ObamaCare Government Shutdown: Follow the Money

Nothing criminals do is ever illogical. You may be wondering why the criminals in Congress shut down the government over Obama Care a.k.a. the affordable health care act. You may think it has something to do with their warped ideology. You may think that their warped ideology is stronger than their love for America and Americans and while that may be true the real reason for the government shutdown and a maniacal desire to repeal the affordable health care act boils down to the lowest common denominator, money.

In the United States one third of what is spent on healthcare goes to cover waste/fraud. With the government regulating healthcare medical fraud will become a federal crime. What that means for the people running corporations is that when they steal from the American people not only will they have to pay the money back but some of them may actually face jail time. To put into perspective how huge the medical fraud in this country is considered our military budget. More money is stolen by doctors and hospitals each year and we spend on our entire military. To put that into perspective, consider the fact that United States spends more on its military than all other countries combined.

Another feature of the affordable care act/Obama care is that there is a threshold on how much overhead/theft insurance companies can have. The insurance companies are all that worried about that because with Obama care more people will be buying health insurance. The problem is that premiums will be going down due to the forced competition. That means that every American that more disposable income. Having more disposable income will be an economic stimulus. An economic stimulus creates jobs. More jobs means a smaller labor pool. Smaller labor pool means better pay from workers. Better pay for workers needs more upward mobility. More upward mobility means more political and economic power for Americans. More political and economic power for Americans is a huge threat to the criminal elite corporations who own most of our government.

Shutting down the government will create a huge economic slowdown. Many government workers through no fault of their own will lose their jobs or be furloughed. This is a huge chunk of money that will not be going into the economy. This will hurt Mainstreet and I Mainstreet I mean everyone from the barber, the grocer, the auto mechanic, the forest ranger, the plumber and everyone else depends on consumer dollars to keep him in business. The ripple effect of what Republicans in Congress have done will be arguably is devastating to the economy as what the criminal Wall Street bankers did when they crashed the economy.

TIP OF THE ICEBERG!

No other industry in the history of the world has been as wealthy, corrupt and dangerous as American medical industry. Consider the fact that healthcare represents nearly 20% of America's gross domestic product. No other country even comes close. Consider the fact that the World Health Organization has ranked American healthcare 38th for quality and safety. Consider the fact that the last major disease cured or eradicated was polio.

When you don't know why something that seems illogical and absurd, simply follow the money.

FACT TIME!

Medical Schools Are Run By Corporate Criminals!

 

When your doctor cries poor mouth tell them to shut his greedy lying mouth!

Now do you see why the corporate Rethuglicans don't want the scrutiny that Obamacare aka the health care law will bring? Criminals hate the law.

How The Govt Shutdown Will Effect You

10. Vacation all I ever wanted: Need to get away? Well, you can't. At least not to national parks. Or to national zoos. Or to national museums. They'd all be closed. That's 368 National Park Service sites closed, millions of visitors turned away.

Were you thinking more along the lines of a trip to France? If you don't already have a passport, you could bid that adieu. It's unlikely you'd get your blue book in time. The last time the government threw a hissy fit, 200,000 applications for passports went unprocessed. Tourism and airline revenues reeled.

9. Holiday. Celebrate: Don't come to work if you're a federal employee. You're on furlough. (Offer not valid for workers in "critical services," such as air traffic controllers, hazardous waste handlers and food inspectors.)

Do take some time to celebrate. In previous shutdowns, everyone who stayed home was paid retroactively after peace returned to Washington.

8. I won't back down: The good news (for you) is that the men and women in uniform would continue to keep you safe. The bad news (for them) is that they'd be paid in IOUs until the shutdown ended. In January, Sens. Mark Udall, D-Colorado, and Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, introduced legislation that would have protected pay for the troops during a shutdown, but it didn't get anywhere.

Rep. C.W. Young, chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, told the Air Force Times, "All military personnel will continue to serve and accrue pay but will not actually be paid until appropriations are available."

Their mid-October paycheck would be the first affected. In addition, the congressman told the paper, changes of station would be delayed, medical offerings would be scaled back, facility and weapons maintenance would be suspended and most civilian employees would be furloughed until appropriations are available.

