HOW IS PRESIDENT BIDEN GOVERNING?

Posted on December 9, 2023 by Mike Russo

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INTRODUCTION

Joe Biden has been president for over three years so it’s far past the time to assess how he’s doing. America is doing very poorly in almost every metric and it appears to be almost entirely the Biden Administration’s fault. Biden’s approval polls reflect this, though you would never know it if you only watch Main Stream Media. How did the President destroy the economy, raise inflation, make illegal immigration out of control, mess up our departure from Iraq, weaken the military, etc., in three years?

While Joe Biden campaigned as a moderate, he governed as a far-left radical. In addition, President Biden appears to have diminished mental capacity with other Biden far-left officials and friends actually formulating the policies Biden is implementing. These are my speculations as to why the Biden Administration has failed at every single endeavor it has engaged in. If there are any Biden policies or actions you believe have been successful, then your sources of news have been corrupted (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, etc.). Let’s examine some of President Biden’s policies.

BODY

I believe the following issues are the most important to the public: 1) The Economy, 2) Energy Independence, 3) Illegal Immigration/Border Security, 4) Crime, 5) Covid, 6) The Military, 7) Ukraine-Russia, 8) Afghanistan.

1.THE ECONOMY: To adequately examine the economy, let’s look at a) inflation, b) employment, and c) GDP (gross domestic product). Trillions of dollars of unnecessary spending that was requested by the Biden Administration, and approved by the Democrat Congress caused this unprecedented inflation.

a) Inflation hits the poor hardest. In April ’22, it was 8.3%, though it’s lower now (in 2020, under Trump, 1.4% inflation). The cause began with the $1.9 Trillion “2021 American Rescue Plan”.

b) Employment appears to currently be doing well with unemployment at under 4%. This was expected because of the “V-shaped Recovery” that President Trump enabled with his “across-the-board” tax rate cuts for everyone.

c) Gross Domestic Product (or GDP) measures the total cost of all goods and services produced by the United States. It actually decreased in the first two quarters of 2022 which traditionally meant the U.S. was/is in a recession (in 2020, under Trump, GDP growth was 6.5%).

2. ENERGY INDEPENDENCE: On the day he was inaugurated as President, Joe Biden began his war on fossil fuels that he promised during his presidential campaign. He immediately shut down the Keystone and Dakota pipelines and the permitting of oil and gas exploration and drilling on Federal lands. He discouraged financial institutions from loaning money to oil and gas companies and significantly raised fees for existing oil and gas leases on Federal lands. He’s now stopped very large oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

The consequences of all of the aforementioned is the price of gas significantly increasing in price as well as the 6,000 products made from oil significantly increasing in price. Most consumer products are trucked to their destination so their prices have also necessarily vastly increased because of the cost of fuel that transports them.

3. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION-BORDER SECURITY: 2020 Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, promised “open borders” if elected President, as did all of the other primary election Democrat candidates. Since being elected, illegal immigration has vastly increased to over 200,000/month and was expected to triple if Title 42 is ever lifted (it didn’t) Most of the illegals are young single men, some of whom (the “got-aways”) carry backpacks containing Fentanyl and other illegal drugs in order to pay the cartels their $4,000-$8,000 fee to cross the U.S. southern border. Moreover, there are a number of criminals intermingled with non-criminals…human trafficking is also rampant.

4. CRIME: The Democrat-supported “Defund the Police” movement that coincided with the 574 riots that took place in the summer of 2020, destroyed countless small businesses, including many black-owned businesses. Even V.P. Kamala Harris got involved by raising money to bail out rioters. The January 6 protest in the U.S. now appears to have been directed by a FBI-collaborator (Ray Epps) and arranged by the Democratic Party. Democrat District Attorneys in Democrat-run cities are not prosecuting many classes of misdemeanors resulting in crime increasing exponentially in those cities. Moreover, the-illegal the protests around Supreme Court justices over the then-draft Roe vs. Wade Alito opinion, were not investigated by the US Department of Justice nor condemned by the Biden Administration. All of the aforementioned leads me to ask the obvious question, “why is the Democrat Party soft on crime,” and why isn’t the Department of Justice doing its job?

