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| kbp | Oct 11 2011, 05:18 PM Post #391 |
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Bill Daley says he'll be 1-term WH chief of staff This staff member is brilliant also!
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| retiredLEO | Oct 11 2011, 05:36 PM Post #392 |
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I respectfully disagree, he is accomplishing exactly what he desires, to bankrupt the country, to create chaos and riots in the streets of our cities, wanting people to look to the government for support and to bring down American capitalism. He already has the American spring going, he is spending us into oblivion and our do nothing congress is not standing up against him. Why go to work after 4PM when you are destroying what you want to destroy? |
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| Kerri P. | Oct 11 2011, 05:45 PM Post #393 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/political/story/10245949/ Obama says he's ready to break jobs bill in pieces Posted: 3:11 a.m. today Updated: 2:29 p.m. today WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is prepared to break his jobs bill into pieces and try to move it that way, hours before the measure faced likely defeat at the hands of Republican senators opposed to stimulus spending and a tax surcharge on millionaires. "I don't know how Congress will respond to the overall package, but our expectation is if they don't pass the whole package we're going to break it up into constituent parts," Obama told members of his jobs council in Pittsburgh not long before the first congressional vote on the $447 billion jobs plan. The plan combines payroll tax cuts for workers and businesses with $175 billion in spending on roads, school repairs and other infrastructure, as well as unemployment assistance and help to local governments to avoid layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers. Republicans say that the current plan is just another failed stimulus attempt. snip.... |
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| retiredLEO | Oct 11 2011, 05:48 PM Post #394 |
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He doesn't need any republican vote in the senate to move forward, the news has it wrong again, the dems in the senate don't want to vote for Obamas' Jobs Plan. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 11 2011, 05:55 PM Post #395 |
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Obama doesn't have to work, because his Czars are. |
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| Joan Foster | Oct 11 2011, 05:55 PM Post #396 |
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LEO, I'm inclined to agree...except that this Buffoon... foisted upon us by our presumed BETTERS in the Democratic Party, by the Labor Unions, and by Academia is an utter fraud, a complete incompetent. I'm open to the idea that he may be deliberately destructive...but more and more, I'm just inclined to believe he is exceedingly unprepared, unsuited, and unintelligent enough for the job. He is the to the Presidency what Wahneema Lubiano is to the excellence of Duke's faculty. But how they touted his excellence, his superiority! Methinks he is to competency what Mangum is to virtue. Edited by Joan Foster, Oct 11 2011, 06:01 PM.
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| DMom | Oct 14 2011, 06:57 PM Post #397 |
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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/14/8325174-obama-administration-halts-part-of-health-care-law Obama administration halts part of health care law By Msnbc.com's Tom Curry The Obama administration announced Friday that it has suspended one piece of the landmark health care law which the president signed last year. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius told Congress in a letter that the CLASS Act, which was supposed to provide a new voluntary long-term care insurance program, was unworkable since no actuarially sound way could be figured out to run the program. “I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time,” Sebelius said in her letter. CLASS stands for “Community Living Assistance Services and Supports.” The CLASS Act was a significant piece of the health care bill because it helped make it deficit neutral over the first ten years after enactment, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. Thus CLASS helped garner the votes to help the bill pass. According to the CBO, the CLASS program would have reduced federal deficits by $86 billion in first 10 years, partly offsetting the increased federal spending due to the other parts of the health care bill. In the first years of CLASS, enrollees would be paying premiums into it but would not be able to collect benefits until 2016. In a memo to Congress in April of 2010, Medicare’s chief actuary Richard Foster warned that the program would “face a significant risk of failure” because sicker people would tend to sign up for it and the costs would soon exceed the premium payments. The program, he said, would likely be “unsustainable.” In her letter Friday, Sebelius seemed to have reached the same conclusion as Foster did in 2010. One of the Republicans who led the opposition to the CLASS Act, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota said Friday, “The administration is finally admitting the CLASS Act entitlement is unsustainable and cannot be implemented. Simply setting aside the program for the near-term is not enough. Repeal is the only solution to ensuring American taxpayers will not be on the hook in the future for this disastrous entitlement.” |
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| DMom | Oct 14 2011, 07:09 PM Post #398 |
