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December 14, 2009

Obamacare's dirty secret: Unions get billions

And we thought what's already being called the "Second Louisiana Purchase" that was the controversial payoff of $300 million to Sen. Mary Landrieu's home state of Louisiana for her vote on Reid-care was a disgraceful not-very-well-disguised bribe and kickback to secure passage of President Barack Obama's socialized-medicine proposal. Well, as the saying goes, baby, you ain't seen nothing yet.

It turns out that Obamacare has a very dirty secret; it includes a huge bailout for union leaders who have grossly "mismanaged" funds that were supposed to pay for their retirees' insurance claims:

[...] In fact, at "only" $300 million, this disgustingly transparent (and yet transparently successful) effort by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid to "negotiate" for Landrieu's support on a key health-care vote doesn't hold a candle to the real graft that's going on in our nation's capital.
For example, you'd have to multiply that dollar amount dozens of times over to arrive at the $10 billion in so-called "reinsurance" money that has been tucked away for organized labor in the $2.6 trillion House bill.

What's that "reinsurance" money for, exactly?

That's simple: it's a bailout for union leaders who have grossly "mismanaged" funds that were supposed to pay for their retirees' insurance claims.

As bad as this sounds, it gets worse.

[...] The scam works like this: In order to become eligible for federal reimbursements, employees who provide home care must agree to be "reclassified" as federal employees, with the strings of compulsory union membership and dues attached, of course.

Pioneered by former California Gov. Gray Davis and disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich -- both of whom also owed huge campaign debts to organized labor -- this scam lies at the heart of both the House and Senate versions of Obamacare. In fact, it is being pushed most aggressively by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which like the rest of these declining organized-labor behemoths is desperate for new dues-paying members.

This scam is also why Obama and the leadership of both the House and Senate refuse to consider passing a bill that doesn't include a so-called public option.

Obama and congressional leaders know that compulsory union membership -- established within the framework of a government-administered health-care system -- is vital to organized labor's long-term survival.

I don't know about you, but frankly, this makes me mad as hell. The time has come for all of us to be like Howard Beal in the film Network and get very mad, very mad indeed.

Seriously, folks, this crap has absolutely got to cease. Our entire country is being screwed by the Democrats, as long as we allow it. Fortunately, 2010 is just around the corner. In the meantime, do more than Howard Beal suggests at the above link. Write, email, and call your Senators and tell them, not no, but hell no, to Obamacare. Our tax dollars and medical premiums should not be spent to bailout union bosses and burdening us with higher premiums, higher taxes, fewer jobs, and fewer benefits for seniors.

As Howard Beal would say, 'This is America G*d damn it, and we're not going to take this s**t anymore!'

Thank God that, for now, Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Independent Democrat from Connecticut, is holding back the socialist hordes and preventing the destruction of America as we know it.

Posted by Abdul at December 14, 2009 11:04 AM

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