5. COVID: Response to Covid by the Federal and most State governments were a combination of incompetence, anti-science, and political malfeasance The victims of this chaos was the American public, many of whom lost their lives, their livelihoods, or their health and well-being. Unnecessary lockdowns of the economy hurt many State and localities, and mandatory vaccinations resulted in many people being unnecessarily fired, including from some critical jobs and the military. Moreover, CDC (centers for Disease Control) officials were not transparent in their decisions, nor did they recognize the obvious, like the superiority of the natural immunity acquired when one caught the virus. Consequently, a one-year pandemic has lasted years! Why did States and the Federal government do what they did?

6. THE MILITARY: China is in the process of surpassing the U.S. military. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is very close in size to the United States and therefore China has the money to spend on its military for China to become a superpower like the U.S. Fortunately it’s still behind in nuclear weapons. Russia does have a large nuclear arsenal to match the U.S. It also has, unlike the U.S., many small tactical battlefield nuclear weapons, which Ukraine may eventually see. Recently, it has demonstrated its hypersonic missiles which are so fast and travel so close to the ground that they can’t be shot down.

While our adversaries are getting stronger, the U.S. military’s budget was increased only enough to keep up with inflation. Also, U.S. military leadership is emphasizing teaching CRT (critical race theory) to all of our troops. Our military has also fired soldiers that refused to be vaccinated. Why?

7. UKRAINE-RUSSIA: Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022 with the expectation of defeating Ukraine in a few days. That was years ago and Ukraine is still fighting and holding its own against Russia, using mostly American weapons. To date the U.S. has given many billions to Ukraine, all of the money being given is borrowed and will add to U.S. inflation. Meanwhile, the Ukraine-Russia war probably could have been avoided had President Biden started arming Ukraine when Russia started moving troops to its border with Ukraine, and if he refused Ukraine membership into NATO (instead of signing an agreement to support Ukraine). Why?

8. AFGHANISTAN: Unilaterally (with no consultation with other world leaders), President Biden changed the U.S. departure date from Afghanistan to August 31, 2021. as well as not adhering to the Trump policy of making the departure “conditions-based.” He also made the departure site the Kabul airport and asked the Taliban to oversee the departure of all civilians. Consequently, 13 American soldiers were killed, over 100 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans that helped us were left stranded in Afghanistan, many of whom were eventually assassinated. Moreover, $85 billion in U.S. military equipment was abandoned in Afghanistan. Ultimately, this fiasco led to Russia and China to be emboldened and to become more aggressive with Ukraine and Taiwan. Was this simply incompetence?

9. Israel-Hamas-Iran: President Biden and his Administration is getting the U.S. closer and closer to war with Iran though this, of course, is not his intention. His and Obama’s attempts to bribe/coerce Iran into behave peacefully has not worked. President Trump’s policies toward Iran did work: enforcing strong sanctions, keeping oil prices very low by producing as much oil as the U.S. was capable of, etc.

Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023 attack is exactly what’s needed…don’t play with terrorists, destroy them or defang them. However, the U.S. might prevent Israel from finishing the job of destroying Hamas.

As long as Joe Biden is president, the U.S. is extreme danger of being attacked from within or from without.

CLOSING

President Biden is on course to become our very worst president, by far. The nine areas I looked at above are simply a small part of his actions that are destroying the U.S. It’s understandable given his reliance on the far-left in the Democrat Party for guidance. He will probably remain President for another year, so it’s anyone’s guess how bad the U.S. will be by then. I blame Mainstream Media for this debacle because none of this would have been possible had it done its job covering the news rather than covering up any news that made the Biden presidential campaign and then its Administration look bad.

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Donald J. Trump: A TOUGH PRESIDENT FOR TOUGH TIMES

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Mike Russo

Today’s world is tough, real tough, with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea constantly attempting to do harm to the U.S. and its allies. A tough President is needed to deal with these threats but many politicians are very weak and are not capable of handling them effectively. On the other hand, President Trump has demonstrated that he stood up to any country that tried to take advantage of the U.S., including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, as well as Europe and NATO.

To continue examining Donald Trump…he’s a “street fighter”. “Turning-the-other-cheek” is not for successful politicians in our tough world. On being elected President, Trump improved his messaging and appointed impressive people to help him develop his policies and lead his Cabinet. He had a resounding electoral victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, thanks to his strong backbone and outworking her by far. Upon becoming President, he implemented policies that he advocated during the election, including the strongest economy in 50 years and the lowest unemployment rates ever for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. If he had been re-elected in 2020, he would have gone down in history as being one of our greatest presidents, and possibly would have even taught Republican Senators how to fight hard for what they believe in. In other words, to be tough when warranted.

