The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.
The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.
“We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “We can’t keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more.”
Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
The Espionage Act, enacted back in 1917 to punish those who gave aid to our enemies, was used three times in all the prior administrations to bring cases against government officials accused of providing classified information to the media. It has been used six times since the current president took office.
We’re headed down the same road. “The British Government has run out of money because all the money was spent in the good years,” the Chancellor said. “The money and the investment and the jobs need to come from the private sector.”
“In other words what we are not going to do in this Budget is borrow more money to either increase spending or cut taxes.”
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Too bad Obama and his ilk (i.e. mostly Democrats, but some Republicans too) don’t get this simple truth.
Want a really scary thought? The future of our country rests in the hands of the same weak, gullible, and mindless voters who elected him the first time. If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.
Obama is behind Romney and Paul and Santorum has him in a statistical dead heat (i.e. within the margin of error it’s a tie) – only Gingritch trails him and I expect even Newt will pull ahead soon.
With gasoline and heating oil prices reaching and surpassing $4.00 a gallon and $5.00 and even $6.oo on the near horizon, Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu should be given a nice round of applause for being so insightful in 2008 when he said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
We’re not quite there yet but we’re on the Chu trajectory.
Chu’s reasoning, if you can call it that, was that high gas prices would force Americans to buy more fuel efficient cars and move their residences closer to their places of employment.
A typically-liberal approach to social manipulation, Chu’s muddle-headed plan didn’t take into account the future fuel efficient Chevy Volt’s tendency to explode, the added cost of buying hybrids, or the impracticality of most Americans switching jobs during a jobs’ shortage.
Never confuse liberals with reality.
They say their ultimate goal is to end American reliance on foreign oil and toward that end Obama and Company refuse to open up ANWR to drilling, refuse to issue off-shore drilling permits, refuse to approve the Keystone XL pipeline due to environmental fears, loan billions to Mexico to fund offshore drilling off California’s coastline, and ridicules Republican demands to ”drill more.”
All are peculiar inactions unless one considers that Obamians are intent on crippling America and reducing us to the level of a Third World nation, an international adjunct of his pledge to share the wealth.
Perhaps the greatest irony in all this is Secretary Chu’s current concern that high oil prices threaten to stifle America’s and world economies.
Just imagine what will happen when United States’ gas prices reach European levels!
As a Nobel Prize winner, Chu must be correct in all he thinks, no? Then again, Barack Hussein Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and has been warring ever since.
This president, to whom we are shackled until at least January, 2013, has an enviable knack for interpreting realities . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=14770.)
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, the Associated Press reports. Manning’s nomination places him along side Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and other international figures, who have been nominated for this year’s award.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who allegedly received the leaked information from Manning, was nominated last year for the award, though he did not ultimately receive it.
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Clearly this prize has nothing to do with peace:
President Barack Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, his first year in the executive office.
It’s the world equivalent of “everyone gets a ribbon day”:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to counter a rally by a group protesting violence by blacks against whites in South Africa.
The clash erupted in the afternoon as California Highway Patrol and Sacramento police officers were escorting about 35 members of the South Africa Project to a parking garage after their protest outside the Capitol building.
About 50 members of Occupy Oakland began throwing cans and bottles at the South Africa group and at the officers. The Occupy members then clashed with the officers as people with the pro-whites group hurried into the parking garage.
Thanks to the Americans with Disabilities act, a serial drunk was hired as a school bus driver. This labor moonbattery has reached its natural conclusion, now that the boozer hit three teenage girls on a crosswalk.
“Another student, Daniel Parmertor, died hours after the shooting, which sent students screaming through the halls and led teachers to lock down their classrooms as they had practiced doing so many times during drills.”
Koch Industries: Obama trying to “Chill free speech and squelch dissent”
http://freebeacon.com/koch-industries-obama-trying-to-chill-free-speech-and-squelch-dissent/
OBAMA TO CUT HEALTHCARE BENEFITS FOR ACTIVE DUTY AND RETIRED US MILITARY
The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.
The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.
“We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “We can’t keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more.”
Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
Border disorder:
Mexican Cartel Dissolved San Diego Victims in Acid, Prosecutors Say
If you thought moonbattery was harsh on home values in the suburbs, check out what it’s doing to cartel-plagued areas on the border
Federal judge sentences associates of cartel boss to 126 days in prison, then credits them with four months time served
The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance “whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,” has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers.
The Espionage Act, enacted back in 1917 to punish those who gave aid to our enemies, was used three times in all the prior administrations to bring cases against government officials accused of providing classified information to the media. It has been used six times since the current president took office.
We’re headed down the same road. “The British Government has run out of money because all the money was spent in the good years,” the Chancellor said. “The money and the investment and the jobs need to come from the private sector.”
“In other words what we are not going to do in this Budget is borrow more money to either increase spending or cut taxes.”
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Too bad Obama and his ilk (i.e. mostly Democrats, but some Republicans too) don’t get this simple truth.
