“Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, Public Law. 100-360 (July 1, 1988). The 1988 Catastrophic Act focused on providing protection against catastrophic medical expenses under Medicare. Specifically, the Act expanded the Medicare program to provide protection against catastrophic medical expenses and for the first time, provided coverage under the Medicare program for prescription drugs. To pay for these benefit expansions, a new supplemental premium tax on all persons eligible for Medicare was enacted. After massive protests by seniors, the law was essentially repealed the next year.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rostenkowski

Everyone wants to prevent a complete economic meltdown before 2014.

Seems very reasonable, but the informed person knows there are consequences due to hiding the debt problem with printed money. Obamacare has already lowered family income. The question is when will the boom drop?

Obama will facilatate the crisis when he believes he can blame Republicans for it. He’s spent all his time as President blaming Republicans and building that narrative.

And RINOs are terrified. They believe in his power and they reinforce his power by acting guilty. What I would like to ask them is, “When do they think they are going to turn the tide?” If they can’t do it with the facts of the Obama administration, then when?

But here’s a question. When is it right for a politician to facilitate destruction upon America for political power? Or as a preemptive measure?

And how do you measure destruction? Destruction of government is what? Good or bad? When is that question asked? In a time of crisis when people look to the government?

I can’t answer those questions in a general way. But there are some principles that do guide me. The first is that theft of property (socialism) is wrong and leads to tyranny and misery. And Obamacare and the debt is theft now and in the future.

Theft demands an immediate response. You oppose the violation of unalterable truths always. If you haven’t in the past, then now is the time to begin. Because it doesn’t really matter if you pick the best time. The best time is always now and my argument for that is religious more than rational. Sin begets sin whether on a personal or national level.

For those who place rationalism on top, they must wade through the quagmire of strategy. In my view, only to arrive, in the end, with the same conclusion.

Besides the issue of whether I think they do or don’t, what do you think it means if they do have them?

Do you expect 250million Americans to be put in there, or do you think only 5-50m Americans will be?

However, his artillery is hitting LIV Democrat voters, who’d not been following politics at all.

Major patrons of K Street are being cut off from the spigot, if temporarily.

The Speaker is trying to keep the Continuing Resolution in the public eye.

Having 0bamacare stumbling out of the gate is of perfect timing to have Barry give one-year exemptions for another 48 states.

Barry is ultimately going to cave because his baby is not yet ready to be born.

It’s a massively regressive tax increase — destined to tank the economy just in time for 2014.

The effects would be global, Smoot-Hawley on steroids.

And in larger news: the Middle East is now fulsomely involved in ummah-wide civil war.

Getting our boys out of the atomic cross-fire between the Sunni and Shia is not a bad idea.

Obama’s Empircal Rationalist Patriots Settle on New Talking Point: People Who Disagree With Our Profligate Spending are “Economic Traitors”

People who are opposed to deficit spending and Obamacare are “economic traitors”.

Art will know what that means.

Most of the pain we’re experiencing is self-inflicted. We’ve gotten so used to everything being “certified” by the government that it seems dangerous without it.

Bullshit.

There’s nothing at all stopping this guy from opening a microbrewery…other than the threat of retaliation when the government reopens.

Ayn Rand called it “The Sanction of the Victim”.

We allow the government to have entirely illegitimate power over us. Why the hell does anybody need government “permission” to start a business? The truth is, we don’t, if we assert ourselves.

Most of the pain we’re experiencing is self-inflicted. We’ve gotten so used to everything being “certified” by the government that it seems dangerous without it.
Bullshit.
There’s nothing at all stopping this guy from opening a microbrewery…other than the threat of retaliation when the government reopens.