What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Busybody]

Georgia Requests Emergency Delay From Implementing Obamacare Because Would Cause 198% Higher Increase In Premiums



Via Savannah Now:


ATLANTA — Georgia may not start its Obamacare health exchange Oct. 1 when the rest of the country does because the state issued an emergency request late Monday for a delay.

Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens asked U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for another 30 days beyond tomorrow’s deadline to approve the health plans submitted by seven insurance companies wanting to do business in the state.

He said some rates were 198 percent higher than current plans available in the state.

“Georgia consumers cannot afford these massive rate increases,” Hudgens wrote in his letter to her.

 

[Busybody]

Los Angeles Turning Students Into “Obamacare Messengers”…




And nobody in LA has a problem with their kids being brainwashed into Obamacare salesmen?

Via Politico:


When children return to school a few weeks from now, don’t expect to find Obamacare forms stuffed inside their backpacks.

Supporters of the health law see back-to-school season as a natural time for Obamacare outreach, a chance to find young families who could benefit from new health coverage options. But weeks before the school bells start ringing in parts of the country, there’s no concerted effort to reach parents at the schoolhouse door. It’s yet another sign of how the undying controversy could overshadow attempts to get people enrolled.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan told POLITICO this summer that his department has no plans to actively advocate for the health law, only providing help when asked. “No one has asked us,” he added. [...]

States or school districts can act on their own; Los Angeles, for instance, is training some high school juniors and seniors how to be Obamacare messengers to their families and communities. But the lack of a national strategy is just one more sign of how hard it is for the administration and its allies to focus on health benefits, not health politics, as Obamacare enrollment nears. And the Republicans have made it clear that they don’t want the schools to go anywhere near the controversial health law.

 

[Busybody]

What the FUCK DOES THE KNEE GROW know about JOBS?



FACT CHECK: Obama understates Keystone XL jobs

By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press







WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has revived debate about the number of jobs that would be created by the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry oil from tar sands in Alberta to refineries in the Houston area, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.

During a jobs speech Tuesday in Tennessee, Obama downplayed the pipeline's effect on jobs, calling it a "blip" compared with the overall economy. He also made that point in an interview with The New York Times last week.

The president correctly characterized the project's overall effect on U.S. employment but underestimated the number of jobs it would create.

The $7 billion pipeline has become a contentious issue. Project supporters, including unions and lawmakers from both parties, tout the jobs it would create and demand its approval, while environmentalists urge the president to reject it, saying it would carry dirty, carbon-intensive oil.

The State Department expects to issue a final report later this year on whether the project should move forward. The department has authority over the pipeline because it crosses a U.S. border.

Asked Wednesday about the number of jobs that would be created by the pipeline, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, "The president was clearly stating the proposed Keystone XL project would have a negligible impact on the overall U.S. job market, which was the finding of the State Department" in a draft report last March.

A look at some of the president's recent assertions on the pipeline and jobs and how they stack up:

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OBAMA: "Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator. There is no evidence that that's true," he said in The New York Times interview. "And my hope would be that any reporter who is looking at the facts would take the time to confirm that the most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline - which might take a year or two - and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 (chuckles) jobs in an economy of 150 million working people. ... That is a blip relative to the need."

THE FACTS: It's not clear where Obama came up with the 2,000-jobs figure.

The project's developer, Calgary-based TransCanada, has said the pipeline could create as many as 13,000 construction jobs - 6,500 a year over two years.

In its March report, the State Department put the number of construction jobs at 3,900 on an annual basis. That figure doesn't include an estimated 4,000 workers that TransCanada says it has hired for a 485-mile southern segment of the pipeline that already is under construction and nearing completion.

Nor do the figures include the peripheral jobs that would be created as a result of a major infrastructure project.

TransCanada says about 7,000 manufacturing jobs will be needed to support the overall project, which will stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

The State Department report goes further. It estimates that the project could help create - directly and indirectly - as many as 42,000 jobs, including jobs for suppliers and subcontractors that provide equipment and materials, as well as lodging, food services and other jobs related to construction. The figure includes part-time jobs.

The report said these jobs would amount to 0.02 percent of total U.S employment, a figure that is consistent with Obama's characterization that the project would have minimal impact on the overall U.S. jobs picture.

