Monday, April 8, 2013

Barker's Newsbites: Monday, April 8, 2013


Fuckin' A Right, baby!

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William R. Barker said...

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/politics-blue-collar/2013/apr/7/msnbc-our-kids-should-belong-state-not-parents/

* AND I'M PARANOID...???

* ALLOW ME TO SIMPLY ECHO - BY POSTING - THE CLOSING SENTIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE:

This is truly one of the most disturbing things I have heard in quite some time.

* FOLKS... WATCH THE VIDEO.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

April 8, 2013 at 12:58 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/07/auburn-man-facing-charges-after-killing-bear-in-his-backyard/

* UNLESS THE POLICE HAVE SOME SERIOUS EVIDENCE TO BACK UP THEIR CONTENTION THAT THIS GUY SET UP THE WHOLE THING... (*PAUSE*)... THEY'D BETTER BE PREPARED TO SETTLE A FALSE ARREST CHARGE AND AN OFFICIAL OR THE OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE NEED TO BE FIRED.

April 8, 2013 at 1:06 PM
William R. Barker said...

* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/04/07/look-out-below-the-obamacare-chaos-is-coming/

[V]oters...were lied to during the first Obama term to win passage of ObamaCare.

* NOTHING MY READERS DON'T ALREADY KNOW...

(*SHRUG*)

Most supporters of ObamaCare embraced it because of a principled belief that everyone should have access to essential healthcare.

* I GUESS DENTAL CARE ISN'T "ESSENTIAL."

But even the establishment (still Democrat dominated) CBO admits that after 10 years of implementation, ObamaCare will still leave 30 million uninsured.

(We will see below why that is a woeful underestimate.)

Just wait until the broad realization dawns that the harsh reality of ObamaCare is that tens of millions will lose their employer provided insurance because of the perverse incentives under the program.

(Even the establishment CBO admits that at least 7 million, and as many as 20 million, will lose their employer coverage.)

In February, CBO reported that “in 2019 [5 years after ObamaCare is implemented], an estimated 12 million people who would have had an offer of employment-based coverage under prior law will lose their offer under current law [aka ‘ObamaCare’].”

But that report is just the early breeze of the coming storm. The ObamaCare employer mandate requires all employers of 50 or more full time workers to purchase the expensive insurance for those employees that Kathleen Sebelius (“The Secretary shall determine”) specifies that they must buy. But that mandate is enforced by a penalty of $2,000 per worker, which may be only 10% of the average cost of family coverage under the Sebelius requirements.

* BEYOND THAT... IF YOU OWN A BUSINESS WHICH HAS SAY 60 EMPLOYEES... AREN'T YOU INCENTIVISED TO CUT THE HEAD COUNT TO 49?

Moreover, workers who do not receive employer provided coverage are eligible to purchase their health insurance on the state Exchanges with extensive taxpayer subsidies to help cover the cost.

* "SUBSIDIES" PROVIDED BY A GOVERNMENT THAT'S... er... EFFECTIVELY BROKE... WHICH RUNS DEFICITS OF SOMETHING LIKE 43-CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR SPENT NEEDING TO BE BORROWED AND THAT BORROWING ADDED TO OUR MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR NATIONAL DEBT.

Indeed, in the Exchanges, low and moderate income workers can even get subsidies covering their out-of-pocket expenses.

* PERHAPS GOOD FOR MARY AND I... NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY.

(*SHRUG*)

* TO BE CONTINUED...

April 8, 2013 at 5:17 PM
William R. Barker said...

* OOPS! MAKE THAT "THREE-PARTER!" (Part 2 of 3)

Employers can terminate their employee coverage, give their workers a raise with part of the savings, and let the taxpayers bear the cost of subsidizing their coverage in the Exchanges.

(Former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin estimated in a study for the American Action Forum that more than 40 million workers would lose their employer coverage due to these perverse incentives. It’s going to be even worse than that, when all of the cost increasing impacts of ObamaCare are realized.)

So much for President Obama’s oft repeated first term promise that “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it; no one is going to take that away from you.”

(*SMIRK*)

Obama campaigned in 2008 on a promise that ObamaCare would reduce the cost of health insurance by $2,500 for average families.

* ANYONE... ANYONE AT ALL SEEN THEIR PREMIUMS GO DOWN WITH BENEFITS STAYING THE SAME OR INCREASING? OUR EXPERIENCE... PREMIUMS UP... LESSER COVERAGE.

[S]ince ObamaCare passed, the cost of an average family policy has already increased by $3,000.

(That reflects the philosophical problem that so many “progressives” have with math, which they are certain is a fascist conspiracy against working people. Why must 2 +2 always equal 4? That is just fascist authoritarianism. Why can’t we be flexible so it can sometimes equal 3, or 5?)

