Fact checking President Barack Obama’s health care speech from last
night, the Associated Press reports: “The president’s speech to
Congress contained a variety of oversimplifications and omissions in
laying out what he wants to do about health insurance.” That is an
understatement. We counted no less than 15 spurious claims made by the
President, including:
1. OBAMA: “There are now more than thirty million American citizens who
cannot get coverage.”
THE FACTS: On August 8th, President Obama said [1]: “Reform is
obviously essential for the 46 million Americans who don’t have health
insurance.” So did 16 million uninsured people just disappear in the
span of two months? Not quite. The problem is that the 46 million
number was always highly misleading and the new 30 mi llion number isn’t
much better. According to an analysis based on the 2007 Census data [2]
there were 45.7 million uninsured people in the U.S. in 2007. But 9.3
million of those were non-citizens. Another 6.4 million actually are
enrolled in Medicaid but mistakenly tell the Census they have no health
insurance. Another 4.3 million are eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP but
have not signed up. Another 10 million have no insurance, but also make
more than 3X the poverty level. That means only 15.6 million U.S.
citizens with incomes below 300% of poverty and that are nor already
eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health insurance, are uninsured.
2. OBAMA: “First, if you are among the hundreds of millions of
Americans who already have health insurance through your job, Medicare,
Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your
employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. Let me repeat
this: nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have.”
THE FACTS: First, the statement is just false. According to the
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) 4.5 million Americans are
covered by Health Savings Accounts. H.R. 3200 gives the Secretary of
Health and Human Services the authority to make such plans illegal. In
both the House Energy and Commerce Committee mark up [3] and the House
Ways and Means Committee mark up [4], Republicans offered amendments
that would have guaranteed Americans’ right to keep their Health
Saving’s account. All of these amendments were defeated by Democrats on
their respective committees. These 4.5 million Americans will lose
their insurance under Obamacare
Second, Americans should never forget that Obama is a lawyer. Here
is how Obama used to issue the same promise [5]: “Under the reform
we’re proposing, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If
you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
See the difference? Obama used to promise that under his plan “you can
keep your doctor.” But now Americans are only promised that nothing in
the plan “requires you to change what you have.” This is a night and
day difference. Obama is correct that nothing in H.R. 3200 requires
people to change their insurance. But H.R. 3200 does allow all
businesses to shift their employees into the public plan over time.
Under a strong public plan 88.1 million people would be shifted from
their employer-sponsored coverage to the federal plan. [6]
3. OBAMA: “And insurance companies will be required to cover, with no
extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care … That makes sense,
it saves money, and it saves l ives.”
THE FACTS: Preventative care does not save money. So says the
Congressional Budget Office [7] and so says the New England Journal of
Medicine [8].
4. OBAMA: “That’s why under my plan, individuals will be required to
carry basic health insurance – just as most states require you to carry
auto insurance.”
THE FACTS: No states require all adults, let alone all citizens, to
carry auto insurance. Only those who choose to exercise their privilege
to drive are required to purchase auto insurance. Even with that
requirement, many still don’t. [9] According to the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO), a federal individual mandate for health insurance
would be unique and unprecedented because it would “impose a duty on
individuals as members of society” [10] and would “require people to
purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated” [10] by
the government. According to President Barack Obama HHS nominee Dr.
Sherry Glied: “Developing a system to promptly identify and penalize
scofflaws will take effort and ingenuity, particularly in our diverse
and mobile country. It may require a degree of intrusiveness and
bureaucracy that some will find unpalatable.” [9]
5. OBAMA: “There are=2 0also those who claim that our reform effort will
insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I’m
proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”
THE FACTS: H.R. 3200 does not explicitly pay for health benefits
for illegal immigrants. It never has, and no one has ever said that it
did. The issue is enforcement and the provisions in H.R. 3200 are
completely inadequate to ensure that illegal immigrants do not
illegally obtain health care through the bill. In the House Ways and
Means mark up of H.R. 3200, Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) introduced an
amendment [11] that would use two citizenship status verification
systems, the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and
Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) programs, to
establish an individual’s eligibility to obtain the bill’s proposed
affordability credits or enroll in the public insurance option. Both
programs are currently used to determine citizenship status and
eligibility for other public assistance programs. [12] The Heller
amendment failed on a straight party-line vote.