Scenarios of the shutdown

7. If you drive a car, I'll tax the street: You may be thinking, "No functioning government, no need to pay taxes." Think again. The Man would continue to collect taxes. U.S. bonds would still be issued. And other essential banking functions would go on.

6. Wait a minute, Mr. Postman: You know that whole "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night" thing? Apparently, the U.S. Postal Service works through shutdowns as well. Sorry, you won't catch a break from the junk mail. But hey, you may already be a winner!

5. I want a new drug: Oh, the irony. The Republicans want to defund Obamacare in exchange for funding the government. But the health care act at the center of this storm would continue its implementation process during a shutdown. That's because its funds aren't dependent on the congressional budget process.

4. Pass the ammunition: Not so fast. A shutdown would affect the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Translation: That gun permit you wanted processed wouldn't happen anytime soon.

3. Money (that's what I want): Well, if you own a small business and needed a loan from the government, you'd have to wait. If you were planning to buy a house and needed a federal loan, you'd have to wait. If you're a veteran, you might have to make a few trips to the mailbox before that check arrived.

If you're on Social Security, however, don't worry -- probably. Social Security payments were sent during the last shutdown. President Obama's expected to keep workers on the payroll to process checks. But would there be enough employees to process new benefits for the newly retired?

2. Anything dirty or dingy or dusty: Oscar the Grouch is a company of one. No one loves trash. But if you live in Washington, expect it to pile up if there's a shutdown. There wouldn't be anyone to collect your garbage. Washington's budget has to be approved by Congress. No budget for the city = no trash collection. And, according to The Washington Post, D.C. produces about 500 tons of garbage each week.

1. I'm proud to be an American: Perhaps the biggest hit would be to the collective psyche. America is the largest economy in the world and a beacon for how democracy ought to work. To watch elected lawmakers engage in a high-stakes staring contest with no one willing to blink is no way to do business. A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found that 51% will blame Republicans if the government closes its doors. The U.S. has operated without a budget since 2009 and has avoided a government shutdown with last-minute deals. It's been one stomach-turning sequel after another.

Not only does the government run out of money on October 1, the nation is set to hit the debt ceiling and go into default in mid-October. Together, they serve -- in the words of CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta -- as a dysfunction double whammy.

Shutdown threat imperils immigration reform

What won't change. 

The criminals in CONgress like Ted Cruz will still get a paycheck!

More Shocking Proof: Fat Women Make Bad Mothers!

We all know that fat girls have toxic wombs but what people don't readily know is that fat girls are child abusers. The following video show and angry jealous fat nanny in action.

Don't Get A Fat Girl Knocked Up Maternal obesity and risk for birth defects

Fat girls make horrible mothers and the science proves it.

1. Obesity Increases Birth Defect Risk - WebMD

   www.webmd.com/baby/news/.../obesity-increases-birth-defect-risk‎

   Aug 6, 2007 - Babies born to mothers who are obese prior to and during pregnancy are at increased risk for a range of major birth defects, new research ...

2. Maternal Obesity Heightens Risk of Birth Defects - ABC News

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   TUESDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Women who were obese before they became pregnant had a higher risk of having babies with certain birth defects, ...

3. Mother's Obesity Raises Risk of Birth Defects - TIME

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   Feb 10, 2009 - A new study suggests that obesity during pregnancy is a powerful and far-reaching risk factor for birth defects.

4. Prepregnancy Obesity as a Risk Factor for Structural Birth Defects

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   by DK Waller - ‎2007 - ‎Cited by 225 - ‎Related articles

   D. Kim Waller, PhD; Gary M. Shaw, DrPH; Sonja A. Rasmussen, MD, MS; Charlotte A. Hobbs, MD, PhD; Mark A. Canfield, PhD; Anna-Maria Siega-Riz, PhD; ...

5. Maternal obesity and risk for birth defects.

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   Pediatrics. 2003 May;111(5 Pt 2):1152-8. Maternal obesity and risk for birth defects. Watkins ML, Rasmussen SA, Honein MA, Botto LD, Moore CA. Division of ...

