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The deficit Hawk may want to be careful about - Page 44 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 29th Jun, 2010 - 4:26am
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Now that he is President of the United States of America what can we see coming from Pres. Barack Obama?
Pres. Barack Obama's Next Move - Page 44
Obama put forth a squeaky clean image of a Washington Outsider that was going to ride into town, clean it up, put an ideal group together to make government work correctly and allows all of us to see and partake in it. The problem is that this is not realistic and never was...
As Farseer has stated, Obama made many pledges that he just isnt going to honor:
Transparency
His administration has failed totally on this promise. The pledge of putting bills up for us to read prior to them being voted on was trampled on in order to ram rod something called healtcare, that no one read but somehow knew was right, through the process.
Debt
Blame it on whoever, there has never been a year when the debt has been decreased since we went into the red decades ago. The american public is going to let him hear about it loud and clear. If our bond rating drops, your currency is going to take a major hit and the american dollar will not go nearly as far as it used to. Someone will have to pay for that and it will be Obama. Was it entirely has fault? No... However, he has only made it exponentially worse in his short stay in Washington.
Taxes
Remember Bush Sr....Read my lips...no new taxes. Well, Obama has already raised your taxes by not extending some very nice programs. The Death Tax is back in full swing and the Bush tax cuts have phased out. Did he increase your taxes directly? If we want to play semantics....sure he didn't...however, he didn't stop the increase to you either. The VAT tax and a tax on gas are coming. He is going to try and hold out as long as possible for your vote, but he is going to hit you with them. He would prefer to wait until after his re-election, so the republicans cannot beat him over the head with it.
That is the scary part. He will be willing to toss another few trillion on the debt to get re-elected before he does that nasty things that need to be done to get the debt under control. This vanity I fear is going to cost us dearly. We do not have time to ring up another 3-4 trillion on the credit card until we start thinking about doing the HARD things that will turn it around. The worst part is...when our dollar becomes devalued, as it will...we will have a far tougher road to go before getting things right with a lot more pain.
Corruption
You starting to hear lots of complaints about strong arming tactics, improper job offers for favors and various other things from this administration. They are only going to continue as it truly does seem to be Chicago Politics as usual in the White House today.
Health Care
You asked for it you got it...Health Care. Congrats, but just wait until the bill starts actually coming in for what has happened and who made out on the deal before his next election. Trust me, the insurance companies were ok with the whole deal. That should set off alarms of the likes that break the glass in the old memorex commericals!
War
The war will still be going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will have troops in each location. He will make the obigatory move to remove a few, but he cannot take all of them out or he will lose and that is unacceptable too. So look for a timetable of removal that will start a few months before his election. However, if he is elected...look for that timetable to stop. Never the less...his promise to get troops out of both locations will have been empty. I am not even going to go into what I think will happen with Iran about the time of the election...
The oil spill is going to stick to Obama like Katrina did to Bush. That one is a no win no matter who is in office.
I don't feel sorry for him because of all he promissed to get elected. He got moderate republicans and independents to vote for him. These are the people he has lost. A significant percentage of all that affiliate with the tea party movement voted for this guy...he needs them again. However, he has alienated them too much now and there is no coming back.
He was supposed to project a more ammenable US in foreign diplomacy. However, what he has projected is weakness and all of our friends sense it as well. Sarkosy figured it out first. They all know he cannot make decisions and is unwilling to stand up on just about any subject.
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Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson on the Inside Story of How Obama Let the World's Most Dangerous Oil Company Get Away with Murder
An extensive new investigation into the Obama administration's handling of the BP oil spill disaster reveals that it was government mismanagement, delays and absence of oversight that allowed the crisis to spiral out of control. In the article "The Spill, the Scandal, and the President," Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson writes, "Though George W. Bush paved the way for the catastrophe, it was Obama who gave BP the green light to drill." Dickinson explores how Interior Secretary Ken Salazar kept in place the oil industry-friendly environmental guidelines that Bush had implemented and ultimately let BP, an oil company with the worst safety record, to get away with murder. Ref. Source 4
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More chanting Obama kids
Glenn plays the audio of the left stepping up calls for Obama to assert more power - one host went as far to say that Obama should be, like, a dictator. He also plays the audio of a Senator, when questioned about Obama overstepping his authority, says that if they are overstepping then they'll just create a new law to make it ok. And, like any good dictator, you've got to have the kids. Glenn has the latest chanting Obama kids. Ref. Source 4
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Obama suddenly a deficit hawk?
