Obama's Hope: Cancellations Will Continue
By DICK MORRIS / Published on DickMorris.com
President Obama's program of misleading the American
people continued today when he proposed allowing insurance companies to
rescind cancellations of insurance policies for a year.
His proposal is a way to have his cake and eat it too.
By leaving it up to the insurance companies to decide
on whether or not to cancel, he clearly knows and hopes that they will
proceed with the cancellations.
He thinks they will because, obviously, they make more
money if they force people into higher premium ObamaCare plans than if
they renew the lower premium private coverage now in force. In
addition, insurance companies will not want to go through the
administrative hassles and unreimbursed costs of backtracking on
cancellations that may now be several months old.
Obama wants the cancellations to stand. The more
cancellations, the more people will have to enroll in ObamaCare at the
exchanges. It would be the only way they could continue health
insurance. Now that voluntary enrollments are lagging so badly, his
only hope for decent participation levels is to cancel tens of millions
of policies and force people onto ObamaCare.
He is also making a skillful political maneuver to
make the insurance companies take the hit for cancellations by giving
them the option of not proceeding with them. Now, he can escape voter
anger for cancellations and blame them on the insurance companies -- a
populist posture with which he is familiar and loves to assume.
He hopes that free market Republicans will agree that
the government must not tell companies that they cannot cancel
policies. He hopes that insurance company influence stops the GOP from
embracing that position.
He may be right. The legislation introduced by
Congressman Fred Upton has the same flaw as the Obama Plan in that it
provides that insurance carriers "may" renew policies that don't meet
ObamaCare standards.
What is needed is the Landrieu bill which requires insurance companies to rescind the cancellations.
This entire controversy is going to be revisited next
year when employer plans begin to fall to cancellation. All the fixes
-- Obama's, Upton's, and Landrieu's -- all extend only to individual
policies. But while about ten million individual policies are likely to
be cancelled (five million already have bitten the dust), estimates
suggest that an additional 20-40 million policies will be cancelled by
employers, primarily by small businesses that are not required to
provide coverage.
The precedent we are setting now on individual
policies will guide how we handle the employer policies when they come
due.
If we can stop those cancellations, nobody will sign
up for ObamaCare and the program will quickly become virtually
vestigial.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Politicians Are Actors In An Absurd Theater
PHOTOS.COM
Politicians are employees of the government. The government pays their salaries and their health insurance premiums and funds their pensions. So it should come as no surprise that they always work to grow and expand government.
Government programs are never cut. Even when politicians are arguing over cutting some so-called “entitlement” or government agency, the cuts they talk about are cuts in growth. There are never any serious discussions about actually cutting government.
On the Federal level there is just one political party, and it is the government party. Any belief that there is any significant difference between Democrats and Republicans is pure fantasy. All supposed differences are merely Kabuki theater designed to keep the people distracted from the behind-the-scenes machinations of the elites. This is aided and abetted by a compliant mainstream media, which functions as a propaganda arm of the government and the parties.
Politicians — with only a handful of exceptions — do not care about the Constitution and generally see it as an impediment to their objective. Their No. 1 goal is to do the will of their masters, the moneyed elites and secret societies that use governments to advance their agendas. That way, politicians can hold on to their places of prominence and supposed “power” in government for as long as possible.
That’s why politicians who wear the “R” label as well as those who wear the “D” label are working in concert against those who seek to reign in government, reduce its scope, return it to its Constitutional parameters and reduce government spending.
Tea Party people — that is the original Tea Party people who are the small-business owners, veterans, blue-collar workers, white-collar workers, homemakers and retirees who form the backbone of the country — conservative Constitutionalists and libertarians are vilified by the MSM, the Republican Party establishment and Democrats. Their efforts to reign in government and return America to a republic with free market capitalism — as opposed to the crony capitalism/fascism that currently exists — are derided as whacky, crazy and dangerous by the elected establishment and their enablers.
Of special note is the similar language used by both “sides” to denigrate them.
That is because Tea Party people, conservatives and libertarians are rocking the establishment boat. The elites see them as a danger that could upset their designs.
Most people who are aware of politics on at least a basic level remain trapped in a false left/right paradigm. This includes most Tea Party people and most who consider themselves conservative.
It does not matter which Party is in control of the government at any given time. Regardless of whether the President and/or Congress is led by the “R” people or the “D” people, money debasement continues unabated, wars are started or expanded, regulations increase, the dependent class grows and government becomes more overbearing and more totalitarian.
Tea Party people and other conservatives are beating their collective heads against the proverbial wall attempting to reform the system by changing the Republican Party. I believe this is a fool’s errand.
While there will be some success at ousting statist and progressive big-government office holders, the establishment is too entrenched and has pockets too deep for this effort to make significant headway.
Look at the most recent gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. In Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli was conservative enough to draw the endorsement of Ron Paul, who called Cuccinelli a “Constitutionalist.” Cuccinelli has also been a leader in opposing Obamacare and filed the first State lawsuit against the individual mandate.
