Young Americans - Read This!

OK… I get it… it’s crazy out there and who’s got the time to understand the tens of thousands of pages of new regulations associated with the “Affordable Care Act”, also known as Obamacare? 

Besides, from what we all heard in the press, wasn’t Obamacare going to provide cheaper healthcare and make sure that everyone had inexpensive healthcare?  Who could be against that? Right?

If you’re young and healthy (and there are a lot of you out there), you should be.  Listen up.  We’ll keep this brief.

Obamacare for young (18-34) Americans (not living in their parent’s basement or otherwise on the dole), is like being forced (at gunpoint) to go out to dinner with everyone in the neighborhood, every night of the week. 

You are forced to go to one of only a couple of restaurants in town, even if you think the food in those restaurants is not to your liking and / or is overpriced.

At this group dinner, young healthy Americans, being frugal and health conscious, order the low-cost Thai chicken lettuce wraps and water while at the other end of the table they watch in horror at the life style choices of their neighbors slamming down lobster, ribs, filet mignon and fries washed down with Jack.

To add insult to injury, the young healthy Americans are told the total food and bar bill will be divided evenly among everyone in the dinner party, regardless of what each person ordered. Everyone pays the same.

You are being told that this arrangement is ‘fair” because, well, it would be unfair for someone to have to pay more than someone else.  (Remember this every time you hear the word ‘fair’ from a politician.)

By the way, if you think this dinner plan is unfair, based on YOUR morality, and you decide you don’t want to participate, then you will be forced to pay a fine.  If you don’t pay the fine, guys with three letters on the back of their windbreakers, will show up on your doorstep and shake you down (if they’re not too busy slow-rolling 501c4 applications from Tea Party groups or otherwise wasting tax payer money).

This is all young, healthy Americans need to know about Obamacare.  The only way to keep health insurance premiums low for older persons, in this Obamacare train wreck, is to shake down young, healthy Americans.

Next time you sit down to have your PB and J sandwich, looking to save a few bucks so you can start building your future, remember that unless you get off your ass and do something, you’ll be paying for someone else’s filet mignon now and forever. 

Call your Congressman.  Tell him / her that you’re young and healthy and you’re not going to subsidize this grotesque freedom-snatch with your silence. Tell your Congressman that the erosion of freedom in this country is going to stop now.

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

Health and Human Services

Today, Our Dear Leader nominated Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

I spent some time crawling around the grand website for the largest-among-large Federal bureaucracies to see what kind of empire she is inheriting.

Some facts that I pulled off of this website:

• The mission of the HHS is: To protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services, especially to those with the greatest need. The Department of Health and Human Services sponsors medical and social science research, approves the use of new drugs and medical devices, manages infectious disease prevention and response programs, administers Medicare, Medicaid and other programs that provide financial assistance and services to low-income families.

• The FY2008 budget of $716 billion represented almost a quarter of ALL Federal expenditures. HHS administers more grant dollars than ALL other Federal agencies combined!
  

• The Department of HHS was selected as the 18th best place to work in the US Government in 2007 and employed 52,799 persons in 2006. Assuming that this number did not grow between 2006 and 2008 (haa haa haaah haaa) this means that each highly trained member of the HHS team oversaw over $13 million in hand-outs. No possibility for corruption, graft, waste, fraud with these kinds of numbers...
  

On the GovBenefits.gov link with the HHS website we find all sorts of quick-links for the growing population of Americans who are living the dream of becoming wards of the state. Let's see..

• "GovBenefits.gov is the official benefits website of the U.S. government, with information on over 1,000 benefit and assistance programs." (are you kidding me? Over 1,000? And the site is boasting about this?)
  

• "There's truly something for everyone!" (everyone is entitled to the wealth earned by someone else)

There is a questionnaire that contains the request to document the number of times you have been married (a number 0 - 10). I wonder how many people type "9"?

On question 14, the questionnaire asks to identify your profession and "manufacturing" is not listed, but "practicing artist", "published writer / poet", "federal employee" and "aquaculture operator" do make the list.

Question 39 is a classic: "How much do you earn each month from working?" [I'm sorry, is this to differentiate the money I've made robbing liquor stores or the money I've gotten from other handouts? Apparently this question seeks to understand how much of one's income was actually earned the only way wealth can be earned - through work]

So, I filled out the questionnaire and was presented with a menu of 24 different hand-outs for which I may be qualified. Going on the dole, has never been easier...

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

--- James Madison, Father of the US Constitution, 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist some French refugees