FROM STEVEN FRANK'S CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS:
(comment here; article below)
Like Tom DeLay holding up the US Constitution said Sunday after the shenaniganS of health act passing: "It makes me sickened! (the Fox interviewer said: "Aren't you sad?" Mr. DeLay answered: "The smell is the Constitution burning."
It makes this writer and probably everyone else sickened!
SO NOW THIS MAN CALLING HIMSELF PRESIDENT - SHALL NOT SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY HIS OWN ACTIONS IN THE HEALTH ACT. HE SHALL NOT "GUARANTEE A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT" TO EVERY STATE. HE HONESTLY BELIEVES THAT HIS ELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GIVES HIM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE BOTH THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In case some of you elected Congress-people think otherwise, please read Article V and in the Declaration at the point "...--That whenever any...".
NOW -- CAN WE TALK AND TAKE ACTION ABOUT OUR NATION -- BEFORE IT COMPLETELY GOES DOWN THE DRAIN?: SO, CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY'S WON'T ARGUE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BECAUSE IT IS NOT LAW!! IT IS MORE LAW THAN THE CONSTITUTION, BECAUSE OUR DECLARATION IS THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES OF GOD! IT IS THE EXPRESSION OF ALL THE PRINCIPLES THE FOUNDERS USED TO CREATE THE REASON FOR THE CONSTITUTION TO BE WRITTEN. OUR NATION HAS NO CONSTITUTION WITHOUT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND NO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT A CONSTITUTION. It is this second half of the statement WE ARE NOW FACED WITH: IT IS CLEAR THAT THE CONSTITUTION IS ATTACKED, BUT WHAT IS NEW OR A REVIEW - IS THE ROLE OF THE DECLARATION TO AMERICA AND AMERICANS NATURAL OR NATURALIZED.
WE HAVE NEVER STATED THE ROLE OF THE DECLARATION SINCE IT WAS WRITTEN, because at the Time IT was written, EVERY PRINCIPLE IT EXPRESSED WAS PART OF FOUNDER'S AND MOST OF AMERICAN COLONIST'S DAILY LIVES. IT WAS THE EXCEPTION WHEN A COLONIST DIDN'T HAVE A BIBLE OR ATTEND CHURCH. IT WAS AN EXCEPTION WHEN A HANDSHAKE WAS NOT SYNONOMOUS WITH PERSONAL INTEGRITY. LIKE WEAPONS OF ATTACK OR DEFENSE, THE DECLARATION'S PRINCIPLES WERE INTEGRATED WITH COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, HUSBANDRY, EVEN INCLUDING SLAVES (remember, slaves were not only in the South). Many Colonists were well read and newspapers flourished in even smaller towns. The Declaration described was integral in America all the way to President Bush. In "The Federalist Papers #2, John Jay said: "This country and this people seem to be made for each other." Part of what 'We the people' are agast at is the degree of outright denigration of fact in all aspects of person, dissemination of information, and the degree and nature of actions taken by this current administration; and includes the liberal attacks of the eight years (and more) of the Bush Administration, which we often put off as politics as usual -- which it wasn't. It isn't politics as "ugly" and usual now - today and last Sunday - another Day of Infamy, but without the shooting of bullets of any sort. By the way, just because Second Amendment Americans chose to wear weapons to meetings and public places does not mean these sovereign individuals plan to start a shooting war against this this man calling himself the President of 'Change' for which he shall be fully "vindicated given time."
AGAIN, THE HEALTH ACT IS NOT ABOUT HEALTH. It is about Power and Money! Why? Because the Act doesn't stand to logic, reason,including reading the Section elements and content within the Act itself, poor governance due to known in most of the world as a very bad idea; but in view of these facts -- this administration with its known personnel persist in declaring it a god-send to all of America! IN THE SOCIALIST WORLD: "Hence if follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come. ....In fact, in the science of health, arts, and in that of morals. ...It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter the consequences. ...It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves.(F. Bastiat, "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen")
SHALL WE ALLOW, WITH REVEREND WRIGHT'S PERMISSION TURN THIS NATION INTO 50 SLAVE STATES AND 308+ MILLION SOURCES OF TAX REVENUE!? Greater than $500,000,000,000 will go directly to the Executive Branch of government through HHS, Treasury Dept. with IRS to be sure we taxpayers pay our fines for Not joining Mr. Obama's horrendous Health Act. By the way, a little noticed incident adds great knowledge about Socialism's thinking of money: THEY ACTUALLY HOPE YOU WON'T JOIN AND WILL PAY THE FINE - IT IS CLEANER MONEY NOT RECIRCULATED GOVERNMENT MONEY! Like this Socialist administration with support from a small portion of Congress 'jobs bill' those Republicans, again, refused to join because you can't reduce unemployment numbers with government jobs! Why? It's taxpayer dollars not government!!! Government doesn't produce anything -- but trouble and certainly not revenue! It does an excellent job of demand, force and demeaning an individual or bankrupting a State!
