It's time to rise and overthrow this government and reclaim what is ours given to us by the founding fathers.

This video is god awful propaganda.

Who cares if those doctors didn't show up with lab coats? Everyone knows its a photo op. Besides, no one gets within 1000 feet of the president if they aren't a supporter in some sense. Mixing in ad hominem attacks with actual factual critiques is a time honored tradition, but it doesn't do any of the work of "deconstructing" the ACA.

Part of what the ACA did was to mandate that a percentage of your premiums go directly to healthcare costs, and NOT to overhead, administrative costs, and profit margins. It also requires an increase in benefits for most individuals. The insurers are free to pass the cost of those benefits on to the consumer, so long as the cost is rising in line with the benefits provided.

As to that whole bit about taxation. First of all, it's really disingenuous to take quotes from Supreme Court oral argument out of context. Questions asked by justices are often designed so as to be hard to discern the true question.

Then the big bad booming sound effects as a black screen rolls, and then "As a Tax the IRS will be used to enforce compliance." when the bill specifically states that the IRS will have no mechanism for enforcement.

Here's a post I made elsewhere about such enforcement claims. They're utter horse shit.

Quote:Where I heard this fact. (Skip to minute 7 if you just want the actual citation of law, but the rest is insightful - not even white house correspondents care to know what's really in law.)

Where other people fact check this fact.
In part:

Quote:It's through your tax refund.

The IRS will send a notice to taxpayers who are required to pay the penalty but don’t. If the penalty is not paid, the IRS can take it out of a tax refund.

Most people received a tax refund between $2,000 and $3,000 this year because their employer withheld too much from their paychecks, Williams said.

That can only happen if a taxpayer is getting a refund. If they’re not getting a refund, there’s not much the IRS can do to make people pay the penalty beyond sending a letter.

Taxpayers who don’t want to pay the penalty could tinker with the amount withheld from their paychecks so they don’t overpay the IRS, denying the agency the ability to hold back or minimize a refund. But experts said most taxpayers won’t go to the trouble.

"It’s a mandate that operates through inconvenience," said Jordan Barry, a University of San Diego School of Law professor who co-wrote an essay with Camp examining whether the mandate is really mandatory. "It’s basically right that you could avoid this if you wanted to."

And here's the text of the bill, which, on page 131, details the methods by which the IRS can pursue enforcement.

If you're savvy, there's no reason that the individual mandate will ever negatively affect you if you don't want it to.

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All of that was to prove a point: don't fucking listen to the guy on the radio telling you that you'll go to jail for not having insurance. You don't even have to pay a fine. All it takes is to get off the couch, turn off the boob tube, and get involved in the processes of your life.

In closing, I am sorry to throw a wrench in what is otherwise a very glossy and well-put-together video. But it's utter shit.

Still love you Mark

Hi Mark,

I guess you don't want to transform this pheromone forum into a political arena, are you?... where there are verbal fights between pro's and contra's, us versus them, the good versus the bad (and the ugly), the have's versus the have-not's, the winners versus the losers, etc...

...and I guess that you don't want to achieve that this forum is only visited by Obama haters and that others are not welcome or better shut the f..k up and get lost?

I'm from Europe and I don't know enough of the American political system to give my opinion if I would want to, which I don't.

Today I saw a documentary of a brother and sister who where torn apart from their family because they had to run for their life in the Burundi genocide of 1993 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundian_Genocide ). After twenty years, for the first time they saw each other again...at a secret place...

This same scenario happened to many many families in my country in World War 1 and 2, included my family.

You may ask, what has this got to do with the "Obamacare"? Well, what has Fukushima got to do with the States? In my opinion, nothing and everything.

Propaganda isn't new, propaganda is from all ages, the Nazi's were experts in it, they even had a Ministry of Propaganda, and so were the Sovjets and the communist party in China... In fact all dictatorships had/have propaganda machines. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda ) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_propaganda )

Now you can ask yourself if the U.S. is still a democracy or a dictatorship? And if so, who exactly dictates who? At that point one is not far away from conspiracy theories.

Strange to write this on the day JFK was shot dead 50 years ago...

Now, as an ordinary citizen, what to do then?

My answer: do your best, forget the rest.

Or perhaps "the Golden Rule"...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

Is this simplism? Perhaps

Just my two cents.

Sounds like redlion is a brainwashed obama kool-aid drinking lidTard.

Or he's calling out the video for what it is, propaganda. Its not hard to see this video is incredibly one sided. I'd rather have facts than fear-mongering.

No more than the lies and bullshit propaganda Obummer spewed upon Congress and the American people to pass his socialistic bill. It's been nothing less than a dismal failure so far and is only going to get worse!

Obamcare in action:

Propaganda..Fear-Mongering... REALY... That's all the left does. LIE CHEAT STEAL AND FEAR MONGER. I want you to tell me 1 thing, JUST 1 (ONE) thing that obama has said that was true just 1.
If you like your plan-or doctor you can keep it lol. That P.O.S.

4 men dead in Lydia to cover up the fact he was selling weapons to Al Qaeda!
Fast and Furious over 200 Mexicans and 2 Americans killed with guns he and erica holder sold to drug lords.
Still will not prove he was born in America.. If he is so damn transparent what the hell is he hiding.
And then there is N.S.A., IRS, doubled the debt,and gas prices.
This maggot called out Bush for spending money we dont have, And then in his 1st 6 months spends more then the 1st 43 presidents all combined. Were the hell are the "SHOVEL READY JOBS"?!
Wake the hell up. Turn CNN off and try C-SPAND.
Just 1 question for u. Are you the low info voter or just a free loader looking for a free ride on the backs of people that work.
Anything this government gives to people is something taken from someone else that earned it!!
Thanks this rant is over far short of were I could have gone.

Well guys, it's simple, if you don't like Obama or his policy, don't vote for him.

There's propaganda and anti-propaganda, there's general results and exceptions, and no one person should try to convince other of what is right without an objective view based on both positive and negative facts. This being said, it should be noted that this is just my opinion on pretty much every large debate out there.