Obama Cop Says “This Ain’t [your America] No More

Funny how hypocrisy works.  It’s okay to show Bush as Hitler, but not Obama as the Joker.

You can be threatened with arrest if you bring an Obama as the Joker poster to a Townhall meeting.

Remember these?

Well, it’s a new day.  That was then, this is now.  

THIS poster is not allowed to be displayed in public according to police who threatened to arrest a man who had this at a Townhall meeting.

Free speech is only afforded to Marxists and Leftists.

When the cop threatening to arrest the protester was told “I have free speech!  This is America!”  The cop replied “It ‘aint no more”.

Watch this:

Welcome to Hope and Change.

UPDATE: WND has more info on this story – notably that the Officer is NOT a policeman, but a school security guard.

9-11 Is No Longer Patriot Day. Obama Has Made It A National Socialist Day

His first act as president was to sit down for an interview with Al-Aribiya.

He has repeatedly stated that America is not, nor ever will be at war with Islam.

He orders the closing of Gitmo and the transfer of Jihadist prisoners to American soil where they will have access to America’s legal system.

He gives a major speech “To the Muslim world” in Cairo.

Obama orders release of  Jihadi prisoners and enemy combatants who killed US troops in Afghanistan.

He orders the War on Terror ended and demands that it is no longer referred to as a war.

He sends a video message to muslims worldwide to honor Ramadan.

He then orders his attorney general to begin investigating CIA officials who were involved in intelligence gathering from Jihadists.

I could go on and on about the efforts Obama has made to coddle dictators, Jihad terrorists and Communists of the world, while tearing down this country and blaming it at every opportunity.

But why restate the obvious?

But in the midst of this pattern, with all the hoopla over bank, auto bailouts and the health care nationalization – something slipped on by the majority of our notice back in April.

Obama and the Democrats last April, passed and signed a protocol to scrap 9-11 remembrances and memorials, and instead turn the focus of 9-11 from remembering the worst terror attack in our history, into a Day of Socialist Activism.  

9-11 is no longer Patriot Day.  Obama designated 9-11 as a “National Day of Service”, and it was hidden inside the abominable H.R. 1388 “Give Act“.

That’s right, 9-11 in the eyes of Dear Leader, is no longer a day to remember the sacrifices of Americans to the horrors of Jihadists – but a day to celebrate Leftist propaganda.

Obama’s Plan to Desecrate 9/11

By Matthew Vadum 

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

…The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.

The administration’s plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group’s senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.

…On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.

The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

“They think it needs to be taken back from the right,” said the source. “They’re taking that day and they’re breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day.”

A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, environmentalist, labor, and corporate shakedown groups participated in the call. Groups on the call included: ACORN, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Community Action Partnership, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, Friends of the Earth, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Mobilize.org, National Black Police Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Wildlife Federation, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Urban League, and Young Democrats of America.

…They view Sept. 11 as a “Republican” day because it focuses the public on supposedly “Republican” issues like patriotism, national security, and terrorism. According to liberals, 9/11 was long ago hijacked by Republicans and their enablers and unfairly used to bludgeon helpless Democrats at election time.

…On Aug. 4, the White House offered a glimpse into its plans to desecrate 9/11 for political advantage. Jones appeared in a largely ignored 33-minute video posted on the official blog of the White House to discuss the administration’s plan to flush 9/11 down the memory hole just as it has tried to do by rechristening the Global War on Terror the “Overseas Contingency Operations.”

Of this National Day of Service, Jones says little except that it will be a great opportunity “for people to connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America.”

...the National Day of Service will be “the first milestone” of a larger effort called Green the Block that is attempting to convince Americans that the utopian fantasy of a so-called green economy is possible without turning the U.S. into a Third World country.

…At no time does anyone explain why this National Day of Service has to be held — of all the 365 days in a year — on Sept. 11.

Obama alone is not the architect of this desecration.  The Democrats in the House and Senate wrote this garbage and sent it on to Obama to sign.  OpenCongress.org—H.R.1388 – The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act

Of course the contempt Obama has for patriotism, America and the principles that we hold dear is no secret. 

His contempt for those Americans lost on 9-11 was self-evident at last year’s memorial service at Ground Zero where Dear Leader irreverently tossed a rose in a display of cavalier indifference.

Of course Obama had a penchant for politicizing even 9-11 to fit his idea of Marxist change.

State Senator Barack Obama, September 19th 2001:

“Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy…

“We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. …it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.