IRS targeting Tea Party
Want a really scary thought? The future of our country rests in the hands of the same weak, gullible, and mindless voters who elected him the first time. If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.
I’ve camped out here in the past – worst problem we had was bold skunks trying to explore our tents – with us in them!
Dr. 9 says: February 27, 2012 at 10:35 pm
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Well I’m worried about it – but there is some hope they’ve wised up.
Obama is behind Romney and Paul and Santorum has him in a statistical dead heat (i.e. within the margin of error it’s a tie) – only Gingritch trails him and I expect even Newt will pull ahead soon.
Oil Crises and Pond Scum
With gasoline and heating oil prices reaching and surpassing $4.00 a gallon and $5.00 and even $6.oo on the near horizon, Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu should be given a nice round of applause for being so insightful in 2008 when he said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
We’re not quite there yet but we’re on the Chu trajectory.
Chu’s reasoning, if you can call it that, was that high gas prices would force Americans to buy more fuel efficient cars and move their residences closer to their places of employment.
A typically-liberal approach to social manipulation, Chu’s muddle-headed plan didn’t take into account the future fuel efficient Chevy Volt’s tendency to explode, the added cost of buying hybrids, or the impracticality of most Americans switching jobs during a jobs’ shortage.
Never confuse liberals with reality.
They say their ultimate goal is to end American reliance on foreign oil and toward that end Obama and Company refuse to open up ANWR to drilling, refuse to issue off-shore drilling permits, refuse to approve the Keystone XL pipeline due to environmental fears, loan billions to Mexico to fund offshore drilling off California’s coastline, and ridicules Republican demands to ”drill more.”
All are peculiar inactions unless one considers that Obamians are intent on crippling America and reducing us to the level of a Third World nation, an international adjunct of his pledge to share the wealth.
Perhaps the greatest irony in all this is Secretary Chu’s current concern that high oil prices threaten to stifle America’s and world economies.
Just imagine what will happen when United States’ gas prices reach European levels!
As a Nobel Prize winner, Chu must be correct in all he thinks, no? Then again, Barack Hussein Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and has been warring ever since.
This president, to whom we are shackled until at least January, 2013, has an enviable knack for interpreting realities . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=14770.)
Latest Wikileaks dump shows Dems effort to throw 2008 election
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/latest-wikileaks-dump-shows-dems-effort-to-throw-2008-election?CID=examiner_alerts_article
The Nobel Peace Prize is a JOKE! It’s official, even OBAMA agrees with me.
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, the Associated Press reports. Manning’s nomination places him along side Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and other international figures, who have been nominated for this year’s award.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who allegedly received the leaked information from Manning, was nominated last year for the award, though he did not ultimately receive it.
——————-
Clearly this prize has nothing to do with peace:
President Barack Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, his first year in the executive office.
It’s the world equivalent of “everyone gets a ribbon day”:
The 2007 prize went to the IPCC and Al Gore.
Former Carter National Security Advisor “USA will not support Israel if they attack Iran”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnT-fuK0NI4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Van Jones is back…
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/its-coming-union-leftist-leaders-announce-99-spring-and-traning-in-places-of-worship/
Pro-deathers cross the line to recommend post-birth abortions
OH NO that top center image – did Mrs. obama eat a muppet?
American University occupy students shout down Gov. Brewer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvSKkdP6fkA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Ya she ate it alright. It went str8 to her ass as observed in that orange dress. Looks like she’s smuggling muppets.
Rachel Madcows new favorite word
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/27/msnbc-host-rachel-maddows-new-favorite-word-vaginal/
Ben and Jerrys PC. I wonder if they’ll pull ‘Chunky Monkey’ next in fear of offending that french fry Nazi pictured above.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/27/ben-jerrys-hey-sorry-for-putting-fortune-cookies-in-our-ice-cream-tribute-to-jeremy-lin/
Progressive agenda
Crown Jewels
President Barack Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, his first year in the executive office.
nom nom nom lucky that nom nom nom he is not nom nom nom a typical african leader who nom nom nom could not win it due to warmongering.
nom nom nom
Where is my fried chicken nom nom nom
A fitting comment from The People’s Cube:
“Maybe if Obama proposed a car that ran on bull s**t GM could start work building the Chevy Biden.”
Akron Air Show
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Top Obama 2012 Slogans as Suggested by Readers of Ace o’ Spades
Tom Tomorrow writes: This one sure went viral. Clearly, I need to write more cartoons about orgasms.
Officers hurt in Occupy clash at Calif. Capitol
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to counter a rally by a group protesting violence by blacks against whites in South Africa.
The clash erupted in the afternoon as California Highway Patrol and Sacramento police officers were escorting about 35 members of the South Africa Project to a parking garage after their protest outside the Capitol building.
About 50 members of Occupy Oakland began throwing cans and bottles at the South Africa group and at the officers. The Occupy members then clashed with the officers as people with the pro-whites group hurried into the parking garage.
