RobDownSouth
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He's made quite a name for himself by ignoring inconvenient facts.
What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?
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He's made quite a name for himself by ignoring inconvenient facts.
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Like football never made you morbidly obese, you did.
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"What would be some of the reasons you might be at the White House?" Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly asked Shulman during a congressional hearing last week.
"Um, the Easter Egg Roll with my kids," Shulman replied. "Questions about the administrability of tax policy they were thinking of; our budget; us helping the Department of Education streamline application processes for financial aid."
But there is no record that Shulman attended a White House Easter Egg Roll under Obama, most likely because large events organized by the East Wing, like that one, don't always show up in the visitor's access records. Neither do visits by staffers, journalists covering large events, or people who enter the White House grounds in their pre-cleared cars, like Cabinet members, who do not wait for badge swipes at the gate with the policymaking hoi polloi.
"Um, the Easter Egg Roll with my kids," Shulman replied. "Questions about the administrability of tax policy they were thinking of; our budget; us helping the Department of Education streamline application processes for financial aid."
But there is no record that Shulman attended a White House Easter Egg Roll under Obama, most likely because large events organized by the East Wing, like that one, don't always show up in the visitor's access records. Neither do visits by staffers, journalists covering large events, or people who enter the White House grounds in their pre-cleared cars, like Cabinet members, who do not wait for badge swipes at the gate with the policymaking hoi polloi.
mercury14
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The question in your quote was "what are some of the reasons you might be at the White House" and it was answered.
Oh and if cabinet members are pre-cleared when why are conservatives asking why Schulman signed in more than Hillary, Sibelius, and the rest of the cabinet members?
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But hey, at least these BomBoz will be able to sterilize themselves
GAO: HHS Already Rationing Enrollment In Obamacare’s Pre-Existing Condition Plan…
Just the beginning.
(CNSNews.com) – A pre-existing condition health insurance program established by Obamacare is already straining its own budget and, to control costs, the administration’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has stopped enrolling any new people in the program, according to an audit by the General Accountability Office (GAO).
In addition, to further control spending, HHS has directed the program to shift more of the costs onto the current enrollees, thus raising the out-of-pocket health care expenses for the people with pre-existing conditions.
“Finally, due to growing concerns about the rate of PCIP [Pre-existing Condition Insurance Program] spending, in February 2013, CCIIO [under HHS] suspended PCIP enrollment to ensure the appropriated funding would be sufficient to cover claims for current enrollees through the end of the program,” states the GAO report, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Enrollment and Spending in the Early Retiree Reinsurance and Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan Programs.
The rationing or denial of health care coverage in the marketplace for people with pre-existing conditions, or insurers charging higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions were among the reasons cited by President Barack Obama and most congressional Democrats for implementing Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
GAO: HHS Already Rationing Enrollment In Obamacare’s Pre-Existing Condition Plan…
Just the beginning.
(CNSNews.com) – A pre-existing condition health insurance program established by Obamacare is already straining its own budget and, to control costs, the administration’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has stopped enrolling any new people in the program, according to an audit by the General Accountability Office (GAO).
In addition, to further control spending, HHS has directed the program to shift more of the costs onto the current enrollees, thus raising the out-of-pocket health care expenses for the people with pre-existing conditions.
“Finally, due to growing concerns about the rate of PCIP [Pre-existing Condition Insurance Program] spending, in February 2013, CCIIO [under HHS] suspended PCIP enrollment to ensure the appropriated funding would be sufficient to cover claims for current enrollees through the end of the program,” states the GAO report, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Enrollment and Spending in the Early Retiree Reinsurance and Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan Programs.
The rationing or denial of health care coverage in the marketplace for people with pre-existing conditions, or insurers charging higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions were among the reasons cited by President Barack Obama and most congressional Democrats for implementing Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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The question in your quote was "what are some of the reasons you might be at the White House" and it was answered.
Oh and if cabinet members are pre-cleared when why are conservatives asking why Schulman signed in more than Hillary, Sibelius, and the rest of the cabinet members?
because they need to manufacture this week's outrage!
