Obama Excuses Over 500,000 Union Members From Obamacare
-By Warner Todd Huston
Remember back in the days of the debate over Obamacare when unions were the biggest voices screaming in support of the legislation? Many labor union bosses said that nationalized healthcare was exactly what they wanted. Further they said it was what was good for the country. Yet now we learn that Obama has given waivers to some 550,000 union members so that they don;t have to suffer under Obamacare.
Paul Connor reports that a classic Friday evening document dump from the White House shows that unions employing up to 543,812 members have received waivers from the Obama administration.
Fridays are often the one day of the week when government agencies satisfy transparency rules and release documents that show what they’ve been up to. They release them on Friday in the early evening because they understand that reporters are already headed home for the weekend and TV news departments have already programed their evening newscasts. These agencies also understand that news agencies don’t often cover heavy news on weekends. Further, by the time Monday rolls around the document will be “old news” and many of them will simply escape attention.
But all these waivers really do make one ask a central question. If Obamacare is so great, why all the waivers? Why any waivers? More specifically, if Obamacare is such a well-accepted panacea for all that ails us, why are the unions who pushed so hard for Obamacare trying to get out from under it all?
It’s yet one more example of left-wingers making rules for the rest of us that they don’t want to suffer under themselves and then getting the politicians they bought and paid for to make sure that everyone but they have to suffer under those rules.
Rules are for you people, not liberals.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on January 12, 2012 2:58 pm
» Filed Under Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Cronyism, Democrats, Government corruption, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Government tyranny, Healthcare, Hypocrisy/Situational Ethics, News, Obamacare, Political prostitution, Socialism, Taxes, Unconstitutional, Union Mafias/Thugs, liberalism, political bribes, political opportunism, public employee unions, social parasites, transparency/accountability
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It’s all about redistribution of wealth. By the time this is all over, only those of us who work in the private sector, and don’t have government protection and waivers, will be paying for health care. We will be carrying the cost of health care for the entire country on our backs, and yet another chunk of wealth will have been seized from the producers and handed to the parasites….