises:

The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, but it was in 2013 that the health care reform law imploded into a nightmare of broken promises. Assertions made by the president and Health Secretary weeks ago, months ago and even years ago have over and over again proved to been misleading at best and completely untrue at worst. 

No, you may not be able to keep your doctor or your plan. And, no, the website is not user-friendly. 

According to Ms. Burke, and I do not disagree with her, here are the Top-10 Obama Care promises that were broken in 2013:

1. The website is simple and user-friendly 

Hardly. Just days after is pathetic rollout, the Obama Care website was out of order for almost a week. During the first couple of months, people who tried to sign on either could not get access, were greeted with a notice that the system was not available, or if they did get on, they faced a very slow, plodding response time or had an experience where data was lost, asked for numerous times, etc. 

That first significant crash in early October was not the last: on December 20, just three days before the deadline to sign up for coverage starting January 1, 2014, another outage lasted for several hours. For this despicable level of service the American taxpayer was billed over $600 million by an inept Kathleen Sebelius and her Federal Department of Health and Human Services.

2. "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

Obama first made this promise on June 6, 2009 and repeated it in dozens of forms and in dozens of forums over the past few years in a variety of slightly different but no less emphatic ways. This assertion was so wrong that the Washington Post made it its premier “Lie of The Year“ for 2013, which in turn, made the President the liar of the year for 2013. 

PolitiFact also declared the vow to be its "lie of the year." Millions of Americans lost access to their preferred and current health care insurance policies directly as a result of Obama Care requirements. Many of those that were able to finally see if they could replace their preferred policies with something from the Obama Care exchanges promptly found out that Obama Care policies were almost always more expense from a monthly premium perspective and had deductible levels that were astronomical. In addition, many of these Obama Care policies had very restrictive doctor and hospital lists so many American lost access to their current, preferred doctors and lost access to some of the best hospitals in the country.

Sadly, many of these changes to doctors and hospitals were forced on many unhealthy Americans who were in the middle of serious medical treatment such as cancer treatments. As if they did not have enough to worry about, Obama Care unnecessarily forced them to switch doctors, hospitals, and possibly medicine access in the midst of what had to be stressful times.

Ms. Burke quotes respected Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer who correctly pointed out the underlying rationale for forcing people to buy new, more expensive, and often inferior policies, stating that Obama Care itself was a fraud from the beginning since the law "was designed to throw people off their private plans and into government-run exchanges where they would be made to overpay — forced to purchase government-mandated services they don’t need — as a way to subsidize others."

3. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

This Obama 2009 promise was repeated many, many times since 2009 but was eventually also broken as Obama Care rolled out in 2013. Many insured Americans who lost access to their current insurance policy and the doctors associated with that policy found that not only did they need a new Obama Care policy but they very often ended up with a policy that excluded their preferred doctors. 

The article offers the example of the 15,000 spouses of UPS employees who forced off of their spouse’s UPS insurance plan and have to seek out new plans on the individual market and via Obama Care exchanges, plans that are very likely not to include their usual doctor.

4. Premiums will fall by as much as $2,500 per family

Another promise directly out of the President’s mouth and another promise that has no chance of coming true, as millions of Americans are finding out so far. According to Forbes and a Manhattan Institute analysis of the government Obama Care numbers, Obama Care will actually jack up health insurance rates for young men by an average of 97 to 99%, and for young women by an average of 55 to 62%. As for states, the worst off is North Carolina, which is expected to see individual-market rates triple for women, and quadruple for men. Nowhere is anyone seeing that promised $2,5000 reduction.

5. Obamacare won't add 'one dime to our deficits'

Obama’s exact words, no one else’s. But again, another broken promise based on the analyses of two respected organizations. The Government Accountability Office's report of Febuary 26, 2013, estimated Obama Care will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion. Even worse, Investor's Business Daily analysis also nullified the Obama promise, reporting the legislation could potentially add $18 trillion in new national debt over time, more than the current sky high $17 trillion that the Federal government has accumulated over CENTURIES due to ALL of its operations.

6. Obama Care will cost around $900 billion over 10 years

Not even close. A Congressional Budget Office’s report from May 2013 puts the real price tag more around the area of $1.8 trillion. This doubling of the estimated cost has happened in just three years since the original $900 billion lie was put forth by the Obama administration. Other reputable sources put the cost at three times the original lie. 

