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Here are some of the groups on the menu if anything like the existing Senate or House health plans become law:
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• Young people. If the government mandates that everyone must have health insurance, healthy young people will have to buy policies that don’t reflect the low risk they have of getting sick. The House and Senate bills do let insurers set premiums based on age, but only up to a 2-to-1 ratio, versus a real-world ratio of 5 to 1. This means lower prices for older (and wealthier) folks, but high prices for the young. “They’ll have sticker shock,” says Rep. Paul Ryan, ranking Republican on the Budget Committee.
• Small Businesses. Employers who don’t provide coverage will have to pay a tax up to 8% of their payroll. Yet those who do provide coverage also have to pay the tax—if the law says their coverage is not “adequate.” Amazingly, even if a small business provides adequate insurance but its employees choose coverage in another plan offered through the government, the employer still must pay.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) holders. Eight million Americans, according to the Treasury Department, are covered by plans with low-cost premiums and high deductibles that are designed for large, unexpected medical costs. Money is also set aside in a savings account to cover the deductibles, and whatever isn’t spent in one year can build up tax-free. Nearly a third of new HSA users, according to Treasury figures, previously had no insurance or bought coverage on their own.
These policies will be severely limited. The Senate plan says a policy deemed “acceptable” must have insurance (rather than the individual) pay out at least 76% of the benefits. The House plan is pegged at 70%. That’s not the way these plans are set up to work. Roy Ramthun, who implemented the HSA regulations at the Treasury Department in 2003, says the regulations are crippling. “Companies tell me they could be forced to take products off the market,” he said in an interview.
• Medicare Advantage users. Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats want to cut back this program—care provided by private companies and subsidized by the government. Medicare Advantage grew by 15% last year; 10.5 million seniors, or 22% of all Medicare patients, are now enrolled.
The program is especially popular with those in badly served urban areas and with those who can’t afford the premiums for Medicare supplemental (MediGap) policies. A total of 54% of Hispanics on Medicare have chosen Medicare Advantage, as have 40% of African-Americans, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services.
These plans tend to provide better coordinated and preventive care, and richer prescription drug coverage. But Democrats dislike Medicare Advantage’s private-sector nature, and they have some legitimate beefs with its unevenly generous reimbursement rates. This week Mr. Obama told the Washington Post that the program was “a prime example” of his efforts to cut Medicare spending, because he claims people “aren’t getting good value” from it.
That’s not what others say. In January, Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski wrote the Obama administration expressing his concern about its efforts “to scale back Medicare Advantage” because the plans “play an important role in providing affordable health coverage.” He noted that 39% of Oregon’s Medicare patients had chosen Medicare Advantage, and that in “some of our Medicare Advantage plans . . . with proper chronic disease management for such conditions as heart disease, asthma and diabetes, hospitalization admission rates have declined.”
The $156 billion in Medicare Advantage cuts over the next decade proposed by Mr. Obama will force many seniors to go back to traditional Medicare at greater expense. A new study for the Florida Association of Health Plans found that because Medicare Advantage plans have richer benefits and lower deductibles and copayments than traditional Medicare, seniors in that state would face dramatically higher payments if forced to give up their Medicare Advantage plans. Cost increases would range from $2,214 a year in Jacksonville to $3,714 a year in Miami.
There are reasons that Blue Dog Democrats in Congress are leery of their party’s health-care reform plans. Many are in districts or states carried by John McCain, and they worry about the political fallout when these groups realize they will be paying for health-care reform.
They also know that every government entitlement winds up becoming a money pit. In 1965, Sen. Allen Ellender (D., La.) dismissed promises that Medicare would be a modest program to save seniors from bankruptcy. “Let us not be so naïve as to believe that the Medicare program will not be increased from year to year to the point that the government will have to impose more taxes on the little man or else take the necessary money out of the Treasury,” he told colleagues.
Ellender was right, and his warning is even more relevant in our era of skyrocketing deficits and Medicare costs. The only way the House and Senate health plans can pass is if the costs they impose on vulnerable parts of the population continue to be hidden.
Mr. Fund is a WSJ.com columnist.
The American Seniors Association (ASA) invites any American Association of Retired Persons member to mail us your torn AARP card and receive a 2 year- for- 1 year membership with ASA. Our organization representing hundreds of thousands of members believes we need health care reform, but we want what is best for seniors. ASA wants to cut wasteful spending in Medicare. ASA wants to see the Congress work to curb frivolous lawsuits that drive up the costs of doctor’s malpractice insurance. Our system needs an overhaul, but we do not need expensive Obamacare or anything resembling it.
ASA is looking out for seniors by fighting a health care reform bill that will cost upward of $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years and cuts in Medicare of $500 billion. ASA wants seniors to live longer, more fulfilling years of life-- not an “end of life” continuum that this bill suggests.
So please mail ASA your torn AARP card and/or visit our website www.americanseniors.org and ensure your voice is heard.
American Seniors Association, 3700 Mansell Road,Suite 220, Alpharetta, GA 30022
AMERICAN SENIORS ASSOCIATION BLASTS OBAMA AARP HEATHCARE PUSH
“President Obama must think the American people are idiots if he thinks the healthcare rationing, restrictions and regulations being debated in Congress will save money and result in better preventative medicine,” says Stuart Barton, president of the Atlanta-based AmericanSeniors.org that represents hundreds of thousands of members nationwide.