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The question in your quote was "what are some of the reasons you might be at the White House" and it was answered.
Oh and if cabinet members are pre-cleared when why are conservatives asking why Schulman signed in more than Hillary, Sibelius, and the rest of the cabinet members?
I have no fucking clue what ths means
Neither do you
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The question in your quote was "what are some of the reasons you might be at the White House" and it was answered.
Oh and if cabinet members are pre-cleared when why are conservatives asking why Schulman signed in more than Hillary, Sibelius, and the rest of the cabinet members?
are you disputing the FACT he was there at least 157 times?
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Former Obama Aides Cashing In
Public servants…
Via Washington Post:
The decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline is a political headache for President Obama. But to five of his former aides, it represents a business opportunity. Four of them — Bill Burton, Stephanie Cutter, Jim Papa and Paul Tewes — work as consultants for opponents of the project, which would carry heavy crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. Another, former White House communications director Anita Dunn, counts the project’s sponsor, TransCanada, among the clients of her communications firm.
Keystone XL is just one of several upcoming administration decisions providing lucrative work for former Obama advisers on issues ranging from gun control to mining to legalized gambling. Just this week, three of Obama’s top former political advisers —Robert Gibbs, Jim Messina and David Plouffe — were given five-figure checks to deliver remarks at a forum in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a campaign to burnish its image in Washington.
Public servants…
Via Washington Post:
The decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline is a political headache for President Obama. But to five of his former aides, it represents a business opportunity. Four of them — Bill Burton, Stephanie Cutter, Jim Papa and Paul Tewes — work as consultants for opponents of the project, which would carry heavy crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. Another, former White House communications director Anita Dunn, counts the project’s sponsor, TransCanada, among the clients of her communications firm.
Keystone XL is just one of several upcoming administration decisions providing lucrative work for former Obama advisers on issues ranging from gun control to mining to legalized gambling. Just this week, three of Obama’s top former political advisers —Robert Gibbs, Jim Messina and David Plouffe — were given five-figure checks to deliver remarks at a forum in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a campaign to burnish its image in Washington.
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"But think about the [Great] Depression. That was before there was any welfare state at all. How many people starved? No one."
— Fox’s Jon Stossel advocating cuts to social welfare programs because “no one starved” during the Great Depression. To this, Steve Doocy responds, “right, good point.”
The number of cases of starvation in New York City alone increased from 20 in 1931 to 110 in 1934.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/fox-business-host-cut-government-because-no-one-died-of-starvation-before-welfare/
— Fox’s Jon Stossel advocating cuts to social welfare programs because “no one starved” during the Great Depression. To this, Steve Doocy responds, “right, good point.”
The number of cases of starvation in New York City alone increased from 20 in 1931 to 110 in 1934.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/fox-business-host-cut-government-because-no-one-died-of-starvation-before-welfare/
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This has been the worst Obama scandal since Umbrellagate!
Beco
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You'll just have to wait a litle longer for your french fries......
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Obviously you need a refresher in PatriotMath™.
Remember Glenn Beck's rally at the Washington Mall a few years back? If 60,000=1.5 million, then 11 can certainly equal 157.
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What "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve and your government have done to your savings:
They've taken your $5,000 and turned it into $4,267— they've stolen 15% of your money.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/22/184201335/instead-of-snoozing-in-savings-let-s-put-5-000-to-work
RobDownSouth
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What "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve and your government have done to your savings:
They've taken your $5,000 and turned it into $4,267— they've stolen 15% of your money.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/22/184201335/instead-of-snoozing-in-savings-let-s-put-5-000-to-work
It's disheartening to see that your ignorance in climate matters extends into financial areas as well.
Your chart shows the decline in real terms of money placed in a bank savings account, and of course does not account for the Bush Recession and subsequent Obama Recovery.
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Which begs the question: why do I have so much more of it then?
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Acceptable risk.
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Who the fuck puts their assets in a savings account with 0% interest?
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