BloggeRhythms

Not very much in the news today, however, a couple of items clearly illustrate how incredibly costly and ill-conceived the idea of the incumbent’s health care tax really is.

 

Breitbart’s Wynton Hall reports that “Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown warned on Tuesday that his state's Obamacare program will cost California taxpayers $1.2 billion more than the state originally budgeted for.”

 

Now, aside from the incredible additional burden placed on working Californians, what’s most interesting is the governor’s commentary, as follows:

 

"I'm proud we did it," said Brown. "But we also have to take into account this thing is growing." Followed by his comment that “the Obamacare exchange, known officially as Covered California, and the state's Medi-Cal expansion represent "a huge social commitment on the part of the taxpayers of California."

 

So, here’s an elected official proudly proclaiming that redistribution of incomes from earning them to those that can’t or won’t, is a “commitment” made by taxpayer’s themselves. However, that isn’t what the evidence shows.

 

According to Fox News.com, “Census data shows that more Americans have left California since 2005 than have come to live in it. The finding is a sharp contrast to earlier decades -- 4.2 million Americans moved to California from other states between 1960 and 1990. 

 

The report found that since 1990, the state has lost nearly 3.4 million residents through migration to other states, like Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Georgia and South Carolina. The average number of residents leaving the state each year over the last decade is 225,000, the report found.”

 

Consequently, while the governor's patting himself on the back, and proclaiming how committed to socialism his taxpayers are, those same taxpayer’s are picking up and leaving his state in droves. So, maybe this guy borrowed a thick-lensed pair of rose-colored glasses from Bill Clinton’s wife. I guess I’ll have to ask Karl Rove about that one.

 

And then, on the subject of the outrageous costs of the health care tax, Brianna Ehley, of The Fiscal Times on-line notes that: “A handful of state-run exchange websites—which cost nearly half a billion dollars to build—still don’t work, nearly seven months after they first went live. Largely inoperable state exchange websites in Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon and Nevada have racked up $474 million federal tax dollars so far, Politico first reported. The costs will continue to climb as states scramble to salvage the flailing websites or transition onto the federal exchange.”

 

So, as each day goes by, evidence grows illustrating governmental incompetence. And this is only the set-up stage. Which leads to the really obvious and far more important question that if these government system operators can’t even figure out to how to sign folks up, what’s going to happen if someone actually needs medical help?

 

Then there’s today’s item about Bill Clinton’s wife, via Chris Stirewalt, Fox News on-line.

 

“Taking a contrarian view, Bill Clinton’s former press secretary Mike McCurry does not see 2016 Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton making another White House bid. In a recent interview with Real Clear Politics the Clinton confidant said, “The work she is doing through the Clinton Foundation with her husband and her daughter she finds terrifically rewarding . . . we all know what running for president is like. It’s kind of hanging around in Manchester, N.H., and Otumwa, Iowa, at the local Denny’s shaking hands with a lot of sometimes less-than-interesting local political people.” McCurry furthered, “So she is going to do that for the next 2½ years at the age of 65 when she could be doing all this great stuff on a global stage? I don’t know. I think that’s why she hasn’t said ‘I’m doing it.”

 

I mention this one because it struck me as perhaps a trial balloon, testing the reaction to a potential decision for Bill’s wife not to run for the presidency again.

 

And, from her perspective, that decision seems to make a lot of sense. Because, except for hard and fast, do or die, ardent supporters, her credentials don’t measure up in any way to what’s required for the office of POTUS. 

 

Yet, on the other hand, her significant mistakes, abuses of power and underhandedness appear in the press almost every day although she hasn’t even announced her candidacy yet. 

 

Consequently, although its still far too early to have real significance, it wouldn’t be a surprise whatsoever if Mr. McCurry’s correct and Willy’s wife ultimately dropped out altogether before the real embarrassment kicks in.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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