Obama-Care, Not Quite The Bargain That Was Pitched

by: bruce nix | published: 05 13, 2010

The last time that I went to the fair was about three years ago. Mainly we went to eat all of the stuff that you can’t seem to find anywhere else, like; elephant ears, cotton candy, gyros, Italian sausage and green pepper hoagies and my most favorite of all; candied apples. Amidst all of the lights and loud music there is a plethora of things that will entertain you, fill you up and for sure; take your money.

The Midway, nothing like it! The smell of all of that great stuff cooking. Popcorn being consumed at a phenomenal rate. Those electrifying rides, the side shows and of course; the games. A huge selection of stuffed animals, photos of Elvis adorned with gold frames, jewelry hanging there right in front of your eyes almost within reach, bowls of gold-fish on the table, yours for just the mere toss of a dime! All of that flash adorning the games. You are guaranteed to win something almost every time! Or are you?

There in their hour of glory, the ever-present Carny. Pitching the possibilities of winning that elusive prize! Today, it can be yours for just a buck! Man they make it look so simple. Just throw the ball and knock the milk bottles down and you can win the biggest Teddy Bear ever made! How easy can it be? Listen to the sounds of the Carny. The greatest sales pitch guy’s ever!

“Hurry right up folks! It’s amazing, it’s dazzlin’, it’s almost too good to be true. Step right up, step right up, times a wastin’ folks. Tell ya what I’m gonna do! You don’t hafta knock’em off. Tip’em flat. Four flat gets you choice. One win’s all it takes. Biggest per-rizes on the midway. Who’s uh next a heah?! You pay your money you take your chances.” Like music to our ears; the call, with the possibility to get something great for almost nothing, was very alluring to some. PT Barnum once said; “ there’s a sucker born every minute!” He must have seen a few of us coming!

Apparently the fair isn’t the only place that we can all stand back and watch the Carny’s at work. One must look no farther than Washington DC. Two of the greatest Carny’s of all time preside over the Senate and the House of Representatives. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Harry and Nancy are two of the greatest butcher’s on the midway and their sole intention from the beginning of the hard sell, was to burn the lot! The entire health care bill was a gaff and the mark’s were easy pickings. All of this made their agent very, very, happy for all of their hard work. Don’t quite understand the lingo? In the world of a Carny, it’s easy enough. You see, a butcher is a Carny, who will take every penny from a mark, by confusing him and then forcing him to pay. When you burn the lot, you intend to cheat all of the players with little or no attempt to conceal the illegality or the cheat of the scam because; from the perspective of the Carny, they won’t ever play the same town again anyways, and of course a gaff is a un-winnable game. Which makes some of us, the mark. So, who is their agent? Well he is none other than their boss, the commander-in-chief. PBO (Obama). Understand any of that?

Let’s back the clock up a bit. Health care was supposed to be deficit neutral. That is the pitch that they made or, the call. According to the CBO, their entire bill would come out under a trillion dollars and would actually help to reduce the deficit. What? Come on now…they intend to spend $900 billion of our hard-earned tax payer money and actually, “reduce the debt?” They said that folks! Some people or marks bit that and fell for the whole enchilada. Remember PT Barnum? He said it best and I won’t repeat it again, that would be redundant. All of the Carny’s, assaulted the conservatives or in Carny lingo, the sharpie’s (those who are wise to the ways of the Carny and his crooked games) and played us off as liars and doom-mongers. Remember PBO and what he said as he was signing the bill? “It was a pleasant day, the sky was blue and I looked around me, I didn’t see any Armageddon!” He must have thought us sharpies were hammer-squash (stupid) on that day!

So why is it that after that great call by PBO, Reid and Pelosi, that the CBO now says the final tally will be well over a $1 trillion? Oh yeah, there was that little remark by the butcher herself, Ms. Pelosi, “in order to find out what’s in the bill, we have to pass it first.” Derrrr! Did you see that coming? Did any one else? What a bunch of mooch’s (that’s the same as a mark)! All the while, they had their hands in our poke trying to make off with our scratch for the big score! Don’t even ask…

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/11/health-overhaul-law-potentially-costs-billion/

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