6. OBAMA: “And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up – under our
plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal
conscience laws will remain in place.”
&nbs p; THE FACTS: In all four mark-ups of health care legislation (three
in [4] the [3] House [13] and one [14] in the Senate), Conservatives
have offered amendments that would have specifically prohibited federal
funds from being used to cover abortion. None of them passed. Instead,
the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed an amendment by Rep.
Lois Capps (D-CA) that actually requires at least one insurance plan to
cover abortion in every geographical region and requires the
newly-created public plan to cover all abortion services. [3]
Furthermore, President Obama told Planned Parenthood on July17, 2007
[15]: “We’re going to set up a public plan that all persons and all
women can access if they don’t have health insurance. It will be a plan
that will provide all essential services, including reproductive
services.” Candidate Obama either was not telling the truth to Planned
Parenthood then or President Obama is not telling the truth to the
American people now.
7. OBAMA: “They argue that these private companies can’t fairly compete
with the government. And they’d be right if taxpayers were subsidizing
this public insurance option. But they won’t be. I have insisted that
like any private insurance company, the public insurance option would
have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it collects.”
THE FACTS: Obama refutes his own argument in the same paragraph:
“It would also keep pressure on private insurers to keep their policies
affordable and treat their customers better, the same way public
colleges and universities provide additional choice and competition to
students without in any way inhibiting a vibrant system of private
colleges and universities.” No public university is self-sufficient.
None of them rely solely on student tuition. All of them require
taxpayer subsidies every year.
8. OBAMA: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits –
either now or in the future. Period. And to prove that I’m serious,
there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward
with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don’t materialize.”
THE FACTS: According to the Congressional Budget Office, not only
does H.R. 3200 increase the deficit by $239 billion [16] in just the
first ten years, but CBO director Doug Elmendorf told Congress that the
bills crafted by House leaders and the Senate health committee
“significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care
costs.” [16] And according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, H.R.
3200 would run a $1,010 billion deficit in the second decade. [17]
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9. OBAMA: “Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid
will pay for most of this plan.”
THE FACTS: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates [18]
that Title VI of the House bill dealing with Medicare program integrity
will save just $1.3 billion over ten years. That is roughly how much
Medicare spends in a single day. CBO estimates [18] ZERO savings from
Subtitle F in the House bill that deals with Medicaid program
integrity.
10. OBAMA: “This reform will charge insurance companies a fee for their
most expensive policies, which will encourage them to provide greater
value for the money – an idea which has the support of Democratic and
Republican experts. And according to these same experts, this modest
change could help hold down the cost of health care for all of us in
the long-run.”
THE FACTS: These “fees” are nothing more than taxes hidden behind a
thin veil of “fairness” rhetoric [19]. They would actually fall on
ordinary Americans, not insurance executives or stockholders. When you
buy something that is subject to a sales tax who pays the tax – you or
the vendor? Just look at the line “sales tax” on your bill. And if you
tax insurance companies the cost is passed through i n the same way.
Article printed from The Foundry: http://blog.heritage.org
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Listen to What A Person Who Has Read the Health Care Bill Says
After reading the whole health care bill ....
The Truth About the Health Care Bills -
Michael Connelly,
Ret. Constitutional Attorney
08.24.09
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, paym ents to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.
However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.
This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Health Choices Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a “tax” instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the “due process of law.
So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though. The 9th Amendment that provides: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;” The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many ar eas that once were theirs to control.
I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.
For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source.
Here is a link to the Constitution:http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/constituti on_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/bill_of_ri ghts_trans cript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton , Texas
The Truth About the Health Care Bills -
Michael Connelly,
Ret. Constitutional Attorney
08.24.09
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, paym ents to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.
However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.
This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Health Choices Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a “tax” instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the “due process of law.
So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though. The 9th Amendment that provides: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;” The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many ar eas that once were theirs to control.
I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.
For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source.
