Today’s Prickly City comic strip nailed it today.
“The press has reported that the website is all fixed up Senator Kevin.”
“But it’s a lie. Why would they say that?”
“They want it to work, sir. Fake it ’til you make it.”
“Self delusion madness! Lies! Their evilness knows no bounds.”
Yep! That pretty much covers it. The press is heavily invested in Obungler. Remember, they made him. They did not vet him. We knew more about Sarah Palin a week after McRINO chose her as his running mate than we’ll ever know about Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade.
Remember all the stories on the economy like “green shoots” “recovery summer” “funemployment”? The fact is that after five years of Obamanomics, unemployment remains over 7%, the longest run in my lifetime, and that 7% is not even the real number. The real number is somewhere between 12% and 14%. Less people are working than when Obeavis took office and, ironically, the people hit the hardest are blacks. How do ya like that Hope and Change bros? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No pity here. You voted skin color and you got screwed which is what the Dimocrats do best with regard to blacks. Keep them poor, uneducated, and dependent upon gummint.
Imagine how the LSM would be reporting this stuff if a Republican was in office. Remember when the economy was recovering under Bush 43 and the unemployment rate was 5%? The LSM labeled it a “jobless recovery”. Now, they’re saying that 7% unemployment is the “new normal”. “Fake it ’til you make it.”
The LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party so much wants Obummercare, Obumbler’s single accomplishment of his administration, to succeed that they keep covering “successes” like Kentucky where 60,00 people have signed up. Unfortunately, only about 12,500 have actually signed up for real plans. The other 48,000 have signed up for Medicaid, which the feds will pay for for 2 years. After that, the portion the feds will pay for drop. The smart states, like mean old Georgia where we hate the poor leeches and parasites, didn’t fall for this scam, much to the dismay of the rat bastard commies at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation who have written editorials about what a hard hearted bastard Governor Deal is.
Another “success story” is in Washington State or, at least that’s what the LSM has been saying for the last few weeks. Turns out it wasn’t such a success after all. I’m really surprised that they’re reporting this.
For the second week in a row, the Washington Healthplanfinder website is down, and it’s causing problems for people who are dealing with billing issues. Some of them say the website is mistakenly debiting their accounts.
Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her checking account Monday morning, and found she was almost 800 dollars in the negative.
“The first thing I thought was, ‘I got screwed,’” she said.
That’s what gummint does best. This is what is known as a zipless fuck. You didn’t even have to remove your clothing. Ronald Reagan said that the ten most feared words in the English language were: I’m from the gummint and I’m here to help you. And if you think it’s bad now, wait until the most feared gummint agency gets involved. Don’t pay your premiums? Here comes the IRS and the IRS doesn’t have to follow due process. With the IRS rather than being innocent until proven guilty, you’re guilty until proven innocent. This really needs to change, but it won’t.
The Bruners enrolled for insurance on the Washington Healthplanfinder website, last October. They say they selected the bill pay date to be December 24th. Instead the Washington Healthplanfinder drafted the 835 dollar premium Monday.
Josh Bruner started his own business this year as an engineering recruiter. They said it’s forced them to pay a lot of attention to their bills and their bank accounts.
“Big knot in my gut because we’re trying to keep it together,” said Shannon Bruner. “It’s important to me that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen.”
They’re not alone.
I’m sure. This law is gonna be the biggest gummint created disaster since the Great Depression. By trying to fix a nonexistent problem, gummint created a real problem that is affecting the middle class big time. And it’s only gonna get worse as time goes on. Wait until the business mandate kicks in, which Obeauzeau has illegally put off until after the 2014 election. How convenient.
One viewer emailed KING 5 saying, “They drafted my account this morning for a second time.”
Another woman on Facebook with a similar problem commented, “We are all in the same boat.”
“We’ve got to figure out how to get money to pay the bills for the next week or two until we have another check come through,” said Josh Bruner. “It’s just crazy.”
I wonder if this guy voted for Oblunder. I will be willing to be he did. As I’ve been saying for years, elections have consequences. A majority of voters in Washington State voted for Oboner and Dimocrats and they are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Another dash of Schandenfreude today.
Washington Healthplanfinder emailed the Bruners a few days ago telling them to log in to view their invoice, something they couldn’t do because the website has been down.
The website has been down? I thought Washingon was one of the “success stories” theat the LSM crowed about. The LSM wouldn’t lie to us would they?
The Bruners haven’t been able to get through on the helpline either. They finally contacted Healthplanfinder administrators by posting a message on their Facebook page.
