Stephen Martino

I think this cartoon adequately sums up what Obama is attempting to do with his health care plan. And we’re the suckers who are going to be forced to swallow the pill because in the end, there will be only one insurance company for all Americans- Obamacare. However, those elite like Obama and the rest of Congress will be exempt from this intrusion. I read the article below and was just besides myself with anger. Obama speaks of class warfare- yet, he is creating right now by allowing Congress to have a higher standard of health care. The article below sums it up nicely.

WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Congress has won some partial relief for lawmakers and their staffs from the “Obamacare” health reforms that it passed and subjected itself to three years ago.
In a ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. lawmakers and their staffs will continue to receive a federal contribution toward the health insurance that they must purchase through soon-to-open exchanges created by President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.

The decision by the Office of Personnel Management, with Obama’s blessing, will prevent the largely unintended loss of healthcare benefits for 535 members of the Senate and House of Representatives and thousands of Capitol Hill staff.

When Congress passed the health reform law known as Obamacare in 2010, an amendment required that lawmakers and their staff members purchase health insurance through the online exchanges that the law created. They would lose generous coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

The amendment’s author, Republican Senator Charles Grassley, argued that if Obamacare plans were good enough for the American public, they were good enough for Congress. Democrats, eager to pass the reforms, went along with it.

But it soon became apparent the provision contained no language that allowed federal contributions toward their health plans that cover about 75 percent of the premium costs.
This caused fears that staff would suddenly face sharply higher healthcare costs and leave federal service, causing a “brain drain” on Capitol Hill.

But Wednesday’s proposed rule from the OPM, the federal government’s human resources agency, means that Congress will escape the most onerous impact of law as it was written.

The OPM said the federal contributions will be allowed to continue for exchange-purchased plans for lawmakers and their staffs, ensuring that those working on Capitol Hill will effectively get the same health contributions as millions of other federal workers who keep their current plan.

There are many reasons why the private sector succeeds while the public sector languishes. Incompetence, bureaucratic policies, oppressive rules, quotas and lack of enthusiasm are just a few examples. The article from Bloomberg.com I read below typifies this apathy and incompetence which runs ramped in government offices. If this happened in my office, my accountant would be out of work- because I’d be out of business. The government treats our hard-earned taxpayer money as if it came from a monopoly game or as if it all grew from some magic tree. There is a definite impersonalization with the money they collect from us. To them it’s just a number.

In contrast, in the private sector money means paying the bills, meeting the mortgage, paying the payroll and bringing money home to your family. Every dollar is accounted for and every day the money is tallied up precisely. The bottom line is that every dollar counts and in the private sector, businesses try to make that dollar go as far as it can. In contrast, if some government agency needs more money, they just raise taxes.

The bottom line is, the bigger our government becomes,more waste  accrues, more inefficiency is created and more disrespect for money accumulates. Why do you think socialism and communism are failure? This is just one example.

February, cash-strapped Detroit received a $1 million check from the local school system that wasn’t deposited. The routine payment wound up in a city hall desk drawer, where it was found a month later.

This is the way Detroit did business as it slid toward bankruptcy, which it entered July 18. The move exposed $18 billion of long-term obligations in a city plagued by unreliable buses, broken street lights and long waits for police and ambulances. Underlying poor service is a government that lacks modern technology and can’t perform such basic functions as bill collecting, according to Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager.

“Nobody sends million-dollar checks anymore — they wire the money,” said Orr spokesman Bill Nowling. Except in Detroit.

“We have financial systems that are three, four, five decades in the past,” Nowling said. “If we can fix those issues, then we’ll be able to provide services better, faster, more efficiently and cheaper.”

In the except below taken from Flopping Aces, Dr. John writes about Obama’s new race-based discipline program. In the program black students will not be subject to punishment for their aberrant behavior. Dreamed up by some progressive idiot, the plan is again some ludicrous plot to better our public education system- which is failing. Instead, all it does is make these students not responsible for their actions. And if responsibility is not taught and enforced in the schools, the students will not be adequately prepared for the real world. In the real world responsibility is the first prerequisite for success and obtaining a successful career. In the end, what is our public schools producing- more people destined for the government doll. With more and more people on this doll and less working, who will pay for the nanny-based system that Obama is creating?  The economy is bound to collapse. But in the end-is that not their plan?