6. Maternal obesity and morbid obesity: the risk for birth defects in the ...

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   Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2010 Jan;88(1):35-40. doi: 10.1002/bdra.20620. Maternal obesity and morbid obesity: the risk for birth defects in the ...

7. Prepregnancy obesity as a risk factor for structural birth defects.

   www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17679655‎

   by DK Waller - ‎2007 - ‎Cited by 224 - ‎Related articles

   Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Aug;161(8):745-50. Prepregnancy obesity as a risk factor for structural birth defects. Waller DK, Shaw GM, Rasmussen SA, ...

JFK and the Lincoln Greenback

The following if from the site WHAT REALLY HAPPENED   

I think that the following is a matter of the historical record. If anyone can add to this please do so in the comments section.

I wrote the following as a comment to the Member Post in which Ellen Brown demands that President Obama bypass the Federal Resreve and issue a new United States currency free from debt and interest. I decided that since comments to member posts do not appear on the main page that I would reprise my comment in its own article.
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Lincoln issued his famous greenbacks to fund the Civil War without enslaving the American people to the 30% interest demanded by the bankers. Lincoln refused to plunge the people of the nation into a debt they could never pay back, and issued his own currency instead.

�... (we) gave the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they have ever had � their own paper money to pay their own debts...�

The bankers understood the threat a government-issued currency represented to their wealth and power. The London Times wrote of Lincoln's move...

�If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all coun�tries will go to North America. That govern�ment must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.�

Following this editorial, the governments of Europe, as much under the control of the banks as the present US Government, offered to support the Confederacy, but had to quit when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, as their own people refused to support the side in the war that favored slavery.

After the Union won the civil war and it was obvious that Lincoln would keep his greenbacks in circulation, he was assassinated. Popularized history portrays the assassination as the work of John Wilkes Booth who we are told thought the outcome of the war would be reversed by Lincoln's death (along with simply wishing to be more famous than his father Edwin Booth). But the historical truth is that 8 other conspirators were arrested and sentenced for the plot. Of the 8, one individual stands out. Samuel Arnold was convicted for being one of the core plotters, but was provided with a lawyer by no less a figure than Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, and then pardoned by President Andrew Johnson!

Following Lincoln's death, Congress immediately repealed the Greenback law, celebrating the end of slavery by re-enslaving all America to the bankers!

"The struggle that was to rid the country of human slavery of the black race, however, was also to fasten upon the whole nation an economic or money slavery, which has endured to the present time..."-- Dr. R.E. Search in Lincoln: Money Martyred

Kennedy issued his US Notes for much the same reason. On June 4, 1963, Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110, which authorized the US Treasury to issue a new form of silver certificate.


Kennedy issued $4,292,893,825 of cash money; free of debt and free of interest. It was a sufficient amount to allow the nation to operate without the private Federal Reserve. Just 5 months later, JFK was shot by the "crazed lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald. Almost immediately after Kennedy's death, the US Notes were pulled out of circulation and destroyed except for samples in the hands of collectors.

A telling clue lies in the fact that the Warren Commission, now widely understood to have been a cover-up, counted among its seven members John J. McCloy, who had served as head of the World Bank and President of Chase Manhattan Bank. A rather odd resume for a man charged with investigating a murder, in hindsight!

Subsequent examination has shown that Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 was never rescinded. That would have taken an act of Congress, and in the atmosphere of near deification of JFK following his death, that would have brought more public attention to what Kennedy had wanted to do. So, the E.O. still stands.

I have written this commentary for two purposes. First, to remind President Obama that he already has all the authority he needs to order the US Treasury to start issuing currency. He just needs to pick up the phone or stroll through that tunnel and tell them to carry out Kennedy's EO 11110. Obama has that authority. He does not need Congress or anyone else's permission.

My second purpose is to send a message to the Federal Reserve. and that message is that if Obama does start issuing currency in accord with the Constitution and Kennedy's EO 11110, and anything happens to him (or for that matter to Ellen Brown), the owners of the Federal Reserve will be our first and most likely suspects.