Trailing by double digits in the polls just a couple of weeks prior to the election, Cuccinelli closed the gap on Terry McAuliffe as the election neared, despite being underfunded and vastly outspent and having a faux libertarian candidate stealing 7 percent of the vote. Then the GOP establishment abandoned him. Obviously, the GOP establishment preferred Bill Clinton’s bagman over a “Constitutionalist” Governor in Virginia.
In New Jersey Chris Christie won re-election over token Democrat opposition. Christie is now the darling of the establishment, but he is no conservative. Like the GOP elites, Christie disdains Tea Party people and Constitutionalists. He ignored Cuccinelli’s pleas for an assist through a brief campaign stop. Cuccinelli took the anti-Obamacare vote and won even among married women and independents, so it’s quite possible that a Christie appearance on his behalf might have swayed a contest that Cuccinelli lost by 2 percent.
The promotion of Christie for GOP contender by the elites has begun. On Friday, Christie made his comedic debut on “The Michael J. Fox Show.” On Sunday, Christie prattled and preened on the Sunday “news” shows. Establishment types like Mitt Romney and Senator Orrin Hatch are touting him as the hope of the party in 2016. Big money is lining up behind him, including U.S. Chamber of Commerce money that is at the same time pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens, an act would hasten the destruction of the U.S. economy.
Yet Christie has done nothing to turn around his State’s economy. Unemployment in New Jersey remains above 8 percent, and it is ranked 49th in the Tax Foundation’s State business tax climate index. If he becomes the GOP’s standard bearer in 2016, the conservatives will abandon him as they did John McCain and Romney.
The Federal government and Congress are losing credibility as more and more people awaken to the slow-motion downfall of America. The country is in a fast-lane collapse economically, morally and socially.
Make no mistake. The master plan is to devalue the U.S. dollar, but to do it gradually. That’s why the elites can’t allow Constitutionalists and the Tea Party people to succeed.
The vote is meaningless and has been for 50 years. When you see politicians vote one way then turn around and vote to disapprove of their votes, you must surely realize that Washington is a show: It is a theater of the absurd.
Op-ed:
Political band-aids do NOT a ‘fix’ make
By: Diane Sori
The rats deserted the sinking ship as 39 House Democrats* sided with
the Republicans** in a loud and clear voice to tell Barack HUSSEIN Obama
that his ObamaCare so-called ‘fix’ stinks.
And while Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and their ilk are mad as hell that Obama did NOT stand strong and demand enforcement of ObamaCare in the form it was passed in…the form they voted on in the middle of the night along party lines and then forced down our throats…the truth is that Obama’s ‘fix’ is NOTHING but a political maneuver that allows people to ignore the law for one year as they fight with their insurance companies to get their cancelled policies back…
…To get their policies back for one year as Obama hopes his anything but a 'fix' will make the voters forget that come January 1, 2015 back into ObamaCare they all go as cancellation notices go out anew.
In other words, Obama has now shifted the blame to both the insurance companies that rushed and sent out the cancellation notices in the first place and to those who got the cancellation notices. Making those who received said notices the ‘bad guys’ because they dared to complain about losing their what Obama calls sub-standard policies that they were happy with…as punishment for them calling him to task Obama has made it so that they must now beg and plead with the what he refers to as ‘money-grabbers’ to reinstate them.
And while these 5.1 million Americans who have gotten policy cancellation notices try to do what’s
best for themselves and their families, Barack HUSSEIN Obama kisses his
reflection in the mirror as he smirks that he once again successfully
passed the blame…that he once again secured a fall guy…that he successfully (or so he thinks) put a band-aid on his cleverly crafted
manipulative LIES. And while the loyal sheeple are buying into his
anything but an apology and his supposed 'fix’ bloviations, Americans across the country
are slowly waking up to the real truths about this administration that we have
long tried to tell them about.
So while the ObamaCare nightmare is still upon us, there is a glimmer of hope that in the end America will survive this most vile of laws for yesterday’s House vote proved that bi-partisanship can indeed happen, for in a vote of 261-157, the House voted to approve the bill sponsored by Michigan Rep. Fred Upton (R) called “Keep Your Health Plan Act.” This bill allows insurance companies to sell their old individual policies back to the policyholders who previously had them, as well as sell them to new people who are looking to buy individual policies but who do NOT want to go into the dreaded ObamaCare exchanges…and to do so for another year even if the policies do NOT meet ObamaCare’s mandated requirements.
And let’s NOT forget that two Democratic Senators…both up for re-election…have proposed bills that allow people to keep their policies. One of the first Democrats to break ranks with Obama, Senator Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) bill would allow people to keep their policies indefinitely, and Senator Mark Udall’s (D-CO) bill would allow people to keep their policies for two years.