I believe that most Trump supporters like him for the same reason that I like him: he has a stiff spine, is not timid, and fights for America first. When he’s criticized by the Press or political opponents, he doubles-down and fights back even harder. In addition, Trump’s focus on illegal immigration, the military, healthcare, war on terror, the economy, the China and the North Korean threats, law and order, etc., touched a nerve with the electorate and he consequently took numerous actions to address all of these.

Failed weak recent Presidential candidates include Mitt Romney, who lost the 2012 Presidential election to President Obama. He was more than capable, as evidenced by his outstanding performance in his first debate with President Obama. When viciously attacked by the Obama campaign, he refused to fight back. Governor Romney’s poor performance came on the heels of Senator John McCain’s poor performance in his 2008 Presidential campaign. Moreover, it also followed President Bush’s unwillingness to fight back when constantly fraudulently accused by the Left that, “Bush lied, people died” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Other failed recent weak Presidents include Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

I’m not advocating that the President of the United States engage in foolish struggles on matters that can’t be won, but I also believe in not backing off when Democrats and the Main Stream Media make false allegations or when other countries threaten us. For example, President Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese products, placed sanctions on Iran after getting out of the insane Iran deal, got the U.S. out of the ridiculous Paris Climate Accords and the job-killing TPP, and frequently legitimately called fake news (ABC,CBS,NBC, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, etc.), “fake news”.

America needs Donald Trump to prevent a major war, or to end it if President Biden and his Administration already got us into in one or more by election day in November 2024; to stop the massive illegal immigration; to get the price of oil drastically reduced so as to financially hurt U.S. enemies, like Russia, Venezuela, and Iran, as well as to drastically reduce inflation. The time for “Sugar Lips” presidents is over. The U.S. needs a President who puts fear in the hearts of its enemies, especially Xi and Putin: Donald Trump!

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UNDERSTANDING PRESIDENT TRUMP

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Mike Russo

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All of his adult life Donald Trump followed important issues and donated to both Democrats and Republicans (see Trump’s book, “The America we Deserve”). He was not ideological or partisan. He was a super-patriot and eventually thought he could use his business acumen to turn America around, which he believed had become very weak, militarily, economically, and culturally. After thoroughly checking with political experts, he decided to run for the Republican presidential nominee. Not being a polished politician, his blunt talk won over many Americans who were tired of slick-talking, do-nothing politicians. His goal as President really was to “Make America Great Again”! Donald Trump is “old school”.

With Republican majorities in both the House and Senate for his first two years as president, he was able to pass significant tax cuts which led to the economy doing extremely well for all of its sectors. Many of Trump’s accomplishments resulted from his abolishing numerous counterproductive Obama regulations that had put a “wet blanket” over the economy (former GE CEO Jack Welsh’s description). In addition, President Trump used his negotiating skills to deal with the huge trade imbalances the U.S. had with China, Japan, Mexico, etc. Moreover, because of his blunt talk, unpredictability, and decisiveness, adversary countries took his threats seriously and were much more accommodating to him than to previous U.S. presidents.

Everything in this article up to this point has been positive, so why did so many people have an intense hatred of President Trump? My belief is that it’s mostly because President Trump hits back very hard when attacked. His opponents, the Democrat Party, the Mainstream Media, Hollywood, and Academia are not used to any Republican fighting back when attacked. Republican leadership is infamous for being timid. Another major reason why so many hated President Trump is due to the incessant criticism Main Stream Media spouted off every hour of every day, almost all of it phony. Finally, although President Trump really had made America great again through his numerous accomplishments, he had a few annoying personal mannerisms that turned off many people, including me (though I still admire him for how he helped the U.S.).

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I would characterize these annoying personal mannerisms as shortcomings in emotional intelligence (see Daniel Goleman’s book, “Emotional Intelligence”). Here’s some examples of what I mean: 1) “punching down” like calling Jeff Sessions “stupid” and Stormy Daniels “horseface”; 2) having his “child” hooked (see Thomas Harris’ book, “I’m OK, You’re OK”) by Joe Biden during their first debate and consequently reacting emotionally instead of intelligently to other debate questions, like “Do you denounce white supremist groups…?” The best answer would have been a simple, “Yes, of course I denounce them,” instead of his confusing reply); 3) focusing his campaigning on Biden’s shortcomings, instead of what he would do if he were re-elected (including reducing annual budget deficits and total national debt); and 4) the disrespectful manner in which he criticized Joe Biden personally. These shortcomings (as well as unprecedented massive election fraud by the Democrat Party) helped cause President Trump to lose re-election despite all of his outstanding accomplishments for America.