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OBAMA: Republicans "keep on talking about this - an oil pipeline coming down from Canada that's estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs. That's not a jobs plan," he said in Tennessee.

THE FACTS: Obama is on more solid ground with this assertion. The State Department report, citing figures provided by TransCanada, said there would be about 50 permanent jobs created along the route of the pipeline once it is completed. The report says the number of permanent jobs in the six affected states would have "negligible impacts" on the economy.

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Follow Matthew Daly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewDalyWDC

 

[Busybody]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Outlays for U.S. construction projects unexpectedly declined in June, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Construction spending fell 0.6% in June to an annualized rate of $883.9 billion. This was well below analysts' expectations of a 0.5% gain and the biggest drop in five months. But May construction spending was upwardly revised to 1.3% growth from the initial read of a gain of 0.5%. Both private and public spending fell in June.

why the fuck do they use that word all the time?

THEY ARE PROTECTING TEH KNEE GROW

 

[tactful]

As the Market trudges up hill, the Economy moves along on one cylinder.

 

[Busybody]

I wonder if this dumbshit KNEE GRASS

would ever AXE

Knee Grow Obama and TONEDARMZ ad the TWO PROZZIES to stop wasting hundreds of MILLIONS?




D.C. Delegate Searches for Links Between Green-Paint Vandal and Sequestration



D.C.’s delegate to Congress is asking if sequestration contributed to the green-paint vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial, at a statue memorializing Joseph Henry, at the National Cathedral and at other monuments.

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) yesterday sent a letter to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to request answers within 30 days about staffing levels and whether they’re enough to protect national treasures.




Jia M. Tian, 58, a Chinese national, is being held in the vandalism.

Norton noted that in May she met with the Park Police, the Capitol Police, and Federal Protective Service “to discuss the effects of sequestration because I was concerned about public safety in the nation’s capital following the tragic loss of life and the injuries at the Boston Marathon.”

“There is now considerable concern about whether other monuments on the National Mall are in jeopardy of being vandalized, and whether there is adequate protection to ensure that such acts do not occur in the future,” she wrote. “Because the Park Police are the only federal police with citywide (aside from the Secret Service) and region-wide jurisdiction and because the Park Police are charged with public safety for the National Mall, I ask that you provide my office with answers to several questions.”

These include questions about pre- and post-sequestration staffing levels and whether “there coordination among the police forces in the nation’s capital specifically to prevent vandalism and defacement, or on issues other than preventing terrorist attacks, including with the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol Police, Smithsonian Institution Office of Protection Services, and National Zoological Park Police, among others.”

“In 1997, I was able to get a provision enacted that allowed the Metropolitan Police Department to enter into cooperative agreements with federal law enforcement entities to enforce local D.C. law, and many have done so. Until this provision, most of these sworn police officers had jurisdiction only on their immediate premises,” Norton added. “This provision has played a role in protecting public safety here.”

“No matter how many police forces are in the nation’s capital, we will not be able to meet the challenges we face today to protect against the unexpected unless there is coordination. Therefore, I ask for an explanation of NPS’s current efforts to coordinate police forces to protect the monuments on our National Mall, as well as specific answers to my questions, within 30 days.”

 

[Busybody]

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[RobDownSouth]

Georgia Requests Emergency Delay From Implementing Obamacare Because Would Cause 198% Higher Increase In Premiums



Via Savannah Now:


ATLANTA — Georgia may not start its Obamacare health exchange Oct. 1 when the rest of the country does because the state issued an emergency request late Monday for a delay.

Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens asked U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for another 30 days beyond tomorrow’s deadline to approve the health plans submitted by seven insurance companies wanting to do business in the state.

He said some rates were 198 percent higher than current plans available in the state.

“Georgia consumers cannot afford these massive rate increases,” Hudgens wrote in his letter to her.

Rapepublicans fucked Georgia hard.

Georgia had a perfectly serviceable "prior approval" insurance commissioner for 80 years. In 2008, Rapepublicans and Glibertarians changed the model to a "file and use" system, meaning any insurance company could charge whatever rate they wanted to and let the magic hand of the market sort things out.

