6-28-12 “THE SNAKE BITES THE TAIL” EDITION - THE SUPREME COURT RULES, HOLDER CONTEMPT VOTE BEFORE CONGRESS, AND THE DEFICIT OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE BLACK CAUCUS BANKRUPTING DEMOCRATS’ PARTY AND OUR CONGRESS OF LEADERSHIP....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cFUEyF6r8eLazkDyF56XHbz-sD2s6V6DZMZZkFR3fuQ/edit#
As of 6/29/12, the Tea Party is suspending the Bain Boycott against Mitt Romney, for acknowledging today on 6/28/12 that repeal will be his battle cry this November:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLMzrql_MUSU85U_FRKOhm7CR4P-Tg2PYJBXCPOv8KQ/edit
we have come a long way since April in impressing upon Mitt Romney why this issue is so important to our economy.
http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2012/06/if-you-havent-heard
If You Haven't Heard
Mitt Romney | June 28, 2012
Today, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. But regardless of what the Court said about the constitutionality of the law, Obamacare is bad medicine, it is bad policy, and when I'm President, the bad news of Obamacare will be over.
It was always a liberal pipedream that a 2,700 page, multi-trillion-dollar Federal Government takeover of our health care system actually could address the very serious problems we face with health care. With Obamacare fully installed, government will reach fully half of the economy - that is the recipe for a struggling economy and declining prosperity.
On Day One, I will work to repeal Obamacare to stop the government's takeover of our health care and intrusion in our lives. I will push for real reform to our health care system that focuses on helping patients and protecting taxpayers.
We cannot afford Barack Obama's on-the-job learning, Big Government proposals, and irresponsible spending. Our basic liberties are at stake - and I will fight to restore our freedoms, renew the respect for our Constitution, and halt the government takeover of health care.
This November it's all on the line. The stakes couldn't be higher.
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June 28, 2012, 7:16 PMComment
Romney Campaign Unleashes Coordinated Response to Court Ruling
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Moments after the Supreme Court ruled on President Obama’s health care law, Lanhee Chen, the policy director for Mitt Romney, sent an e-mail to about three dozen senior Republicans on Capitol Hill and in state attorneys general’s offices.
“Please stand by. Reviewing. Will circulate answer,” the e-mail, sent at 10:17 a.m. said in part.
Minutes later, at 10:27 a.m., Mr. Chen sent another e-mail: “Go with upheld.”
Those three words unleashed a public relations plan that was nine weeks in the making and designed to make sure that the Republican response to whatever the court decided served Mr. Romney’s presidential ambitions.
“Everyone at the table understood the importance of this decision,” said Sean Spicer, the communications director for the Republican National Committee, which coordinated the planning. “The only way we were ever going to get rid of Obamacare is if we are committed to electing Governor Romney.”
For more than two months, a group of top aides to Mr. Romney met weekly with staff members to Republican lawmakers, legislative campaign committees and representatives of the state attorneys general. The meetings, led by Jeff Larson, the chief of staff at the Republican National Committee, were usually held at 3 p.m. in a conference room on the fourth floor of the committee’s headquarters.
The group developed three scenarios. Scenario One assumed the court had upheld the health care law. Scenario Two assumed the court had overturned it. Scenario Three contemplated a variety of partial rulings.
In each case, the group developed separate statements, Twitter hashtags, videos and Web sites. Mr. Spicer said there were spirited discussions (many hashtag suggestions were discarded, for example) as the group debated how to respond.
But in all cases, it was agreed that Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, was in charge of the message.
“Everybody was going to take their cue from Governor Romney,” Mr. Spicer said.
On Thursday morning, communications and policy aides from Capitol Hill and from Mr. Romney’s Boston headquarters convened in a first-floor conference room at the Republican National Committee that had been turned into a war-room. A large monitor was running TweetDeck. The group watched the initial, confusing reports about the court’s decision.
Then, they waited for Mr. Chen’s e-mail.
“Once Lanhee gave the green light, we were hitting our state parties, our surrogates,” Mr. Spicer said. The minute the e-mail arrived, Scenario One went into operation.
The surrogate list, developed over weeks, included dozens of state and national Republican officials, booked onto television and radio programs from morning to night. The switch was thrown on a Web site:peoplevobamacare.com. Republican officials everywhere started posting on Twitter with the agreed-upon hashtag: #fullrepeal.
The plan was originally designed for a Monday implementation, Mr. Spicer said (the court’s last scheduled day of the term). He said it will be compressed a bit because of the Thursday decision.
And what about Scenarios One and Two? “We had mapped out every conceivable scenario,” Mr. Spicer said.
But he’s not saying anything much about those.
Follow Michael D. Shear on Twitter at @shearm.
THE GOVERNMENT CAN’T FORCE YOU TO BUY INSURANCE WHICH IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BUT THEY CAN IMPOSE TAXES OF THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE, WHICH WE MUST REPEAL...
TO READ THE ENTIRE RULING FOR YOURSELF http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf
Aja Brooks shared a link.
10 minutes agoSupreme Court rules that the government can not force you to buy or purchase insurance of any particular kind, in that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and there are limits to the Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court also finds that the government has the power to tax, but taxes, can be repealed: Here is repeal and replace, ready and on the table, part 1 and part 2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iSymML641RVjHfUCx-xQH5iFDIU7eaijbC2MbWBsLqg/edit
Health Care Reform 2012: Standardization of Procedural and Medical Care Related Costs - Google Docs
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Statement by Gov. Perry on Supreme Court Ruling Regarding Obamacare
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Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the federal health care reform bill:
"This ruling will be a stomach punch to the American economy. It is a shocking disappointment to freedom-loving Americans desperate to get our country back on track. Obamacare is bad for the economy, bad for health care, bad for freedom. Americans have made clear their overwhelming opposition to its convoluted, burdensome and overreaching mandates.
"Freedom was frontally attacked by passage of this monstrosity - and the Court utterly failed in its duty to uphold the Constitutional limits placed on Washington. Now that the Supreme Court has abandoned us, we citizens must take action at every level of government and demand real reform, done with respect for our Constitution and our liberty."
Tea Party Patriots @TPPatriots Just a few more moments until we should get a #SCOTUS#Obamacare ruling. #Repeal1m
Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty @TPPatriots Here is repeal and replace, ready and on the table, part 1 and part 2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iSymML641RVjHfUCx-xQH5iFDIU7eaijbC2MbWBsLqg/edit
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C-SPAN’s coverage of Supreme Court Health Care Ruling - LIVE on C-SPAN3 and online here: http://cs.pn/L3ZuwV #ACA #SCOTUS
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Bowman @AEI: The Supreme Court enjoys higher approval ratings than executive or legislative branch #SCOTUS #healthcare
@AEI Supreme Court recognizes both sides have played#HealthCare politically for too long, Tea Party has the solutions
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Bowman @AEI: The Supreme Court enjoys higher approval ratings than executive or legislative branch #SCOTUS #healthcare
@AEI That is because for Supreme Court, this decision is not remuneration like it was for Obama, it is about our future, as they are aging.
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OBAMACARE IS REALLY OBAMATAX --
NO INSURANCE OR CARE, ALL TAX....
By the Numbers: A Look at the Democrats’ Health Care Law
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Health Care Costs and Impact on Americans
- $1,200: Increase in health care premiums for an average American family in the year following enactment of the Democrats’ health care law.
- 13 percent: Premium increase, in 2016, for individuals and families who buy coverage on their own – compared to if the law hadn’t been enacted at all.
- $118 billion: Additional financial burden saddled onto state budgets from ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.
- 200 percent: National debt as a percentage of GDP in 2037 despite promise of cost-control from ObamaCare advocates.
- $70 billion: Size of ObamaCare budget gimmick resulting from the failed CLASS program.
- 1,019,810: Number of Americans that are at risk of losing their plan, because the plan was denied a waiver from ObamaCare.
- $422.4 billion: Amount that 71 Fortune 100 companies could save by eliminating employer-sponsored health plans and instead paying the $2,000 employer mandate penalty from 2014-2023.
- $28.6 billion: Amount that 71 Fortune 100 companies could save by eliminating employer-sponsored health plans and instead paying the $2,000 employer mandate penalty in 2014 alone.
- 4 million to 20 million to 65 million: Number of people in the employer system estimated to lose insurance as a result of ObamaCare, based on two separate analyses provided by CBO andDeloitte.
- 800,000: The amount of workers the labor force would be reduced by in 2021, as a result of ObamaCare.
- 22: Number of new tax increases in the Democrats’ health care law as originally enacted – a dozen of which violate the President’s pledge not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans.
- $569.2 billion: Gross tax increase over 10 years resulting from the Democrats’ health law, as estimated at the time of enactment.
- $1 million: Amount of money IRS spent to send out 4 million postcards to small business owners touting their “eligibility” for the Small Business Tax Credit even though IRS knew that many of them would not qualify because of the strict eligibility criteria.
- 9: Number of provisions that House Republicans passed, and that President Obama has signed into law, that either repeal or defund portions of the law, resulting in more than $52 billion being taken out of ObamaCare.
- $1.8 trillion: Amount of money the Democrats’ health care law is expected to cost over the next 10 years – nearly double the original estimate.
- 1311(h): Section of ObamaCare that empowers Washington bureaucrats to decide which doctors and providers can be covered by your health care plan.
- 12,000: Approximate number of pages of ObamaCare regulations issued by the Administration.
- 9 in 10: Number of seniors with retiree benefits who will lose their retiree prescription drug coverage through their employer under the Democrats’ health care law.
- Approximately 8 in 10: Estimated number of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part D that are paying a higher premium so that 15 percent of beneficiaries can benefit from the change to the donut hole.
- $3.8 billion: Amount of money available to the Obama Administration to hand out in cut-rate loans, primarily to political allies, to form insurance cooperatives, many of whom do not appear eligible under the law.
- $0: Amount of money left in the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), which was supposed to be in place through 2014, but has already stopped paying new claims after spending $5 billion.
- About half of the entities receiving the subsidies are politically favored friends – unions and state and local governments. ###
Full List of Obamacare Tax Hikes
Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businessesTaxpayers are reminded that the President’s healthcare law is one of the largest tax increases in American history.
Obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses.
Arranged by their respective effective dates, below is the total list of all $500 billion-plus in tax hikes (over the next ten years) in Obamacare, where to find them in the bill, and how much your taxes are scheduled to go up as of today:
Taxes that took effect in 2010:
1. Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/immediate): $50,000 per hospital if they fail to meet new "community health assessment needs," "financial assistance," and "billing and collection" rules set by HHS. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,961-1,971
2. Codification of the “economic substance doctrine” (Tax hike of $4.5 billion). This provision allows the IRS to disallow completely-legal tax deductions and other legal tax-minimizing plans just because the IRS deems that the action lacks “substance” and is merely intended to reduce taxes owed. Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 108-113
3. “Black liquor” tax hike (Tax hike of $23.6 billion). This is a tax increase on a type of bio-fuel. Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 105
4. Tax on Innovator Drug Companies ($22.2 bil/Jan 2010): $2.3 billion annual tax on the industry imposed relative to share of sales made that year. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,971-1,980
5. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike ($0.4 bil/Jan 2010): The special tax deduction in current law for Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies would only be allowed if 85 percent or more of premium revenues are spent on clinical services. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,004
6. Tax on Indoor Tanning Services ($2.7 billion/July 1, 2010): New 10 percent excise tax on Americans using indoor tanning salons. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,397-2,399
Taxes that took effect in 2011:
7. Medicine Cabinet Tax ($5 bil/Jan 2011): Americans no longer able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin). Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957-1,959
8. HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike ($1.4 bil/Jan 2011): Increases additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,959
Tax that took effect in 2012:
9. Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 (Min$/Jan 2012): Preamble to taxing health benefits on individual tax returns. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957
Taxes that take effect in 2013:
10. Surtax on Investment Income ($123 billion/Jan. 2013): Creation of a new, 3.8 percent surtax on investment income earned in households making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single). This would result in the following top tax rates on investment income: Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 87-93
| Capital Gains | Dividends | Other* | |
| 2012 | 15% | 15% | 35% |
| 2013+ | 23.8% | 43.4% | 43.4% |
*Other unearned income includes (for surtax purposes) gross income from interest, annuities, royalties, net rents, and passive income in partnerships and Subchapter-S corporations. It does not include municipal bond interest or life insurance proceeds, since those do not add to gross income. It does not include active trade or business income, fair market value sales of ownership in pass-through entities, or distributions from retirement plans. The 3.8% surtax does not apply to non-resident aliens.
11. Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax ($86.8 bil/Jan 2013): Current law and changes:
| First $200,000 ($250,000 Married) Employer/Employee | All Remaining Wages Employer/Employee | |
| Current Law | 1.45%/1.45% 2.9% self-employed | 1.45%/1.45% 2.9% self-employed |
| Obamacare Tax Hike | 1.45%/1.45% 2.9% self-employed | 1.45%/2.35% 3.8% self-employed |
Bill: PPACA, Reconciliation Act; Page: 2000-2003; 87-93
12. Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers ($20 bil/Jan 2013): Medical device manufacturers employ 360,000 people in 6000 plants across the country. This law imposes a new 2.3% excise tax. Exempts items retailing for <$100. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,980-1,986
13. Raise "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI ($15.2 bil/Jan 2013): Currently, those facing high medical expenses are allowed a deduction for medical expenses to the extent that those expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). The new provision imposes a threshold of 10 percent of AGI. Waived for 65+ taxpayers in 2013-2016 only. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994-1,995
14. Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax” ($13 bil/Jan 2013): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (now unlimited). Indexed to inflation after 2013. There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,388-2,389
15. Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D ($4.5 bil/Jan 2013) Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994
16. $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives ($0.6 bil/Jan 2013). Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,995-2,000
Taxes that take effect in 2014:
17. Individual Mandate Excise Tax (Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the higher of the following
| 1 Adult | 2 Adults | 3+ Adults | |
| 2014 | 1% AGI/$95 | 1% AGI/$190 | 1% AGI/$285 |
| 2015 | 2% AGI/$325 | 2% AGI/$650 | 2% AGI/$975 |
| 2016 + | 2.5% AGI/$695 | 2.5% AGI/$1390 | 2.5% AGI/$2085 |
Exemptions for religious objectors, undocumented immigrants, prisoners, those earning less than the poverty line, members of Indian tribes, and hardship cases (determined by HHS). Bill: PPACA; Page: 317-337
18. Employer Mandate Tax (Jan 2014): If an employer does not offer health coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit, the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2000 for all full-time employees. Applies to all employers with 50 or more employees. If any employee actually receives coverage through the exchange, the penalty on the employer for that employee rises to $3000. If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage of 30-60 days, there is a $400 tax per employee ($600 if the period is 60 days or longer). Bill: PPACA; Page: 345-346
Combined score of individual and employer mandate tax penalty: $65 billion/10 years
19. Tax on Health Insurers ($60.1 bil/Jan 2014): Annual tax on the industry imposed relative to health insurance premiums collected that year. Phases in gradually until 2018. Fully-imposed on firms with $50 million in profits. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,986-1,993
Taxes that take effect in 2018:
20. Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans ($32 bil/Jan 2018): Starting in 2018, new 40 percent excise tax on “Cadillac” health insurance plans ($10,200 single/$27,500 family). Higher threshold ($11,500 single/$29,450 family) for early retirees and high-risk professions. CPI +1 percentage point indexed. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,941-1,956
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Back during the Obamacare debate, President Obama vehemently insisted that the fees penalizing those who do not have health insurance were not a “tax increase.”Today, the Supreme Court said that the individual mandate, and its fees for noncompliance, are constitutional, as long as they are properly understood as a “tax.” If they are called “fees,” then they are not; it appears Chief Justice John Roberts has surprised much of the legal and political world by siding with the four “liberal” justices on this one. Today is an extraordinarily frustrating setback for opponents of Obamacare. But it is perhaps better that the law be repealed than struck down by the Supreme Court — a legislative mistake being corrected by legislative means. Of course, to fix this legislatively, January 2013 must see a Republican (or anti-Obamacare) House, a Republican Senate and President Romney. When the Lewinsky scandal hit a critical moment, former President Bill Clinton reportedly told his advisers, “We’ll just have to win, then.” If Obamacare is to be stopped . . . we’ll just have to win, then. UPDATE: The Supreme Court just gave Mitt Romney a very, very useful line: “As President, I will repeal President Obama’s health care tax.” ANOTHER UPDATE: In the comments I see the mis-perception that ending Obamacare will require 60 votes in the Senate. Simple majorities in the House and Senate pass a budgetary bill that eliminates the tax penalty for not having health insurance, or all the funding for the enforcement of Obamacare (recall there is no filibuster of a budget bill), or both. Or on day one, President Romney could issue 50 exemptions to all of the states. Under President Romney, everyone in America could get the same deal that fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district have gotten.
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Within the the 1st hour after the Supreme Court announced Obamacare legislation would stand, the Romney Presidential campaign coffers were flooded with campaign donations. This one decision has totally fired up the base like nothing else could.
Chief Justice Roberts said, in so many words, if you don't like the law, throw out the politicians who passed the law. That will be a rallying call for the large majority of Americans who do not like the intrusive law that was forced upon them.
If Democrats want an inkling of what's in store for them this November, they just have to look at the smashing defeat they were handed in the 2010 elections, when Americans had their first opportunity to express their feelings of how they felt towards the Obamacare bill.
If Obamacare had been struck down by the court this morning, it could have been a non issue for the next few months as the election season heats up. But now Nancy Pelosis prophetic words of "You will find out what is in the healthcare bill after you pass the bill," are going to haunt Democrats, as Americans find out what's really in the 2,700 pages of Obamacare.
Mitt Romney vowed this morning, that the first thing he would do if elected as President would be to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a far better plan. He said if you want to get rid of Obama care, you have to get rid of President Obama. It will be up to the Romney campaign to expose the hidden details of Obamacare that the American people are not aware of: The hidden taxes, the rationing, limited choices, the huge expense, the harm to the economy and just how lacking a government run healthcare system is.
But if Mitt Romney wins the Presidency this November, he will also need the Republicans to pick up a majority in the Senate and maintain, or increase their majority in the House. Otherwise, it will be an exercise in futility for him to try to repeal Obamacare, with Harry Reid blocking all bills that come the Senates way. Republicans know it and vulnerable Democrats will face their ire this November.
Even before this decision, many Democrats have been distancing themselves from President Obama and some have even declined to attend the Democrat national Convention in North Carolina. This is not a good sign for Democrat party unity.
The fired up Republican base and many others who comprise a large majority of the population opposed to Obamacare, will get to show Nancy Pelosi just what they think of it....Now that they're going to get a chance to see what's really in it.
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Supreme Court ruling: rebirth of tea party
| - Lloyd Marcus Thursday, June 28, 2012 Comments | Print friendly | Email Us |
Dear Patriots, I am heartbroken, but fired-up more than ever! If the Tea Party was dying, the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare is unquestionably the rebirth of the Tea Party.
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I briefly mourned the death of America as we know it. Upon stabilizing my emotions, I realized that as a Christian, I must trust God. I know some of you will want to slap me across the face for my optimism. Perhaps, the Supreme Court ruling is a blessing in disguise.
Had Obamacare been ruled unconstitutional, Obama’s reelection team which includes the mainstream media would have launched a shock-and-awe campaign ranting — Four racist white guys and a black Uncle Tom took away your health care! The Supreme Court ruling has taken that evil low-rent scumbag-way-of-thinking narrative away from the democrats.
I believe the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Obamacare will unify a majority of Americans to crawl over broken glass and walk across burning hot coals to vote for Mitt Romney. Obama getting a second term will mark the end of freedom and America as we know it.
Anyone who emails me saying they will not vote for Romney because he is not conservative enough, I will hunt you down and slap you! Just kidding, but you get my point.
Folks, we are about to lose our country. All foolishness, selfishness and pettiness must be cast aside.
We have been given an issue, repeal Obamacare, to rally voters to defeat Obama in a landslide. Let’s roll!
REPEAL AND REPLACE, PART 1:
Why is this a jobless recovery with 25 million people out of work? It’s because of uncertainty about the Reconciliation Act of 2010:
PROPOSITION FOR A REPEAL BILL ________ TO REPLACE H.R. 4872:
While Obama is definitely right about the urgency to tackle health reform, (as costs are exorbitantly high and we have no program for the uninsured), if we do not create a program to cover the uninsured or reform health care, we will add another $3 trillion to the deficit! The cost of not reforming health care over the next decade will double, adding half of the current deficit, to the $13 trillion dollar deficit, and if we do nothing about it now, half of the deficit by 2020 is projected to be nothing but health care debt: created by 20 years of unwise Congressional spending and legislation, a whopping $20 trillion dollars in the red!
It is not enough to say to the Federal Reserve to print more money for a bailout when the cost of food and gas are inflated, and since we’re a global economy that enjoys fiat, meaning that the American dollar is the only currency that is backed by the government who can write own notes, and while this is a supreme position of financial power and financial and influence, this also makes us vulnerable to attack from other countries who covet our position and status. Essentially, if you control the value of the American dollar, by buying up gold, property, or investments backed by gold, you have the power to control the global economy, and depending on how much you have, it’s like using reigns on a horse. The more wealth you have, the more you control sectors of society, like strings of puppets. I have seen Obama depicted as Puppet Master, but the true Master of Money is the person who is the wealthiest in gold, American property, and investments. While it is true that Obama has written a lot of blank checks, in 2004 it was estimated that the government has 261,007,000,000 ounces of gold/$2,800 per ounce, so the gold value was $730,819,600,000 with $733,170,953,704 American dollars in circulation, which leaves $730,086,429,046,296, or about $730 trillion dollars in reserve.
If we were to sell off our gold to pay down the deficit, the United States is only then worth around $700 trillion dollars. With our current financial problems and people being unemployed, the government is not collecting any real tax revenue from 25 million people over the past 2-3yrs. Qualified unemployment recipients who receive $800 per month cost the government $20,000,000,000/$20 billion per month, and in one year $240,000,000,000,000/$240 billion, so for 3yrs. of unemployment that comes to an ungodly $720,000,000,000/$720 billion dollars, which by the end of this year will add $1 trillion to the deficit! The government can’t tax it’s own money, or make enough back off of taxes from unemployment checks, as it was a government pay-out to begin with! The government gives out close to $1 trillion and gets back only 1/10. The government is essentially loaning out money that was paid in by taxpayers, getting $100,000,000,000/$100 billion in revenue back for $1 trillion paid out.
Continuing this disastrous trend with unemployment will add to the deficit at nearly the same rate as the health care debt, which would put the projected deficit to then $25 trillion. Within the next 30-50 years, just with unemployment pay-outs and health care costs, the deficit will consume the entire value of gold that backs the U.S. dollar, and we’ll be penniless and gold-less, and we’ll have no capital to loan or be able to loan to other countries! Whoever buys our gold will essentially be buying our debt! Even if we used the tax revenue generated off of unemployment checks, that $100 billion, and bought gold with it, we would only add $35 million and some back, which won’t make but $142 million over the next 12 years to offset trillions of dollars spent on unemployment and health care!
So folks, this is where the rubber meets the road: health care has been so high that people have been having to choose between their health or having a roof over their head, a car to drive, and food in their stomachs. This is the main reason the I.R.S. disagrees with Obama’s wage control plan to levy the taxes to pay for health care, as even the I.R.S. knows that even if you took in more taxes to pay for a new health care program for the uninsured, Obama’s legislation fails to deal with the costs of MEDICARE/MEDICAID rising, along with private sector premiums and out-of-pocket costs, so the money it costs to treat the uninsured being used as tax write-offs for hospitals would only address one kink in the hose, like putting a band-aid on a gaping wound that really needs stitches: there are 25 million unemployed who may or may not return to work, but there are really 3 groups of people who make up the uninsured bracket of society. Illegals make up 12 million, 10 million Americans don’t have any insurance, and the other 25 million will get insurance at another job when they return to work or the ones who remain unemployed will be dropped from COBRA. Those who are insured now pay 8% higher premiums, as the hospitals charge insurance companies a percentage to offset the cost of operation for treating those not insured. Now with higher unemployment, insurance companies have jacked up their rates because of a lower pool for their policy.
The question is, why has universal care not worked for MA? MA is now carrying a deficit, against federal law, as universal care does not cover the cost of disability or address the costs of the aging population. MA’s premiums only went down $230 per year/per person, with much higher taxes, running a deficit, AND they STILL put disability appropriations on the chopping block, though that still didn’t stop their deficit or really improve care, lower premium costs substantially, or even offset medical costs to balance their budget. Universal care just shuffles federal money out around the state, and it fails to deal with the cost issues of elderly care or special needs. Which is why C.B.O. numbers are b.s.!
Keeping all of these things in mind of what we can’t keep doing and what has proven not to work, we can’t just do it Obama’s way to our country’s own undoing! America will meet her demise at Obama’s hand if we blindly follow him like sheep to the slaughter! We are to be wise as serpents, but harmless as doves, and while we’ve got to reform health care and do it N-O-W, even tort reform won’t stop this health care abyss!
As a lobbyist in GA in over the past 8 months, I have conferred with Republicans to give approval to fund H.R. 3200, H.R. 3400, H.R. 1200 (striking the mandate clause), and H.R. 3962 with much revision. I addressed committee members to agree to compromise with health care reform, and I garnered Republican concession to accept passage of 3 Democrats’ bills to their 1 bill, with the condition that H.R. 3590 be tabled until it could be revised to address cost issues effectively. The bill was so bad, it was written by Rangel, and it was determined in committee to be a conflict of interest, and I actually believe that Obama was so jealous that I prompted legislators to support this compromise, that it trumped anything he’d ever done in 10yrs. voting present in the Senate, so he refused to have Pelosi support convening on H.R. 3590, which would’ve gotten the bill thrown out entirely over ethical challenge, and he took it upon himself to write another version of it, H.R. 4872/the Recon. Act of 2010, and they used deem and pass to usurp the will of the American people, as the majority of Americans rejected it, as the majority of Americans rejected insurance mandating, federal funding of abortion, cutting $500 billion from from MEDICARE, and funding Thomson prison to house terrorists with pharmaceutical contracts for generic pills to medicate everyone into compliance, (to get them hooked on pills so they need an insurance contract!) I suggest you read the legislation for yourself, and all you have to do is read the first 150 pgs. of H.R. 4872 to see how the health care law is interpreted and will be applied in conjunction with the other bills, which sucks!
