156: My Dear, Dumb, Democrat Friends

The persons I refer to in the title above, are: white, educated, affluent, living in suburbs, and have every economic reason possible to want less government intrusion into their lives.  Yet they vote for BO and believe everything they hear on MSNBC.  These persons, and of course all of the very dumb and poor Democrats, somehow actually believe that Democratic policies will take from the rich and give to Democratic constituencies.  In this my dumb friends are a little less than half right.  Democratic policies attempt to take from the rich, but in fact those policies end up taking much more from the middle class.  Upper income folks obviously have the means and smarts to limit what they give to government.  If some rich bastard like Warren Buffet decides to give a shitload of money to the government, he does.  But you can bet your boots that he also has thousands of employees at various entities owned by Berkshire whose sole job it is to limit tax and regulatory costs.  The dumb Democrats don't have the means or desire to do this, because they somehow think they are getting a good return on their government largess.  Nothing could be further from the economic and practical truth. The smart Democrats are the Kennedy/Clinton/BO types who soak their own constituents to build their fiefdoms.  They keep the dumb Democrats content by giving them crumbs.

155: BObamacare Hits Keep Coming

Today, its a notice from BCBS of how to calculate the ACA fees that will start January 1, 2013.  So it's not just increased premiums for coverage I will never need, or a cancelled policy which was working just fine, or allowing the uninsured to stay that way until a catastrophic illness hits, now there is a "fee" being charged presumably to help pay for those incompetent bureaucrats who have screwed up what used to be an acceptable system.  At least it was acceptable to the millions of immigrants who have been fighting to get into this country and stay here.  I don't see that happening in Scandinavia.

154: BO Says It's All Republicans' Fault

I am often confounded by which of two character traits dominate the thoughts and behavior of BO - arrogance or immaturity.  On the one hand, he refuses to ever reach out those with different opinions or perspectives, since he is supremely self-assured of his own wisdom and intelligence (like forcing passage of BObamacare with zero Republican support).  Then, when the country or the world does not conform to his delusions of grandeur, he stamps his feet and whines, "The Republicans are not cooperating and letting me do what I want." 

Obviously, in order to get to high office, one needs to be self-confident.  But without any trace or idea of what humility is, a person will ultimately fail.  Just like BO, or Tiger Woods, or Jimmy Swaggart, or Jon Corzine.

153: BObamacare Outrage

I just received my renewal notice from BCBS for the HSA policies I provide for myself and employees.  The premiums are 40% higher due to (according to BCBS) BObamacare.  There is no additional coverage.  The deductible is considerably higher.  I detest anyone who voted for that goddamned arrogant punk.

152: Insurance - The Biggest Ripoff Of All Time

This year my insurance premiums for homeowner and auto insurance are up 23% and 12%, receptively.  Why?  Have you ever asked an insurance agent your premiums have skyrocketed?  If you are a complete moron and have never asked, the answers you will are these.  "Replacement costs have gone up.  That hurricane was a doozy.  We increased your coverage.  It's a feature of your policy."  The one answer you absolutely will never hear is, "I don't have the foggiest idea.  All I know is the home office increases premiums every year no matter what happens."  But you'll never hear that because the insurance agent is even a bigger moron than you are.

Actually insurance companies from time to time try to buy their way into certain markets.  So you just have to shop like crazy to get the best rates every year.  Staying loyal to an insurance company is liking trusting a politician.

151: Government Shutdown Is Good

For the reactionary and thoughtless knee-jerker who might read this, please be advised the following statement is general, and not specific to each individual.  A federal government shutdown is a very good thing, in the same way that the sequester was (and is) good.  Politicians of all stripes whined that the sky would fall if the sequester took effect.  What happened?  The sequester took effect and virtually no one has noticed.  The same would be true of a short-term federal government shutdown.  Lots of bureaucrats would have a few days of paid vacation and the citizens would be spared from having them breath down our necks.  How did the idea that "government growth is good, but government reduction is bad" become an accepted truth?

150: Jay Carney, Sychophant

I remember when JC used to be on the McGlaughlin Group.  At that time he was a respected Time Mag writer, and seemed to have a relatively objective point of view (at least as objective as most lame-stream media types get).  Obviously, since he became BO's press secretary, he has drunk the Kool Aid and forever surrendered any claim to objective journalism forevermore.  His more or less constant repetition of talking points and Democratic invective spewed at Republicans is almost comical.  He'll make a good professor someday.  By "good professor" of course I mean essentially an idiot.

149: Ben Feathered His Own Nest

When Ben Bernanke took over as chairman of the Fed, he no doubt had to put his personal savings portfolio into a blind trust somewhere to avoid the appearance of conflict.  However, the "blind" part is really a spoof.  He knows, and everyone else knows, that most of his investments were in blue chip stocks or stock funds.  Since 2008, everything BB has done has been directly related to propping up the stock market.  It is very hard to believe that BB has not considered his personal well-being when deciding to pump the $3 trillion or so into the US financial markets that he has presided over.

148: A (Predictable) Failure Of Management

The state of affairs in the USA is pitiful.  Huge unemployment; ridiculously low interest rates for savers; an ever-growing percentage of GDP eaten up by government; two bit bullies in donkey-powered countries pushing our weak prez around; 535 welfare kings and queens in Congress lining their pockets, most of them with essentially lifetime tenure.  And sitting at the top of this mess is a guy who never had a management job in his life before becoming President.  Really.  BO never so much as managed a night shift at McDonald's, let alone a vast enterprise.  What the hell did people expect to happen?  Did they think that overnight BO was going to become an executive?  The absolute best that can be hoped for is this:  Pray for a quick end to BO's reign, and hope for as many government shutdowns as possible; Elect a Republican president for two terms.  The first term will be a disaster, trying after all to clean up the gigantic mess left behind.  A second Re[publican term could have a chance at reversing some of the insane policies put in place by BO.