But you just have to love yesterday's House slap in the face to Obama’s
so-called ‘administrative fix’…his ‘executive fiat’…a 'fix' he only wanted
to apply to those policy holders enrolled in the plans before
the cancellation notices were sent out. And this vote also slaps the
faces of Obama's loyal Democrats who did NOT want to allow new customers
to purchase private policies, saying that would undermine the intent of
ObamaCare…an intent they claim is about wanting minimum health
coverage standards for everyone. But what they dare NOT say is that
it’s we taxpayers that have to foot the bill for that minimum coverage for
‘everyone’ by having us pay higher premiums...much higher premiums...for coverage we do NOT want,
need, or can actually afford.
As for intent…the true intent of ObamaCare is NOT to afford Americans better comprehensive health care policies nor is it to give Americans access to better medicine and better medical care…the true intent of ObamaCare is to redistribute hardworking, taxpaying American’s wealth...to divvy it up to give incentive to the ‘sponges’ of our society to stay loyal to the Democratic party…to assure they vote Democratic for generations to come. The ‘gimme-gimme you owe me’ crew will NEVER bite the hand that feeds them…or in this case gives them free medical care that we taxpayers pay for…and so they will do as they are told out of fear that if they don't their free-ride will come to an end.
And while yesterday Obama mouthpiece Jay Carney said that Obama “did what he can do administratively to address this problem,” and that he “will work with Congress so that Congress will do what it can do legislatively…but what he won’t do is support policies that are essentially designed to undermine the Affordable Care Act” what he and his boss do NOT get or get but refuse to accept is that ObamaCare is dying of its own accord as it simply does NOT work…is NOT monetarily sustainable...and is NOT something the vast majority of ‘We the People’ want.
And as Obama meets with health insurance company CEOs to discuss the
changes in the now new and improved (gag) ObamaCare, he is doing so
AFTER he announced his supposed ‘fix' instead of BEFORE
when the insurance companies could have weighed in on whether his ‘fix’
was actually NOT only doable, but if it would even ‘fix’ the problems at hand. And how I would have loved to have been the proverbial
fly on the wall when Barack HUSSEIN Obama informed those CEOsthat they had just 31
days to get the job done…to get the problems 'fixed'...after he had three long years
to get ObamaCare right in the first place.
So as it stands right now the House bill has passed with bi-partisan support which one would think is a harbinger of good news, but its passing comes with one big caveat…Obama has said he will veto it.
And so the nightmare that is ObamaCare will continue on as Barack HUSSEIN Obama finds out that political band-aids do NOT a ‘fix’ make…period.
_______________________________________________
* 39 Democrats voted with the Republicans for the bill: Arizona Rep. Ron Barber, Georgia Rep. John Barrow, California Rep. Ami Bera, New York Rep. Tim Bishop, Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley, California Rep. Julia Brownley, Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, California Rep. Jim Costa, Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio,Washington Rep. Suzan DelBene, Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth,Illinois Rep. William Enyart, Connecticut Rep. Elizabeth Esty, Illinois Rep. Bill Foster, Texas Rep. Pete Gallego, California Rep. John Garamendi, Florida Rep. Joe Garcia, Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind, New Hampshire Rep. Ann Kuster, Iowa Rep. David Loebsack, New York Rep. Dan Maffei, New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, Utah Rep. Jim Matheson, North Carolina Rep. Mike McIntyre, California Rep. Jerry McNerney, Florida Rep. Patrick Murphy, Minnesota Rep. Rick Nolan, New York Rep. Bill Owens, California Rep. Scott Peters, Michigan Rep. Gary Peters, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson,West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall, California Rep. Paul Ruiz, Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider, Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader, New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, Texas Rep. Filemon Vela, Minnesota Rep. Tim Walz
** 4 Republicans voted against the bill: Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine, Texas Rep. Ralph Hall, and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie…all need to be voted OUT of office in 2014
Political band-aids do NOT a ‘fix’ make
By: Diane Sori
The rats deserted the sinking ship as 39 House Democrats* sided with
the Republicans** in a loud and clear voice to tell Barack HUSSEIN Obama
that his ObamaCare so-called ‘fix’ stinks.And while Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and their ilk are mad as hell that Obama did NOT stand strong and demand enforcement of ObamaCare in the form it was passed in…the form they voted on in the middle of the night along party lines and then forced down our throats…the truth is that Obama’s ‘fix’ is NOTHING but a political maneuver that allows people to ignore the law for one year as they fight with their insurance companies to get their cancelled policies back…
…To get their policies back for one year as Obama hopes his anything but a 'fix' will make the voters forget that come January 1, 2015 back into ObamaCare they all go as cancellation notices go out anew.
In other words, Obama has now shifted the blame to both the insurance companies that rushed and sent out the cancellation notices in the first place and to those who got the cancellation notices. Making those who received said notices the ‘bad guys’ because they dared to complain about losing their what Obama calls sub-standard policies that they were happy with…as punishment for them calling him to task Obama has made it so that they must now beg and plead with the what he refers to as ‘money-grabbers’ to reinstate them.
