Just this week, Democratic pundits were all predicting that Hillary Clinton would be the next President of the United States.  She was a female, she was liberal.  Her last name was Clinton.  What could possibly go wrong?  That was yesterday.  Today, top Democrats, still covered with fop sweat after listening to the Netanyahu speech are desperately seeking Susan.  Ok, not Susan exactly, but they are desperately seeking a candidate to be President.  I expected Hillary Clinton to self-destruct, but I never expected it to happen this fast. But then I never imagined even Hillary being so incredibly stupid.

Once Hillary realized she was going to be Secretary of State she took action to prepare.  She bought a domain name called “clintonemail.com” and set up a private e-mail box.  It was registered the day of her Senate hearing.   It has been confirmed that Hillary Clinton did even not have a government email address during her entire four year term as Secretary of State.

This is absolutely unbelievable.  It is clear to anyone, even some liberal Democrats, that this was intended to allow Hillary to email without any possibility of scrutiny.  That fact that she did this before even taking office is mind numbing.  But there is more than the usual Clinton cover-up going on here.  This literally is a threat to national security.

According to the following article the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya was dismissed from his post…wait for it …for using a private e-mail account:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/clinton-state-department-ousted-ambassador-using-private-email_876183.html

He ordered a commercial Internet connection installed in his embassy office bathroom so he could work there on a laptop not connected to the Department email system. He drafted and distributed a mission policy authorizing himself and other mission personnel to use commercial email for daily communication of official government business. During the inspection, the Ambassador continued to use commercial email for official government business. The Department email system provides automatic security, record-keeping, and backup functions as required. The Ambassador’s requirements for use of commercial email in the office and his flouting of direct instructions to adhere to Department policy have placed the information management staff in a conundrum: balancing the desire to be responsive to their mission leader and the need to adhere to Department regulations and government information security standards.

Guess who the Secretary of State was in 2012?  I doubt seriously that anyone could fire a U.S. Ambassador without approval from Hillary.  Talk about the ultimate in hypocrisy.

It gets worse, much worse.  General Petraeus just plead guilty to a felony for failure to secure classified documents.  If Hillary sent a single classified document via this e-mail she probably violated the same law.  Since she did not even have a government e-mail, ALL of her Secretary of State e-mails when through her private e-mail server. Wow!  This explains why the White House is not even pretending to defend Hillary.  They are terrified that the next question will be:  “What did the President know and when did he know it.”  That also may be difficult to do, because a lot of people at the White House, including President Obama undoubtedly sent and received e-mails from Hillary’s personal e-mail account.  It is hard to pretend that no one at the White House, including President Obama, realized that Hillary had her own private e-mail account.  This is unbelievably stupid.

Many are assuming that Hillary will skate through this scandal too because the DOJ will never investigate.  But I would remind you that Richard Nixon had pretty good control of the DOJ during the Watergate fiasco.  How’d that work out?  When you get a Select Committee investigating something this explosive anything can happen.  If Nixon were still alive he would tell you all about that.

At best Hillary is absolute toast as a potential candidate for President. She just became the dream nominee, for any Republican challenger.  Now, look around for all those Democrats ready, willing and able to take her place. See anyone?  Anyone at all?   Keep looking.  When you find one, let me know.  How about Jerry Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Harry Reid or Andrew Cuomo?  Oh my.  Go ahead and giggle.  You deserve it.

This is what happens when a party is taken over by the extreme left wing.  No one with an ounce of common sense could possibly have survived a Democratic primary over the past decade or so.

Who knows where we go from here.  Just when you think liberals have reached the absolute lowest level of incompetence and abject stupidity, they somehow manage to find a whole new level.

TDM

The following article in Al Arabiya news is stunning:  This is hardly a right wing conservative rag:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/03/03/President-Obama-listen-to-Netanyahu-on-Iran.html

Note that the author is not exactly a friend of either Netanyahu or Israel:

It is extremely rare for any reasonable person to ever agree with anything Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says or does…

The Israeli PM managed to hit the nail right on the head when he said that Middle Eastern countries are collapsing and that “terror organizations, mostly backed by Iran, are filling in the vacuum” ….

