Romney/Obama Care

   On Friday, while browsing the Internet for political jokes to put in my “ Friday Funnies “ post to this blog, I ran across the viewpoints of many surfers who happen to be against the Affordable Care Act ( ObamaCare ) which I call RomneyCare being that he was the actual creator of the bill while governing the state of Massachusetts.

    What struck me as strange and funny was the total hate that many people spewed towards Chief Justice Roberts because he helped to stay the health-care law. Ignorant/stupid people at websites such as Redstate and Freerepublic spew such hate that it is unbelievable when one reads their rhetoric.  I’m not speaking only of Justice Roberts, but they continually call for arms against Liberals, Progressives, and Democrats in general because assholes such as Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage push for such shit, if indirectly.

   I also checked out some of the rants and ravings on Twitter, which was quite enjoyable. Read the screwed-up thoughts of some Fox News Channel watching wing-nut and you are guaranteed a good laugh for a bit. My favorite rants about the ACA was tweeted by a few people who said that they are now moving to Canada because America is going to hell in a hand basket.  

    The prospect of a small step towards Universal Health Care is going to ruin America? Are they serious? Really? My question is, Do you not know that Canada has basically “ Healthcare for all? '” Does one not understand that they would be moving to a country which has what the Obama administration is attempting to create in America?

   Speaking of Fox News Channel, now in the entertainment division which was appropriate on Thursday:

I can understand Rupert's business decision.

They're calling the mandate the most bizarre tax in US history because it's based on behavior.

Really? We pay higher taxes because we choose to be childless. That doesn't depend on our income but only on our behavior, too.  DKos

  I might ad that the cigarette tax and the liquor tax is based on behavior. Pretty much every tax that we pay is based on behavior, so get over it clowns.

   Now, as is the usual Republican, House Speaker Boehner has stated that the House will attempt to rescind the ACA in July. Naturally, the Republicans in the house are still more concerned with destroying any gains made by the Obama Administration which just might help the average middle class/ working poor in America. As has been the case since Bush the lesser, there is still no Republican plan to create jobs. At least not in America.

   Lets not forget wanna-be-president Willard ( RomneyCare ) Romney. He has stated to his poor foolish followers that if elected President, his first priority will be to overturn the ACA. His first priority? Not the economy? What about jobs since he is the self-proclaimed “ jobs creator?” In Chinas maybe,but, not in Massachusetts, or in Freeport, Illinois. The residents there can tell you just what kind of a job creator that Mitt Romney isn’t.  Romney has created nothing of value for the average American, and he never will. In fact, with Romney as president, you can bet that he and his ilk will attempt to take away what little the working class has left. He has proven that time and time again while he was at Bain Capitol.

Click the following link to hear about one of Romney’s job creations.  YouTube.com   Brief transcript:

Out of the blue one day, we were told to build a 30 foot stage.
Gathered the guys, and we built that 30 foot stage, not knowing what it was for.

Just days later, all three shifts were told to assemble in the warehouse.
(The company was profitable, with 3 shifts working.)

A group of people walked out on that stage and told us the plant is now closed and all of you are fired.
I looked both ways. I looked at the crowd and ah, we all just lost our jobs.
We don't have an income.

Mitt Romney made over a 100 million dollars by shutting down our plant and devastated our lives.
Turns out that when we built that stage it was like building my own coffin, and it just made me sick.

   This is the Republican-Conservative- Christian-Teaparty of the 21st century. They are not very nice to you unless you make at least $1 Million + per year.

   The good news is that Willard cannot overturn the ACA no matter how much he howls to his based that he will. It ain’t gonna happen if he makes it into the Oval Office, which he will not.

    You GOP supporters need to get with the program, and to quit cutting your own throats at election time over bullshit that is based on nothing but ungrounded fear designed to keep you scared, ill informed, and voting for these losers.

   Hey Mitt, will you also repeal RomneyCare in Massachusetts since it and ObamaCare are the same?

  GET A FUCKING GRIP !!!

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Supreme Court Leaves Romney in the Cold

by Robert Scheer   Friday, June 29, 2012 by TruthDig.com

Mitt Romney is an idiot or, even worse, is pretending to be one. His tantrum of a response on Thursday to the Supreme Court’s health care decision was pure playground: As president I will own the ball, and the game will be played by rules that leave me a winner.

That game has already been called in a decision written by the top-ranking conservative jurist, and shorn of the constitutional objection; Barack Obama’s health care plan now will be judged by its practical outcomes. Romney’s promise that “I will act to repeal Obamacare” from “my first day as president of the United States” is a prescription of destructive gridlock for a program already well under way.

By immediately committing to reverse a health care reform based on the very program he implemented as governor of Massachusetts, Romney has gone to war with himself. Obviously, neither he nor his advisers has yet grasped that the decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts has changed the terms of the debate.

The issue is no longer one of states’ rights. That would have been the case if the court had relied on the Constitution’s commerce clause, leaving Romney to argue that it was legal for his state to have required a mandate but is illegal for the feds to do so. However, the court decision, based as it is on the right of the government to raise taxes to pay for a public need, makes the states’ rights claim irrelevant.

The issue faced by the court was the same on the federal level as it was on the state level; if the public, through its government, must ultimately bear the cost of caring for the uninsured—as would be so in any society possessed of even a modicum of shared social responsibility—then it can vote to levy taxes to finance that effort.

Why did Massachusetts under Romneycare have a right to tax to pay for mandated health care but the federal government would have no such right? All the Obama campaign needs to do is play that video clip from April 12, 2006, when Romney signed into law a Massachusetts mandate, justifying his tax penalty on those who failed to comply by saying it would help “hundreds of thousands of people ... have healthier and happier lives.” President Obama could claim correctly that he added 30 million Americans, not blessed to be living in Massachusetts, to the healthy and happy category.

Clearly the Romney campaign staff was not prepared for what it must now view as Justice Roberts’ betrayal. Based on the oral proceedings of the court, Romney’s aides felt assured that Justice Anthony Kennedy would join his four conservative colleagues in voting to reverse the law.

“My guess is that they’re not sleeping real well at the White House tonight,” Romney chortled the day before the ruling. With egg on his face the morning after, a subdued Romney, standing behind a podium sign promising to “Repeal and Replace Obamacare,” committed to sinking into a political swamp of winless contradictions.

The danger for Romney is in the word “replace,” for there is no way he will persuade even a Republican-dominated Congress to get rid of the obviously popular requirements of the new law, now declared constitutional. While the mandatory aspect—pay for insurance or pay a fine—remains unpopular, not so the programs that expand medical coverage to the uninsured. Three-quarters of those polled by The Associated Press said they wanted Congress, instead of sticking with the status quo, to come up with a new plan if the court threw this one out.

Romney’s devil is now in the details. What exactly in this massive overhaul, much of it widely popular although costly, would he shed? The court already has limited federal pressure on the states to increase assistance to the poor. Bereft of that handy demagogues’ argument, Romney and his fellow critics are left with eviscerating programs that assist the struggling middle class through obviously fairer access to heath care than has been provided previously by the insurance industry.

If Romney now dares to oppose the popular items in the bill, such as requirements for the insurance companies to cover young adult children or people with pre-existing medical conditions, he is finished as a candidate before he begins. And if it is the universal coverage mandate that he would eliminate, he is left with the government stepping in to fund the good stuff, and that is what the Republican right derides as socialized medicine.

This is the petard that now hoists Romney.

© 2012 TruthDig.com

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