And while these 5.1 million Americans who have gotten policy cancellation notices try to do what’s
best for themselves and their families, Barack HUSSEIN Obama kisses his
reflection in the mirror as he smirks that he once again successfully
passed the blame…that he once again secured a fall guy…that he successfully (or so he thinks) put a band-aid on his cleverly crafted
manipulative LIES. And while the loyal sheeple are buying into his
anything but an apology and his supposed 'fix’ bloviations, Americans across the country
are slowly waking up to the real truths about this administration that we have
long tried to tell them about.So while the ObamaCare nightmare is still upon us, there is a glimmer of hope that in the end America will survive this most vile of laws for yesterday’s House vote proved that bi-partisanship can indeed happen, for in a vote of 261-157, the House voted to approve the bill sponsored by Michigan Rep. Fred Upton (R) called “Keep Your Health Plan Act.” This bill allows insurance companies to sell their old individual policies back to the policyholders who previously had them, as well as sell them to new people who are looking to buy individual policies but who do NOT want to go into the dreaded ObamaCare exchanges…and to do so for another year even if the policies do NOT meet ObamaCare’s mandated requirements.
And let’s NOT forget that two Democratic Senators…both up for re-election…have proposed bills that allow people to keep their policies. One of the first Democrats to break ranks with Obama, Senator Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) bill would allow people to keep their policies indefinitely, and Senator Mark Udall’s (D-CO) bill would allow people to keep their policies for two years.
But you just have to love yesterday's House slap in the face to Obama’s
so-called ‘administrative fix’…his ‘executive fiat’…a 'fix' he only wanted
to apply to those policy holders enrolled in the plans before
the cancellation notices were sent out. And this vote also slaps the
faces of Obama's loyal Democrats who did NOT want to allow new customers
to purchase private policies, saying that would undermine the intent of
ObamaCare…an intent they claim is about wanting minimum health
coverage standards for everyone. But what they dare NOT say is that
it’s we taxpayers that have to foot the bill for that minimum coverage for
‘everyone’ by having us pay higher premiums...much higher premiums...for coverage we do NOT want,
need, or can actually afford.As for intent…the true intent of ObamaCare is NOT to afford Americans better comprehensive health care policies nor is it to give Americans access to better medicine and better medical care…the true intent of ObamaCare is to redistribute hardworking, taxpaying American’s wealth...to divvy it up to give incentive to the ‘sponges’ of our society to stay loyal to the Democratic party…to assure they vote Democratic for generations to come. The ‘gimme-gimme you owe me’ crew will NEVER bite the hand that feeds them…or in this case gives them free medical care that we taxpayers pay for…and so they will do as they are told out of fear that if they don't their free-ride will come to an end.
And while yesterday Obama mouthpiece Jay Carney said that Obama “did what he can do administratively to address this problem,” and that he “will work with Congress so that Congress will do what it can do legislatively…but what he won’t do is support policies that are essentially designed to undermine the Affordable Care Act” what he and his boss do NOT get or get but refuse to accept is that ObamaCare is dying of its own accord as it simply does NOT work…is NOT monetarily sustainable...and is NOT something the vast majority of ‘We the People’ want.
And as Obama meets with health insurance company CEOs to discuss the
changes in the now new and improved (gag) ObamaCare, he is doing so
AFTER he announced his supposed ‘fix' instead of BEFORE
when the insurance companies could have weighed in on whether his ‘fix’
was actually NOT only doable, but if it would even ‘fix’ the problems at hand. And how I would have loved to have been the proverbial
fly on the wall when Barack HUSSEIN Obama informed those CEOsthat they had just 31
days to get the job done…to get the problems 'fixed'...after he had three long years
to get ObamaCare right in the first place.So as it stands right now the House bill has passed with bi-partisan support which one would think is a harbinger of good news, but its passing comes with one big caveat…Obama has said he will veto it.
And so the nightmare that is ObamaCare will continue on as Barack HUSSEIN Obama finds out that political band-aids do NOT a ‘fix’ make…period.
_______________________________________________
* 39 Democrats voted with the Republicans for the bill: Arizona Rep. Ron Barber, Georgia Rep. John Barrow, California Rep. Ami Bera, New York Rep. Tim Bishop, Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley, California Rep. Julia Brownley, Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, California Rep. Jim Costa, Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio,Washington Rep. Suzan DelBene, Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth,Illinois Rep. William Enyart, Connecticut Rep. Elizabeth Esty, Illinois Rep. Bill Foster, Texas Rep. Pete Gallego, California Rep. John Garamendi, Florida Rep. Joe Garcia, Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind, New Hampshire Rep. Ann Kuster, Iowa Rep. David Loebsack, New York Rep. Dan Maffei, New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, Utah Rep. Jim Matheson, North Carolina Rep. Mike McIntyre, California Rep. Jerry McNerney, Florida Rep. Patrick Murphy, Minnesota Rep. Rick Nolan, New York Rep. Bill Owens, California Rep. Scott Peters, Michigan Rep. Gary Peters, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson,West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall, California Rep. Paul Ruiz, Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider, Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader, New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, Texas Rep. Filemon Vela, Minnesota Rep. Tim Walz
** 4 Republicans voted against the bill: Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine, Texas Rep. Ralph Hall, and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie…all need to be voted OUT of office in 2014
Friday, November 15, 2013
Obama's Hope: Cancellations Will Continue
By DICK MORRIS / DickMorris.com
President Obama's program of misleading the American people continued today when he proposed allowing insurance companies to rescind cancellations of insurance policies for a year.
