President Obama is playing Monopoly again. Except this time it’s with 1/6 of the American economy.
During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.
Sure, he stopped short of calling for jail time, but his hesitance to do so is undoubtedly borne out of an intense desire to avoid yet another conservative firestorm.
“What I think is appropriate,” Obama said, “is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it’s affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there’s a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are — are burdened by because of the fact that people don’t have health insurance, you know, there’s nothing wrong with a penalty.”
The only problem with Obama’s version of Monopoly (let’s call it “Obamanopoly”) is that he’s added one new rule:
If he runs out of money, he just takes a little from all the other players.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
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The penalty for not having car insurance is that you aren’t allowed to drive. If you take the bus everywhere, it doesn’t make a difference. Your choice.
The penalty for not having health insurance in an Obama world is … they jack up the price and make you buy it anyway. And if you still don’t pay, the penalty is, you aren’t allowed to do ANYTHING because you’re in jail.
There’s no comparison, really, except both things have the word insurance in them.
Make no mistake. This is a plan to massively redistribute wealth. It isn’t about healthcare. It is about Dim control of our government for years to come.
At least if you are in jail, FOR SURE you will be getting healthcare comparable to the elite. Because this monstrosity includes “quotas” for the recruitment of future physicians, if you belong to a minority AND are in jail you will be primo on the list to BE TRAINED AS A PHYSICIAN. No worries!
It is only the older people who have paid into the system all their lives and the newly born disabled (no votes or money there) who will have rationing of healthcare. And of course, the a$$clowns in Congress have not taken into account the fact that the BEST PHYSICIANS IN THE WORLD (i.e. AMERICAN) are just not going to be staying in the field, or will not train for the field in the first place. Talk about making me want to vomit in my mouth!
Abortion taxes will be assessed to everyone. Period. The sacrament of the Dims cannot be allowed to in any way be restricted. Validation is given through the sacrifice of our hard earned monies to the death of innocent babies in the womb.
It is totally depressing.
Comparing this health-care debacle to automobile insurance is a straw man argument. Automobile insurance is to protect you from me financially. That cannot be said of obamacare. What it does is to subsidize some at increased expense of others. Its consequence will be to lower health care standards for all and further increase national debt. What guberment program ever came in under- let alone on-budget? It will also give the guberment the right to have an increased say in what you can or cannot do, what you can or cannot eat, etc. If you think that won’t happen then please let me know when the guberment laid out cash and didn’t then take an active role in the control of the entity that foolishly took the cash.
More guberment. More control. More cost. Less freedom.
America cannot afford obama. Literally.
As an addendum, if obama and his goons put you into the pokey for not paying for a crap healthcare plan, well, you end up with free health care! Cool, huh?
Chairman BHO to “Americans, when I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you”
Is BHO telling Americans… when I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!
This is the most articulate President we ever had? This is the man people voted for because he speaks well? He may read out loud well, but when there is nothing for him to read, he rambles something awful.
Chairman BHO to Americans, “when I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you”
I thought prisons were overpopulated and I also learnt from Beck that he (His Magnanimous Self) supports Van Jones’ attempts to get dangerous criminals out on the street due to their genius… But it seems that people who dont want to get insurance are the most dangerous people in the country so I guess space shall be found for them once the hardened genius criminals get their ticket out and placed in the communities where the dangerous non insured used to live.
Whacko upside down world.
So…..who else will be joining me in prison for refusing Obamacare? They’re going to have to release every murderer, rapist, serial killer, gangbanger, etc. to make room for us Anti-Obamacare members.
WH warns Congress, trust me boys & girls: you dont want to go home for Thanksgiving & face your constituants before this ‘Turkey Gets Stuffed”. Then you can just go home and blame it all on Reid & Pelosi.
LOL! This just cracks me up! If this boondoggle passes, I cannot wait for the Christian Scientists, Jehovah’s Witness and any other religious groups (mainstream or not) to SUE THE PANTS off the feds! Forcing people to do something that is against their religion? Can’t these moronic zombies comprehend the First Amendment to the US Constitution? Suddenly there will be more claimants of religious persecution than you can shake a stick at! I love it! Let’s have, oh, I dunno….about 200 million people suddenly “converting”!!! I say, GAME ON!!!
Refuse Obamacare and go to jail?
Is the health care system in prison actually better or worse then the one currently tiring to be installed with Obamacare?
Prisoners have access to more drugs (though most of them illegal) and the staff is very experienced at emergency medicine (from all the stab wounds and beatings) so it might be the better of the two picks. Also, with prison, unless the Jury rules against you, there is not death panel watching over you.
Doesn’t this tread on the 4th amendment? Taking your money and your liberty when you do not comply with what the government tries to force you to do ‘for your own good’ even when you don’t want what is on offer from the government?
No. At least not until it hits the courts over such a matter.
Obama needs to learn that “free loading” is when some one signs into a service of one’s own volition and is expected to contribute in some way to get an on going benefit, and then does not contribute. When you are FORCED to take some service under penalty of loss if you refuse, you become loaded with it but are not free.