Obama wants to manipulate student loan payments to place the burden on taxpayers once again. In the meantime, he's screwing seniors. This clown act has to go, and not a moment too soon. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/23/obama-admin-to-use-8-3-billion-slush-fund-to-fake-out-seniors/

I wonder if Obama will tell the youth about this latest scheme to overthrow Democracy! Send ot to everyone in your address book - especially liberal friends who still think for themselves - as NBC and CNN will never allow their viewers to know if it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7SGWH3kirzg&vq=medium

OBAMA'S MIDDLE CLASS REDUCTION ACT OF 2012!

----------------The Poor--------------- Middle Class (Me)

------------------- Government Provides

Healthcare ------ Yes-----------------------No

Food-------------- Yes-----------------------No

Transportation-- Yes --------------------- No

Cell Phone ------ Yes---------------------- No

Marriage Penalty- No--------------------- Yes

Headstart ----------Yes ------------------- No

Unearned----------Yes-------------------- No

Tax Credit

Mental disability -Yes---------------------No

Payments

Housing-----------Yes-----------------------No

Rubbers-----------Yes----------------------NO

Jungle Gyms------Yes----------------------No

Colt 45-------------Yes----------------------No

Free College-------Yes---------------------No

I would be better off not working and being part of the Obamanation!

But, Obama wants to make the middle class the lower class.

And another round of Obama's useless out of control deficit spending is being exposed. Round , after round , after round. It never stops. And is there really any sane person out there that thinks we can afford 4 more years of this?

WASHINGTON – In a blow to the Obama administration on Medicare, government auditors Monday called for the cancellation of a costly bonus program for private health plans that congressional Republicans have criticized as a wasteful political ploy.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said it's not clear that the $8.3 billion Medicare Advantage bonus program will improve quality because most of the money is going to plans just rated average. The auditors did find, however, that the bonuses would temporarily ease the pain of unpopular cuts to insurance plans under President Obama's health care overhaul law.

Ahead of presidential and congressional elections in which seniors are a key group of swing voters, the administration has been working hard to portray itself as a good steward of Medicare, by cracking down on waste and fraud, improving benefits, and keeping costs under control. The GAO report could become a blemish on its record.

The administration defended the program, saying without bonuses many plans would not have an incentive to improve.

But Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said the GAO report suggests that the administration abused its authority, pumping money to the plans to avoid more criticism over the cuts.

Medicare Advantage is a popular private insurance alternative to the traditional health care program. More than 3,000 private plans serve nearly 12 million beneficiaries, about one-fourth of Medicare recipients. They offer lower out-of-pocket costs, usually in exchange for some limitations on choice.

The health care law trimmed Medicare Advantage to compensate for prior years of overpayments that had allowed the plans to offer attractive benefits -- and pocket healthy profits.

Republicans fiercely attacked those cuts during their successful campaign to take control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections. Seniors responded by backing GOP candidates.

After the election, the administration announced what it called a "demonstration program" to test whether a generous bonus program would lead to faster, broader improvements in quality. (The health care overhaul law had already provided a smaller bonus program only for top-rated plans.)

GAO, the investigative agency of Congress, did not address GOP allegations that the bonuses are politically motivated. But, its report found the program highly unusual. It "dwarfs" all other Medicare pilots undertaken in nearly 20 years, the GAO said.

Most of the bonus money is going to plans that receive three to three-and-half stars out of a possible five stars on Medicare's quality rating scale, the report said.

Available through 2014, the bonuses will soften much of the initial impact of the Medicare Advantage cuts, acting like a temporary reprieve.

This year, for example, the bonus program offset about 70 percent of the cuts in the health care law. Indeed, Medicare Advantage enrollment is up by 10 percent and premiums have gone down on average.

But GAO questioned whether the bonus program will achieve its goal of finding better incentives to promote quality. "The design of the demonstration precludes a credible evaluation of its effectiveness in achieving (the administration's) stated research goal."

The administration says it disagrees with the GAO findings and believes the bonuses will improve the quality of care.

"Absent this demonstration, we believe that many plans would not have an immediate incentive to improve the quality of care delivered to (Medicare Advantage) enrollees," the Health and Human Services department said in its formal response to GAO.

Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate panel that oversees Medicare, is questioning whether the administration had the legal authority to create the program.

"The Obama administration seems to be using a technicality to sidestep Congress and write itself a blank check to spend more money for political purposes leading into this year's elections," said Hatch.

"The White House does not have the authority to green-light spending on whatever program it wants," he added. "This report is just the beginning -- I will be demanding answers."

HHS spokeswoman Erin Shields said the bonuses will help Medicare improve quality. "The temporary demonstration will build on the improvements due to star quality ratings to learn how to best incentivize quality while we bring payments down," she said.