This story truly typifies the media hypocrisy. 3 AA teens beat to a pulp this white kid on a bus while the rest of the students and bus driver watch passively:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/07/florida-school-bus-beatdown-goes-unnoticed-by-self-styled-civil-rights/

Where is Al Sharpton? Where is the media outrage? Where are the politicians? Where is Oprah? The answer is nowhere. Why- because this type of hate crime brings in no ratings, votes or public interest. If the Al Sharpton’s really cared about racial equality, they would take just as lofty a stance on this hate crime as they did with Trayvon Martin. Also, if they took a stand on this case, they would actually have some credibility. Instead, they are silent. The media also lends a deaf ear to this crime.

The truth of the matter is the Al Sharptons and media want there to be a racial divide in this country. They want racism to exist. Without either, their existence is meaningless. When given a true example of a hate crime and racism as above they do nothing. If they did, it would mean that all they believe in and who they are would mean nothing. Their existentialist life would come crashing to a bitter end, creating a sense of utter worthlessness that would eventually lead to their psychological demise.

So the bottom line is that racism is only convenient when it serves the personal causes of the Sharptons and media folks of the country. Though it is 2013, they want to bring us back to the sixties and keep race relations at a all time low. Fueled by egocentrics like our pitiful president, true race issues will never be solved, while new problems will be created for personal gains.

As the country goes down the path of economic destruction, I thought tis cartoon sums up at least some of the cause. Through executive orders, throwing away the first Amendment, failing to enforce the law and picking what parts of the law should be applied, Obama has made a mockery of both the Constitution and the US law as a whole- setting an example which will lead to anarchy and economic destitution.

Promises, promises, promises. That’s all the democrats can do. However, now is the time to pay the piper. And guess what? The bank is empty. The money is gone, swindled away by large government mismanagement, payoffs and fluff-filled budgets- leaving people wondering where the money went.
Across the nation, cities and states are watching Detroit’s largest-ever municipal bankruptcy filing with great trepidation. Years of underfunded retirement promises to public sector workers, which helped lay Detroit low, could plunge them into a similar and terrifying financial hole.

A CNBC.com analysis of more than 120 of the nation’s largest state and local pension plans finds they face a wide range of burdens as their aging workforces near retirement.

Across the country cities are going bankrupt and there is no one to blame but the politicians themselves. Did they think this ponzi scheme could go on forever? Did they think they could raise taxes forever? Democracy is a funny thing. I’ve learned that it is a tenuous institution. Why? because eventually people will get smart enough to vote in those that will give them”stuff”, eventually bankrupting the system. And that’s where we are. Bankrupt and heading down the road to further impoverishment, dependency and Obamacare. This is what we voted for and this is what we got.

In resent interview, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) said Tea Partiers are the “same group” who fought for segregation during the Civil Rights movement: “It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police. They didn’t care about how they looked. It was just fierce indifference to human life that caused America to say enough is enough. ‘I don’t want to see it and I am not a part of it.’ What the hell! If you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings, give me a break”.  Rangel then said the Tea Party could be defeated using the same tactics employed against Jim Crow.

Where is the media outcry? Why are they not calling him a racist demanding an apology? The answer is simple. The media is a bunch of hypocrites. As long as you believe in their progressive teaching, the first Amendment applies to you. If you disagree with them, then you are branded a racist or a right-wing nut. Our country can not function like this. If no one can speak their mind freely without being publicly humiliated, how will any effective dialog ever occur that could possible fix America’s problems. The answer is- it can’t. Welcome to Obamamerca!

George Carlin was a genius when he would spoof political correctness. In his usual demeanor, he would jest how political correctness waters down the meaning of the language and neuters our speech to the point where it becomes meaningless.

Though I laughed at his commentary, I have come to realize that ppolitical correctness does not allow us to address a point directly because we fear the repercussions. The problem is, if we don’t directly address our problems, we’ll never fix them. That is why our economy and country are in decline. And the problem is those that do stand up and speak and their mind are cast off as a sell-out, right-wing nuts or racist. Just look at what happened to Bill O’Reilly recently. The media has made it almost impossible to address a point without fears of an Al Sharpton-led backlash. So where does that leave us? Right where Obama wants us- nowhere.

A picture does say a thousand words. Just look at the Federal, State a Private mailboxes in the above picture. If this is not a true and visual testament to vast difference between government-run verses private-run businesses, I do not know what is. FedEx and UPS are both successful business, make large sums of money each year and employ thousands of people. On the other hand, the US postal sevice is about 20 years out of date, bankrupt and requires our taxpayer money in order to survive. Can you imagine what things would look like if the government took over 1/6 of the economy by implementing Obamacare?