Here is a link to the Constitution:http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/constituti on_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/bill_of_ri ghts_trans cript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton , Texas
Monday, September 14, 2009
OBAMA Care check out these sites
This is one of the best things we have seen on Obamacare
The YouTube links below are Part 1 and 2 of a tape made by a cousin of friends of mine. He and his wife made the tape from their ranch in south-central Texas . At their own expense, they made 1000 copies and sent one to every single congressman and senator and some media outlets.
Let's hope that each and every one of them watched and LISTENED!!!
Part 1 www.YouTube.com/watch?v=j7sQHunYdN8
Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJsF11PsnQ
Tere are some sections that penalitize companies who are not union and reward those employees who are union connected... A scary move to push us more toward European form of social control
SCARY Stuff Folks
The YouTube links below are Part 1 and 2 of a tape made by a cousin of friends of mine. He and his wife made the tape from their ranch in south-central Texas . At their own expense, they made 1000 copies and sent one to every single congressman and senator and some media outlets.
Let's hope that each and every one of them watched and LISTENED!!!
Part 1 www.YouTube.com/watch?v=j7sQHunYdN8
Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJsF11PsnQ
Tere are some sections that penalitize companies who are not union and reward those employees who are union connected... A scary move to push us more toward European form of social control
SCARY Stuff Folks
WHO ARE YOU MR PRESIDENT
>>>Dear President Obama:
>>>You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and
unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
>>>You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing
about you.
>>>You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive
Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
>>>You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of
youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
>>>You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
>>>You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus
don't understand it at its core..
>>>You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming
others.
>>>You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned
yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
>>>You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America
' crowd and deliver this message abroad.
>>>You scare me because you want to change America to a European
style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
>>>You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
with a government controlled one.
>>>You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly
>>>Capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
>>>You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist
goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
>>>You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics
against certain banks and corporations.
>>>You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
>>>You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even
consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
>>>You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.
>>>You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything
you do.
>>>You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
>>>You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
>>>Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
>>>Probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
>>>Lou Pritchett
Letter from Procter & Gamble Exec to Obama
A couple more
You scare be because of the Czars you have appointed. Who are these people?
I think this will become very clear very soon and will lead to your demise.
You scare me because you do not understand the will of the American people. It is this that make me know that you are not an American. You were not raised in our culture and you do not have the back bone that comes with being brought up in this USA.
You connection to ACORN scares me and this also will lead us to know who you really are and how you think.
>>>You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and
unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
>>>You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing
about you.
>>>You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive
Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
>>>You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of
youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
>>>You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
>>>You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus
don't understand it at its core..
>>>You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming
others.
>>>You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned
yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
>>>You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America
' crowd and deliver this message abroad.
>>>You scare me because you want to change America to a European
style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
>>>You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
with a government controlled one.
>>>You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly
>>>Capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
>>>You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist
goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
>>>You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics
against certain banks and corporations.
>>>You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
>>>You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even
consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
>>>You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.
>>>You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything
you do.
>>>You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
>>>You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
>>>Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
>>>Probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
>>>Lou Pritchett
Letter from Procter & Gamble Exec to Obama
A couple more
You scare be because of the Czars you have appointed. Who are these people?
I think this will become very clear very soon and will lead to your demise.
You scare me because you do not understand the will of the American people. It is this that make me know that you are not an American. You were not raised in our culture and you do not have the back bone that comes with being brought up in this USA.
You connection to ACORN scares me and this also will lead us to know who you really are and how you think.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Barak Hussain Obama Results To Date
Accomplishments
1. Offended the Queen of England.
2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.
4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek.
5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.
6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras.
7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions while they're building their nuclear weapons.
8. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions.
9. Expanded the bailouts.
10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian.
11. Doubled our national debt.
12. Announced the termination of our new missile defense system the day after North Korea launched an ICBM.
13. Released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite urgings of his own CIA director and the prior four CIA directors.
14. Accepted without comment that five of his cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two other nominees withdrew after they couldn't take the heat.
15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."
16. Ordered that the word "terrorism" no longer be used and instead refers to such acts as "man made disasters."
17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for America's world leadership.
