Thursday, January 5, 2017
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
WaPo and White House, but I repeat myself, lie about Obamacare enrollments by 100%
WaPo implies more than 20 million are enrolled in a story out today here:
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that Obama told Democrats that they are well positioned to defend the law, which has extended insurance to more than 20 million Americans.
Extended. As in offered. Here's the reality.
The Motley Fool said in November it checked in June and the number actually enrolled and paying was 10.4 million:
The fourth open enrollment period of Obamacare, Officially known as the Affordable Care Act, kicked off this past Tuesday, Nov. 1, and it's slated to run through the end of January. At last check in June 2016, 10.4 million people were enrolled through the various marketplace exchanges, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Congressional Budget Office has stuck by its forecast that roughly 10 million people will be enrolled and paying by Dec. 31, 2016.
A month earlier the number was 11.1 million, meaning some people who enrolled early in the year subsequently stopped paying and fell out:
As a reminder, 11.1 million people remained enrolled and paying customers as of March 31, 2016 per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services . . ..
Since last October it has been widely reported that the Obama Regime, soon to be history, has been predicting just 13.8 million sign-ups by the end of January 2017, which means Josh Earnest is nothing but a Stalinist stooge for the Regime, nothing but a salesman, and WaPo its willing accomplice in continuing to report the highly fanciful figure of 20 million.
Fake news, you see.
Obamacare has failed utterly and will be lucky to hit the 10 million mark this time around before President Trump ends the farce that it is.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Women's March on Washington on Jan. 21 is just a bunch of Democrats who had image of Clinton as their Facebook photo
From the story here:
For her part, Shook said her aim was not to coopt any other movement. It was just an idea that took hold after the victory of a president-elect caught on tape boasting of grabbing women's private parts, and the defeat of a woman who seemed to her much more qualified for the job. She said she had no idea the race of the women she first contacted; in fact, she said, most had an image of Clinton as their Facebook profile photo.
How much does Obamacare suck for my family newly eligible for health insurance from a small business?
New full-time job comes with health insurance for the family!
Except it costs $20,199.24 per year, of which the company pays $3,000. Net = $17,199.24 per year before anyone ever sees a doctor.
Current pre-Obamacare plan, grandfathered in from 2010, costs $4,253.20 per year, before anyone ever sees a doctor. FOUR TIMES LESS.
Congress can't act soon enough to repeal this Obamacare boondoggle.
Monday, January 2, 2017
Sen. John McCain once again demonstrates the subtlety of a brick thrown through a window, irresponsibly elevating unproven cyberattacks to "an act of war"
Why Arizona keeps inflicting this incompetent gasbag on the rest of the country is difficult to fathom.
You remember John McCain's failed presidential bid, in which he told us we had nothing to fear from a president Obama, and then having lost to him in 2008 and running for reelection to the US Senate in 2010 he told us Obama was all of a sudden on a left wing crusade to bankrupt the country. Well, which is it, Senator?
And now the warmonger in John McCain raises its ugly head, here, in Ukraine of all places, stirring the pot in the Russian Bear's own backyard:
"When you attack a country, it's an act of war," McCain said of the recent hackings on Ukrainian TV, according to a transcript compiled by Reuters. "And so we have to make sure that there is a price to pay so that we can perhaps persuade Russians to stop this kind of attacks on our very fundamentals of democracy."
Hey Senator, what price should Russia pay for an act of war? Usually war is the appropriate response. If you're not really prepared to launch one, SHUT THE HELL UP.
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Make teenagers work again: Repeal the minimum wage
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| 3.3 million fewer teens work in 2016 than in 1978 even though |
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| the size of this population in 2016 is the same as in the late '70s |
The minimum wage of 30 cents an hour which prevailed throughout World War II is the equivalent of $5.12/hr today using CPI, not the federally mandated $7.25/hr.
The minimum wage today has outpaced CPI by almost 42% since its inception. Meanwhile teenage employment has contracted by almost 40% since the late 1970s peak.
Already by 1978 the minimum wage was wildly out of whack. It should have been only $1.41/hr instead of the federally mandated $2.65/hr, outpacing inflation by a whopping 88%. No wonder employers have sought cheaper labor abroad, wrecking it for everyone, not just teenagers.
Do we believe in free market capitalism, or not?
Saturday, December 31, 2016
It happened in September 2015 but the dumbest debate question of the 2016 campaign has to be . . .
. . . Jake Tapper of CNN asking each Republican candidate "What would you want your Secret Service code name to be as president?"
Do you prefer white cake, chocolate cake or lemon?
They should have thrown tomatoes at the guy.
Instead they answered.
Friday, December 30, 2016
Kevin Williamson flips out at National Review, compares Trump family to Saddam Hussein's, a reader can't believe it
Here:
Apparently, N.R. editors didn't read this piece, or worse, they read it and approved it.
Well, makes perfect sense to me. Kevin Williamson and Co. wants the entire white working class to get out of the way and die, so might as well have the Trump boys fire up the old shredder and start feeding them in.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Today's most entertaining line: "It takes a lot of chutzpah for Obama to say he wants to help rebuild the Democratic Party when he’s busy burning it down"
From Josh Kraushaar here in
"Obama’s Parting Shot Against His Party: By thumbing his nose at Israel as he leaves office, the president shows he didn’t learn anything from this year’s election".
He's burned everything else down, might as well burn his own house.
Remind you of anyone?
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Sunday, December 25, 2016
In England singer George Michael gets a post mortem as a matter of routine, but in the US not Justice Antonin Scalia
From the story here:
The Thames Valley Police, calling the death "unexplained but not suspicious," sent THR the following statement: "Thames Valley Police were called to a property in Goring-on-Thames shortly before 2pm Christmas Day. Sadly, a 53-year-old man was confirmed deceased at the scene. At this stage the death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. A post mortem will be undertaken in due course. There will be no further updates from Thames Valley Police until the post mortem has taken place."
Flashback to February here:
[A]fter Scalia died, it was Texas state law, not any federal framework, that guided officials’ actions—and left a single judge to make the call that an autopsy wasn’t needed.
While you were preparing to celebrate Christmas, America's first Muslim president abstained at the UN Security Counsel, effectively condemning Israeli settlements
From the story "Obama faces widespread backlash after abstaining from UN Israel vote" here:
On Friday, the Security Council voted 14-0 on a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory as a “flagrant violation” of international law that have “"no legal validity." It demands a halt to "all Israeli settlement activities," saying this "is essential for salvaging the two-state solution."
The United States has veto power in the Security Council and has used it for similar resolutions in the past. The Obama administration’s decision to abstain represents a break from the longstanding U.S. policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.
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