“We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe-children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and within our own shores.” – State Senator Barack Obama, September 19th 2001

It should be no surprise then, that Obama and his lackeys, have decided to CHANGE the meaning of 9-11, into a day of Leftist Activism.

America’s Marxist Revolution

JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Now!!!!

by John Galt

August 25, 2009

Ah the good old days. I remember growing up with communists on the college campus, communists ready to nuke us, communist spies recruiting on campus, and the constant battle between the good old U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. From the pictures above, it seems like the communist movement is resurgent except that the only difference is the only picture from that era is the last one encouraging Soviet citizens to volunteer to work on Saturdays for the good of the party; coming here soon, I’m sure. The communist party fist in the second is still a popular symbol for the Marxist infestation in our nation and many others yet you really only see it in major cities and now out in the sticks with all of us primitive redneck types the media hates.

So why an anti-communist threat when the threat is not there? Because it is there, it is as strong as ever and the American people are gullible enough to submit to such a system if marketed properly. Don’t believe me?

In my paranoid right-wing capitalist pig opinion, their is an undercurrent of teaching that conforming to the ideas of Marx is actually a patriotic American duty and will serve all of the people far more beneficially than a system where “capitalists” and other selfish individualists create markets that support themselves and is not politically desirable for the “people” as a whole. This warning is to tell you that you are being conditioned. You are being trained like a dog. When the whistle blows you will seek out that reward in exchange for your labor; trained to understand that to be fed, treated by a doctor, allowed to drive or purchase a car or other goods, and most of all provided security and protected by the state is a benefit of working for the state and causes of the state. Thus your trades of freedom for food, submission for protection, and financial security for sharing your labor are to be indoctrinated not as a vice but as a symbol of sacrifice and the new definition of patriotic freedom. Corporations will willingly propagate this idea in exchange for a piece of the action, creating an almost Fascist style oligarchy that works within the framework of a Chinese Communist style system.

And to them you are just the cog, a tool, a part of it, like a rail tie that the trains of history run over until worn out, replaced then discarded.

This is the subtle messages being transmitted to the people via channels of advertising and government programs. Think I’m crazy? Yes, probably so.

But the “Join the Revolution” picture was from this pamphlet:

That’s right, the ad was for the “NetSpend” preloaded credit cards. The symbolism is purely communist in nature if you look at it closely. I picked the pamphlet up at a Murphy USA service station while filling up for gas. If you think the message will not be sent, stay tuned, as you will soon be told not to speak out against the leaders of the nation and the party.

Just like the Soviets did in this poster:

Comrades, I hope you are ready for this; some of us will resist this to the bitter end.

MSNBC: Gun-Toting Protesters are ‘White’ Racists…Edits Out Black Man With AR-15

If you were not already aware of the blatant media propaganda efforts to stoke racial warfare and cover for Obama – here’s incontrovertible proof of the lengths and efforts MSNBC and the Mainstream media will go through to creatively edit the news and spin it in order to create the public opinion they want to create:

Now, here’s the actual fella with the AR-15:

Now go back and rewatch the first Youtube video and witness the creative editing and deliberate attempts to demonize white folks as Racists and dangerous.

Of course Andrea Mitchell already explained why they spin the news for us “little people” in the proletariat – we simply do not know “what is good for us”:

This of course is the Obama Bag lady who opened her show yesterday with this “unbiased reporting” of the news:

MITCHELL:  Our new NBC News poll shows misinformation is heavily clouding public opinion on health care.  Fifty-five percent believe the myth that illegal immigrants could be covered.  Fifty-four percent believe it will lead to a government takeover.  And half believe that tax dollars would fund abortions. Despite White House efforts to dispel all those rumors, 45% still believe that the proposed legislation includes the so-called death panels.  These numbers not good for the White House.  It shows that they’re not getting their message out.

So – MSNBC and the media will simply craft and shape the news for us to digest – and will get angry at us if we dare question them, or their messiah.  We’re too stupid to know what is good for us, so MSNBC and the State Run media will shape and craft it for us, so all of us can follow Obama to the glory of his new Marxist Reich.

On Obama and the Joker From ‘The Dark Knight’

A lot of flak has erupted in recent weeks over the Joker “Socialism” posters that were being printed and put up in California and other areas of the country.

The media went beserk, classifying the posters as an unspoken threat against Obama and an affront to decency and free speech and ‘racist’.  The media and even some police departments went into hunt mode to try and find the original artist who Photoshopped the image of Obama with the likeness of the late Heath Ledger’s Joker from the movie “The Dark Knight”, and in their zeal they were sure it was some kind of white, Right Wing bible-thumping Militia member who they would suggest charges be filed for such a perversion of their political messiah’s visage.

