A mini-history lesson via the Mama Grizzly :
Do your friends and family know any of this?
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
End Obamacare Exemption
End Obamacare
Exemption : Sen. David Vitter’s bill
Art credit: Sodahead.com
Next week, on June 17
at noon, patriots across the country will visit and call their representatives
to demand that they no longer enjoy an exemption from Obamacare. For far too long, the "Ruling
Class" politicians have lived above the law while the American people
suffer. Help end that special Obamacare exemption.
For the 60-second ad being run across the country, go here (scroll down;
it’s on the left-hand side). For more info, go to Sen David Vitter's website here.
Mark your calendar
for Weds., June 17 at noon. Find the office of your representative at this map. Plan to visit or call.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
King vs. Burwell and Obamacare
Art credit: crooks and liars.com
The King
vs. Burwell case is expected to be decided by the Supreme Court at the end of
June. The SCOTUS could strike down Obamacare subsidies in 34 non-exchange
states. Here is an interactive map showing the status of each state and its
health care exchanges. Ohio is
one of seven states categorized as “Federally facilitated marketplace; state
conducting plan management.”
Last
week, Betsy McCaughey identified the potential winners and losers if SCOTUS
strikes down the subsidies:
If Supremes slap
ObamaCare, it’s health insurers who lose
. . . the Supreme
Court ruling in King v. Burwell, expected this month . . . will determine the
fate of these subsidies in 37 states.
Without subsidies,
ObamaCare buyers in those states will have to pay the actual — and unaffordable
— sticker price of ObamaCare. And you — taxpayers — will not have to fork over
hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize insurers over the next decade.
But the dirty
secret is that insurers stand to lose the most from King v. Burwell.
The Affordable Care
Act compels the public to buy their product, and forces taxpayers to subsidize
it. What a sweetheart deal.
The giant players —
United Healthcare, Cigna, Aetna, Anthem and Humana — have seen stock prices
double, triple, even quadruple since the law was passed in 2010. The coming
ruling threatens to put an end to their gravy train.
Democrats are
predicting disaster if the court rules against President Obama.
Republicans will
“rue the day” they let millions of people lose their subsidies, says Nancy
Pelosi. That’s crazy talk.
No one will lose
their coverage immediately, the poor will be unaffected and the biggest losers will
be insurance companies.
Employers,
job-seekers and taxpayers actually stand to win here.
In addition, most
Republicans in Congress are inclined to compromise with the president to
provide some type of financial help for insurance buyers. If the Supremes gut
ObamaCare, there will be many more winners than losers. Here’s how it shakes
out:
The Affordable Care
Act says subsidies will be provided only in states that set up their own
exchanges. But only a handful of states (including New York) did.
In 37 states that
didn’t, people use the federal healthcare.gov Web site instead. The Obama
administration handed out subsidies to these people anyway, playing fast and
loose with the law — and your money.
If the justices
rule that the Obama administration can’t do that, some 7.7 million people will
eventually lose their subsidies.
. . .
Insurance companies
are lobbying furiously for a congressional fix.
Meanwhile, outside
Washington, DC, a ruling nixing the subsidies will benefit employers and
job-seekers.
Any of the 37
states that want to can set up an exchange and immediately qualify for the
subsidies. But most are controlled by the GOP and won’t do it.
Without subsidies,
the employer mandate is toothless, because employers are only fined if their
uninsured workers go to an exchange and get a subsidy.
Employers who have
been struggling to keep their workforce under 50 (where ObamaCare kicks in) and
use part-timers (who aren’t subject to ObamaCare) won’t have to worry any more.
Nullifying the employer mandate is likely to ignite a hiring boom.
According to the US
Chamber of Commerce, that looming mandate has caused 21 percent of small
businesses to reduce workers’ hours, 41 percent to delay hiring and 27 percent
of franchises (such as fast-food restaurants) to replace full-timers with
part-timers.
People facing a
penalty for being uninsured will also come out ahead. Without subsidies, most
will be exempted from the penalty, saving them $2,000 on average next year.
Despite Democrats’
dire warnings, the poor won’t be hurt. An amazing 89 percent of people who are
newly insured because of ObamaCare are on Medicaid, which won’t be affected.