The Associated Press first reported on concerns about the bonus program last spring. Administration officials said at the time it had nothing to do with politics.

But another nonpartisan agency that advises lawmakers on Medicare also criticized the bonus plan as the administration was pursuing it.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission said it amounts to "a mechanism to increase payments" and its design "sends the wrong message about what is important to the program and how improved quality can best be achieved."

The bonuses are the costliest demonstration program in Medicare history. They'll be paid from the Medicare trust fund.

Students - If you think Obama cares about you, wait until you receive his bill.

Go to Northern Illinois University, site of an extraordinary rendition, where my professor told me I was a spy with a gun pointed to my head...

Against the backdrop of the republican party which is the equivalent of a coloring book that any profiteering @!$%# can find comfort against- that enabled what is most important to collapse to to save their sorry ass compromised reputation -this President has overseen the greatest expansion of military power on US soil in its nation's history under cover of holding together a simpler and simpler populist message where there is a nationwide infrastructure of extrajudicial activity that can destroy any US citizen that refuses to suppress the destruction of another...

It is mind boggling that these extrajudicial operations become as large as possible to simply destroy the one person they are initially built around using the potential for consequence from the activity in the first place to justify its exponential increase making the need to destroy innocent Americans more pointless then ever...

Its sort of a new rule we live under but as long as it helps this pervert hold together the simplest social concepts, why not???

When I started this journey HU, my biggest problem was that no one would ever believe me never in a million years thinking people would accept the unthinkable because their own little characters got so misaligned with the most pointless destruction of US citizens imaginable...

Never a more meaningless election because it this corner you have the very simplest concept that needs to be held together by suppressing the fact the President has unilateral and absolute power over everyone across the entire social spectrum so long as the pointless and horrific activity creates enough consequences to our nation's interest to keep it moving forward...

Guess he figures the young and impressionable are the only ones outside his base that will believe his BS any more.

Yeah - he'll need the young and the naive (i.e. dumb) ones.

My professor once told me: When you're young and you don't vote democrat, you don't have a heart. When you're in your middle ages and you don't vote republican, you don't have a brain. Makes perfect sense.

A true fact - Obama has spent more time on his knees with his arse in the air, aligned towards Mecca than every President both Past and Future. Obama is a Muslim, whether he actively practices his faith is another matter. He does not fit the definition of a Christian. He said "yeah I am a Christian, but I believe there are many paths to God" WRONG Answer! There is only one path, accepting Jesus Christ as ones LORD and Savior and publicly professing your faith. I have just done the second part. Liberals try to confuse others by lies and deceit about religion, socialism, and government being God.

It's because mr grover, the gop, rushbo, & nra have such short memories. The only thing they will tell you is that you are being taxed too much. But hey, the last time they did that, massive bushman tax cuts, a few years not only did the country's economy completely collapse like in 1929, it took down the entire economies of the western world. And why. Complete incompetence in governance.

Look at how mr grover, the gop, rushbo, & nra needed the endorsement of ted nugent. The guy who said obama & hillary were criminals and that needed their necks chopped off. Nugent just admitted shooting, wounding, & killing bears illegally. And they let this nutcase keep his guns. I tell you somebody should take his guns away immediately before he hurts somebody. He evidently set up bait and when the bears came, he shoot them. A real hunter. Somebody needs to take his guns away.

I guess Obama needs to try and get more of young and dumb vote. Once you are in the real world, you are more likely to have your eyes opened.

I will never understand the mentality that its normal to go into debt to go to college. If you maintain a frugal lifestyle and a part time job, you can get through college debt free if you go to a college in your home state. This does not change the fact that college is getting way too expensive though. Obama should be focusing on why the cost is so high instead of pouring more money into the system.

Romney 2012

"Ann Romney delivers remarks at the Prescott Bush Awards Dinner in Stamford, Ct"

Only in the USA, Will you ever find a nominee for Presidents wife be
speaking at a dinner honoring a well documented traitor to the USA
(Let alone his offspring in 6 of the last 8 elections)

Look into the image of Obama and you see evil!

boo-boo - Obama is shutting down your coal mine!

A SMALL SAMPLING OF THE MANY LIES OF Willard Mitt Romney

"100,000 new jobs." Romney has repeatedly claimed that during his tenure at Bain Capital, "net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs." His campaign defends the figure by tallying the current employment totals of some companies Bain aided. That's a stretch in and of itself, but it's also not a net figure. It lacks the balancing context of how many jobs were destroyed by Bain. As the Los Angeles Times reported in December, while Bain helped some companies grow, "Romney and his team also maximized returns by firing workers, seeking government subsidies, and flipping companies quickly for large profits. Sometimes Bain investors gained even when companies slid into bankruptcy."

