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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PRESIDENT ACT THIS WAY BEFORE?

By
Neal Boortz
@ March 10, 2010 8:49 AM
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I'm talking about the full-court press on the part of The Community Organizer and the Democrats to demonize the health insurance industry. This is Obama's current tactic on trying to get his health-care poison pill passed. The feeling is that if you gin up enough hatred of the health insurance industry in the dumb masses, the people will crawl to Washington on their bloody hands and knees begging their Savior, Barack Obama, to do something to save them.

You've heard of the book "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, haven't you? In his community organizing days Obama taught workshops in Chicago on the Alinsky method? Method, you say? What method? Well ... let' me just share a few of the points in Alinskey's book and you make your own determination as to whether or not Obama has learned his "Rules for Radicals" lessons well:

  • "An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent .."
  • "Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty ..."
  • "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon ..."
  • "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Now ... does it seem to any of you that Obama's demonization of the health insurance companies might be an attempt to "stir up dissatisfaction and discontent?" Is Obama looking "for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty"? Does Obama ridicule health insurance company executives? Does it look of late like Obama has picked his target, is trying to freeze it, personalize it and polarize it?

Yesterday some health insurance executives were meeting at a hotel in Washington DC. Here comes Howard Dean, Democrat National Chairman to lead a little protest outside that hotel. Dean gives his gathering - made up largely of SEIU members - a choice: Either they're "for the insurance companies or for the people."

I intercepted an internal White House memorandum yesterday. This memorandum details the new charges that will be leveled against health insurance companies and executives as Obama's demonization efforts go forward. The following accusations are scheduled to be made. Health insurance executives:

  • Eat puppies.
  • Sell their mothers and daughters into prostitution.
  • Burn churches
  • Spray paint swastikas on synagogues
  • Don't come to a full stop at stop signs
  • Tear tags off of mattresses
  • Hunt out of season
  • Don't wash before leaving the restroom
  • Trade secret recipes for kitten soup
  • Hate dogs (like Belinda)
  • Wear stripes with plaids
  • Cheat at golf

... and those are just the charges that will come out THIS week.

OK ... seriously. We all understand the tactic here. Obama eventually wants the government to be responsible for paying for all health care services of any kind for every American. Demonization of the private sector health insurance industry is a necessary step. Health insurance companies must be established to be the focus of all evil before the government takeover can gain steam.

Yesterday I played soundbites on the air from The Community Organizer. He said that the health insurance companies are telling their investors "We are in the money ... we are going to keep on making big profits ... even though a lot of folks are going to be put under hardship." He also said " What's hard is what millions of families and businesses are going through because we allow the insurance companies to run wild in this country."

Yeah .. that sounds very presidential, doesn't it? Someone tell me, please, the difference between Obama's efforts to demonize the private health industry and Hitler's demonization of Jews.

OK .. let's set the record straight here. First of all, are these insurance companies running wild? Hardly. Every one of the 50 states has a regulatory agency that tightly regulates what these insurance companies do and how much they can charge. That's hardly "running wild."

Secondly ... this "keep on making big profits" bit. What's the truth? We covered this yesterday in the Nuze ... but here are the highlights:

According to the most recent Fortune 500 rankings, health insurers are not even among the top-30 United States industries in profit-margin. Health insurers rank 35th, with a profit-margin of just 2.2 percent -- less than one-fifth the profit-margin of railroads. None of the ten largest American health insurers made profits of more than 4.5 percent, and two of them lost money. Health insurers' collective profit-margin is less than one-eighth that of drug companies and less than one-seventh that of companies that sell medical products or equipment. It's also less than that of medical facilities. Yet when was the last time you heard President Obama rail against greedy hospitals?

The combined profits of America's ten largest health insurers are $8.3 billion. That's less than two-thirds of the profits of Wal-Mart alone, less than half of the profits of General Electric alone, and less than one-seventh of what Medicare loses each year to fraud. Health insurers collectively have one-eighth the profit-margin of McDonald's or Coke, one-ninth that of eBay, and one-fifteenth that of Merck.