ANYHOW WHAT'S ONE INDIVIDUAL AMERICAN BUT A PERSON WHO WE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT, CALL TELL WHAT HE/SHE/FAMILIES NEED SO THEY CAN BE TAKEN CARE OF BY THE SAME EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT! WASH.D.C. POLITICIANS OF DEMOCRATIC LEANINGS - YOU DON'T THINK YOU ARE BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE LEGISLATION EQUATION - JUST LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE AGREED TO - WITHOUT READING IT and LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH TO BEHAVE LIKE LEMMINGS!!!!!! WHERE ARE YOUR BRAINS? MUST BE LOCATED NORTH OF YOUR FEET AND SOUTH OF YOUR BRAIN!!! But your actions also reinforce that the Health Act is about power and money -- not health! Thank you for that!!
YOU CAN'T HAVE OUR CONSTITUTION WITHOUT OUR DECLARATION!
IT IS THE DECLARATION THAT THE SOCIALISTS ARE ATTACKING! SOCIALISM cannot function with "..GOVERNMENT IS INSTITUTED AMONG MEN DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED"..! "..AND TO ASSUME AMONG THE POWERS OF THE EARTH, THE SEPARATE AND EQUAL STATION TO WHICH THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE'S GOD ENTITLE THEM, A DECENT RESPECT TO THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND REQUIRES..." -- "PRUDENCE, INDEED, WILL DICTATE THAT GOVERNMENTS LONG ESTABLISHED SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED FOR LIGHT AND TRANSIENT CAUSES; AND ACCORDINGLY ALL EXPERIENCE HATH SHEWN, THAT MANKIND ARE MORE DISPOSED TO SUFFER, WHILE EVILS ARE SUFFERABLE, THAN TO RIGHT **THEMSELVES** BY ABOLISHING THE FORMS TO WHICH THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED. BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND [1828]USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME **0BJECT** EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE **[1828]DESPOTISM, +++IT IS THEIR RIGHT, ++++IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY. --SUCH HAS BEEN THE PATIENT SUFFERANCE OF THESE..(WE THE PEOPLE with the part of Our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES WHO RECOGNIZE THE CONSTITUTION AS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY POLITICAL PARTY - ARE AMERICAN FIRST, and also happen to be Republicans. Largely because elected Democrats have separated themselves from the 'We the people'Democrats, given-up principle and ethics for their Socialist leaders who can only function if principle and ethics are ignored. If Party name-calling and accusations reign free because elected Democrats have to do something to regain footing with themselves as well as the Constituents who elected them - never-mine the Nation they also were elected to serve)".
ObamaCare: Massive Job Losses Started
Written by on March 28, 2010, 12:03 PM
Obamacare Already Hurting Businesses
Let Freedom Ring blog, 3/25/10
Based on this article, its painfully obvious that Obamacare is inflicting pain into the economy but it isnt helping the American people:
Deere & Co (DE.N) and Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) said they are expecting a combined $250 million in charges this year as a result of changes to the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system that President Barack Obama signed into law this week.
Naturally, the Obama administration is trying to spin this to avoid taking a hit politically:
But Commerce Secretary Gary Locke criticized those estimates as premature. The final law is still being tweaked, with the Senate expected to send a revised version of the landmark legislation back to the House of Representatives later on Thursday after eliminating two minor provisions.
A lot of the regulations on how this will affect big business havent even published yet; so for them to come out, I think is premature and irresponsible, Locke said in an interview on CNBC business television.
Secretary Locke can tweak the bill all he wants but that wont erase the major tax penalties that the bill will inflict on corporations. A little tweake here or there wont shrink the employer or individual mandates. Tweaking the bill wont eliminate the tax increase on medical device manufacturers.
It didnt take 48 hours before the tax increases in this health care bill started to hit manufacturers and other employers, said Representative Dave Camp, the top Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. With over one-half trillion dollars in new taxes, the health care bill is the single largest tax increase in American history. It is a government takeover of health care that families cannot afford and our economy cannot afford.
At issue in Deeres and Caterpillars forecasts is a provision of the health care reform package that makes a subsidy paid to companies to provide prescription drug coverage to their employees taxable; previously this benefit had not been taxed.
Rep. Camp is exactly right. The Democrats health care legislation strips out subsidies that help companies provide prescription drug coverage to their employees. This was a predictable result of the tax increases on evil big business. This didnt surprise anyone who paid attention.
According to this WSJ article, Obamacare will hurt other businesses, too:
Even before President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday, Caterpillar said it would cost the company at least $100 million more in the first year alone. Medical device maker Medtronic warned that new taxes on its products could force it to lay off a thousand workers.