In just a few words, Mr. Netanyahu managed to accurately summarize a clear and present danger, not just to Israel (which obviously is his concern), but to other U.S. allies in the region….

despite this being perhaps the only thing that brings together Arabs and Israelis (as it threatens them all), the only stakeholder that seems not to realize the danger of the situation is President Obama, who is now infamous for being the latest pen-pal of the Supreme Leader of the World’s biggest terrorist regime: Ayottallah Ali Khamenei. (Although, the latter never seems to write back!)

The good news is that this destroys the vision of Obama the evil genius determined to rule the world.  That person does not exist.  The bad news is that the evil genius is replaced by someone who is stunningly arrogant and incompetent.  Obama is so focused on doing it his way that he has failed to realize he is on the wrong side of the road heading toward a cliff.  If he was the only one on the ship of state this would even be fun to watch but the opposite is true.  This blunder has the capability to set off the unthinkable, a nuclear war.

It is downright frightening to realize that the man the American people voted for a President of the United States is so obviously incompetent.  Incredibly has still has sole authority to handle this crisis.  I don’t think any other nation on earth would tolerate this.  In Great Britain there would be a vote of no confidence and a new election.  In most democracies a leader this pathetic would be hounded by the press and would eventually leave office.  Sadly, in this case, the press refuses to do anything but provide cover for Obama. In other countries, there would be a military coup.  None of that can happen here.  The only two options are for something to happen to Obama or for congress to impeach him.  Neither is likely to happen anytime soon.

It was great that Boehner had the stones to ask Netanyahu speak to a joint session of congress.  Now the question is whether or not people were really paying attention.  If Netanyahu is right this country is in grave danger.  If he is wrong, then prove him wrong. There is no middle ground here.  There is far too much at stake for that.

If you think what Netanyahu said was scary, keep this in mind:

the only stakeholder that seems not to realize the danger of the situation is President Obama,

The only thing worst that this is what will happen next is something doesn’t change.

TDM

When I was very young I remember listening to “The Shadow” on the radio.  Actually about the only thing I really remember is the way the show started: “Who knows what evil lurks in the mind of man.  The Shadow knows.”  For some reason that phrase still resonates with me.  Who could have imagined that 60 years after the last “The Shadow” broadcast this rings true once more.  In a story almost too good to be true, “The Shadow” made its way into the White House.  It turns out that the official portrait of Bill Clinton has a blue shadow, painted there in honor of Monica Lewinsky.  The following article in the Huffington Post explains the shadow and incredibly why it is there:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/02/bill-clinton-portrait-monica-lewinsky_n_6784460.html?1425315421&icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl10%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D621268

“It actually literally represents a shadow from a blue dress that I had on a mannequin, that I had there while I was painting it, but not when he was there,” Shanks said. “It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him.”

This is beyond hysterical.  This is the real legacy Bill Clinton earned.  It is exactly the way he should be portrayed.  It is why the Clintonians are now desperately trying to have the portrait removed.  In addition, the timing, just before the Hillary Clinton coming out party is deliciously appropriate.

Who knows what a scum bag we elected to the Oval Office.  The shadow knows and now everybody knows why the shadow is there.   It just doesn’t get any better than this.

TDM

It is hard to watch this congress debate the obvious and conclude the ridiculous.  Both Republicans and Democrats support funding the DHS.  So, vote on that.  I am sick and tired of both parties holding up good legislation so they can try and slip in something the other party does not want. I hated it when Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi did that.  I hate it when John Boehner and Mitch McConnell play the same silly game.  Now Republicans are going to end up doing the obvious anyway, only now they get zero credit and a ton of deserved criticism.

This does not mean that Democrats are being the adults in the room.  The opposite is true.  In this case Democrats are fighting to prevent cutting funds intended to process illegal executive orders by President Obama. If this seems stupid, keep in mind that this is the same class of clowns who shut down the government to avoid extending the ObamaCare individual mandate. This of course is the same individual mandate Democrats are now trying desperately to extend.

Republicans need to just do the right thing and stop with the games.  Passing a clean DHS funding bill is the right thing to do, so do it.  Stopping Obama illegal executive orders on immigration is the right thing to do, so do it.  Say what you mean and mean what you say.  Is that too hard to understand?

It is not only stupid to negotiate with liberal Democrats, it is unethical and irresponsible.  The only compromise liberal Democrats ever consider is the one that benefits them politically without regard to the consequences.  Republicans have no duty to negotiate with Democrats until Democrats start acting responsibly themselves.

