Coming Soon: Taxpayer-Funded ObamaCare Propaganda

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Coming Soon: Taxpayer-Funded ObamaCare Propaganda

            Leah Barkoukis       

            Posted at            4:30 PM ET, 9/17/2012

January 1, 2014 is the date Americans must have medical coverage by or pay a penalty under ObamaCare. For a state like California that has an uninsured population of seven million, preparations to spread the word about the exchange are already well under way, including some propaganda planning. Abby Goodnough at the NY Times reports:

Realizing that much of the battle will be in the public relations realm, the exchange has poured significant resources into a detailed marketing plan — developed not by state health bureaucrats but by the global marketing powerhouse Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, which has an initial $900,000 contract with the exchange. The Ogilvy plan includes ideas for reaching an uninsured population that speaks dozens of languages and is scattered through 11 media markets: advertising on coffee cup sleeves at community colleges to reach adult students, for example, and at professional soccer matches to reach young Hispanic men.

And Hollywood, an industry whose major players have been supportive of President Obama and his agenda, will be tapped. Plans are being discussed to pitch a reality television show about “the trials and tribulations of families living without medical coverage,” according to the Ogilvy plan. The exchange will also seek to have prime-time television shows, like “Modern Family,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and Univision telenovelas, weave the health care law into their plots.

“I’d like to see 10 of the major TV shows, or telenovelas, have people talking about ‘that health insurance thing,’ ” said Peter V. Lee, the exchange’s executive director. “There are good story lines here.”

I can think of some other good story lines, too:

            - ObamaCare is a looming tax bomb

            - ObamaCare will lead to a shortage of doctors

            - One in 10 U.S. employers is planning to drop coverage of their workers

            - Premiums will increase under ObamaCare

            - ObamaCare will cost nearly $2 trillion and leave 30 million uninsured

            - A majority of voters still want the ACA repealed

And as for the icing on the cake? Goodnough writes that the federal government has financed the exchange thus far with grants totaling $237 million.Of course, this isn't the first time taxpayers have funded "PR [blitzes]" for ObamaCare (and green energy). Unfortunately, it probably won't be the last either.

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Avatar sully16 -
#1
Cajun, this is a response to both of your last 2 blogs, I work with people on welfare, they ABSOLUTELY refuse to work more than 15 hours, they don't want to lose their government free ride, the refuse to purchase health insurance, ( at 7.95 a week), yet they always have money for hair, nails, movies, cd's, etc.
They are not concerned about health care because they know they can just go to the ER and get treatment.
We had to hire extra employees to cover the people who refuse to work, it's almost impossible to fire them for calling in sick, and we are non-union.
I don't know about other states, but michigan welfare is pretty tasty, people get a much as 5000 in food and 2000 in cash, so hell no, they ain't working and hell yes they are voting for bumbum, and it does not matter what color they are.
I see a trend where people in their early 20's with no children are on welfare.
Some people are getting their kids put into section 8, as soon as they turn 18.
The bottom line is our younger generation is being brainwashed,
It will crash and burn, the number of people willing to work full time is disappearing, at some point the government has got to realize they screwed themselves, the well will run dry.
Avatar rdgrnr -
#2
Some say it's the Achilles heel of a Representative Republic.
When people find they can elect people who promise to give them other people's money.
And that's when the Republic begins to collapse.
And that's what's happening now.
The Eagle can't fly when it's on the ground under a pack of hyenas.
Avatar CajunWin4 -
#3
“Dollar Index Headed for Rapid Collapse” Over Next 3 to 4 Weeks





Mac Slavo
September 18th, 2012
SHTFplan.com

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If you think the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing will only affect the US dollar, think again. Now that the United States has officially begun it’s third round of money printing to the tune of at least $40 billion monthly, central banks around the world will also act to ‘defend’ their currencies in kind.

Moreover, because everyone is joining the fray, all of that extra money will make its way into key resource stocks and commodities, adding further upside price pressure to essential goods like food and fuel.

It’s a race to the bottom, and the losers are the 99.9% of us who aren’t being kept in the loop.


Quantitative easing is really another word for currency wars. A weak U.S. currency puts continued pressure on the Japanese Yen, the Chinese Yuan, the South Korean Won, the Australian dollar and other currencies.

Cheap money also fuels speculation and this money quickly drifts into commodity markets and the ETFs that help propel commodity market speculation. This is inflationary for food prices.

The lower the U.S. dollar the greater the intensity of currency wars. The break below the key uptrend line on the Dollar Index chart was an early warning of the third round of quantitative easing (QE3).



The most important question now is to use the chart to examine the potential downside limits of a QE3 weakened U.S. dollar.

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The weekly close below this uptrend line was the first signal of a major change in the trend direction. It came before the announcement of QE3, last week.

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The third significant feature is historical support near 74.5. This is the upper edge of a consolidation band between 73.5 and 74.5. This is the downside target for the Dollar Index following a fall below 79.

This target can be reached very rapidly over three to four weeks. A rapid collapse of the U.S. dollar puts immediate pressure on other dollar-linked currencies.

There is a very low probability the U.S. dollar will resume its uptrend. The move below the value of the uptrend line and a fall below 79 confirm that a new downtrend has developed.

The weakness in the U.S. Dollar will hurt export dependent economies and companies.

CNBC

There are two ways this may end – neither of which is going to be good for the average Joe:
■The Fed et. al. continue to print, so much so that prices for food, gas, utilities and other key commodities that are linked to US dollar movements will rise exponentially. This rise in prices will accelerate the pressure on consumers as more jobs are lost in an ever progressing, self reinforcing economic death spiral. The pressure of rising prices, even though the Dow Jones may reach 20,000 or 50,000 points, will be so great that American consumers simply won’t be able to pay their bills or put food on the table.
■The Fed and their brethren around the world won’t be able to print fast enough to maintain stable financial markets, leading to stock market crashes in Europe, Japan, China and the United States, which then leads to a shift of capital to US Treasury bonds, ironically strengthening the dollar. A weak US economy that isn’t creating jobs and is adding tens of thousands of people to an already overburdened social safety net every week will eventually lead to confidence being lost in the US government’s ability to repay its debts. As we noted in 2012 Predictions of a Mad Tin Foilist, the end result will be a currency crisis, or de facto default by way of hyperinflating away our debt.

Both scenarios are virtually the same, as both will end with complete and utter destruction of Americans’ wealth.

Despite the mainstream notion that inflation is under control and most of the money is sitting on the sidelines with banks, all we need to do is look at the price increases for consumers since private and public bailouts begin in late 2008. Gas has doubled. Food is up over 25%. Electricity costs and the cost of just about every other non-debt based asset has steadily risen.

This is not going to stop.

While timelines remain elusive because of never ending government intervention into financial markets and economies, the policies being instituted by central banks around the world can only lead to continued degradation of paper currencies and the rise in prices of all goods linked to those currencies.

In January of 2010 we suggested a strategy of buying physical commodities at today’s lower prices and consuming those commodities at tomorrow’s higher prices. The trend for fiat paper money and physical assets has not changed and is, in fact, more pronounced now than ever before.

The US dollar is being systematically weakened until it no longer exists as a viable means of exchange. When this happens you’d better be prepared to operate in a society where traditional money is replaced with mechanisms of exchange like precious metals, food, critical supplies and production skills.

You can begin taking simple steps to prepare now. The collapse of the existing global paradigm is accelerating and if you’re not ready for it the price you’ll pay will be severe.



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