Posted on 03/29/2010 11:56:06 AM PDT by teddyballgame
Edited on 03/29/2010 12:27:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don't understand a thing about business, and that includes the President," says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. "My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn't understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn't know what was in the bill."
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“Just look at your dofus VPOTUS.”
He ain’t my anything. I can’t argue with the rest of your post. However, there may be some nefarious BS being promulgated by the scum.
I found a great explanation of Obamacare (from 2009) on www.rabbijaffe.com. http://rabbijaffe.today.com/2009/08/16/idiots-guide-obama-health-care-reform/
Here it is, it’s kind of long, but good and simple enough for any commie to understand:
If you are very well-informed about the health care issues facing America right now, feel free to skip this post. There’s probably very little I can add to your understanding.
However, if you find yourself saying things like: “I don’t understand how someone can oppose universal health care.” or “How can someone say health care is not an obvious human right?” or “Obama cares so much for all of us. These radicals are just opposing it because its his plan.” or any of a few dozen variations, this guide very well might be for you.
Many have said semi-incorrectly that the proposed plan will not allow one to use private insurance. The fact of the matter is, yes it will…
But……….
Picture this:
Say there were a small neighborhood with three pizza shops that have been competing with one another for about two decades. Everyone in town has their favorite, and all the owners are doing quite well for themselves.
The pizza is not cheap, however, at $2.00 a slice. So, sadly, the less fortunate kids in town view pizza as a rare treat, and even the middle class folk don’t want to buy too much, because of that burning feeling in the pocket.
… But it sure is tasty …
Now, after much protestation in the community that the pizza is too expensive for many, the government decides to subsidize a new pizza shop, and pizza is only one nickle a slice. The pizza is definitely inferior to all three other shops, but there isn’t a person in the neighborhood who can’t have pizza whenever they choose.
The other three pizza shops start going crazy. “The government is trying to shut us down,” they say.
The government simply replies, “We aren’t shutting anyone down. Everyone, without exception, will still retain the option to go to the other places as often as they want.”
But we’re not naive.
We know what happens next.
Tons upon tons of people ditch the other three shops for the sake of the much cheaper alternative.
For a little while the other three hang on, cutting costs here and there, firing a few employees, charging even more in the hopes that they will gain some extra profit… but the end result is inevitable. They cannot compete with the government.
All the talk of allowing people to buy whatever pizza they choose is irrelevant if the other places have to close down.
*You see, when you look past all the political jargon (i.e. blah blah) you realize in the upcoming changes the end of private medicine as we know it.*
So what happens next?
After all thee private pizza shops are no longer around, the very mediocre government subsidized option is the only one left standing.
And the lines are out the door. After all, who can resist pizza at such an amazing price?
But there are thousands of people in this town, and they all love pizza. Now, some of them used to buy only one slice, but now buy two. Some used to cook for parties, but now order a dozen pizza pies. Some used to try and estimate exactyly how much pizza they needed, but now they gladly overestimate with no fear whatsoever.
(Picture people who now go to the doctor much more often. People who go every time they have the smallest cough. Millions of previously uninsured people who never used to go who now go freely. And so on.)
In order to deal with the influx of customers to the nickle shop, several new decisions need to be made.
Should we hire new workers? Should we rush them through the training so we can get them into the shop ASAP?
Should we seek cheaper ingredients to deal with the increase in cost with the influx of orders?
Perhaps we might need to create a system where people need to order their pizza several weeks in advance? Or we need to prioritze some people over others, saying some people should not receive as many pizzas as others?
And let’s not forget that “government subsidized” is just a code-word for “sponsored by you the tax payer”. So in order to pay for this heavily subsidized pizza we have two (bad) choices:
a. borrow, and send the government further into debt (bad), or
b. raise taxes (bad)
And thus we complete the package of why we fear the proposed reforms.
We fear overworked doctors. We fear the potential need to hire more doctors quickly, with worse training, to deal with increased need from more patients.
We fear being rushed through the system ultra-quickly in order to deal with the surplus of new patients, resulting in inferior care.
We fear giant waiting lists preventing us from getting essential care in a timely fashion. (Think Canada and England, where patients have died waiting for treatment.)
