Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth (15 page)

Don’t think that CGI was somehow chosen for the project on the merits of its past performance as a website developer. An online registry the company tried to build for an Ontario government health agency was a complete debacle. After three years of blown deadlines, the company was fired. Less than two years later, the Obama administration hired them.
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Toni Townes-Whitley, a Princeton classmate of the First Lady, is a senior vice president at the company that failed miserably to deliver Healthcare.gov. Both Michelle Obama and Townes-Whitley just happen to be members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

Now, I am not implying in any way that the First Lady benefited. In any case, Michelle’s Princeton classmate is a senior vice president of the company that won the contract to build the Obamacare website, but CGI has denied that Townes-Whitley was involved in any way with the company’s selection as the developer of the Affordable Care Act website, saying, “Ms. Townes-Whitley is not currently and has never been responsible for the CMS contract as a CGI employee.”
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Anyone with any real-world experience in any industry
knows that a project as massive and complex as developing a website that will enable tens of millions of people to sign up for health insurance is a difficult job. In fact, though, there are hundreds of such websites created and run by companies in the private sector.

With that in mind, isn’t it curious that Obama gave Canada the Obamacare job with all the talent in our own backyard?

If then-HHS secretary Sebelius had even consulted company officers and software developers from organizations such as Google, Amazon, YouTube, or Facebook, she might have understood how you could actually develop and launch such a project in the allotted time. But even though the contract had been open for competitive bidding, the rules governing those bids were so arcane and difficult to follow that most companies couldn’t even figure out how to submit bids.

The Small Business Association publishes a ten-step process explaining how to secure a federal government contract. Among the things it advises those seeking a contract to do are these:

• Seek out somebody who actually knows what they’re doing to help you navigate the process.

• Utilize others, including consulting firms, to help you understand the rules governing the writing of a bid.

• Use data analysis tools to find the appropriate contracts to bid on.

• Consider partnering with another business, especially those owned by minorities and women.
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What it doesn’t say is that you need to be a political insider even to be considered for a government contract.

It didn’t stop there.

In a case brought by a nonprofit agency in Billings, Montana, Christa Ann McClure, the director of the Colorado health exchange, was indicted on eight counts of alleged fraud, including stealing from her previous employer, the nonprofit group Housing Montana, and paying herself hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting services for projects she was in charge of. Nevertheless, when she was vetted for the Colorado job, she passed with flying colors. McClure failed to mention those potential charges to her new employer. After she was indicted and faced up to twenty years in prison,
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she reached a plea agreement that called for her to make restitution of $33,000 for misdemeanor theft of public money. Eight felony counts against her were dismissed.
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In California’s Covered California health exchange, people are finding they can’t keep their doctors, and the hospitals they’ve become accustomed to aren’t available to them. The companies providing policies under Covered California have cut down dramatically on the number of doctors and hospitals available to those insured under Obamacare in order to hold down their costs.

It’s happening all over the country, as I’ve told you.

But in California, it’s worse than most. California insurance commissioner Dave Jones stated the obvious: “There are a lot of economic incentives for health insurers to narrow their networks,” he said. “But if they go too far, people won’t have access to care. Network adequacy will be a big issue in 2014.”
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The bigger issue is why such patent corruption and incompetence is allowed to continue.

Do you remember the president’s funding of green-energy companies like Solyndra? Companies that had no prospect for success but would cost taxpayers billions of dollars, cash that somehow found its way into the pockets of the Obama fund-raising bundlers?

Healthcare.gov makes Solyndra look like lunch money.

The stock price of health insurance giant UnitedHealth is predicted to rise 40 percent in the future; it anticipates an increase in profits thanks to the increased insurance premiums users will have to pay under Obamacare. One of the company’s subsidiaries, Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI), was given large contracts to help with the website rollout. UnitedHealth executive vice president Anthony Welters raised half a million dollars for Obama in 2012.
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Then, after QSSI bungled its part in developing the website, the administration gave them the job to fix their own mistakes. QSSI was chosen to be the general contractor in charge of repairing Healthcare.gov.
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It doesn’t stop there. Technical specialty company Qualcomm specializes in developing products that transfer data securely among wireless health-care devices. Qualcomm expects that “wireless solutions are going to be looked at more prominently” under Obamacare. Let me just say that the company’s former chairman, Irwin Jacobs, raised more than half a million dollars for Obama’s reelection campaign.