“The president told the AARP meeting that opponents are “making people scared.” ”Well, they ought to be scared at current proposals,” Barton said. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates the plan’s cost over 10 years would be $1.2 to $1.8 trillion. That’s absurd in a recession, let alone good times.”
The ASA has three major concerns: 1) a government-run plan would limit patient- doctor choice 2) there would be an employer mandate that would kill jobs and lower wages and 3) the current legislation being debated attacks baby boomer and seniors by cutting $500 billion out of Medicare over the next 10 years.
“On page 425 of the bill, a person must go to counseling every five years to basically learn how to die,” Barton says. “As I read this and hear about no preventative care, it dawned on me that Obama’s plan is to let all these baby boomers die quicker so we don’t have to care for them in old age.”
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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The American Seniors Association (ASA) invites any American Association of Retired Persons member to mail us your torn AARP card and receive a 2 year- for- 1 year membership with ASA. Our organization representing hundreds of thousands of members believes we need health care reform, but we want what is best for seniors. ASA wants to cut wasteful spending in Medicare. ASA wants to see the Congress work to curb frivolous lawsuits that drive up the costs of doctor’s malpractice insurance. Our system needs an overhaul, but we do not need expensive Obamacare or anything resembling it.
ASA is looking out for seniors by fighting a health care reform bill that will cost upward of $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years and cuts in Medicare of $500 billion. ASA wants seniors to live longer, more fulfilling years of life-- not an “end of life” continuum that this bill suggests.
So please mail ASA your torn AARP card and/or visit our website http://www.americanseniors.org/ and ensure your voice is heard.
American Seniors Association, 3700 Mansell Road,Suite 220, Alpharetta, GA 30022
AMERICAN SENIORS ASSOCIATION BLASTS OBAMA AARP HEATHCARE PUSH
“President Obama must think the American people are idiots if he thinks the healthcare rationing, restrictions and regulations being debated in Congress will save money and result in better preventative medicine,” says Stuart Barton, president of the Atlanta-based AmericanSeniors.org that represents hundreds of thousands of members nationwide.
“The president told the AARP meeting that opponents are “making people scared.” ”Well, they ought to be scared at current proposals,” Barton said. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates the plan’s cost over 10 years would be $1.2 to $1.8 trillion. That’s absurd in a recession, let alone good times.”
The ASA has three major concerns: 1) a government-run plan would limit patient- doctor choice 2) there would be an employer mandate that would kill jobs and lower wages and 3) the current legislation being debated attacks baby boomer and seniors by cutting $500 billion out of Medicare over the next 10 years.
“On page 425 of the bill, a person must go to counseling every five years to basically learn how to die,” Barton says. “As I read this and hear about no preventative care, it dawned on me that Obama’s plan is to let all these baby boomers die quicker so we don’t have to care for them in old age.”
The American Seniors Association (ASA) invites any American Association of Retired Persons member to mail us your torn AARP card and receive a 2 year- for- 1 year membership with ASA. Our organization representing hundreds of thousands of members believes we need health care reform, but we want what is best for seniors. ASA wants to cut wasteful spending in Medicare. ASA wants to see the Congress work to curb frivolous lawsuits that drive up the costs of doctor’s malpractice insurance. Our system needs an overhaul, but we do not need expensive Obamacare or anything resembling it.
ASA is looking out for seniors by fighting a health care reform bill that will cost upward of $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years and cuts in Medicare of $500 billion. ASA wants seniors to live longer, more fulfilling years of life-- not an “end of life” continuum that this bill suggests.
So please mail ASA your torn AARP card and/or visit our website http://www.americanseniors.org/ and ensure your voice is heard.
American Seniors Association, 3700 Mansell Road,Suite 220, Alpharetta, GA 30022
AMERICAN SENIORS ASSOCIATION BLASTS OBAMA AARP HEATHCARE PUSH
“President Obama must think the American people are idiots if he thinks the healthcare rationing, restrictions and regulations being debated in Congress will save money and result in better preventative medicine,” says Stuart Barton, president of the Atlanta-based AmericanSeniors.org that represents hundreds of thousands of members nationwide.
“The president told the AARP meeting that opponents are “making people scared.” ”Well, they ought to be scared at current proposals,” Barton said. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates the plan’s cost over 10 years would be $1.2 to $1.8 trillion. That’s absurd in a recession, let alone good times.”
The ASA has three major concerns: 1) a government-run plan would limit patient- doctor choice 2) there would be an employer mandate that would kill jobs and lower wages and 3) the current legislation being debated attacks baby boomer and seniors by cutting $500 billion out of Medicare over the next 10 years.
“On page 425 of the bill, a person must go to counseling every five years to basically learn how to die,” Barton says. “As I read this and hear about no preventative care, it dawned on me that Obama’s plan is to let all these baby boomers die quicker so we don’t have to care for them in old age.”
Freedom Concert Atlanta
20,000 Flag Waving true Grassroot Conservatives in the Arena At Gwinnett Center.Sean Hannity's Freedom Concert
For Republicans, according to CitizensRevenge they usually have to pay for their Zombie Plumbers to show up which is called: Astroturfing. Astroturf refers to apparently grassroots-based citizen groups or coalitions that are primarily conceived, created and/or funded by corporations, industry trade associations, political interests or public relations firms.
I paid for this event out of my own money because I wanted to support the families who lost a loved one fighting for our freedom. No corportation or organization called me to come to the Freedom Concert.
