Posted on 09/28/2012 12:20:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just what we've all been waiting for — now I can send intellectually cheap, platitudinous, pre-packaged falsehoods from Obama's messaging team to my friends and family, in a simple e-card! Life = made.
I have to hand it to them: Their graphics people are kinda excellent. But, the messaging? Not so much, my friends. Fresh from the Obama campaign:
Wow ... pretty brazen of them to try to mobilize young people to save a program that said young people are currently paying into hand-over-fist, that will not be around for them, because it is fundamentally and undeniably insolvent. President Obama has made approximately zero major moves to address the glaring and obvious problem of Social Security. He has no real plan to reform it, and his minions don&'t really care to talk about it --- and he wants really young people to convince their (presumably stubborn, curmudgeonly, irascibly conservative) elders to re-elect him? Bold strategy, guys — and if it works, doesn’t really say much for the youths, does it? But, where exactly are they getting this tax-hike on Social Security thing? Per Politico:
“Romney’s $5 trillion tax cut plan will either drive up the deficit or raise middle-class taxes and – if these tax increases are made across the board – an average middle-class senior could pay $460 more in taxes on his or her benefits,” the campaign said in a statement. …
Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg emails this response: “Only one candidate in this race has a ‘plan’ to keep social security from going bankrupt by raising taxes, and that’s Barack Obama. His failure to lead on this critical issue means that seniors face a 25% across-the-board cut in benefits. In contrast, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have outlined a plan to save and strengthen Social Security that does not raise taxes and ensures that middle-class seniors receive all of the benefits they’ve earned.”
Could Team Obama’s math in the above statement be any more hilariously contrived? Heaven forbid we actually cut spending to bring down the deficit, reform Social Security into a fiscally solvent program, and cut taxes; and if you really want to talk about rising costs for seniors, hello — raiding Medicare? ObamaCare taxes and rising health-care prices? Anyone?
But if you really want to be galled beyond belief, head on over to the “Women”-themed selection of fabulous e-cards, ’cause that’s where the fun begins:
I think my head may have just exploded.
I direct this to all those under 30 reading this. ObamaCare results in a huge generational theft from you to the baby boomers. Here’s how.
Not surprisingly, health care costs vary by age. Generally speaking, the older you are, the more services you use. Insurance company vary rates to reflect this different usage. How the rates change as one gets older is called the “age slope”. It is not uncommon for an age slope to result in the oldest age having a rate 5 times the youngest. This matches the cost of providing health care for the various ages.
But Obamacare changes that. The maximum difference between oldest and youngest rate in the law is 3 x. This means that all the young folks will pay substantially more so that the older folks pay less. Here is an example:
Age 25 $100 rate
Age 64 $500 rate
Now that becomes:
Age 25: $150
Age 64 $450
That is a 50% increase in the age 25 rate just to meet the new requirement.
Again, this is generational theft. If you are under 30, or even 35, you deserve to know what is about to hit you in the face.
Someone should have bought Obama’s mother a permanent birth control a long time ago.
That would have been good for the national health.
Obama sent us.....
When it comes to my vote, who else would I turn to for advice than my sanctimonious, out-of-work, college-age relatives? They're a veritable font of wisdom.
Not too surprisingly, quite reminiscent of the Hitler Youth.
Young folks cannot do the math. I tried to explain exponential growth in our national debt and their eyes just glazed over. As long as they get their phones, it’s gonna be o.k.
Don’t Fathers sit their daughters down and give them “The Lecture” anymore??? Mine scared the living hell out of me when I reached the age. While he didn’t say a whole lot at the time, he sure got his point across—mainly “We are all sacrificing a great deal to send you to College. You had better “keep your legs together or there’s going to be more trouble than you will know how to handle”! I listened!! Years later, I realized that my Father did that strictly out of LOVE and CARING for me and my Future. He did not want me to mess up my life at a very early age. He loved me enough to be blunt and straight forward. God Bless Him!! I would have died before I let my Dad down too.
Don’t Fathers sit their daughters down and give them “The Lecture” anymore??? Mine scared the living hell out of me when I reached the age. While he didn’t say a whole lot at the time, he sure got his point across—mainly “We are all sacrificing a great deal to send you to College. You had better “keep your legs together or there’s going to be more trouble than you will know how to handle”! I listened!! Years later, I realized that my Father did that strictly out of LOVE and CARING for me and my Future. He did not want me to mess up my life at a very early age. He loved me enough to be blunt and straight forward. God Bless Him!! I would have died before I let my Dad down too.
Who pays $18,000 for birth control? Is that over a lifetime? They give away condole for free lotsa places. Not having intercourse is also free.
condole = condom
Stupid computer
Dear Daughter,
Don’t get STDs. We taught you better.
Love,
Mom
Team O to young People:
We will kill your grandparents - the same people who talked to you about life as it exsisted in 1960s, then we will kill your parents, so you can have money for yourself. But if you get sick, serious injured or get a stroke -- 'We WILL KILL YOU, because we don't need 'SICK' People *
* Sick people are the people who will cause us to spend money, not tyhe sick people who are PEDOPHILES, QUEERS or LIBERALS (they are nice People!!)
Thank You, Your MONARCH -- Barry H. Zero
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