Obamacare: Is It A Divide-And-Conquer Distraction?
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In March of 2010, Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care
Act (otherwise known as “Obamacare”) into law amid a host of economic
uncertainties and unwanted Federal Reserve bailouts.
Two years before,
Washington had confirmed the passage of Troubled Asset Relief Program
(TARP) measures that had already met with disapproval from, according to
some polls, more than 80 percent of Americans. In the meantime, the
Occupy Wall Street movement was gaining momentum, involving elements of
both traditionally Republican and traditionally Democratic
organizations.
Self-proclaimed “conservatives” and “liberals” were
beginning to find common ground on issues ranging from the overall
fiscal system to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The
consensus was clear: Government had grown corrupt, power-hungry and
ultimately destructive to every citizen regardless of his political
affiliation.
However, certain hot-button issues always seem to flood government
rhetoric and the mainstream media whenever the U.S. citizenry begins to
unify, causing renewed rifts and luring Americans to fight among
themselves while the cruise ship on which we are floating sinks into the
abyss. Those on the left believe Obamacare is a genuine attempt to
institute socialized medicine, and they love it.
Those on the right
believe Obamacare is a genuine attempt to institute socialized medicine,
and they despise it. But what if Obamacare’s government-controlled
healthcare plan is only a secondary pursuit, while cutting America down
the middle is the
first goal?
Consider this: The launch of Obamacare comes at a time when the
official national debt of the United States is about $17 trillion and
the national deficit is some $1 trillion per year. Keep in mind that
when Obama was elected in 2008, the official national debt stood at only
$10 trillion. That means the Obama Administration has added more than
$7 trillion in debt in only five years.
While mainstream talking heads with low IQs proclaim victory for the
Obama camp because of a supposedly “shrinking” deficit, what they either
fail to mention or are too stupid to understand is that the official
reporting of the deficit
does not account for
real deficit
expenditures each year. The official deficit does not include what
government number crunchers call “unfunded liabilities,” like Social
Security and Medicare, or off-book agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac. The average taxpayer suffers the costs of such expenditures yet is
never counted in official statistics. If one were to tally our true
national debt, including “unfunded liabilities,” it would stand anywhere
from $120 trillion to more than $200 trillion. The true deficit
skyrockets to more than $5 trillion per year (and growing) when such
programs
are included.
It is hard to say whether Obamacare costs will be openly included in
official debt numbers or hidden like most entitlement programs. The
point is the government has been lying for quite some time, under
multiple Presidents, about the real state of the U.S. economy.
When the White House claims in its talking points that
government-assisted healthcare will require a net payment of only $1.1
trillion over the next 10 years, what method of accounting is used? Is
this the total cost or just the “official cost” minus off-book
liabilities? Even if this ends up being the full and complete spending
required, how can Washington afford to burn another $1.1 trillion on top
of $5 trillion a year already in the red?
If our national debt continues to climb exponentially, as it has in
the wake of the Administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Obama,
will we see another $7 trillion or more added to the “official” number
in the next five years?
According to
The Washington Post, Obamacare is now a fact of life, even in the face of a
government shutdown.
But is this claim really true, or is it just empty posturing? You may
like Obamacare, or you may hate Obamacare; but the fact remains that we
cannot afford Obamacare at this time. So my first question to
proponents of socialized medicine would be: Where is the money going to
come from? More taxes? How can Obamacare be funded by increased taxes,
when the average median household income has fallen every year for
five years in a row.
How about more taxes for the super rich? Four hundred of America’s
top earners brought in an average adjustted gross income of $202 million
in 2009. If each of these people were taxed 100 percent of his annual
income, the resulting $80 billion in revenue would
still not be enough to fund Obamacare, let alone our already existing
massive debts.
If taxes won’t do the job, what about foreign treasury investment?
U.S. Treasury holdings by foreign creditors witnessed a record
sell-off in June of this year, and subsequent purchases have not covered
the loss in
recent months.
The majority of all Treasury purchases by foreign investors are
short-term bonds, meaning international faith in America’s ability to
cover its debts has fallen considerably. Creditors now want only bonds
that mature quickly, so that they can be liquidated at a moment’s
notice. Foreign investment in the United States is currently either
static or dropping, depending on the country, meaning no extra cash flow
for Obamacare.
At bottom, Obamacare is doomed to failure. The money simply does not
exist in order to cover the cost. The math does not add up. Period.
Now, I can understand hard-core socialists being too unintelligent to
wrap their heads around this problem. After all, the average socialist
thinks government funds will infinitely expand to meet the needs of
infinite demand, as long as public wealth is “harmonized” in the
process. Socialists are utterly unable to imagine that the money may run
out one day, thus decimating the economy.
But what about the establishment? Is the establishment really unaware
that Obamacare is unsustainable? I think not. The government creates
our false economic reality on a daily basis. It receives the hard
financial data and then spins it to suit its particular needs.
Government officials are the people who are exposed regularly to our
dire fiscal position, yet we are supposed to believe that they are “not
aware” of their own crimes. Obama and the banking elites who pull his
strings are fully conscious that our economy is on the verge of complete
collapse, and they are aware that Obamacare will never survive. So why
continue with the charade if there is no mathematical possibility that
the program will succeed?
Social division is the only plausible answer. Universal healthcare
has been a longtime pursuit of the left, and many Democrats are willing
to forgo or completely ignore other dangerous political developments
surrounding the White House as long as they finally attain socialized
medicine. I have personally engaged in numerous debates with Obama
supporters, pointing out his transgressions against the Constitution and
the Mideast, his close relationships with the banking elite, and his
willingness to throw aside his own promises. Amazingly, some of his
supporters admit that Obama is monstrous in many respects, but they
still defend him on the basis that “at least he’s going to give us free healthcare.”
In this way, the establishment has retained about 30 percent of the
American population as political cannon fodder to be exploited at will
by the Obama Administration. And if a government shutdown takes place
over Obamacare measures, that percentage may climb as citizens are duped
into believing that Tea Party Republicans and their “unwillingness to
compromise” are to blame for the situation.
The establishment knows that a financial crisis is upon us, but it wants
you
to believe that the collapse was caused by “political gridlock,”
foreign fiscal schemes or “conservative hubris.” It does not want
members of the public to draw any connections between their suffering
and the international banking elite behind the greater catastrophe.
Obamacare is a red herring, smoke and mirrors, a distraction.
While we
battle over a program that will never find adequate funding anyway, the
rest of the economic system crumbles.