We must repeal H.R. 4872 for those reasons listed above, as those are legitimate concerns that revoke Obama’s promise of insuring the uninsured. None of that legislation pays for itself... where is the money coming from --- a $13 trillion dollar deficit?! Cutting $500 billion from MEDICARE will only make MEDICARE costs skyrocket and appropriate $500 billion divided by 47 million uninsured is like the government paying one $10 copay for a general doctor visit, and that’s it! Plus if abortion funding is not struck, that will cost $3 billion or more per year! I worked on revising this health care legislation for 3 months straight, so much so, I felt my legs were shackled to my parents’ computer desk. I would spend up to 18 hours a day some days on the computer, reading bills over 2,000 pages long, making revisions, and then taking an hour to email the entire Senate and an entire day to email the House of Representatives. I made a promise to investors to protect the stock market from this legislation, I promised business owners who were still left that taxes wouldn’t close down their business in this unprofitable economy, and I promised Obama I would turn over every abortion clinic for misappropriation if an amendment was not passed.
While I became certain we could not reform health care Obama’s way and that the law needs to be repealed before it becomes budgetary law before August 9th, 2010, I see that neither the Dems or Repubs know how to fix the problems that they’ve created and failed to govern judiciously, both sides offering inadequate solutions, with Dems offering the most undesirable solution that they’re forcing everyone to do, though their reckless spending and tripling the deficit in less than 2yrs. has increased the desperation that has made health care reform a 9-1-1 emergency! It’s weird: instead of doing their jobs to govern wisely, they’ve spent all of our tax dollars and then used that as the very reason to tax us more and pass more legislation that will tax us to death! Obama gave out a lot of money, but he didn’t tell you he’d try to recoup it with 4 new taxes on the middle class!
I was sure that repealing the bill would prevent further economic disaster, and selling insurance across state lines would help everyone, but no one had a vision of what the future American health care should look like, until I read “Why Our Health Matters” by Andrew Weil, M.D. In this book, Weil establishes medical standards that come from years of experience in conventional and non-conventional medicine, and a blue print for a system that will work in favor of the health of our nation, with health equaling wealth! It also gives a structural delegation of duties that will accomplish what Obama’s czar disciples can’t do, as a small group overseeing the entire state of the American public health. While Weil’s book was loaded with reliable facts, figures, history, and even structural system reform, it still did not tell how to measurably bring cost down or how to implement technology for our benefit to be cost effective. However, this book inspired me to discuss it with my peers, and while some are still holding out hope for Social Security, I have my own legislation to bring to the table. It’s very simple, I wrote it on half a sheet of paper with a marker, but I guarantee that it’s better than anything Obama, Congress, or the I.R.S. thought of to rectify cost issues. The C.B.O. can estimate that costs may go down some, but the C.B.O. can’t tell us how to get there or how to walk it out; however, I can.
I , Aja Brooks, would like to introduce a bill _______ for a National Health Insurance Plan, outsourced to __________. The purpose of this bill is to provide insurance for the uninsured, in the event their state has no program in their budget, or if they can’t attain MEDICAID or have been rejected by other private sector insurance companies. Monthly insurance premiums will be federally subsidized, as optional health coverage available through selecting an additional withholding on your W-4/corresponding tax forms. A National Health Advisory Council will be in charge of overseeing this program, who will interact with State Insurance Commissioners and ____________ outsourced insurance company. The National Health Advisory Council will not be a government position; doctors will submit a recommendation to a Senate committee nominating 10 most qualified doctors or influential health professionals from their field. The 10 most nominated will be the council. The Council will establish a Constitution to uphold the Hippocratic Oath and establish its own rules for terms of service and rules of operation.
The I.R.S. expansion will remain the same as in H.R. 4872, but the I.R.S. will have 3 new departments: wage division, premium division, and records division. The I.R.S. will do what it does best, collecting and recording accurate monetary and related information, and they will do do so by using the taxpayer ID# as a person’s National Health Insurance number. This way, the I.R.S. will be able to easily assess and collect information having to review and substantiate gazillions of 1099 forms, and without having to harass or hunt people down, the I.R.S. would be the only entity to have access to private medical data through use of the Tax ID number, which will track and compile medical data as soon as we add it for hospitals to submit it for billing/tax purposes.
The I.R.S. will analyze all Tax ID claims, those who have opted-in to National Health Insurance, and track the costs to those under other insurance, and also track the costs of those who refuse health insurance and compile it for an annual report for Congress. Congress could then accurately assess medical costs, with the I.R.S. curtailing fraud, and simplify billing for hospitals for those who can’t pay their bills. The computer system will work for Tax ID number only, to eradicate those who don’t pay taxes/to clearly count taxpayers’ contributions, in order to address illegal immigration as a separate cost issue that amnesty would not rectify. Billing pages will say NO TAX ID NUMBER/employer address for those who are illegal or employer tax ID#.
The I.R.S. and government can’t oversee every minute financial transaction to ensure taxes are being properly reported and not misrepresented, but they can more fairly tax, properly appropriate, and identify fraud easier with improved and accurate TAX-ID data based info. That way, it would be easier to extend tax cuts or credits to those who have large medical bills, and give a stimulus check to those who stay in good health and aren’t abusing their body or the system.
Funding for the new I.R.S. data base Tax ID# health information will cost_________. All health care providers must participate or license to practice will be revoked. Records must be submitted when patient information is taken in for admission or appointment.
Those who receive Social Security checks or unemployment checks have the option to opt-in on their forms by asking for additional withholding. This bill extends coverage to those under-insured, most of the uninsured who receive government checks, and those who are unemployed will be added to their yearly federal income taxes/that will be offset when they become employed and file their W-4 over again.
This bill excludes illegal immigrants, for the National Health Insurance Plan, as they do not possess a TAX ID number unless they are claimed as a dependent under an optional employer withholding for workman’s compensation insurance only, once we can accurately assess medical costs by TAX ID #, then we can effectively determine the costs and amount of medical services used by illegals, as to levy a tax of 3%, or require an ID card where they must pay 10% sales tax. The I.R.S. and ICE will partner to manage those claims filed that have the listing as NO TAX ID NUMBER, and the I.R.S. will determine legal work status and recommend deportation if necessary. If an illegal needs care, they must put their employer’s TAX ID NUMBER on the claim, so that withholding can be investigated by the I.R.S., and if they do not work, the spouse or head of household must disclose the employer’s TAX ID#.
While this bill is just a simple readjustment of how we do things, it may be amended or modified to fit legislative language and action as appropriate.
REPEAL AND REPLACE, PART 2:
Health Care Reform Act of 2012: Standardization of Procedural and Medical Care Related Costs
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iSymML641RVjHfUCx-xQH5iFDIU7eaijbC2MbWBsLqg/edit?pli=1
Purpose: This concerns the exploitation of health care costs by health insurance companies for profit, companies who are dictating the cost of care that hospitals must charge patients. This legislation is piloting standards for Medicare and Medicaid costs, to prevent the government from being overcharged for services that taxpayers fund for the general welfare. Costs that could better be served creating a program to cover those that are uninsured at state levels, which did not occur with any of the legislation passed under Obama health reform.
While a legitimate funding mechanism was proposed for health care for the uninsured, in order to maintain the solvency and guarantee of retirement for aging Americans through Social Security Reforms proposed August of 2010 as repeal legislation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&authkey=CIS_je8I premiums have continued to rise due to increased and stagnant unemployment holding at 8% for three years, with the expectation of higher tax increases, all with the accessibility of care not improving by the Obamacare/Unaffordable Care Act. Inflation and government shutdown pending September 30th 2012, makes this the 5th shutdown the Obama Administration faces for failure to restrict spending to Constitutional levels which makes getting care in this economy that much harder, especially for those unemployed.
The consensus is the only two provisions remaining from the dead legislation and mountain of dysfunctional legislation package known as “Obamacare” are requiring insurance companies to keep children on parents’ insurance until 26yrs. of age and non-exclusion of pre-existing conditions. While these are great, these two provisions are not enough to keep H.R. 4872 as a means of reconciling the entire health care industry by a federal government buyout. Health insurance companies should ‘insure’ and the federal government should regulate and govern the market, not violate the Commerce Clause by requiring purchase of insurance or medical services, devices, products, or care that is inappropriate, unused, or misappropriated and unaccounted for tax increases.
For the past 20 years health care costs have risen at twice the inflation rate http://www.halsaservices.org/uploads/20%20Most%20Common%20Ways%20Hospitals%20Overcharge%20Patients.pdf and given that inflation robs the dollar of $.67 of its value before the consumer gets it (for what is borrowed against its value), it is an understatement to say that health care costs, along with borrowing to pay for military operations have given us a substantial deficit problem since 2006, and without proper reforms and legislation that creates jobs rather than destroys them like Obamcare did, it will take us 5yrs. to reverse this deficit to 2006 levels and at most 7-8yrs. to pay it off, adhering to a $2.5 trillion annual revenue http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV and $1.7 trillion annual deficit reduction payment with new revenue created from job creation.
With that said, the Tea Party supports the Republican initiatives to adhere to this budget, budget balancing, with consideration and concession of government spending in accordance to Constitutional priorities. Diplomacy spending on food stamps has increased 100% since Obama took office, which has further compounded the amount of time left to reverse this deficit and prevent government shutdown, little time to reform federal programs past their sunset that are bloated for their inefficiency with their strain on the overall budget. This all equals less money is actually making it to the poor and those needing health care; hence the stark example being no one has health insurance that is uninsured despite passage of this Obamacare package legislation.
REQUIREMENTS OF HOSPITAL AND INSURANCE REFORMS:
- One issue is a monthly premium under $100 that includes a hospital supplemental plan:
Hospitals and insurance companies have played a highly elaborate game of ping-pong when it comes to overcharging for services and supplies in order to write-off indigent care to profit off of the health care industry. Private practice doctors are at the mercy of whether or not Medicare, Medicaid, or insurance pays in order to see their patients rather than their Oath.
- Require hospitals detail a service contract and what care costs in writing.
-The method of pricing each good and service
-The reasonable value of each good and service
- Hospitals will be required to upgrade their records to be accessible to be viewed by the I.R.S. and government health related agencies. As a provision of the current legislation, a standard interface was considered to standardize forms, track supplies and costs, and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. This is particularly so when it comes to hospitals being targeted for identity fraud. http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/quality-of-life/hospitals-pay-23-million-settlement/
Hospitals are overcharging to attain 800% profit http://hospitalbillingformula.blogspot.com/
which is why Tort Reform is so important to limit lawsuits and to bring gougers to court, to hold them to accountable to consumers.
FOR CONSUMERS TO REPORT SUSPECTED GOUGING AND FRAUD OF GOVERNMENT TAX DOLLARS:
1) REQUESTED AN ITEMIZED BILL: I received a list of shorthand descriptions of services that I couldn’t understand. For example: a $403.68 charge for “IV SUPPLIES”. What were the IV Supplies? The needle? The tubing? The gauze? The piece of tape that kept it all in place on my arm? I called to find out. I was referred to three people, but nobody in the hospital billing department could tell me.
2) DETERMINED FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MY INSURANCE COMPANY: Blue Cross assured me that they paid out their maximum reimbursement amounts to the hospital for the services I received, and would not be paying any more. They sent me an Explanation Of Benefits form (EOB) and went over it with me to my satisfaction. They said that they were able to negotiate a lower rate with the hospital on my behalf, and covered costs that exceeded my deductable. They suggested that I contact the hospital to see if they would lower my costs, since the hospital determines their own charges.
3) FOUND A PATIENT ADVOCATE: I went online to find people who have gone through this before and discovered a number of Patient Advocacy groups. A couple of them are: Hospital Victims.org (http://www.hospitalvictims.org/) and The Southwest Medical Review and Recovery. (http://www.southwestmedreview.com/) Southwest Medical Review has over 20 years of hospital billing experience under their belt, and left the industry when they realized that they could help people with their knowledge of billing systems. I found them to be very patient and extraordinarily knowledgeable.
4) REVIEWED BILL FOR CORRECT CODING: I sent my itemized bill to my patient advocate for review. A billing code is assigned to each item being charged. This is what is read by the insurance companies to determine how much the hospital will be paid. I learned that up to 90% of all hospital bills are coded incorrectly. My patient advocate told me that there is supposed to be transparency in the billing system – and that there are definitive coding guidelines that apply to each hospital. However, this hospital administers their own coding system – making it impossible to determine exactly what is being charged. Despite this, my patient advocate was able to figure out three incorrect codes in my bill, resulting in over $300 of erroneous charges. They forwarded me the proper verbiage from the most recent coding manual. I went back to the billing department at the hospital and had them amend my bill. The billing specialist apologized for her oversight and resubmitted my bill with the proper coding. I can only wonder how many more codes were erroneous, had they been using a transparent billing system.