Sadly the silly season is probably going to continue until the November 2016 election.  The good news is that this will be here sooner than you think.

TDM

In honor of the cold weather back east, I decided to do some research.  I lived in Bergland, Michigan for several years starting in the 4^th grade and ending when my parents moved following my freshman year in high school.  I remembered the winters as being really cold.  Sometimes our memory plays tricks on us, but I was right about this. It turns out that Bergland is the coldest place in Michigan, at least based on the average January night time temperature of -1 degrees.

http://www.nmu.edu/upperpeninsulastudies/node/17

Ironwood and Watersmeet, which are quite near Bergland, are in the books too.  On January 17, 1982 Ironwood never got above -21 degrees.  I am sure there are colder places, but I didn’t live there.  We certainly noticed the cold weather, but it didn’t exactly keep us indoors in the winter.  People in that part of the country know how to dress and they handle the extreme cold just fine. I actually thought it was kinda neat when the temperature got below -20 degrees.  I mean let’s be honest here.  When the temperature gets down to zero that is plenty cold.  At least when it gets way down to -20 degrees or something you can brag about how bad it is.  Somehow that always made me feel a little warmer.

Now, don’t you feel better?  There is a word for the weather they are having in New York City right now.  We called it spring.

TDM

The Obama administration is in a desperate race against time to stop the bleeding from a huge self-inflicted wound.  Last year 80% of people who signed up for ObamaCare paid almost no premium.  That is because if you said you qualified for a subsidy, you got the subsidy.  No questions asked.  So a lot of people signed up, paid a small amount of premium and life was great.  Now, when they file their 2014 tax returns they are getting an unpleasant surprise.  Suddenly they learn that they didn’t qualify for the subsidy after all.  Instead of getting a tax refund this year, they have to pay Uncle Sam back for that subsidy.  Oops.

The following article explains what is happening:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/02/20/glitch-i-have-to-pay-back-my-obamacare-subsidy-n1959747?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

What makes this wound hurt even more is that Democrats fought Republican efforts to delay the individual mandate to the bitter end.  That’s right folks, Republicans gave them an easy out and they were too stupid to realize it.  Democrats own this fiasco.  They have owned it from the start when they passed it with no Republican votes.  They doubled down on stupidity when they shut down the government rather than consider any changes.  One of those changes was to delay the individual mandate.

Democrats are now seeking 13th-hour relief for people caught off guard by the results of that tax “slog.”  Liberals who voted against Republican efforts to delay the individual mandate tax are now very concerned about their constituents’ interactions with the individual mandate tax.  The Washington Post explores this amusing, predictable political panic in a piece entitled, “Democrats Are Bracing for Another Obamacare backlash:”

This reminds me of a scene from Animal House when the gang had trashed Flounder’s car:

“Flounder, you can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes!  You f#**ed up,.  You trusted us!

Democrats thought that delaying the individual mandate would destroy ObamaCare.  Instead, being too stupid to delay the individual mandate has the potential to destroy the Democratic Party.

Democrats are in near panic, almost begging Republicans to delay the individual mandate.  Sometimes, stupidity is its own reward.  Watch and enjoy.  It is extremely rare to see so many supposedly brilliant and decidedly arrogant people desperately trying to wipe the egg off their collective faces.

“Congratulations America.  You messed up, you trusted Democrats.  Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were willing to shut down the government in 2013, to make sure you enjoyed this nice little surprise. You sure showed Ted Cruz didn’t you?’  How about a big round of applause.  Nice work!”

TDM

The attached video, courtesy of Airman Brian Kolfage is a stark reminder of how much the main stream media distorts reality.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=622410927821028&fref=nf

The conventional wisdom is that George W. Bush lied to congress about the WMD in Iraq. The conventional wisdom is that there was no relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.  The conventional wisdom is that George W. Bush made a huge mistake by invading Iraq.  The conventional wisdom is based on repeated lies and distortions by the main stream media.  The truth is there for anyone willing to see.  This is well documented, but I suspect most people know none of this.

Bill Clinton is the one who claimed that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of WMD.  Watch the video of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.  Then explain to me how Bush managed to trick them into doing this?  Nonsense.

The truth is that every major official in the Clinton Administration and every top Democrat in congress believed that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of WMD. So did the Bush administration and top Republicans in congress.  That is because the U.S. intelligence community strongly believed that to be true.  There were only a handful of people who expressed doubt, but none of them had any credible evidence to support their opinion.