Liberals laugh because the tea party events are not professionally organized like their events are and they call us Teabaggers, Astroturf and a Mob. All that is wanted are answers at the health care town hall meetings.
"...The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector..."
Ronald Reagan
Cenk Uygur is host of The Young Turks, the first ever live, daily web television talk show.Cenk Uygur is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School of Business and Columbia University Law School. He worked as a lawyer, television writer and television host before starting The Young Turks. Cenk also blogs on Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Politico, AirAmerica.com and AOL's Hot Seat.
Cenk has appeared on CNN dozens of times and also had numerous appearances on MSNBC, CNN Headline News, E! Entertainment Channel, Al Jazeera, ABC News, Voice of America, NPR and even Fox News Channel.
The money we make is our money -- not the governments. He calls people who want to keep their money tea baggers and yuks it up. (See for yourself)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rwLSWjq7g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcitizensrevenge%2Ewordpress%2Ecom%2Fabout%2F&feature=player_embedded#t=236
Herman’s Weekly Commentary
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Liberals’ Health Care SIN August 24, 2009By Herman Cain
When Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) was asked a question at a town hall meeting last week about runaway federal spending, he shifted the subject to the cost of the war in Iraq (that’s also a Blame Bush move). When a lady asked him about the Democrats’ health care proposal he asked the lady “On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
In a recent interview on ABC, Sen. Arlen Specter repeated his view that the people attending town hall meetings on health care reform were not representative of most Americans. He is ignoring the truth that they are representative.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have called the town hall meeting attendees Astroturf as opposed to real grassroots – un-American and a bunch of crazies simply because we passionately disagree with ObamaCare and DemocratCare.
That’s what liberals do. They shift the subject, ignore the truth and call opponents names in order to avoid a real debate or rational discussion. These are their SIN tactics.
Single Payer Health Care System
In their own words: President Barack Obama, Rep. Barney Frank and Representative Jan Schakowsky all saying they favor a single payer health care system. http://hermancain.com/audio/single_payer_mix.mp3
You Bet We’re CrazyAugust 17, 2009By Herman Cain
Since April 15, 2009, I have been a keynote speaker at no less than a dozen events called tea parties, rallies or town hall meetings. I have even done live broadcasts of my radio show from several of these events, some of which you can view at “The Best of Herman Cain”.
Regardless of what you call them, the sentiment being expressed by people in attendance is not Astroturf or manufactured emotions as described by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The people are not wackos, paid plants, extremists or any of the other names used by the Democrats and some in the media to try and marginalize, demean, discourage and intimidate “We the People”.
Full Story
They Think We’re Stupid, But We Can CountAugust 10, 2009By Herman Cain
They think we’re stupid! The president and the Democrats wanted 256 million of us to feel guilty that 50 million Americans did not have health insurance in this country. That didn’t work because a closer look at the numbers revealed that the real number is around 10 million, who could be insured with less expensive and less disruptive solutions.
Full Story
We Are Not SheepleAugust 3, 2009By Herman Cain
The government is not my shepherd, and I shall not surrender my liberties.
Full Story
Health Care Questions Obama Can’t AnswerJuly 27, 2009By Herman Cain
During President Obama’s primetime press conference last Wednesday, he made the usual promises about Obamacare, which have no resemblance to what Congress is working on. The president continues to promise more choices, better health care, fewer costs and less government intervention. The “Health Care De-form” legislation working its way through Congress is just the opposite.
Full Story
Obamacare: Medicare’s Ugly Twin SisterJuly 20, 2009By Herman Cain
While President Obama continues to give speeches that make health care reform sound like a beauty queen, the legislation moving through Congress resembles Medicare’s ugly twin sister.
Full Story
Land of the Czars: Obama’s Unmanageable Executive StructureJuly 13, 2009By Herman Cain
There are now 34 presidential “czars” if we include the upcoming addition of an “insurance czar”. With the conflicts and confusion that are bound to happen between the czars and the cabinet heads, the president has added an additional management responsibility to his plate.
Full Story
Barney Frank: Certified Elected CrookJuly 6, 2009By Herman Cain
While the mainstream media was saturated with coverage of celebrity deaths last week, the House of Representatives passed the Cap & Trade & Tax & Kill bill. The official name is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, but there is absolutely nothing clean about it.
Full Story
Why Does Congress Ignore the Public’s Wishes? Because They Don’t CareJune 29, 2009By Herman Cain
Even though the congressional switchboard was shut down for a while last week due to calls from voters asking their representatives to vote no on the “American Clean Energy and Security Act (HR 2454)”, the House of Representatives narrowly passed it anyway.
Full Story
What Conservatives Can DoJune 22, 2009By Herman Cain
Last week my 10-year-old granddaughter gave me a card she made herself that had some hearts drawn on it with the simple message, “Pa Pa, thanks for being there for me.” Yes, it brought a big smile to my face.
That simple message immediately reminded me of three things: The two times I had no one to turn to except my dad – and he was there for me – and the very first time I saw my granddaughter’s face on the day she was born.
Full Story
Five Traps That Trick Americans Into Accepting Socialized MedicineJune 15, 2009By Herman Cain
There is no serious debate in Washington about health care, as Democrats make another attempt to confiscate control of our entire health care system. It’s a war of words even among Democrats, as each faction tries to fashion its own idea of how best to get the sheeple on the road to health care rationing.
