I hope you’re sitting down.

According to this, health insurance premiums under Obamacare are going to go up an average of 100%, and some rates will climb more than FOUR HUNDRED PERCENT, due to the new regulations, policies, fees, taxes, mandates, and other crapulence associated with it.

Let me take this opportunity to remind you that the Actual Name of Obamacare is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Yyyyyyyyyyeah.

In addition to the premium hikes we regular common folks will see, our employers (and particularly small businesses) will also see increases of up to 50%, with some seeing hikes over 100%.  The reason?  Because of MATH, which is something that no one who wrote the stupid legislation ever bothered to take into account.  When you offer more and more and more stuff to people (like free birth control, for example), and you’re adding fewer healthy people to the covered subscriber list, that thing happens where you are spending more than you are taking in, and so you run out of money.  (See: Every program that Obama has ever proposed ever.)

So anyway, there’s your “Affordable Care,” folks.  When you see your rates go up, try to take comfort in the fact that all the liberal losers who voted for the people who voted for this crap are seeing their rates go up too.  Not that that’s any consolation. 

Rants, Observations & Obfuscations

My family gave me, what I feel, is a pretty healthy perspective on death.  It was never hidden from me as a child, merely the last experience of life.  Nor was I taught to seek out death through thrill seeking or any other means.  I don't think I could ever be suicidal, as it is against my religion and I just don't think it's my style.I always hoped to meet the hour of my death with equanimity and hopefully be at peace with myself and my maker  I think that's about all most of us can hope for.

Lately however I honestly have begun to fear that I will die MURDERED by my government dying with a pile of brass at my feet..  This is not paranoia, is not a conspiracy theory or a death wish.  There are just too many inconsistencies in instances of my government trampling on the rights of the individual and what I see is an attempt to silence those who would in any way speak out against what appears to be a power grab of unprecedented proportions.  The government has shown its interest of late in arming its civilian bureaus have only and searching for military leaders who are willing to make war on the civilian populace.  This directly contravenes law and policy.  The active military like the CIA is prohibited from operating inside United States borders.

The vets I know, both combat and administrative, agree with me and feel that we have been targeted as potential domestic terrorists and threats to the government.  Not threats to national security, but threats to an administration who feels duty bound to trample on the Constitution and the amendments.

I would hope every individual, whether liberal or conservative would consider very carefully the actions of this president since his inauguration subsequent to his reelection.  It was well publicized his comments to a foreign leader that he had to be careful before the election and after the election he would have a lot of options.  I feel his heavy-handed tactics since his reelection bear this out, that he has designs on running the country by Fiat rather than by legal process.  His use of Executive Order to circumvent an override constitutional law is a proven fact.  What troubles me is Congress's refusal to put this in check.  Executive order is illegal and useful tool for expediency.  Executive order does not have the authority legally or constitutionally to override lots unless Congress and the people allow it to happen.

We now have a president who has sealed by "Executive Order" all of his personal information.  It has taken nearly 4 years for information to surface outlining what these sealed records contain.  I guess the most significant find is our president attended school as a foreign exchange student.  This is only legal if you're a foreigner.  Now here we have the quandary, either Obama is a foreigner and not eligible to be president of these United States; or he is in fact a citizen and defrauded the federal government on his student loans.  You can't have it both ways.

This man appeared out of almost nowhere and was financed through invisible means that he will not divulge into national prominence so quickly has sued the file I get.  The sad fact is is we pay more attention to the background of our soccer coaches in football coaches and Boy Scout leaders then we do to the man with whom we have entrusted our national heritage.  This is madness.  His confrontational attitude towards gun control to me is a beacon of his intent.  It is obvious to even the least aware of the mechanics of gun control that his purposes are not to control crime, but to disarm a populace in such a manner as to make this populace absolutely defenseless against an increasingly aggressive government.

It has been pointed out time and time again that his policies and actions parallel those of such treasured people as Adolf Hitler, Lenin, the Chinese and a host of other dictators who have subjugated their people and murdered the populace en masse over the last 75 years.

