A new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee minority staff estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will be needed to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses in the ‘reconciliation’ bill being taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives this weekend.

Oh – I guess the Dems can be credited with creating new jobs.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/16500-more-IRS-agents-needed-to-enforce-Obamacare-88458137.html

If the “status quo”–which the Left has incessantly claimed is a dark, evil place where corporations rape the poor with sky-high insurance premiums and then systematically deny most claims for profit–is so VIVID, then why have the Democrats been unable to produce even a handful of credible victims of this shameful practice during the past year?

The way things are, the status quo, are always more “vivid” than an unknown future after such things are changed.

Huh?

“Elements of the past and the future combinin’ to make something not quite as good as either” – The ‘itcher

I can easily imagine her in the 1960’s saying the same of desegregation.

How so? It was YOUR party integration tooth and nail. The dems are STILL the party of slavery and segregation.

And if if Peggy could own up beyond her biased, she would admit that Obama is doing the thing she seems to most admire in people – sticking to their guns. I never expect Noonan to be honest and non-partisan, but her folksy and flowery concern trolling is pretty blatant this time.

30 million people brought into the health insurance universe

We’ve been told for years that it was 47 million without insurance. What about the other 17 million?

I would not be surprised if he is not looking south to Cuba where Castro has ruled over his united country for a life time. How did he do it? My neighbor in Denver, who came from Cuba, said that since he lived next to the prison, each morning at sunrise he would hear the gun fire. He knew that he would have to get out of the country soon since he had worked for an American company.

So they came! In any old boat that they could find and even on innertubes. Over half drowned before reaching America but Castro had and still has his united country.

The Great Depression lasted for over a decade because Roosevelt deliberately deepened the crisis. He knew the sheeple would look past this, regarding him as their savior and keeping him in office. And so they did.

A new boob is born every minute.

You can forget the pre-Obama United States. We are so indebted to ourselves and other nations that we are beyond bankruptcy. Even with all manner of new unfunded entitlement liabilities, the willing mob can still be bought with a government job and small change. By the time they reach an epiphany, they will have no recourse. Pity them, all disillusioned and enslaved by dreams turned to a reality that wishes it were a nightmare.

Meanwhile, the ruling elite will march on, always dredging up a new set of villains for the masses to blame.

Rare is the man of modest means who does not come out of Congress with a sizable increase in his fortune.

What matters is that they “fundamentally transform America” into an all-powerful, centralized socialist state. I used to think that the idea that they were following the Cloward-Piven strategy was nutty, but… I can see no other reason for their actions now. If they can bring.. the kind of State that Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Obama and so many others have been dreaming of into being, ANY price is worth it.

But will it work?

The Cloward-Piven strategy never said, “Be in power when the system falls, so that you (revolutionary leftists) will catch the blame for its fall.” They are stoking a backlash (Tea Party), and simultaneously, America’s bankruptcy. There is a good chance that whoever cleans up the leftists’ mess will do so by cutting government in a big way – because there will mathematically, financially be no alternative.

These are all people who make claim to have created themselves and they ardently believe their own creation myths. They share this lunatic view with every dictator that has every ruled a playground or a country.

Let’s start with the IRS becoming the gatekeeper in providing health care. Just as they sniffed-around for speakeasies and back-hollows moonshine stills, they’ll be visiting your employer and your doctor.
“Subpoena, we don’t need no stinkin’ subpoena. …Ihr ausweis bitte.”

And once inacted, getting rid of Obamacare’s tentacles into the national economy will be like trying to uproot bamboo or kudzu…good luck with that.

NONE of that matters. What matters is that they “fundamentally transform America” into an all-powerful, centralized socialist state. I used to think that the idea that they were following the Cloward-Piven strategy was nutty, but as they are NOT stupid, I can see no other reason for their actions now. If they can bring this country to its knees so that the kind of State that Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Obama and so many others have been dreaming of into being, ANY price is worth it.

30 million people brought into the health insurance universe – the end of the practice of denying insurance to the previously sick, or yanking it from those who get sick…

Entirely bogus, but let’s play Tano’s game.

Let us assume that these 30 million people can not afford health insurance. (Not at all so, but let’s play along with Tano.) Put them under Medicaid after the IRS and other regulators have examined and certified them.

Require an insurance company about to deny insurance to send all the paperwork to the Obama Health Reform Insurance Agency and let the government issue “flood” insurance to cover them. Naturally, this is another unfunded entitlement liability, but Tano cares not a whit about unfunded entitlement liabilities and it would “insure” this group.

Require an insurance company about to yank insurance from those who get sick ….. see above.

Tano didn’t mention this, but why not let insurance companies shake out all their risky clients? The Obama Health Reform Insurance Agency can pick them up too and soon we will have an honest two tier health system. The insurance companies will have their network of doctors and hospitals paid by the private insurance companies and those who walk in with cash. Then, there will be the network of doctors and hospitals owned and run by the Obama Health Reform Insurance Agency.

In fact, why not set up the insurance industry medical system on a mutual system where all of the policy holders are stockholders as well and they are paid dividends and credits against their policy usage?

I will leave the description of the Obama Health Reform Insurance Agency network of doctors and hospitals up to Tano’s vivid imagination.

Understand that this plan would make unfunded entitlement liabilities skyrocket (like Obama predicts will happen electricity rates under his Cap and Trade scheme) but that is of zero concern to Tano.