His proposal is a way to have his cake and eat it too.
By leaving it up to the insurance companies to decide on whether or not to cancel, he clearly knows and hopes that they will proceed with the cancellations.
He thinks they will because, obviously, they make more money if they force people into higher premium ObamaCare plans than if they renew the lower premium private coverage now in force. In addition, insurance companies will not want to go through the administrative hassles and unreimbursed costs of backtracking on cancellations that may now be several months old.
Obama wants the cancellations to stand. The more cancellations, the more people will have to enroll in ObamaCare at the exchanges. It would be the only way they could continue health insurance. Now that voluntary enrollments are lagging so badly, his only hope for decent participation levels is to cancel tens of millions of policies and force people onto ObamaCare.
He is also making a skillful political maneuver to make the insurance companies take the hit for cancellations by giving them the option of not proceeding with them. Now, he can escape voter anger for cancellations and blame them on the insurance companies -- a populist posture with which he is familiar and loves to assume.
He hopes that free market Republicans will agree that the government must not tell companies that they cannot cancel policies. He hopes that insurance company influence stops the GOP from embracing that position.
He may be right. The legislation introduced by Congressman Fred Upton has the same flaw as the Obama Plan in that it provides that insurance carriers "may" renew policies that don't meet ObamaCare standards.
What is needed is the Landrieu bill which requires insurance companies to rescind the cancellations.
This entire controversy is going to be revisited next year when employer plans begin to fall to cancellation. All the fixes -- Obama's, Upton's, and Landrieu's -- all extend only to individual policies. But while about ten million individual policies are likely to be cancelled (five million already have bitten the dust), estimates suggest that an additional 20-40 million policies will be cancelled by employers, primarily by small businesses that are not required to provide coverage.
The precedent we are setting now on individual policies will guide how we handle the employer policies when they come due.
If we can stop those cancellations, nobody will sign up for ObamaCare and the program will quickly become virtually vestigial.
By DICK MORRIS / DickMorris.com
President Obama's program of misleading the American people continued today when he proposed allowing insurance companies to rescind cancellations of insurance policies for a year.
His proposal is a way to have his cake and eat it too.
By leaving it up to the insurance companies to decide on whether or not to cancel, he clearly knows and hopes that they will proceed with the cancellations.
He thinks they will because, obviously, they make more money if they force people into higher premium ObamaCare plans than if they renew the lower premium private coverage now in force. In addition, insurance companies will not want to go through the administrative hassles and unreimbursed costs of backtracking on cancellations that may now be several months old.
Obama wants the cancellations to stand. The more cancellations, the more people will have to enroll in ObamaCare at the exchanges. It would be the only way they could continue health insurance. Now that voluntary enrollments are lagging so badly, his only hope for decent participation levels is to cancel tens of millions of policies and force people onto ObamaCare.
He is also making a skillful political maneuver to make the insurance companies take the hit for cancellations by giving them the option of not proceeding with them. Now, he can escape voter anger for cancellations and blame them on the insurance companies -- a populist posture with which he is familiar and loves to assume.
He hopes that free market Republicans will agree that the government must not tell companies that they cannot cancel policies. He hopes that insurance company influence stops the GOP from embracing that position.
He may be right. The legislation introduced by Congressman Fred Upton has the same flaw as the Obama Plan in that it provides that insurance carriers "may" renew policies that don't meet ObamaCare standards.
What is needed is the Landrieu bill which requires insurance companies to rescind the cancellations.
This entire controversy is going to be revisited next year when employer plans begin to fall to cancellation. All the fixes -- Obama's, Upton's, and Landrieu's -- all extend only to individual policies. But while about ten million individual policies are likely to be cancelled (five million already have bitten the dust), estimates suggest that an additional 20-40 million policies will be cancelled by employers, primarily by small businesses that are not required to provide coverage.
The precedent we are setting now on individual policies will guide how we handle the employer policies when they come due.
If we can stop those cancellations, nobody will sign up for ObamaCare and the program will quickly become virtually vestigial.
The Individual Versus The Planned Society
PHOTOS.COM
At the outbreak of World War II, the Council on Foreign Relations began making plans for the post-war world.
The question it posed was this: Could America exist as a self-sufficient nation, or would it have to go outside its borders for vital resources?
Predictably, the answer was: imperial empire.
The United States would not only need to obtain natural resources abroad, it would have to embark on endless conquest to assure continued access.
The CFR, of course, wasn’t just some think tank. It was connected to the highest levels of U.S. government, through the State Department. A front for Rockefeller interests, it actually stood above the government.
Behind all its machinations was the presumption that planned societies were the future of the planet — not open societies.
Through wars, clandestine operations, legislation, treaties, manipulation of nations’ debt, and control of banks and money supplies, countries could be turned into “managed units.”