5) REQUESTED ALL BILLING AND DOCTOR RECORDS FROM HOSPITAL – PARTICULARLY THE UB-04 FORM: It is the patient’s right, under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, (HIPAA) to receive a copy of all medical and billing records from the hospital. The UB-04 form is used to determine the cost of services. The billing department at the hospital first told me that they would look into releasing my UB-04 form. After repeated requests, I was told that it was not their policy to release this form to the patient. This is typical. Know your rights as a patient. Every hospital has a HIPAA officer on the premises. I called theirs. She said she would look into it for me. I didn’t hear back. She didn’t return my messages. I then contacted the California Office of HIPPA Implementation. They agreed to contact the HIPPA officer at the hospital. A day later, the HIPPA officer called me to get my address and let me know that my UB-04 form was being sent to me. Release of my U-04 form took me a full year.
· The sections of the HIPAA legislation that the state officer referred to were two federal 45 CFR codes: The Designated Record set was under code 164.501 and the Right of Access was 164.524 (a)(1)
6) DESPITE REMAINING IN GOOD STANDING WITH THE HOSPITAL, I WAS SENT TO COLLECTIONS: I kept meticulously close contact with the billing department, who insured me that I was in good standing with them. Every month, when I received a new bill, I called them and assured them that I wanted to settle the balance, and that I was investigating charges that were in question. Each month, I told them that is was my priority to remain in good standing with them. I even paid them $50 in good faith. But when I went out of town, and didn’t get my mail for a week, I was sent to collections. This was also during the time that I was being told that they were “looking into sending out” my UB-04 form. My challenge here was to keep the perspective that it wasn’t personal. Even though I was on a first name basis with many people in the billing department at that point, the overall billing system didn’t know or care about who I was. I needed to be reminded of this – because I was assured that I was kept in good standing with them.
7) KEPT COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT FROM PURSUING FURTHER PAYMENT: Diligent effort through close communication and refusal to pay any overcharges for my services kept them at bay. I assured them that I would keep them posted to each and every new bit of information that I received – and kept them in the loop every step of the way. I kept telling them that it was my utmost interest to settle the bill – but that I would only be paying fair and reasonable charges, as determined by industry standards.
8) DETERMINED THE COST OF SERVICES: With the codes on the UB-04 form, my patient advocate taught me how to figure out the cost of services. There is an industry standard for determining cost of services. It is simply what Medicare would reimburse for each line item. The reason why they use Medicare as the guideline is because Medicare reimburses between 92 cents and $1.12 on the dollar. So, for example, if Medicare would reimburse a hospital $1.00 for a box of tissues, it is understood that the cost of the box of tissues is between 92 cents and $1.12. My patient advocate and I went over, code by code, the line items on my UB-04 form. They showed me how to track down, on the internet, the reimbursement amount for each charge. Remember the $403.68 charge for “IV SUPPLIES” on my itemized bill? Well, it turns out that Medicare doesn’t reimburse that cost code – those supplies are not billable. Those supplies are included in numerous other services – like the cost for the antibiotic, the cost for administering the IV, etc. After the reimbursement for each line item was determined on my UB-04 form, I had a total – as calculated by industry standards. The total cost of services being billed to me for my emergency room visit came to a little less than $400!
9) CALCULATED FAIR AND REASONALBE CHARGES: There is an industry standard for calculating fair and reasonable charges. Fair and reasonable charges ensures the hospital receive a profit on their cost. Here is the formula: The amount that Medicare would reimburse the hospital + 25% to 50%. So, in my case, we know that the cost of services were – and we’ll round it up - $400. Add to that, 50%, which is $200 - and the industry standard, for fair and reasonable charges for the services that I received, was $600.
10) OFFERED A SETTLEMENT: Between what my insurance company and I had paid, the hospital had already received $905 at this point – already recouping a 125% profit – as determined by industry standards. I went back to the hospital and insisted that I settle with them, not the collections agency. They complied. I chose to offer an additional 100% profit, giving them a 225% profit on cost of services, to ensure that the hospital does well. They denied it. Instead, they offered me an application for financial assistance.
The silver lining is that I somehow qualified for an 80% discount on my bill. They offered me a settlement of $348. I took it. This does not get them off the hook for their enormous over charges, but it does allow me to settle with them what I considered to be fair and reasonable.
“We can charge anything we want”, I was told by Crystal Crowe, Financial Supervisor at the hospital. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center netted in excess of 190 million dollars in 2007 - which I applaud. I feel secure knowing that there is a reputable, well funded hospital nearby. I just want to pay fair and reasonable charges for the services I receive from them.
I know that there is much talk of overhauling the health care system – but until it is changed, this is what we have to encounter. Here’s hoping that this information can help other people navigating through the existing system.
USE A MEDICAL COST REDUCTION ADVOCATE http://www.medicalcostadvocate.com/blog/?tag=overcharging-for-health-care
- Ambulance transport costs are a huge burden to those in desperate need of care, and ironically, these workers are the last to get paid out of the scheme though they are first responders. Sometimes their pay is withheld if government insurance has not paid, sometimes as much as two weeks. Even if it is the government, pay can not be withheld, wages are given for work done. PAY YOUR TRANSPORT BILLS ON TIME.
- The UnAffordable Care Act does not standardize the cost of all common medical procedures in the U.S. to make insurance competitive or affordable. It only covers certain routine screenings and forces people to do cost comparison on their own. http://www.changehealthcare.com/downloads/hcti/HCTI%202012%20March.pdf
- Type 2 diabetes screening - Adults with high blood pressure
- Mammography - Breast cancer screening for women 50+
- Pap smear testing - Cervical cancer risk assessment for women ages 21+
- Preventive colonoscopy - Colorectal cancer screening for adults 50+
- Lipid screenings - Men 35+; women 45+; younger adults at risk
- The Unaffordable Health Care Act should be renamed: “NO REFORM FOR MEDICARE, EXCEPT TO TAKE $500 BILLION FROM THE ELDERLY TO PAY FOR ABLE-BODIED 30-60 YEAR OLDS TO GET SCREENINGS” this perhaps should be the most compelling reason that we should have standardized costs of procedures. Though this may vary from hospital to hospital, each hospital is required to make a cost procedure available for download online and one copy at the hospital, whatever they charge. If hospitals do not comply, they will be subject to I.R.S. investigation, civil lawsuits, and fines for every 30 days this information is not available or up-to-date.
http://informthepundits.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/the-affordable-care-act-obamacare-not-so-affordable/
THIS REFORM LEGISLATION WILL BE UPDATED TO INCLUDE WHAT BASIC ITEMS SHOULD BE COVERED UNDER COST PROCEDURES OR CARE PROVIDED, SO THAT HOSPITALS CAN ASSURE THAT THEY ARE IN COMPLIANCE, THOUGH HOSPITALS MAY BEGIN DRAFTING THESE MATERIALS NOW, THEY MUST HAVE THEM AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT THEIR FACILITY AND ONLINE BY 1/1/13, OR THEY WILL BE REPORTED FOR TAX FRAUD.
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SYMPTOMS OF DOPAMINE DEFICIENCY
Mar 28, 2011 | By Francine Juhasz, PhD
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The chemical dopamine is produced naturally in the body and functions as a neurotransmitter, playing a role in the pleasure and reward pathway of the brain as well as in memory and motor control. When dopamine levels fall low due to drug use, poor nutrition, stress, lack of sleep and the habitual use of antidepressants, symptoms such as depression, mood swings, poor attention and food cravings can occur.
DEPRESSION
One of the principal symptoms of dopamine deficiency is depression, chronic boredom, a loss of satisfaction, apathy, chronic fatigue and low physical energy with no desire to exercise the body. The body is chilled and feet and hands become cold. Because dopamine deficiency lowers the experiencing of pleasure, moods can swing rapidly from positive to negative. To compensate for the depressed moods and lack of energy, people suffering from low dopamine levels experience cravings for stimulants and often become addicted to caffeine.
RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME
MayoClinic.com reports that research indicates restless legs syndrome may be caused by an imbalance in the brain of dopamine since dopamine is responsible for sending messages that control muscle movement. Dopamine deficiency can produce overall weakness in the body as well as muscle tremors.
OVERSLEEPING AND LOW LIBIDO
A deficiency of certain nutrients in the body, such as iron, magnesium or zinc, can produce a dopamine deficiency that results in oversleeping. Coupled with too much sleep is the lack of motivation in individuals suffering from low dopamine levels to initiate most activities, especially exercise, and a tendency to procrastinate together with a feeling that one is unable to cope with life. There is also a dulling of pleasure or the inability to feel it and a lessening of libido. If you suspect you may be suffering from dopamine deficiency, check with your doctor, for dopamine levels are easily tested with a simple dopamine blood test or a urine test and adjusted with prescribed supplements.
RAPID WEIGHT GAIN
Because low dopamine levels tend to produce cravings for sugar, sodas, alcohol and saturated fats, the result is often a rapid weight gain further encouraged by inactivity and fatigue. Added to the problem of extra weight is the fact that sugar, saturated fats and refined foods can actually lower dopamine levels and decrease its activity in the brain.
TROUBLE FOCUSING
Even slightly low levels of dopamine can interfere with a person's ability to concentrate and focus. Intense feelings of sadness due to a lack of this neurotransmitter to correctly regulate emotions can interfere with the ability to pay attention, to remember or to think abstractly.
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, Parkinson's disease, a neurological disorder that affects balance, movement and muscle control, is associated with the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. UMMC reports that loss of dopamine in the corpus stratia of the brain is the principal defect in Parkinson's disease and its hallmark feature. The Dana Foundation reports that people in the early stages of the disease can be successfully treated with the dopamine precursor drug levadopa, which helps replace lost dopamine, although this treatment loses its effect over time.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/346030-symptoms-of-dopamine-deficiency/#ixzz1z8QtkmBuHow to Test Dopamine & Serotonin Levels
By Lynndee Marooney, eHow Contributor
Neurotransmitters carry messages from your body to your brain.Neurotransmitters are used to pass messages along through the body and the brain. Two of these neurotransmitters are called serotonin and dopamine. Both are stored in brain cells. While serotonin helps us feel good, happy, and stable, dopamine is associated with your mental alertness, concentration, energy, sex drive and motivation. When either of these levels is too low, you may need medication.
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1Decide why you feel you need to have the levels checked. Are you currently on medication and want to see if your dopamine and serotonin levels are responding? Are you just curious? Your doctor has a responsibility to order tests that are billed to insurance only if he feels the tests are medically necessary.
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Schedule an appointment with your physician.
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Discuss your concerns with the physician. If the physician's office offers lab services, your blood can be drawn at the office. Otherwise, you will have to go to a lab to have your blood drawn.
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The lab will send the results of your tests to your physician's office. Either the doctor or his staff will contact you with the results. If the levels are abnormal, you may need to schedule a repeat visit to discuss the results in detail.
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Dopamine can be measured with a urine test or a blood test. Your doctor will choose whichever he thinks is appropriate.Read more: How to Test Dopamine & Serotonin Levels | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6933073_test-dopamine-_amp_-serotonin-levels.html#ixzz1z8RaqIpe
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*From: John Boehner, Speaker
Subject: Tomorrow’s Supreme Court Ruling on ObamaCare
Date: Wednesday, June 27
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the Constitutionality of ObamaCare
– a law that is driving up costs and hurting job creation. As I told my colleagues in the
House last week, if the Court strikes down all or part of the law, there will be no celebrating.
We simply cannot celebrate at a time when millions of our fellow Americans remain out of work, the national debt is outpacing our economy, costs for health care continue to rise, and small businesses struggle to hire.
ObamaCare contributed to all of these problems. Complete repeal of ObamaCare is part of the solution, but it is only part. (For more on what else needs to be done, click here to learn about the more than 30 bipartisan House-passed jobs bills that Senate Democrats have put on
a shelf to collect dust.)
And so, as the court hands down its ruling, please keep the following in mind:
• ObamaCare is making things worse. Health costs are going up and small businesses
are having a harder time hiring workers. Fully repealing ObamaCare is the only way to
fix this.
• Unless the court throws out the entire law, House Republicans will repeal what is left and enact common-sense, step-by-step reforms that protect Americans’ access to the care they need, from the doctor they choose, at a lower cost.
• The American people are rightfully angry that Democrats passed a massive bill that few
supported and even fewer had read. (Associated Press reports two-thirds of Americans
remain opposed to ObamaCare.) We will not repeat the mistakes of the Democrats.
• Americans have been clear since day one that their top priority is lowering skyrocketing costs. Our health care reforms will lower costs and protect jobs.
• Health care decisions should be made by you and your doctor, not Washington.