Lets hear this administration attempt to defend Obamacare against the backdrop of Obamacares tax increases causing 1,000 layoffs at Medtronics. If the administration plans on making that pitch in person, Id recommend their representative wearing a flack jacket to the presentation.
Medtronic isnt the only medical device manufacturer considering layoffs:
This bill is a jobs killer, said Ernie Whiton, chief financial officer of Chelmsfords Zoll Medical Corp., which employs about 650 people in Massachusetts. Many of those employees work in Zolls local manufacturing facility making heart defibrillators. We could be forced to (move) manufacturing overseas if we cant pass along these costs to our customers, said Whiton.
Theres plentiful proof that there is a tax increase on medical device manufacturers. Within 48 hours of signing the bill, Medtronic and Zoll Medical have said that laying off 1,650 people combined is possible. Thats before talking about another little tax increase that the Obama administration doesnt want us to know about:
Mr. Reed specifically cited a change in the tax treatment of retiree health benefits. When Congress created the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2003, it included a modest tax subsidy to encourage employers to keep drug plans for retirees, rather than dumping them on the government. The Employee Benefit Research Institute says this exclusionequal to 28% of the cost of a drug planwill run taxpayers $665 per person next year, while the same Medicare coverage would cost $1,209.
The direct result of this tax increase is a shift of retired employees from their companies plans onto Medicares persciption drug plan.
QUESTION: Did the CBO factor this into their scoring of the Democrats health care legislation? Im betting that they didnt.
Then theres the dilemma facing companies that hire seasonal workers:
The bill signed into law on Tuesday by President Barack Obama fines businesses that do not provide health insurance to full-time employees who work more than 120 days a year. The assessment is $2,000 per employee, which, according to SkiNH lobbyist Bruce Berke and group president Alice Pearce, could mean as much as $1 million in fines to the big ski resorts, some of which hire as many as 500 seasonal workers.
Also affected would be any business that hires on a seasonal basis, and, like most nationally, do not offer health insurance.
Pearce said the original Senate health care bill contained only a $750-per-employee fine, which kicked in after a worker was employed 150 days. That exempted most ski areas, she said. But the House tightened it to $2,000 and 120 days.
I talked about the possibility of the Democrats health care legislation triggering the next round of layoffs. Now that prediction appears significantly closer to being reality.
Speaker Pelosi talked about the Democrats health care legislation as being a jobs bill. Thats insulting. Its nothing of the sort. In fact, the articles listed above indicate that the pain inflicted by the Democrats health care legislation will be deep, sustained and widespread. Despite all that, President Obama dared Republicans to repeal the Democrats health care legislation:
In his speech, he mocked Republicans for suggesting that passage of the bill means Armageddon and dared them to run on a platform of repealing the bill, as many have vowed to do.
Now that we passed it, theyre already promising to repeal it, he said. Theyre actually going to run on a platform of repeal in November. And my attitude is, go for it.
If these Congressmen inWashington want to come here in Iowa
The president said cable news talking heads are still shouting about the end of the world and said that Republicans are offering disingenuous suggestions that the bill means the end of freedom as we know it.
So after I signed the bill I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling or cracks opening around the earth, he joked. Turns out it was a nice day. Birds were chirping. Folks were strolling down the Mall. People still had their doctors.
Id dare President Obama or HHS Secretary Sebelius to tell the people working for Zoll Medical or Medtronic whose jobs might soon disappear that its a sunny day with birds chirping. Im betting that Medtronics employees wont have the sunny disposition that President Obama has because theyre dealing with the harsh realities of the bill. They cant afford to be oblivious to the affects of the Democrats health care legislation.
Id dare President Obama or HHS Secretary Sebelius to tell the John Deere or Caterpillar employees who might lose their job as a result of the Democrats health care legislation that the sun is shining and the birds are chirping.
Let Freedom Ring blog, 3/25/10
Based on this article, its painfully obvious that Obamacare is inflicting pain into the economy but it isnt helping the American people:
Deere & Co (DE.N) and Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) said they are expecting a combined $250 million in charges this year as a result of changes to the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system that President Barack Obama signed into law this week.
Naturally, the Obama administration is trying to spin this to avoid taking a hit politically:
But Commerce Secretary Gary Locke criticized those estimates as premature. The final law is still being tweaked, with the Senate expected to send a revised version of the landmark legislation back to the House of Representatives later on Thursday after eliminating two minor provisions.
A lot of the regulations on how this will affect big business havent even published yet; so for them to come out, I think is premature and irresponsible, Locke said in an interview on CNBC business television.
Secretary Locke can tweak the bill all he wants but that wont erase the major tax penalties that the bill will inflict on corporations. A little tweake here or there wont shrink the employer or individual mandates. Tweaking the bill wont eliminate the tax increase on medical device manufacturers.