Increasingly, the populations of countries would be regulated and directed and held in thrall to the state.
And the individual? He would go the way of other extinct species.
For several decades, the pseudo-discipline called “social science” had been turning out reams of studies and reports on tribes, societal groupings and so-called classes of people.
Deeply embedded in the social sciences were psychological warfare specialists who, after World War II, emerged with a new academic status and new field of study: mass communications.
Their objective? The broadcasting of messages that would, in accordance with political goals, provoke hostility or pacified acceptance in the masses — hostility in support of new wars and acceptance of greater domestic government control.
Nowhere in these formulas was the individual protected. He was considered a wild card, a loose cannon; and he needed to be demeaned, made an outsider and characterized as a criminal who opposed the needs of the collective.
As the years and decades passed, this notion of the collective and its requirements, in a “humane civilization,” expanded. Never mind that out of view, the rich were getting richer and poor were getting poorer. That fact was downplayed, and the cover story — “share and care” — took center stage.
On every level of society, people were urged to think of themselves as part of a greater group. The individual and his hopes, his unique dreams, his desires and energies, his determination and willpower were all portrayed as relics of an unworkable and deluded past.
In many cases, lone pioneers who were innovating in directions that could, in fact, benefit all of humanity, were absorbed into the one body of the collective, heralded as humane and then dumped on the side of the road with their inventions.
Their breakthroughs could upset favored monopolies and actually elevate the lives of people.
Therefore, men like Nikola Tesla and Buckminster Fuller had to be buried.
In other cases, there was very little praise before burial: Wilhelm Reich, Dr. William Frederick Koch, Royal Rife.
In the planned society, no one rises above the mass, except those men who run, operate and propagandize the mass.
In order to affect the illusion of individual success, as a kind of safety valve for the yearnings of millions of people, the cult of celebrity emerged. But even there, extraordinary tales of rise and then precipitous fall, glory and then humiliation, were and are presented as cautionary melodramas.
The onrush of technocracy gears its wild promises to genetic manipulation, brain-machine interfaces, and other automatic downloads assuring “greater life.” No effort required. Plug in, and ascend to new heights.
If the individual has any place in this future, it is: working at a job, keeping his or her head down, supporting the family, gradually wearing down, and dying. In more and more cases, the job is within, or attached to, government.
Freedom? Independence? Old flickering dreams vicariously viewed on a screen.
Individual greatness, imagination, creative power? A sunken galleon loaded with treasure that, upon closer investigation, was never there to begin with.
The plan is all that is important. The plan involves universal surveillance, in order to map the lives of billions of people, move by move. In order to design systems of control within which those billions live, day to day.
But the worst outcome of all is: The individual cannot even conceive of his own life and future in large terms. The individual responds to tighter and control with a shrug, as if to say, “What difference does it make?”
He has bought the collectivist package. His own uniqueness and inner resources are submerged under layers of passive acceptance of the consensus.
And make no mistake about it, this consensus reality, for all its exaltation of the group, is not heraldic in any sense. The propagandized veneer covers a cynical exploitation of every man, woman and child.
Strapped by amnesia about his own freedom and what it can truly mean, the individual opts for a place in the collective gloom. He may grumble and complain, but he fits in.
He can’t remember another possibility.
Every enterprise in which he finds himself turns out to be a pale copy of the real thing.
This is why I have been so critical of the recent ballot initiatives urging labeling of genetically modified food. The group, in this case, is the mass of consumers, people who buy. This is the apotheosis of a movement against a titan, a monster, Monsanto. “Know what you buy, know what you eat, and we will triumph over evil.”
The prospect of victory on these terms is, in the long run, non-existent. Why? Because the deep energies and power and desire for freedom remain untapped.
Based on supposed knowledge of what works in the political arena, the men who have been dictating the terms of the “good message” are shortchanging this opportunity.
As businessmen, they are tuned to the marketplace. But that is not where this struggle really lives. It lives in the hidden places of every repressed individual who wants out, who wants to come back to himself, who wants to stride out on a stage and take the battle to the enemy.
And these failed political campaigns are an example of what millions of people in this country want on a much broader level.
They want freedom and power again. They want to feel alive. They want to feel they’re fighting and winning in the true space where the heart and soul of the struggle can be experienced in the deepest way, where their own amnesia shatters and they remember who they are and they see what evil is trying to accomplish, in order to keep them in a trance.
When a political campaign taps into that, it will have legs. It will have legs and wings, it will mean something about victory in this stolen nation.
And it will mean that the extinct individual returns.
Op-ed:
The ObamaCare nightmare of LIES and deceit continues
By: Diane Sori
Oh the shame of it all as one day after the Obama administration
announced that only 26,794 people had enrolled in ObamaCare, in a
calculatingly and vicious move against the American people…a move done
solely to try and salvage the 2014 elections for the Democrats…Barack
HUSSEIN Obama, looking defeated and dejected, did what he does best as
he again LIED and deceived the American people at yesterday’s press
conference.
You know what press conference…the one he was over a half hour late to.
