The Exceptional Mendacity of Barack Obama

[jordan179]

From John Ellis, "The Lies of Obama," in FrontPage Magazine (http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/21/lies-of-obama/):

When politicians are caught out in lies, their supporters often resort to the old cliché: all politicians lie. But that is itself a lie: most don’t. Even

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[pathia]

My wishes are few right now. Just one really. I want to stop hurting. I really do, it hurts so bad, it never stops. There are things out there that would stop it, Obama's plans would give me those things. Is this a selfish wish? At what point does it become selfish? God won't answer my prayers, I've tried for years, intensely in the past few months. No answer, it's all a void, I feel nothing but pain and agony, everything hurts now. I can't even wear certain fabrics anymore, they cause splinters of pain to dance all over my body.

I just want to not hurt. I'm going crazy, there's nothing else in my mind but pain. It's slowly burning away everything I have, all rationality, all sanity, all logic. All there is is pain.

I just want to not hurt.

[jordan179]

I don't want you to hurt either. I have at least one painful medical condition which I cannot currently treat due to money issues.

But Obamacare isn't going to improve matters. And Obama's lies aren't justified by his aim of passing Obamacare. In fact, his lies are likely to defeat health care reform in general, and make it politically radioactive for years to come.

[pathia]

I don't have anything right now, I go to the ER when I am unable to function. That's all I have. They've run out of tests and want me to go to specialists, who I cannot afford. I have nothing but pain left in my life.

Everything is burning away. I lose more of myself every moment. Only liquor and things like vicodin stop it. I can now see how people can get dependent on them all the more easily now.

[jordan179]

What's your condition, btw? Mine is dental ...

[pathia]

Well, multiple levels of conditions. The pain condition I'm talking about in my LJ right now is unknown. It's too expensive to really examine it further unfortunately.

My endocrine system disorder doesn't have a name either. I have a massive cluster of pituitary tumors in my brain that causes lots of odd hormones to be released. Also, my karyotype is XX/XY/XXY moasaic, ie: intersexed (new medical term for the word 'hermaphrodite')

I wouldn't be surprised if the two are interrelated. My body doesn't do hormones well, and I'm not talking just Estrogen and Testosterone, there are alot more 'lower level' hormones so to speak, all of those throughout my body are screwed to hell and back.

Last quote for 'free market' priced insurance was as follows.

$800-1500 a month for a $10000 deductible and a separate $5000 deductible on drugs. This would basically be about 80-90% of my income BEFORE taxes before I got any benefit. I'm sure you can see economically why I have not purchased such a plan.

[unixronin]

Unfortunately, under Obamacare, you'll be fined $2500-$3000 if you don't buy it.

[pathia]

there would be much more affordable options available for me. The price for those that are healthy would go up, yes, but in turn it would offset the plans that currently would cost 100% or more of my disposable income.

[ladyarkham]

Why do you think the prices for only those that were healthy would go up?

Have you tried soliciting help from family, church, other social communities, charitable organizations, free clinics, to either pay off your loans or to afford insurance?

[pathia]

Because there are celings introduced, plus credits and rebates for the prices. The reason my prices are so high are due to preexisting conditions which would no longer be an issue.

My family disowned me, so did my church. My relationship with God is strained in the organized sense. It is mostly one on one so to speak.

Free clinics are where I get my care now. No one knows what is wrong, I have to go to specialists who do not do charity work ussually

[banner]

Catholic charities. Give them a try. They don't even care if you're catholic most of the time.

[pathia]

That would be the church that has little to do with me anymore. My best bet is waiting for the everything but marriage DP to go through. My mate's a teamster, we can get insurance that way. However, that's assuming she isn't downsized by the time that law goes live @_@

Edit: I live in WA state, the voters passed an extension that does everything but the word marriage here.

[polaris93]

This is the thing which liberals have so much trouble grasping: that the unintended (from the point of view of the American public, including liberals) consequences of passage of the healthcare bill will be the exact opposite of what so many people want. You can't do it that way. You just can't. Unfortunately, so lacking has American education become that the bulk of Americans under the age of 40 don't have the intellectual tools or the data to see that, and see why it is so. And you can blame the teacher's unions and the Left in general for that.

[galadrion]

Pathia, you have my sympathy; I've had similar situations crop up in my own family, so I have some idea of what you are enduring. And you are correct: there are things out there which would stop the pain, but Obama's plans will not give them to you. Not unless you are considering assisted suicide, and under the bills currently up for consideration, that's an iffy proposition. (Obama's side of the political spectrum would love to include it specifically as an option, but even his machine, with the supermajority it no longer enjoys, would have had a difficult time getting that passed.

The reality of those medical "plans": they do not add any options for the common citizen, and in fact they will make many options unavailable even if the individual citizen is willing and able to pay for them privately. Such is reality under central-planning government: "We would be glad to pay for you to have what you desire, comrade, but unfortunately, while we can print the money to pay for it, it is not available."

[pathia]

The underlying problems my endocrine system has are paid for more or less instantly by every other government in the 1st world, except for the united states. I had the luck of being born in the one country that would not assist me in this matter.

I've pondered emigrating, but the bankruptcy and debt laws involving doing so prevent me from even leaving. This bloody country holds me HOSTAGE ontop of it -_-

[jordan179]

Have you consulted a lawyer? There may be legal ways of leaving the country that you have not considered.

[pathia]

I could claim to be a refuge. I haven't found many loopholes that would work. I also have massive student loan debt that the US government wouldn't want me leaving around either.

Also there's the leaving everyone I love dearly behind, possibly forever.