Ignore the alarmist
rhetoric. A loss for the Obama administration in King v. Burwell will be a win
for most Americans.
Read the entire article here.
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
71st anniversary of D-Day
Photo credit: Conservative Treehouse
Today marks the 71st
anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of the Normandy beaches. ConservativeTreehouse has the video of Pres. Reagan’s commemorative speech delivered on the 40th anniversary.
A previously undiscovered German bunker was discovered
on Juno Beach only two days ago. That report is here.
My late father was
the skipper of LCT (Landing Craft Tank) number 2454, which landed troops and equipment
on Utah Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944.
A salute to all those who served to turn the tide against the Nazis.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
End Obamacare Exemption
Join us on June 17 @ Noon at Your Local Congressional Offices
End Obamacare Exemption
Join us at noon on Wednesday, June 17th at
one of your Senator’s or Representative’s local offices to demand that they
abide by the laws that they force on the rest of us. Congress refuses to end
their own Obamacare subsidies.
In Obamacare, it clearly states that Members
of Congress and their staffs must abide by the law. However, they are ignoring the
law in order to avoid its harmful effects which allows them to continue
receiving their generous tax-payer funded subsidy. Which NO ONE else in
the country enjoys!
Help us petition our elected officials to
stop breaking the law. It’s time we put an end to the privileged, ruling class
so that they too can feel the harms of Obamacare. Then we may be able to
finally repeal this awful law!
Find your legislators on the interactive map.
Click on a Location to RSVP.
Download all of the
tools you’ll need.
Join your fellow patriots on June 17th.
Interactive
map for this event is here.
Three
key legislator offices in Cuyahoga County are:
Senator
Sherrod Brown
Cleveland
Office
801
West Superior Ave., Suite 1400
Cleveland,
OH 44113
(216)
522-7272
Representative
Marcy Kaptur
Lakewood
Office
16024
Madison St., Suite 3
Lakewood,
OH 44107
(216)
767-5933
Representative
Marcy Kaptur
Parma
Office
5592
Broadview Rd., Room 101
Parma,
OH 44134
(440)
799-8499
Mark your calendar for June 17 at noon. If you can go to the location,
that is the best. But if you can’t take off work, then plan to make a few phone
calls between noon and 1pm.
Bonus: Take the opportunity to express
your support for the Ohio Health Care Compact.
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Monday, June 1, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
Memorial Day thoughts
Here is an extract from The WashingtonPost:
I’m a veteran and I hate ‘Happy Memorial
Day.’ Here’s why.
By
Jennie Haskamp May 22 at 11:02 AM
. . . I’m angry. I’ve come to realize people think Memorial Day
is the official start of summer. It’s grilled meat, super-duper discounts, a day
(or two) off work, beer, potato salad and porches draped in bunting.
But it
shouldn’t be. It’s more than that.
Nearly
150 years ago, Memorial Day— first called Decoration Day— was set aside to decorate
the graves of the men who’d recently died in battle. America was still reeling
from the Civil War when Gen. John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, issued a proclamation in 1868, according to a PBS account of
his decision. “The 30th of May,” he declared, “would be an occasion to
honor those who died in the conflict.”
He
chose the date because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle.
Here’s
how it was outlined in General Orders No. 11, Washington, D.C., May
5, 1868:
The
30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers
or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their
country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every
city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form
of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange
such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
How is
it then, some century and a half later, after more than a decade of war in two
countries that claimed the lives of some 6,861 Americans,
we are collectively more concerned with having a barbecue and going shopping
than pausing to appreciate the cost of our freedom to do so?
A
friend reminded me that plenty of people use the weekend the way it was
designed: to pause and remember the men and women who paid the price of our
freedom, and then go on about enjoying those freedoms.
I’m
frustrated by people all over the country who view the day as anything but a
day to remember our WAR DEAD. I hate hearing “Happy Memorial Day.”
It’s
not Veteran’s Day. It’s not military appreciation day. Don’t thank me for my
service. Please don’t thank me for my service. It’s
take the time to pay homage to the men and women who died while wearing the
cloth of this nation you’re so freely enjoying today, day.
Read
the rest here.
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