18. Told the Mexican president that the violence in their country was because of us.
19. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from the Department of Commerce.
20. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose mother died trying to bring him to freedom in the United States.
21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day announces members of the Bush administration may stand trial for "torturing" three 9/11 terrorists by pouring water up their noses.
22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One over New York City that frightened thousands of New Yorkers.
23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure them that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they might be on their own with the Muslims.
24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza where he sided with terrorist Hamas against Israel.
25. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler while turning shareholder control over to the unions and freezing out retired investors who owned their bonds. Committed unlimited taxpayer billions in the process.
26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that will make American industry even less competitive while costing homeowners thousands per year.
27. Announced nationalized health care "reform" that will strip seniors of their Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes yet another $1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who doesn't.
Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die."
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and four months where we can reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies. In the interim, we can make their lives miserable. Lets do it!
1. Offended the Queen of England.
2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.
4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek.
5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.
6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras.
7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions while they're building their nuclear weapons.
8. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions.
9. Expanded the bailouts.
10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian.
11. Doubled our national debt.
12. Announced the termination of our new missile defense system the day after North Korea launched an ICBM.
13. Released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite urgings of his own CIA director and the prior four CIA directors.
14. Accepted without comment that five of his cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two other nominees withdrew after they couldn't take the heat.
15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."
16. Ordered that the word "terrorism" no longer be used and instead refers to such acts as "man made disasters."
17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for America's world leadership.
18. Told the Mexican president that the violence in their country was because of us.
19. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from the Department of Commerce.
20. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose mother died trying to bring him to freedom in the United States.
21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day announces members of the Bush administration may stand trial for "torturing" three 9/11 terrorists by pouring water up their noses.
22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One over New York City that frightened thousands of New Yorkers.
23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure them that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they might be on their own with the Muslims.
24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza where he sided with terrorist Hamas against Israel.
25. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler while turning shareholder control over to the unions and freezing out retired investors who owned their bonds. Committed unlimited taxpayer billions in the process.
26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that will make American industry even less competitive while costing homeowners thousands per year.
27. Announced nationalized health care "reform" that will strip seniors of their Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes yet another $1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who doesn't.
Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die."
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and four months where we can reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies. In the interim, we can make their lives miserable. Lets do it!
Who is that Man named Barak Hussein Obama
Be sure to read all the way to the end. I googled this man and did some
reading about him. He is for real.
9 We have not been provided much information about this man Obama who for what ever reason choose has a name and then does not use it. I have to say it amazes me how he has gotten to where he is and then when I read this about his personality it all become more clear. Yes I know it is easy to say well it is just a bunch of " Right Wingers" who are sore losers. Maybe but who can take the risk, remember what we are told... History, especially not heeded tends to repeat itself. I do not know who this man is or what his motives are but I do know that his past is very dark and questionable. What I truly do not understand is how the left winged media refuse to do their job, who treat him with some kind of awe that has not been earned. How we can allow things such as the ACORN network which is his baby to simply move along without any concern from the media... What is the job of the media, have they redefined their role when it comes to investigation and reporting?
Here is a look at the personality of the Man you asked your self is there anything here than make you uneasy about the man who is not the most Powerful leader in the world??? 0
Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our new
president.
Dr Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack
Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a
black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be
confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not
just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of
haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body
language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are
unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a
politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many
people.. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero
accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is
not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant
on most important subjects."
Barack Obama is a narcissist.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes
"Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority
on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind
of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism
everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and
demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest
suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have
narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a
grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic
leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to
cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was
also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko
Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few
examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous
influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around
themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers,
filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new
zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but
alas, invariably they brought them to their doom.. When you are a victim
of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One
determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.
"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with
traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin.. "Mixed-race
marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a
divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father
only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother
re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a
radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of
ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents.
He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and
then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological
narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it
overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the
narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do
his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes
the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image.
He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents
Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach
their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that
is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not
want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does
not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.
If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or
another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote.
No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy
by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama's election
as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a
contract and advance to write a book about race relations.
