(Why Obama desperately wants to pass healthcare, and the help he gets from this guy.)
The number 1 visitor to the White House, according to public WH disclosures, is SEIU President Andy Stern.
Stern was recently appointed by President Obama to be a member of the 18 person commission to reduce the national debt.
How has the head of a radical labor union like SEUI been able be the number 1 lobbyist to Obama? He just didn’t register. BigGovernment.com reports that:
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and me [Brian Johnson], as Executive Director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) formally requested an investigation by the acting United States Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Esq., into the potentially illegal lobbying activities of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern.
But why should we be worried about Andy Stern? Why is he the most dangerous man in America?
Well, first, he has the ear of, and now obviously, power through Obama, so he can influence and push an agenda. He has advised Obama on his health care tactics (see his involvement in a YouTube video here.) Obama said repeatedly during his campaign that he calls SEIU and Andy Stern “first” on every issue.
But more importantly is what this man believes. In earlier decades, he might have been called a communist, certainly a socialist, but radicals these days prefer more benign labels, like “progressive”.
Let’s look at Andy Stern through his own words and actions:
“We’re trying to use the power of persuasion. And if that doesn’t work we’re going to use the persuasion of power.”
“We took names. We watched how they voted. We know where they live.“
Sound like a thug? Well, yes, SEUI members have beaten up people they don’t like. But does that make him a socialist?
“Workers of the world unite, it’s not just a slogan anymore. It’s the way we’re going to have to do our work.”
Hmm .. where did that slogan originally come from ? Gee, it is directly out of the Communist Manifesto (1848)!!! This man is in FAVOR of the dis-assembling of American capitalism in favor of a government run society (with himself and Obama in charge, of course!)
“I happened to be at Davos and I say they are going to rename this year’s Davos as the revenge of the countries over the companies. Because all of a sudden we realized we let Global Capitalism run amok and reap global regulation and today we began the process in London of actually putting in place those regulations.”
“We have a new metric. The president says he wants to judge the new economy, whether it increases the number of people in the middle class, whether we have shared prosperity, not just whether we have growth, which is that we’ve seen in the country of today. “
So Andy is preaching straight up Socialism to us, and he says the President is on board!!! No argument from the White House here … and with a selection as 1 of Obama’s 6 picks to the debt commission …. seems that the White House is OK with the Communist Manifesto.
So why is the health care plan of Obama’s so important? So important, he is asking Democratic House members to walk the plank, risk their political future for the bill? OK, let’s go back to Andy Stern:
“Now, how do we distribute wealth in the country? And this is sort of my last big point. And clearly government has a major opportunity to distribute wealth. Through tax policies, through minimum wages, through living wages, the government has a role in distributing wealth or social benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, certain health insurance.”
Andy Stern is an avowed Communist, with more access to Obama than anyone else, receives contemporary support from Obama himself, and is committed to redistribution of wealth, world government and the “revenge of countries over companies”.
Ladies and gentlemen: Andy Stern is the most dangerous man in America.
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56% disapprove of Obama. Today’s Rasmussen poll shows Obama has hit another low in voter support.
Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of men Strongly Disapprove along with 39% of women. Most African-American voters (58%) Strongly Approve while most white voters (53%) Strongly Disapprove.
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove as do 52% of unaffiliated voters. Forty-seven percent (47%) of Democrats Strongly Approve.
For the second straight day, the update shows the highest level of Strong Disapproval yet recorded for this President. That negative rating had never topped 42% before yesterday. However, it has risen dramatically since the Senate found 60 votes to move forward with the proposed health care reform legislation. Most voters (55%) oppose the health care legislation and senior citizens are even more likely than younger voters to dislike the plan.
Rasmussen goes on to note that 51% still blame Bush … so this cartoon is apt:
The rhetoric has been turned up to boiling, with Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calling Republicans who oppose health care Nazi’s. On the Senate floor, he describes those who oppose him and Obama as Nazi’s.
They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The ‘birthers,’ the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militias and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Obama should exist.
Investors Business Daily describes what just happened this week.
• This was a vote on a Democrat-concocted scheme that Americans have rejected every time it’s been proposed for 100 years and that is opposed again, by 54% to 41% by the public at large, by 2-to-1 by practicing physicians and by every last member on the Republican side of the aisle.