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/politics/health-care-program/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 comments on this article are 'interesting' WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Citing cost concerns, the Obama administration said Friday it has halted a long-term care insurance program that was part of the massive health care law passed in 2010. Called the CLASS Act (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports), the program was canceled by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius after a 19-month effort to find a way to make it financially viable. In a letter to Congress, Sebelius wrote, "Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time." The CLASS program was similar to long-term care plans available in the private sector in which workers sign up and pay a monthly premium. It was voluntary and was to be paid for entirely by the premiums from those who signed up. In return, subscribers would get a daily benefit. But a senior administration official told CNN that there were big questions whether CLASS could be self-sustaining even when the health care reform law was being considered by Congress. And as a result, lawmakers specified that the HHS secretary had to determine that the program would be sustainable for 75 years before certifying it. The legislation had been championed by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts. In a blog entry on Healthcare.gov, Sebelius cited warnings that not enough young healthy people would sign up. "This could have led to a vicious cycle where premiums would have to be set higher and higher to cover the likely costs of benefits, leading fewer and fewer healthier people to sign up for the program," she wrote. Sebelius said she wasn't giving up. "So even as we suspend work on implementing CLASS, we are recommitting ourselves to the ultimate goal of making sure Americans can get the long-term care they need, whether it's a working-age mom with disabilities who needs daily support right now or a young man at his first job who wants to protect himself and his family against the possibility of huge long-term care costs in the future," Sebelius wrote. Congressional Republicans had long targeted the program as part of their effort to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law. Responding to the Sebelius decision, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement, "The Obama administration today acknowledged what they refused to admit when they passed their partisan health bill: the CLASS Act was a budget gimmick that might enhance the numbers on a Washington bureaucrat's spreadsheet but was destined to fail in the real world." McConnell said the CLASS Act "is only one of the unwise, unsustainable components of an unwise, unsustainable law." "We should repeal the CLASS Act and the rest of the health spending law and replace it with the type of common-sense reforms that lower costs and Americans support," McConnell said. Edited by DMom, Oct 14 2011, 07:11 PM.
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| DMom | Oct 14 2011, 07:14 PM Post #399 |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house-kills-long-term-care-program/2011/10/14/gIQAVZLYkL_story.html?hpid=z1 White House eliminates insurance program for long-term care |
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| DMom | Oct 14 2011, 07:16 PM Post #400 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/health/policy/15health.html?_r=1&hp Obama Administration to Scrap Long-Term Care Insurance Part of Health Care Law By ROBERT PEAR Published: October 14, 2011 The Obama administration announced on Friday that it was scrapping a long-term care insurance program created by the new health care law because it just would not work. Premiums for the program, known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support (or Class) Act, would be so high that very few people would sign up, officials said. //snip// |
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| Joan Foster | Oct 16 2011, 09:50 AM Post #401 |
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"We shouldn’t be surprised that President Barack Obama wanted to visit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to apologize for the atomic bombs dropped on them in World War II. Obama has been willing to “blame America first” for almost anything wrong with the world, but these visits would have marked a new low. Fortunately, the Japanese government refused to permit such abasement. Obama had to be content on his 2009 world apology tour with lamenting (in his Cairo speech to Muslims of the Middle East) a “colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims” (Which part of the Middle East was colonized by Americans again?) and with begging Iran, in a totally ineffective televised plea, to play nice. According to Investor’s Business Daily, a State Department cable made public by Wikileaks reported to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka told U.S. Ambassador John Roos that an apologetic visit to Hiroshima was “a non-starter” because it might arouse anti-nuclear and anti-United States sentiment in Japan. Our country is afflicted with a president dangerously enraptured by what he thinks is the power of his words, and ignorant of history, how the world interprets what he says and the nature of his country’s adversaries." http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view/2011_1015no_apologies_needed/ |
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| Mason | Oct 16 2011, 10:09 AM Post #402 |
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. Ignorant of History is right. I'm not getting over these attempted apologies to Japan. These are so telling of the man - the hollow man - in the White House. . |
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| Mason | Oct 16 2011, 10:21 AM Post #403 |
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. Over 60 Million people died in WWII. From the time Japan attacked us in 1941, there was well over 1,000 days of bloody war. It took a scant Six days for Japan to surrender after the bombing of Nagusaki. Millions and Millions of lives were saved by dropping that bomb. . |
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| Kerri P. | Oct 16 2011, 01:29 PM Post #404 |
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http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/story/10264313/ Obama gets back on the bus for trip to NC, Va. |
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| kbp | Oct 23 2011, 09:45 PM Post #405 |
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The Jobs Bill failed, as planned, so now they will continue working on having it fail a little bit at a time. The SOB's don't have time to pass a budget between vacations, but they find time to waste. That's a weak strategy! |
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