The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than
expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own
autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race
relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing
about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My
Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography
when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject
is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time
and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about
such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even
ruthless As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from
Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar
per month.
A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in
Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his
campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the
plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used
for his ascent to power.
A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no
other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared
to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man
bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his
fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound
alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are
narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self
serving and selfish.
Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is
different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a
Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined.
This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological
narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent.
It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.
Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this
man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have
also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their
support for him is racially driven.. This is racism, pure and simple.
The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I
predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.
The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man.
Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their
heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This
will cause a backlash among the whites..
The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and
they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four
years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the
turbulent 1960's.
Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of
freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and
its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue
nations.
It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castroists, the
Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and
virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect
of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction.
There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as
president.
reading about him. He is for real.
9 We have not been provided much information about this man Obama who for what ever reason choose has a name and then does not use it. I have to say it amazes me how he has gotten to where he is and then when I read this about his personality it all become more clear. Yes I know it is easy to say well it is just a bunch of " Right Wingers" who are sore losers. Maybe but who can take the risk, remember what we are told... History, especially not heeded tends to repeat itself. I do not know who this man is or what his motives are but I do know that his past is very dark and questionable. What I truly do not understand is how the left winged media refuse to do their job, who treat him with some kind of awe that has not been earned. How we can allow things such as the ACORN network which is his baby to simply move along without any concern from the media... What is the job of the media, have they redefined their role when it comes to investigation and reporting?
Here is a look at the personality of the Man you asked your self is there anything here than make you uneasy about the man who is not the most Powerful leader in the world??? 0
Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our new
president.
Dr Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack
Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a
black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be
confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not
just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of
haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body
language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are
unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a
politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many
people.. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero
accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is
not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant
on most important subjects."
Barack Obama is a narcissist.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes
"Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority
on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind
of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism
everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and
demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest
suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have
narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a
grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic
leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to
cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was
also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko
Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few
examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous
influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around
themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers,
filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new
zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but
alas, invariably they brought them to their doom.. When you are a victim
of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One
determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.
"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with
traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin.. "Mixed-race
marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a
divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father
only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother
re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a
radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of
ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents.
He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and
then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological
narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it
overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the
narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do
his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes
the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image.
He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents
Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach
their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that
is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not
want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does
not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.
If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or
another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote.
No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy
by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama's election
as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a
contract and advance to write a book about race relations.
The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than
expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own
autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race
relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing
about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My
Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography
when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject
is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time
and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about
such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even
ruthless As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from
Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar
per month.
A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in
Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his
campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the
plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used
for his ascent to power.
A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no
other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared
to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man
bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his
fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound
alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are
narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self
serving and selfish.
Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is
different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a
Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined.
This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological
narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent.
It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.
Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this
man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have
also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their
support for him is racially driven.. This is racism, pure and simple.
The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I
predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.
The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man.
Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their
heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This
will cause a backlash among the whites..
The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and
they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four
years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the
turbulent 1960's.
Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of
freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and
its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue
nations.
It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castroists, the
Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and
virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect
of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction.
There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as
president.
More Promises mixed with Lies
Listening to a Liar: Part II
Thomas Sowell
Thursday, September 10, 2009
"Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.
To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone's intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.
Did we really need CBO experts to tell us that there is no free lunch? Some people probably did and the true believers in the Obama cult may still believe the President, instead of believing either common sense or budget experts.
Even those who can believe that Obama can conjure up the money through eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" should ask themselves where he is going to conjure up the additional doctors, nurses, and hospitals needed to take care of millions more patients.
If he can't pull off that miracle, then government-run medical care in the United States can be expected to produce what government-run medical care in Canada, Britain, and other countries has produced-- delays of weeks or months to get many treatments, not to mention arbitrary rationing decisions by bureaucrats.
Obama can deny it in words but what matters are deeds-- and no one's words have been more repeatedly the direct opposite of his deeds-- whether talking about how his election campaign would be financed, how he would not rush legislation through Congress, or how his administration was not going to go after CIA agents for their past efforts to extract information from captured terrorists.