In all, the combined profits of the 14 largest American health insurers (the ones who crack the Fortune 1000) are $8.7 billion. That's less than 0.4 percent, or 1/250th, of overall U.S. health-care costs, which are $2.5 trillion.

This is well worth printing and showing to your friends. Just be careful .. since you're showing Obama to be a dishonest politician, repeating these statistics will be noted as "hate speech."



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  • UNFORTUNATELY..
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    bush the senior got the NAFTA treaty going which hurt our businesses and the middle class. and bush the second got the Patriot Act enabled which shredded our constitution.

    so its been going on a while.
  • You are off base
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    1. No one is born into the HealthCare industry.

    2. Obama isn't putting the HealthCare industry on a train, sending them to a concentration camp, making them work with little to no food, then gassing them and burning their bodies.

    3. Obama isn't sending the HealthCare industry to a slum, with no sanitation, no food, no possessions, and a complete seizure of their personal sovereignty.

    4. The HealthCare industry has a chance to fight back with money, influence, ideas, and an entire political party. The Jews had none of this.

    Point made.
  • Just one of the boys...
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  • @ACE
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  • OBAMA IS THE ANTICHRIST.
    Anyone disagree?

    The guy is 100% pure evil. He hates our country. He hates our Constitution. He is attacking our country, businesses, industries, and citizens. He robs, steals, lies, decieves, terrorizes and threatens anyone who is against his dangerous satanic-ritual agenda. His friends are all terrorists and communists.

    Can somebody please tell me..................just what in the hell is he doing in our White House?!

    Is this some kind of terrorist attack?
    It must be. Because AlQaeda could only dream of doing what obama is doing to our country and its' people. He's destroying our entire country without firing a single shot. Pretty clever, indeed.

    Just like the devil. In all my life, if I could ever have conceived what the antiChrist is/was...it would be barack hussein obama. Death and destruction is the only thing on his mind. And he's determined.

    God bless us all.
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    Obviously, publicly-traded companies are scrutinized to the extent that these "lavish" vacation junkets, etc. can be easily exposed and lead to negative recommendations from analysts who follow these stocks.

    And yes, privately-held insurers are more prone to use the "lavish" junkets you refer to decrease taxable income--and then we get into the whole argument of IRS meetings deductibility, etc. Of which I will mercifully spare the participants on this board.
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    Conservatives were in control, then conservatives lost congress, then conservatives lost the presidency, then conservatives get congres again(2010),

    sad thing is the people on this board actually think conservatives will do something when the whole reason this xcycle occurs is because liberals are wimps and conservatives are crybabies and they all dont do anything.
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    Venezuela's oil industry was nationalized in 1974. in the 1990's Venezuela welcomed back the global oil industry's back. now Hugo wants them to be minority shareholders in the oil industry.

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  • Allow Insurance Companies to Run Wild?????
    Having worked in the health insurance industry, I shot coffee out my nose laughing at THAT quote. Insurance companies, ESPECIALLY Health Insurance companies are the most heavily regulated industry out there - with the possible exception of the nuclear power industry.

    Let's get the government OUT of our health care, and see some REAL reform!
  • Insurance Companies and Profits
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  • Question about Profit Margins...
    Upfront Disclaimer: I'm against a public option. I believe the Republican Party is in bed with health insurers and willing to overlook some of their unethical practices for campaign contributions. I believe the best health care reform is a business environment that facilitates fair competition, tort reform and relaxing limits of trained/certified health professionals.

    OK...profit margins...If I have a business and spend lavish sums on bonuses, vacation junkets disguised as business travel, private jets, contributions to lobbyist and politicians, etc....you get the idea.

    If I'm able to write it off as business expenses, then deduct it from gross income, you can fudge the numbers to show whatever profit margin you feel you can get away with.

    Government does this all the time. Profit margins, high or low, mean nothing really.