We fear the reorganization of priorities. If the cost needs to be reduced, someone needs to have their services reduced. In the current situation, it looks like our wonderful American government has chosen the elderly as the victim.
We fear the country going into further debt, and we fear the potential of out-of-control taxes that seem to be the inevitable result of universal health care.
We fear the Robin Hood style government that thinks all can be sponsored involuntarily by the wealthy. We fear that if the wealthy are taxed severely, they will fire tons of employees which would further wound the economy, or they might pick up and move to a country which allows them to retain their profits, crippling the economy.
We fear a non-talented, non-thorough government making hasty decisions which could destroy everything we know and love about our country. The Consitution of the United States of America is much shorter than this proposed health care bill, but it took longer to write and was written by more talented, more intelligent people. And that is why it’s basically eternal and has kept this country going strong for so long.
The difference between someone like me and the people of the current administration is foresight and deliberation. We all want change. The current health care situation is ridiculous. But change is NOT inherently positive.
If intelligent, well-meaning people set forth to better our system, slowly and carefully, good things are bound to come.
But rush into something like this, and we might all soon be eating burnt, nasty pizza…
It is not Marxism it is “The Divine One” personally. He is stupid. He does not have the IQ to even be a Marxist. People confused glibness and cunning as intelligence and capacity and in a reactive spasm generally focused upon poor Bush elected an imbecile.
But he WANTS the economy destroyed.
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You are absolutely correct. I read this article last February 2009 and it blew me away. I am now seeing it unfold right before my very eyes. So fast that it takes my breath away.
Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis (and as Rahm Emmanuel says, you can never let a good one go to waste).
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
“Where do you hear about this stuff? The Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative websites. No one else picked up on this but you guys. It’s BS.”
Oh, is that the new Pravda way of doing things? If the MSM ignores it, it must not be true?
Yeah, I have a feeling the news outlets are going to find out the hard way that this crap of only telling people what THEY want you to know isn’t going to fly anymore.
The only place that Obama is welcome in my home is his face on a roll of toilet paper.
I disagree: as another post has suggested, Obama was propped up by the media as a genius, a wunderkind, a messiah... especially compared to GW Bush, who was portrayed as the village idiot.
Now even if you suspected that he didn't have a clue (and I'll put myself in this camp), I don't know that the depth of his malfeasance could have been comprehended... this level of incompetence is completely without precedent... and I think we're only now really coming to grips with the damage he is doing... without regard to the lives he's destroying right before our very eyes. As each new report comes out, it becomes only more shocking than the one before.
I thought that Zero was Jimmy Carter with brains. He's apparently more like Lyndon Johnson without brains.
“”My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn’t understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him;”
Ok, now I’m truly frightened!!
I’m surprised the CEO’s thinks Zero cares! That to me is shocking. At that level, I would think one would have some wisdom and discernment.
That nailed it so well, I just wanted people to read it one more time.
The show-biz media cast Obama in a role. Then when they didn't challenge Obama and constantly defended him, lefties, being hopelessly gullible, followed Obama as their genius. Obama brought them unicorns and Styrofoam columns live from New York and Hollywood.
I'll never forget the Office of the President-Elect. What was that? Is that now an actual bureaucracy with budgets, staff, cubicles and water clubs? See he got started right away creating and saving those jobs. The Office of the President-Elect has probably already grown to a staff of hundreds with branch offices in every blue city.
Left-wing types believe corporations have huge mystery supplies of money, which may be eternally tapped by new taxes. Obama probably believes this. Forget the noise about his being intelligent or educated—he is neither. He is not a bright man (or a decent or civil one)—he is an opportunistic thug. He knows very little, but he does know manipulation.
The bad thing about Obama is that he’s clueless...and ruthless.
"My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn't understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying.
Yes, and my question is *why* didn’t the CEO’s figure him out a whole sooner? The most liberal senator in the senate and a community organizer TIED to big labor.
how does Obama define success?
(as slavery?)
Yes, Bush got his degrees because he was the son of George H.W. Bush. But Obama is just a GENIUS!!! /s
That chart is not true. The author of that report has apologized for reporting erroneous data. A much larger number of Obama’s appointments have private sector experience.
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