• The vote was taken without any members having read the main 2,074-page bill, let alone the 383 pages of amendments that were tacked on at the last minute to buy off senators, including Nebraska’s Ben Nelson, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu and Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders.
• Despite growing public opposition, Democratic members had the nerve to call those who questioned their monstrosity “obstructionists” and worse. Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse called health care bill foes “birthers,” “fanatics” and “people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups.” Is this what Democrats meant when they said they seek bipartisan solutions to the nation’s problems?
• The bill contains at last count 18 new taxes totaling an estimated $406 billion — including significant new levies on those earning less than $250,000, a major breach of Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes by “one penny” on those in that income group.
Is it a crime to oppose this? As far as I remember, we still have freedom of speech. For how much longer, I wonder. Unless we act, free speech will be curtailed, as Obama and his socialists do not relish being “unloved”.
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The world, and especially the USA, is lurching, sliding and falling into the social morass called socialism. This slide is pushed and lauded by The Left.
I immigrated to the USA over 20 years ago, with Ronald Reagan’s ideals drawing me here. This is not what I expected would happen, that our freedoms, as promised in the Constitution, would be so rapidly chipped away by creeping and now leaping socialism — the tyranny this time, not of a British King, but of government itself!
For you and other freedom loving people, what does it mean?
- Fewer choices can be made by you: What doctor you see, what medicines you take, what football championship you watch. See House Bill Aims To Sack College Football BCS System. Government is operating as if they are kings, with no limit on their power, no constitution.
- Government will be a higher social class: Instead of government service being something where you trade security and protection from competition for lower wages, government now pays more! See Six-Figure Federal Salary Gravy Train. “The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker’s pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.”
- You will have less money to do what you and your family want: As incomes drop, all prices associated with and affected by government go up. And taxes will and must go up to pay for reckless spending in Washington.
- Government will spend like drunks: See Business as Usual in Washington: Another Bloated, Pork-Filled Omnibus Spending Bill. Spending is up 8% (3rd year in a row), $561 billion more than baseline. The spending, according the The Heritage Foundation, is runaway. 2009 Earmarks now total 8,939, and will exceed 10,000 by the end of the year.
What did President Obama say about fiscal responsibility in his inauguration speech?
“And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account – to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day – because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”
If he believed that, he would veto the Omnibus bill.
What did he say about earmarks? During his transition into office in January 2009, he promised a
“new higher standard of accountability, transparency and oversight. We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert projects without review.”
But in March 2009, he signed a bill with 8,500 earmarks. He said:
“this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability that the American people have every right to expect and demand.”
And just days ago in December 2009, Obama himself put in a $700 mln earmark.
No, Obama is leader of the socialist revolution now going on in America. He is following Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, Rule 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive”. Say that reckless spending is Good, and it is true. Say that the private sector is the problem, that government is the solution, and it is true.
This is just one year of the socialist revolution. Fight it, as there is more to come unless people tell their elected officials: ENOUGH!
We need another Reagan!!
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The Pelosi power-grab … I can’t reasonably call it health care reform .. is being pushed by the Democratic house leaders and the White House today. They hope to get a bill, any bill, as along as it takes over the economy, through the House this weekend.
For those in the United States, you MUST call your Congress member today and tell them this is not reform; it is a blatant power grab by Washington; tell them to vote NO.
Do you want some reasons why? How about over 1900 pages of them? Fortunately, Open Congress has summarized the bill in digestible form.
A few of the highlights:
- It requires all Americans to purchase comprehensive health insurance plans that provide more health benefits than most current health care plans.
- It requires the federal government to provide health insurance (public option) and long-term care insurance (CLASS program).
- It mandates price controls for health insurance, medical services, medical equipment, and prescription drugs.
- It provides unlimited funds to 30 grants and programs.
- It creates 74 new types grants. Each type may be granted multiple times by the Secretary of Health and Human Services at her discretion.
- It prevents states from receiving grant money if they enact tort reform.
- It creates federal insurance exchanges that are supported by national call centers to guide consumer choice, handle enrollment, process claims, and handle complaints. All communications must be supported in every language and culture in each state.
- It limits FSAs, MSAs, and HSAs only to prescription drugs and insulin. It eliminates the option to make pre-tax purchases of non-prescription drugs, eyeglasses, dental care, etc.
