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Obama’s Train Wreck TAkes!

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The train wreck that is Obamacare

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is just getting worse and worse as millions of Americans are beginning to realize that they will no longer have much say in their own health-care, and are seeing their insurance costs rising, if they are fortunate enough to still have health insurance. This will not only affect individual health insurance plans, it will affect everyone’s insurance. It will affect YOU! Obamacare was never designed to let you keep your insurance, or your doctor, if you like them, period. It was designed to take away your options, along with your health-care provider’s options. While you may have had dozens or hundreds of options in the past, we are now faced with a grand total of four choices, which are all basically the same thing, depending on premium and deductibility levels. This whole socialist wet-dream that is Obamacare merely sets the stage to demand that we all will need to ask permission from Uncle Sam to see a doctor, visit a hospital, and he (they) will direct you in all of their wise benevolence as to what sort of care you deserve. Doctors and other primary care providers will be forced into government approved hospital systems, since their government “exchange” payments will not pay the light-bills in private practice.  Those that resist will retire, find something else to do, or… I won’t go there, as much as I’d like. Government approved health insurance, besides being ridiculously more costly for a number of reasons, does not provide better health care, the result will be the exact opposite. Worse health care, lessened privacy, and your health records will be stored and accessed by the government, with the IRS forcing compliance that you must participate in one of their four officially approved plans.

With that said, here’s the latest edition of

Rich TAkes!

Bombshell – Obama High School Friend: Barry Soetoro “Portrayed Himself as a Foreigner”

“We knew Barry as,  just common knowledge, that girls were never anything that he was ever interested in, and as a young teenager… as a young girl… it was clear to me that Barry was strictly into men”

Larry Sinclair Dead Hours After Phone Call to Kevin DuJan

from Nov 2011… search>>> http://bit.ly/HH3xyt

Report: Mother Of Obama’s Murdered Gay Lover Speaks Up

Wright’s Trinity UCC flashback from 2011

Obamacare By Morning, at the CMAs

Obama grasps for climate legacy as second-term agenda crumbles

Look for yet another round in the War On Coal (and oil, and even natural gas)

Obama’s Ex-Bodyguard: Scandals ‘Worse Than You Know’ – YouTube

retired Secret Service agent Dan Bongino comments about privacy, liberty and the NSA.

Indiana Senate leader working toward U.S. constitutional convention

A Hoosier once again leading the way towards the Liberty Amendments

Conventional Thinking

Seth Lipsky: Reflections on Mark Levin’s brilliant call for a convention of the states.

Judicial Watch/True the Vote to Court: Require Indiana to Clean Up Voter Rolls

DOJ sued Florida for doing that very thing.

Keynesian Theory in 5 min

Peter Schiff: Keynesian vs Austrian Economics – YouTube

Schiff predicted the crash of 2008 in 2005.

President Obama’s Recovery Is Now $1.3 Trillion Below Average

since WWII. It’s not a recovery, it’s barely treading water

Senate Republicans Daring Democrats to Go Nuclear

Will an interesting game of “Chicken” develop?

IRS’ Lois Lerner gave confidential Tea Party tax info to FEC, violating law

Just a part of why she pled the Fifth? Issa is still due to subpoena her again.

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RichTAkes! on Macintosh Mavericks

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I recently installed OS X 10.9 Mavericks on a test drive.

Here is the RichTAkes! Mavericks update report.

I discovered two items of interest last week. First, I’m eligible for a corporate discount on Apple products, which I discovered quite by accident, I was looking for rental car discounts. Secondly, Apple is offering OS X Server for only 19.99 through the App Store. Mavericks 10.9 is required. This might open up loads of possibilities.

When I was the Mac IT guy for a weekly rag back in 2003 I paid around 300.00 for a second-hand copy of AppleShare IP, I don’t remember how many clients it supported. (I still have an un-opened 10 Client version of AppleShare IP 6.3). I used it strictly for the local (LAN) network, and it was capable of some amazing things in OS 9. For twenty bucks, it’d be fun to set up a server again, I have never admined an OS X system before.

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Rich TAkes! on Halloween

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RichTAkes! on Halloween

Why Obamacare should scare the wits out of you.

White House Predicted in 2010 That 93 Million Would Lose Their Health Plans Under ObamaCare Dr Obama

your group coverage will be on the chopping block next

As Obamacare Takes On Water, The Electorate Wakes Up To Its Horrors

Report: White House exerting ‘massive pressure’ on insurance companies to keep quiet

setting up the insurance death spiral

Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance

HHS issued regulations within the first three months of ACA passage, mostly nullifying the plain language for grandfathered health insurance plans in the bill. The insurance companies are simply complying with the regulations.

Hill aides can quietly stay off health exchanges

Members of the House and Senate allow their aides to stay off the exchange, keep their current coverage.

Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes

No surprise here. Just wait until the employer mandate kicks in, just before the ’14 mid-terms

HIDDEN CAM PRANK! Obama’s Halloween! – YouTube

a lesson in redistributive change

Obamacare shock: $12,600 deductible, 40 percent co-pay, zero competition

EffectsAffordableCareActHealthInsuranceCoverage_2.pdf

the CBO report showing that at least 30 million will still be uninsured.

Bradley Allen: ObamaCare 2016: Happy Yet?

the nightmare has only just begun…

More Americans In 3 States Have Had Their Insurance Canceled Under ObamaCare Than Have Filed An Exchange Account In All 50

total individual policy cancellations due to Obamacare projected to exceed 14 million

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The Hissy Fit TAkes!