Of course yesterday we learned that the identity of the artist and it is not some Southern Angry White Male – but rather a Palestinian student from Chicago.  And crickets are heard in the mainstream media who not a week ago were trumpeting the dangers of such posters being created and now are dead silent that their framed caricature of the ‘offender’ is blown.

But beyond the image itself – there is something to consider between the character of the Joker from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and Barrack Obama.

In Christopher Nolan’s film, the Joker is an unknown with no record, who begins his climb to controlling Gotham by robbing from the Mob’s established banks.  He has no fingerprints or any records the police can examine.  The Mob itself is being diminished by Batman and the course of Justice being laid down by Jim Gordon and the GCPD.  The Joker adds to the desperation of the Mob with his thefts from their banks and shows up to offer his assistance in fixing their problem – by killing Batman and D.A. Harvey Dent.  The Joker warns the Mob that if they do not take his ‘offer’ seriously – they will suffer further setbacks.  When the weight of justice by Batman and Dent begins to weigh on Marconi and the Mob – they employ the Joker to ‘fix’ their problem and effectively assumes control of the Mob itself.  Joker begins by targeting specific officials and killing them, creating a climate of fear and panic.  Soon it becomes evident that the Joker is not interested at all in helping the Mob as much as controlling it himself.  He used the Mob to gain control of them and in the process gained control over all of Gotham himself.  He then begins to wage an assymetric war on the city to secure his power.  Joker tells Harvey Dent that he is an agent of “Chaos”, or “change”.  Joker’s doctrine is to “Upset the established order”, turn the foundations on their heads by showing them to be “pathetic” and ultimately he turns the citizens on Gotham against one another with the threat that if they do not do his dirty work – he will destroy them all.

The analogy to Obama is quite adroit in it’s application.  Obama had little to no record when he began his climb to political power.  He has no birth certificate or collegiate records the pubic can examine.  He began by working with Union Groups like ACORN and other political “mobs” to stir up trouble and establish himself.  Due the excesses of greed, credit and government mandates to political constituencies, The Mob (Big banks, Big Auto, Credit and Housing) were being diminished by the weight of free market justice catching up to them and they began to collapse as the economy took a downturn.  Obama and Democrats in government show up to offer assistance in “fixing” the problems they themselves contributed to, by killing the free market.  They warn that if these “mobs” do not get “bailed out” by government – they will suffer further setbacks.  When the economy and the fear created by these warnings weigh on the banks and Auto industry, they accept  Obama’s “Bailouts” and “Stimulus” packages that are effective takeovers of their enterprises.  Obama then begins to target specific classes and groups of people for destruction; (CEOs; Bankers, Investors, Automakers, Private Jet companies; Auto Executives; Doctors, Insurance Companies etc.) and creates a climate of fear and loathing.  Soon it becomes evident that Obama is not interested much in helping these industries get on their feet as much is he is interested in controlling them himself.  Obama used these stepping stones to control, and thereby is gaining control of the entire U.S. Production and service economy.

As the last few weeks have demonstrated, Obama is waging an assymetric war on American Capitalism and the American people themselves in order to secure himself in power.  Obama sold himself as an agent of “change” and has created chaos.  Obama’s doctrine is that of Marxist Saul Alinsky, to upset the established order, turn the foundations of the nation upside down while ridiculing our past principles and morality as “evil” or “pathetic” in speeches to the whole world.   What Obama is currently engaged in now, along with the rest of the Union and political mobs that he now has working for him, is to turn Americans against one another with the threat that if we do not sit down, shut up and do as we are told, that we will be diminished or destroyed.

In The Dark Knight, Batman has to have faith the the people of Gotham, who were so eager to demand Batman step down and turn himself in out of fear of reprisal from the Joker, will not ultimately give themselves over into playing the game the Joker wants them to play; one group against another.   The Joker is convinced that civilized people will ‘eat each another’ when the chips are down, and they will kill out of fear that they must do it to one group before the other group does it to them, thus engaging in chaos and anarchy themselves.  Ultimately, Batman’s faith paid off and the people of Gotham did not sink to the level of a genocidal maniac.