    So what is the point of making a case using profit margins? Where am I wrong?
  • Leaders actions
    You mean in this country? Not since Jimmy Carter. Or FDR. Or Woodrow Wilson...
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    I can see the responses on this board to your troll activity validate my own conclusion: you are truly an idiot.

    "Somewhere in the Daily Kos blogosphere, a village is missing an idiot"
  • liberal dress larry
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    Of course, he's really a Socialist at the head of a National Party – so he's really a (National) Socialist – but just like everything else with the Left, it's incremental steps.
  • We Need a Leader to Grow Some Balls
    I want to see a leader come out and start saying the words that are on the minds of half of America right now: "F--- You, Washington! It's time for you to get the hell out of our business, including this health care crap. You bunch of self-absorbed politicians are so busy playing Imperial Kingdom in the House, Senate, and Oval Office that you all have forgotten who your employers are: THE PEOPLE. Well We The People think you bunch of jackasses have done quite enough, thank you very much. And guess what, YOU'RE ALL FIRED! Starting tomorrow at noon, all of you have no job. We're going to hold special elections and put Regular Joe American into office instead. We'll cut our own taxes, cut spending so that we have a balanced budget, and we're going to end all handouts. And for the poor people you've enslaved with welfare programs, they don't have to worry - we'll work together to wean them off gradually so that these former-government-slaves will understand how to handle their newfound freedom. We've had enough, Washington - you're fired!"

    If I saw a leader come out and say something like THAT, he or she would get my full support in a heartbeat. It's time for a revolution in this country, for REAL change we can believe in - firing all the dumbass politicians in Washington and starting over with regular people with common sense!!!!
  • as long as
    the dems pay me for my vote they can do ANYTHING they want
  • D
    dammit, D. i had a reply as set up until i read your comment. it was good too. all of you would bow down at my feet in honor of my great thinking ability. i would have got my own radio show, make twice as much a neal does, and taking twice as many days off. i would take twice the kickbacks from the insurance companies and wall street banks.

    i sure wish i could remember what i was about to say. :O)
  • Just Wondering...
    …when "O" gets out to hype up Cap and Tax, will he have a bunch of climate pseudo-scientists in polar bear suits on stage behind him? And will the Shamnesty II road show have a bunch of hispanics with hiking boots and backpacks on stage? It’s. All. Theatre.

    Thanks again to the confederacy of fools who elected this shamnesty of a president. The lesson here: never elect a Kenyan village idiot to do an American's job.
  • Reason # 5,928 why Obowmaocare is a really, really, really, BAD idea, from the UK:”Patients' medical records go online without consent”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7408379/Patients-medical-records-go-online-without-consent.html

    Forget about the loss of freedom and liberty that a system that holds every citizen, non-citizen , illegal alien, legal alien and alien, by the short curies.

    Forget about the fact that it will bankrupt the nation at an even faster rate.

    Forget about the fact that it will install a corrupt far-left moonbat National Socialist Demorat party into semi-permanent power for now until the nation collapses.

    Forget about the fact that your costs for healthcare will go way up.

    Forget about the fact that your Taxes will go way up

    Forget about the fact that taking that amount of capital out of the economy will cause irreparable damage to it.

    Forget about the frustrations of dealing with a bloated government bureaucracy to obtain healthcare.

    Forget about the rationing and the wait times for treatment.


    Forget about the..... hmmm what was my original point.... Oh yeah we now have ANOTHER reason to oppose this turd of program – your records will end up online forever one to see, not to mention the prospects for identity theft.

    Oh wait, MAYBE Our government won't screw up this bad, MAYBE they won't Muck up the system.

    They've always done a great job on everything else, right?

    Right?
  • wow...sounds exactly like
    Beck, Boortz, Hannity, and Savage. Got all the talking points covered.
  • @Libertarian Suit Larry
    >>>Conservatives have no solutions
    And of course here are conservatives complaining w/ no solutions. It gets kind of tiring.

