Jay R. Thomas

Obamacare Update

A Roundup of Recent News Reports on America’s Dalliance with Socialized Medicine

-In a recent report, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute estimates that healthcare costs will increase by 6.8% in 2015. 

-According to a report by the Urban Institute, the uninsured rate for children under the age of 18 hasn’t budged under Obamacare.  The rate was 7% before and after the implementation of Obamacare.

-The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported on September 15, 2014 that nearly half a million people could lose their subsidies or health insurance coverage obtained under Obamacare due to failure to document eligibility.

-Kaiser Health News reported on August 25, 2014 that Obamacare has enabled more transgender people, many of whom are low income individuals, to get sex reassignment surgery.

-Numerous news outlets have reported that costly ER visits have skyrocketed since the inception of Obamacare.

          There are daily news updates chronicling the negative effects and disappointing outcomes of Obamacare and we will continue to track and report them here.   

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Presdient Richard M. Nixon

Nixon Was One of Our Greatest Presidents

President Nixon Was One of Our Greatest Presidents

          Forty years ago today President Richard M. Nixon resigned the office of the presidency, becoming the first and only president in U.S. history to do so.  Many today might wonder how this could have happened when the absolute worst president ever currently occupies the White House with impunity.  The explanation is actually quite simple.  In the early 1970s, both the Senate and the House of Representatives were packed with liberal Democrats who could only be described as pathological ‘Nixon haters’.  Couple that with the fact that there were no balanced news networks like Fox back then, only the three liberal networks, ABC, CBS and NBC.  With left-wing news anchors like Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite spewing their venom every evening for more than a year, the American people were slowly brainwashed into believing that President Nixon had done something horrible.  There is simply no other explanation for how a president who was re-elected by one of the largest landslides in history could fall so far in just two years.  Rather than drag the country he loved through a divisive impeachment battle, President Nixon had the decency to resign, even though he knew he had done nothing to deserve being impeached.

What Might Have Been

          One has to wonder how much better the world would be today if this great statesman had served out the remaining years of his second term.  Vietnam would now be a democracy.  The horrors of ‘the killing fields’ of Cambodia might have been prevented.  President Nixon’s ‘war on cancer’ would have had the chance to fully blossom, potentially saving many lives throughout the world.  The possibilities are endless, but, alas, all of this was quashed by a group of partisan politicians and liberal newsmen.  In the end, President Nixon did nothing worse than any other president.  Perhaps his greatest failing was that he misled the American people to protect some of his staff members.  Contrast that with Impeached President Bill Clinton who lied under oath to protect himself!  Forty years after the fact, President Richard M. Nixon is now regarded as one of our greatest presidents and I am proud to say that I have known that all along.  We could sure use a good man like him now!

 

Presdient Richard M. Nixon
Presdient Richard M. Nixon

  

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De-Leninization Long Overdue

A Toilet for Pigeons in Every Russian City

          Ninety years after his death in 1924, possibly from neurosyphilis, Vladimir Lenin still presides over the main square in many Russian cities.  His statue seems ever present to the traveler making his way across the Russian Federation today.  The Russian people have long since moved on after his failed communist experiment met its dramatic end in 1991, raising the question of how much longer these gaudy effigies will remain standing.  In most cities they are largely ignored by all but the pigeons who find the Bolshevik’s bald pate a perfect place to deposit their droppings.

Pigeon Toilet in Perm, Russia
Pigeon Toilet in Perm, Russia

The Wizard of Ude

          The most garish of all the Lenin statues resides in the main square of the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude.  The gigantic head, erected in 1970 to celebrate the centennial of Lenin’s birth, looks more like the Wizard of Oz with water on the brain.  Nonetheless, it is the center of attraction in this otherwise unremarkable city, drawing crowds of children wanting to have their picture taken under his comical countenance.

The Giant Lenin Head in Ulan-Ude, Russia
The Giant Lenin Head in Ulan-Ude, Russia

At the Corner of Lenin and Marx

          Visitors to Russia will also notice that almost every major Russian city has both a Lenin Street and a Marx Street.  Yet, the Russian people will proudly tell you that they now consider themselves to have a free market economy while they enthusiastically point out the signs of a thriving capitalist nation all around them.  Do the sparse visitors to Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow portend a coming de-Leninization, paving the way for a shift in loyalties to the current Russian dictator?  Many feel that it is only a matter of time before the archaic street names and the guano splattered statues are removed.  Perhaps then the waxy figure lying in state in Red Square will finally be buried.

 

Vladimir Lenin's Deserted Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
Vladimir Lenin’s Deserted Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow

         

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Barack Obama…Worst President Ever!

Barack Obama…A Complete and Total Failure

          With the implosion of Iraq looming on the horizon, Barack Obama has now secured his place in history as the worst president ever (WPE).  The utter failure of his foreign policy coupled with six years of the Great Obama Recession have clinched the deal and virtually assured him of this dubious distinction.  The man who once was hailed in the European headlines as ‘A President for the World’ is now ‘A President for the House Judiciary Committee‘.  Even the most liberal Americans are now admitting that it was a mistake to have voted for an inexperienced college professor who had nothing going for him other than that he was young, articulate and African-American.  His only remaining fan seems to be Jimmy Carter, who has now moved up to the position of second worst president ever.  Barack Obama must either resign or be removed from office, since many do not believe the United States can withstand another two years of his tyranny.

Too Many Reasons to Count

          The failures of Obama’s policies and the many other reasons why he must step down have been well-chronicled on this and other journals.  Suffice it to say here that he has kept none of his promises, he threw his re-election with lies and by using his presidential power to suppress the opposition, he has left the world in chaos by his absolute lack of understanding of foreign affairs and he has inflicted pain and suffering on untold millions by his unnecessary prolongation of the Great Obama Recession.  If that wasn’t enough, Barack Obama has shown an absolute disregard for the United States Constitution by circumventing Congress and implementing his liberal agenda through executive orders and other actions that would make a dictator blush.  Finally, he has eviscerated the long held cultural values of our country by making a mockery of marriage and through his pussification of the military, among other things.  What was supposed to be the most transparent administration in history has now become the most corrupt.  In all fairness, however, we must concede that Barack Obama did make good on one promise…to fundamentally change America.

Incompetent Boob or Purposeful Anti-American?

          Did Barack Obama fail the American people due to his incompetence and lack of experience or was it a deliberate plan on his part to diminish the United States?  Compelling arguments can be made for either assertion.  On the one hand, many believe that his anti-American actions are entirely consistent with his past history and that his Harvard education precludes the possibility that he is an incompetent boob.  On the other hand, it is entirely possible that his rise to power resulted from preferential treatment based on his race rather than merit, making him the first Affirmative Action president.  It is unfortunate that the reverse discrimination inherent in Affirmative Action had to be confirmed in such a dramatic fashion.  Most Americans truly hoped that our first African-American president would be an overwhelming success.  Instead, Barack Obama has dealt a serious blow to the hopes and dreams of people of color not only in this country, but throughout the world.  Taken together, all these things make Barack Obama the worst president ever and the first president actually deserving of impeachment by the United States House of Representatives and conviction by the United States Senate.        

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