I know, I know, I am getting just as tired of writing about it as you are of reading about it. Something pretty important still remains however. This sink hole of a law remains in effect. America is worse of for it. We, as a nation still have the ability to do something about it. To that end, I am not going to give it up. On to today’s tedium.
The new statistics have been released regarding the waivers granted for the law. The waivers for those of you who do not know, are those people who will be exempted from paying their fair share of this unaffordable monstrosity. To date, we, (meaning we the people,) have exempted 1372 organizations. Some interesting facts about those who will be living off of the rest of us for the next 4 years. 80% of those chosen arbitrarily by the Executive Branch to be opted out of paying are affiliated with unions. Only about 7% of American workers are members of a union. These two stats alone should have an alert Department of Justice scrambling for some coherent answers. Don’t hold your breath. Our Justice Department is headed up by Eric Holder, who is more concerned with foisting a back door slavery reparations solution on us without our knowledge or input, (Pigford.) One in five of the waivers granted during 2011 are for businesses located within the borders of Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district. Again, this is a statistical anomaly which alone should be enough to send the former House Speaker to prison. Perhaps, if we had an Attorney General who was actually doing his job, we could get a picture of Nancy being sentenced against a backdrop photo of her holding that comically sized gavel that she marched from her office to the Capitol Building. One of our 50 states has been completely exempted. That means there is a 98% chance that you should be outraged for having to pick up their share of the cost, which is actually killing our jobs and national economy.
Over and over and over and over again we are told about how the Democrats are for the little guy, and how Republicans are the party of the rich. Going over the list of approved waivers to date, I can not find a single little guy anywhere on the list. Also of special note in this search, it seems that the Obama Administration, you know, the most transparent Administration ever, has disallowed the list of waivers from being shown in its entirety. It is now necessary to do multiple searches, for each month and by industry in order to get the whole picture. What we do see in the list is some very wealthy Democrat supporters getting a political payback for selling the rest of us down the river. So, down the river we go, paying for the likes of such small and helpless guys like GE, Aetna, SEIU local 25, The state of Maine, Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district………… What you won’t find on the list is a small business owner who might very possibly be put out of business by the additional $20,000 of expense per employee. Any one who’s business is new, and is just marginally profitable, has now effectively been put out of business by the man who claims that he has created the best environment in the world to conduct commerce. On their way to fighting this added onerous burden, they get to listen to President Obama lecture them about how they should step up and do their part by hiring employees they can neither afford, and are in fact going to be punished for hiring.
The most oft repeated phrase in the law is, “at the discretion of the secretary.” To date, there is no discernible criteria for who gets a waiver and who does not. It is completely at the whim of a bureaucrat, who is a political appointee. The current political appointee is not answering any questions regarding how she makes these decisions. This is not the transparency promised by Candidate Obama. This is in fact the worst form of cynicism that he promised to end. There is a good reason why the Democrats lost 72 House Seats in the midterm elections. This law was that reason. The American people were outraged that something they were clearly against was rammed down their throats, and further outraged that the elected representatives who voted for this did not care enough to listen to their constituents. That is why I continue to write about this. I do not wish to lose that outrage, this is not looking better. It is getting worse. It is now being used as a form of political payback.
