Sources Claiming As Few As 5-15% Of ObamaCare 'Enrollees' Have Paid Their Premiums

January is going to be an ugly month for ObamaCare....

The administration and its liberal allies love to cite their new, severely massaged, set of November numbers. If they're to be believed, as of November 30th 365,000 people have signed up for private insurance through ObamaCare. Most of these came from state-run exchanges, with the majority hailing from California and New York. For a moment, let's set aside the fact that this number is probably inflated. We'll also ignore the fact that it counts "people who have selected a plan" as enrollees, and we'll overlook the fact that 41 states have enrollment numbers that are, at their best, in the four-figure range.

We'll just go with the 365,000.

365,000 enrollees means that, since its launch, ObamaCare has managed to "enroll" just over a million people - if you count 800,000 Medicaid signups. However, as we all know, enrollees in private plans are not insured until they actually make a payment. Last week, CNN reported that at least one insurer in Indiana was seeing a payment rate of only about 20%. Since we all know CNN likes to paint as rosy a picture of the ACA as possible, that horrible number actually seemed a bit...optomistic.
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Democrats Plunder Bell City, California

Hi Joe

If you think Salisbury is full of corruption - wait until you see what has happened in Bell City, CA. I have seen the news bulletin streaming on the bottom ticker all morning on FOX news regarding Bell officials plundering the City.

What do they all have in common? They are all die-hard Democrats.

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Nation of Islam Leader’s Home In Hyde Park Received $100,000 in Farm Subsidies

Your tax dollars at work…
Millions of dollars in farm subsidies were given to city dwellers including over $100,000 to Louis Farrakhan in Hyde Park!

Open the Books just completed and released a new report called, “The Federal Transfer Report- Farm Subsidies & The Big Dogs”
Within the report, the group discovered this…

Case Study Example: Three Year Economic Savings Program, Inc., Hyde Park, 60615

A non-profit organization called Three Year Economic Savings Program, Inc received 19 payments totaling $103,529 (2008-11). The address matches Louis Farrakhan’s home and mosque address.More

Why Our Consumer-Debt Dependent Economy Is Doomed

If you understand the difference between the first pair of shoes and the 25th, you understand why America's debt-dependent consumer economy is doomed.

Yesterday I explained Why We're Stuck with a Bubble Economy:

Now that interest rates are near-zero and mortgage rates are rising from historic lows, there is no more juice to be squeezed from low rates. Asset bubbles always burst, destroying collateral and rendering borrowers and lenders alike insolvent.

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Price Tag Placement Can Change The Product Name...12-12-13

 

AMERICA...OUR STOLEN COUNTRY - PART III

When Dr.Terrence Lakin, former U.S.Army Lt.Col., began hearing of many legal challenges to Barack Obama's presidental eligibility, he, in compliance with his sworn oath (similar to Obama's) , to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic", went through military channels for clarification of this issue. Receiving no help, he then wrote directly to Obama, asking him to confirm that a valid "Certificate of Live Birth"(required by Hawaiian law) had been filed by him in 2008. In previous inquiries Obama never responded to others or he referred them to a "Certification of Live Birth"(COLB) which was posted on the Daily Kos website, as proof of his eligibility. In so doing, Obama lied to America. A COLB was not only inadequate for Presidential aspirants, as Obama, a Constitutional teacher, well knew but his copy had also been declared fraudulent by many computer document experts. Not once did Obama offer or even mention the existence of a valid "Certificate of Live Birth"(not a COLB), which might have confirmed his eligibility. Instead, he continued deceiving the Nation through the 2008 election! In Col.Lakin's case, Obama completely ignored his letter, the letter of a man who had given 18 years of faithful allegiance to America, merited a Bronze Star and became a leading flight surgeon charged with caring for the Chief of Staff's pilots and air crews. Feeling that Obama's authority to command had not been established, Col.Lakin refused a second deployment to Afghanistan. He was then arrested and underwent a military court-martial at which the presiding judge, Major General Carla Hawley-Bowland would not allow him to introduce any Obama records in his defense "lest they prove embarrassing to the President." (her words). Unbelievable! If Col.Lakin's attorney had wished to introduce the Constitution into the records because the oath taken to defend it was contained therein, would she also have rejected that request?

