Hit The Road, Barack
At the beginning of 2012, Newsweek asked “Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?”
This was par for the course, as with the rest of the mainstream media, they had joined in the hagiography of Obama when he was dutifully crowned with divinity:
“I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above the world, he’s sort of God.”
Oh how the mighty are fallen!
Sunday morning conservatives were knocked out of their chairs with the just-released Newsweek with the magazine’s cover of a photo of Barack Obama, suit jacket swung over his shoulder, and looking arrogantly into the camera. The caption: “Hit the Road, Barack. Why We Need a New President.”
Inside is a 3000-word article by economist Niall Ferguson, excoriating Barack Hussein Obama for gutting the economy and putting us on a road to financial ruin. In slick magazine fashion, there are charts of the economy’s unemployment rate, sluggish growth, and skyrocketing debt.
It also delves into the fact that Obama’s lack of experience in either business or management has equated into a man that is clearly over his head; in which Niall Ferguson quotes Ron Suskind’s book, Confidence Men, of Larry Summers and Peter Orzag (Obama’s economic team) in conversation:
“You know, Peter, we’re really home alone…I mean it. We’re home alone. There’s no adult in charge.
A home where the children are left without adult supervision is problematic. But a country, the sole superpower in the world, without adult supervision is a recipe for disaster, as Niall Ferguson shows with Obama’s disastrous foreign policy leading to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East and the country’s path to financial ruin.
Is this the beginning of the end of the mainstream media’s love affair with Barack Hussein Obama? Will they send him packing? Will they tell him to “Hit the Road, Barack. And don’t you come back no more, no more…”
Let us hope so.
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2. Home Foreclosures are still UP.
3. Gas prices today hit $3.85 to 4.83 per gallon
4. Unemployment in the Black Community ~ 18%
5. Unemployment for Black Youth ~ 39.9% = 40%
6. Unemployment for Hispanics ~ 11%
7. Food Prices up 46% since Obama took office
8. 780,000 WOMEN unemployed under Obama
9. Electricity bills have SKYROCTED
10. The biggest TAX INCREASE on the MIDDLE CLASS ever !!!!!
11. Medicare RAIDED over $780 BILLION dollars to FUND ObamaCare
12. We have MORE Americans on Welfare and Food Stamps ever
13. 1 out of every 6 Americans are living in POVERTY
14. Obama has outsourced MILLIONS of JOBS.
15. Obama sent BILLION of Tax dollars to BRAZIL for OIL exploration while DENYING the USA to DRILL HERE and DRILL NOW
16. Those SHOVEL READY JOBS were NOT so SHOVEL READY.
If you would like me to continue I'll be happy to oblige.
Obamacare Robs Medicare of $716 Billion to Fund Itself.
Last week, a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report updated the amount of money Obamacare robs out of Medicare from $500 billion to a whopping $716 billion between 2013 and 2022.
According to the CBO, the payment cuts in Medicare include:
A $260 billion payment cut for hospital services.
A $39 billion payment cut for skilled nursing services.
A $17 billion payment cut for hospice services.
A $66 billion payment cut for home health services.
A $33 billion payment cut for all other services.
A $156 billion cut in payment rates in Medicare Advantage (MA); $156 billion is before considering interactions with other provisions. The House Ways and Means Committee was able to include interactions with other provisions, estimating the cuts to MA to be even higher, coming in at $308 billion.
$56 billion in cuts for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments.* DSH payments go to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients.
$114 billion in other provisions pertaining to Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP* (does not include coverage-related provisions).
*Subtract $25 billion total between DSH payments and other provisions for spending that was cut from Medicaid and CHIP.
In total, Obamacare raids Medicare by $716 billio...
Obamacare Robs Medicare of $716 Billion to Fund Itself.
Last week, a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report updated the amount of money Obamacare robs out of Medicare from $500 billion to a whopping $716 billion between 2013 and 2022.
According to the CBO, the payment cuts in Medicare include:
A $260 billion payment cut for hospital services.
A $39 billion payment cut for skilled nursing services.
A $17 billion payment cut for hospice services.
A $66 billion payment cut for home health services.
A $33 billion payment cut for all other services.
A $156 billion cut in payment rates in Medicare Advantage (MA); $156 billion is before considering interactions with other provisions. The House Ways and Means Committee was able to include interactions with other provisions, estimating the cuts to MA to be even higher, coming in at $308 billion.
$56 billion in cuts for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments.* DSH payments go to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients.
$114 billion in other provisions pertaining to Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP* (does not include coverage-related provisions).
*Subtract $25 billion total between DSH payments and other provisions for spending that was cut from Medicaid and CHIP.
In total, Obamacare raids Medicare by $716 billion from 2013 to 2022. Despite Medicare facing a 75-year unfunded obligation of $37 trillion, Obamacare uses the savings from the cuts to pay for other provisions in Obamacare, not to help shore up Medicare’s finances.
The impact of these cuts will be detrimental to seniors’ access to care. The Medicare trustees 2012 report concludes that these lower Medicare payment rates will cause an estimated 15 percent of hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies to operate at a loss by 2019, 25 percent to operate at a loss in 2030, and 40 percent by 2050. Operating at a loss means these facilities are likely to cut back their services to Medicare patients or close their doors, making it more difficult for seniors to access these services.
In addition, as MA deteriorates under Obamacare’s cuts, many of those who are enrolled in MA (27 percent of total Medicare beneficiaries) will lose their current health coverage and be forced back into traditional Medicare, where Medicare providers will be subject to further cuts. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief actuary predicted in 2010 that enrollment in MA would decrease 50 percent by 2017, when Obamacare’s cuts were estimated at only $145 billion. Now that the cuts have been increased to $156 billion (or possibly $308 billion, as the Ways and Means Committee estimates), MA enrollment will surely decrease even further.