President Obama has also declared emphatically that he will not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations-- while telling the Israelis where they can and cannot build settlements and telling the Hondurans whom they should and should not choose to be their president.
One of the secrets of being a glib talker is not getting hung up over whether what you are saying is true, and instead giving your full attention to what is required by the audience and the circumstances of the moment, without letting facts get in your way and cramp your style. Obama has mastered that art.
Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe. No message has been more welcomed by the gullible, in countries around the world, than the promise of something for nothing. That is the core of Barack Obama's medical care plan.
President Obama tells us that he will impose various mandates on insurance companies but will not interfere with our free choice between being insured by these companies or by the government. But if he can drive up the cost of private insurance with mandates and subsidize government insurance with the taxpayers' money, how long do you think it will be before we have the "single payer" system has he has advocated in the past?
Mandates by politicians are what have driven up the cost of insurance already. Politicians love to play Santa Claus and leave it to others to raise prices to cover the inevitable costs.
Politicians have driven privately owned municipal transit systems out of business in many cities, by simply imposing costs and restricting the fare increases needed to cover those costs. The federal government can drive out private insurance the same way that local politicians have driven out private municipal transit and replaced it with government-run transit systems.
Barack Obama's insistence that various dangerous policies are not in the legislation he proposes sounds good but means nothing. Unbridled power is a blank check, no matter what its rationale may be. No law gave the President of the United States the power to fire the head of General Motors, but TARP money did.
When there are "advisory" panels on what treatments to approve and the White House's existing medical advisor has complained of Americans' "over-utilization" of medical care, what does it take to connect the dots?
Thomas Sowell
Thursday, September 10, 2009
"Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.
To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone's intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.
Did we really need CBO experts to tell us that there is no free lunch? Some people probably did and the true believers in the Obama cult may still believe the President, instead of believing either common sense or budget experts.
Even those who can believe that Obama can conjure up the money through eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" should ask themselves where he is going to conjure up the additional doctors, nurses, and hospitals needed to take care of millions more patients.
If he can't pull off that miracle, then government-run medical care in the United States can be expected to produce what government-run medical care in Canada, Britain, and other countries has produced-- delays of weeks or months to get many treatments, not to mention arbitrary rationing decisions by bureaucrats.
Obama can deny it in words but what matters are deeds-- and no one's words have been more repeatedly the direct opposite of his deeds-- whether talking about how his election campaign would be financed, how he would not rush legislation through Congress, or how his administration was not going to go after CIA agents for their past efforts to extract information from captured terrorists.
President Obama has also declared emphatically that he will not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations-- while telling the Israelis where they can and cannot build settlements and telling the Hondurans whom they should and should not choose to be their president.
One of the secrets of being a glib talker is not getting hung up over whether what you are saying is true, and instead giving your full attention to what is required by the audience and the circumstances of the moment, without letting facts get in your way and cramp your style. Obama has mastered that art.
Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe. No message has been more welcomed by the gullible, in countries around the world, than the promise of something for nothing. That is the core of Barack Obama's medical care plan.
President Obama tells us that he will impose various mandates on insurance companies but will not interfere with our free choice between being insured by these companies or by the government. But if he can drive up the cost of private insurance with mandates and subsidize government insurance with the taxpayers' money, how long do you think it will be before we have the "single payer" system has he has advocated in the past?
Mandates by politicians are what have driven up the cost of insurance already. Politicians love to play Santa Claus and leave it to others to raise prices to cover the inevitable costs.
Politicians have driven privately owned municipal transit systems out of business in many cities, by simply imposing costs and restricting the fare increases needed to cover those costs. The federal government can drive out private insurance the same way that local politicians have driven out private municipal transit and replaced it with government-run transit systems.
Barack Obama's insistence that various dangerous policies are not in the legislation he proposes sounds good but means nothing. Unbridled power is a blank check, no matter what its rationale may be. No law gave the President of the United States the power to fire the head of General Motors, but TARP money did.
When there are "advisory" panels on what treatments to approve and the White House's existing medical advisor has complained of Americans' "over-utilization" of medical care, what does it take to connect the dots?
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