President Trump had turned around so many failing national endeavors and every single day made even more progress for America. If he had been re-elected and continued at his “Trump Speed,” I believe he would have become our greatest president. If he runs and wins in the 2024 Presidential election, I believe he will become our greatest President.

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LOOKING BACK: VOTER FRAUD IN THE 2020 ELECTION

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Mike Russo

Was there much voter fraud in the Trump-Biden presidential election? Most Republicans say “yes,” Most Democrats say “no.” Who’s right? Of course, this is not simply a theoretical or intellectual question and it was not only important for the 2020 Presidential election, it’s important for taking any necessary corrective actions so that future elections have less fraud.

THE FOUNDATION FOR VOTER FRAUD

The FBI spied on the 2016 Trump campaign and the Trump presidency. Then the DNC and Hillary paid for the phony Stihl-Russia Trump dozier that served as the foundation for the Mueller investigation. Moreover, they impeached President Trump based on a phone call (which thankfully was recorded) between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. Mainstream Media slanted and even fabricated stories about President Trump and did not report on any of Trump’s numerous achievements for the U.S., including his being nominated by four countries for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his getting three Middle-Eastern countries to make Peace agreements with Israel. Finally, the three giant Internet networks censored conservative speech, like the New York Post’s article about Joe Biden and his son and brother’s corruption. All of the above led half of the electorate in America to believe that President Trump was so bad that anything they did to defeat him was ethically justified (“the end justifies the means”). Check out “The Durham Report” if you doubt any of the aforementioned.

INDICATORS OF VOTER FRAUD

I know that President Trump won re-election because the metrics, other than the phony vote results, don’t make sense. Here’s a few of the many reasons how I know that Trump was re-elected. 1) in a Michigan county a glitch was found in its Electronic Voting System software that changed 6,000 Trump votes to 6,000 Biden votes…and in 47 other counties in Michigan this same software was used in the same way…as in 28 other States; 2) to date, twelve of the “new” House of Representatives seats that were lost by Republicans in the 2018 Congressional elections have been won back by them in the 2020 election (and only two by Democrats). This is telling because this phenomenon happens in presidential elections when the Presidential candidate wins big and carries the “down-ballot” races on his/her “coat-tails;” 3) Biden overperformed with votes in only those counties in the final battleground states that made a difference to whether the state went for Biden or Trump [using analyses via Benford’s Law]; 4) Attorney Sidney Powell on 11/8/20 “Sunday Morning Futures” said that they found 450,000 ballots with only “Joe Biden” marked; 5) large bags of ballots received and counted in the middle of the night without poll watchers present and all ballots for Joe Biden; 6) the number of votes far outnumber the number of registered voters in many counties; 7) 3.5% mail-in votes rejected in the 2016 election, 0.5% rejected in the 2020 election; 8) in Nevada, signature verification machines for mail-in ballots set at 40%; and 9) see my article on this blog if you think that stealing a presidential election is far-fetched…it’s called “Unethical, Corrupt, or Criminal Democrat Party.”

THE EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD

Millions of votes were stolen in the 2020 presidential election. How do I or anyone know this for sure? The evidence of voter fraud is overwhelming. I listed the major categories of fraud below for which there is a thousand affidavits:

Thousands of dead people voting.
Mail-in ballots being counted even though they were received after the deadline.
Post Office employees illegally back-dating mail-in ballots so they could be counted.
Electronic Voting System vote-counting software used in 28 states, switching votes from Trump to Biden.
Hundreds of thousands of votes being unlawfully counted without a Republican poll watcher present.
Disparate treatment of the votes, like those from the 7 Democrat counties versus the 60 Republican counties in Pennsylvania.
Biden votes put through counting machines multiple times.
Mollie Hemingway’s book, “Rigged” details how Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million on buying election offices in many States.
Mike Lindel presented about 10 hours on OAN TV depicting how China assisted the Democrat Party in stealing the Presidential election.
Dinesh D’Souza’s DVD movie, “2,000 Mules” showing video of official, ballot boxes being stuffed with illegal ballots.
Economic Advisor, Peter Navarro’s 3-part report on the election: 1) “The Immaculate Deception,” 2) “The Art of the Steal,” 3) “Yes, President Trump Won: The Case, Evidence, & Statistical Receipt.” POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT IN VOTER FRAUD.

