If the incumbent had gone into the automobile business, instead of whatever it is he really does for a living, my guess is he would have designed the Edsel.
For those not familiar with the name, according to Wikipedia: “The Edsel was an automobile planned, developed, and manufactured by Ford during the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years. It was expected to make significant inroads into the market share of both General Motors and Chrysler and close the gap between itself and GM in the domestic American automotive market. But contrary to Ford's internal plans and projections, the Edsel never gained popularity with contemporary American car buyers and sold poorly. The Ford Motor Company lost millions of dollars on it’s development, manufacturing and marketing."
Presently, as every day goes by, the administration’s mistaken ideas and constant misjudgment's look more and more like the Edsel fiasco. The exception being that Ford eventually recovered from its one mistake, but the administration keeps repeating its errors, botching everything it touches, making things consistently worse.
In that regard, there are three more disasters so far today, but its only noon, so there’s plenty of time for a few more.
According to Fox News.com: “Some smokers trying to get coverage next year under President Barack Obama's health care law may get a break from tobacco-use penalties that could have made their premiums unaffordable.
The Obama administration — in yet another health care overhaul delay — has quietly notified insurers that a computer system glitch will limit penalties that the law says the companies may charge smokers. A fix will take at least a year to put in place.
Older smokers are more likely to benefit from the glitch, experts say. But depending on how insurers respond to it, it's also possible that younger smokers could wind up facing higher penalties than they otherwise would have.
Premiums for a standard "silver" insurance plan would be about $9,000 a year for a 64-year-old non-smoker, according to the online Kaiser Health Reform Subsidy Calculator. That's before any tax credits, available on a sliding scale based on income.
For a smoker of the same age, the full 50 percent penalty would add more than $4,500 to the cost of the policy, bringing it to nearly $13,600. And tax credits can't be used to offset the penalty.”
Now, ordinarily I’d just read the item, shake my head in disgust and not give the subject much further thought. However, since the incumbent’s involved and I know that older folks are more likely to vote, I did some research and found that in 2011, tobacco lobbies spent $6,638,837 on their cause.
And although the sum’s not really not that great for D.C., those tobacco folks still expect some bang for their bucks which is probably why they got a free ride for a year. Which gives them time to up their spending, and if it’s enough, maybe next time the smoker’s penalty will be erased altogether. Because even though those at the administration’s top can’t perform their jobs well at all, they’ve always been for sale to the highest bidders.
In item two, Elizabeth Harrington of CNSNews.com, reports that “The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.”
At the same time, I found that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 97,180,000 full-time private sector workers in 2012.
Consequently, thanks to the marvelous job the administration’s done with the economy, there are now more Americans receiving food assistance then there are employed. All of which makes me wonder what the un and under-employed rolls will grow to when health care taxes really take hold and businesses find them totally unaffordable.
And, regarding the looming health care tax fiasco, the programs will be handled by the IRS -currently buried in gross mismanagement issues, total ineptitude, and illegal political bias- adding to the tasks they’re already incapable of fulfilling now.
Further proof of their absolute incapability surfaced today today when, according to Fox News.com, “The IRS mistakenly posted the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of Americans on a government website, the agency confirmed Monday night. One estimate put the figure as high as 100,000 names.
The numbers were posted to an IRS database for tax-exempt political groups known as 527s and first discovered by the group Public.Resource.org.
An IRS spokesman told FoxNews.com on Monday the agency was alerted about a "substantial number" of Social Security numbers posted on the site and removed web access to the information "out of an abundance of caution." The spokesman also said the IRS is now "assessing the situation and exploring available options."
In the meantime, nonetheless, 100,000 innocent taxpayers have had one of their most personal and invaluable private pieces of information haphazardly disclosed by a dithering bunch of dunces who'd be challenged by the task of simply lining up in alphabetical order.
So, as noted above, the administration’s three for three today, which in baseball would be pretty good performance in batting. Unfortunately, though, these were three huge errors which would immediately send players back to the minor leagues where they obviously belong.
That's it for today folks.
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