Full Story
Sheeple in a BubbleJune 8, 2009By Herman Cain
Last week I shared with my radio audience two articles about our country’s decline. One was published by a Russian publication and the other was published by a Canadian publication. The headlines of both articles should have been a wake-up call to even the most liberal listeners...
Full Story
Health Care Rhetoric vs. FactsJune 1, 2009By Herman Cain
President Obama is pushing Congress to deliver health care legislation by the end of the year. A big problem with that is simply, what is it?
Full Story
Our Heroes Didn’t Die to Preserve a Bankrupt NationMay 25, 2009By Herman Cain
In 2007, the political theater consisted of congressional hearings to grill the oil executives because gasoline prices were skyrocketing. Those hearings produced absolutely nothing.
In 2009, the hearings to nowhere have been targeted at the automobile company executives, which have not stopped the inevitable bankruptcies of Chrysler and General Motors. But the taxpayers got to spend billions of dollars (courtesy of our Democrat-controlled Congress) to delay the inevitable.
Full Story
The Land of the Free Won’t Succumb to Socialism Without a FightMay 18, 2009By Herman Cain
I attended a gathering of 50 conservative organizations last week, a well as a statewide political party convention, and I took dozens of calls on my nightly radio show. There are a lot of people who are not feeling that this country is still the land of the free, as written in our national anthem.
Full Story
Obama’s Intimidation TaxMay 11, 2009By Herman Cain
Eight hundred more IRS agents, closing tax loopholes used by U.S. companies that make money in other countries, and calling businesses “tax cheats” for using the messed up tax code as it is written, is going to inspire lots of multinational companies to create more jobs here in the USA.
Full Story
Obama and the Beginning of Voters’ RegretMay 4, 2009By Herman Cain
It did not take 100 days of the new administration for some people to have second thoughts about having voted for President Obama. Most Democratic voters will never admit it. Most Republican voters will be quick to say “I told you so”, while some independent voters are feeling disappointed again.
Full Story
Obama is Not in ControlApril 27, 2009By Herman Cain
It did not take 100 days for some of us to recognize that President Obama is not in control of the legislative agenda. Nor did it take 100 days to see that he is being advised to micro-manage the biggest nation on the planet, the United States of America.
Full Story
Tea Parties: Tax Day Anger Becomes Everyday AngerApril 20, 2009By Herman Cain
The Obama Administration, the Democrats in Congress, the mainstream media and the flaming liberal media are attempting to downplay the organized anger expressed by hundreds of thousands of people on April 15 at Tax Day Tea Parties across the country.
Full Story
Seven Ways to Make Health Care in America BetterApril 13, 2009By Herman Cain
My most recent column highlighted the massive ignorance about the U.S. health care system. Too many people want to fix the leaks in our health care roof by blowing up the building. Here’s a novel idea, let’s just fix the leaks in the roof, and here are seven solutions by Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute.
Full Story
Health Care IgnoranceApril 6, 2009By Herman Cain
Each night last week on my three-hour radio talk show I featured a discussion on “Unraveling the Lies about Health Care”. Much of the material was based on a recently published book by CEO Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute. She was my guest one of the nights to give a first-hand perspective on The Top Ten Myths about American Health Care, which is the title of her book.
Full Story
Conservatives, Don’t Just Sit There!March 30, 2009By Herman Cain
More government, more taxes and less individual responsibility is called liberal. And this is 100 percent inconsistent with the Constitution.
Full Story
The Real Headlines While You Were Watching the AIG Bonus SideshowMarch 23, 2009By Herman Cain
While you were watching the AIG Bonuses Melodrama, you missed some more important headlines that should have been aired in the media. We were all victims of congressional theatrics and media frenzy at its best.
Full Story
With America at a Crossroads, Duty Falls to the Defending FathersMarch 16, 2009By Herman Cain
This nation is at a critical crossroad in its history with new and different challenges to those founding ideals – an economic recession, creeping socialism, heightened class warfare and national security threats at home and abroad.
Full Story
Mathematically Assured DepressionMarch 9, 2009By Herman Cain
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was a doctrine of the Cold War (1950s to 1990s) in which MAD was seen as helping to prevent any direct full-scale nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. In other words, it was a lose-lose scenario for both countries if either one attacked first.
Full Story
Worse Than ExpectedMarch 2, 2009By Herman Cain
The U.S. Commerce Department announced on Friday that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 6.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, which was worse than the minus-3.8 percent preliminary estimate.
Full Story
A National Bad AttitudeFebruary 23, 2009By Herman Cain
Consistent bad news will eventually lead to a bad attitude, and a bad attitude leads to failure. Just ask any high achiever in business, sports or any endeavor of life.
Full Story
The Obama-Pelosi-Reid ‘Stimulus’: A Victory for SocialismFebruary 16, 2009By Herman Cain
Despite an avalanche of objections from the public, the so-called “Economic Stimulus Bill” has passed Congress and President Obama will sign it into law. The result is bigger government and a smaller economy.
Full Story
Card Check LiesFebruary 9, 2009By Herman Cain
When someone takes the time to actually read the proposed "Card Check" legislation (H.R. 800), and cut through the intentionally confusing legalese, you will discover that many of the proponents of this legislation have lied. Review the following side-by-side comparison of the rules for unionizing a workplace now versus what the rules would look like if the legislation passes, and you make the call.
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It’s the Political StimulusFebruary 2, 2009By Herman Cain
This extended celebration of President Obama’s official move into the White House, plus the current economic crisis, has given the Democrats in Congress a convenient cover to try to steamroll their long-awaited list of socialist policies and pet pork projects into law. In the process, we the people get the shaft again.