In America today, do we have the faith that the people of the nation, who were so eager to demand “Change” out of fear put forth by the political jokers and the mainstream media, not give themselves over into playing the game of demagoguery Obama plays?   Will they choose to allow themselves to be stoked into a rage of eating one another in jealous and envious rage and fear that one group must destroy another group of citizens by empowering the government to “punish” them?  Will we allow ourselves to descend into chaos and anarchy as the swath of destruction laid down by Obama’s policies make us desperate and fearful?  Can we have faith in the American people that the nation will not sink to the level of a wannabe genocidal maniac that has snitch programs, death panels and a citizen army of Brownshirt thugs intimidating those who dare stand up and against these efforts?

Can one categorize Obama as being akin to the Joker?  Well, if I had to paraphrase Alfred from the movie I would say - “Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, they can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with.  Some men, just want to watch the country burn”.

A Beast Approacheth…

You Are All Pieces of Crap

by John Galt
August 17, 2009 

And so am I.

You and I are nothing but fleshy fertilizer for the machine of a failing empire struggling to maintain relevance in a world where their own lies, deceit and energies are being applied against them and against their will. We witnessed the attempt to create a new order for the world in their own image but the intents of these clowns was to do nothing more than create a peace of their design using the ground bits of bones of our grandfathers, fathers, brothers and friends left on battlefields and oilfields around the world. While they beg you to subscribe to their dying cries of “save the nation”, they really want nothing more than to create a final desperate moment where their hands of evil can move away from your wallets and grasp deeper into your heart and soul.

The weaklings will beg for help and mercy and proclaim that the greatness of community is more important than God given freedoms and rights. They will tell you that you are weak, and that God has failed you. They will cry on your television shows demanding you to subscribe to a new nationalism to replace the traditional American values with a stronger and greater calling, a new system under the flag of that new nationalism: 

Internationalism. 

You will be told if you do not surrender that you will be evil and cause the starvation of children. That you are a piece of crap causing grandmothers to be put out on to the street suffering from your avarice and that your selfishness will eventually kill your neighbor. That you are acting out on primitive racist ideals planted to usurp the real intent of our Founding Fathers, that of a nation unified for the cause of all people worldwide, not for just this land we once called the home of the brave and the land of the free.

You are to be stepped on, wiped off on a the curb or in the grass and discarded in a plastic baggie in a dumpster or left to fade away as a smeared memory in a summer rain into the sewer drains of history. You can accept this fate but I suggest you prepare for the absolute worst case scenario or plan to help the grass grow from the root side of life. You are no longer important to this new machine, you and your children, your parents, your relatives are nothing more than collateral for a foreign government to loan them the support to maintain an impossibly perverted hybrid system of socialism, corporatism and oligarchy. Thus the plan to strip your freedoms and rights of families and beliefs and leave you as nothing more than a modern day version of THX 1138, where you take the purple pill for when you belch, Ambien to help put you down to sleep, Viagra to help you get up for your marriage and God knows what next for that funny twinge you feel in your elbow every third week or full moon.

They want you to be a creature of their creation, a slave to the new system of mind numbed “patriotism” where individual ideas are dismissed as dangerous and the actual history of our nation is meant to be something you are supposed to be ashamed of. You piece of crap, you had best snap to and obey, this is for your retirement pay, your survival, your welfare check, your new subscription at Blockbuster for the latest Wii game.

Do as they say or do without.

As so many who do not understand, do not want, or refuse to submit to doing. They wish to be more than a cog, they would rather be irrelevant than fertilizer, desperate instead of dependent. Yet in their desperation they have opened themselves to be the most exploited class of them all, waiting for the kindness of others, the almighty benefactor of government. While nations like India attempt to withdraw from a caste system, we are degenerating into a modern day thugocratic oligarchy where caste is all that matters and creative initiative is to be stolen and exploited. Guard against the extraction of your freedoms and ideals, protect your individualism, do not surrender your ideas without the motivation of profit or an expansion of liberty as our nation’s founders envisioned.

The sacrifices you will be asked to make will not be polite requests. Your sacrifice will be for your neighbors, your church, your community you will be told. Balance the truth and do what you must butsurvive. This is not the time, place or reason for lone wolves, or wild speculation in meetings or where others will attempt to steer you into their traps. But get ready for the clock is running out of seconds. And America is on borrowed time. Remember what you have learned and learn what you must remember. There are no second chances.

The time is upon us now to prepare to hold the line. It is short. It is succinct. It will happen with great shock and fury. And when you awaken from this nightmare, should you be one who does, every aspect of your life will have changed until the day you die. Fear not for that day, fear for the day you are too weak to resist.

Prepare to stand, practice not to fall.

What The Obama House HealthCare Bill Actually Says

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.  - I Thessalonians 5:21

Arm yourself with information and Truth that the zombies of Obama’s Reich say is “untruth”. Use this info with page and section numbers to confront your representatives. From a Professor at Duke University.