As Fox News has reported, Obama bundlers David Friedman (nursing homes and long-term care) and Jay Snyder (investment specialist in health-care and pharmaceutical
companies), each of whom raised $500,000 for Obama’s reelection campaign, stand to make millions for their companies, both of which are positioned to benefit, assuming Obamacare survives.
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The president was finally forced by pressure from all sides to hold a press conference where he told another lie to Americans who wanted to keep their current health insurance plans.
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The bad news is that he didn’t say anything that indicated he knew how to fix Obamacare.

When he came out a half hour late on November 15, 2013, instead of talking about the disaster of his signature legislation, the first thing he did was divert attention away from the ACA by talking about the Philippines disaster.

Do you even remember what the “Philippines disaster” was?

When he finally got around to talking about Obamacare, he told Americans he’d decided they can keep their health-care plans for another year. He didn’t say how he was going to make that happen. He didn’t acknowledge that he didn’t have the authority to make it happen. He didn’t bother to explain that it would take the insurance companies months and months to reanalyze what it would do to the rates they need to charge.

More than five million people had had their health insurance canceled by early November 2013. The “insurance cycle”—the amount of time it takes for insurance companies to develop and test the plans they will offer to their customers—is about nine months. Those five million people will not even be able to buy a one-size-fits-all policy that would at least keep them covered, even at a higher cost and with coverage they don’t need.

The issue of cost is finally coming to the fore. Health industry specialists are predicting that as the elections of 2014
get nearer, rate hikes will skyrocket. Kathleen Sebelius, who has since resigned, tried to downplay concerns over the coming rate hikes. Her analysis? In her words, “The increases are far less significant than what they were prior to the Affordable Care Act.” This had those in the know scratching their heads. All they could say is that they—the people who run the insurance industry and who actually know something about health insurance—disagree. One senior insurance executive whose company expects to triple its rates on the Obamacare exchange next year said, “It’s pretty shortsighted because I think everybody knows that the way the exchange has rolled out… is going to lead to higher costs.”
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With his press conference announcement, Obama created what amounts to an insurance refugee crisis. Five million American health insurance refugees will be faced with potential disaster unless someone steps in to intervene in a way that will change their fate.

Let me give you a short list of some of the things you’ll be losing when you switch to an Obamacare policy.

Obamacare won’t pay for nongeneric drugs. That means that most people with illnesses being treated through the use of new drugs that are not sold as generics simply will not be able to afford treatment. If you suffer from a disease such as lupus or multiple sclerosis, you’ll be dealing with what’s called a “closed drug formulary.” That’s ObamaSpeak for “you’re out of luck.” As Dr. Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute explains, “If the medicine that you need isn’t on that list, it’s not covered at all. You have to pay completely out of pocket to get that medicine, and the money you spend doesn’t count against your deductible, and it doesn’t count against your out of pocket limits, so you’re basically on your own.”
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Even if your drug is available generically, Obamacare will drive up the cost of generic drugs dramatically. Obamacare does require that exchange plans cover generic prescription drugs, but the demand may be driven up so much that the price of generic prescriptions could skyrocket. It’s already happening. The prices of the generic cholesterol drug Pravastatin and the antibiotic Doxycycline have already spiked by nearly 1,000 percent in the months following the Obamacare rollout. More than three-quarters of pharmacists surveyed said they’ve seen the prices of two dozen or more generic drugs go higher. How many pharmacies will go out of business when people can’t even afford generic drugs?
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There’s still a lot that we don’t know about Obamacare. Significant sections of the bill are still subject to regulatory action, and there’s no way to predict what effect that might have on the consequences of this monstrosity. And there are still plenty of other consequences we haven’t felt because the administration can’t get core parts of the bill—like how people can pay their premiums—operative.

