While Democratic presidential candidates argue which is better, to be a corrupt criminal who allowed United States secrets to be sent over an unsecured email server and to engage in being a traitor to the country or to be a socialist who has no idea of the costs involved in trying to give away free college, free health care and free marijuana for all who want it, Republicans are busy debating serious issues and successfully addressing three enormous challenges that Americans really care about: jobs, health insurance, and lowering taxes for all.
Our lazy and feckless President has ignored the increase in the labor participation rate which is due to many factors and laughingly touts the low paying jobs he claims to have created. Note – Pres. Obama – you don’t create jobs, small businesses do!
Since Obamacare became law six years ago, millions of adults lost their jobs because their employers simply could not afford to cover employee’s health care.
Thus, millions are not covered by any health insurance and many have lost the plans they had.
Remember the lie told by Obama? You can keep your doctor and hospitals? Your premiums will go down by $2500 a year?
According to this site below, 4.2 million Americans lost their insurance that they once had. http://insider.foxnews.com/2013/11/07/how-many-americans-have-lost-their-health-insurance-under-obamacare
This statistic is backed up by this website: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/22/crisis-nearly-five-millio_n_242953.html
And according to Town Hall Magazine, more Americans have lost their health insurance than enrolled in Obamacare: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/10/25/great-news-more-people-have-lost-health-insurance-than-enrolled-in-obamacare-n1731987
And according to PBS: About 44 million people in this country have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. This means that nearly one-third of Americans face each day without the security of knowing that, if and when they need it, medical care is available to them and their families. http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/uninsured.html
You are 25% more likely to die if you’re uninsured and that is true but President Obama could not care less. He wanted to force a broken health care system into play and achieved this evil goal without ONE Republican voting for Obamacare. What does that say about the Democrats and working across the aisle?
How does Obamacare affect jobs? Easy! There are such poor paying jobs available that many middle class Americans cannot afford to have the high premiums and deductibles of this awful health care insurance.
Our country is facing the worst job and employment opportunities since the great depression. Obama has overseen the largest loss of jobs to other countries than any other president in the last four administrations. Recently Ford, Carrier, Eaton and other corporations have moved businesses out of the US to Mexico where they will provide tax breaks and cheap labor for these corporations. American corporations pay the highest corporate tax rate in the world. They simply cannot compete against foreign corporations with the taxes they are forced to pay due to Democratic laws that were voted on this last eight years.
Obamacare is an unabashedly a prime example of the worst of government programs. Medicaid was supposed to take care of those who had no medical care and now that is going broke as almost 55 million Americans are on that program. Medicare was supposed to provide good healthcare for senior Americans who worked their entire lives in order to receive health care and Social Security was intended for good but now it is going broke, thanks to both parties who do not know how to stop spending! Our national debt is almost 20 trillion dollars and if Obama had his way, it would be even higher.
Looking at individual job sectors that affect our GDP, one can see that Obama has been terrible for the economy. Lest one think that the Democratic presidency of Obama is a fluke in regards to low job creation, just look at the GDP in America and in fact the world today. According to London/Sydney (Reuters) – “…World manufacturing sector growth stagnated in February as falling prices failed to stimulate new orders, pushing factories to trim workforces, and dealing a blow to policymakers who are struggling to stimulate their economies.” What is President Obama doing about it? Dancing the tango in Argentina! He has done nothing about keeping these jobs or increasing manufacturing here in the United States.
So while presidential contenders on the left toss lies and promises of freebies around like a football, Republicans stick to the business at hand: move America forward, keep America great, and allow us to be healthier and more productive citizens with ample opportunities to better ourselves much like Ronald Reagan proposed doing many years ago!
Helen Sabin
Hamilton