This is just an analysis of the HOUSE bill. No one has seen the Senate Bill yet. But we can assume that the same death panels that constructed this one, also were involved in constructing the Senate version.

The Health Care Bill: What HR 3200, ‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” Says

John David Lewis

What does the bill, HR 3200, short-titled ‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” actually say about major health care issues? I here pose a few questions in no particular order, citing relevant passages and offering a brief evaluation after each set of passages.

This bill is 1017 pages long. It is knee-deep in legalese and references to other federal regulations and laws. I have only touched pieces of the bill here. For instance, I have not considered the establishment of (1) “Health Choices Commissio0ner” (Section 141); (2) a “Health Insurance Exchange,” (Section 201), basically a government run insurance scheme to coordinate all insurance activity; (3) a Public Health Insurance Option (Section 221); and similar provisions. 

This is the evaluation of someone who is neither a physician nor a legal professional. I am citizen, concerned about this bill’s effects on my freedom as an American. I would rather have used my time in other ways—but this is too important to ignore.

We may answer one question up front: How will the government will pay for all this? Higher taxes, more borrowing, printing money, cutting payments, or rationing services—there are no other options. We will all pay for this, enrolled in the government “option” or not.

(All bold type within the text of the bill is added for emphasis.)

1. 1. WILL THE PLAN RATION MEDICAL CARE?

This is what the bill says, pages 284-288, SEC. 1151. REDUCING POTENTIALLY PREVENTABLE HOSPITAL READMISSIONS:

‘(ii) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN READMISSIONS.—For purposes of clause (i), with respect to a hospital, excess readmissions shall not include readmissions for an applicable condition for which there are fewer than a minimum number (as determined by the Secretary) of discharges for such applicable condition for the applicable period and such hospital.

and, under “Definitions”:

‘‘(A) APPLICABLE CONDITION.—The term ‘applicable condition’ means, subject to subparagraph (B), a condition or procedure selected by the Secretary . . .

and:

‘‘(E) READMISSION.—The term ‘readmission’ means, in the case of an individual who is discharged from an applicable hospital, the admission of the individual to the same or another applicable hospitalwithin a time period specified by the Secretary from the date of such discharge.

and:

‘‘(6) LIMITATIONS ON REVIEW.—There shall be no administrative or judicial review under section 1869, section 1878, or otherwise of— . . .
‘‘(C) the measures of readmissions . . .

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:

1. This section amends the Social Security Act
2. The government has the power to determine what constitutes an “applicable [medical] condition.”
3. The government has the power to determine who is allowed readmission into a hospital.
4. This determination will be made by statistics: when enough people have been discharged for the same condition, an individual may be readmitted.
5. This is government rationing, pure, simple, and straight up.
6. There can be no judicial review of decisions made here. The Secretary is above the courts.
7. The plan also allows the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding without federal permission: page 317-318.

2. WILL THE PLAN PUNISH AMERICANS WHO TRY TO OPT OUT?

What the bill says, pages 167-168, section 401, TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE:

‘‘(a) TAX IMPOSED.—In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of—
(1) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, over
(2) the amount of gross income specified in section 6012(a)(1) with respect to the taxpayer. . . .”

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGE:

1. This section amends the Internal Revenue Code.
2. Anyone caught without acceptable coverage and not in the government plan will pay a special tax.
3. The IRS will be a major enforcement mechanism for the plan.

3. WHAT CONSTITUTES “ACCEPTABLE” COVERAGE?

Here is what the bill says, pages 26-30, SEC. 122, ESSENTIAL BENEFITS PACKAGE DEFINED:

(a) IN GENERAL.—In this division, the term ‘‘essential benefits package’’ means health benefits coverage, consistent with standards adopted under section 124 to ensure the provision of quality health care and financial security . . .

(b) MINIMUM SERVICES TO BE COVERED.—The items and services described in this subsection are the following:
(1) Hospitalization.
(2) Outpatient hospital and outpatient clinic services . . .
(3) Professional services of physicians and other health professionals.
(4) Such services, equipment, and supplies incident to the services of a physician’s or a health professional’s delivery of care . . .
(5) Prescription drugs.
(6) Rehabilitative and habilitative services.
(7) Mental health and substance use disorder services.
( Preventive services . . .
(9) Maternity care.
(10) Well baby and well child care . . .

(c) REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO COST-SHARING AND MINIMUM ACTUARIAL VALUE . . .