Big businesses still have no idea what the employer mandate might entail, and insurance companies have no idea what sort of benefits this behemoth is going to require them to provide in the future. There are still dozens of rules that are scheduled to be made public within the next year or so, some of which were expected by the middle of 2013 but have not yet been formulated and released. They include everything from nondiscrimination standards to the Obamacare requirement that restaurants and food vendors put calorie counts on their menus and vending machines. Obama is not about to let individual citizens manage their own food intake without its attempting to influence their choices based on information that has
already proven not to influence the food choices of overweight Americans despite the fact that it has been provided on virtually all other food packaging.

On April Fools’ Day, the president took to the podium and announced that—miracle of miracles—Obamacare had signed up 7.1 million subscribers. Coincidentally, this was a hundred thousand more than were needed to make the rollout a “success.”

In other words, Obama was trying to get everyone to believe that more than seven million people had managed to navigate the faulty website, get through the Healthcare.gov maze without having their identity stolen, and decipher the rules that change all the time. And now they think they’ve got health insurance. The problem is, they haven’t paid for it yet. The back end of the website still can’t accept their credit card information.

Facing the risk of rising insurance rates in the months before the 2014 midterm elections, the Obama administration essentially offered a bribe to insurance companies to keep their rates low for the next several years. Hidden in hundreds of pages’ worth of new regulations issued in late May 2014 was a provision that pledged to bail out health insurance companies by compensating them with taxpayer money if they will keep rates low. It’s another crooked Obama move to hold on to power despite the fact that Americans and U.S. insurance companies face devastating losses of coverage and money thanks to this legislation.
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You’ve probably followed the disturbing Veterans Affairs medical treatment scandal. Our returning and longtime veterans are put on secret waiting lists that are meant to hide the fact that they’re not able to see doctors. The waits they must
endure before they receive treatment often are a year or longer. Hundreds of veterans have died because they were unable to see a VA doctor. What’s happening with the VA typifies what is going to happen with all medical care in the United States: Those who are ill and need treatment will be shuttled to the back of the line to endure long waits before they receive treatment. The fact that in the VA case it’s those who have sacrificed their health fighting for our freedom makes this ineptitude only more egregious.

The White House isn’t releasing any genuine data, because there isn’t any. Sebelius has resigned, and the administration has hired another incompetent who can mismanage what’s left of Obamacare. All they can provide is a made-up number to tell the public how many people are covered to try and make it sound like they know what they’re talking about. We’re starting to understand they have no idea what’s going on.

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y using the phrase “the war on civil rights” as the title of this chapter, my intent is to show you how serious I find our own government’s depriving us of our civil rights to be. But before we go one sentence further I want to make sure you know what I mean by those words.

If you ask a sophomore in high school to define the term, you’ll usually get an answer that includes names from the liberal Mount Rushmore: Martin Luther King Jr. or the Rev. Jesse Jackson or Bobby Kennedy. Or they’ll bring up the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and how they pertain to slavery. It’s not the high school students’ fault that they have such a narrow view of words that are so encompassing. From
the second grade on, they’re limited to a one-sided version of what civil rights means. They’re taught to think that civil rights is about one group, one movement, or one era in American history.

In other words, they’re not getting the complete picture.

By definition, civil rights are political and social freedoms for all citizens and not simply for one group. And it’s these civil rights, the ones to which we’re all entitled by the U.S. Constitution, which are now disappearing.

Among the signs of that is the fact that race-based violence is on the rise in America today. I’m sure you’ve heard of this epidemic. It’s called the Knockout Game, and it mostly involves a defenseless person and a group of aspiring young men, often associated with a gang. Sometimes the incident is captured on video and uploaded to YouTube so the world can see just how inhuman American cities have become. In one of the more notorious of these videos, filmed in Jersey City, New Jersey, you can see a man killed by the sucker punch. Over a million people have watched the video.

While I see the emergence of the Knockout Game as a sign of the racial division that is deepening in our country, that’s not the only reason I recount it here. I tell it to you to bring your attention to a similar assault that recently happened in our most powerful legislative body. I tell it as a prime example of how vulnerable our civil rights are to the gang of leftists who now run this country.

Let me give you a little background.

