New
York – A female AP news writer described the scene in a darkened
hotel ballroom as a spectacle of two presidents wearing dark power
suits, relaxed and nearly reclining on comfy overstuffed chairs as
they explained the Affordable Patient Protection Health Care Act of
2010 – Obamacare – to an adoring crowd at an opulent fundraiser.
President
Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama tossed away America's very
real repulsion with a mandatory system of health care protection
enforced by government bureaucrats as if it's a flute of fine
champagne - offered in a toast, at a happy wedding reception.
They
called it misdirected sentiment, aimed at the President, when it's
really the Supreme Court that is to blame.
While
freshman U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) read Dr. Seuss's “Green
Eggs and Ham” to his little girls over C-Span as he filibustered a
bill that if stymied would enable Republicans to hold the
government's debt ceiling hostage to a defunding of the controversial
law that becomes partly operative on Oct. 1, Clinton pointed out the
part of the Supreme Court's decision on Obamacare that holds states
cannot be forced to take Medicaid money to finance the expansion of
health care coverage.
“That's
going to lead to a cruel result, and there's nothing the President
can do, and it's not his fault,” he said. “That's what the
Supreme Court said.” So, blame it on the Governors, the Attorneys
General, and the state legislators for taking advantage of a ruling
by the U.S. Supreme Court that enabled the bureaucracy of an
unsustainably debt-riddled corporation, the United States of America,
to force its citizens to buy health insurance – whether they want
it, or not.
It's
kind of like the Irishman who, when kicked by the jackass, said,
“Consider the source.”
Such
a deal.
Those
individuals who refuse to enroll will be subject to punitive IRS tax
levies, a procedure the Court ruled is constitutional because it's
one of the House of Representatives' enumerated powers, that of
levying taxes.
Part
of the Clinton Global Initiative, the plan to palliate what a sizable
majority of the nation sees as an abominable choice is in full swing.
President Obama left the gala and appeared at a fundraiser held at
the Waldorf-Astoria. Guests there paid a minimum of $5,000 a plate
and a maximum of $32,400 to thump on the tubs for an idea that died
an ignominious death 20 years ago during the Clinton Administration,
was revived in 2010, and has caused the House of Representatives to
vote its demise a phenomenal number of times - way past 30 times, but
who's counting - to defund its implementation.
Despite
their popularity, those bills have gone nowhere in the U.S. Senate.
In fact, the issue has gridlocked the fiscal policies of the world's
largest corporation, the U.S.A. The nation has operated without a
budget since 2009, flying by the seat of its pants while the bankers
who control the Federal Reserve Banks devalue the currency and
increase the debt load to staggering heights.
Meanwhile,
the world's more stable economies pour their cash into the deepest,
most liquid pool on the planet, the Treasury bond market.
With
a slipping credit rating, the yield is bound to go up. Cui
bono?
One
is reminded of the dilemma of confidence in the nation of Chile,
right before they found President Salvador Allende sprawled across
his desk, dead of a gunshot wound that left the back of his skull
missing, the muzzle of a custom-engraved AK-47 assault rifle bearing
Fidel Castro's signature thrust through his broken teeth. Jet
fighters bombed and strafed the executive mansion for hours during
his last day of life. Foreign policy experts often point to that as a
textbook case of a hostile takeover.
Here's a clue. The sitting President and Attorney General were ex-law partners - rainmakers - in Wall Street's largest, most successful bond firm.
It's
all a function of "clearing up misconceptions," the President said.
“Normally this would be pretty straightforward. But let's face it.
It's been a little political, this whole Obamacare thing.”
As
he spoke those words, Sen. Cruz read the names of dozens of
multinational, Fortune 500 corporations that have cut their
employees' work schedules to a week of less than 30 hours in order to
exempt their payroll from its clutches. Cruz is the son of a Cuban
who in 1959 fled what President Kennedy called “that imprisoned island” – fled for his life and those of his family.
This
is the health care plan – the law of the land – the one you had
to pass “to find out what's in it,” said then Speaker of the
House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco).
This
is a big part of what's in it.
Like
Ragu, it's in there.
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