Full Story
Obama: Right Inspirational Style, Wrong SignalsJanuary 26, 2009By Herman Cain
When we get past the historical significance of President Obama’s political victory, and we get past the rightly deserved celebrations, there are some themes spoken by now-President Obama that are beginning to cause me great concern for the future of our country.
Full Story
Who Cares About $350 Billion?January 19, 2009By Herman Cain
An awful lot is going on that can distract our attention from the fact that the federal government is about to allocate $350 billion that may accomplish nothing whatsoever.
Full Story
Congressman Louis Gohmert’s Tax Holiday Lost in ChaosJanuary 12, 2009By Herman Cain
A great economic stimulus proposal by Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas has gotten lost in the midst of bailout mania, spending madness, political scandals and the media’s pom-pom parade for President-elect Barack Obama.
Full Story
The Intelligent Thinkers Movement: A New Year’s RevolutionJanuary 5, 2009By Herman Cain
Let’s be clear! This revolution is not about bombs and bullets. It is about computer bits and brains – a technologically empowered citizen’s movement to take back our government.
Full Story
Obama’s Big Mistake: ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’December 29, 2008By Herman Cain
President-elect Barack Obama has made a big mistake that, as usual, the mainstream media has given him a pass on by not making a big deal about it.
Full Story
‘Employee Free Choice Act’ May Be Unconstitutional, But Dems Will Try AnywayDecember 22, 2008By Herman Cain
OK! I said last week I would try to find some holiday cheer for this week, after sharing with you the depressing discovery that the union payoff legislation, or “Employee Free Choice Act,” from the Democrats in Congress would eliminate secret ballots and a vote altogether.
Full Story
Liberals’ Health Care SIN August 24, 2009By Herman Cain
When Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) was asked a question at a town hall meeting last week about runaway federal spending, he shifted the subject to the cost of the war in Iraq (that’s also a Blame Bush move). When a lady asked him about the Democrats’ health care proposal he asked the lady “On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
In a recent interview on ABC, Sen. Arlen Specter repeated his view that the people attending town hall meetings on health care reform were not representative of most Americans. He is ignoring the truth that they are representative.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have called the town hall meeting attendees Astroturf as opposed to real grassroots – un-American and a bunch of crazies simply because we passionately disagree with ObamaCare and DemocratCare.
That’s what liberals do. They shift the subject, ignore the truth and call opponents names in order to avoid a real debate or rational discussion. These are their SIN tactics.
Single Payer Health Care System
In their own words: President Barack Obama, Rep. Barney Frank and Representative Jan Schakowsky all saying they favor a single payer health care system. http://hermancain.com/audio/single_payer_mix.mp3
You Bet We’re CrazyAugust 17, 2009By Herman Cain
Since April 15, 2009, I have been a keynote speaker at no less than a dozen events called tea parties, rallies or town hall meetings. I have even done live broadcasts of my radio show from several of these events, some of which you can view at “The Best of Herman Cain”.
Regardless of what you call them, the sentiment being expressed by people in attendance is not Astroturf or manufactured emotions as described by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The people are not wackos, paid plants, extremists or any of the other names used by the Democrats and some in the media to try and marginalize, demean, discourage and intimidate “We the People”.
Full Story
They Think We’re Stupid, But We Can CountAugust 10, 2009By Herman Cain
They think we’re stupid! The president and the Democrats wanted 256 million of us to feel guilty that 50 million Americans did not have health insurance in this country. That didn’t work because a closer look at the numbers revealed that the real number is around 10 million, who could be insured with less expensive and less disruptive solutions.
Full Story
We Are Not SheepleAugust 3, 2009By Herman Cain
The government is not my shepherd, and I shall not surrender my liberties.
Full Story
Health Care Questions Obama Can’t AnswerJuly 27, 2009By Herman Cain
During President Obama’s primetime press conference last Wednesday, he made the usual promises about Obamacare, which have no resemblance to what Congress is working on. The president continues to promise more choices, better health care, fewer costs and less government intervention. The “Health Care De-form” legislation working its way through Congress is just the opposite.
Full Story
Obamacare: Medicare’s Ugly Twin SisterJuly 20, 2009By Herman Cain
While President Obama continues to give speeches that make health care reform sound like a beauty queen, the legislation moving through Congress resembles Medicare’s ugly twin sister.
Full Story
Land of the Czars: Obama’s Unmanageable Executive StructureJuly 13, 2009By Herman Cain
There are now 34 presidential “czars” if we include the upcoming addition of an “insurance czar”. With the conflicts and confusion that are bound to happen between the czars and the cabinet heads, the president has added an additional management responsibility to his plate.
Full Story
Barney Frank: Certified Elected CrookJuly 6, 2009By Herman Cain
While the mainstream media was saturated with coverage of celebrity deaths last week, the House of Representatives passed the Cap & Trade & Tax & Kill bill. The official name is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, but there is absolutely nothing clean about it.
Full Story
Why Does Congress Ignore the Public’s Wishes? Because They Don’t CareJune 29, 2009By Herman Cain
Even though the congressional switchboard was shut down for a while last week due to calls from voters asking their representatives to vote no on the “American Clean Energy and Security Act (HR 2454)”, the House of Representatives narrowly passed it anyway.
