Wasting Time With Alex

Oh, how things change!

I am sure I do not need to remind anyone about how the democrats, and especially their top dog Obama, won the 2008 elections by promising to change things up. Big promises of not kowtowing to special interests and lobbyists were made, and the masses all luxuriated in the promise of hope and change. A year later and there isn’t much hope, because it is now becoming obvious that the change was to kow-tow even more to special interests, lobbyists, and special interests, as the disastrous government healthcare takeover crusade to get all moneys and decision making to go through DC masquerading as healthcare reform trudges on. Case in point the latest deal:

Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018. The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while others won’t be as lucky—they’ll have to cough up almost $90 billion. The 40 percent excise tax on what have come to be called “Cadillac” health-care plans would exempt collective-bargaining contracts covering government employees and other union members until Jan. 1, 2018. In another major concession to labor, the value of dental and vision plans would be exempt from the tax even after the deal expires in eight years, negotiators said. Under the plan to help fund health-care reform, the tax would kick in for plans valued at $8,900 or more for individuals and $24,000 or more for families.

Look, can we all drop the pretense and admit that we are getting hosed by these crooks? They make all the fiscal irresponsibility and the DNC orchestrated campaigns that had the MSM tell us about cultures of corruption and special interests having their way in DC look insignificant. Funny how the MSM is also absent on this stuff, huh? No transparency, massive cronyism, deficit spending and debt accumulation at a rate that simply boggles the mind, encroachments on our freedoms – real ones, not the imagined ones the left constantly spoke of during the Bush years – and a continuation or expansion, at least lip service wise, of the Bush year policies that used to make leftists act like Linda Blair did in The Exorcist, and nary a peep from the usual suspects.

The American people are getting shafted royally, and the democrat special interests are making out even better than any of those shady rich fat cats did in the most perverse liberal Halliburton-eque fantasies ever. Hope and change indeed!