It gets worse.  The Clinton administration had reason to believe that Iraq was providing nerve gas to al Qaeda.  The following incident has been ignored or downplayed by the main stream media.  Yet, this seems really significant.  Most people are shocked to learn that there was at least some evidence that Saddam Hussein was helping al Qaeda get nerve gas. Here is what the main stream media, and unfortunately the Bush administration, never told you.

Bill Clinton attacked a factory owned by Osama bin Laden in the Sudan because the CIA found verex the precursor to Sarin gas on the site.  The intelligence said that this came from Iraq.  Later a site inspection failed to verify the presence of verex.  That is why Republicans joked about Clinton bombing an aspirin factory.  If only that were true.  However, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.   This incident is well documented.  The following excerpt is from page 116 of the 9-11 Commission Report:

Ever since March 1995, American officials had had in the backs of their minds Aum Shinrikyo’s release of sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway.  President Clinton himself had expressed great concern about chemical and biological terrorism in the United states.  Bin Ladin had reportedly been heard to speak of wanting a “Hiroshima” and at least 10,000 casualties.  The CIA reported that a soil sample from the vicinity of the al Shifa plant had tested positive for EMPTA, a precursor chemica for VX, a nerve gas whose lone use was for mass killing.  Two days before the embassy bombings, Clarke’s staff wrote that Bin Ladin has invested in and almost certainly has access to VX produced at a plane in the Sudan.

Much public commentary turned immediately to scalding criticism that the action was too aggressive.  The Sudanese denied that al Shifa produced nerve gas, and they allowed journalists to visit what was left of a seemingly harmless factory.  President Clinton, Vice President Gor, Berger, Tenet and Clarke insisted to us that there judgment was right, point to the soil sample evidence.  No independent evience has emerged to corroborate the CIA’s assessment.

A contemporary CNN report from 1998 confirms not only the suspicion that this was a chemical plant, but that there was a direct connection between Osama bin Laden and Iraq:

The U.S. knew bin Laden had been pursuing the development of chemical weapons “within his organization and in cooperation with Sudan’s National Islamic Front,” the official said. Bin Laden had worked with the Sudanese in the 1990s to test “various poisonous substances and to improve techniques for using and producing them,” the official said.

Bin Laden “has provided significant funding for Sudan to build its military-industrial complex,” the official said. The National Islamic Front’s leader Hassan al-Turabi has said bin Laden’s organization would “furnish weapons and munitions for use against enemies of Islam.”

Read the following and ask yourself if there is any evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden:

The U.S. also believes Iraq has been a “foreign benefactor” of Sudan’s chemical weapons efforts.

“Iraq admitted to UNSCOM that it planned to produce VX for its CW program using the EMPTA process,” the official said. “And prior to the Sudanese soil sample, Iraq was the only country we knew of to have pursued this production process.”

Additionally, Shifa officials were in contact with Iraq about its VX program, the official said. Shifa had signed an agreement to provide veterinary drugs to Iraq as part of the oil-for-food program, but according to the United Nations, the contracted material was never delivered.

The main stream media continues to report that there was no relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.  They shout down anyone who dares question that conventional wisdom.  They ridicule Bush and Cheney for even hinting at a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. The facts, obviously, tell a very different story. It was Bill Clinton who determined that such a relationship existed long before Bush became President.  It was Bill Clinton who indicted Osama bin Laden for conspiring with Iraq to conduct terrorist attacks.  The following excerpt is from that indictment:

https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/indict1.pdf

In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular

projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda

would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq

We’ve been lied to by the main stream media over and over and over again. I will never understand why the Bush administration didn’t fight back.  I also don’t understand why Republicans did not rally around their President.  I am astonished that so many people in the main stream media ignored the obvious and reported the ridiculous.

Did they really think that Bush lied to trick us into an unnecessary war?  If I thought Bush did that I would lead the impeachment parade myself.  There was never any evidence of this.  Yet liberals wanted to believe that Bush was capable of this, so they pretended that this was true.  If there was a shred of evidence supporting this theory Democrats would have rushed to impeach Bush.  They were bitterly angry at the Clinton Impeachment and they wanted revenge.   Sadly these outrageous lies have been repeated so many times that far too many people believe them to be true.  However, repeating a lie does not make it the truth. It is terrible that the media covered up the serial lying by Brian Williams, but it is far worse that the media has been lying about the Iraq war since day one.

