http://dcclothesline.com/2013/10/08...e-one-who-was-going-to-pay-for-it-personally/ Democrat Voters Confused: âI Didnât Realize I Would Be The One Who Was Going to Pay For It Personallyâ Posted by Mac Slavo Back in 2008, when then-candidate Obama promised Joe the Plumber and the rest of America that he intended to spread the wealth around, most democrat and liberal voters embraced the notion of wealth redistribution under the guise of equality. A universal health care plan, that would be free for all Americans, was the promise from the candidate of hope and change. Tens of millions of Americans jumped on the bandwagon waving their flags, fainting at his appearances, and fawning over his every word. None ever thought about where the money would come from for all this new found wealth he promised to bestow upon them. But those who understand that socialism, communism and governance by the collective are failed experiments, warned where that money would come from. It would be taken by force from the toils of the middle class, and itâd impoverish them in the process. Now the myrmidons who once vehemently supported the policies of President Barack Obama without question are coming to the realization that when Obama spoke about spreading the wealth he actually meant their wealth too! Cindy Vinson is one such supporter. This month, like many Americans who have health insurance through their employer or private insurers, Vinson got an unwanted awakening to the reality of government sponsored wealth confiscation and redistribution: Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama. Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law. Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four. ⦠âI was laughing at Boehner â until the mail came today,â Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare. âI really donât like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my familyâs pocket each year, thatâs otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.â Both Vinson and Waschura have adjusted gross incomes greater than four times the federal poverty level â the cutoff for a tax credit. And while both said they anticipated their rates would go up, they didnât realize they would rise so much. âOf course, I want people to have health care,â Vinson said. âI just didnât realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.â Prior the passage of Obamacare Congressional switchboards lit up with 99 out of 100 Americans urging their representatives to throw the legislation out. They didnât listen. They passed the bill without even reading it. In fact, they didnât even make it public until a few hours before the vote and by then it was too late. For people like Mr. Washcura and Ms. Vinson it must have been pretty funny to see Republicans, Libertarians, and anti-establishment extremists getting frustrated and angered. They must have looked on with glee and a sense of victory. Youâre not laughing anymore are you, Ms. Vinson? Now that Ms. Vinson and Mr. Washcura know they are the ones footing the bill to provide free health care to the âless fortunateâ out of their life savings and retirement accounts, theyâre very quickly coming to the realization that theyâve been bamboozled by the very person who promised them hope, change, free housing, free gas, free phones, free medicine and a host of other government-issued services. Socialism is an awesome idea, isnât it? Until itâs you who has to foot the bill. Ms. Vinson wanted hard working Americans to feel the pain, to give up their lifeâs work for equal wealth distribution, and she voted to force these mandates on unwilling Americans at the barrel of a gun. Whoâs in front of the barrel now, Ms. Vinson? You, and the rest of the 50 million people who elected Barack Obama to not one, but two terms, deserve the pain thatâs coming. You asked for it. Now bask in it. Mac Slavo is the Editor of SHTFplan.com
Agree wholeheartedly. Reap what you sow. Same with the unions, but they'll apparently be given an extension.
I just really do not understand how otherwise intelligent people believe that the government can provide something for nothing. You ask the simple question, where is the money going to come from, and they can't/won't give a straight answer. It's like that question just trips some connection in their brain. Then when the bill comes due, they stand there slack jawed looking for someone else to blame. There is no free lunch, and when the government is involved, not only is the lunch not free, the meal is really going to suck on top of it. Juesus, how many times do you have to get screwed to get it through your head? Affordable Care Act...if you were trying to rub salt in a wound you couldn't come up with a better name.
It's too late for America. Communism has been ushered in, and the Constitution is on it's way out. Thanks lunatic liberals, parasites, and demonazis for destroying the last free Country on Earth.
Captain, the problem with most people is that the left has convinced the poor and middle class that they will take from the rich and give to them which most on the left love. What they have not been able to comprehend is that you cannot take wealth from the rich very effectively. The money has to come from the middle class. I honestly think they just don't understand the economics of it. I still have friends that think if someone makes 50 million a year that they pay somewhere around 25 million in taxes. Which is a farce of course. That person "might" pay 500k in taxes, maybe a million tops. And there are only a few of them. The money HAS to come from the middle class. The reason behind this has to do with the distribution of income that comes from salary vs investment. Sure, many on the left just are not bright enough to get that, but to be fair, Obama has done an outstanding job of convincing them that those "rich folks" are going to foot the bill. Biggest con ever.
Would be some justice in all of this... except for the fact that the greedy, stupid, and blind who support Odumbo have voted to take the rest of us down with them. ("myrmidon"... didn't know that word... I like it!)
I don't they are in fact 'intelligent' people. I think many people are of the mentality of 'what's in it for me'? Or in this case ... the two who had company policies felt that they were immune to any change in premiums since they've had company based insurance perhaps most of their working lives. For those like me, who have paid their own for years and years, the math of Obamacare never made any sense. Who is providing all the subsidy money for premiums? Then there is the part of who will provide all the $$$ for those who get their deductible reduced because of what their income is. It's real $$$$ and hospitals, doctors, etc. won't write this off. But what's as bad as can be is that now Obama will throw as much $$$$ at fixing this POS program as is necessary. And as someone who built some systems and wrote a little code years ago I'd bet there's no way to patch what's out there and have it stable, functional and operate successful. That's why they are now telling people to call on the phone. What for? To talk to some newly hired flunkie who likely knows no more than the caller. The administrations is saying to the developers, implementers, support staff .... you have an open ended budget, spent whatever you need to.