Facing a bi-partisan revolt over ObamaCare…his now on life support signature piece of legislation …with its forced cancellation of five million private insurance policies that people were happy with…Obama offered an administrative fix instead of a legislative fix that would have allowed Republican input and a possible overturn of ObamaCare as some Democrats…especially those up for re-election in 2014…are now outwardly siding with the Republican’s belief that ObamaCare has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed.
So bowing to pressure from five million outraged former policy holders and panicky Democrats, Obama began his bloviations but only after sidetracking with talk about the Philippine disaster... which he should have talked about when it first happened...Obama said towards the beginning of his ObamaCare statement something that should send chills down every American’s spines and I quote, “If you had plans that you liked before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, even if those policies had changes, and if people bought plans they liked after the Affordable Care Act went into effect, you can keep those plans into 2014.”
Let me repeat that statement again and pay close attention to the last seven words, “If you had plans that you liked before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, even if those policies had changes, and if people bought plans they liked after the Affordable Care Act went into effect, you can keep those plans into 2014.”

Seven words that say it all…"YOU CAN KEEP THOSE PLANS INTO 2014″…NO mention…NONE...of keeping the private plans you belong to and like beyond 2014…as in right after the 2014 mid-term elections everybody goes into ObamaCare whether they like it or NOT!
One year…keep your plans for but one year as Obama NOT so subtly hinted that he would oppose the House Republican plan that is being presented today…a plan that would let people keep their current policies for longer than just one year...saying it would undercut and undermine the structure of ObamaCare.
But you cannot undercut or undermine a structure that does NOT and cannot work for we taxpayers cannot afford to float this monstrosity just to appease Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s oh so wanted health care legacy and his narcissistic ego.
So I hope those seven words and their ramifications really sink in for these very important seven words layout what Obama is actually doing…and that is that states and insurers can extend current policies canceled under ObamaCare for one year and one year alone…thus cleverly delaying ObamaCare’s full implementation until AFTER the 2014 elections and NOTHING more…and he hopes this morsel will NOT only deflect some of the fallout off of those Democrats up for re-election but will placate Republicans..at least for awhile anyway.
Sorry but it will NOT on either account.
“Americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to re-enroll,”
Obama said but truth be told he cannot make that happen…only the
insurance companies can and only if they choose to do so for Obama
cannot just order the pressing of a restart button as he changes the
rules of the game in mid-stream…changes the rules concerning
policies that have already been lost due to cancellations by private
insurance companies. This means those private companies can tell Obama
to take a hike if they so choose, because he does NOT have the legal
right or authority to tell private insurance companies to take back
people they’ve already cancelled….especially since some of these private
companies have already left the private health coverage business and
all because of ObamaCare. Because of ObamaCare and all its outright
stupid mandated coverages…like maternity care for ALL men and menopausal
women…like covering the cost of gender reassignment…like teetotalers
carrying alcohol rehab coverage.
Need I go on…
And while Obama bloviated of mistakes being made in having those policies cancelled to begin with…mistakes he said that should NOT have happened because ‘supposedly’ private health care policies that people were happy with were ‘grandfathered’ in under ObamaCare…he deliberately left out the fact that the ‘grandfathering’ clause was taken OUT of ObamaCare immediately AFTER ObamaCare was passed back in 2010.
”We fumbled the roll-out,” Obama said which led
into his spewing one mother of a huge LIE. “I was NOT informed directly
that the website was not working correctly.” At this point I, and I'm
sure others, could feel their blood pressure rising for this man knew
damn well from day one that the website had problems…hell…he knew BEFORE
the website went online that there were problems as the contractors who built the
Healthcare.gov website themselves told him there were problems with it and
advised him to delay its debut. Obama even issued statements and went on
TV…as did his mouthpiece Jay Carney…complaining about the website’s issues and blaming
Republicans for all its problems…for all its shortfalls...blaming everyone
and anyone he could but himself...his usual pass-the-buck strategy but this time its come back to bite him BIG time.
And on and on Obama's bloviations went…
But the bottom line is that his anything but a ‘fix’ will NOT work because the fact is that some insurance companies have already started issuing new policies that have incorporated the mandated coverage for the “broad range of benefits” required under ObamaCare. Also, allowing canceled policies to be extended for just one year can potentially destabilize the insurance market and result in higher premiums for policyholders sooner rather than later, because premiums have already been set for next year based on the previous timetable of when policy holders would be transitioning to ObamaCare.
“We are going to solve those problems. We are going to get this right, and the Affordable Care Act is going to work,” Obama desperately pleaded more than just said. And when his so-called ‘fix’ does NOT work Barack HUSSEIN Obama will own that too for a political band-aid is NOT what’s needed…the bad law with its bad medicine needs to be repealed…as it simply does NOT work.
Period.
