Human EventsMichael S. SteeleJuly 28, 2009http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=32879 There is much about President Obama’s government-run health care plan that should have Americans alarmed. It would make health care more expensive. It would raise taxes on families and small businesses. It would let a government bureaucrat determine what treatments patients can receive. And it could force 88 million Americans off of the private health insurance they now have. None of that is likely the kind of change the American people expect when President Obama and Congressional Democrats talk about reforming our health care system. But it must have big-government liberals jumping with joy. It gets worse, however. Hidden deep within the over 1,000-page House Democrat health care bill is language that could require all health insurance plans to provide taxpayer-funded abortions. Under the Democrats’ scheme, insurance plans would have to provide people an “essential benefits package.” This package would be created by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services based on recommendations from a new federal advisory committee. As the bill is written, there is nothing that could keep federal bureaucrats from mandating that coverage of abortions be included in the “essential benefits package.” This abortion mandate would not just apply to the Democrats’ government-run “option.” Any private plans that receive taxpayer subsidies to provide coverage to people with low to moderate incomes — and under the Democrats’ plan that would be nearly all of them — would have to provide coverage for abortions, and pay for them with taxpayer dollars, too. President Obama claims he wants to reduce the number of abortions in America, but he has not raised a single concern with this language in the House Democrats’ government-run health care plan — despite objections from conservative Democrats whose votes he needs to pass his health care experiment. The president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, even called concerns over taxpayer-funded abortions in the Democrats’ health care reform plan a “red herring.” Either the president’s claim of wanting to reduce abortions is nothing but lip-service to mask his true liberal agenda, or he is kowtowing to Nancy Pelosi and other House liberals to get his government-run health care scheme passed as quickly as possible. One thing is certain: the Democrats’ ill-conceived government-run health care experiment is the most dangerously liberal legislation we’ve seen in some time, and it should scare the living daylights out of all Americans. It is bad enough that liberals in Congress regularly attempt to impose their taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand agenda on America at every opportunity. Now they are sneaking language in their health care reform bill that leaves the door wide-open for taxpayer-funded abortions and has absolutely nothing to do with improving health care. It is not a “red herring” — it is a poison pill. I have said that President Obama’s experiment with America’s health care system is something that will fundamentally transform the very way of life of our country and its citizens. I have warned that the Democrats are attempting to rush through Congress a dangerously flawed government-run health care plan that does too much, too fast and too soon. This abortion mandate is further proof that those warnings are correct. President Obama says he wants to reduce health care costs. Republicans agree. Health care today simply costs too much. Health insurance premiums have risen three times faster than wages. Health insurance costs families and businesses too much, and we need to fix that. But why will the Democrats’ plan to save money actually cost us more money? How come their plan to reduce health care costs will cost us trillions more in tax dollars? Let’s just use a little common sense — when has Washington, D.C. ever made anything cost less? If you are a small business owner, you will see a tax hike on your income, your payroll, and your investments, none of which will help you to grow and create new jobs. If you are a senior citizen, you face over $300 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. If you are a physician, you face a federal bureaucrat determining the treatments, tests and procedures you can provide to your patients. That is simply the wrong diagnosis for our health care system. But President Obama and Democrats are determined to rush their dangerous health care bill through Congress without taking a moment to consider if it would really work, or worse, to think about the consequences it could have on our nation. They want their liberal wish-list right now — a government-run health care system financed with higher taxes that requires taxpayer-funded abortions — and they won’t stop until they get it. Voters want health care reform. So do Republicans. But we don’t want the kind of radical reform Democrats are proposing. Republicans will continue to stop this dangerous experimentation with our health care system while continuing to promote reform that fixes what’s wrong in our health care system while protecting what is right. Visit www.BarackObamaExperiment.com to learn more about the Democrats’ flawed health care plan.

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OBAMA’S STIMULUS “FAILING BY ITS OWN MEASURE”

Stimulus Fails To Create Jobs Despite Obama Administration’s Predictions Of “Boom In Job Creation”. ”[T]wo of [Obama’s] chief economic advisers, and leading proponents of a stimulus bill, predicted that the passage of a large economic-aid package would boost the economy and keep the unemployment rate below 8%. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. Last month, the jobless rate in America hit 9.5%, the highest level it has reached since 1983 … What has not come to pass, however, is the boom in job creation that Romer and Bernstein predicted. A little over a month ago, the Administration said the stimulus bill had created or saved 150,000 jobs. That’s a far cry from the 3 million to 4 million jobs that Romer and Bernstein foresaw back in January.” (Stephen Gandel, “Obama’s Stimulus Plan: Failing by Its Own Measure,” Time, 7/14/09)