What we need is a decent politician, and that’s why we should support Hank for the Senate.
http://youtu.be/_6z5zC8W2Mk
Occupy can only use lies to advance its agenda. Caught in a lie, the excuse is “it was exaggerated”, the new code word for “flat out lie”.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/28/video-the-1-tip-hoax/
Liberal Hypocrisy
Ben and Jerry’s Linsanity ice cream features chunks of fortune cookies. OOPS.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/27/ben-jerrys-hey-sorry-for-putting-fortune-cookies-in-our-ice-cream-tribute-to-jeremy-lin/
Scott Thong says: February 28, 2012 at 3:54 am
I feel ill.
Madoff-invested charities contributed $365k to Media Matters
‘Buy a Gun’ & ‘Keep Your Powder Dry’: Economists Warn of Looming ‘Economic 9/11′
Ted Nugent Goes Off: Obama Is an ‘Anti-American Monster,’ Suggests GOP Candidates Lack Testosterone
Home prices fall to 2002 levels
Profiles in countermoonbattery: Hero coach chases psychotic school shooter, saves lives
Too bad good men like him had been disarmed by the creation of a gun-free zone.
Church forced to stop handing out free bottles of water along Mardi Gras parade route because they didn’t have the proper permits
Thanks to the Americans with Disabilities act, a serial drunk was hired as a school bus driver. This labor moonbattery has reached its natural conclusion, now that the boozer hit three teenage girls on a crosswalk.
L.A. DWP’s gold-plated jobs
I was shocked at this kind of “mourning”:
“Another student, Daniel Parmertor, died hours after the shooting, which sent students screaming through the halls and led teachers to lock down their classrooms as they had practiced doing so many times during drills.”
Screaming through the halls?
Mr. Welch: Have you no sense of decency, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/28/georgetown-co-ed-please-pay-for-us-to-have-sex-were-going-broke-buying-birth-control/
Dem Congresswoman Asked About Obamacare Mandate: “Basically, We’re Not Looking To The Constitution”…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/27/dem-congresswoman-asked-about-obamacare-mandate-basically-were-not-looking-to-the-constitution/
Anonymous plans for ‘violent revolution’: Hacking group that aided Occupy protests warns of ‘bloody mess’
http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2011/12/26/anonymous-plans-for-%E2%80%98violent-revolution%E2%80%99-hacking-group-that-helped-found-occupy-warns-of-%E2%80%98bloody-mess/
Journal defends its publication of an article advocating “after-birth abortion”
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/28/journal-defends-its-publication-of-an-article-advocating-after-birth-abortion/
Georgetown co-ed: Please pay for us to have sex … We’re going broke buying birth control
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/28/georgetown-co-ed-please-pay-for-us-to-have-sex-were-going-broke-buying-birth-control/
DEM REP: ‘WE’RE NOT LOOKING TO THE CONSTITUTION’ ON THE CONTRACEPTIVE MANDATE
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-rep-were-not-looking-to-the-constitution-on-the-contraceptive-mandate/
MEDIA MATTERS CEO EMBROILED IN $850G ‘BLACKMAIL’ SCANDAL WITH FORMER DOMESTIC PARTNER
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/media-matters-chief-embroiled-in-850g-blackmail-scandal-with-former-domestic-partner/
CREEPY PUTIN CAMPAIGN AD PREDICTS FUTURE FOR ‘VIRGIN’ VOTERS: VLAD WILL BE YOUR ‘FIRST LOVE’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/creepy-putin-campaign-ad-predicts-future-for-virgin-voters-vlad-will-be-your-first-love/
OCCUPY ACTIVISTS‘ ’MIC CHECK’ PROMPTS PHYSICAL ALTERCATION AT PRO-ISRAEL COLLEGE EVENT
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/occupy-activists-mic-check-prompts-physical-altercation-at-pro-israel-college-event/
Operation Unmask: Interpol Arrests 25 Anonymous Members, Anon Takes Down Interpol Website
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=38580
Video: Anonymous Declares War on the United States
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=38556
Obama to Force Military Into ObamaCare Exchanges and Slash Healthcare Benefits
http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/02/28/obama-to-force-military-into-obamacare-exchanges-and-slash-healthcare-benefits/
Rich liberals set to pour money into “Occupy” movement
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203833004577249811049566178.html?mod=e2tw
The Good: DHS Kept Tabs On Occupy Wall Street – The Bad: Called Them A “Peaceful” Movement…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/28/the-good-dhs-kept-tabs-on-occupy-wall-street-the-bad-called-them-a-peaceful-movement/
PRESCIENCE!
Obama: “Trying To Climb To The Very Top” Is Not What America’s “About,” It Is “Greed”…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/28/obama-trying-to-climb-to-the-very-top-is-not-what-americas-about-it-is-greed/
Former Soviet Citizen Who Confronted the Occupy Wall Street Socialists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlcFn8Ua4Zs
WTF, could this be true in liberal Massachusetts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp4FjCsktNQ
J – Here’s a repost of the original vid from the former Soviet citizen…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8hmqjtI2ZY