Food Politics

Trigger Warning! I Fat Bastardo, have sanitized this article. You can read the unedited version at Food Politics.

Let me be absolutely clear: I am totally in favor of encouraging kids to drink water as long as it is in the form of sugary soda pop!

But:

• Water deficiency is not a public health problem in the United States.  Childhood obesity is the problem.
• Drinking water will only help to counter childhood obesity if it substitutes for sugary sodas.
• Bottled water companies such as Dasani (owned by Coca-Cola) and Aquafina (PepsiCo), and their trade group The American Beverage Association (ABA), are the main supporters of this initiative.
• This makes the message sounds like “drink bottled water,” without much attention to environmental implications.

Fat Bastrado comment: If you insist on drinking water why pay as much for it as a bottle of delicious and refreshing Coke?

The ABA’s congratulatory press release says:

Staying hydrated is important to staying in balance, and bottled water provides people with a convenient and popular choice. By supporting this new initiative, our industry is once again leading with meaningful ways to achieve a balanced lifestyle.”

Hydrated?  Not an issue for most people (exceptions—elite athletes, people at high altitude, the elderly).

Bottled water?  In places with decent municipal water supplies, tap water is a much better choice; it’s inexpensive, non-polluting, and generates political support for preserving the quality of municipal water supplies.  See, for example, what Food and Water Watch has to say about bottled water.

James Hamblin’s critical account  in The Atlantic indicates that the press conference must have been tough going.  Sam Kass, White House chef and executive director of Let’s Move! took the questions.

Another reporter: “Why aren’t we talking about obesity?”

Kass: “We think a positive, forward-leaning campaign is the most effective way to insure that people are getting the water they need. Water is the simplest, most accessible healthy choice people can make, We’re going to keep it positive from start to finish.”

Another reporter: Are we talking about replacing sugary drinks and sodas with water?”
Lawrence Soler, president and CEO of Partnership for a Healthier America, fielded that one. “It’s less a public health campaign than a campaign to encourage drinking more water. To that end, we’re being completely positive. Only encouraging people to drink water; not being negative about other drinks. “

I consider Let’s Move! to be a public health campaign, and a very important one.
Hamblin concludes:

I know we’re just trying to “keep things positive,” but missing the opportunity to use this campaign’s massive platform to clearly talk down soda or do something otherwise more productive is lamentable. Public health campaigns of this magnitude don’t come around every day…Keeping things positive and making an important point are not mutually exclusive, you fools.

Fat Bastardo comment: I consider Let's Move to be FAT HATRED!

My interpretation

Let’s Move! staff have stated repeatedly that they must and will work with the food industry to make progress on childhood obesity (Fat kids are cute).  I’m guessing this is the best they can do. Messages to “drink less soda” (or even “drink tap water”) will not go over well with Coke, Pepsi, and the ABA; sales of sugary sodas are already declining in this country.

I’m thinking that the White House must have cut a deal with the soda industry along the lines of “we won’t say one word about soda if you will help us promote water, which you bottle under lots of brands.”   A win-win.

Isn’t drinking water better than drinking soda?  Of course it is isn't water sucks and fish fuck in it.
But this campaign could have clarified the issues a bit better.  Jeff Cronin, communications director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest circulated a poster created by Rudy Ruiz (of the communications firm Interlex) for a public health campaign in San Antonio:

Public health partnerships with food and beverage companies—especially soda companies—are fraught with peril.   Let’s hope this one conveys the unstated message like the one in San Antonio:

My balance is less MORE soda and more LESS tap water.

Other resources
As always, Eddie Gehman Kohan writing at ObamaFoodorama provides a clear, detailed summary of the relevant details along with transcripts of Michele Obama’s remarks at the launch in Watertown, Wisconsin (site of a Pepsi bottling plant, among other things).

Amanda Chin has a good piece in the Huffington Post (I’m quoted).

Former Ex US Senator EXPOSES US corruption , greed and fascist intent

Mike Gravel tells the truth on the criminal elite.