It seems to be that anytime anybody criticizes Obama they are instantly deemed a racist by the liberal machine.  Well I am not a racist.  I do not like Mr. Obama because he is in my personal opinion not good for my country.  There are a host of black men who would make excellent presidents of the United States and I would vote for them in a heartbeat.  I have read that: Powell feels the Republican Party is racist towards him.  While I am not a Republican I am a conservative and I would vote for: Powell and I disagree with him that Republicans are racist.  It is quite probable that a number of the "good old boy" hierarchy of the GOP feel that way.  I just find it is unfortunate that he chooses to throw the baby out with the bathwater in this particular instance, as I'm sure there are a great number of Republicans in fact probably the majority of Republicans who are not racist.  I was saddened when all of the Democratic finger-pointing Herman Cain threw him out of the race, because of his infidelities.  While on the other hand they continued to support Bill Clinton after his not only alleged but documented infidelities over time, and his lying to Congress and the American public about his infidelities and transgressions.  Yet they seem to support them and "that was okay".  He not only transgress but he lied.  Seems to me the lie is what brought Nixon down and caused his resignation.  Why one a conservative or Republican gets caught doing wrong, he is held to the letter of the law and forced to succumb to the outrage of the left.  However when the left gets caught, it always seems to be okay.  Sorry about that.  The double standard these people adhere to is incredible.

Letter to the Entitled...

 Here is a letter from a guy from Oak Harbor who expresses my sentiments exactly

 Letter to our two Washington State senators. 

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April 3, 2013

Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell

Washington, DC , 20510
 
Dear Senator: 
I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses shortly after his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those virtues he felt important - honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the laws of God and of our various governments. I have served my country, paid my taxes, worked hard, volunteered and donated my fair share of money, time and artifacts.
 
Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few things abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. I have calculated that all the money I have paid in income taxes my entire life cannot even keep the Senate barbershop open for one year! Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped actuarial types know what the Senate dining room costs the taxpayers. So please, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us.
 
Last year, the president spent an estimated 1.4 $billion on himself and his family. The vice president spends $millions on hotels. They have had 8 vacations so far this year! And our House of Representatives and Senate have become America 's answer to the Saudi royal family. You have become the "perfumed princes and princesses" of our country.
 
In the middle of the night, you voted in the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. "Obama Care," a bill which no more than a handful of senators or representatives read more than several paragraphs, crammed it down our throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it substituting your own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance.
 
You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the "one percenters," consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises while making 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income, and give up nothing while you (as well as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due to sequestration (for which, of course, you plan to blame the Republicans, anyway). 
 
You understand very well the only two rules you need to know - (1) How to get elected, and (2) How to get re-elected. And you do this with the aid of an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated with a certain economy of truth, and by buying the votes of the greedy, the ill-informed and under-educated citizens (and non-citizens, too, many of whom do vote) who are looking for a handout rather than a job. Your so-called "safety net" has become a hammock for the lazy. And, what is it now, about 49 or 50 million on food stamps - pretty much all Democrat voters - and the program is absolutely rife with fraud with absolutely no congressional oversight?
 
I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What changed you is the seductive environment of power in which you have immersed yourselves. It is the nature of both houses of Congress which requires you to subordinate your virtue in order to get anything done until you have achieved a leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan, it appears that the second oldest profession (politics), bears a remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest.
 
As the hirsute first Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834 - 1902), English historian and moralist, so aptly and accurately stated, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." I'm only guessing that this applies to the female sex as well. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in this country than Congress?
 
While we middle class people continue to struggle, our government becomes less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and ever so much more dictatorial, using Czars and Secretaries to tell us (just to mention a very few) what kind of light bulbs we must purchase, how much soda or hamburgers we can eat, what cars we can drive, gasoline to use, and what health care we must buy. Countless thousands of pages of regulations strangle our businesses costing the consumer more and more every day.
 
As I face my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and my government tell me "You'll just have to take a pill," while you, Senator, your colleagues, the president, and other exulted government officials and their families will get the best possible health care on our tax dollars until you are called home by your Creator while also enjoying a retirement beyond my wildest dreams, which of course, you voted for yourselves and we pay for.
 
The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero as your staff will not pass it on, but with a little luck, a form letter response might be generated by them with an auto signature applied, hoping we will believe that you, our senator or representative, has heard us and actually cares. This letter will, however, go on line where many others will have the chance to read one person's opinion, rightly or wrongly, about this government, its administration and its senators and representatives.
 
I only hope that occasionally you might quietly thank the taxpayer for all the generous entitlements which you have voted yourselves, for which, by law, we must pay, unless, of course, it just goes on the $17 trillion national debt for which your children and ours, and your grandchildren and ours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up the tab.
 
My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has either lost his or her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-election and continue to destroy this country I deeply love and put it so far in debt that we will never pay it off while your lot improves by the minute, because of your power. For you, Senator, will never stand up to the rascals in your House who constantly deceive the American people. And that, my dear Senator, is how power has corrupted you and the entire Congress. The only answer to clean up this cesspool is term limits.
 
This, of course, will kill the goose that lays your golden eggs. And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring it up.
 
Sincerely,
Bill