Ask yourself a simple question.  Imagine you are President Bush.  Imagine watching the horror of 9-11.  Wouldn’t it be logical to worry about al Qaeda getting possession of a WMD?  You know that Osama bin Laden wants another “Hiroshima” with at least 10,000 deaths.  You have read the report about the al Shifa factory.  You have seen the intelligence suggesting that Saddam Hussein is ready, willing and able to provide nerve gas to terrorists.  What would you do?  Would you just ignore this and hope the CIA was wrong?

This is not speculation.  This is well documented.  No one disputes any of the above. They just ignore it and keep repeating the same lies.  Are they too stupid to recognize the truth or are they just too biased.  Ultimately, does it matter?  The important thing to understand is that the main stream media has lied about this over and over again.

I strongly believe that if most people knew about al Shifa and they knew that there was evidence that Saddam Hussein was providing Sarin nerve gas to al Qaeda their perspective on the Iraq war would change significantly. Isn’t it about time someone reported the cold hard truth?  Is that too much to ask?

TDM

In November 2003 George W. Bush laid out his plan for Iraq.  I wonder how many people have ever read the text of this speech to the United States Chamber of Commerce.  In retrospect, it is stunningly prophetic.  It is impossible to read this and reconcile the insane accusations by the liberal left that Bush lied to lead us into an unnecessary war.  Their eyes and ears were too clogged up with vile hatred to consider the possibility that Bush was right:

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031106-2.html

In Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council are also working together to build a democracy — and after three decades of tyranny, this work is not easy. The former dictator ruled by terror and treachery, and left deeply ingrained habits of fear and distrust. Remnants of his regime, joined by foreign terrorists, continue their battle against order and against civilization. Our coalition is responding to recent attacks with precision raids, guided by intelligence provided by the Iraqis, themselves. And we’re working closely with Iraqi citizens as they prepare a constitution, as they move toward free elections and take increasing responsibility for their own affairs. As in the defense of Greece in 1947, and later in the Berlin Airlift, the strength and will of free peoples are now being tested before a watching world. And we will meet this test.

Bush warned us that we had been ignoring the core problem for decades.  He warned us that if we continued to make the same mistakes we would be doomed to the same results.  Bush proposed a dramatically different approach:

This is a massive and difficult undertaking — it is worth our effort, it is worth our sacrifice, because we know the stakes. The failure of Iraqi democracy would embolden terrorists around the world, increase dangers to the American people, and extinguish the hopes of millions in the region.

His leadership was rewarded by scorn in the main stream media and outright opposition by the Democratic Party. By 2005, many in congress had developed amnesia and pretended they have been tricked into invading Iraq.  The war was taking too long and Democrats wanted to quit, without regard to the consequences. Watch your TV tonight. The consequences are all too obvious.   Bush reminded them of what was at stake:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/bush.speech/

Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill, and would be dishonorable to abandon. Yet because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this nation, tens of millions have achieved their freedom.” through U.S. efforts, “we have lit a fire … it warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.”

“the unfinished work of American freedom,” showing the world what liberty really means, and changing to meet “the needs of our time.”

David Gergen got it:

[It’s] historically significant because I think he’s revealed to us today his strategy to win the war on terrorism is far more ambitious than we ever imagined,” Gergen said. “It’s not simply going after Iraq and getting rid of Saddam [Hussein], nor is it simply going after al Qaeda. It is rather to expand and extend liberty across much of the world.

“No other American president has ever committed himself in an inaugural as fully as this to that kind of aggressive, foreign policy.”

I often hear people in the liberal left express longing for real leadership. I just laugh.  We had such a leader but they never even noticed.  Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.  Read, once again, the words of George W. Bush in 2003.  Remind me of why this is all his fault.

The failure of Iraqi democracy would embolden terrorists around the world, increase dangers to the American people, and extinguish the hopes of millions in the region.

What a shame.

