{"id":5187,"date":"2009-08-05T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2009-08-05T07:02:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:02:58","slug":"dictatorship-is-a-stubborn-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5187","title":{"rendered":"Dictatorship Is A Stubborn Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 President Obama and his Administration<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg &#8211; human ATM machine<\/p>\n<p>Re: Your Stasi<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President,<\/p>\n<p>Before we get down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things\/\">business:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the record, the President has consistently said that if you like your insurance plan, your doctor, or both, you will be able to keep them.  He has even proposed eight consumer protections relating specifically to the health insurance industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah.\u00a0 &#8220;For the record&#8221;.\u00a0 Well, that makes everything totally different.<\/p>\n<p>Look: paper protections mean exactly as much as the paper prediciton that &#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221; funding would last a month.\u00a0 Oh, the paper &#8220;protection&#8221; might be there &#8211; but there is no way for the private insurance industry to compete with a government-subsidized plan over time.\u00a0 The market distortion and its&#8217; &#8220;Unintended&#8221; consequences count for a lot more than any paper &#8220;guarantee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get down to business:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can\u2019t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we\u2019re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flag this.\u00a0 Like most criticisms of Obamacare, it&#8217;s not &#8220;misinformation&#8221; in any way.<br \/>\nMitch.\u00a0 Berg, with an &#8220;e&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can come on the Northern Alliance Radio Network and &#8220;set the record straight&#8221;.\u00a0 Have your people call our people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 President Obama and his Administration From: Mitch Berg &#8211; human ATM machine Re: Your Stasi Mr. President, Before we get down to business: For the record, the President has consistently said that if you like your insurance plan, your doctor, or both, you will be able to keep them. He has even proposed eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}