Friends in high places sure does help.  Note that this was hammered out behind closed doors, which Obama said wouldn’t happen with him in the White House. Remember his promise to have all of this televised?

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.

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

So here’s your health “reform” from those you elected.  How do you like me now?

Is it me, or has President Obama already taken more vacations since taking office than most people take in 20 years?  He seems to be picking nice vacation spots to travel – with his family in tow – to push his takeover of healthcare (and take away our freedoms).

Do that many people really drive their kids to school?  My summer 13 minute drive to work becomes a 30 minute drive the day school starts back for kids.  Maybe it’s a Greenville, SC thing.  I don’t know.

When did we become entertainment directors for our children?  If you don’t have something planned for when their plans don’t pan out, they whine and complain about being bored.  Maybe I should get them a job working on a farm somewhere every time they complain about that.  It sure kept me busy when I was a kid.

Why do people buy lottery tickets expecting to win eventually while never believing they will be in an auto accident or struck by lightning when the former is much more likely than both the latter?

Is there anyone left in government who doesn’t believe that it’s the government’s job to run every aspect of our lives?

Does anyone except those claiming to be improving the economy actually see the economy improving any?

This president is showing day by day why he was a terrible choice.  As I said before, he reminds me more of Richard Nixon than any other president.  He’s breaking the law in so many ways and using our tax dollars to do it.  Sending out unsolicited emails is the definition of spamming and there is a law against that though it seems that he has the opinion that he’s above the law.

He’s like a child acting out because he’s not getting his way.  He’s spending us into oblivion and to make sure of it he’s funding an ad campaign with yet more of our tax dollars.  Whats a few million more I guess, right?