{"id":744,"date":"2014-11-11T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:10:10","slug":"lack-of-transparcy-helped-pass-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Transparcy Helped Pass Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009 there was a large debate in the political realm.\u00a0 It was all over a massive, 2,000+ page monster bill called the <span dir=\"auto\">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act<\/span>, or another name is the Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>It was touted by the Obama Administration as a way for Americans to gain healthcare which would be affordable while at the same time allowing those with healthcare to keep it.\u00a0 The CBO even went and said that it would help reduce spending and help the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Now however, new information by those who wrote the bill has come out.\u00a0 Jonathan Gruber\u00a0is one of the architects of the bill. He recently came out with a statement that should shock and embarrass anyone who calls themselves a democrat.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes,&#8221; Gruber stated. &#8220;Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,&#8221; he explained adding, &#8220;Basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really critical to getting the thing to pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This about what he said.\u00a0 It was stated in a way to confuse the CBO\u00a0so they would have trouble with it.\u00a0 That means that the numbers the CBO gave were distorted.\u00a0 Add in if the CBO had trouble, what about the government trying to implement it.<\/p>\n<p>Another factor is he comes right out and calls the American voter stupid.\u00a0 He says that was critical to getting it passed.\u00a0 If one of the people writing the bill thinks the American citizen is stupid, what are they putting into the bill?<\/p>\n<p>How can you trust someone who thinks you are stupid to look out for you?<\/p>\n<p>Answer, you can&#8217;t.\u00a0 But democrats will continue to believe the lies thinking the democratic party is looking out for them when all they are looking out for is themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009 there was a large debate in the political realm.\u00a0 It was all over a massive, 2,000+ page monster bill called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or another name is the Obamacare. It was touted by the Obama Administration as a way for Americans to gain healthcare which would be affordable [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=744\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[706,698,705,9,150,645],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals","category-united-states","tag-cbo","tag-gaff","tag-gruber","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}