Thank goodness for Facebook! By the way, how long did it take for Facebook to set up its site? Maybe the gummint should have gone to Facebook to create healthcare.gov.
I’ve got an interesting story about setting up healthcare.gov that one of my readers sent me that I’ll share in a later post. He told me everything that I expected about coding healthcare.gov.
Washington Healthplanfinder tells KING 5 their staff is looking into the problem.
Typical gummint answer.
Until it’s resolved, the couple is putting their best face forward.
“We haven’t bought anyone’s Christmas gifts yet,” said Shannon Bruner. “We’re just kind of waiting.”
Boo freakin’ who!
“We wrote a check to our nanny last week, it isn’t going to work,” said Josh Bruner. “So she can’t get paid.”
Wait a minute! They’ve got a nanny? Regular daycare is not good enough for them? There’s a place to cut expenses right there. They sound like typical liberal Obutthead voters. I’m sorry that I can’t find any sympathy in my heart for these folks. As I have said many times “Elections have consequences”.
I actually do agree with one thing that is being said and that is that 7% may be the new norm for unemployment dust to structural (or funtional unemployment. This is defined as unemployment from inefficiency: unemployment that exists because of inefficiencies in matching people to jobs and not because of a lack of available jobs. When I was in college in the 1960’s 3% unemployment was a given in most any economic model drawn. In the 1980’s I heard that number had risen to 5% in most business colleges. Inefficiencies in matching people to jobs and not because of a lack of available jobs paired with the lack of mobility of much of the labor force will move that number to 7%. That 7% has almost no hope of ever getting a job and they really should not be counted into the stats. If we work from that number then the 12-14% unemployment really become only a 5% – 7% rate.
I’m not buying this explanation. I’ll have to research it, but it sounds like BS.
I’m not defending any position. I’m simply stating that the number or percentage of the functionally unemployable appears to have a direct relationship to advancing technology and the disappearance of even the most menial of manual labor jobs. Further exacerbating this number are the growing number of insufficiently educated and the language barrier…the functionally unemployable.
Yet just 6 short (or long depending upon one’s point of view – relativity?) years ago unemployment was under 5%. Of course, raising the minimum wage does price the people who could perform those “menial of manual labor jobs” out of the market place. Also, insurance and other gummint mandates does raise the cost of labor and makes it more financially feasible to pay current employees overtime rather than hiring new employees. I think if we had a more robust recovery (this is the weakest recovery from a recession since the end of WWII), we would see unemployment go under 6%. It is not the “new normal” it is a weak recovery caused by liberal gummint policy that has caused unemployment to remain above 7%.
Unfortunately you are probably right Denny. Western Washington, and more specifically the Seattle area are overwhelmingly liberal. Makes living here a pain in the ass. If we could get rid of the liberals, this would be the best place on the planet to live. There have even been movements to divide King county into 2 counties and separate the eastside from the liberals in Seattle. That being said, these people are more than likely Obutthead voters. Damn, can’t pay the nanny, what on earth will they do? They may have to raise their own child! OMG!
I looked up Indianola as I had never heard of it before. A small, 87% white enclave of some 1300 family units. With a whopping 3.7 % poverty rate it may be one of the better off communities in the state. I’m pretty sure that the Bruners are Obama voters. Only four counties in Washington went for Obama in the last election. Kitsap county was one of them. Eastern Washington is so conservative that this year we got to choose between two Republicans in several races. No democrat could make it past the primary. The Bruners are getting what they voted for.
Of course statistics are always spun by everyone trying to win an argument (as the man said, “lies, damned lies, and statistics”), but what is true?
Obama’s defenders point to the 7% unemployment as progress. Sure, it’s bad, but the trend is favorable. Indeed, I’d be more interested in the trend than the immediate number.
But is the 7% real? When I Google on the issue of “civilian employment”, I find articles and charts like this. The point is that there are actually millions of fewer employees — that is to say, millions of fewer jobs — than there were in 2008. Is this correct? Which means that the “good” employment numbers are caused more by people vanished from the statistical labor pool (retirement? disability? gave up?) than by actual jobs.
Can the American people, individually or collectively, live within their means? Can we produce enough to justify our consumption? Seems to me that this is the essential question. If we can’t live within our means — and it seems that we can’t — then we’re building the debt-ridden house of cards that will inevitably collapse. At some point the happy talk and funny money comes to an end.
TalkinHorse, Good points. To me its only a matter of when, not if the economy implodes and crashes. My only hope then is that Obama is still president when the house of cards comes down and not a Republican.