    What is the conservative solution to people who are uninsurable? cricket cricket

    Have they thought of the public option in Texas or government healthcare in Hawaii? cricket cricket

    What about the fact that the public option will drive down the prices of private health insurance? cricket cricket<<<<
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    You're a libertarian??? Please enlighten me and tell me what your solutions are, you big libertarian you? Face it, you're a braindead leftist who's to stupid to even know what a libertarian stands for or you are just lying through your teeth. You are like that idiot Bill Mahar who says he is a libertarian, yet clings to every leftist/socialist ideology known to man.
  • Demonization
    Is there any difference in what The Big O is saying and what Hugo said before he took over the oil companies, media and other sectors of his economy?
  • Conservatives have no solutions
    And of course here are conservatives complaining w/ no solutions. It gets kind of tiring.

    What is the conservative solution to people who are uninsurable? cricket cricket

    Have they thought of the public option in Texas or government healthcare in Hawaii? cricket cricket

    What about the fact that the public option will drive down the prices of private health insurance? cricket cricket
  • Insurance company profits
    How can health insurance companies be making huge profits when they have to pay out huge amounts for serious medical problems. To make a profit you have to take in more than you pay out. If they are forced to take people with pre-existing conditions they will probably pay out more in the first few days than they will receive in premiums for years. Why doesn't the gov set up a pre-existing condition pool and have all people with pre-existing conditions pay into it. They should also make it illegal for the Ins companies to drop anyone they already insure when they develop a serious medical problem. Probably doesn't make much sense but it makes as much sense as anything else Obama is proposing. My brother-in-law has had 3 bypass operations and is on medicaid. One of his bills was $50,000 which he didn't have to pay of course but it shows why the insurance companies don't offer coverage for pre-existing conditions. It would bankrupt them in no time. If everyone has free insurance the people who really need to go to a doctor won't be able to get anywhere near them as everyone who has a fart crossways will be running to the doctor on a regular basis. Unfortunately this already happens with medicare and medicaid. I am on medicare and the only times I have been to the doctor in the last year was to have a small skin cancer removed and to visit the gynecologist. Haven't had a cold in the last 3 years. By the way could this be because I sleep in an unheated bedroom? Maybe more people should try it. Yeah I know candyasses lol but I do have an electric blanket.
  • What it's all about...
    Manufactured Crisis is the game. Just look at the barrage of crises we have endured in recent years. Global warming - we had according to luminaries Al Gore and Prince Charles at most, 10 years left to live, unless we act. What about the ozone, I thought that was a "crisis" when I was growing up? Is that OK now? How's that SARs epidemic and Swine Flu? Also, what about that crisis of AIDs breakout in the heterosexual community where 1 in 5 men will be dead?? Where's Lou Dobbs and "outsourcing" (in 2004 every show was about that).

    Just over a year ago, there was hardly any talk of health care. It was all about the "war for oil". Now, all of a sudden, just as the Social Worker gets elected, HC is a crisis and if it doesn't get passed in 72 hours, we will all be dead in the streets.
  • and Neal makes fun of others...
    Neal said: "Hate dogs (like Belinda)" So he is calling Belinda a dog?
  • A good crisis
    nothing like creating a good crisis.the problem is they intentionally destroy jobs take away income and turn hard working people into objects of charity.government is not the solution to the problem government is the problem.the only way to make healthcare affordable is by placing more money into the hands of the consumer not taking it away through taxation,fees,donations to our government ,or whatever you wish to call them.the only way to allow the people to decide is by allowing them to exercise god given freedoms and make choices for themselves.fairtax.org
  • Insurance company Profits
    If the government stole 100% of the insurance company's profits, it would fund health care for 2 days. Who are they going to steal from for the other 363 days?
  • I Guess Boortz Read Alinski's Book
    An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent .."
    "Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty ..."
    "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon ..."
    "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

    Seems like this is exactly what talk radio hosts do every day. So, Boortz is really a Marxist. Gee, who'd a known?
  • People in Glass Houses
    Seems to me that the Alinsky method is very popular on the other side of the political spectrum as well....

    Though I would save tshirt doc the trouble of posting :)
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