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Obama and his Corporatist Democrat cohorts proceeded to pass more stimulus bills and focused on ramming Obamacare down the throats of the American people. The American people wanted the regime to focus on job creation rather than bailouts and Obamacare. The "free stuff" never came. Those waiting on it apparently don't understand that governments don't give. governments only consume: one way or the other.
The bailouts enriched the banksters and Wall Street, and Obamacare - a Eurosocialist healthcare model - was implemented to steal freedom from of choice from Americans and saddle them with coming additional taxes and death panels that will decide whether they live or die. What's more, to comply with the coming mandates to insure the previously uninsurable and everyone else, insurance companies are raising rates faster than they did before healthcare became "free for all."
But the regime doesn't like any kind of dissent. So it threatens, through a letter from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, to put health insurers out of business if they don't quit "using scare tactics and misinformation to falsely blame premium increases for 2011 on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act."
Sebelius says her experts and academic advisors believe any increased costs to insurance companies will be minimal. Government experts and academics operate in the fantasy land of theory. Businesses operate in the realm of reality. Businesses understand that regulations and mandates cost them money.
It's not the first time the regime has threatened businesses. When AT&T, Caterpillar and others explained to shareholders what the new healthcare law would cost, the thug Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) demanded proof and threatened to bring them before Congress. Waxman backed down when the companies provided proof.
You may recall that Obama's thugocratic regime also threatened those holding the debt of General Motors and Chrysler during bankruptcy negotiations. "Agree to our settlement or risk getting nothing," was the message. "Two hundred years of case law on bankruptcy be damned," the thugocracy said.
The result of all this is approval ratings in the low 40s for Obama and single digits for Congress. The elites first caught wind of voter dissatisfaction during Town Hall meetings. No longer were they pleasant affairs attended by a few old codgers looking for a free cup of coffee. Now voters were expressing their discontent. The elites got scared and ducked and ran or hired thugs to protect them from their "malcontent" constituents. They grabbed video cameras or ordered them turned off. These embarrassing moments appeared on YouTube for any who were interested to see.
A fellow professor with Barack Obama at the University of Chicago in the 1990s told radio host Laura Ingraham last week that the man who would become president once insisted, "People shouldn't be allowed to own guns."
That professor was John Lott, already known then as a leading gun-rights advocate and now author of several books, including "More Guns, Less Crime" and "Freedomnomics."
"I knew Obama at the University of Chicago," Lott told Ingraham. "We both taught there at the same time for about four years, and I talked to him about guns. I know what his views are on that.
"The first time I ever met him, I went, introduced myself, he said, `Oh, you're the gun guy,'" Lott recalled. "He said to me, `I don't believe people should be able to own guns