Families should be free to make their own health care choices, visit the doctor of their choice, and receive the care they and their doctor feel is best.
Senate GOP Will Use Reconciliation in Attempt to Repeal Obamacare
Lachlan Markay
June 28, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Obamacare’s health insurance mandate is in fact a tax levied on those who do not purchase insurance, Senate Republicans will look to repeal the full law through the budget reconciliation process.
Reconciliation was used to push Obamacare through the Senate in 2009. Generally reserved strictly for budget-related measures, it eliminates the possibility of a filibuster, meaning Republicans would only need 51 votes to repeal that portion of the law – or even the full law itself.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) seemed open to that approach during a speech at The Heritage Foundation shortly after the Supreme Court handed down its decision. The court’s ruling “does present some options for us” to pursue more unconventional options for repeal, DeMint said. He mentioned reconciliation as a potential avenue.
A senior Senate Republican aide involved in the repeal effort later confirmed to Scribe that the GOP will use the budget reconciliation process in an attempt to repeal the full law, not just the portion requiring all Americans purchase health insurance.
While a repeal effort via reconciliation would only require a majority of senators to pass, Republicans will likely wait until next year to employ the tactic.
Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said he expects Republicans to use reconciliation in the repeal effort during the 113th Congress. Kyl is not running for reelection.
Mike Franc, Heritage’s Vice President of Government Studies, explained the details of reconciliation’s applicability thusly:
Now that the individual mandate has acquired the official constitutional status of a “tax”, there is no longer any doubt that the Congress, and more specifically the Senate, can repeal it pursuant to the simple majority vote threshold available under the Budget Act’s reconciliation process. Some Senate insiders were concerned that the reconciliation process would leave too much of Obamacare intact, including the individual mandate. But today’s decision, while alarming in so many other ways, dispels with that concern.
The mandate is now a revenue provision. Therefore, it is germane and not subject to a Senate parliamentary point of order to strike it from a repeal bill. The Senate’s filibuster process that would require a supermajority of 60 Senate votes to approve repeal is now irrelevant.
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Democrats Take Short Health Care Victory Lap
GOP Pounces On Ruling That Mandate Is Tax and Vows Repeal
- By Steven T. Dennis and Meredith Shiner and Humberto Sanchez
- Roll Call Staff
- June 28, 2012, 6:55 p.m.
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Angela Botticella (center) of “Know Your Care, Support Your Care” celebrates with supporters of the Affordable Care Act as the Supreme Court announces its decision about the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment.
Republicans, who were briefly stunned by the decision, quickly seized on it as a rallying cry for November — and the need to replace not just the law but also Obama and the ruling Senate Democrats.
House Republicans announced within an hour of the court’s decision that they would hold a vote on July 11 to repeal the law.
Behind the scenes, Democrats at the White House and on Capitol Hill hugged in celebration of the court’s decision to uphold the bulk of the law. But the momentary joy didn’t dispel the fact that the law remains unpopular nationally. And while Obama and other Democrats paused Thursday to give thanks for the decision and highlight the popular benefits in the law, they also immediately sought to shift the conversation back to jobs and the economy.
Republicans initially were surprised by Chief Justice John Roberts’ alliance with the court’s four liberal justices to uphold the law. Roberts, nominated by President George W. Bush in 2005, has been a darling of conservatives but ruled that the law’s penalty for not buying insurance was constitutional as a tax.
But the GOP quickly regrouped, accusing Obama of misleading the public on the issue and of endorsing a tax increase on middle-income Americans, and they pivoted back to their message that the law must be repealed.
“We pass plenty of terrible laws around here that the court finds constitutional,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said. “There’s only one way to truly ‘fix’ Obamacare, and that’s a full repeal.”
Obama and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney dueled in back-to-back statements on television.
Acknowledging the political downsides, Obama ticked off the popular benefits in the law while arguing again for the individual mandate at its heart.
“It should be pretty clear right now that I didn’t do this because I believed it was good politics,” he said. “I did it because I believed it was good for the American people.”
Obama noted that Romney came to the same conclusion in Massachusetts. A law signed by Romney as governor of that state charges residents a tax penalty of up to half the cost of a health insurance plan if they don’t buy one.
Above all, Obama called on the country to move on.
“It’s time to move forward” and deal with the pressing issue of the day — the economy, he said.
Romney again vowed to act to repeal the law the day he takes office.
“This is the time of choice for the American people. Our mission is clear: If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we’re going to have to replace President Obama,” he said.
Speaking to reporters from a Washington, D.C., office building with the Capitol Dome in the background, Romney called the Affordable Care Act a $500 billion tax increase and argued it would depress job creation, increase the deficit and give too much control to Washington.
Romney said he would “repeal and replace” the health care law with legislation that maintains the current statute’s prohibition against refusing coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions and ensuring that people could keep the insurance they currently have, if they so choose. Romney hasn’t been specific on how he would accomplish those ends.
But in a theme likely to continue through November, senior Obama administration officials noted that Romney was the architect of the tax penalty, and they said the tax penalty in Massachusetts is more onerous than the one in Obama’s overhaul. They suggested that less than
1 percent of the public would end up paying the national penalty and argued that many more Americans would actually be getting a tax cut in the form of tax credits to buy health insurance.
While House Republicans announced their plan to hold a repeal vote, Senate Democrats said they will bring up Obama’s proposed business tax cut package after the July Fourth break.
“The Supreme Court has spoken, the matter is settled,” Reid said at a press conference with Democratic leaders. “With millions of Americans still struggling in this tough economy, we can’t look back, we need to look forward.”
Obama and Reid also suggested that they would be open to improving the law, but Reid was clear that any effort would have to wait until after the elections.
Democrats hope that their narrowly tailored approach highlighting the particular, and popular, benefits of the health care law will eventually gain traction, even as they have had trouble ginning up support for the law as a whole and the mandate in particular.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said the approach Democrats have taken in the lead-up to the court’s decision could continue through November.
“When you get into specifics, people say, ‘Yes! My 25-year-old can be covered on my family policy’ and ‘My baby with an asthmatic situation can’t be denied health insurance,’” he said. “Those are real-world life experiences people can relate to.”
Senior administration officials also suggested that they don’t expect polling on the issue to change much one way or another in the wake of the decision; nor will Obama make a major new effort to sell the issue beyond what he has already done. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll showed 52 percent of respondents viewed the law unfavorably.
Still, the officials suggested the public will not be eager to have another nasty Washington fight over the issue, which they said is what would happen next year if Romney is elected.
Politics aside, Democrats were bucked up by the decision.
“The psychological impact of a Supreme Court decision saying this law is constitutional is a positive thing for those of us who supported it and especially for the president,” Durbin noted.
An air of relief shrouded the Senate Democrats’ weekly Thursday lunch, with leaders taking a victory lap after the closed-door session. The general sense is that Democrats now feel free to move on from the health care issue, even though Republicans are poised to make that difficult.
Already, Democratic leaders were stumbling Thursday when asked about the ruling that the mandate was a tax — an argument that was quickly becoming a GOP talking point.
When asked whether he thought it was a tax, Reid demurred and said he was no constitutional law scholar. Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), who heads the Democrats’ communication and policy arm, also sidestepped the question.
Senate Republicans are already considering ways they can repeal the bulk of the law next year via the budget reconciliation process, which would need just 51 votes, said Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (S.D.). Of course, that plan assumes the GOP wins enough seats in November to take control of the chamber and pass a budget.
“That is not something necessarily we’ve given a lot of consideration to yet, but we are definitely going to make every attempt — hopefully with a new president and a majority in the Senate — to repeal the law and replace it with common-sense reforms that actually do lower costs for most Americans,” Thune said of a reconciliation bill. And he noted that there could be a political silver lining.
“With regard to the politics, I do think it provides great clarity in the fall campaign,” Thune said. “We’ve said all along that irrespective of what the court says we perceive this to be really bad policy and we will take that case and that argument to the American people.”
But Schumer said he thinks the Democrats now have the upper hand politically.
“The longer they talk about wanting to repeal health care instead of focusing on jobs and the economy and the middle class, the harder it’s going to be for them to ever get that majority,” Schumer said after the press conference.
David M. Drucker contributed to this report.
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SEN. COBURN REPUDIATES CHIEF JUSTICE: DID NOT ‘ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION’ TODAY, ‘IS ON THE WRONG SIDE’ IN RULING
- Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:47pm by
Becket Adams
Conservative analysts and politicians across the country were appalled when they learned on Thursday that Chief Justice John Roberts voted to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
“Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments,” Roberts wrote in his opinion (page six).
“Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices [emphasis added],” he added.
Among those who believe Justice Roberts failed in his duty to defend the constitution is Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), one of the foremost critics of the president’s healthcare overhaul. In an exclusive interview with The Blaze, Sen. Coburn had some harsh words for the chief justice.
“Do you think that the Chief Justice fell on the right side in this argument?” The Blaze asked
“No, I don’t,” the senator responded.
“It is the Supreme Court’s obligation and duty to enforce the constitution so that when the Congress gets outside of the enumerated powers, that they slap them back,” he added, implying that by voting to uphold the controversial “individual mandate,” Justice Roberts had failed in his duty.
“What I would tell you is that you can’t find anywhere in reading the constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or the Federalist Papers, any intent that was ever thought about that the federal government would be putting forth this type of legislation and this type of control over everybody’s life,” he added, explaining that the mandate includes a “fine” and “not a tax.”
“You no longer, in this country, have the right to decide that you won’t buy health insurance,” the senator continued, “and I think the Chief Justice came down on the wrong side of this.”
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With court ruling, $1.7 trillion Obamacare tax now violates Obama’s 2008 tax pledge
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Get Neil Munro FeedThe Supreme Court’s move to uphold the individual health insurance mandate in President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care overhaul as a tax means that President Barack Obama’s far-reaching law massively violates his 2008 campaign-trail pledge to not raise taxes on middle-class and poor Americans.
“I can make a firm pledge – under my plan, no family making less that $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase,” he said in a September 2008 campaign speech in New Hampshire.
Prior to Obamacare’s passage in 2010, Obama denied it was a tax. In September 2009, Obama told ABC News that the law “is absolutely not a tax increase.”
The court’s conversion of the law into a huge tax may also boost the GOP’s ability to persuade voters to back GOP candidates in 2012. The Obamacare program may amount to $1.7 trillion over a decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office projection.
The court’s conversion of the mandate into a tax also suddenly eases the GOP’s practical problems of passing a reform through the Senate.
That’s because Senate rules allow a bare majority of 51 senators — not a super-majority of 60 Senators — to rewrite the controversial and unpopular law through reconciliation.
Senate Democrats won’t be able to filibuster a reform if they have less than 50 senators, especially if the Republican Party reclaims a majority in the Senate this November.
Seventy-five “percent of the [Obamacare] mandate penalty… falls on Americans earning less than $120,000 a year … [so] President Obama has imposed one of the largest tax hikes in American history on the middle class,” said a statement from the Republican minority of the Senate budget committee.
Twenty-one percent of the tax increase will fall of people who earn just above the poverty level of $11,800 per individual, or $24,000 for a family of four, according to a statement from the committee’s Republicans, who are led by Alabama’s Sen. Jeff Sessions, a staunch opponent of Obamacare and big government policies.
People who earn between two and three times the poverty level will pay 25 percent of the Obamacare tax.
People who earn between three and four times the poverty level will pay 18 percent of the law’s cost.
People who earn between four and five times the poverty level will pay 11 percent of the tax bill.
The wealthiest slice of the population, those who earn more than five times the poverty level, will pay 25 percent of the taxes.
The mandate-into-tax distinction was underlined by Ari Flesicher, a spokesman for former President George W. Bush.
The “press should stop calling the ‘fine’ a ‘penalty,’” he tweeted. “Now if you don’t buy insurance, it’s more accurate 2say your taxes get raised,” Fleischer tweeted.
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ERIC HOLDER FOUND IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS....
Statement by Gov. Perry on Congressional Vote to Hold AG Holder in Contempt
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Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement regarding the House of Representatives' vote to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress:
"The U.S. House of Representatives today sent a clear message that it will not allow the Obama Administration to hide its lawless, reckless and deadly actions from the American public. The American people deserve to know what they are hiding, how high this lawlessness goes and why the President's lawyer and best friend is stonewalling.
"I have long called for General Holder's resignation over his involvement in the botched Fast and Furious scandal that led to the tragic death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. General Holder's blatant attempts to mislead members of Congress and the American people, paired with his relentless crusade to erode states' rights, have cost him the trust of this nation, and must be stopped."
 * | 1 DAY, 2 DECISIONS – THE BOTTOM LINE
By Craig Andresen on June 28, 2012 at 1:51 pm
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Today, after a group of MORE THAN 100 liberal/socialist Members of the house arose and walked out in protest, thus showing THEIR contempt of 
On a day when the Supreme Court affirmed that an administration, through taxation CAN force upon the American people a good or service and order the IRS to go after those who choose NOT to partake, The House of Representatives DID indeed hold the Attorney General in criminal contempt of Congress for withholding tens of thousands of documents, emails and memos from the House Oversight Committee investigating the Fast and Furious operation and its cover-up.