Full Story
What Conservatives Can DoJune 22, 2009By Herman Cain
Last week my 10-year-old granddaughter gave me a card she made herself that had some hearts drawn on it with the simple message, “Pa Pa, thanks for being there for me.” Yes, it brought a big smile to my face.
That simple message immediately reminded me of three things: The two times I had no one to turn to except my dad – and he was there for me – and the very first time I saw my granddaughter’s face on the day she was born.
Full Story
Five Traps That Trick Americans Into Accepting Socialized MedicineJune 15, 2009By Herman Cain
There is no serious debate in Washington about health care, as Democrats make another attempt to confiscate control of our entire health care system. It’s a war of words even among Democrats, as each faction tries to fashion its own idea of how best to get the sheeple on the road to health care rationing.
Full Story
Sheeple in a BubbleJune 8, 2009By Herman Cain
Last week I shared with my radio audience two articles about our country’s decline. One was published by a Russian publication and the other was published by a Canadian publication. The headlines of both articles should have been a wake-up call to even the most liberal listeners...
Full Story
Health Care Rhetoric vs. FactsJune 1, 2009By Herman Cain
President Obama is pushing Congress to deliver health care legislation by the end of the year. A big problem with that is simply, what is it?
Full Story
Our Heroes Didn’t Die to Preserve a Bankrupt NationMay 25, 2009By Herman Cain
In 2007, the political theater consisted of congressional hearings to grill the oil executives because gasoline prices were skyrocketing. Those hearings produced absolutely nothing.
In 2009, the hearings to nowhere have been targeted at the automobile company executives, which have not stopped the inevitable bankruptcies of Chrysler and General Motors. But the taxpayers got to spend billions of dollars (courtesy of our Democrat-controlled Congress) to delay the inevitable.
Full Story
The Land of the Free Won’t Succumb to Socialism Without a FightMay 18, 2009By Herman Cain
I attended a gathering of 50 conservative organizations last week, a well as a statewide political party convention, and I took dozens of calls on my nightly radio show. There are a lot of people who are not feeling that this country is still the land of the free, as written in our national anthem.
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Obama’s Intimidation TaxMay 11, 2009By Herman Cain
Eight hundred more IRS agents, closing tax loopholes used by U.S. companies that make money in other countries, and calling businesses “tax cheats” for using the messed up tax code as it is written, is going to inspire lots of multinational companies to create more jobs here in the USA.
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Obama and the Beginning of Voters’ RegretMay 4, 2009By Herman Cain
It did not take 100 days of the new administration for some people to have second thoughts about having voted for President Obama. Most Democratic voters will never admit it. Most Republican voters will be quick to say “I told you so”, while some independent voters are feeling disappointed again.
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Obama is Not in ControlApril 27, 2009By Herman Cain
It did not take 100 days for some of us to recognize that President Obama is not in control of the legislative agenda. Nor did it take 100 days to see that he is being advised to micro-manage the biggest nation on the planet, the United States of America.
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Tea Parties: Tax Day Anger Becomes Everyday AngerApril 20, 2009By Herman Cain
The Obama Administration, the Democrats in Congress, the mainstream media and the flaming liberal media are attempting to downplay the organized anger expressed by hundreds of thousands of people on April 15 at Tax Day Tea Parties across the country.
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Seven Ways to Make Health Care in America BetterApril 13, 2009By Herman Cain
My most recent column highlighted the massive ignorance about the U.S. health care system. Too many people want to fix the leaks in our health care roof by blowing up the building. Here’s a novel idea, let’s just fix the leaks in the roof, and here are seven solutions by Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute.
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Health Care IgnoranceApril 6, 2009By Herman Cain
Each night last week on my three-hour radio talk show I featured a discussion on “Unraveling the Lies about Health Care”. Much of the material was based on a recently published book by CEO Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute. She was my guest one of the nights to give a first-hand perspective on The Top Ten Myths about American Health Care, which is the title of her book.
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Conservatives, Don’t Just Sit There!March 30, 2009By Herman Cain
More government, more taxes and less individual responsibility is called liberal. And this is 100 percent inconsistent with the Constitution.
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The Real Headlines While You Were Watching the AIG Bonus SideshowMarch 23, 2009By Herman Cain
While you were watching the AIG Bonuses Melodrama, you missed some more important headlines that should have been aired in the media. We were all victims of congressional theatrics and media frenzy at its best.
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With America at a Crossroads, Duty Falls to the Defending FathersMarch 16, 2009By Herman Cain
This nation is at a critical crossroad in its history with new and different challenges to those founding ideals – an economic recession, creeping socialism, heightened class warfare and national security threats at home and abroad.
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Mathematically Assured DepressionMarch 9, 2009By Herman Cain
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was a doctrine of the Cold War (1950s to 1990s) in which MAD was seen as helping to prevent any direct full-scale nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. In other words, it was a lose-lose scenario for both countries if either one attacked first.
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Worse Than ExpectedMarch 2, 2009By Herman Cain
The U.S. Commerce Department announced on Friday that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 6.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, which was worse than the minus-3.8 percent preliminary estimate.
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A National Bad AttitudeFebruary 23, 2009By Herman Cain
Consistent bad news will eventually lead to a bad attitude, and a bad attitude leads to failure. Just ask any high achiever in business, sports or any endeavor of life.
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The Obama-Pelosi-Reid ‘Stimulus’: A Victory for SocialismFebruary 16, 2009By Herman Cain
Despite an avalanche of objections from the public, the so-called “Economic Stimulus Bill” has passed Congress and President Obama will sign it into law. The result is bigger government and a smaller economy.
