Glass Houses
It Can’t Be Both
Paul Ryan say’s his plan is the only plan, Rand Paul said it he was told it was a “binary choice”, basically Ryan’s way or the highway.
Listen, it’s either good or bad, you can’t have it both ways. Kind of better than Obamacare isn’t what we were told. Figure the damn thing out, you say you know what you are doing but I trust the GOPe as far as I can toss Chris Christie.
I want market based individual plans that cost in the neighborhood of $400 a month for young healthy family upwards of $800 per month for 50+ with a manageable deductible, that or give me pre-tax dollars to invest in a health savings account and promote cash medical services and hospitals so I can eliminate the fucking insurance middleman.
I don’t care about the lazy, non working inhabitants on welfare. I didn’t put them there and I shouldn’t be subsidizing them with higher premiums or penalties and if any of that bullshit is in the new replacement bill that will be the end of my Republican support.
It’s in your court you asshat politicians, quit bickering and get in a room with the best and the brightest and hammer it out.
The Summer Help
The “Summer Help”, that’s what the federal bureaucracy calls a new presidential administration. From the Pentagon to the EPA, federal agencies loaded with people with lifetime jobs go about their business with no thought to what needs to be done to help the country, but what needs to be done keep their paycheck coming in every two weeks. Their loyalties fall behind whatever mid level management boss they have. If Boss A is a liberal, the busy work will be politically progressive. Reports, data, and lunch chats will be whatever Boss A chooses regardless that Boss A’s new boss is The President of the United States. Boss A will still be in his position long after Bush, Obama, and Trump, have spent their allotted time in office, visa vie….the “Summer Help”.
That’s the problem with big government, it’s damn near impossible to get anything done because decisions are based on data, but who is providing the data? It could be Boss A and his group providing the reports, but Boss A was hired during the Clinton administration because he checked all the right liberal boxes and the people he hired checked the same boxes, if they had not, they wouldn’t be employed for Boss A.
Let’s say Boss A and his people are in charge of immigration data, or CO2 climate reports, or war scenarios with Iran, you kind of get the picture of the damage that can be done regardless of who is POTUS. Now multiply this scenario among the millions of federal workers and thousands of federal agencies with a workforce that can’t be fired. Civil servants backed by the Local 222 Boss A and his Minions Union are all but guaranteed a lifetime job with killer benefits.
Now lets’ say Boss A has received information that could be damaging to the current administration, and Boss A is good pals with a reporter for MSABCNBC news, nothing would stop him from leaking the information because he is part of the massive quagmire known as the federal government apparatus.
That’s what Trump faces. He can fire appointees but he can’t fire everyone. Draining the swamp will be impossible because of all the standing water, he may be able skim the scum from the top but the problem lies at the bottom and it will just fill back up once the summer help is gone.
The people who find their way onto the college campus, or the government campus, are not there to confront life. They are there to escape it. Once on the campus they quickly forget about the rest of the world. They become institutionalized, like convicts that spend decades in the penitentiary. The government never fires anyone and there are never tough times, requiring the bosses to make hard decisions. For the career civil servants,death is the only thing that can get them off the payroll.
It’s why everyone is so nice and relaxed. When you don’t have to worry about hard times, you can spend all your time enjoying the good times. There’s plenty of office politics, of course, and the stress that comes with it, but the people in the Department of Nice are secure in their positions. They know the check will be deposited every two weeks into their account. They know their job will always be there. They know that no matter what happens out there in the world, everything will be fine on campus. keep reading….
Rule 5 Rated R Randomness
Best Explanation Yet….Patience
Gives you and idea about the process, the mark ups, and what they have to do to get around the Democrat NO votes. Go to the link and read the entire thing, long but informative.
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“Now, the Republicans are going to attempt to repeal that bill by modifying it; and have to also plan for a full unity road block of Democrats providing them no support. That means the Republican repeal/modification needs to pass the house and senate without a single Democrat vote.
