Thoughts & Commentary on the Obama Administration

**Lemur** · 05-15-2010, 20:38

**Hosakawa Tito** · 05-16-2010, 01:12

The Prez visited my area on Friday 14th and was greeted by "I Need a Freakin' Job." Hope he got the message.

**Beskar** · 05-16-2010, 10:05

Originally Posted by Lemur

"I can't tell the difference between degrees of Socialism and Communism!" then you are a dunce. People can still own private property under socialism, they can own their own house, etc. There are big degrees of socialism simply from having a progressive tax system with public education and universal healthcare, to pure communism where everything is owned by everyone, but you are still assigned your own "private property", you just don't own it.

**PanzerJaeger** · 07-18-2010, 04:11

Not that anyone thought any different, but the Administration is finally having to come clean in regards to their blatant deceit over the health care tax. I wonder how many people making under $250,000 will be paying this one.

When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.

While Congress was working on the health care legislation, Mr. Obama refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy insurance, enforced by financial penalties, was equivalent to a tax.

“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”

Lying scumbag...