Mister Bush was in Tennessee yesterday to talk about taxes and health care.
Sitting before a bright blue banner proclaiming AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE, he talked to a variety of smiling, happy and uninsured Americans. Victims that the regime had carefully pre-selected for being both docile and willing to spew the party line.
Smiley faces and staged events despite lies and bullshit, has been the SOP of corrupt and illegitimate regimes throughout history. Yesterday was no different.
Bush received a hearty ovation as he described his plan in Chattanooga. He shared a stage with people who hold full-time jobs but can't afford health insurance for their families.
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Do you think for a moment the MSM, the official regime scribes, did anything more than dutifully transcribe what this moron said? NO.
So I read the official White House transcript of his so-called town meeting. My jaw dropped so low it almost hit the floor.
Mr. Bush spent his time with hand-picked citizens this time from Tennessee, "cracking jokes" and describing Murder by Spreadsheet.
"I have a pre-existing condition, I have trouble with my left knee and the quotes were just outrageous and I’m just kind of stuck," Marty Ginn, an office manager from nearby McMinnville, told Mr. Bush, who held forth in talk show mode for nearly an hour, cracking jokes about everything from his mother to "the hair follicle benefit."
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In fact the dictator's 2008 budget proposes to slash Medicare and Medicaid spending by a combined $102 billion over the next five years. Ha.Ha.Ha. The dictator is just a good ole boy, barely able to formulate a coherent sentence.
It's inconceivable that various Democrats still actually take this illiterate dictator seriously. But they do. From the New York Times.
Mr. Bush, though, sees morsels of encouragement in a recent letter from five Democratic and five Republican senators, led by Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, who say they want to work toward compromise.
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Let's take a listen to the nonsensical drivel from the dictator they think they're going to deal with. Mr. Wyden, over my dead body!
This is our president speaking. This is our national shame. If he came to fix my clogged toilet, I'd be worried. This is from the official White House transcript. Lots of laugher and jokes from the Great Pretender.
You owe it to yourself to read the official White House transcript. If it weren't so damned tragic, you might wet your pants laughing.
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We got a problem. And the problem is health care costs are rising too fast for a lot of our individuals and small business owners. Here's one of them right here. He's about to testify -- (laughter) -- about the rising cost of health care. Individuals are being priced out of the market. And so what is the proper policy to deal with it? You sent us up to Washington to identify problems, but you also sent us up there to identify solutions. And so I want to share some solutions with you today, some ideas that I hope the members of Congress take seriously.
Then come the lies and deceit.
Secondly, that when it comes time to helping people who need help, it makes sense for us to make sure the federal government does its job and to work in concert with states. Now, I believe the federal government has a solemn responsibility to take care of the sick -- I mean, the disabled, the elderly and the poor. We have made that commitment and we've got to honor that commitment.
Here's the truth. The American people understand that the dictator is a liar and that our health-care system is not sustainable. They understand that without significant reform, our health system is at the brink of a complete meltdown. Tens of millions of Americans -- 47 million at latest count -- lack health insurance, do not have a regular source of care and use costly emergency rooms for routine care. Health care costs are as much as 250% higher in the United States than in any other developed nation. The quality of care, even for those of us privileged to be insured, is problematic at best. Our for-profit system forces us the run a gauntlet every time we require a medical test, surgical procedure or anything other than the cheapest medication. This is Murder by Spreadsheet which the dictator fully embraces.
Here are the timid voices of the shills the regime selected as props to promote its new round of tax cuts.
"I firmly believe we can do a better job in helping people get private insurance than we're doing today," he said Wednesday.
Amy Childers, an interior designer from Nashville who works for a small lamp company, told the president she'd recently dropped a good health insurance policy for a high-deductible one after the cost of her first policy went up.
"My dad wasn't supposed to know this -- I dropped that health insurance," she said.
"Well, he knows it now ... I hate to tell you Amy, but see all those cameras?" the president quipped.
He said that under his proposal, Ms. Childers would save about $2,000 a year to offset the cost of buying her health insurance.
Chattanooga real estate developer Will Smith, owner of WAS Properties, told the president that he would like to insure his nine employees.
"They're not only just my employees, they're part of my family ... and we just can't afford insurance for them," he said.
President Bush said his proposal to make health insurance premiums tax deductible could save Mr. Smith's employees money so they could afford to buy their own insurance.
Martha "Marty" Ginn, an office manager at McMinnville's Womack Motor Co., which does not offer health insurance, said she can't afford to buy her own policy.
The president said that with his proposal, she could save $1,900 a year to help purchase her health insurance.
Danny Jennings, also from McMinnville, is a manager at Tennessee Valley Nursery. He said he couldn't afford health insurance for his family.
The president said that with his proposed tax deduction, Mr. Jennings would save about $4,500 a year to offset the $5,400 it would cost to buy health insurance for his family.
Despite the local faces on stage to illustrate the case for the president's proposals, not everyone is on board with his plans for health care.
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See, the dictator believes that taxes and lack of health care go together. You give people a tax break and they'll go buy themselves some health insurance, then Mr. Bush can go home and take a bike ride.
THE PRESIDENT: One of the reasons I've asked Danny to come is because I want to help you understand how the standard deduction, in his case, of $15,000, will help him better afford health insurance. As I understand it right now, that when you -- it costs Danny about $450 a month to be able to get insurance to cover his family's needs.
MR. JENNINGS: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: If we can get Congress to change the tax code -- now, here's a fellow working for a small company that does not have insurance, can't afford to go on the market himself, but if we can get the standard deduction passed so that he's able to deduct $15,000 off his income tax and payroll tax, he saves about $4,500 in a year in taxes, which means that the cost per month for him and his family for health insurance goes down to $47 a month when you apply the tax savings.
The reason I asked Danny to come is because I want you to understand that the standard deduction can mean a lot to a fellow who's working and trying to be able to afford private health insurance. In other words, there's more money in his pocket as a result of the tax standard deduction, and there's more peace of mind knowing that his kids and that he and his wife are covered.
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Besides being an illiterate jackass, his rambling, inane and nonsensical explanations of the health crisis are beyond my ability to comment on. I suggest we instruct those Democrats who are in negotiating mode with the dictator to cease and desist.