90 Miles From Tyranny : 2016-03-20

Obamacare has inspired me to write a song:

Ahem...

How Do You Kill The Middle Class?

OOOO B A M A CARE

How Do You Get Kicked In The Ass?

OOOO B A M A CARE

How Do You Kill A Nation Fast?

OOOO B A M A CARE

How Do We Know We Are Going To Crash?

OOOO B A M A CARE

How Do We Become Socialist Trash?

OOOO B A M A CARE

Should We Keep It, Should We Take A Poll?

Hell No, Let's Roll.

We have been covering the consumption tax, pardon, endless spending black hole that is Obamacare for over a year, so we doubt it will come as a surprise to anyone that in 2015 healthcare was the second biggest use of US consumer funds, soaking up a record $1.9 trillion in real dollars, and more importantly for US economic "growth", the single biggest source of incremental spending by nearly a factor of two.

Incidentally, with spending on healthcare (courtesy of the Supreme Court's Obamacare tax) soaring, while outlays on the traditionally most consumption-intensive category, housing and utilities, going nowhere for the past several years, it is only a matter of 2-3 quarters before Healthcare surpasses Housing as the biggest use of American cash.

Putting this in context, a recent report from Freedom Partners Health found that health insurance premiums have increased faster than wages and inflation in recent years, rising an average of 28 percent from 2009 to 2014 despite the enactment of Obamacare, or rather "because of." Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, and Wednesday is the law’s sixth anniversary.

So, without further ado, this is what drove American consumer spending in the officially concluded, for GDP purposes, 2015. We show this just in case there is still any confusion why...

Now ask yourself, how come this is no longer a shocking picture?
Because They've done this thousands of times...
And Obama says this is not an existential threat. TO WHOM?

#Maps

I'd love to see the breakdown of all demographic groups...

A 5-year-old girl in Texas is being hailed a hero after she saved her mother from drowning in their backyard swimming pool, and it was caught on home surveillance video. (video below).

According to a report, Tracy Anderwald suffered a seizure last week while swimming. Her 5-year-old daughter, Allison, then hopped in to save her.

Allison can be seen in the video pulling her unconscious mother to the shallow end, making sure her head was above water before running inside the house for help.

Tracy, who was released from the hospital Tuesday, was not seriously injured.

She said her daughter learned to swim at the age of two, and she was surprised the young girl knew what to do in the situation....

Thanks Obama! #maps

The number of tuberculosis cases in the United States rose last year for the first time in nearly a quarter-century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia each had more cases in 2015 than 2014, raising questions -- but no definitive answers -- about a possible resurgence of one of the world's deadliest diseases.

The overall increase was relatively small: 157 more cases, bringing the 2015 total to 9,563. Two-thirds of the total were among people born abroad, with Asians accounting for the most cases (3,007) and the highest rate (28.2 cases per 100,000 persons). By comparison, there were only .5 cases per 100,000 whites last year.

Cases of TB in 2015

Number of cases is based on provisional data from the National Tuberculosis Surveillance System -- as of March 4, 2016.

[Vast majority of U.S. tuberculosis cases come from abroad]

"After two decades of declining incidence, progress toward TB elimination in the United States appears to...

If You Are Going To Be A Corrupt Criminal... Be A Democrat...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), flanked by laid off IT workers on Tuesday, spoke about the abuse of the H-1B visa system.

There are 5,669 workers in Connecticut employed under the H-1B program, Blumenthal said at a press conference. "How many of them have displaced American workers? We don't know," he said. "How many of them have been hired instead of American workers? We don't know.

"But we know that increasingly," the senator said, foreign workers are being used to displace Americans "because they can be employed more cheaply."

Blumenthal's press conference was another sign of the rising political visibility of the H-1B issue. The implications of this attention are unclear.

Legislative reforms are stalled, and discrimination cases in court remain undecided, but the issue may be getting the most attention it has ever received.

At rallies for Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman seeking the Republican presidential nomination, Disney IT workers have spoken about being replaced by foreign labor.

Trump was endorsed by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the head of the Senate immigration subcommittee. That committee has held two hearings during this legislative term on the impact of H-1B visa holders on highly skilled workers.

Trump, at the Miami GOP candidate debate, appeared to suggest ending the H-1B program. His platform details H-1B reforms, and the endorsement by Sessions, a leading Republican critic on illegal immigration, may be seen as a sign that Trump is serious. But in some public statements during debates, Trump can seem wobbly on H-1B issue.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a Texas senator, once called for a massive H-1B cap increase but has since become...

They're pickin' up the prisoners
And puttin 'em in a pen
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
Rebels been rebels
Since I don't know when
And all she wants to do is dance

Molotov cocktail, the local drink
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
They mix 'em up right
In the kitchen sink
And all she wants to do is dance

Crazy people walkin' round with blood in their eyes
And all she wants to do is dance, dance, dance
Wild-eyed pistol wavers who ain't afraid to die
And all she wants to do is
And all she wants to do is dance
And make romance
She can't feel the heat
Comin' off the street
She wants to party
She wants to get down
All she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance

Well the government bugged the men's room
In the local disco lounge
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
To keep the boys from sellin'
All the weapons they could scrounge
And all she wants to do is dance

Yeah, but that don't keep the boys from makin' a buck or two
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
The still can sell the army
All the drugs that they can do
And all she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance
And make romance

Well we barely make the airport
For the last plane out
As we taxied down the runway
I could hear the people shout
They said, "don't come back here Yankee"
But if I ever do
I'll bring more money
'Cause all she wants to do is dance
And make romance
Never mind the heat
Comin' off the street
She wants to party
She wants to get down
All she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance
And make romance
All she wants to do is dance

Saturday, March 26, 2016

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Like Orwell?

Thursday, March 24, 2016