(3) MINIMUM ACTUARIAL VALUE.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The cost-sharing under the essential benefits package shall be designed to provide a level of coverage that is designed to provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to approximately 70 percent of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the reference benefits package described in subparagraph (B).

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:

1. The bill defines “acceptable coverage” and leaves no room for choice in this regard.
2. By setting a minimum 70% actuarial value of benefits, the bill makes health plans in which individuals pay for routine services, but carry insurance only for catastrophic events, (such as Health Savings Accounts) illegal.

4. WILL THE PLAN DESTROY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE?

Here is what it requires, for businesses with payrolls greater than $400,000 per year. (The bill uses “contribution” to refer to mandatory payments to the government plan.) Pages 149-150, SEC. 313, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS IN LIEU OF COVERAGE

(a) IN GENERAL.—A contribution is made in accordance with this section with respect to an employee if such contribution is equal to an amount equal to 8 percent of the average wages paid by the employer during the period of enrollment (determined by taking into account all employees of the employer and in such manner as the Commissioner provides, including rules providing for the appropriate aggregation of related employers). Any such contribution—

(1) shall be paid to the Health Choices Commissioner for deposit into the Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund, and
(2) shall not be applied against the premium of the employee under the Exchange-participating health benefits plan in which the employee is enrolled.

(The bill then includes a sliding scale of payments for business with less than $400,000 in annual payroll.)

The Bill also reserves, for the government, the power to determine an acceptable benefits plan: page 24, SEC. 115. ENSURING ADEQUACY OF PROVIDER NETWORKS.

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—A qualified health benefits plan that uses a provider network for items and services shall meet such standards respecting provider networks as the Commissioner may establish to assure the adequacy of such networks in ensuring enrollee access to such items and services and transparency in the cost-sharing differentials between in-network coverage and out-of-network coverage.

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:

1. The bill does not prohibit a person from buying private insurance.
2. Small businesses—with say 8-10 employees—will either have to provide insurance to federal standards, or pay an 8% payroll tax. Business costs for health care are higher than this, especially considering administrative costs. Any competitive business that tries to stay with a private plan will face a payroll disadvantage against competitors who go with the government “option.”
3. The pressure for business owners to terminate the private plans will be enormous.
4. With employers ending plans, millions of Americans will lose their private coverage, and fewer companies will offer it.
5. The Commissioner (meaning, always, the bureaucrats) will determine whether a particular network of physicians, hospitals and insurance is acceptable.
6. With private insurance starved, many people enrolled in the government “option” will have no place else to go.

5. DOES THE PLAN TAX SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS MORE THAN OTHERS?

Here is what the bill says, pages 197-198, SEC. 441. SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS

‘‘SEC. 59C. SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS.
‘‘(a) GENERAL RULE.—In the case of a taxpayer other than a corporation, there is hereby imposed (in addition to any other tax imposed by this subtitle) a tax equal to—
‘‘(1) 1 percent of so much of the modified adjusted gross income of the taxpayer as exceeds $350,000 but does not exceed $500,000,
‘‘(2) 1.5 percent of so much of the modified adjusted gross income of the taxpayer as exceeds $500,000 but does not exceed $1,000,000, and
‘‘(3) 5.4 percent of so much of the modified adjusted gross income of the taxpayer as exceeds $1,000,000.

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGE:

1. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code.
2. Tax surcharges are levied on those with the highest incomes.
3. The plan manipulates the tax code to redistribute their wealth.
4. Successful business owners will bear the highest cost of this plan.

6. DOES THE PLAN ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO SET FEES FOR SERVICES?

What it says, page 124, Sec. 223, PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES:

(d) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed as limiting the Secretary’s authority to correct for payments that are excessive or deficient, taking into account the provisions of section 221(a) and the amounts paid for similar health care providers and services under other Exchange-participating health benefits plans.

(e) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed as affecting the authority of the Secretary to establish payment rates, including payments to provide for the more efficient delivery of services, such as the initiatives provided for under section 224.

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:

The government’s authority to set payments is basically unlimited.
The official will decide what constitutes “excessive,” “deficient,” and “efficient” payments and services.

7. WILL THE PLAN INCREASE THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO SCRUTINIZE OUR PRIVATE AFFAIRS?

What it says, pages 195-196, SEC. 431. DISCLOSURES TO CARRY OUT HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE SUBSIDIES.