The ObamaCare nightmare of LIES and deceit continues
By: Diane Sori
Oh the shame of it all as one day after the Obama administration
announced that only 26,794 people had enrolled in ObamaCare, in a
calculatingly and vicious move against the American people…a move done
solely to try and salvage the 2014 elections for the Democrats…Barack
HUSSEIN Obama, looking defeated and dejected, did what he does best as
he again LIED and deceived the American people at yesterday’s press
conference.You know what press conference…the one he was over a half hour late to.
Facing a bi-partisan revolt over ObamaCare…his now on life support signature piece of legislation …with its forced cancellation of five million private insurance policies that people were happy with…Obama offered an administrative fix instead of a legislative fix that would have allowed Republican input and a possible overturn of ObamaCare as some Democrats…especially those up for re-election in 2014…are now outwardly siding with the Republican’s belief that ObamaCare has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed.
So bowing to pressure from five million outraged former policy holders and panicky Democrats, Obama began his bloviations but only after sidetracking with talk about the Philippine disaster... which he should have talked about when it first happened...Obama said towards the beginning of his ObamaCare statement something that should send chills down every American’s spines and I quote, “If you had plans that you liked before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, even if those policies had changes, and if people bought plans they liked after the Affordable Care Act went into effect, you can keep those plans into 2014.”
Let me repeat that statement again and pay close attention to the last seven words, “If you had plans that you liked before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, even if those policies had changes, and if people bought plans they liked after the Affordable Care Act went into effect, you can keep those plans into 2014.”

Seven words that say it all…"YOU CAN KEEP THOSE PLANS INTO 2014″…NO mention…NONE...of keeping the private plans you belong to and like beyond 2014…as in right after the 2014 mid-term elections everybody goes into ObamaCare whether they like it or NOT!
One year…keep your plans for but one year as Obama NOT so subtly hinted that he would oppose the House Republican plan that is being presented today…a plan that would let people keep their current policies for longer than just one year...saying it would undercut and undermine the structure of ObamaCare.
But you cannot undercut or undermine a structure that does NOT and cannot work for we taxpayers cannot afford to float this monstrosity just to appease Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s oh so wanted health care legacy and his narcissistic ego.
So I hope those seven words and their ramifications really sink in for these very important seven words layout what Obama is actually doing…and that is that states and insurers can extend current policies canceled under ObamaCare for one year and one year alone…thus cleverly delaying ObamaCare’s full implementation until AFTER the 2014 elections and NOTHING more…and he hopes this morsel will NOT only deflect some of the fallout off of those Democrats up for re-election but will placate Republicans..at least for awhile anyway.
Sorry but it will NOT on either account.
“Americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to re-enroll,”
Obama said but truth be told he cannot make that happen…only the
insurance companies can and only if they choose to do so for Obama
cannot just order the pressing of a restart button as he changes the
rules of the game in mid-stream…changes the rules concerning
policies that have already been lost due to cancellations by private
insurance companies. This means those private companies can tell Obama
to take a hike if they so choose, because he does NOT have the legal
right or authority to tell private insurance companies to take back
people they’ve already cancelled….especially since some of these private
companies have already left the private health coverage business and
all because of ObamaCare. Because of ObamaCare and all its outright
stupid mandated coverages…like maternity care for ALL men and menopausal
women…like covering the cost of gender reassignment…like teetotalers
carrying alcohol rehab coverage.Need I go on…
And while Obama bloviated of mistakes being made in having those policies cancelled to begin with…mistakes he said that should NOT have happened because ‘supposedly’ private health care policies that people were happy with were ‘grandfathered’ in under ObamaCare…he deliberately left out the fact that the ‘grandfathering’ clause was taken OUT of ObamaCare immediately AFTER ObamaCare was passed back in 2010.
”We fumbled the roll-out,” Obama said which led
into his spewing one mother of a huge LIE. “I was NOT informed directly
that the website was not working correctly.” At this point I, and I'm
sure others, could feel their blood pressure rising for this man knew
damn well from day one that the website had problems…hell…he knew BEFORE
the website went online that there were problems as the contractors who built the
Healthcare.gov website themselves told him there were problems with it and
advised him to delay its debut. Obama even issued statements and went on
TV…as did his mouthpiece Jay Carney…complaining about the website’s issues and blaming
Republicans for all its problems…for all its shortfalls...blaming everyone
and anyone he could but himself...his usual pass-the-buck strategy but this time its come back to bite him BIG time.And on and on Obama's bloviations went…
But the bottom line is that his anything but a ‘fix’ will NOT work because the fact is that some insurance companies have already started issuing new policies that have incorporated the mandated coverage for the “broad range of benefits” required under ObamaCare. Also, allowing canceled policies to be extended for just one year can potentially destabilize the insurance market and result in higher premiums for policyholders sooner rather than later, because premiums have already been set for next year based on the previous timetable of when policy holders would be transitioning to ObamaCare.
“We are going to solve those problems. We are going to get this right, and the Affordable Care Act is going to work,” Obama desperately pleaded more than just said. And when his so-called ‘fix’ does NOT work Barack HUSSEIN Obama will own that too for a political band-aid is NOT what’s needed…the bad law with its bad medicine needs to be repealed…as it simply does NOT work.
Period.
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