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Card Check LiesFebruary 9, 2009By Herman Cain
When someone takes the time to actually read the proposed "Card Check" legislation (H.R. 800), and cut through the intentionally confusing legalese, you will discover that many of the proponents of this legislation have lied. Review the following side-by-side comparison of the rules for unionizing a workplace now versus what the rules would look like if the legislation passes, and you make the call.
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It’s the Political StimulusFebruary 2, 2009By Herman Cain
This extended celebration of President Obama’s official move into the White House, plus the current economic crisis, has given the Democrats in Congress a convenient cover to try to steamroll their long-awaited list of socialist policies and pet pork projects into law. In the process, we the people get the shaft again.
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Obama: Right Inspirational Style, Wrong SignalsJanuary 26, 2009By Herman Cain
When we get past the historical significance of President Obama’s political victory, and we get past the rightly deserved celebrations, there are some themes spoken by now-President Obama that are beginning to cause me great concern for the future of our country.
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Who Cares About $350 Billion?January 19, 2009By Herman Cain
An awful lot is going on that can distract our attention from the fact that the federal government is about to allocate $350 billion that may accomplish nothing whatsoever.
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Congressman Louis Gohmert’s Tax Holiday Lost in ChaosJanuary 12, 2009By Herman Cain
A great economic stimulus proposal by Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas has gotten lost in the midst of bailout mania, spending madness, political scandals and the media’s pom-pom parade for President-elect Barack Obama.
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The Intelligent Thinkers Movement: A New Year’s RevolutionJanuary 5, 2009By Herman Cain
Let’s be clear! This revolution is not about bombs and bullets. It is about computer bits and brains – a technologically empowered citizen’s movement to take back our government.
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Obama’s Big Mistake: ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’December 29, 2008By Herman Cain
President-elect Barack Obama has made a big mistake that, as usual, the mainstream media has given him a pass on by not making a big deal about it.
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‘Employee Free Choice Act’ May Be Unconstitutional, But Dems Will Try AnywayDecember 22, 2008By Herman Cain
OK! I said last week I would try to find some holiday cheer for this week, after sharing with you the depressing discovery that the union payoff legislation, or “Employee Free Choice Act,” from the Democrats in Congress would eliminate secret ballots and a vote altogether.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
VA 'Death Book'
http://www.rihlp.org/pubs/Your_life_your_choices.pdf
Maxine Waters calls opponentsof health plan 'Neanderthals'
(Los Angeles Times) U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters said she would refuse to vote for a health care reform package that did not include a government-run medical insurance plan ...
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/tv/ July 17, 2009 -- The One Thing: 7/17 Click and see facts argued by an American Veteran and the use of Yes Mam. -- An All knowing Barbara Boxer, the abrasive Democrat senator from California who needs to be voted out!!!
Maxine Waters calls opponentsof health plan 'Neanderthals'
(Los Angeles Times) U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters said she would refuse to vote for a health care reform package that did not include a government-run medical insurance plan ...
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/tv/ July 17, 2009 -- The One Thing: 7/17 Click and see facts argued by an American Veteran and the use of Yes Mam. -- An All knowing Barbara Boxer, the abrasive Democrat senator from California who needs to be voted out!!!
Data Dump on Iraq
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7bDhjW86cbYJ:www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/M1.pdf+IDA+Paper+P-4151&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ushttp://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Saddam%20and%20Terrorism%20Redaction%20EXSUM%20Extract.pdf
I N S T I T U T E F O R D E F E N S E A N A L Y S E S
IDA Paper P-4287 Log: H 07-001575
Joint Advanced Warfighting Program
Kevin M. Woods, Project Leader with James Lacey
Iraqi Perspectives Project
Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents
Volume 1 (Redacted)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200908,00.html.
I N S T I T U T E F O R D E F E N S E A N A L Y S E S
IDA Paper P-4287 Log: H 07-001575
Joint Advanced Warfighting Program
Kevin M. Woods, Project Leader with James Lacey
Iraqi Perspectives Project
Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents
Volume 1 (Redacted)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200908,00.html.
