157: BO The Innocent

This, from the BO press conference just concluded:  "What we discovered is that it is difficult to buy [health] insurance."  Stopping the freaking presses!  BO has made a discovery!  After three years, a half billion dollars for a shitty website, and countless billions of other wasted government assets, BO has "discovered" that is difficult to buy health insurance.  This is what happens when a community organizer with zero executive experience gets elected president and decides to take over 16% of the GDP.  We would have been much better off with Michelle at the helm.  At least she, as the family bread winner, knows something about health insurance and balancing a checkbook.  How many other "discovieries" has BO made on our dime?

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?