But this again is just an early breeze from the coming storm. If you require coverage of more benefits, such as “free” check-ups, “free” preventive care, “free” contraceptives, and everything Kathleen Sebelius says must be covered to satisfy the individual mandate and the employer mandate, then "fascist math" says that means there must be higher premiums, just so those fascist insurance companies can have enough money to pay all their promised benefits.

* AND STILL NO DENTAL CARE! AND LIMITED VISION CARE!

* TO BE CONTINUED...

April 8, 2013 at 5:18 PM
William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 3 of 3)

Then there is the benevolent ObamaCare regulation called “guaranteed issue.” That requires all insurers to cover everyone who applies, no matter how sick they are when they first apply, without having ever paid any premiums to the insurer before. That concept applied to fire insurance would require fire insurers to cover applicants who waited until their home caught on fire to call for coverage.

* THE OBAMAITES DON'T CARE! THEIR RESPONSE... "TOUGH!"

That regulatory requirement is then paired under ObamaCare with the further "compassionate regulation" called “community rating,” which requires insurers to charge all applicants the same price, no matter how sick when they first apply, except for sharply restricted variances for age, geographic location, and smoking.

(*SIGH*)

Naturally, all these regulatory requirements are going to cause health insurance premiums to soar, especially for younger and healthier individuals...

The March 22 Investors Business Daily cites Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini as saying that ObamaCare “will likely cause premiums to double for some small businesses and individuals.” But he just represents a fascist insurance company trying to protect its rapacious, outrageous, exploitive, 4% profit margin. A study of 5 major cities by Holtz-Eakins’ American Action Forum estimated premiums to climb there under ObamaCare by an average of 169%.

* THE SYSTEM WOULD COLLAPSE WAY BEFORE THEN... (THINK WHAT PREMIUMS ARE RUNNING NOW; THE SYSTEM CAN'T HAND ANOTHER 20%, LET ALONE ANOTHER 169%!)

Not to worry though. The young and the healthy have a strategy available to them under ObamaCare to avoid these costs. They can refuse to buy any insurance until they get sick with some costly illness such as cancer or heart disease. Then they can sign up for the full product coverage under ObamaCare, taking advantage of the compassionate, benevolent, guaranteed issue and community rating. Until they recover.

* WHEN THEY'LL DROP INSURANCE AGAIN.

* ANYWAY... READ THE REST (THERE'S ANOTHER HALF TO GO!) OF THE FORBES PIECES FOR YOURSELVES IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.

* UNDERSTAND, FOLKS... THE REASON I SEE ONLY DISASTER IN OUR FUTURE IS BECAUSE... WELL... I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

April 8, 2013 at 5:19 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/08/Report-Gang-of-Eight-to-band-together-to-force-immigration-bill-through-with-no-amendments

All the members of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform in the U.S. Senate will band together to block any efforts by other senators to offer amendments to their legislation once it is introduced, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

[T]he bill is expected to be around 1,500 pages long, and that the Gang of Eight “is trying to strike a deal in which all the members agree to oppose any amendments to the core provisions, even if they might agree with the amendments, people familiar with the talks said.”

* NO. AMERICA DOESN'T NEED ANOTHER 1,500 PAGE BILL WHERE "WE'LL FIND OUT WHAT'S IN IT AFTER IT'S PASSED."

* NO. COME UP WITH A 5 PAGE BILL; OR EVEN A 15 PAGE BILL. COME UP WITH A BILL THAT AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE CAN READ AND UNDERSTAND... THAT A U.S. MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OR SENATE CAN READ AND UNDERSTAND PRIOR TO VOTING UPON IT.

* FOLKS... THESE COMMENTS APPLY TO EVERY BILL CONGRESS COMES UP WITH! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THESE BASTARDS 99-100 (AND PERHAPS CLOSER TO THE 100 PERCENT NUMBER!) DON'T THEMSELVES KNOW SPECIFICALLY AND COMPREHENDINGLY WHAT THEY'RE VOTING ON?!?!

* IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT ALL OF US SHOULD BE ABLE TO AGREE ON IS THAT WE NEED TO REVERT TO TRUE REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE BOTH THE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND "WE THE PEOPLE" OURSELVES UNDERSTAND THE LAWS WE'RE FORCED TO LIVE UNDER!

* SERIOUSLY, FOLKS... WHAT'S IT TELL YOU THAT THIS IS PERHAPS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WITH ALL THE MEDIA AND PUNDIT COVERAGE THIS BILL WILL GET, THE SHEER LENGTH OF IT IS A KEY CRITIQUE. UNDERSTAND, THE OLIGARCHS WANT YOU STUPID AND PASSIVE. SO DO THE POLITICIANS - OF BOTH PARTIES! SO DOES THE MEDIA! SO DOES ACADEMIA! IF THIS WEREN'T THE CASE WE'D BE GETTING 15 PAGE BILLS INSTEAD OF 1,500 PAGE PORK-FILLED/FAVOR-FILLED ABOMINATIONS!

April 8, 2013 at 7:48 PM

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