Insurance companies realized they had a unique opportunity to make a one-time windfall by jacking individual rates through the roof and blaming Obamacare, and the state government can't stop them.

Naturally, this is President Obama's fault.

 

[Busybody]

I thought I was on IGGY?

STFU.....Loser

 

[RobDownSouth]

I thought I was on IGGY?

STFU.....Loser

*shrug* I was bored this morning.

הילדים שלך צריכים למות בשריפה.

 

[Busybody]

STFU, fucking liar

 

[koalabear]

Rapepublicans fucked Georgia hard.

Georgia had a perfectly serviceable "prior approval" insurance commissioner for 80 years. In 2008, Rapepublicans and Glibertarians changed the model to a "file and use" system, meaning any insurance company could charge whatever rate they wanted to and let the magic hand of the market sort things out.

Insurance companies realized they had a unique opportunity to make a one-time windfall by jacking individual rates through the roof and blaming Obamacare, and the state government can't stop them.

Naturally, this is President Obama's fault.

Obamacare is a windfall for insurance companies Fatty.

 

[koalabear]

Cupcake conundrum: Cake mixes shrinking along with other favorite products

Cataldo’s cupcakes are victim of an ongoing trend. Consumer packaged-goods makers have gotten creative with how they pass on rising costs and maintain bottom lines — from offering fewer ounces in cake mixes to replacing some of the cream in ice cream with air to punching a hidden "dimple" in the bottom of peanut butter jars to decrease capacity. Often, the price stays the same, and the package looks the same on the shelf, but it contains less product.

http://www.today.com/money/cupcake-...favorite-products-6C10798951?ocid=msnhp&pos=6

Luckily there is no inflation.

 

[Busybody]

IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare



IRS chief Daniel Werfel says he wants to keep his health care plan, not switch to Obamacare:



"Mr. Werfel, last week your employees who are a member of the National Treasury Employee's Union sent a form letter for union members to send in to ask they be exempt from the exchanges," a congressman asked. "Why are your employees trying to exempt themselves from the very law that you're tasked to enforce?"

"I don't want to speak for the NTEU, but I'll offer a perspective as a federal employee myself and a federal employee at the IRS," said the IRS chief. "And that is, we have right now as employees of the government, of the IRS, affordable health care coverage. I think the ACA was designed to provide an option or an alternative for individuals that do not. And all else being equal, I think if you're an individual who is satisfied with your health care coverage, you're probably in a better position to stick with that coverage than go through the change of moving into a different environment and going through that process. So I think for a federal employee, I think more likely, and I would -- can speak for myself, I would prefer to stay with the current policy that I'm pleased with rather than go through a change if O don't need to go through that change."

 

[RobDownSouth]

IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare

Why should anyone covered by employer-supplied healthcare want to switch to a more costly individual plan?

JEW CAN'T ANSWER THAT!

 

[Busybody]

I thought I was on IGGY

 

[koalabear]

Why should anyone covered by employer-supplied healthcare want to switch to a more costly individual plan?

JEW CAN'T ANSWER THAT!

It can't be more costly, obamacare is free Fatty. MORBIDLY OBESE FAT FUCK forgot that.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I thought I was on IGGY

Like I told you earlier today, I'm bored.

WHY DON'T JEW REMEMBER?

 

[Busybody]

sure you were

fuck off, POOP

where is the LINK to the 18%?

or are you not bored anymore and put me back on IGGY

 

[Busybody]

I guess Robertoe is unbored and has me on IGGY again

cause he didn't post the 1.8% link

 

[koalabear]

I guess Robertoe is unbored and has me on IGGY again

cause he didn't post the 1.8% link

He heard the neighborhood store finally got a shipment of twinkies and took off for the store.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I guess Robertoe is unbored and has me on IGGY again

cause he didn't post the 1.8% link

Yup, I gotta go correct the Vettepussy, so back on ignore you go.

JEW CAN'T HANDLE THAT!

 

[unregistered]

 

[Busybody]

Yup, I gotta go correct the Vettepussy, so back on ignore you go.

JEW CAN'T HANDLE THAT!

tee hee

no 1.8% so the IGGY comes outa hiding

expected

 

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