TDM

Perhaps, just perhaps, someone will finally investigate the tragic misreporting by Walter Cronkite with regard to the 1968 Tet offensive.  The following article is spot on.  I was in Vietnam in 1968 and as a Vietnamese Linguist assigned to the NSA, I know that this is accurate:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/colon021715.php3

What makes this so sad is that for years Walter Cronkite was considered to be the most trusted name in news.  It is easy to be trusted, if like Brian Williams, no one ever bothers to fact check what you are reporting.  I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have met people who bragged about protesting the Vietnam War.  I have sadly met many Vietnam Veterans who also thought we were caught in a quagmire we couldn’t win.  Walter Cronkite convinced a nation of something that was simply untrue.  That lie is perpetuated to this day.  What the anti-war protestors refuse to consider is the following two questions.

Would Vietnam be better or worse off today if we had stayed the course and forced North Vietnam to honor the peace treaty

Compare South Korea to South Vietnam

What happened in South Vietnam and Cambodia after we left?

Millions of people were confined to re-education camps for years.

An estimated 3 million people were slaughtered in Cambodia.

Explain to me why this was a good result!

No one ever asks these questions.  Instead they gloat over stopping the war with the naïve notion that this was followed by peace and love.  Granted the Vietnam War was terrible.  Granted a lot of civilians died.  But the most unethical thing to do in a war is to lose it to pure evil.  There is, as Douglas McArthur once said, “no substitute for victory.”  It is bad enough that we abandoned South Vietnam under any circumstances,  To surrender on the verge of victory, because of bald-faced lies is the ultimate disgrace.

Under the leadership of the Democratic congress, the United States abandoned South Vietnam with no regard to the consequences.  They threw the sacrifices of the more than 55,000 Americans who died there on the scrap heap of history.  This decision was based on blatant falsehoods and misrepresentations. None worse than the irresponsible reporting by Walter Cronkite.

It is time someone told the awful truth.  Walter lied and a whole lot of people died.  The most trusted man in news is someone we should never have trusted at all.

TDM

A lot of people are learning the bitter truth about ObamaCare the hard way. Almost everyone will learn more by April 15^th, 2015. The following article on AOL is designed to sell enrollment in ObamaCare.  Instead, it documents the awful reality for a lot of people:

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/12/financial-penalties-loom-for-those-without-health-insurance/21142254/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl37%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D612404

1.  Open enrollment is over February 15.  Millions of people are still without health insurance.
2. The reason they are uninsured is that they cannot afford it.
3. 80% of people who actually signed up for ObamaCare got financial help.
   1. This is because without the financial help, ObamaCare is too expensive.
4. You have to pay a fine if you don’t have insurance.  The fine is either $325 per person or 2% of income above $20,600, whichever is higher.  It goes up next year.
   1. You will also be responsible for 100% of medical care each year.

Many people will learn about this for the first time when they go to file their taxes.  It is a very unpleasant surprise.   If you choose to not enroll in ObamaCare, you are screwed:

http://obamacarefacts.com/missed-deadline-obamacare/

If you missed the deadline: you won’t be able to get marketplace insurance or an ACA-compliant private plan outside the marketplace until the next annual enrollment period, without qualifying for special enrollment.

In other words, you can’t get ObamaCare and nothing else is available either.

FACT: Those who have been ignoring the requirement to obtain and maintain coverage risk finding out about how it affects them for the first time during the 2015 tax season. Since taxes are due April 15th and Open Enrollment ends February 15th, it creates a gap in which some will want coverage, but won’t be able to get a plan that starts before January 1st, 2016.

If you wait until April 15^th, you are already out of options.

In case you wonder how this works let me give an example.  Take a typical family of four, two adults, two school age children.  The monthly premium is $450 per month, with a $9,000 deductible.  If they don’t buy this plan, they will have to pay a fine of at least $1,300 and they will be responsible for all medical expenses with no limitation.  This family has the choice of paying $5,400 for insurance that is unlikely to cover any medical expense or paying $1,300 for the privilege of having no insurance at all.  How does that sound to you?

To make this worse, the fine is used to pay for the cost of health insurance for those who are unable or unwilling to pay anything.  This is not going to play well in Peoria or anyplace else.

SUMMARY

Many people don’t know this because they haven’t done their taxes yet.  Since the open enrollment ends February 15^th, but taxes aren’t due to be filed until April 15^th, a lot of people will figure this out too late to do anything about it.  They won’t even have the option of enrolling in ObamaCare until January of 2016.  Nice!

This is what happens when the American people allow liberals like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to take over our health care system.  There is a price for stupidity.

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TDM