The Liquor Talking

I’m guessing pretty dumb. For starts, we elected a guy with no track record for doing the gazillion things a president has got to do. Okay, so he has mad skilz in community organizing and organizing things is something a president needs to do. Mostly he has staff to do that sort of thing, but I’ll give it up that Obama is an organizing mamma-jamma.

Other than that, his qualifications fit easily on the head of a pin. But we voted him in so I think that we are were pretty damned stupid. But are we still? The president’s approval rating has dropped to 47.6% but I think that might be an indication that we’re still pretty stupid.

I think we still believe this guy can do all the crap he promised during the campaign. The economy is actually getting worse and unemployment is still hanging at 10%. His flagship promise to fix healthcare has resulted in a 7,000+ page bill (that’s longer than Winston Churchill’s “History of the English Speaking People”) that appears to do anything but fix healthcare. We may still be hanging on to expectations.

But it’s clear that either this president has no clue how things work or he assumes we don’t.

His Exalted Obamaness has now decreed that a “financial crisis responsibility fee” be imposed on all banks with assets of more than $50 billion, regardless if they accepted any taxpayer assistance or not and of those that did, on top of the amount already repaid. This is allegedly to recoup a $117 billion dollar shortfall in the TARP (bank bailout) program, but it’s nothing more than just another way to tax us indirectly.

Really? We’re just not gonna notice that every single bank fee is gonna go up the day this tax is imposed? I guess it’s the banks screwing us, huh? Not the Obama government. They’re looking out for us! They’re putting it to the man! We’re idiots!

MS word thinks I want to be incomprehensible:

Just like we’re not supposed to notice that the people who LEAST need healthcare reform are the ones who are gonna be paying the MOST for it. Part of the behind-closed-door negotiations includes a special concession to labor unions (who had just threatened to take their votes elsewhere) that exempts their members from the insane taxes being put on their healthcare plans. Exempt until 2017.

But the best part is that this excise tax on “Cadillac plans” will eventually extend to everyone. Right now, a “Cadillac plan” is one that costs more than $8K for an individual and $21K for families. That’s total costs paid to the insurance company, whether you pay all, part or none of the premium.

We’ll all have such plans eventually. The value of the plans that are taxed would be indexed to the consumer price index, plus 1 percent This means that more and more people would be affected by the threshold than would be if the tax had been indexed to health care inflation. Pretty tricky there folks. I guess you’ll now make us all wealthy too.

In other news, I have yet another annoying customer who does not know what Marcellus Wallace looks like. Sorry, you old digbat, but when you call me at 2 minutes to 5 and want to whine about you not getting your email for 3 days, you get put into a situation where you may have to describe someone you’ve never heard of

And the Mayor of Bellbrook Ohio is now in receipt of 6 cans of assorted tuna and this note from Gary:

Sorry today’s blog is so discombobulated. I got next to no sleep last night and am very tired. My pary are for going to bed early tonight.

I should be back in fettle tomorrow.