If you’re old enough, you might remember a movie called
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
. Its director was Frank Capra, a man who made films so syrupy you could get diabetes just
watching them. The simple premise of the movie is this: A naïve freshman U.S. senator introduces a bill that would set aside land for a camp in his home state to be used by the “Boy Rangers,” Capra’s lightly veiled version of the Boy Scouts. What the freshman senator doesn’t know is that legislation for a graft-funded dam project on the land is already in the works, orchestrated by a crooked senator and unscrupulous businessmen.

To try and stop the legislation, Mr. Smith stages a one-man filibuster, holding the floor of the Senate to delay the vote on the dam project until his voice is raw and he’s near collapse. Of course, Mr. Smith holds on just long enough. As the movie ends, mailbags filled with letters in support of the camp and carried by members of the Boy Rangers are dumped on the Senate floor. The principled politics behind
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
not only made Jimmy Stewart a star, it also made a star out of the Senate filibuster, the single most effective defense against the overreach of corrupt power when it comes to presidential appointments.

Frank Capra is dead. So is Jimmy Stewart. And now so is the filibuster.

The filibuster had been around since the late 1700s. Harry “Reid ’Em and Weep” played the Knockout Game, successfully ending the filibuster without even bringing it to a vote.

And the American people are the defenseless victims.

Even Lamar Alexander, who has trouble making sense when
he tells you what he had for breakfast, said that Reid’s removal of the filibuster is the “most dangerous and consequential change in the rules since Thomas Jefferson wrote them.”
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The rule that Reid invoked is known as the “nuclear option.” It allows the Senate to approve presidential nominations to the court and executive-level appointments with a simple majority. In March 2013, Rand Paul played the Jimmy Stewart role, filibustering for thirteen hours against the use of drones against Americans on American soil. A month earlier, Ted Cruz filibustered against raising the national debt ceiling.

Thanks to Reid’s unilateral action, no longer can a filibuster be applied to force a supermajority vote. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz were the last of the Jimmy Stewarts in the Senate.

As I’ve told you, the Democrat-controlled Senate has pushed through a group of their handpicked policy cronies disguised as judges to forward the liberal agenda. Here’s just one example of the damage the repeal of the filibuster rule can do. The president appointed three new members to the seven-member Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Janet Yellen, the new chairman of the Fed, now needs only a simple majority to have new board members approved.

But that’s not something you have to worry about, right?

All that board does is to decide what the government is going to do with your money.

It didn’t start out that way. The Federal Reserve Bank was created a little over a hundred years ago. Originally charged with creating monetary policy that would ensure economic stability, the Fed’s mandate has expanded to the point where the presidentially appointed regional Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors—known as the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC—is considered a “bank.” Its influence and reach
have extended far beyond that role. It now colludes with other major banks in doing everything from dictating interest rates to helping those banks hide such debt as valueless financial derivatives off their books.

But let me get back to the topic of Harry Reid’s knocking out the filibuster.

Even Carl Levin, the outgoing Democratic senator from Michigan, was appalled by Reid’s actions: “Once again [we] are moving down a destructive path,” Levin said. “Pursuing the nuclear option in this manner removes an important check on majority overreach which is central to our system of government.”
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So let me ask you, where will this governmental overreach end? Will the president and the Senate use this newfound power to seize your guns? Will the Senate, bowing to the president’s will, use the nuclear option to help grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens who shouldn’t be in the country in the first place? Will executive orders, immune to Senate scrutiny, continue to dole out entitlements that ensure poverty for life? Will the Obama administration continue to strangle the voice of reason and truth by appointing commissioners to the FCC who are intent on annihilating the First Amendment?

To those who support him, the president is the benevolent dictator they’ve been calling for. But where there is a dictator, there is inevitably gross injustice and the trampling of basic rights for all.

What is benevolent about our attorney general’s choosing which laws he will uphold based on his leftist ideological leanings?

What is benevolent about a Department of Homeland Security that allows our southern border to be overrun by Mexican
cartels bringing drugs and violence into the country while it stores up weapons and ammunition and tries to prevent American citizens from owning guns?

What is benevolent about a president whose signature legislation is single-handedly leading to the demise of the greatest medical system in the world?

And what is benevolent about Mrs. Obama’s obscenely expensive and too-frequent travels with her mother and daughters along for a multi-million-dollar free ride at the expense of American taxpayers? This while her demands of a press blackout meant that even the lapdog U.S. journalists were not allowed to travel with her and her enormous entourage on her March 2014 “Spring Break” jaunt to China?

