Saturday, July 27, 2013

BloggeRhythms 7/27/2013

One of the most valuable lessons of life is grasping the fact that, as the old adage says, actions speak louder than words. I’ve found that to be so consistently true that I rarely, if ever, rely on what anyone tells me. Instead, I wait until I’ve gained sufficient experience with others to let what actually transpires speak for itself. 
 
I bring this up today because the blabberer-in-chief from the White House is now making another round of speeches to tout how wonderful his administration is, while the real-world results indicate the absolute and total reverse.
 
Just this morning he called all the “scandals” surrounding his administration fabrications, claiming that there’re nothing but stories dreamed up by his political opposition. Yet, at the same time over 1,000 special operations veterans signed a document demanding Congress hold the White House accountable for the disastrous mishandling of the Benghazi attack.
 
And then there’s the House committee steadily making progress in its attempt to establish that the IRS did indeed target political foes in the last two elections.
 
Add to that the Fast and Furious gun-running scheme and illegal tapping of reporters phones as further examples of issues that are absolutely not fabricated in any way, and you realize that the only one distorting, bending or evading the truth is the incumbent himself.
 
But, however, what made me think of today’s theme, the process of letting actual performance speak for itself rather than believing what others tell you, arose from an article by Eliana Johnson’s In The Corner on National Review Online, regarding Obamacare, as follows:
 
“In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day. 
 
One branch of that call center will be located in California’s Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs. According to the Contra Costa Times, however, “about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits — a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.” The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process “a comedy of errors” and said she “never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time.”
 
So, here we have the administration itself apparently deciding they’re better off economically employing part-timers, thereby avoiding the costs of providing health insurance.
 
And what’s even worse is, if the government concludes their own health care plan's too costly, that means it’s got to be a financial disaster for anyone else who has to use it. Which goes to prove my original point. Because no matter what folks say or promise, it really doesn’t matter very much. It’s only what actually happens that always counts.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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