Friday, February 7, 2014

BloggeRhythms

The incumbent and his administration prove time and again they know absolutely nothing about national governance. Whether the subject’s the economy, foreign affairs, education, employment, illegal immigration, taxation and certainly health care, they’ve failed worse than miserably in every aspect of decision-making.
 
However, when it comes to dirty politics, just like Chicago’s only forte, they’re consummate professionals, as evidenced by the following from Chris Stirewalt’s column on Fox News on-line:
 
“Now the administration is considering adding more years to [the existing individual health insurance policies] to avoid another wave of problems if rates on the exchange climb too high and people are left without an affordable coverage option. Health insurers are supposed to submit by May the rates they want to charge on the exchanges next year.”
 
So, what this clearly illustrates is that the administration realizes its health care tax can’t be successful as structured, and in fact, should probably be repealed in total. But, since it’s the incumbent's one and only gasp at remaining a legend in his own mind, a delay has value.
 
Because, the suspension will be for three years, which just happens to coincide with his departure from office. Which means he can then go off to a golf course in Hawaii, and blame the next guy who’ll be stuck with the problem, provided the tax isn’t repealed before then.
 
Then there’s one more small item from the same column, which says that, “AOL CEO Tim Armstrong during an appearance on CNBC Thursday revealed that Obamacare is costing the company $7.1 million. ‘Obamacare is an additional $7.1 million expense for us as a company,’ Armstrong said. ‘So we have to decide whether or not to pass that expense on to employees or whether to cut other benefits.’’
 
Consequently, in this case, one way or another AOL employees are going to lose $7.1 million in benefits, all because of the health care tax. Which means that employers all over the nation are facing the same problem and are likely to follow suit, costing workers everywhere.
 
But, as noted at the start today, none of this should be surprising when those running the nation have no knowledge, experience or understanding of how the economy actually works. But sadly, the way things are going for them, and as the polls are showing, this isn’t Chicago and they don’t understand national politics either, which is why they have to lie their way in.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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