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, upon written request from the Health Choices Commissioner or the head of a State-based health insurance exchange approved for operation under section 208 of the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, shall disclose to officers and employees of the Health Choices Administration or such State-based health insurance exchange, as the case may be, return information of any taxpayer whose income is relevant in determining any affordability credit described in subtitle C of title II of the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Such return information shall be limited to—
‘‘(i) taxpayer identity information with respect to such taxpayer,
‘‘(ii) the filing status of such taxpayer,
‘‘(iii) the modified adjusted gross income of such taxpayer (as defined in section 59B(e)(5)),
‘‘(iv) the number of dependents of the taxpayer,
‘‘(v) such other information as is prescribed by the Secretary by regulation as might indicate whether the taxpayer is eligible for such affordability credits (and the amount thereof), and
‘‘(vi) the taxable year with respect to which the preceding information relates or, if applicable, the fact that such information is not available.

And, page 145, section 312, EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS EMPLOYEE AND DEPENDENT COVERAGE:

(3) PROVISION OF INFORMATION.—The employer provides the Health Choices Commissioner, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of the Treasury, as applicable, with such information as the Commissioner may require to ascertain compliance with the requirements of this section.

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGE:

1. This section amends the Internal Revenue Code
2. The bill opens up income tax return information to federal officials.
3. Any stated “limits” to such information are circumvented by item (v), which allows federal officials to decide what information is needed.
4. Employers are required to report whatever information the government says it needs to enforce the plan.

8. DOES THE PLAN AUTOMATICALLY ENROLL AMERICANS IN THE GOVERNMENT PLAN?

What it says, page 102, Section 205, OUTREACH AND ENROLLMENT OF EXCHANGE-ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND EMPLOYERS IN EXCHANGE-PARTICIPATING HEALTH BENEFITS PLAN:

(3) AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT OF MEDICAID ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS INTO MEDICAID.—The Commissioner shall provide for a process under which an individual who is described in section 202(d)(3) and has not elected to enroll in an Exchange-participating health benefits plan is automatically enrolled under Medicaid.

And, page 145, section 312:

(4) AUTOENROLLMENT OF EMPLOYEES.—The employer provides for autoenrollment of the employee in accordance with subsection (c).

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:

1. Do nothing and you are in.
2. Employers are responsible for automatically enrolling people who still work.

9. DOES THE PLAN EXEMPT FEDERAL OFFICIALS FROM COURT REVIEW?

What it says, page 124, Section 223, PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES:

(f) LIMITATIONS ON REVIEW.—There shall be no administrative or judicial review of a payment rate or methodology established under this section or under section 224.

And, page 256, SEC. 1123. PAYMENTS FOR EFFICIENT AREAS.

‘‘(C) LIMITATION ON REVIEW.—There shall be no administrative or judicial review under section 1869, 1878, or otherwise, respecting—
‘‘(i) the identification of a county or other area under subparagraph (A); or
‘‘(ii) the assignment of a postal ZIP Code to a county or other area under subparagraph (B).

EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:

1. Sec. 1123 amends the Social Security Act, to allow the Secretary to identify areas of the country that underutilize the government’s plan “based on per capita spending.”
2. Parts of the plan are set above the review of the courts.

 

UPDATE:

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“I have to say I am too after watching & listening to a clip of the Missouri town hall of Sen. McCaskill. She was explaining the House would vote on THREE versions of the bill then the one they voted on would go to Senate & they would work on it to have TWO versions to vote on. What was she talking about? Did anyone else catch that? So what version is the bill we’ve all been reading? Are there other versions floating around? “

3 three count ‘em 3 bills in the House:

http://www.hr676.org/ The United States National Health Insurance Act
(“Expanded & Improved Medicare for ALL”)

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-956 H.R. 956 Health Coverage, Affordability, Responsibility, and Equity Act of 2009

To expand the number of individuals and families with health insurance coverage, and for other purposes

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3200 H.R.3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, H.R.3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Pres…0714/aahca.pdf
(2 links for H.R. 3200 to compare)

This paragraph was posted on one of the H.R.3200 sites:

This bill was considered in committee which has recommended it be considered by the House as a whole. Although it has been placed on a calendar of business, the order in which legislation is considered and voted on is determined by the majority party leadership. Keep in mind that “sometimes the text of one bill is incorporated into another bill, and in those cases the original bill, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.” [Last Updated: Aug 4, 2009 8:21AM]

So they work these three to become the one? So they could say it wasn’t written yet?

Notice the words “and for other purposes.” A little broad definition don’t you think?

Thank You For Our Food Amen = Jail Time

If you pray or ask for a blessing over a meal in a public school – prepare to go to jail.

School Officials Face Jail Time For Meal Time Prayers

A principal and an athletic director are facing criminal charges for a lunch-time prayer.

