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Obama’s legacy will be his continuing lies…
author: conservativecritic. reposted from: Conservative Critic's Blog, July 20, 2011
Since he began campaigning for president, Barack Obama has claimed that because his mother had a pre-existing condition, she died of cancer without health insurance coverage. As it turns out, that was a pure invention to win support for passage of his healthcare legislation. So too was Obama’s claim that he watched at his mother’s side as she suffered the disease without being insured.
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According to correspondence unearthed by Janny Scott, a New York Times writer and author of the book “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” Ann Dunham’s cancer treatments were fully covered by her employer’s insurance policy. She was turned down for disability insurance because of a pre-existing condition.
Moreover, Obama had not seen his mother for months when she died in a Honolulu hospital in 1995, according to Scott’s book and to friends interviewed by The Washington Post. Her son was in Chicago, planning a run for an Illinois state Senate seat. He did not go to see his mother until a day after she died on Nov. 7, 1995.
A White House spokesman did not dispute Scott’s account. He said that Obama’s mother still had several hundred dollars a month in medical expenses that were not covered, as if any health insurance policy would pay 100 percent of medical bills.
He added that Obama “has told this story based on his recollection of
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The future president with his mother, Ann Dunham (AP photo) |
That excuse is as credible as Obama’s claim that he had no idea his minister and self-described mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., was an anti-white anti-America, anti-Israel hatemonger.
As noted in ”Obama Distorted Rev. Wright’s Background,” Obama went on to make up stories about how deprived and discriminated against Wright was while growing up in Philadelphia.
In fact, Wright grew up in a comfortable middle class family in a racially mixed neighborhood. He attended Central High, an elite school that admits only the most qualified students from all over the city. But the press bought every word of Obama’s Wright mythology.
What kind of a person would make up stories about his mother in order to score political points? The same person who would tell the American people that he wants to cut spending when he has presided over an increase in the federal debt from 53 percent of GDP in 2009 to 72 percent this year.
In February, that same person presented Congress with a budget that increases federal debt by $10 trillion over the next decade. In April, that person rejected Republican efforts to raise the debt ceiling in return for spending cuts. Now Obama is claiming he wants spending cuts, but he will not specify which ones beyond a pathetic $2 billion.
The disparity between Obama’s words and his actions goes back to the healthcare bill. He claimed no one would lose their existing coverage. It turns out that was more hocus-pocus. A McKinsey & Co. survey found that nearly a third of private-sector employers say they will discontinue covering their employees with health insurance because of the rising cost imposed by Obama’s healthcare legislation.
One reason for the increased cost is the requirement that health insurers cover everyone regardless of whether they have a pre-existing condition. That is like allowing drivers to go without car insurance and then letting them sign up for it to pay for an accident that has already occurred. The rest of the country foots the bill.
In addressing the nation’s scary increased debt, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has accused Obama of engaging in smoke and mirrors. Dealing with Obama is like negotiating with Jell-O, House Speaker John Boehner has said.
Looking at Obama’s fabrications about his mother’s illness, we can see why.
Finally, whether you want to categorize it as an outright lie or simply scare tactics, in early July, CBC News Anchor Scott Pelley asked Obama whether he can “…tell the folks at home that, no matter what happens, the Social Security checks are gonna go out on August 3?”.
Obama replied that whether it was Social Security checks, veterans’ checks, or disability checks, “…I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3 if we haven’t resolved this (debt) issue, because there(may) simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”
Either Obama is an accomplished liar or he simply does not understand cash flow in the US Government – the federal government takes in roughly $180 billion every month. (It also borrows $135 billion a month.) Social Security payments are about $60 billion per month, payments to all military personnel (vets and otherwise) are about $12 billion and payments to disabled veterans are about $6 billion. That totals about $78 billion.
For Obama to say that “…there may simply not be the money in the coffers” to pay for these items is patently false. One might even call it “…engaging in scare tactics”..
Clearly Obama does not know the first thing about the most important part of the economics of the Government he is responsible for running, or he is simply lying again to the American people – hoping that no one does the math…Pathetic indeed.
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