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I don't know, KingofTardsOreo's, SgtPepper, SeanR .... they are 25 cans short of a 6 pack
What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?
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I don't know, KingofTardsOreo's, SgtPepper, SeanR .... they are 25 cans short of a 6 pack
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WELL, THAT’S AWKWARD: IRS employee union: We don’t want Obamacare. “IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s health care law.”
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IRS employee union: We don’t want Obamacare
By JOEL GEHRKE | JULY 25, 2013 AT 6:45 PM
Photo - National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are giving members a form letter expressing concern about federal employees being pushed out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. (Thinkstock) National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are giving members a form letter expressing concern...
IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law.
National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s health care law.
The union leaders are providing members with a form letter to send to the congressmen that says “I am very concerned about legislation that has been introduced by Congressman Dave Camp to push federal employees out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and into the insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act.”
The NTEU represents 150,000 federal employees overall, including most of the nearly 100,000 IRS workers.
Like most other federal workers, IRS employees currently get their health insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which also covers members of Congress.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp offered the bill in response to reports of congressional negotiations that would exempt lawmakers and their staff from Obamacare.
“Camp has long believed every American ought to be exempt from the law, which is why he supports full repeal,” Camp spokeswoman Allie Walkersaid.
“If the Obamacare exchanges are good enough for the hardworking Americans and small businesses the law claims to help, then they should be good enough for the president, vice president, Congress and federal employees,” she also said.
“The NTEU represents Internal Revenue Service employees who have the responsibility to enforce much of the health insurance law, especially in terms of collecting the taxes and distributing subsidies that finance the whole system,” said Paul Kersey, director of Labor Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute.
“IRS agents will also collect data and apply penalties for those who fail to comply with many of Obamacare’s requirements,” Kersey said.
By JOEL GEHRKE | JULY 25, 2013 AT 6:45 PM
Photo - National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are giving members a form letter expressing concern about federal employees being pushed out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. (Thinkstock) National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are giving members a form letter expressing concern...
IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law.
National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s health care law.
The union leaders are providing members with a form letter to send to the congressmen that says “I am very concerned about legislation that has been introduced by Congressman Dave Camp to push federal employees out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and into the insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act.”
The NTEU represents 150,000 federal employees overall, including most of the nearly 100,000 IRS workers.
Like most other federal workers, IRS employees currently get their health insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which also covers members of Congress.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp offered the bill in response to reports of congressional negotiations that would exempt lawmakers and their staff from Obamacare.
“Camp has long believed every American ought to be exempt from the law, which is why he supports full repeal,” Camp spokeswoman Allie Walkersaid.
“If the Obamacare exchanges are good enough for the hardworking Americans and small businesses the law claims to help, then they should be good enough for the president, vice president, Congress and federal employees,” she also said.
“The NTEU represents Internal Revenue Service employees who have the responsibility to enforce much of the health insurance law, especially in terms of collecting the taxes and distributing subsidies that finance the whole system,” said Paul Kersey, director of Labor Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute.
“IRS agents will also collect data and apply penalties for those who fail to comply with many of Obamacare’s requirements,” Kersey said.
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IRS employees get their health care through their employer and are therefore in compliance with Obamacare regulations. This horse pucky about federal employees losing their benefits and having to go to exchanges has nothing to do with the law, it's about Republicans trying to manufacture outrage where there's no reason to have any.
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STFU, you DEMENTED CRETIN
How sick does one have to be to so unabashedly demean oneself to defend that which cannot be defended
STFU, YOU DEMENTED LOSER
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JAMES TARANTO: Losing the Plot: Why coverage of Obama is so boring.
The problem with the story that Obama and his press sycophants tell is that it is so boring and stupid. It reduces the president and his supporters to stick-figure caricatures of good and evil. (We almost said comic-book characters, but that would be unfair to comic books.) We could fill a column with examples every day, but here are a few that have come across our desk just in the past 24 hours:
National Journal’s Norm Ornstein published a column yesterday titled “The Unprecedented–and Contemptible–Attempts to Sabotage Obamacare.” Although allowing that opposition to ObamaCare is “not treasonous”–a good thing, as a substantial majority of Americans would be traitors if it were–it is “sharply beneath any reasonable standards of elected officials.” (What does “sharply beneath” even mean?)
The second paragraph of Ornstein’s column is comedy gold: “I am not the only one who has written about House and Senate Republicans’ monomaniacal focus on sabotaging the implementation of Obamacare–Greg Sargent, Steve Benen, Jon Chait, Jon Bernstein, Ezra Klein, and many others have written powerful pieces. But it is now spinning out of control.”
Ornstein acknowledges that what he has to say is utterly unoriginal, and to prove it he cites a long list of partisan hacks (all male, by the way; somebody alert Alicia Shepard!) who’ve said the same thing. Then he deploys a histrionic cliché in an attempt to justify the shopworn blather that follows.
It’s not just Obama who is boring.
The problem with the story that Obama and his press sycophants tell is that it is so boring and stupid. It reduces the president and his supporters to stick-figure caricatures of good and evil. (We almost said comic-book characters, but that would be unfair to comic books.) We could fill a column with examples every day, but here are a few that have come across our desk just in the past 24 hours:
National Journal’s Norm Ornstein published a column yesterday titled “The Unprecedented–and Contemptible–Attempts to Sabotage Obamacare.” Although allowing that opposition to ObamaCare is “not treasonous”–a good thing, as a substantial majority of Americans would be traitors if it were–it is “sharply beneath any reasonable standards of elected officials.” (What does “sharply beneath” even mean?)
The second paragraph of Ornstein’s column is comedy gold: “I am not the only one who has written about House and Senate Republicans’ monomaniacal focus on sabotaging the implementation of Obamacare–Greg Sargent, Steve Benen, Jon Chait, Jon Bernstein, Ezra Klein, and many others have written powerful pieces. But it is now spinning out of control.”
Ornstein acknowledges that what he has to say is utterly unoriginal, and to prove it he cites a long list of partisan hacks (all male, by the way; somebody alert Alicia Shepard!) who’ve said the same thing. Then he deploys a histrionic cliché in an attempt to justify the shopworn blather that follows.
It’s not just Obama who is boring.
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You know why Obamacare will never be repealed? Because once its in place Republicans will not have the balls to look 35 million Americans in the eye, take their health care away, and tell them that insurance companies can drop them again when they get sick.
And if they try doing that then the Republican party will be more alienated from America than ever before.
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What's even more hilarious, is that obamacare was a republican plan in the first place.
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The Rapepublicans like to yammer about the purported "courage" of their uncompromising "convictions", but I'd like to one of them put in a room with a mother and tell them face-to-face that it's best for the "good of the country" that their small children do without medical care.
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True. What's the word for that? Hypocrisy or loony? Hey, Richard.
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I'd say both.
Hi Ver!
best thing would be to let O care take effect. Then everyone will know how they are being screwed.
Veteman's not doing a good enough job for you these days?
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by that logic, public policy should only be set by what someone does or does not have the balls to say to a kid?
interesting, coming from someone who supports president dronestrike
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Nope, I'm merely pointing out two salient points:
1) Rapepublicans don't have a monopoly on the strength of their convictions, braggadocio aside.
2) Their ivory tower sentiment has real world consequences.
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Exactly.
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veteman's facebook friend.
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So you finally admit you cybered and backed up a guy hiding behind the cipher of a woman.
'Bout time. Knew you was a stand-up-to-take-a-piss guy after all, Vette.
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