- It creates several new federal agencies. One is the “Health Choices Administration” (see p. 131), which oversees Health Insurance Exchanges. Another is the “Indian Health Services”, which oversees healthcare services to American Indians.
- It creates several new offices, such as the “Office of the ombudsman”, “Office on Women’s Health”, and “Office of Indian Men’s Health”.
- It creates a massive expansion of the Department of Heath and Human Services, which already runs Medicaid and Medicare. It assigns more than 1000 new responsibilities to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This includes giving away hundreds of grants worth billions of dollars, and overseeing a budget increased by hundreds of billions of dollars to support literally thousands of new regulations, penalties, sanctions, moratoriums, audits, investigations, oversights, surveillance, approvals, lawsuits, negotiations, services, awards, scholarships, loans, contracts, rebates, reimbursements, compensations, exemptions, waivers, reforms, offices, committees, task forces, centers, programs, standards, requirements, measures, methods, priorities, goals, rules, policies, processes, protocols, guidelines, plans, studies, surveys, reports, publications, web sites, call centers, data centers, facilities, training, and jobs. Almost every page in the bill gives new powers to the secretary.
- It gives the Secretary of HHS discretionary power to set prices, deny coverage, and ration health care.
- It requires the government to track personal information such as the hiring of nurses and doctors along with their wages, benefits, turnover, and tenure; the tracking of drugs prescribed by doctors, the personal financial transactions of doctors, and the personal investments made by doctors.
- It creates a new “Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research”, which is given unlimited access to all information from all federal departments and agencies.
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Now this is serious.
CALL YOUR SENATOR! Tell him or her to tell the President NOT to sign the Copenhagen treaty. That “treaty” dictates that we pay the world our carbon “debt”.
This is the new world order, led by THE LEFT.
We don’t want it; we don’t need it!
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Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
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My Gosh! At least Howard Dean speaks without a vieled cloak. He says yesterday on Face the Nation that
“Private health care insurance is incredibly inefficient. Not because the private sector is by nature inefficient. But because they are investor owned and a huge proportion of the money they take in has to go to return on equity.”
So in a short sentence, Dean tells us what The Left really thinks. Profits are bad. They are not the reward for providing a good service, but is money removed from the system that could otherwise serve the “public good.”
Is this socialism, or what?
Bob Scheaffer lets Dean spout on without any challenge.
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I have been documenting the on-going use of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals by The Left and the President. Never before have we seen such an ideological White House, so well versed in radical practices. It views the pursuit of its agenda as a crusade, and sees the destruction of opposing views as a means to an end.
Ridicule, polarization and the use of power are employed by the White House to attack those who want to debate issues.
Viz:
- In Montana last week, Obama told us that insurance companies are holding us hostage.
“We are held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can’t afford”
- Next, Obama attacks the media, the same people who provided no critical and balanced analysis of his policies. “TV loves a ruckus. You’ve got to be careful about those cable networks.” I guess even friends can be enemies if they don’t play along.
- The numbers prove that Obama’s polarizing efforts are succeeding. Today’s Rasmussen Poll shows 32% of people Strongly Approve of Obama, 41% Strongly Disapprove. (In G W Bush’s final month in office, 43% Strongly Disapproved.)
- Every media outlet, every Democratic “action”: committee, every George Soros radical organization is demagoguing town hall protesters. David Andersen characterizes the attacks:
“The Democrats are losing ground according to the polls and evidenced by the disquiet at town halls from Oregon to New York to Texas to Delaware. They have decided not to address the issues the people have passionately brought up. They have decided to characterize people who differ with them as a staged mob. This is so outrageous that it is beyond the pail.
Since when are people not suppose to express their agreement with a speaker by cheering? Are they not allowed to express their collective disagreement with a proposal with a collective response to a question by saying just say no?”
- Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economists, who has an unproven theory that we can spend, spend spend our way to prosperity, admits that “Obama will deal with the death of his postpartisan dream”.
- Obama attack dog Nancy Pelosi, well trained in Alinksy Rules, said last week that American citizens that exercise their free speech rights are Un-American. This is exactly the same term she used in March 2009 to describe raids on illegal immigrant work sites!!! So let me get this straight … Free speech is Un-American … Upholding the law is Un-American …
Polarization. Avoid the issue. Attack and demonize the other side. Is this the Change people voted for?
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