Here’s where it gets tricky.
This process takes three phases. In phase #1 you are repealing a bill through modification knowing you need to use the Senate Reconciliation process (51 vote threshold). That means the repeal/modification bill itself cannot have any federal budgetary impact beyond 10-years. Any bill/modification that HAS budgetary impact, beyond ten years, cannot use reconciliation in the Senate and must reach the higher hurdle of 60 votes.
Additionally, phase #2 and phase #3 will take place over time, through the regular process, as the House and Senate debate their constituent provisions. This is how the law should have been written in the first place – but it wasn’t. Phase #2 and phase #3 mean compromise, because the higher vote thresholds will be required.
All of the changes that people want in a replaced ObamaCare bill (purchasing across state lines, etc.) can only come after the entanglement/modification of the law takes place.” Keep Reading…
- Phase #1 – Dismantle the underlying financial construct of the law through new law targeting the underlying financial architecture. This process allows reconciliation (lower vote threshold in the Senate).
- Phase #2 – HHS Secretary Tom Price rewrites the rules and regulations to focus on patient centered care. Most of the tens of thousands of pages are rules and regulations. Secretary Price uses the new architecture created under phase #1 to rewrite the rules.
- Phase #3 – The wholesale reforms and changes to the law: malpractice/tort reform, purchasing across state lines, etc. are additions -new bills- (higher vote thresholds) to add to the law that provide the changes most ObamaCare critics are demanding.
Heh….
Healthcare For Dummies
I tried reading the GOPe’s Obamacare replacement bill. 123 pages of unreadable amendments and referrals to subsection what the fuck of page 950 something from the 2000 page ACA section A (F)-Amended D 2012 applying to taxable year effective December 31, star date 2854.
Only the government can write something so garbled that it would take a team of lawyers to read through it….bug or feature?
1 SEC. l13. REPEAL OF INCREASE IN INCOME THRESHOLD
2 FOR DETERMINING MEDICAL CARE DEDUC3
TION.
4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 213 of
5 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking
6 ‘‘10 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘7.5 percent’’.
7 (b) EXTENSION OF SPECIAL RULE.—Subsection (f)
8 of section 213 of such Code is amended—
9 (1) by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2018’’,
10 and
11 (2) by striking ‘‘AND 2016’’ and inserting
12 ‘‘2016, AND 2017’’.
13 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
14 (1) IN GENERAL.—The amendment made by
15 subsection (a) shall apply to taxable years beginning
16 after December 31, 2017.
They should write a version explaining each section of the act that a junior high school student could read and understand, that would give the average American an idea of what the fuck they are backing or fighting. This should be required of all laws or regulations being considered.
Right now all we can do is take a politicians word for what it does, and that should scare the hell out of all of us.
Heh….
Terrible People
Fragile Loyalties
Even conservative firebrands can’t escape one of the seven….greed.
And a good guy gets caught up in the mess. Sad.
But again, CR has a problem. As an outcome of their Never Trump positions, their influence, including the influence of Mark Levin and Amanda Carpenter, has continued to diminish. CRTV was poorly launched by Levin into the headwinds of a Trump surge. CRTV was on track to be a bottomless pit of hopeless financing for billionaire Katz with no-upside, no viewership and no influence.
That’s why CRTV needed a guy like Mark Steyn to pull in the pro-Trump audience who had already dropped most of the CR team from sight.
However, ultimately after spending quite a bit of his own money to launch the program, and discovering CRTV was not going to compensate him for any of the expenses, Steyn sued and CRTV dropped him.
Looking at responses to on-line articles of the dust-up, it’s obvious massive cancellations of subscriptions followed Steyn’s exit. An already tenuously existing media enterprise was set for collapse.
What happened next…
PRESTO ! Mark Levin rushes quickly to the spotlight that is President Donald Trump and hopes the heavily scripted and constructed support therein will drum up some attention and viewership. here….