Both the Supreme Court ruling AND the contempt vote against Holder SHOULD serve to ignite conservatives and mobilize them against the scourge of this administration.
Tea Party Patriots, Conservatives, Republicans and yes, Independents should now realize that this administration is so solidly aligned against the American people, American values and the very foundation OF America that they will unite, in mass, to vote Obama and his ilk from office.
Regarding Holder, this nation can no longer stand idly by while the head of the Department of Justice stalls and subverts justice from his post.
With more than 200 dead as a result of Fast and Furious, including U.S. Border Agents Jamie Zapata and Brian Terry, with more than 1400 weapons walked into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and there exact whereabouts now completely unknown, the Attorney
Holder’s actions in this matter are far beyond unacceptable.
His actions and the actions of Obama in this matter are an outrage.
Liberal/socialist backers of Holder and Obama have called the investigation into Fast and Furious everything from partisan to a witch hunt to racially motivated and an attempt to suppress the vote in November.
Outrageous.
Today, in protest of the contempt vote, a large number of liberal/socialist elected Members of the House, stood and marched OFF the floor and OUT of the House chamber rather than face the music of what and who they have so steadfastly placed upon a pedestal.
If by running away from the reality of Holder’s actions, they truly feel they are providing solid representation to their constituents, clearly they are representing none but cowards.
If by standing in support of Holder they feel they are providing solid representation to their constituents, there can be no doubt, they represent those in contempt of justice.
Conservatives in the districts of those who removed themselves from the floor of the House in protest today should with haste and determination do all in their ability to see to it that those representatives are removed from the House permanently this November and those who vote from the left in those districts who are NOT cowards, racists or hold personal contempt for justice should join in that effort.
Conservatives should NOT view the contempt vote against Holder as a victory.
Instead, they should view it as yet another motivating factor regarding the removal of this entire administration from power.
Sometimes, in the effort to restore our nation, it becomes all too easy to do a victory dance after claiming but a single hill on the battlefield. This should not be the case any more than losing a hill should be reason to concede defeat.
Hills are but hills whether they be a skirmish won or lost but BOTH can and should be elements of motivation and momentum to win the war.
Make no mistake, we are at war.
State sovereignty, individual sovereignty, justice, the Constitution, the principles of the founders and framers, freedom, liberty and the future of the Republic itself are at stake and to preserve them all, We The People must fight with the steely determination of those who gave birth to this nation 236 years ago.
Today, Republicans, be they Tea Party Patriots, or RINOs, joined by a handful of Democrats voted in the House, to Hold Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress and in doing so, took a bold, courageous step toward holding this administration accountable for their actions.
They cannot win the war alone and if we, for any reason, place OUR hopes in THEM and THEM alone, we will surely lose.
Today’s two decisions, one in the Supreme Court and the other in the House are neither victories nor losses but momentum builders.
Our founders entrusted to us, not just a nation but also the will to preserve it and should we act in any way divided in that pursuit, we will not only be an accomplice to the destruction of all we hold dear but we will violate the trust of the founders in the process.
United we Stand.
Divided we lose and in losing…
The Founders will surely weep.
June 28, 2012
17 Democrats Hold Holder in Contempt
17 House Democrats Crossed Party Lines To Hold Attorney General Eric Holder In Contempt
Brett LoGiurato
The House of Representatives just voted in favor of a contempt resolution on Attorney General Eric Holder, and 17 Democrats joined Republicans in adding a "ayes."
The Democrats that voted for the resolution:
Jason Altmire
John Barrow
Dan Boren
Tom Boswell
Ben Chandler
Mark Critz
Joe Donnelly
Kathy Hochul
Ron Kind
Larry Kissell
Jim Matheson
Mike McIntyre
Bill Owens
Collin Peterson
Nick Rahall
Mike Ross
Tim Walz
Holder in Contempt: House Dems Do Re-Enactment of WI ‘Fleabaggers’ and Run
Not above the law: Holder first U.S. Attorney General to be voted in Contempt of CongressAnne Sorock
Legal Insurrection
6/28/2012
This afternoon the full U.S. House of Representatives voted 255 to 67 to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress for failure to turn over specific documents. Eric Holder is now the first U.S. attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress in the history of the United States.
17 Democrats joined Republicans in voting for contempt. One member voted present, and 110 members did not vote.
The House votes on two separate items:
- 1: Whether to hold Holder in contempt and then refer him to the DOJ [passed 255 to 67; 17 Democrats voted yes]
- 2: Authorization to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to sue the DOJ in federal court [passed 258 to 95; 2 Republicans voted no]
Read the rest at Legal Insurrection.
House holds Holder in contempt: 17 Democrats vote yes, other Dems walk out; Update: Media continues to push ‘retaliation’ narrative
BREAKING: HOUSE VOTES TO HOLD ERIC HOLDER IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS…
Yawn: House Democrats Begin Walkout On Holder Contempt Vote…
But racism, as we have learned, is relative, meaning if you’re a left-leaning racist, it’s probably morally justified. As in this:
Justice Thomas dissents, Left hurls vile racial slurs ‘house nigga,’ ‘Uncle Tom’
…He’s not “really black,” you see. Much like conservative women aren’t “real” women and are instead gender-traitors. To the Left, racists and sexists at heart, all people must be put into identity groups and then must all think alike. They can’t possibly think for themselves. Silly girls and minorities. Know your places!…
Read the whole disgusting, degrading thing.
Had enough yet, America?
Update: Clyburn: Contempt Vote ‘Evil’ [video] Democrat Leader James Clyburn reacts to Congress holding AG Eric Holder in contempt
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Black’s Statement on House Vote to Place Attorney General Holder in Contempt of Congress
Jun 28, 2012Congressman Diane Black (R-TN) released the following statement today in support of the House voting 258-95 to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with investigations into the failed “Fast and Furious” operation:
“Attorney General Eric Holder has deliberately misled Congress and stonewalled the investigation into Fast and Furious. The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry deserves answers and the American people have the right to know the truth.
“Mr. Holder had every opportunity to comply with the requests made in the oversight investigation of this ill-conceived gun walking scandal, but he has refused to cooperate time and time again. Executive privilege does not justify obscuring the truth and obstructing justice. It is incredibly disappointing that the President and many in his party are not interested in getting to the bottom of this tragedy so that something like this never happens again.”
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News Wrap: Attorney General Holder Held in Contempt by Congress
SUMMARYIn other news Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder was held in criminal contempt by the U.S. House of Representatives, stemming from his refusal to turn over additional documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. Also, several bombings in Iraq killed more than 20 people, and wildfires continued to burn though Colorado.
TranscriptHARI SREENIVASAN: The confrontation between House Republicans and the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, came to a head in a pair of contempt of Congress votes.
NewsHour congressional correspondent Kwame Holman has our report.
MAN: On this vote, the yeas are 255, the nays are 67, one member voting present. The resolution is agreed to.
KWAME HOLMAN: With that, Attorney General Holder became the first Cabinet member to be held in criminal contempt by the U.S. House of Representatives.
In a separate vote, lawmakers also held the attorney general in civil contempt. It stemmed from his refusal to turn over additional documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gun-smuggling investigation that contributed to the death of a U.S. border agent.
Holder argued the 7,600 pages of material the Justice Department already turned over should be enough. Republicans, however, such as South Carolina's Trey Gowdy, demanded more, since some details of what they were told initially turned out to be inaccurate.
REP. TREY GOWDY (R), South Carolina: For those who want to plea-bargain, my question to you is simply this. Will you settle for 75 percent of truth? Is 50 percent of the truth enough for you? Is a third? Or do you want it all? Because if you want all the truth, then you want all the documents.
KWAME HOLMAN: But New York's Carolyn Maloney other House Democrats charged, Republicans merely are on a political witch-hunt.
REP. CAROLYN MALONEY (D), New York: This is not about discovering the truth. This is about politics. This has become an obsessive political vendetta, pursuing a political agenda in a season of unusually ugly politics.
KWAME HOLMAN: In the end, more than half of the Democrats walked out in protest, refusing to vote on the measures. The criminal contempt resolution approved today sends the matter to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who, under the law, actually reports to Holder.
The civil contempt finding allows the House to take Holder to court to get what it wants.
Shortly after the votes, the attorney general spoke in New Orleans and voiced regret that it's come to this.
ERIC HOLDER, U.S. Attorney General: Today's vote may make for good political theater in the minds of some, but it is at base both a crass effort and a grave disservice to the American people. They expect and they deserve far more.
KWAME HOLMAN: But the House is unlikely to see more documents soon, because President Obama invoked executive privilege last week to justify withholding them.
HARI SREENIVASAN: On Wall Street today, stocks spent much of the day in doldrums, after the Supreme Court's health care ruling. But a late rally erased much of those losses. In the end, the Dow Jones industrial average shed less than 25 points to close at 12602. The Nasdaq fell nearly 26 points to close at 2849.
Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase fell another 2.5 percent on word that its trading losses could be far worse than expected. The New York Times reported the red ink could reach $9 billion, more than four times the bank's original estimate. The losses stem from a bungled strategy to hedge against financial risk.
Officials in Colorado today reported nearly 350 homes destroyed in a major wildfire blazing outside Colorado Springs. It's one of more than 40 major blazes burning. Some of the largest are in Colorado, and many of them near population centers.
The mountain town of Colorado Springs was blanketed again with thick smoke, obscuring the devastation. But the mayor announced the Waldo Canyon fire had burned hundreds of homes to the ground since it doubled in size on Tuesday.
STEVE BACH, Mayor of Colorado Springs: We are working through the process, which is very painstaking, of assessing every address to make sure that we have absolutely accurate information on each address.
The worst thing we could do would be to put out information that's inaccurate. The people impacted by this are already going through enough pain and anguish. We have got to make sure we get this right.
HARI SREENIVASAN: This aerial photo showed one neighborhood before the fire, and after, total destruction.
WOMAN: You could feel the heat. It was just -- it was. It was really intense. And then we had cops yelling at us to get out, get out. And they're running around the neighborhood. And it was -- it was just -- it was insane.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The blaze still burned out of control today, and fire officials warned it was too dangerous for investigators to get in just yet.
MAN: I'm a veteran of the Denver Fire Department for 20 years, and, to me, it was like a movie scene. The whole side of the mountain is on fire. That's the only way I could describe it to you.
HARI SREENIVASAN: But fire managers were more optimistic about making progress aided by slightly better weather.
JERRI MARR, U.S. Forest Service Supervisor: We have been standing out here in the wind has been hammering us, just even standing here at this news briefing. It's been doing also up in the forest. But, today, we aren't going to have that. And the weather looks like it's going to cooperate with us.
HARI SREENIVASAN: For now, many people are living in shelters, at school gyms, hotel banquet rooms or tents in open fields. All told, more than 32,000 people have been forced to flee.
WOMAN: We barely got anything. We just got like a few backpacks with some clothes and all of our important papers, and that was it.
HARI SREENIVASAN: To the north, near Fort Collins, more evacuees from the massive High Park fire were allowed to return home today, as firefighters contained more of that blaze.
In Iraq today, a wave of bombings and shootings across the country killed 22 people and wounded more than 50. The deadliest strike came in western Baghdad. Eyewitnesses said a taxi exploded outside a market in a Shiite neighborhood. Eight people died in that blast. More than 200 Iraqis have died in attacks during June, making this the deadliest month there since January.
A U.S. law passed at the height of the war in Iraq has been thrown out. The Supreme Court today rejected a statute that made it a crime to lie about receiving top military medals. In a 6-3 decision, the court found it violated the right to free speech. The Stolen Valor Act went into effect in 2006. It imposed fines and up to a one-year prison sentence.
Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp., will divide into two companies. The announcement today said one new company will operate as a newspaper and book publisher. The other will focus on entertainment. The plan is subject to final approval by the News Corp. board and regulatory agencies.
Those are some of the day's major headlines.
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OTHER CONSPIRACIES......
United Technologies acknowledges coverup of sale of military software to China
By Sari Horwitz, Thursday, June 28, 2:16 PM
United Technologies, a major defense contractor, and two of its subsidiaries on Thursday acknowledged covering up the illicit sale of sensitive military software to China — technology that the country later used to develop its first attack helicopter.Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against the firms and a fine of more than $75 million for what they called a violation of U.S. export laws. Justice officials said the software sold to China posed a risk to American troops overseas and U.S. allies.
“The Justice Department will spare no effort to hold accountable those who compromise U.S. national security for the sake of profits and then lie about it to the government,” Lisa Monaco, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement.
Connecticut-based United Technologies, which reported net sales of $58 billion in 2011, will pay the fine, along with Pratt & Whitney Canada and Hamilton Sundstrand Corp., as part of a settlement for lying to the government and delaying their disclosures about the illegal exports, officials said.
The charges come at a time of rising concern over the modernization of China’s military and its increasingly aggressive posture in the Asia-Pacific region.
