Archive for September 21st, 2009


Obama unaware of federal funding for ACORN?

September 21, 2009
Posted by clinicalthinker @ 20:35 PM

If some of the jaw dropping commentary from Obama were not so serious it would be drop dead funny.
Apparently the President does not know there was going to be a march on Washington last week end. According to the White house spokesperson they did not know about the tea parties. Now he does not know ACORN gets “a whole lot of federal money”. Did he know about Van Jones … does he know about the other many over the top radicals who have his ear?

This sort of commentary goes on and on since Obama took office. It is getting to the point of what exactly does he really know about anything?

Apparently George Stephanopoulos was the only reporter with either the guts or intelligence to ask Barack Obama about ACORN during one of his myriad of interviews Sunday Sept. 20th.

Obama answered “Frankly it’s not even something I followed closely. I didn’t even know ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money”

WOW that’s a little out of touch don’t you think?
I seriously wonder if we are not shortly going to have a POTUS with a yard long nose.

He also asked if forcing those who do not want to purchase government mandated health insurance is actually a tax increase.

Shriek if we look at it actually as a tax according to Webster … Obama thinks that logic is a stretch.

The bottom line is simple. Tax increase, mandated coverage, “being responsible” or FINES that come from REQUIRING EVERYONE to have health care is going to cost huge premiums. The Congressional Budget Office projects that it would force the middle-income uninsured to pay on average more than 15 percent of their income.

According to Dick Morris:

The CBO estimates that when the program is fully implemented — by 2016 — an individual earning $32,400 a year would have to pay $4,100 in premiums before getting any subsidy. With deductibles and co-payments, he’d have to shell out $5,600 a year, or 17.3 percent of his income. A family of four, making $80,000 a year, would have to pay about $10,500 in premiums alone — with deductibles and co-payments, up to $15,000 or just under 20 percent of income.

And if they don’t buy insurance, they’ll face federal fines that begin to approach these same premium levels. They won’t be able to buy what they truly need — catastrophic-only coverage at a lower premium — that won’t satisfy ObamaCare’s “minimum insurance” mandate.

No matter what name they give it … that’s a pretty big chunk out of the middle income family budget.

Instead of robbing from the rich to pay for the poor it looks like now the middle class is included.

Apparently society is just now beginning to wrap their mind around this DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH thing. What is really means is … only those choosing to live under the 12th street bridge are getting a deal.

In other words whatever middle income has … is now also going to those who either can not or CHOOSE NOT to work.

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