Let’s begin with guns. In early 2013, after the Newtown tragedy, we were being bombarded with ideologically skewed misrepresentations of the importance of gun control in reducing such tragic events. As I said after Newtown, I don’t believe that psychopaths and other people with severe mental disorders should own guns. But I also know that the Democrats who want to take away our right to defend ourselves use the blood of innocent children to forward their agenda and take away all guns owned by private citizens. This does not include the guns that the Democrats themselves own. It’s a direct assault on one of our most precious civil rights.

At the same time Democrats are preaching gun control and trying to deny us our right to bear arms, they’re secretly reaping the spoils of their gun-control hypocrisy. Prominent
California Democratic state senator Leland Yee, a guy who hails from San Francisco, where I live, has tirelessly crusaded for gun control, preaching to grab our guns.

While he was shamelessly badgering his constituents about the need for them to give up their guns, Lee was allegedly working with gun smugglers in the Philippines in order to buy automatic weapons from them and bring them into the United States. He allegedly planned to sell them here.

The state senator who wanted to make sure that private citizens couldn’t own handguns pled not guilty to “five counts related to influence peddling and one count of arms trafficking.”
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He was caught when he allegedly bragged to an undercover FBI about his smuggling operation. Lee’s response after his arrest? “I’m just trying to run for Secretary of State. I hope I don’t get indicted.”
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While the antigun propaganda on display in every media outlet controlled by the left was being shoved down our throats, one of our public servants was up to something even more sinister. It’s the old shell game—look at this hand while I fleece you with the other one.

While the federal government continues to work to limit the amount and type of weapons and ammunition private citizens can own, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security has purchased
billions
of rounds of ammunition—more than enough to shoot every American citizen five times—including hollow-point bullets so lethal they’re banned by the Geneva Convention.
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In addition, DHS ordered 2,700 light-armored tanks to complement the billion-bullet march toward its impending war against American citizens.
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When asked by members of Congress about the purchase
of the ammunition, then-DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, aka “Big Sis,” declined to answer.
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Then, almost a year later, DHS put out a notice that it was seeking bids for its intended purchase of more ammo, in this case 141,000 rounds of the most powerful and efficient sniper bullets.

It gets worse. One of the firms DHS dealt with produces targets called “no more hesitation” that are used by agents in practice. Some of the depictions on these targets are of pregnant women, children, old folks in residential settings, and other “non-traditional threats.”
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At the same time, the Ohio National Guard is training its troops to target Second Amendment supporters with what they call “antigovernment” points of view. They call these patriots “domestic terrorists.” Earlier, the same National Guard unit participated in a similar drill that targeted left-wing terrorists. The unit apologized for having the bad judgment to target a left-wing political group, but there was no hint of an apology for the targeting of conservatives.
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I’m not sure that patriotic American citizens, like the ones in the crosshairs of the Department of Homeland Security and the Ohio National Guard, are aware of how dire this situation is. In his 2008 campaign speech, Obama told us that a U.S. government under his presidency should create a “civilian national security force that would be just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military.

What he didn’t say in his speech is that, as Abraham Lincoln had done at the time of the American Civil War, he envisioned this civilian military as his palace guard, policing our towns and our neighborhoods for any sign of insurrection against his assault on our fundamental freedoms.

If you think I’m exaggerating, consider this: The U.S. Army has a 300-acre site in Virginia where they practice a large-scale military takeover of an American city, which they’ve re-created. This “Anytown USA” contains a bank, a sports stadium, school, and even an underground transportation system that looks strikingly like the one in Washington, D.C. This fake town cost American taxpayers nearly $100 million.

A U.S. Army manual describes maneuvers like the ones practiced in the fake city as “Civil Disturbance Operations.” The manual also includes directions for internment camps and a guide for internees to be “re-educated” until they develop “an appreciation for U.S. policies.” This is what the Soviet Union did to its dissidents. An academic study that dovetails with the Army manual details the aggressive military response to an insurrection by Tea Party members who take over a town like the one built in Virginia.
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