Obama's $8 Billion Medicare slush Fund to insure re-election

[carpro]

An $8 billion trick?

Toying with Medicare to fix elex

By BENJAMIN E. SASSE & CHARLES HURT

Last Updated: 1:41 AM, April 23, 2012

Posted: 10:45 PM, April 22, 2012

Call it President Obama’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department.

Only this isn’t some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term. A massive amount of it, too — $8.3 billion. Yes, that’s billion, with a B.

Here is how it works.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinio...on_trick_ImTBFfz7MeuZLJY7JzXEIJ#ixzz1suJ8cMmr

 

[Don]

After reading that - I highly encourage everyone to contact their senator and representative(s) and ask for them to investigate this abuse of federal taxpayer funds.

 

[billwald]

Chicken feed compared to the trillion dollar theft engineered by Bush2 and friends.

 

[carpro]

After reading that - I highly encourage everyone to contact their senator and representative(s) and ask for them to investigate this abuse of federal taxpayer funds.

I believe this president has become nothing more than a common criminal with uncommon opportunity and power.

I never thought I would live to see this day.:tear:

 

[billwald]

Congress passed the bill. Obama only endorsed it.

 

[Don]

Congress passed the bill. Obama only endorsed it.

Not exactly. Congress passed a bill that could be used for experiments. The HHS secretary -- Kathleen Sebelius, appointed by Obama -- is the one that's twisting the language to call this mis-use of funds an "experiment."

 

[Don]

I believe this president has become nothing more than a common criminal with uncommon opportunity and power.

I never thought I would live to see this day.:tear:

Not just him; his appointees, too. But then again, he was "raised" in the political arena of Chicago, and this seems to be "the Chicago way."

 

[carpro]

Not exactly. Congress passed a bill that could be used for experiments. The HHS secretary -- Kathleen Sebelius, appointed by Obama -- is the one that's twisting the language to call this mis-use of funds an "experiment."

I wonder whose idea that is? :smilewinkgrin:

 

[freeatlast]

Chicken feed compared to the trillion dollar theft engineered by Bush2 and friends.

Bill if you have any spare chicken feed around how about sending it my way.

 

[billwald]

It was one of your Bible Belt senators who one said, "Billion here, billion there, soon you are talking about real money." <G>