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Now that the Republican’s have surrendered,

thanks to the Democrat-Lite wing of the Republican Party, it’s time to review Obama’s Hissy Fit which he exhibited during the partial government shutdown. After the disastrous launch of Obamacare at healthcare <dot> gov, he should have taken the Republicans up on their offer to delay the individual mandate for another year.

NPS Threatened WWII Vets With Arrest But Now Opens Mall For Union Bosses’ Immigration Rally During Shutdown

attempting to keep the Veterans from the viewing the memorial they helped build, while accepting an illegal alien rally at the national Mall 

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Signs say National Mall closed, but immigration reform rally is a go

close the Mall to citizens, invite in thousands of illegals. Check.

Police arrest 8 House members at immigration rally

Lake Mead property owners forced out until shutdown ends

National Park rangers ordered to keep visitors out of privately run businesses

just following orders

Rushmore blockage stirs anger in S.D. | Argus Leader

Trey Gowdy Berates National Parks Director for Favoring ‘Pot-Smoking’ Occupiers Over ‘Veterans’

“Do you consider it First Amendment activity to walk to a monument that you helped build, or is it only just smoking pot at McPherson Square?”

good question! 

Obama plays POLITICS with LOST CHILDREN, shuts down Amber Alert website

The new civility: Dems turn public debate into schoolyard taunts

extortionists, arsonists, terrorists?

The List: Unnecessarily Shut Down by Obama to Inflict Public Pain

a list of illogical, unnecessary, and shockingly spiteful moves our government is making in the name of essential and non-essential.

State DNR refuses federal directive to close some popular parks

liberals still have a thing for Gov Scott Walker of Wisconsin

People angry they can’t pay their respects at Flight 93 Memorial

PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game

“It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment.

“We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”

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The Surrender TAkes!

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Obama has claimed on multiple occasions in the past few days that the government (partial) shutdown has been a huge drag on the economy.

I have a huge issue with that. Shutting down from 13-17% of government is not a drag on the economy, it is a drag on the government. 

Where we differ is that Obama seems to believe that the government is the economy. If Obama’s government continues to devour the private sector, he may eventually be correct. 

Think about it, since the melt-down in 2008, our government has taken over our auto, banking, energy, and health industries, and have been issuing hundreds of thousands of “common sense” regulations every where else.

What is left to take over? Student loans? Sorry, they already did that under Obamacare.

Senator Barack Obama Explaining his 2006 Vote Against Raising the Debt Limit

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

150 Straight Days: Treasury Says Debt Stood Still at $16,699,396,000,000

Weird, isn’t it? We actually exceeded the debt ceiling about five months ago

Harvard: US debt bill is $123,000 per worker

We’re just asking our kids and grand-kids to pick up the tab, if we ever actually allow our economy to work again. If not, then we are all screwed.

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Obamacare Shutdown TAkes! The Complete Lives System

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Rich TAkes! on the Complete Lives System

Handing over decisions about your health care to the government should scare the life out of you. Perhaps that is what they want. I dunno.

I do know that for once Speaker Boehner has finally stood up, with huge prodding from the TEA Party. Laws can be passed, but the House has to fund it. It’s right there in the Constitution. We call that “checks and balances”.

Progressives believe that they know what is best for you, or society in general, and Obamacare will relieve both you and your Doctor of making decisions when and if you ever become ill, injured, or need a transplant. Obamacare is not about better health, it is about government control and distributive justice, whatever that means. (I’m pretty sure that it’s bad)

Obamacare is about driving up your health care costs, while insuring that your actual health care is worsened. There is no way that adding thousands of bureaucrats and 16,000 IRS agents to the mix can make costs cheaper.

Doctors are closing their private practices, and are either becoming hospital employees, or quitting altogether. New Physician-owned hospitals will be prohibited, and current facilities will be prohibited from expanding. Some Doctors are opening up cash-only practices, offering superior services at a cheaper cost. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that model deemed illegal in the near future if Obamacare is allowed to stand.

“Progressives” real goal is to bankrupt private health insurance and give us all “single-payer” models where the government calls all of the shots. They are not bashful about this, either.

Some companies have been giving a rebate to employees who opt out of an employer sponsored plan in case they are already covered, or just plain don’t want coverage, that practice will be illegal beginning Jan 1. Many companies have already dropped spousal and family coverage as a result of Obamacare.

Private clinical trials, especially for cancer and AIDS cases, will be greatly curtailed, since the government under Obamacare is mainly concerned about reducing health care costs overall. If there is no longer any profit motive, what is the point? The real heart and soul of Obamacare can be summed up in Zeke Emanuel’s Complete Lives System:

Betsy McCaughey: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel Wants Health-Care Rationing

McCaughey (pronounced McCoy) may be the most knowledgeable expert on the subject of Obamacare anywhere.

‎Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions

Above is the PDF of the article co-authored by Emanuel, published in the Lancet, compliments of CUNY

The Complete Lives System:  Socialism in Medicine

Summing up Obamacare in two pages. It’s about control: Editorial (PDF) from the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 2013

Abstract from the National Institute of Health

“The allocation of scarce health care resources such as flu treatment or organs for transplant presents stark problems of distributive justice. Persad, Wertheimer, and Emanuel have recently proposed a novel system for such allocation. Their “complete lives system” incorporates several principles, including ones that prescribe saving the most lives, preserving the most life-years, and giving priority to persons between 15 and 40 years old. This paper argues that the system lacks adequate moral foundations.”

I find it troubling that the words “distributive justice” appears on a government page.

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