The General's concern for sparing Obama possible "embarrassment" (read: a deception being exposed) overrode any concern for the truth.The "sham" guilty verdict was followed by a dishonorable discharge, loss of all pay and benefits and imprisonment. Her kangaroo court had done its job well! A man who had served his Country honorably was brought down by a "Commander -in-Thief", Barack Obama, the only President in our history who refused to produce a valid birth certificate of his own and who,unlawfully, remains in Office to this day. If anyone has doubts as to how far Obama would go to continue his deception please re-read the above.No terrorist could have inflicted more serious wounds upon Col.Lakin than did Obama by his ignoring the Colonel's request for transparency! Obama destroyed an American soldier's career in order to keep his own career intact.

Consider: Two men took an oath to defend the Constitution. One (Col.Lakin) faithfully did for 18 years while the other, Obama, used lies, false documents and the "sound of silence" (aided by a subservient News Media} as he plotted to upend,not defend that same Constitution.. Just recently, he accidentally spoke before an "open" mike and America heard him telling his aides to "find a way to get around the Constitution!" Treasonous words, which spoke volumes as to Obama's moral honesty. To take an oath requires one to live that oath.

Obama did find time to fill out a form with names of basketball teams he favored in an upcoming tournament and to go on multiple vacations, including one to Hawaii at the same time Lt.Col.Lakin was "leaving" for Leavenworth,Kansas Penitentiary. How sad....one traveled in comfort, the other in chains! Why? For seeking confirmation that the service and salute which each serviceman and woman rendered to their President was being received by someone entitled to command their allegiance. Col. Lakin, who spent years mending broken bodies now found himself incapacitated not by enemy action but by a man who repeatedly boasted of being "transparent".....unless his eligibility was being questioned. I pray that all recipients of this letter add their voices to the call for vindication and restoration of Lt.Col.Lakin to the Army, if he so desires and to demand that Obama, who constantly boasts of being "transparent" be ordered to produce whatever birth documents (if any) are in the Hawaiian Health Dept.files and submit them to an impartial analysis for verification. After the manner in which he treated Col.Lakin and others, we cannot expect Obama to voluntarily produce any records. After all,in his own words in Newsday, Aug.22,2010 in New York he unwittingly characterized himself when he said:"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are those with something to hide". AMEN.

(to be continued)

Holiday Gift Ideas For The Toughest Folks On Your List

We know you're starting to panic. With just a few weeks left in the holiday season, you still need Christmas gift ideas for some of the people on your list: the babysitter you want to keep happy, the co-worker you drew in the office Secret Santa exchange, the in-laws who have everything, the new niece or nephew who already seems to have so much for such a tiny person.

Stop the freakout: Try this list for inspiration. You can pick up most of these gifts on your way home tonight!
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Letter From New Haven. Black Mob Violence Unreported?

I live in Connecticut. The horrible attack on a white businessman in New Haven was completely ignored by Connecticut media. He works for, or owns, a “motorsports” business in New Haven.

He was trying out a scooter, sitting at a red light, when he was attacked by a mob of about six or so black men. He does not remember the attack, but just an angry man walking toward him. New Haven is a liberal city to the max.

As far as I know, they did not “find” the attackers, despite having found the scooter! The man is lucky to be alive. He was given such a head injury, and his photo was online. If you look up “New Haven scooter attack” you will probably come across it. Let me know if you don’t. It was all hush-hushed or ignored in our sickening liberal state.

TV did not really touch it, and the print media, only in the New Haven Independent, or some such tiny newspaper. This major assault on a white man by a black mob was just swept under the rug. I mean, it garnished NO attention!

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BREAKING NEWS: House Approves Budget Plan On Bipartisan Vote

The House approves a two-year budget plan, 332-94, on a bipartisan vote. From Fox News

How Isaac Newton Went Flat Broke Chasing A Stock Bubble

For practitioners of Schadenfreude, seeing high-profile investors losing their shirts is always amusing.

But for the true connoisseur, the finest expression of the art comes when a high-profile investor identifies a bubble, perhaps even makes money out of it, exits in time – and then gets sucked back in only to lose everything in the resultant bust.

An early example is the case of Sir Isaac Newton and the South Sea Company, which was established in the early 18th Century and granted a monopoly on trade in the South Seas in exchange for assuming England’s war debt.

Investors warmed to the appeal of this monopoly and the company’s shares began their rise.

Britain’s most celebrated scientist was not immune to the monetary charms of the South Sea Company, and in early 1720 he profited handsomely from his stake. Having cashed in his chips, he then watched with some perturbation as stock in the company continued to rise.

In the words of Lord Overstone, no warning on earth can save people determined to grow suddenly rich.

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Walk Through Bethelehm

NSA Chief: We Must Keep Collecting To Protect U.S.