Under Obama, Job Losses Now At Historic Highs. ”The cumulative job losses over the last six months have been greater than for any other half year period since World War II, including the military demobilization after the war. The job losses are also now equal to the net job gains over the previous nine years, making this the only recession since the Great Depression to wipe out all job growth from the previous expansion.” (Mortimer Zuckerman, Op-Ed, “The Economy is Even Worse Than You Think,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/14/09)

“WIDESPREAD DISDAIN” FOR OBAMA’S “ROSY” ECONOMIC PREDICTIONS

Economists Call Obama’s Economic Predictions “Fantasy” As White House Starts To Correct Them. “President Barack Obama’s economic forecasts for long-term growth are too optimistic, many economists warn … White House officials rebuff such suggestions, saying the midyear correction is precisely intended to keep their economic program reality based. But a series of POLITICO interviews in recent days with independent economists of varied political stripes found widespread disdain for Obama’s first round of assumptions, with some experts invoking such phrases as ‘rosy’ and ‘fantasy.’” (Jeanne Cummings, “Obama’s Rosy Scenario Turns Thorny,” Politico,7/14/09)

STIMULUS SHOWS THROWING MONEY AT PROBLEMS DOESN’T SOLVE THEM

Much Of Spending Under Stimulus Has Nothing To Do With Creating Jobs. ”Unemployment has doubled to 9.5% from 4.8% in only 16 months … How could this happen when Washington has thrown trillions of dollars into the pot, including the famous $787 billion in stimulus spending that was supposed to yield $1.50 in growth for every dollar spent? For a start, too much of the money went to transfer payments such as Medicaid, jobless benefits and the like that do nothing for jobs and growth. The spending that creates new jobs is new spending, particularly on infrastructure. It amounts to less than 10% of the stimulus package today.” (Mortimer Zuckerman, Op-Ed, “The Economy is Even Worse Than You Think,” The Wall Street Journal,, 7/14/09)

Obama’s Deficit-Spending Agenda Could Undermine Economic Recovery. ”The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday said the government’s annual deficit reached almost $1.1 trillion by the end of June, a once-unthinkable level that could threaten any nascent economic recovery by undermining the dollar and driving up interest rates.” (John D. McKinnon, “$1 Trillion Deficit Complicates Obama’s Agenda,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/14/09)

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NEW POLL SHOWS RISING OPPOSITION TO GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE

More Americans Oppose Government-Run Health Care Than Support It. ”Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters now at least somewhat oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, while 46% at least somewhat favor it, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. This marks the first time that more voters lean against the plan than support it.

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IRONY: Signs Touting Obama’s Stimulus Show Wastefulness.  ABC News‘ Jonathan Karl: “These signs are much pricier, 500 bucks a piece in Maryland and New Hampshire,   $1,700 in Georgia, $2,000 per sign Pennsylvania and New York, and $3,000 per project in New Jersey. New York alone is spending about $1 million on signs.” (ABC News’ ”Good Morning America,” 7/10/09)

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H.R. 3126 would control the most intricate details of operating a community bank

New Iberia, LA, July 9, 2009 – H.R. 3126, misleadingly named the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009,  was introduced late Wednesday, July 8 by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), and which would create a completely new federal agency to oversee and control the daily operations of community and small town banks.

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Thanks to “Texas Rainmaker” for these very “aware” observations.

Barack Obama, through his spokesman, claimed today that he was unaware of the tax day tea parties.

Granted, the MSM has done a good job in suppressing any sort of coverage ahead of time (and the little coverage they did provide was derisive at best) but how out of touch is the Community Organizer in Chief, really?

This much:

- He was unaware that his Presidential plane was used during a photo op joy ride, costing taxpayers $329,000, flew over New York, being pursued by an F-16 fighter, terrorizing thousands of American citizens.

- He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor who hates America .

- He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in the living room of, a domestic terrorist.

- He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some of his top donors right after taking office in 2005.

- He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.

- He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya .

- He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signed into a bill.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Commerce was under investigation in a bribery scandal.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of the Treasury was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be the U.S. Trade Representative was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the woman he nominated to be his Chief Performance Officer was a tax cheat.

- He was unaware that the man he nominated to be #2 at the Environmental Protection Agency was under investigation for mismanaging $25 million in EPA grants.

 There are people in comas that are more aware of world affairs than this guy.