President Obama has come out this weekend and warned his opposition that he's 'calling their bluff' and they better stand up when he starts making 'very difficult choices' next year. This is particularly hilarious coming from the guy who just took a nation that couldn't afford to spend a dime more, and committed us to spending trillions of dollars on entitlement programs. Glenn has the audio and reacts on radio today. Ref. Source 1
Pres. Barack Obama's Move Politics Business Civil & History - Page 44
The deficit Hawk may want to be careful about how much "butt-kicking" he does in the near future. That government mandated health care system that was going to control cost, insure all and decrease the amount we spend for health care might not do all that...
QUOTE The question of cost
Heritage Action for America, the grass-roots advocacy arm of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, recently launched a campaign to repeal health-care reform.
The conservative group has consulted financial analysts who say the government's estimates of costs and deficit reductions are off base.
"To claim that this is going to cut the federal deficit is voodoo accounting," said Michael Needham, CEO of Heritage Action.
"Actual research has shown it will increase the federal deficit $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years," he said. "It's not going to bend the cost curve down. It will increase health-care spending in the U.S. By $222 billion over the next 10 years."
Needham's group also estimates that millions of lowand middle-income Americans will drop employer-sponsored coverage in favor of federally subsidized coverage, at a huge cost to taxpayers.
Rossiter, the William and Mary economist, said states are justified in being worried about costs.
"While the [Medicaid] coverage expansion will be covered 100 percent at first and then fall to 90 percent, there are also provisions to require states to raise payments to providers," Rossiter said. "States like Virginia where our provider payments are low, that's where they get hit."
Retchin, at VCU, agreed on the point that the revenue projections may be overstated.
"There are cost savings which involve largely reductions in Medicare rates," he said. "I just don't see the potential for really realizing those cost savings."
Retchin would have preferred more incremental reform that would, for instance, provide the uninsured with primary-care access and prescription-drug coverage, similar to how VCU's Virginia coordinated care program operates. It pays community physicians to take care of uninsured patients who might otherwise come to VCU's emergency department for nonemergency problems.
"We all have concerns about the costs. I wouldn't have done it this way," he said. "But it's hard to ignore the benefits to real people."
Heritage Action for America, the grass-roots advocacy arm of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, recently launched a campaign to repeal health-care reform.
The conservative group has consulted financial analysts who say the government's estimates of costs and deficit reductions are off base.
"To claim that this is going to cut the federal deficit is voodoo accounting," said Michael Needham, CEO of Heritage Action.
"Actual research has shown it will increase the federal deficit $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years," he said. "It's not going to bend the cost curve down. It will increase health-care spending in the U.S. By $222 billion over the next 10 years."
Needham's group also estimates that millions of lowand middle-income Americans will drop employer-sponsored coverage in favor of federally subsidized coverage, at a huge cost to taxpayers.
Rossiter, the William and Mary economist, said states are justified in being worried about costs.
"While the [Medicaid] coverage expansion will be covered 100 percent at first and then fall to 90 percent, there are also provisions to require states to raise payments to providers," Rossiter said. "States like Virginia where our provider payments are low, that's where they get hit."
Retchin, at VCU, agreed on the point that the revenue projections may be overstated.
"There are cost savings which involve largely reductions in Medicare rates," he said. "I just don't see the potential for really realizing those cost savings."
Retchin would have preferred more incremental reform that would, for instance, provide the uninsured with primary-care access and prescription-drug coverage, similar to how VCU's Virginia coordinated care program operates. It pays community physicians to take care of uninsured patients who might otherwise come to VCU's emergency department for nonemergency problems.
"We all have concerns about the costs. I wouldn't have done it this way," he said. "But it's hard to ignore the benefits to real people."
Source 5
That is right folks...another 2.5 trillion in additional debt as a result of this money saving program. The insurance companies were totally ok with this and that should have sent warning signals a mile high because they are interested in what is good for the insurance company. Millions of people that that normally would not be insuring getting forced to buy insurance...CHA CHING!
Oh, and that comment about low and middle income people giving up their company health care to get government subsidized health care might not be just their decision. I have a strong feeling that companies will drop their health care programs (if you are lucky, they might raise your salary enough to buy health care in the government plan, but they might not and pocket the profits) and enjoy some nice profits to the bottom line with little to no effort.
The Hawk may well want to choose his words carefully when chastizing spending of money we don't have...
Actually, with the spending orgy of the last 9-10 years no one can claim to be frugal in congress or the White House.
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