BloggeRhythms

With each passing day, questions mount and confusion grows regarding the incumbent’s seeming indifference on one hand, and contrary actions on the other, toward events occurring here and throughout the world. Even the usually steadfast major media are now among the sizable list of those finding fault with his job performance.

 

While the answer to the incumbent’s behavior, however, is really quite simple to grasp, serious analysts continue to make the same mistakes. Whereas they treat the various issues on their merits, analyzing each in terms of its individual substance, looking for the best and most logical approach to solution. But, that’s not how this particular administration works.

 

Those at the top of the U.S. government now aren’t seasoned, experienced, professional executives steeped in knowledge regarding the various and sundry aspects of optimizing the status and performance of the nation to their best ability. They are simply a bunch of political hacks, driven by goals of success at the polling booths attempting to insure longevity for their party, and especially themselves. Which means that loyalty to those who voted them into office is far more important than anything else. Unless, the cost of that loyalty becomes too costly to repay, due to changes in circumstances.   

 

Therefore, by taking a step back and assessing various current situations from a purely political viewpoint, the picture becomes abundantly clearer.  

  

For example, the AP now reports that, “Obama in June said that by the end of the summer, he'd announce what steps he had decided to take to fix the nation's immigration system in the absence of a legislative fix from Capitol Hill. But Obama backed away from that deadline on Thursday, and the White House on Friday acknowledged it was possible the decision would slip past the end of summer. It was unclear whether any delay would be a mere matter of weeks or could push the announcement past the November elections.

 

As a practical matter, Paul Bedard of the The Washington Examiner noted that, “The Obama administration has released a huge majority of illegal immigrant children who poured over the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year into dozens of tony counties without notifying the public, while deporting just 280, according to new reports. 

 

The Health and Human Services Department released a list of 126 counties 29,890 of the kids were placed into, sometimes with their parents who are also in the United States illegally. 

 

Those counties include some of the most exclusive in the nation, including the Washington suburbs of Fairfax and Loudoun in Virginia and Howard and Montgomery in Maryland. Fairfax received 1,023.”

 

Thus, while thousands of illegal aliens entered the nation across a border left purposefully open to appease a significant voting block of supportive Hispanics, the backlash from a far larger and growing group of concerned citizens throughout the country now seems to be taking precedence as November draws nearer. Yet, nowhere in that scenario does the safety or well-being of the nation itself come into consideration at all. All that counts is the number of potential votes.  

 

On another issue, Jim Angle of FoxNews.com writes that, the Wall Street research firm S&P IQ  predicts that 90 percent of employer-provided insurance plans will disappear because, “companies will really be hard pressed to justify why they would continue to have to spend the kind of money they spend by offering insurance through corporate plans when there's an alternative that's subsidized by the government.

 

Analysts predict this historic change because the penalty for not offering insurance -- $2,000 per worker -- is much less than the cost of providing it. For a worker making only $15 an hour, typical employer coverage for a family costs $15,000 or $16,000, that's more than half of that worker’s annual wage," explained health care economist John Goodman, "So lots of employers,” he argued, will “find it attractive to send their low income employees to the exchange.”

 

Therefore, in order to provide health care coverage to the 15% of the population previously uninsured, the health care tax will now cost millions of formerly covered workers half their annual incomes. And that’s because politics overrode common sense, while nothing but an expectation of additional voters ever entered the picture from the outset.

 

And what’s even more ridiculous and irrational is that while analysts predict that as ObamaCare takes hold, it will mean the end of employer-provided insurance, former Obama adviser Zeke Emanuel argued that, “"It's going to actually be better for people. They'll have more choice. Most people who work for an employer and get their coverage through an employer do not have choice."

 

Which is like saying to someone who’s lost the use of a needed company car that “Now you can go out and buy that Rolls Royce you’ve always dreamed about.” 

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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