Due to the history of stealing elections by the Democrat Party, starting farther back than Boss Tweed in Tammany Hall in 1850’s New York and continuing up to the present, it’s easy for those of us who follow politics closely and love our system of government, to believe that Joe Biden became President with massive voter fraud by his Party.

However, it is a fact that the Democrat Party facilitated 80 million plus ballots being mailed to voters without them being requested by voters. This was the heart of the fraud because mail-ins are easy to fabricate and difficult to verify. Many politicians said that they didn’t want to place an undue burden on their citizens by actually requiring that they appear in person and show a photo ID, such as a drivers license (which is even required of people of questionable age to buy a pack of cigarettes). Does any adult really believe that lax voting standards have any purpose other than facilitating fraudulent voting? It is important in a democracy for people to have faith in the process by which their leaders are elected, so care must be taken that it’s done honestly and that politicians are kept far away from the process. Voter fraud is not new, but dates back to the beginning of our Republic (see Troy E. Nehls’ 2002 book, The Big Fraud; Andrew Gumbel’s 2005 book, Steal This Vote; Eric Eggers 2018 book, Fraud; the 2004 book by Hugh Hewitt, If It’s Not Close They Can’t Cheat; and the 2008 book by John Fund, Stealing Elections…How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy).

THE SOLUTION

For the 2020 Presidential election, President Trump, every Republican leader/official, and every Trump voter, needs to do whatever they could to expose voter fraud and bring all of the perpetrators to justice. “Moving on,” like some people might advise, simply perpetuates voter fraud and Republicans will never win another presidential election, and America needs to have at least two strong and viable political parties. The evidence brought to light was overwhelming but the courts didn’t even look at it.

All election officials must follow their State’s election laws or be penalized. Since presidential elections are of national importance, the Supreme Court should get involved and require that a photo ID, either in the form of a driver’s license or a State-issued photo ID should be mandatory in every state in order to vote. Later, perhaps also a slight revision and an addition could be made to the on-line E-Verify system created by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in concert with the Social Security Administration that is currently used by employers to ascertain whether someone is in the U.S. legally. A “Voter Photo Authentication” may be in order given the amount of massive voter fraud in the U.S. (millions/year). Something also must be done to prevent criminal politicians from continuing to corrupt our elections. Blanket mail ballots should be prohibited, requested absentee ballots are okay as long as there are Internal Controls in place to prevent abuse. Serious consideration should be given to the very simple but honest voting system that the U.S. military used in the Iraqi elections it administered. In that election, voters dipped their finger into indelible ink upon voting so that they could not vote again…using only paper ballots and all taking place in one day and counted that day. It’s government’s fault that our elections got to be this bad and it’s government’s responsibility to clean it up.

For further information check out www.truethevote.org, www.judicialwatch.org, and Thomas Moore Society’s Amistad Project.

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AFTERMATH

Because I watched, listened to, and taped over 20 hours of testimony documenting overwhelming fraud in the 2020 election, I know that President Trump was re-elected President of the United States. Those who disagree have not seen or heard the evidence but are simply basing their opinion on all of President Trump’s court challenges being defeated, not knowing that they were defeated based on procedural grounds and that the massive amount of evidence was not even heard. In addition to having the 2020 Presidential election stolen, the next consequence of overlooking the massive election fraud was the stealing of the January 5 run-off elections for both senators from Georgia using the corrupted vote-counting machines and its malicious software. However, Senate Majority leader, Mitch McConnel, also helped lose both Senate seats by not agreeing to give Americans $2,000 stimulus checks a week before the election, which President Trump advocated.

On January 6 there was a Trump rally in Washington where president Trump spoke. Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters attended it at the Ellipse across from the White House.. Meanwhile, about a mile away, hundreds of right- and left-wing fringe rioters, previously planned (according to the FBI) and got positioned at the Capitol by 12:45 pm, which was before the President finished his speech at 1:11 pm. They then broke into the Capital building, which interrupted Congressional election-fraud debate and certification. Debate resumed hours later and Congress certified the Electoral College votes. The media coverage of the “Stop the Steal” rally, Congress’ election-fraud debate, and the violence in the Capitol building was pitiful. It exploited the violence by accusing President Trump of inciting it. He did not, but asked rally attendees to “walk down to the Capitol to…cheer on our brave senators and congressmen to peacefully and patriotically make our voices heard.” However, as I mentioned, the violent Left- and Right-Wing protesters were already there with the intention of breaking in and disrupting the Congressional debate on election fraud.