U.S. officials have long accused China of actively spying on the American defense contractors to steal intellectual property. Officials suspect, for instance, that stolen U.S. technology helped the Chinese build a stealth fighter jet, the J-20, and modify its cruise missiles to make them harder to detect.
China’s acquisition of military technology from U.S. suppliers is prohibited under an arms embargo imposed in 1990, after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In the case disclosed Thursday, prosecutors said Pratt & Whitney Canada sold engine-control software, made by Hamilton, to China in 2002 and 2003. Officials said Pratt & Whitney knew that China intended to use the software to develop the Z-10 attack helicopter, its first such aircraft.
The company pleaded guilty to two criminal charges, violating the Arms Export Control Act and making false statements.
“We must be very careful that the helicopter programs we are doing with the Chinese are not presented or viewed as military programs,” said one Pratt & Whitney Canada internal e-mail, according to court documents. “As a result of these sanctions, we need to be very careful with the Z10 program. If the first flight will be a gun ship then we could have problems with the U.S. government.”
Federal prosecutors said that Pratt & Whitney did not tell United Technologies and Hamilton about the sale for years but that, once it did, the three companies tried to cover up their role.
Under the deferred prosecution agreement, an independent monitor will monitor the three companies for two years. They face criminal prosecution or additional fines if they further violate export laws.
A federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that China gained immeasurably from the sale.
“By obtaining these materials illegally from the United States, China can save itself considerable time and expense needed to develop advanced military technology on its own,” the official said.
Connecticut U.S. Attorney David B. Fein said that Pratt & Whitney Canada was hoping to parlay its military sale into huge profits from China’s civilian helicopter market.
“PWC took what it described internally as a ‘calculated risk,’ because it wanted to become the exclusive supplier for a civil helicopter market in China with projected revenues of up to two billion dollars,” Fein said.
BLACK CAUCUS HAS A PRETTY BAD WEEK OF SHOWING HOW THEIR DEFICIT OF INTELLIGENCE IS BANKRUPTING OUR CONGRESS OF LEADERSHIP:
(REALLY TIRED OF DEMOCRATS IMPLYING WE’RE GREEDY OR RICH)
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Black House Democrats Lead Walkout During Holder Contempt Vote
By ADESHINA EMMANUELBlack lawmakers led a throng of House Democrats in a walkout Thursday during the vote to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress.
With members of the Congressional Black Caucus leading the way, more than 100 Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, quietly left the House chamber during the voting. They gathered in a circle on the lawn outside the Capitol for a news conference.
“We are nonparticipants in what we believe to be a calamity,” said Representative Emanuel Cleaver II, Democrat of Missouri and chairman of the black caucus. “This is a terrible day for the House of Representatives. We did not want to participate in something that had some kind of a smell to it.”
Representative Charlie Gonzalez, Democrat of Texas and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said: “We stand united. We understand that Congress has the right to conduct oversight — this is not about the right of Congress to perform oversight. This is about the responsibility and duty of Congress to do it in a way that is fair and just.”
In a Facebook message before the vote, Representative Allen B. West, a Florida Republican who has been at odds before with the black caucus, accused caucus members “and other liberal members of Congress” of judging Mr. Holder “by the color of his skin, and not by the content of his character.”
“I am disappointed my colleagues would rather engage in a political stunt to distract the American people from knowing the truth behind the attorney general’s disregard of the law and disrespect of congressional oversight to provide requested documents,” Mr. West wrote.
During the walkout, Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the minority whip, said: “This is not about race.”
Mr. Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said: “The reason we have walked down those stairs and into this courtyard is to call the attention of the American people, who are angry about confrontation, angry about gridlock, angry about the fact that we are not focused on their priorities: jobs, investment infrastructure, the environment, education, innovation, building our economy.”
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November won't reverse today or the slope our country is going down.
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DEMOCRATS COLLECTIVELY AND FOR DECADES BY FAR THE WORST TAX EVADERS, WHICH CAUSES BORROWING TO FUND GOVERNMENT OPERATING COSTS. DEMOCRATS ARE GUILTY OF POSSIBLE TAX EVASION IN THEIR TIES TO INSIDER TRADING: LOSING THEIR ASS IN THE STOCK MARKET REQUIRING BAILOUTS, STIMULUS, AND THEN FOOD STAMP PROGRAM INCREASES OF USAGE UP 100% SINCE OBAMA, NOT A REDUCTION IN POVERTY....
Stuff that democrats don't want you to know about.
Here then is the list of former Democratic members of Congress who were convicted or pleaded guilty to major offenses between 1992 and 1999:
- Nick Mavroules, Massachusetts Democrat: tax evasion, accepting illegal gratuity (1992).
- Albert Bustamante, Texas Democrat: racketeering (1993).
- Carroll Hubbard, Kentucky Democrat: fraud and corruption (1994).
- Carl Perkins, Kentucky Democrat: fraud (1994).
- Charlie Rose, North Carolina Democrat: financial-disclosure irregularities (1994).
- Larry Smith, Florida Democrat: tax evasion (1994).
- Walter Fauntroy, District of Columbia Democrat: financial-disclosure misdemeanor (1995).
- Gerald Kleczka, Wisconsin Democrat: arrested for DWI (1995 and 1990); convicted DWI (1987).
- Mel Reynolds, Illinois Democrat: sexual misconduct (1995).
- Walter Tucker, California Democrat: extortion (1995).
- Charles Wilson, Texas Democrat: paid $90,000 fine to Federal Election Commission (1995).
- Joe Kolter, Pennsylvania Democrat: fraud and conspiracy (1996).
- Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois Democrat: mail fraud (1996).
- Mary Rose Oakar, Ohio Democrat: financial-disclosure irregularities (1998).
- Austin J. Murphy, Pennsylvania Democrat: vote fraud (1999).
Geoff Metcalf listed these shining examples of the Clinton Administration Legacy
- The only president ever impeached strictly on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most convictions and guilty pleas
- Most Cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pled the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122 (9/99)
- Estimated number of witnesses quoted in FBI files misappropriated by the White House: 18,000
- Number of witnesses who developed medical problems at critical points in Clinton scandals investigation (Tucker, Hale, both McDougals, Lindsey): 5
- Problem areas listed in a memo by Clinton's own lawyer in preparation for the president's defense: 40
- Number of witnesses and critics of Clinton subjected to IRS audit: 45
- Number of names placed in a White House secret database without the knowledge of those named: c. 200,000
- Number of women involved with Clinton who claim to have been physically threatened: 5 (Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Linda Tripp, Elizabeth Ward Gracen)
- Number of men involved in the Clinton scandals who have been beaten up or claimed to have been intimidated: 9
- Number of times Hillary Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50
- Number of times Bill Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in the released portions of the his testimony on Paula Jones: 271
- Number of times John Huang took the Fifth Amendment in answer to questions during a Judicial Watch deposition: 1,000 Larry corrected this figure and says it has grown to 1934 and with more testimony to come is expected to exceed 2000 and become "a new indoor world record".
- Visits made to the White House by investigation subjects Johnny Chung, James Riady, John Huang, and Charlie Trie. 160
- Number of campaign contributors who got overnights at the White House in the two years before the 1996 election: 577
Most democrats are not very good at history. Combine that with their love of smear tactics and you get examples of proud ignorance like these:
- One liberal democrat I used to work with loudly proclaimed that the 1968 Tet Offensive was the result of President Nixon's warmongering policies in Vietnam. Nice try, but Nixon was elected in November of 1968 and didn't take office till January 1969. Tet occured on democrat President "Micromanage the War" Johnson's watch.
- "The Selective Service draft was obsolete when that doddering fool Raygun reinstated it anyway." Once again, Nice try. Selective Service was reinstated in 1979 by democrat President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter III in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Notice how in addition to getting the facts wrong, this democrat mananged to slip in multiple insults. So much for rational, reasoned debate...
Another example of sleazy democrats in action.
Jessie Jackson has added former Chicago democratic congressman Mel Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll.
Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and- a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud & lies to the Federal Election Commission.
He is more notorious however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.
This is a first in American politics:
An ex-congressman (a democrat) who had sex with an unaged subordinate won clemency from a president (a democrat) who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman (a democrat) who had sex with a subordinate.
His new job? Youth counselor. Is this a great country or what?
Don't forget that the so-called Rev. Jackson was paying his mistress hush and child support money (a 6 figure sum) out funds collected by his so-called "non-profit" organization.
CD Harris on the modern democrat party:
There's a reason why this site always refers to Loyal Opposition as the "Democrat party" not the "Democratic party": They have become a profoundly anti-democratic entity over the last thirty years or so. No party that so persistently - and proudly - uses the courts rather than the legislative process to force its policy preferences on an unwilling public can legitimately lay claim to the title "democratic." No party that so consistently sells out ordinary working people for the benefit of self-appointed special interests deserves to be called "democratic." And no party that wails and moans about "counting every vote" while working feverishly to prevent military absentee ballots from being counted, or third party candidates from even appearing on the ballot, has any right to wear the "democratic" mantle.
Here is another fine example of a congressional democrat:
Former Rep. Frank W. Ballance Jr. of North Carolina, who cited ill health in resigning from Congress in June, was indicted on federal fraud and money-laundering charges yesterday in connection with a drug and alcohol counseling program he founded. The 62-year-old Democrat was indicted along with his son, Garey Ballance, a state judge, who was charged with not filing a tax return in 2000, the Associated Press reports. A stinging state audit last fall found that the John A. Hyman Foundation was riddled with conflicts of interest and had made $325,000 in questionable payments. The foundation has received $2.1 million in state money since 1994, thanks in part to the elder Mr. Ballance.
For fair play, I'll include an example of a democrat coming to his senses and being honest.
Eric Axelson sends the following to the OpinionJournal:
As a Democratic elected official in the 1980s I had a similar response to any of Ronald Reagan's initiatives. I can recall a sinking feeling as the stock market took off in late 1982, worrying that Reagan would get credit. Or being peeved that the Grenada invasion was so successful. Or that Reagan engineered the tax reform that Bill Bradley and Dick Gephardt had staked out. And conversely, when the Iran-contra scandal blew up I was delighted that Reagan would be brought down a peg (although Oliver North pretty much cleaned the clocks of the lawyers and congressional inquisitors in his testimony). The bottom line for us partisan Democrats back then (as now) was that if it was good for Reagan (even if also good for the country) we opposed, belittled, quibbled, nattered and otherwise sought to diminish.
It was only well after Reagan had left office that I began to see how successful and far-reaching his policies actually were. In the 1990s I began to annoy my leftist friends by stating the obvious, that Reagan was the most successful U.S. president since FDR. And it was only a relatively short ideological journey (helped along by Clinton's feckless policies and corruption) to embrace the policies of President Bush that are engendering freedom in places that have known only tyranny.
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Fellow Massachusetts resident Jay Tea points out a shining example of a Massachusetts democrat:
Senator Dianne Wilkerson has a spotty record with regard to money. She once served six months under house arrest for failing to file her state and federal income taxes. She's been sued over unpaid loans and bills. She's been fined for prior violations.
This time, though, the state looked at her campaign's books and are kinda curious about $80,000 her campaign's spent over the last two years. It looks like she's been spending contributions on such things as pizza, groceries, "consultant fees" to her sons, and about $18,000 in unspecified "reimbursements" paid directly to her personal bank accounts.
The Boston Herald summarizes her career nicely:
She has been subjected to a series of highly publicized financial problems: failure to pay federal and state taxes and her student loans; stiffing vendors, including her own attorneys, out of tens of thousands in fees; and violating a federal judge's order of house arrest in 1998. She has been re-elected to the state Senate six times.
Greece to seize money from suspected tax evaders' accounts
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Posted on Thu Apr 26 2012 20:34:02 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by DeaconBenjamin
The Greek government is to begin seizing money from the bank accounts of suspected tax evaders, Finance Minister Filippos Sachinidis told Skai TV on Thursday.
Sachinidis said that the relevant authorities have been instructed to seize the amount that account holders are suspected of owing to the state.
The minister said that this would happen before suspected tax evaders go on trial.
Last week, the Finance Ministry said it would put into use its cross-checking software to monitor transactions and catch more tax cheats.
Banks, insurance companies and the stock market will have to submit the full details of transactions by taxpayers so that the ministry can draft a property profile for each person and compare it with the tax statement submitted.
Public and private hospitals to send information about the doctors they employ and their activity.
Private insurance companies as well as social security funds must supply in electronic form all the statements they issue to their clients or beneficiaries for tax purposes, showing the taxpayers’ payments and contributions, while utilities, including cell phone networks, must supply account data such as total annual bills.
Credit card companies will also have to submit data on transactions in Greece for cards issued not just in this country but also abroad.
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Convicted Felon Gets $7.45 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama Stimulus
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The 2009 Obama stimulus package is a constant source of stories about incompetent bureaucrats in Washington wasting taxpayer money, with Solyndra being the most famous of them. The latest story involves a man, David Myers, getting a guaranteed $7.45 million loan from the United States Department of Agriculture. His company, Ways LLC is using the guaranteed loan to purchase a home health agency in Mississippi. What's the problem with this loan? Amongst other things, Myers was involved in a high profile case of corporate fraud. Bloomberg News had this to say about the man being trusted with millions in taxpayer money:
“Myers, 54, served nine months in prison for helping to falsify the telecommunications company’s books to meet earnings targets. The $11 billion accounting fraud wiped out more than 17,000 jobs and $184.6 billion in market value from WorldCom’s high on June 1999.”
