President Obama ratings drop to record low

The news just keeps getting worse and worse for President Barack Obama.  As his golden achievement Obamacare continues to crash and burn his approval ratings from the public have fallen to record lows.

The latest comes from a poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News.  The damage is an overall job approval rating of only 42%.  Down a whopping 13% points this year alone and 6% points in the last month alone.

Even more troubling is the result that 70% of Americans feel that the country is heading in the wrong direction.  Other Obama performance ratings have crashed as well.  He is at career lows for being honest and for being a strong leader.

The terrible rollout of the Affordable Care Act is at the center of all the problems.  It has been a gaggle of problems.  The website is a disaster.  The President obviously lied about the insurance cancellations and it is simply not financially viable at all. 

The American public is finally starting to realize these truths and a whopping 71% think Obamacare should not go into effect now.  The most telling segment are independents who are the key to most all elections.  Only 33% of Independents approve of President Obama.  Not looking good for the coming elections next year if Independents go conservative.

Oil Pipeline Spills a North Dakota Problem

A new report from the Associated Press has identified nearly 300 oil spills in North Dakota over the past two years.  Many of them are small, but there were nearly 750 oilfield incidents as well. 

The most recent spill was over 20,000 barrels worth of oil into a wheat field.  North Dakota is the #2 oil producing state in the country behind Texas.

Many of these incidents go unreleased to the public.  North Dakota regulators, like in many other oil-producing states, are not obliged to tell the public about oil spills under state law. But in a state that's producing a million barrels a day and saw nearly 2,500 miles of new pipelines last year, many believe the risk of spills will increase, posing a bigger threat to farmland and water.

"We're certainly looking at that now and what would be a threshold for reporting to the public," Dennis Fewless, director of water quality for the state Health Department said. Taking notice of the recent criticism, the state issued a statement October 17 on an estimated seven barrel oil spill in Divide County, which borders Canada in far northwestern North Dakota.

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Obama administration knew millions would lose Healthcare due to Obamacare

"If you like your current healthcare plan you will be able to keep it.  Let me repeat that.  If you like your current plan you can keep it."  Famous words from President Barack Obama.

His response to the fact that so many Republicans were saying otherwise.  Many Republicans were saying repeatedly that millions would be terminated from their current insurance plans.

Well it seems that the Republicans were correct.  Now it comes out that President Obama and the administration actually new this was true and that millions would be dropped from their coverage.  So simply put.  President Obama knowingly lied.  And did is several times. 

Surprise.  More useless words from Obama.

More bad news for Obamacare as 300,000 lose coverage in Florida

As if the Obamacare fiasco could not get any worse, it certainly can.  Forget the fact that the website simply does not work and very few are able to sign up at all.  Forget the fact that premiums are higher than anyone ever thought.  Forget the fact that deductibles are through the roof.  Now 300,000 people in Florida found out today that they are losing their insurance.

These are Americans that were already insured.  Now because of Obamacare requirements they are losing their insurance coverage.  Obamacare is requiring more.  Now these people that were happy with their current health insurance are going to have to go find new insurance from some source and that new health insurance will have higher premiums and much higher deductibles.

So much for affordable healthcare.  So much for "every American can keep their current insurance if they choose"  as President Obama promised.  Just another example of Obamacare gone bad.  Just wait.  The bad examples will keep coming too.

It is becoming increasingly clearer everyday that the current administration did not and is not telling the truth on Obamacare.

Food Stamps are out of Control

There is no other social welfare program growing faster than food stamps.  President Obama has expanded the program at an alarming rate adding tens of millions of dollars to our monstrous national debt. During the Obama presidency, enrollment has increased from 31 million to 46 million Americans. Budgeted spending for the program is now at $78 billion per year.

“This program has expanded rapidly over the last decade in a way that is not justified by the recession that we went through," said Michael Turner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “Increase in both participating and spending were bigger during this recession than in previous ones.”

The study notes that most SNAP participants are enrolled in the program over a significant period of time. Only 10% of participants are enrolled in the program for less than six months, and 56% of participants have been enrolled in the program for over five years.

That's right.  Over five years.  Those aren't needy.  Those are habitually lazy.  Socialist programs like food stamps do not promote social progression.  Instead they promote laziness and lack of productivity.

The Cato Institute study reports that 17% of participants are living above the poverty line, but the real world usefullness of the poverty line formula has long been debated.  It is time for Americans to once again take responsibility for themselves rather than have an inefficient government provide for them.  Our great nation was built on hard work not laziness.

Obamacare forcing thousands to lose health insurace as companies cancel policies

Health insurance companies are sending notices of cancellation to hundreds of thousands of people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more expensive policies.

Insurers say the cancellations are necessary because the policies fall short of what the Affordable Care Act requires starting January 1. Most are ending policies sold after the law passed in March 2010. At least a few are canceling plans sold to people with pre-existing medical conditions.

By all accounts, new policies to replace the canceled ones offer consumers better coverage, in some cases for comparable cost, especially after the inclusion of federal subsidies for those who qualify. They cover 10 “essential” benefits the law now requires, including prescription drugs, mental health treatment and maternity care, and they generally have lower thresholds for what consumers will have to spend before the plan picks up the full cost of treatment.

Bill Maher doesn't think there is a spending problem and has no problem with the national debt

I know people love Bill Maher, but anyone who watched his latest episode of Real Time with Bill Maher had to be left shaking their heads.  I know I was floored by some of the quotes I heard from the liberal thinker.

Let me throw a few at you from the episode:

Bill Maher said "You should look at why the debt is going up."

To which author Carol Roth responded "It is going up because the government overspends."

To which Maher responded "The government is not overspending."

Seriously?  That's the problem with Democrats.  They just want to spend and spend.  Meanwhile, our national debt is increasing by over a trillion dollars every single year.  President Obama, in his five years, has added more to our national debt than every single President in our history combined!

We don't have a spending problem?

So Carol Roth replied "If we didn't overspend we would not be hitting the debt ceiling."

Bill Maher laughed and said "There's always going to be debt. Are you suggesting we should not have debt?"

Ummmm yes.  How nice would it be to have no debt?  Not owe anyone a single dollar.  Isn't that one of the goals of the American Dream for individuals?  Have no debt.  Live free and clear.  At least we could do with a bit less than the whopping $18 trillion we already have which is still rising.

Not for Bill Maher and the Democrats. Spend and run up that debt.  Now approaching $18 trillion.  Now that we have Obamacare the debt is only going to increase at a greater rate.  All these free Obamacare subsidies?  Straight from the American taxpayers and right onto the national debt.  But I guess according to Bill Maher, our national debt of $18 trillion is not a problem.