President Trump pleaded with all after the violence began at the Capitol to go home. Nancy Pelosi asked that the 25th Amendment be invoked to throw President Trump out of office, otherwise the House would impeach him. The days following, President Trump appeared on T.V. and said that he was focusing on the peaceful upcoming transition. Later, the President tweeted that he would not be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration…President Trump is not a hypocrite politician. Incidentally, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was more responsible than any other government official for the violence by not at least giving a fair hearing to Texas’s lawsuit joined by twenty-two other states and the President because they (allegedly) did not have “standing.” In other words, it manufactured “lack-of-standing” as the pretext for avoiding doing its job as the court of last resort and gave no recourse to 75 million Americans who knew the election was stolen.

On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States and has been a disaster. Now, what will Trump supporters do with the massive evidence of voter fraud? I taped over 20 hours of it and I know tens of thousands of other Americans did as well. I predict that this issue will not go away…and may eventually even lead to serious violence. It needs to be fully investigated before most people will be placated. To add insult to injury and continuing to inflame emotions, big tech companies and other large corporations penalized anyone that said that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen, which it was. God help us.

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OBAMACARE EQUALS NO HEALTH INSURANCE (unless it’s subsidized)

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Mike Russo

A very useful guide though a little outdated

When Joe Biden became our next president on November 3, 2020, Obamacare continued to be America’s healthcare system. In June of 2023 it remains in effect. As of 2022, approximately 35 million Americans were coved by Obamacare-supported medical insurance coverage. Therefore, Americans need to know something about it.

Without subsidies, Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unaffordable for most people. Because it is so bad, many looked to President Trump to repeal and replace it with something much better and much less expensive. Because employers were not required to provide heath insurance for part-time workers, most new jobs employers created in the U.S. under Obamacare were part-time.

I’ve been a supporter of universal healthcare since the year 2000 and, although I did not vote for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, I was hopeful that he would make good-healthcare-for-all a reality. It did not cross my mind that Obama would promulgate legislation that would destroy healthcare for many more Americans than it might help. It also did not occur to me that healthcare premiums for the unsubsidized would double, triple, or even quadruple because of Obamacare…and that deductibles would be as expensive as four to twelve thousand dollars/year and co-pays double for the unsubsidized what they had been pre-Obamacare…and that all of these consequences combined would have the cumulative effect of destroying healthcare for tens of millions Americans.

Let’s give the creators of Obamacare the benefit of the doubt and assume that their hearts were in the right place, and that the passage of the ACA was not simply an attempt of government takeover of 1/6 of the U.S. economy (with healthcare). The Affordable Care Act demonstrated that it was not affordable and was pitiful health insurance…it was poorly and incompetently designed and executed. It reminds me of the homily that “an elephant is a mouse designed by committee,” but in the case of the ACA, it was designed by one political party in Congress.

But wasn’t Obamacare designed to be like Romney-care, which was passed by Mitt Romney when he was a Republican governor of Massachusetts? That’s what politicians said to justify Obamacare, but that’s not true. Romney-care only affected about 8% of the Massachusetts population. Obamacare affected everyone except those exempted by the President. Romney-care did not have penalties or mandates that Obamacare did until it was repealed by President Trump in his tax-rate-cuts law. The very few good aspects of Obamacare, pre-existing conditions and coverage by parents’ insurance until age 26, could have been simply added in new health insurance Federal legislation.

Although Obamacare is clearly very bad and expensive health insurance, except for those receiving significant subsidies or exemptions, the U.S. may be stuck with it. The reason is totally political. One sixth of the economy is healthcare. The ACA or “Obamacare” is a politician’s dream come true but the average American’s nightmare. With thousands of dollars required for deductibles before reimbursement by insurance companies kicks in, Obamacare for most ends up basically being only catastrophic health-care insurance, which is important and necessary, but not something one should pay a lot of money for.

An opportunity for Obamacare to be either repealed and replaced came with the 2016 Presidential election. Only if Republicans controlled the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives could Obamacare be replaced with healthcare that was affordable and truly cared about people. Legislation failed in 2017 because of Senator John McCain, who promised to vote for a Bill in the Senate to overturn it and then, last minute without informing anyone in advance, did not vote to overturn it.

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