But Obamacare’s raid of Medicare doesn’t stop with cuts; it includes a redirection of tax revenue from the Medicare payroll tax hike in Obamacare. The payroll tax funds Medicare Part A, the trust fund that is projected to become insolvent as soon as 2024. Obamacare increases the tax from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent, which is projected to cost taxpayers $318 billion from 2013 to 2022. However, for the very first time, Obamacare does not use the tax revenue from the increased Medicare payroll tax to pay for Medicare; the money is used to fund other parts of Obamacare, much like the $716 billion in cuts are.
With a raid on Medicare of this magnitude, President Obama’s assertion that his new law is protecting seniors and Medicare is astonishing. The truth is that Obamacare does the opposite.
We have more people on Welfare and Food Stamps than we had during the Great Depression.
Gas prices are $3.85 to $4.50 ~ Just today it cost me $70.68 to fill up my truck. As a small business owner how much more in taxes do I have to keep paying?
Electricity Bills have Skyrocketed.
Obama has sent billions to Brazil for Oil Exploration vs allowing the US to Drill here and Drill now.
Groceries have gone up 46% since Obama took office.
We have 8.3% unemployment ~ Factoring in those Americans who are under employed or who have given up finding a job unemployment is around 22% to 28%,
Blacks under Obama ~ Unemployment 18%
Black Youth under Obama ~ Unemployment 39.9%
Obama has outsourced millions of jobs via Jeffery Immelt ~ G.E.
Those shovel ready jobs? Not so Shovel Ready.
By lowering taxes means that we the middle class who have been hit with the biggest tax hike under Obama via ObamaCare would have MORE money in our checks. The more money we get to keep the more we can put back into the economy.
The rich already pay over 50% to the Federal Gov.
The poor pay $0.00.
Rich people are the people who create jobs. They keep the small business owners like me in bu...
We have more people on Welfare and Food Stamps than we had during the Great Depression.
Gas prices are $3.85 to $4.50 ~ Just today it cost me $70.68 to fill up my truck. As a small business owner how much more in taxes do I have to keep paying?
Electricity Bills have Skyrocketed.
Obama has sent billions to Brazil for Oil Exploration vs allowing the US to Drill here and Drill now.
Groceries have gone up 46% since Obama took office.
We have 8.3% unemployment ~ Factoring in those Americans who are under employed or who have given up finding a job unemployment is around 22% to 28%,
Blacks under Obama ~ Unemployment 18%
Black Youth under Obama ~ Unemployment 39.9%
Obama has outsourced millions of jobs via Jeffery Immelt ~ G.E.
Those shovel ready jobs? Not so Shovel Ready.
By lowering taxes means that we the middle class who have been hit with the biggest tax hike under Obama via ObamaCare would have MORE money in our checks. The more money we get to keep the more we can put back into the economy.
The rich already pay over 50% to the Federal Gov.
The poor pay $0.00.
Rich people are the people who create jobs. They keep the small business owners like me in business.
Tell me how does punishing the RICH help those who are poor?
If we keep taking more and more from those who have they will simply close up their businesses and move.
BTW how much more do you want the rich to pay?
60%?, 75%?, 88%?
The UK has began taxing the rich 75% and well now they are broke. I don't care to look like Greece but sadly we're over 1/2 way there.
Obama has got to go.
You seem to be upset that Romney is Rich. Why? He worked hard and became successful. Why do you wish to punish those who work hard and succeed? When did it become popular to demonize those of us who achieve financial wealth?
I am 23. I have my own business. 22 branches and in all because I took a chance and I am proud to be a success. But now the left wants to punish people like me for achieving my dreams. In my world that is called GREED when the left wants to take what I worked for and redistribute it those who do not work.
How about redistributing my work ethic vs my Wealth?
Those who work at low paying jobs DON'T have to stay at those jobs. They don't have to stay "STUCK". One can always work save and do what they wish to do IF they are willing to do the work.
You're so wrong.
Enhanced interrogation techniques or alternative set of procedures are terms that describe and were implemented by a George W. Bush administration authorization and use of certain severe interrogation methods including hypothermia, stress positions and water boarding.
Fact:
Bush interrogation tactics got Osama
May 3, 2011
Isn't that interesting? Obama will now take credit for killing bin Laden. But, as indicated in a news story, the intelligence that made it possible was garnered by the interrogation of detainees (approved by President George W. Bush). Interrogation railed AGAINST by Obama and all the leftists as "torture" and "illegal" detention.
Of course, now, the Sun Sentinel and the "lame-stream" media will ignore this, and enthusiastically praise Obama and his "aggressive" pursuit of bin Laden.
So
Enhanced interrogation techniques or alternative set of procedures are terms that describe and were implemented by a George W. Bush administration authorization and use of certain severe interrogation methods including hypothermia, stress positions and water boarding.
Fact:
Bush interrogation tactics got Osama
May 3, 2011
Isn't that interesting? Obama will now take credit for killing bin Laden. But, as indicated in a news story, the intelligence that made it possible was garnered by the interrogation of detainees (approved by President George W. Bush). Interrogation railed AGAINST by Obama and all the leftists as "torture" and "illegal" detention.
Of course, now, the Sun Sentinel and the "lame-stream" media will ignore this, and enthusiastically praise Obama and his "aggressive" pursuit of bin Laden.
So