It’s time for Barack Obama State Of The Union Bingo! The folks at Americans for Tax Reform have created four new Bingo cards to help you and your family truly enjoy what promises to be a boring yet vague promise-filled speech. Print ‘em, pass ‘em out and have fun! (note: no wagering please)
On January 27, 2010, In 2010, By Paulie
On January 16, 2010, In 2010, By Paulie
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Remember, it’s time to get EDUCATED, time to get LOUD.
This graphic has been making the rounds this week, I switched the axis so I could read the names more easily. What does it display? The length of the line is the percentage of presidential cabinet appointees that had private sector experience prior to their appointment. Look at the bottom: Less than 10% of Obama’s appointees have any.
The point? Barack Obama, one of the most inexperienced men to be elected president, on of the most liberal men to be elected president, has little to no regard for corporate or private sector experience. Less than TEN PERCENT of his cabinet appointees have actual, real-world experience. Why does this matter? Because the world is a complex place and having ANY sort of experience running businesses, managing people, and dealing with the government as a non-governmental entity means something.
Instead of experience at the top of our government we have radical statists running the show. These are people completely out of touch with what you or I deal with on a daily basis. They have led sheltered, secluded lives and are completely out of touch with reality. But… nobody seems to care. We scream, yell and vigorously debate our passion for our favorite sports teams; we are willing to stand in ridiculous lines to save money on crap we don’t really need; and we get all wound up about reality television.
How great could America be if more of its citizens exerted a fraction of the aforementioned attention toward things that actually matter? We may never know.
Here’s what the CBO Director said earlier this year:
According to our preliminary assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010-2019 period. When fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million or 17 million.
So, a net increase of 17 million newly insured people. Let’s run with the lie that the entire package will cost $900B over ten years. This equates to a taxpayer cost of $52,941 per newly insured American. If we use a more realistic $1.5T estimate the per person cost jumps to $88,235. Of course, we all know that the government always comes in at or under budget for massive projects, right?
Topic today includes Che Guevera, David Letterman and HR 1444 (mandatory civic duty).
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