WASHINGTON — The NSA chief said Wednesday he knows of no better way his agency can help protect the U.S. from foreign threats than with spy programs that collect billions of phone and Internet records from around the world.

Pleading with the Senate Judiciary Committee to not abolish the National Security Agency’s bulk-collection programs, Gen. Keith Alexander warned that global threats are growing — specifically in Iraq and Syria — that pose what he called “an unacceptable risk” to America.

“How do we connect the dots?” Alexander said, referring to often-hidden links between a foreign terror threat and a potential attack on the U.S. “There is no other way that we know of to connect the dots. … Taking these programs off the table is absolutely not the thing to do.” 
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Math For American Politicians

VEGAS RULES: Harry Reid Pushed Feds To Change Ruling For Casino’s Big-Money Foreigners

The Obama administration overruled career Homeland Security officials and expedited visa applications for about two dozen foreign investors for a politically connected Las Vegas casino hotel after repeated pressure from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his staff, according to internal government documents obtained by The Washington Times.

The move to overturn what is normally a non-appealable visa decision came despite concerns about “suspicious financial activity” involving some of the visa applicants from Asia, and it ultimately benefited several companies whose executives have donated heavily in recent years to Democrats, the documents show. It also ensnared Mr. Obama’s current nominee to be the No. 2 Homeland Security official, Alejandro “Ali” Mayorkas, whose appointment is to be reviewed by the Senate on Wednesday.

The intervention from Mr. Reid’s staff was so intense at one point a year ago that a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) official reported that it prompted a phone shouting match, turning a normally bureaucratic review process inside the Homeland Security Department into a politically charged drama that worried career officials.
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Obama's Wrong: GOP Is Pitching Alternative Healthcare Plans

Despite the president's assertions that GOP critics of Obamacare haven't offered anything better, Republicans have in fact put forward alternatives aimed at not only repealing the flawed law but also fixing many of its shortcomings.

In the House, the Republican Study Committee has put together the latest and most comprehensive version of a GOP healthcare plan. The American Health Care Reform Act, introduced in September, now has 108 co-sponsors.

The proposal flips Obamacare's focus on a vast role for the federal government in overseeing the nation's healthcare system to a free-market approach, including tax deductions geared at giving consumers the ability to purchase their own health insurance, and tort reform aimed at lessening costs to medical providers.

The plan leans on ideas previously proposed by Republicans, including allowing competition from insurance providers across state lines, creating pools for small businesses that keep rates down, and allowing the federal government to contribute to high-risk insurance pools in the states, bolstering support for those with pre-existing conditions.

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Lawmakers Recommend Closing City Detention Center; Maynard Praised

Members of a state legislative task force approved their final recommendations today in the wake of a smuggling scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center.

The task force doesn’t assign blame to any state official for the scandal. Instead it offers policy changes that lawmakers will consider in their new session starting next month.

The task force recommended closing the state run city jail, over a ten year period, at a cost of more than $533-million.
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Volcker Rule Passed By All 5 Regulators

All five regulatory agencies put to a vote and approved the Volcker rule on Tuesday, supposedly, as The WSJ reports, ushering in a new era of tough oversight that drills to the core of Wall Street's profitable markets and trading businesses. As President Obama just ordered via Bloomberg:

OBAMA SAYS VOLCKER RULE WILL MAKE FINANCIAL SYSTEM SAFER

Of course, now the various regulators line up at the trough demanding more funding to cover all the details of all the pages of all the new laws that all of the banks will now have to address on all of their trades...

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Baltimore Steel Plant Closing

Another steel plant is closing in our area.

Worthington Steel is shutting its doors in Essex. The company said Wednesday it will lay off 54 workers at its Baltimore County plant.

The workers will be offered jobs at other Worthington plants or get a severance package
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Female Correctional Officer Punched In Face During 'Knockout Game'

CO: "Came right out of the bathroom and punched me in my eye"

NEW YORK — Rikers Island is a tough place on a good day, but now going to work for correction officers has become even more dangerous.

It looks like the crime fad known as the knockout game has spread to Rikers Island, with women officers the main targets. I spoke exclusively with one female C.O. who is still reeling from a punch to the face.

We have an exclusive picture of the damage the woman said was done to her on November 30, 2013, on Rikers Island. The 22-year-old rookie correction officer told me the knockout game we've seen spread across the country is also spreading inside the jail.

"Came right out of the bathroom and punched me in my eye," she said.

Full story: Knockout game at Rikers Island

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