Democrats =
War on the Middle Class
???
Jimmy Hoffa’s Letter to the Democrats
about Obamacare.
“When you and the President sought our support
for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you pledged that if we liked the health
plans we have now, we could keep them. Sadly, that promise is under threat.
Right now, unless you and the Obama Administration enact an equitable
fix, the ACA will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but
destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American
middle class.”
“Like millions of other Americans, our members
are front-line workers in the American economy. We have been strong
supporters of the notion that all Americans should have access to quality,
affordable health care. We have also been strong supporters of you. In
campaign after campaign we have put boots on the ground, gone door-to-door
to get out the vote, run phone banks and raised money to secure this vision.”
“Now this vision has come back to haunt us.”
“Since the ACA was enacted, we have been
bringing our deep concerns to the Administration, seeking
reasonable regulatory interpretations to the statute that would help
prevent the destruction of non-profit health plans. As you both know
first-hand, our persuasive arguments have been disregarded and met with a stone
wall by the White House and the pertinent agencies. This is especially
stinging because other stakeholders have repeatedly received successful
interpretations for their respective grievances. Most disconcerting of course
is last week’s huge accommodation for the employer community—extending the
statutorily mandated “December 31, 2013” deadline for the employer mandate
and penalties.”
“Time is running out: Congress wrote this law;
we voted for you. We have a problem; you need to fix it. The unintended
consequences of the ACA are severe. Perverse incentives are already creating
nightmare scenarios.”
“First, the law creates an incentive for
employers to keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week.
Numerous employers have begun to cut workers’ hours to avoid this
obligation, and many of them are doing so openly. The impact is two-fold:
fewer hours means less pay while also losing our current health benefits.”
“Second, millions of Americans are covered by
non-profit health insurance plans like the ones in which most of our
members participate. These non-profit plans are governed jointly by unions and
companies under the Taft-Hartley Act. Our health plans have been built
over decades by working men and women. Under the ACA as interpreted by the
Administration, our employees will treated differently and not be eligible for
subsidies afforded other citizens. As such, many employees will be
relegated to second-class status and shut out of the help the law offers
to for-profit insurance plans.”
“And finally, even though non-profit plans
like ours won’t receive the same subsidies as for-profit plans, they’ll be
taxed to pay for those subsidies. Taken together, these restrictions will make
non-profit plans like ours unsustainable, and will undermine the
health-care market of viable alternatives to the big health insurance
companies.”
“On behalf of the millions of working men and
women we represent and the families they support, we can no longer stand
silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care Act that will destroy the
very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other
hardworking Americans.”
“We believe that there are common-sense
corrections that can be made within the existing statute that will
allow our members to continue to keep their current health plans and
benefits just as you and the President pledged. Unless changes are made,
however, that promise is hollow.”
“We continue to stand behind real health care
reform, but the law as it stands will hurt millions of Americans including
the members of our respective unions.”
“We are looking to you to make sure these
changes are made.”
It’s
about trust.
The
President is losing his credibility and sense of trustworthiness among his base.
No
matter how you spin it, the battle over the Affordable Care Act, (Obamacare),
is a battle between those who work and those who don’t.
President
Obama will throw anyone under the buss to keep that war of disparity in high
gear.
It’s
about time the Union workers of the world realize they are the ones, funding
those who don’t
.
.
It
is they who are being thrown under the bus as we speak or more appropriately as
they work.
Some
of the Union leaders are getting the picture.
They
are feeling threatened by their working members because the President lied to
them about not taxing their benefits to fund Obamacare.
It’s
time now for the workers of the world unite, stand up and take their turn to
throw Obamacare and all forms of socialism under the bus
.
.
Most
people especially the Union workers are figuring this out, and it’s about time.
From
the letter above, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa I think has realized that President
Obama isn’t loyal to those who got him there only loyal to those who will get him
to where he is going.
I’m
hoping that the working middle class of this great country will finally figure
out that important fact about Obama. In
fact I hope all those who are being used by him and treated as a doormat will
start to stand up.
He
and his policies are a strictly class war between those who get their money
from government and those who make it otherwise.
Obama’s
class war is between those who work and those who don’t.
President
Obama will throw anyone under the buss to keep that war of disparity in high
gear.
It’s
about time the Union workers of the world realize they are the ones that will
be thrown under the bus next.
As
Mr. Hoffa intimates, this is a war on the American Dream where a person can
support his family through their work, vs. taking money from them so others
don’t have to.
Hoffa
is sounding like a Reagan Democrat.
I
hope it’s catchy.
It
is catchy
News
Flash 9/1/2013
40,000
longshoremen dissociate themselves from The AFL-CIO over Obamacare.
Robert McEllrath, head
of the ILWU wrote a letter to Richard Trumka AFL-CIO leader. Below is a snippet.
"We feel the
Federation (AFL-CIO) has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all
working people by going along to get along,"
McEllrath the Longshoremen leader was voicing his objections of Trumka’s support of the President’s Obamacare and immigration policies.
McEllrath the Longshoremen leader was voicing his objections of Trumka’s support of the President’s Obamacare and immigration policies.
Trumpka head of the AFL-CIO a big supporter of
Obamacare and the President in the beginning is now sounding reminiscent of
Nancy Pelosi as he starts to feel the heat from his members. Recently he said in answer to the question of
how the changes he wanted to be made in Obamacare would work: “I can’t tell you how it
would work until its done”. I.e. Pelosi
“We won’t know what’s in it till we pass it.”
What a chance for Republicans to win a landslide in
2014.
How? Who?
Who do the Republicans have that can unite these
Reagan Democrats with their base?
Who do the Republicans have that can unite the
Republicans?
I fear for the Republicans, if they cannot take the
lead in this. If they cannot why would people expect they could take leadership
across the board.
Americans now have a leader who cannot lead, who is
afraid of making a decision that may tarnish his image. He changes his mind on a whim, he seems all
image, all rhetoric; from his swaggering to the podium, to his “jaunty” salute
at the bottom of the steps of air force one, to his feet up on the White House
furniture. As people get tired of his
bling and look for leadership they are finding none.
An empty suit.
A Cocky Smile.
What is the alternative?
Give me a Tea Party candidate? One without rhetoric? Haven’t
found many.
Why? Because
they are drowned out by and quickly pick up their own rhetoric.
Catch 22? No
just tell the truth and be willing to support those who do. Not those who will give you the most. Beware, it is the oldest of survival instincts. It has been the foundation of support for
tyranny since records have been kept.
It is Greed, or “self-interest” for the squeamish.
Civilizations are measured by how they control that.
Not their Governments but they the people that chose leaders and allow them to keep power.
Our civilization - we will be judged by who we allow to lead.
Elections matter.
Our civilization - we will be judged by who we allow to lead.
Elections matter.