7. Families making less than $250,000 won't see 'any form' of tax increase

Not likely. Any tax on businesses increases the costs of doing business, costs that are eventually passed along to consumers and those making less than $250,000 a year. Using a Joint Committee on Taxation 2012 report and Congressional Budget Office information, as well as a Heritage Foundation report, Obama Care’s taxes and penalties will accumulate over $770 billion in new revenue over a 10-year period. Among taxes that'll pound the middle class are the individual mandate tax, the medical device tax, and new penalties and limits on health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.

8. Obama Care will keep healthcare costs down

Not likely since Obama Care never addressed the underlying root causes of our high health care costs. Even if the website worked well, even if Obama gets the seven million new insurance policies issued, even if identity theft is an overblown threat (it is not), at the end of the day:

• Americans will still be eating too much of the wrong kind of food and will continue to be overweight and obese, leading to a myriad of health problems and costs.
• Americans will still smoke too much resulting in cancer and lung diseases and their associated costs.
• Americans will not exercise enough.
• Americans will suffer increasingly from aging diseases, e.g. dementia, diseases that are not attacked by this Obama care feeble health care reform attempt.
• There will still be a need for tort reform in the health care industry.
• There will still be significant cross state line barriers to insurance company competition.
• Our food supply and food chain will still be unhealthy.

In other words, all of the issues that caused our high health care costs will still be in place and will be unaddressed by Obama Care even if everything goes right with the legislation. It is just that we will all likely be paying more for Obama Care tenets, requirements, and taxes. Obama Care has a zero percent chance of reducing health care costs.

9. There are deadlines and mandates within the legislation

In this country, the law is usually the law. Politicians in office are then supposed to execute those laws. If they cannot exeucue those laws, they lawfully have to go back through the legislative, democratic process to change those laws, Unless it is Obama Care.

Never has this country witnessed such a blatant disrespect for the law as the Obama administration unilaterally has changed well over a dozen deadlines and dates that were written into the legislation, including but not limited to:

• In the most blatant change, the administration decided by itself to fix a problem aimed at people who lost their coverage because it didn't measure up to Obama Care standards by changing policy to help people make a deadline to replace dropped insurance plans. Those with inadequate insurance that got canceled were now allowed to claim a “hardship exemption," giving them the option to buy cheaper, minimal coverage plans normally available only to people under 30. 
• Another "fix" came Nov. 14 when the President asked insurers to keep offering those plans for a year even if they don't meet minimum Obama Care requirements.
• For small businesses, Obama unilaterally moved back the deadline requiring companies with 50 or more employees to offer insurance from January, 2014 to January, 2015.
• As for sign-up deadlines, it's been confusing. In October, people had until December 15 to pick a plan if they wanted coverage beginning January 1. Then, in November, it was extended to December 23. The goal posts eventually moved again, this time to Christmas Eve, December 24.
• HHS also pushed back the deadline when the first month's premium would be due, and insurers obliged, extending the payment deadline nine days, to January 10. 

These are very serious breeches of the law of the land. It sets a precedent that Congress can create laws but a sitting President can change them at his or her whim. Fortunately, many, many lawsuits are in the process of being heard or filed to attack and stop this insult to our democratic processes.

10. Sure, the national Obama Care exchange is a mess, but the state exchanges are working great.

Not quite. Obama Ccare’s state-run enrollment operations have had major information system delays and low sign-up levels (last month we reported that only 44 people in Oregon had signed up in that state in the first two months). Several states have replaced top executives and Massachusetts and Vermont were investigating legal action against the company, CGI, that built their Obama Care websites: “CGI has consistently underperformed, which is frustrating and a serious concern,” said Jason Lefferts, a spokesman for the Massachusetts' insurance marketplace, Commonwealth Home Connector. “We are holding the vendor accountable for its underperformance and will continue to apply nonstop pressure to work to fix defects and improve performance.”

There you have it, one person’s excellent analysis of the top ten broken promises of the President and Obama Care. It gets this month’s Obama Care review off to a stable start. As we go forward this week, you will see some of the tragic consequences of this ill designed, idiotic piece of legislation and the havoc it is causing America and its citizens.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

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http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.robertringer.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w