Obama’s $760 billion stimulus program includes 515 loan guarantees for businesses, and places the USDA in charge of selecting qualified applicants. Ways LLC was one such business.Surprisingly, there are no regulations or law preventing the government from doing business with David Myers:
“Myers pleaded guilty to fraud, conspiracy and false filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2002. Federal law prohibits the USDA from making a grant or providing a loan or loan guarantee to corporations or executives who have been convicted of a felony within the preceding two years.”
The USDA, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it was worth gambling on David Myers’s business, seeing as to how he pled guilty ten years ago instead of two. The USDA, and every other over-empowered government agency, can afford to make these gambles, because they are not held personally accountable for their failures. In the end, it is the taxpayer who takes the hit.This post was authored by Kyle Bonnell, a Townhall.com editorial intern.
USDA suggests food stamp parties, games to increase participation
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FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, an Electronic Benefit Transfer card, food stamp recipients use to purchase food, is seen at the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
While spending on the food stamp program has increased 100 percent under President Barack Obama, the government continues to push more Americans to enroll in the welfare program.The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has embraced entire promotional campaigns designed to encourage eligible Americans to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps.
A pamphlet currently posted at the USDA website encourages local SNAP offices to throw parties as one way to get potentially eligible seniors to enroll in the program.
“Throw a Great Party. Host social events where people mix and mingle,” the agency advises. “Make it fun by having activities, games, food, and entertainment, and provide information about SNAP. Putting SNAP information in a game format like BINGO, crossword puzzles, or even a ‘true/false’ quiz is fun and helps get your message across in a memorable way.”
The agency’s most recent outreach effort targets California, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and the New York metro area with radio ads.
The ads have been running since March and are scheduled to continue through the end of June — at a cost of $2.5 million — $3 million, CNN Money reported Monday.
CNN Money further noted that the USDA began running paid radio ads in 2004, under President George W. Bush, who oversaw a 63 percent increase in average food stamp participation.
In the 1970s, one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps. Today one our of every seven receive the benefit. After the recession, the ratio is expected to hover around one out of every nine, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Despite the high rate of food stamp participation, the USDA has numerous blueprints posted on their website aimed at getting more people to enroll in SNAP. A 2009 State Outreach Plan Guidance explains why the agency believes states should adopt strategies to get more people on the rolls:
Outreach Can Help Increase Participation in SNAP Resulting in Multiple Benefits for Participants, States, and Communities: SNAP is the cornerstone of the nation’s nutrition safety net and an investment in our future. SNAP offers the opportunity for improved nutrition and progress toward economic self-sufficiency for participants who become stronger members of the community. However, too many low income people, especially seniors, working people, and legal immigrants, who are eligible for SNAP do not participate and thus forego assistance that could stretch their food dollars and help improve their nutrition.
According to the USDA, greater food stamp usage can be an economic plus for states and communities.
“Every $5 in new SNAP benefits generates $9.20 in an additional community spending,” the USDA contends in their outreach guidance. “If the national participation rate rose five percentage points, 1.9 million more low-income people would have an additional $1.3 billion in benefits per year to use to purchase healthy food and $2.5 billion total in new economic activity would be generated nationwide.”
During debate on the 2012 farm bill earlier this month, Senate Republicans pushed for amendments aimed at reducing the cost and participation in the food stamp program.
The Democratically controlled Senate voted down Republican efforts — denying amendments targeting the swelling rolls that were introduced by Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, and others from Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions — arguing they could reduce access to those in need.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Crony Capitalism vs. Free Markets
You decide...Crony capitalism is an economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business executives and government officials (those who are supposed to bedemocratically elected politicians looking out for the people's interests). Crony capitalismmay be exhibited by favoritism in the distribution of legal permits, government grants, special tax breaks, subsidies, the non-prosecution of any wrong-doing, and so forth.
We've heard all the Republican presidential candidates accuse President Obama and the Democrats of crony capitalism, and they would be correct. GM is just but one of many examples. In this particular case, Obama says he saved jobs and the auto industry. The Republicans have cried, "Crony capitalism!", and that Obama had put the UAW union workers ahead of GM shareholders.
The Republicans and the Democrats are both right, and they're both wrong. Both parties are guilty of crony capitalism. The Republicans had also voted to bail out the financial institutions and auto industries after the housing market collapse and the stock market crash in 2008.
And the $700 billion for TARP was just the tip of the iceberg (the near interest-free cash from the Federal Reserve to commercial banks with no stipulations and no prosecutions for fraud.)
Both of our political parties have been equally guilty of crony capitalism for decades. Both parties have hoodwinked the American taxpayers into believing that we've had a free market economic system for years, and we went to war to protect these free markets ---but they're not really "free" at all for the American taxpayers. We've always been forced to bail them out.
For decades the government has decided which businesses will fail and which ones would survive. Lobbyists for the major banks and corporations have been paid very well to influence our elected officials. (Read my post: Lobbyists on K St. paid like CEOs on Wall St.)
Even when bankruptcies are filed, taxpayers are still forced to pick up the tab. Here are just but a few past examples (before the most recent bailouts).
1970 Penn Central Railroad $3.2 billion
1971 Lockheed $1.4 billion
1974 Franklin National Bank $7.8 billion
1975 New York City $9.4 billion
1980 Chrysler's FIRST Bail Out $4 billion
1984 Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust $9.5 billion
1989 Savings & Loan $293.3 billion
2001 Airline Industry $18.6 billion
See the complete list of bailout recipients (not including subsidies).
We've bailed out lots of industries, even when it wasn't necessary, just to manipulate a company's financial obligations and labor contracts for the benefit of big corporations (small businesses are always allowed to fail).
A free market society is supposed to be a competitive market where prices are determined by supply and demand. Economic intervention and regulation by the state is supposed to belimited to tax collection and the enforcement of private ownership and contracts. In its purest form, the government is supposed to be neutral in its role in administration and legislation of economic activity, neither limiting businesses by regulation, by protecting them from internal or external market pressures, nor by actively promoting it by owning financial interests in them, or by offering subsidies to businesses, or giving away taxpayer-funded R&D (research and development).
But this is not the way our economy really works. If this were true, why didn't a corporation like GM ever go out of business?
Before the outbreak of World War II General Motors produced vast quantities of armaments, vehicles, and aircraft for both the Allied and Axis customers. By the spring of 1939, the German government had assumed day-to-day control of American owned factories in Germany, but decided against nationalizing them.
After Hitler invaded Poland the U.S. auto companies were still concerned that Nazi Germany would nationalize American-owned factories, so GM later declared it had abandoned its Nazi subsidiary, and took a complete tax write-off, of which they received a tax reduction from U.S. taxes of approximately $22.7 million.
After the war had ended GM collected another $33 million in "war reparations" because the Allies had bombed its German facilities for which they had earlier declared a complete tax write-off, and had received a tax reduction.
While General Motors has claimed its German (Opel) operations were outside its control during World War II, this assertion appears to be contradicted by available evidence. General Motors was not just a car company that happened to have factories in Germany; GM management from the top down had extensive connections with the Nazi Party all during the 1930's and into the 1940's.
GM's total bail out back then is worth about $285 billion in today's money.
Fast forward to February 2011 - The U.S. Treasury just gave GM another tax break to reduce its U.S. tax bill by an estimated $14 billion in the coming years, and its global taxes by close to $19 billion, according to a recent company filing. We're still bailing out GM!
Crony capitalism or Free Markets?
The Republican presidential candidates and Tea Party members are still crying for free markets, but every time they're elected into office, they just can't say "no" to corporate influence any more than the Democrats can. And it's the taxpayers that always pay for this.
The Republicans have been complaining about food stamps, but yet they all voted to continue government subsidies for big oil companies, corporations who are making record profits and aren't paying their share of taxes. Does that make any sense at all? Is that afree market economic principle? But the big oil executives say that by NOT giving them our money is "un-American". (Is corporate welfare supposed to be patriotic in a free market?)
We hear a lot of rhetoric about "energy independence" and "Drill, baby, drill!" - but the Wall Street Journal reports, "Thanks to new drilling techniques, such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, the U.S. price of natural gas has plummeted, and is now among the cheapest in the world. The new drilling methods has unleashed a flood of cheap natural gas in the U.S. market. Now they're looking to find new international markets for the surplus production (to export for corporate profits), which would raise natural-gas prices for U.S. customers."
And according to the CIA's World Factbook, the United States is already exporting 2 million barrels of oil a day. So why are we having a discussion about TransCanada's Keystone XLpipeline if we have an oil shortage and/or need "energy independence" when we're exporting oil and natural gas?
Simple answer: For corporate profits, at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.
I proposed an idea about the Keystone Pipeline, funding a massive non-profit public works program to build an oil company that's operated and owned by our government (the people) for our own use, buying oil at "cost". But would anybody listen to common sense?
But instead, BIG OIL will sell the oil back to the American taxpayers for the highest bid through Goldman Sachs on the commodities market, or export it to places like China....where our jobs went. Crony capitalism or Free Markets?
Obama talked about "transforming America" and Speaker of the House John Boehner says he wants to "fix government", but both political parties are beholden to corporate interests, and the American people are always getting screwed in the process...no matter who's in charge.
To be truly rid of corruption and crony capitalism -- and to be able to restore America's truefree markets -- we would first have to have congress pass an amendment to the U.S. Constitution overturning Citizens United, and get money out of politics. We would once again need publicly funded elections. But how long before or if this could ever be accomplished? I'm not holding my breath.
And then we would also need to change the federal bankruptcy laws, so that CEOs like Donald Trump can't escape their financial obligations by passing on their failures to the American taxpayers, while at the same time, still remain pompous and rich.
Posted by Bud Meyers at 12:32 AM
Labels: Crony Capitalism, Free Markets
SANDUSKY’S PENSION FUND SHOULD GO TO THE VICTIMS.... I SEE CIVIL COURT LAWSUITS ON THE HORIZON:
Jerry Sandusky Pension: Convicted Child Molester Will Continue Collecting At Pennsylvania Taxpayer Expense
Posted: 06/27/2012 5:14 pm Updated: 06/28/2012 11:30 am
Jerry Sandusky leaves court in handcuffs after his conviction.
Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky likely won't be forfeiting his $59,000 annual pension, despite being found guilty of 45 charges surrounding child sex abuse."My immediate, authentic, organic reaction as a human being and a woman is, how awful," Tara Fields, Ph.D., M.F.T.told The Huffington Post.
But Sandusky's crimes and other crimes against children do not fall under Pennsylvania's Act 140, a 1978 state statute that enables prosecutors to request the forfeiture of a criminal's pension.
Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted Friday of 45 of 48 criminal counts related to the alleged assault of 10 boys over a 15-year period. The allegations led to the ouster of Penn State University's president, and the university's longtime football coach Joe Paterno, who died in January.
The 68-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison.
"How terrible it is that this type of crime was never incorporated in the bill," said Fields, a licensed marriage and family therapist who has not treated Sandusky.
Act 140 is largely related to embezzlement, tampering with witnesses, forging documents and similar crimes, according to veteran attorney and legal analyst Anne Bremner.
"The type [of crimes] traditionally characterized under the umbrella of abuse of public office or public misconduct," said Bremner, who feels Pennsylvania lawmakers should immediately work to reform the law.
"Obviously, it was the intent of the legislature to disallow benefits to those who [abused their positions], but isn't it a far worse abuse of office to use your position [to be] a virtual pied piper of children -- [a] 'tickle monster' who groomed, fed, gifted and molested the children ..." Bremner asked.
If an amendment passed tomorrow, however, it likely won't affect Sandusky and he would continue collecting his state pension.
"There are times when the General Assembly has passed bills, there are efforts to apply retroactively, sometimes with success. But in the criminal setting, it is an uphill battle to apply conduct retroactively," Pennsylvania attorney and former Attorney General's office employee Jim Kutz told WHTM.
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And if that's not enough to anger residents of Pennsylvania, Bremner said, they should know Sandusky's pension is partially funded by taxpayers. "A $148K lump sum and over $50K a year for life or for [his wife] Dottie's life, if she survives him," Bremner told HuffPost.
"Maybe in 1978, the lawmakers didn't foresee this type of catastrophic, debilitating and horribly damaging scenario. Or then again, maybe they didn't want to talk about it."
While there may be little lawmakers can do to prevent Sandusky from collecting his pension, Fields said it should send a message that child sexual abuse should not be ignored.
"This is going to be a wake-up call for people who didn't care or didn't have an opinion when they find out that their money -- their tax dollars -- whether they like it or not, are being affected by these crimes," she said.
CLARIFICATION The headline of this article has been revised to indicate that Sandusky's pension is at the expense of Pennsylvania taxpayers.
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