Indeed, the Wall Street Journal looked closely at Bain's record under Romney and found that 22 percent "either filed for bankruptcy or closed their doors by the end of the eighth year after Bain first invested, sometimes with substantial job losses." Which is not really terribly surprising: Bain's raison d'etre is not job creation but wealth creation for its investors. As Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler noted in an article Monday calling Romney's "100,000 jobs" figure "untenable," Romney and Bain "never could have raised money from investors if the prospectus seeking $1-million investments from the super wealthy had said it would focus on creating jobs."

As a corollary, when Romney's record has been criticized, he has dismissed criticisms as an attempt to "put free enterprise on trial." It's not an attack on free enterprise. It's an attack on Romney's strained attempt to spin his successful record of wealth-creation into one of job-creation. It's also a recognition that while a net good, the free market has its destructive side—and it's a fair question to ask, whether voters consider experience in that sort of vulture capitalism as a good qualification for the presidency. Do they want government to be run more like that kind of business?

[See a collection of political cartoons on Mitt Romney.]

Obama's jobs record. By Romney's own logic (touting jobs created but ignoring jobs lost), his attacks on President Obama's economic record are nonsensical. He told Time that Obama "has not created any new jobs," and he told Fox News last week that Obama has "lost" 2 million jobs as president. This is indeed a net figure, but also a misleading one. When Obama took office, the economy was shedding jobs at a rate of nearly 1 million jobs per month, losing roughly 3 million during the first four months of 2009. But presidential policies don't take effect as soon as the incoming chief takes his oath. Once Obama's policies started to take effect, the trend turned. The country had added 3.2 million private sector jobs over the course of 22 straight months of private sector growth. By Romney's definition, the president has created more than 3 million jobs—not enough, but also not none.

[Read the U.S. News debate: Will Mitt Romney Be the GOP Presidential Nominee?]

In fact the biggest drag on job growth is the 600,000 public sector jobs that have disappeared under the auspices of budget austerity. As my colleague Danielle Kurtzleben reported in September, "government jobs are being shed by the tens of thousands almost every month, hindering an already weak recovery."

"Entitlement society." Romney has argued that Obama "is replacing our merit-based, opportunity society with an entitlement society," where "everyone is handed the same rewards, regardless of education, effort, and willingness to take risk." As New York's Jonathan Chait has observed, "This accusation is approximately as accurate as claiming that the Republican Party wants to pass laws forbidding poor people from making more money." The idea that President Obama (or any Democrat) advocates for equality of outcomes simply lacks a basis in fact.

[See a collection of political cartoons on the budget and deficit.]

It's an important fabrication, because it marks a turning point in Romney's attacks on Obama. Previously the president was characterized as ineffectual, but not a socialist. Forced to battle to win the GOP primaries, Romney has adopted the Tea Party's extremist rhetoric. It won't play with swing voters, even delivered in his polished drone.

Defense cuts. In an October speech on national security, Romney promised to "reverse President Obama's massive defense cuts." One problem: Pentagon spending has gone up under Obama, from $594 billion in 2008 to $666 billion. The 2011 request was for $739 billion. As Rick Perry would say, "Oops."

[Read the U.S. News debate: Are Cuts to the Defense Budget Necessary?]

No apologies. Romney has said that Obama "went around the world and apologized for America." This is part of the conservative, dog-whistle meme that Obama is un-American (and possibly even a foreigner!). While the notion of an international apology tour is a staple of the conservative case against Obama, it is also fictitious. The Washington Post's fact-checker concluded that "the claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context." Don't hold your breath waiting for an apology from Romney on this one.

"Mitt." It's a small one, but might be my favorite. During a debate in November, when moderator Wolf Blitzer introduced himself by saying that "Wolf" is really his first name, Romney greeted the audience by saying, "I'm Mitt Romney, and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name." In fact, Willard is his first name. It's a lie notable for being so mundane: Why would someone fudge their name? It's almost as if he can't control himself.

The Prez will cow down to any group that he can and promise them anything so we can pay for it. I am not rich by any means but I do make a living for myself and my family. Have a son in law school and even though the libs tried to taint his head I am proud to say he wont be on any democrats bandwagon anytime soon.

Obama is a much better entertainer than he is a President, so he continues to spend much of his time where he feels most comfortable, on a stage, doing what he does best, pretending to be a cool celebrity, pleasing a friendly audience and delighting in the adoration. Our liberal President speaks to liberal students on a college campus, it is an occasion for The Clueless One to share his lack of wisdom and experience with the even more Clueless Ones who will buy into his scam.

LAWYER HAS READ THE ENTIRE HEALTH CARE BILL

A retired Constitutional lawyer has read the entire proposed healthcare bill. Read his conclusions and pass this on as you wish.

The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Michael Connelly, Ret.

Constitutional Attorney

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill

3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S.

Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own.

The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, of all of your personal healthcare direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy.

That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide...

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law It doesn't stop there though.

The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;

The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights... Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly

Retired attorney,

Constitutional Law Instructor

Carrollton , Texas

AFTER HAVING READ THIS, PLEASE FORWARD....

If you don't care about our constitution, or your rights under it, just do nothing.

WE MUST HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

The DARK lord and savior of the evil liberal progressive Demorats - Barack Insane Obama

The Black Liberations’ ( Michelle O., Barack O., Jeremiah Wrong, Louie Farrakhan, Spikey Lee, Al Sharpton, JJ and millions more) believe God will lead only blacks to the Promised Land. Don’t they know they are already here! America was once a land of milk and honey, a shining beacon of light spreading justice, freedom and opportunity throughout the land. In the Exodus, God led Moses and the Israelites from Egypt as slaves to the “Promised Land”. The Jews were led to a place of ‘milk and honey”. Unlike the Black Liberationist, they knew that only hard work would milk flow and honey had to be found and collected. They are destroying their “promised land” by many being a “Taker” and their misguided unduly political support of the Progressives. “Being Christian does not mean following in his (Jesus) steps”. (Black Theology and Black POWER, PAGE 139(3). If African American’s who descended from slaves had a choice, would they rather live here or in the dark Sahara? Let’s check our immigration records of American’s moving to Africa. My conversation with a Black Liberationist:

Fred C. Dobbs

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the

goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people,

then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is

to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will

accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white

enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the

power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at

their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must

reject his love."! - Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:16 PM EDT

Do you understand why the Left is targeting Catholics and Christians in general?

Romney committed voter fraud

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has survived the heated GOP nominating contest so far without attracting significant attention to what may become a general election issue: allegations that he committed voter fraud in 2010. In January 2010 the former Massachusetts governor proudly cast a ballot for Republican Scott Brown in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He didn’t own property in the state at the time, and had registered to vote listing his son’s unfinished basement as his residence. Massachusetts law defines a residence for voter registration purposes as “where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life.” Anyone found guilty of committing voter fraud faces up to five years behind bars and a fine of $10,000.

The issue was first raised last year, after long-shot GOP candidate Fred Karger traveled to Romney’s former community of Belmont and interviewed members of his former church — who informed Karger that the Romneys had moved — and their former realtor, who told him, “Oh, they moved to California.” Additionally, Karger claimed that Ann Romney told him that the couple lived in California.

At this point making a serious effort to get the youth vote is a waste of resources for the Obama campaign. He'll get the youth vote! The majority of young people are not going to vote fro Mitt Romney, I guarentee that. The problem, as first read points out, is enthusiasm. This isn't 08, and it's not going to be. Obama will win the youth vote 2 to 1 easy, but the chances they'll turn out in big enough numbers to turn the tide are very low.

I think he'll win re-election anyway, but it won't be solely because of under 30 voters.

ETCH-A-SKETCH pick a running mate! What the hell are they going to run for! There isn't even ONE of the 99% American People that would even consider voting for him! He's nothing but a corrupt corporate political puppet SELECTED NOT BY THE 99% BUT BY THE 1% corrupt corporates/wallstreeters/rich! This Mex. Republican Corrupt Corporate Puppet is nothing but a PHONY! We, the 99% American People, don't want a "self-professed business man" running our government; government is a SERVICE TO ITS PEOPLE, it is NOT a business, but an obligation TO ITS PEOPLE! ETCH-A-SKETCH is so far out of touch with the American People, he even thinks the POOR should take care of themselves! WHAT A LOSER! We commented under this heading because the Republican party & its corrupt corporates are afraid to put it under its own heading because they KNOW WHAT everyone will SEE & READ about their PUPPET!

Vote STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC, the lives you save WILL be your OWN Aand your CHILDREN!

It's amazing how many people Obama and his ilk continue to fool. It's very understandable however given the number of people with no skin in the game (not paying taxes) and who actually care about American Idol and Lady Gaga instead of how this country is broke. Based on his budgets, President Obama loves checks. Balances, not so much.

No matter what anyone thinks about this or that as an issue, all you can depend on from the Republicans is their stubborn and arrogant concentrated pursuit of their political ambitions at any cost to the people, including their being “puppets” for “the money”, their strong supporters and controllers. The rest is the subterfuge aimed to con and excite people and to manipulate public opinion as their history totally proves. The current Republican / Tea Party is simply owned and controlled by “the money”, as money and politicians work together to push towards a two-class society with “the few” competing in having it all while the majority continually looses, and anyone refusing to recognize that reality is just kidding themselves and asking to be further used and abused.

Obama can't even get his own party to vote for his budget proposal. He had the house and senate for the the first two years and they refused to pass any budget. Just incredible.