 

Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Pace High School in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The ACLU claimed some teachers and administrators were endorsing religion, but the school chose to give in to the ACLU’s demands rather than fight them in court.
 
According to the settlement, all school employees are banned from engaging in prayer or religious activities before, during, or after school hours. Now two school officials are facing criminal charges for offering meal-time prayers at an appreciation dinner for adults who had helped with a school field house project. Principal Frank Lay and athletic director Robert Freeman are scheduled to go on trial next month on criminal contempt charges. If convicted, both are subject to fines and imprisonment.
 
Matt Staver is founder of Liberty Counsel, which will argue the court order prohibiting prayer at school-related events violated Lay’s and Freeman’s constitutional rights.

 

“In this particular case, Principal Frank Lay asked the athletic director to have a prayer for the meal at an honorary luncheon in celebration for some of the athletic achievements. And then in [another] situation, the clerical worker at an event where some employees of the school were present asked her husband, who is not an employee of the school, to have a blessing over a meal,” he explains. “Because of those two events, these individuals now face criminal contempt.”
 
Staver believes that the accusers in this case are students who recently graduated. If that is the case, he says the case is moot. However, Staver adds it is outrageous to punish a school official with potential jail time for simply praying.

 

 

Stormtroopers On The March…

The Iron Fist of Obama’s Tyranny Now In Plain View

In less than a week, Obama and the Marxists have revealed the level of despotism they will level against us.

• They instituted a Government Snitch Program right out of the White House, where citizens are urged to report on other citizens that oppose Obama’s plans or if they sound “fishy”.

• The Speaker of the House, Stretch Pelosi and the other Kapos of the Marxist Mob have called Americans who are protesting ObamaCare, Nazis, and said that they “carry swastikas with them into these town halls”.

• Obama has directed his ACORN and Union Thug bosses to “confront” the town hall protesters.

• Americans are being locked out of Town Hall meetings with their elected representatives while Union members and ACORN Activists are let into side doors and given front row seats to staged town hall events to demand ObamaCare.

• Americans are being attacked by Union Thugs at Town Hall meeting after The White House directs them to “hit back twice as hard“.

• Ads for the National Guard are looking for “Internment and Resettlement Specialists“.

Look America – and WAKE UP.

We are right now, all Jews, The National Socialists are in charge of the entire government with a charismatic ‘messiah’ leading the way, who hates us and demands to “change” this country – and it’s Krystallnacht, the Brownshirts are out, ready to do their master’s bidding.

History repeats, can you not see the sign of the repeat?

What is going on here?

First we have the brazenly Orwellian directive from the Office of Health Reform/Ministry of Truth to contact our friendly snitchboard operator to report any “fishy” communications from our neighbors/political extremists. Then from Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs I learn that the National Guard is now looking for a few good internment/resettlement specialists?    

Really?

Internment of whom?

I’m moving where?

As if the seeming overnight bankruptcy of our entire country were not enough to rattle our nerves, we have the White House’s apparent confidence that it need not bother fretting over the appearance of totalitarianism. What is it that imbues these people to think that no-one will notice the unsettling parallels they have with unseemly dictators?

It is at about this point that I start trying to reassure myself that this can’t really be as terrifying as it sounds. Then I remember this little clip entailing what Obama’s former SDS friends had in mind for people like me. Many of whom, like Marilyn Katz & Andy Stern, are wandering the halls of the White House today.

Taken separately, the White House’s asking Americans to inform on each other, the apparent creation of a new Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and the wild-eyed genocidal fantasies of 60′s radicals would probably be enough to disturb anyone. hen taken collectively it becomes the substance from which nightmares are derived.

Let’s re-cap shall we, One, there is now a White House sponsored, “community” driven blacklisting site. Two, we have a freshly created military specialty in our traditionally domestically-oriented National Guard that seems to be tailored towards gulag maintenance and operations. Three, the cherry on top of having subversive elements advising our Dear Leader who had frankly once proposed exactly these same Stalinesque measures including the slaughter of millions of their fellow countrymen!

Boiled down to nuts and bolts it looks something like this;

1) Locate, record and target.

2) Segregate, contain & re-educate.

3) Evaluate, assimilate or eliminate.

Throw in fantasy claims that Obama’s opponents carry swastikas, emanating from the mouth of the person next in line after Vice President Biden in presidential succession.

Fantastical as it seems, and it is. I cannot help but recall the old adage about ducks, so modified a bit, if it sounds like Marx, and acts like Mussolini, it is probably Obama.