AKPD and Axelrod
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/52858
Corporate Shills for Hope and Change Friday, August 21, 2009By Michelle Malkin Listen to Commentary Podcasts
Money from pharmaceutical firms and health care companies is dirty, evil and corrupting—except when key members of Team Obama are pocketing it. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs derides grassroots opponents of socialized health care as industry-funded lackeys with questionable motives and conflicts of interest. But what about the corporate shills at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Two weeks ago, the White House embraced $150 million in drug industry ads supporting Obamacare. This week, Bloomberg News reported that White House senior adviser and chief campaign strategist David Axelrod’s former public relations firm, AKPD Message and Media, has raked in some $24 million in ad contracts supporting Obamacare—along with another PR firm, GMMB, run by other Obama strategists. The ads are funded by Big Pharma, the AARP, AMA and the powerhouse Service Employees International Union (whose Purple Shirts dumped $80 million in independent expenditures to get Obama and the Democratic majority elected). In trademark Axelrod style, the special interest coalition adopted faux grassroots names—first under the banner of “Healthy Economy Now” and more recently as “Americans for Stable Quality Care.” Because, well, “Corporate Shills for Hope and Change” doesn’t have quite the same ring of authenticity. Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until last December, when he resigned to take his White House position. His son, Michael, works there. So does former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. Axelrod is prominently featured on AKPD’s website, from a founder’s quote on the front page (“CHANGE IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR”) to the glamorous election night photos of Plouffe and Axelrod with the Obamas. AKPD still consults with Axelrod on “strategy and research” for the Democratic National Committee. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, due in annual installments of $350,000, $650,000, $400,000 and $600,000. That Axelrod and his old firm benefit mutually from their respective roles selling Obamacare should be gobsmackingly obvious. Axelrod pushes the White House plan on TV news shows. AKPD derives mega-income from ad contracts selling the White House-endorsed plan. The windfall allows AKPD to settle its debts with Axelrod, whose name, face and high-powered ties are critical to future wheel-greasing for AKPD—and future salary-earning for Axelrod’s son and close associates. White House flack Gibbs called any suggestion that Axelrod benefits from the relationship “ridiculous.” Retorted Gibbs: “David has left his firm to join public service.” So when Republicans trade power and access, Team Obama calls that being “in cahoots” with business. But when noble servants like Axelrod do it, it’s called “public service.” What else is Axelrod keeping from full public view? AKPD is just one of his influence-peddling operations. Housed in the same office as AKPD is Axelrod’s secretive former PR shop, ASK Public Strategies. That firm also owes Axelrod money from a buy-out deal—five annual installments of $200,000 each. Axelrod has remained notoriously tight-lipped about ASK’s corporate business. One client that came to light: utility company Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. Axelrod ran a fear-mongering campaign in Illinois for ComEd in support of a huge utility rate hike—and failed to disclose that his bogus grassroots ads (under the guise of public interest group “Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity”) were actually funded by the utility. ComEd employees also pitched in nearly $182,000 in contributions to the Obama presidential campaign—more than any other company in the state, according to BusinessWeek. What other corporate clients have hired ASK and may be benefiting from their ties to Axelrod right now? Axelrod has grown accustomed to subverting sunlight while claiming to serve “progressive” values. It’s time for Obama’s corporate-funded hypocrites to pay more than lip service to transparency. But as the sanctimonious Axelrod lectures on AKPD’s website: “Change is never easy.”
Corporate Shills for Hope and Change Friday, August 21, 2009By Michelle Malkin Listen to Commentary Podcasts
Money from pharmaceutical firms and health care companies is dirty, evil and corrupting—except when key members of Team Obama are pocketing it. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs derides grassroots opponents of socialized health care as industry-funded lackeys with questionable motives and conflicts of interest. But what about the corporate shills at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Two weeks ago, the White House embraced $150 million in drug industry ads supporting Obamacare. This week, Bloomberg News reported that White House senior adviser and chief campaign strategist David Axelrod’s former public relations firm, AKPD Message and Media, has raked in some $24 million in ad contracts supporting Obamacare—along with another PR firm, GMMB, run by other Obama strategists. The ads are funded by Big Pharma, the AARP, AMA and the powerhouse Service Employees International Union (whose Purple Shirts dumped $80 million in independent expenditures to get Obama and the Democratic majority elected). In trademark Axelrod style, the special interest coalition adopted faux grassroots names—first under the banner of “Healthy Economy Now” and more recently as “Americans for Stable Quality Care.” Because, well, “Corporate Shills for Hope and Change” doesn’t have quite the same ring of authenticity. Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until last December, when he resigned to take his White House position. His son, Michael, works there. So does former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. Axelrod is prominently featured on AKPD’s website, from a founder’s quote on the front page (“CHANGE IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR”) to the glamorous election night photos of Plouffe and Axelrod with the Obamas. AKPD still consults with Axelrod on “strategy and research” for the Democratic National Committee. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, due in annual installments of $350,000, $650,000, $400,000 and $600,000. That Axelrod and his old firm benefit mutually from their respective roles selling Obamacare should be gobsmackingly obvious. Axelrod pushes the White House plan on TV news shows. AKPD derives mega-income from ad contracts selling the White House-endorsed plan. The windfall allows AKPD to settle its debts with Axelrod, whose name, face and high-powered ties are critical to future wheel-greasing for AKPD—and future salary-earning for Axelrod’s son and close associates. White House flack Gibbs called any suggestion that Axelrod benefits from the relationship “ridiculous.” Retorted Gibbs: “David has left his firm to join public service.” So when Republicans trade power and access, Team Obama calls that being “in cahoots” with business. But when noble servants like Axelrod do it, it’s called “public service.” What else is Axelrod keeping from full public view? AKPD is just one of his influence-peddling operations. Housed in the same office as AKPD is Axelrod’s secretive former PR shop, ASK Public Strategies. That firm also owes Axelrod money from a buy-out deal—five annual installments of $200,000 each. Axelrod has remained notoriously tight-lipped about ASK’s corporate business. One client that came to light: utility company Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. Axelrod ran a fear-mongering campaign in Illinois for ComEd in support of a huge utility rate hike—and failed to disclose that his bogus grassroots ads (under the guise of public interest group “Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity”) were actually funded by the utility. ComEd employees also pitched in nearly $182,000 in contributions to the Obama presidential campaign—more than any other company in the state, according to BusinessWeek. What other corporate clients have hired ASK and may be benefiting from their ties to Axelrod right now? Axelrod has grown accustomed to subverting sunlight while claiming to serve “progressive” values. It’s time for Obama’s corporate-funded hypocrites to pay more than lip service to transparency. But as the sanctimonious Axelrod lectures on AKPD’s website: “Change is never easy.”
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