It didnt take 48 hours before the tax increases in this health care bill started to hit manufacturers and other employers, said Representative Dave Camp, the top Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. With over one-half trillion dollars in new taxes, the health care bill is the single largest tax increase in American history. It is a government takeover of health care that families cannot afford and our economy cannot afford.
At issue in Deeres and Caterpillars forecasts is a provision of the health care reform package that makes a subsidy paid to companies to provide prescription drug coverage to their employees taxable; previously this benefit had not been taxed.
Rep. Camp is exactly right. The Democrats health care legislation strips out subsidies that help companies provide prescription drug coverage to their employees. This was a predictable result of the tax increases on evil big business. This didnt surprise anyone who paid attention.
According to this WSJ article, Obamacare will hurt other businesses, too:
Even before President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday, Caterpillar said it would cost the company at least $100 million more in the first year alone. Medical device maker Medtronic warned that new taxes on its products could force it to lay off a thousand workers.
Lets hear this administration attempt to defend Obamacare against the backdrop of Obamacares tax increases causing 1,000 layoffs at Medtronics. If the administration plans on making that pitch in person, Id recommend their representative wearing a flack jacket to the presentation.
Medtronic isnt the only medical device manufacturer considering layoffs:
This bill is a jobs killer, said Ernie Whiton, chief financial officer of Chelmsfords Zoll Medical Corp., which employs about 650 people in Massachusetts. Many of those employees work in Zolls local manufacturing facility making heart defibrillators. We could be forced to (move) manufacturing overseas if we cant pass along these costs to our customers, said Whiton.
Theres plentiful proof that there is a tax increase on medical device manufacturers. Within 48 hours of signing the bill, Medtronic and Zoll Medical have said that laying off 1,650 people combined is possible. Thats before talking about another little tax increase that the Obama administration doesnt want us to know about:
Mr. Reed specifically cited a change in the tax treatment of retiree health benefits. When Congress created the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2003, it included a modest tax subsidy to encourage employers to keep drug plans for retirees, rather than dumping them on the government. The Employee Benefit Research Institute says this exclusionequal to 28% of the cost of a drug planwill run taxpayers $665 per person next year, while the same Medicare coverage would cost $1,209.
The direct result of this tax increase is a shift of retired employees from their companies plans onto Medicares persciption drug plan.
QUESTION: Did the CBO factor this into their scoring of the Democrats health care legislation? Im betting that they didnt.
Then theres the dilemma facing companies that hire seasonal workers:
The bill signed into law on Tuesday by President Barack Obama fines businesses that do not provide health insurance to full-time employees who work more than 120 days a year. The assessment is $2,000 per employee, which, according to SkiNH lobbyist Bruce Berke and group president Alice Pearce, could mean as much as $1 million in fines to the big ski resorts, some of which hire as many as 500 seasonal workers.
Also affected would be any business that hires on a seasonal basis, and, like most nationally, do not offer health insurance.
Pearce said the original Senate health care bill contained only a $750-per-employee fine, which kicked in after a worker was employed 150 days. That exempted most ski areas, she said. But the House tightened it to $2,000 and 120 days.
I talked about the possibility of the Democrats health care legislation triggering the next round of layoffs. Now that prediction appears significantly closer to being reality.
Speaker Pelosi talked about the Democrats health care legislation as being a jobs bill. Thats insulting. Its nothing of the sort. In fact, the articles listed above indicate that the pain inflicted by the Democrats health care legislation will be deep, sustained and widespread. Despite all that, President Obama dared Republicans to repeal the Democrats health care legislation:
In his speech, he mocked Republicans for suggesting that passage of the bill means Armageddon and dared them to run on a platform of repealing the bill, as many have vowed to do.
Now that we passed it, theyre already promising to repeal it, he said. Theyre actually going to run on a platform of repeal in November. And my attitude is, go for it.
If these Congressmen in
The president said cable news talking heads are still shouting about the end of the world and said that Republicans are offering disingenuous suggestions that the bill means the end of freedom as we know it.
So after I signed the bill I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling or cracks opening around the earth, he joked. Turns out it was a nice day. Birds were chirping. Folks were strolling down the Mall. People still had their doctors.
Id dare President Obama or HHS Secretary Sebelius to tell the people working for Zoll Medical or Medtronic whose jobs might soon disappear that its a sunny day with birds chirping. Im betting that Medtronics employees wont have the sunny disposition that President Obama has because theyre dealing with the harsh realities of the bill. They cant afford to be oblivious to the affects of the Democrats health care legislation.
Id dare President Obama or HHS Secretary Sebelius to tell the John Deere or Caterpillar employees who might lose their job as a result of the Democrats health care legislation that the sun is shining and the birds are chirping.
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