Posted on 01/15/2010 8:38:30 AM PST by safetysign
It took two days of wrangling behind closed White House doors under the demanding gaze of big-labor bosses, but President Obama won a major health-care victory yesterday. The same can't be said of America. The deal in a nutshell: a big, fat wet kiss for labor unions, which won exemption from a proposed 40 percent tax on on expansive private health-insurance plans until 2018. Meanwhile, those with generous plans that are not the product of collective-bargaining agreements get to pay beginning immediately. And to pay and pay and pay. The tax (along with deep cuts in Medicare funding) was meant to be the chief funding mechanism for Obama's plan. Talk about a terrible deal.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
stop the scumbags.
You know what they say...
“All Animals are Equal.
Some more than others”...
A big fat wet kiss for labor unions,the public receives a noose.
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