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Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Abortion of ‘Marginal Children’ a ‘Social Good’


 

Posted by Michael BeckerMichael Becker — December 9, 2014

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Gruber-AbortionGruber’s abortion advocacy is of a particularly pungent eugenics variety. He’s on record repeatedly making the case from social science that abortion is a “social good”…

Embattled MIT professor Jonathan Gruber has not only gotten in trouble for bragging about helping President Obama put one over on the American people with Obamacare, he’s also been uncovered as an abortion advocate—but not a run-of-the-mill advocate of “women’s rights.”

No, Gruber’s abortion advocacy is of a particularly pungent eugenics variety. He’s on record repeatedly making the case from social science that abortion is a “social good” because it reduces the number of “marginal children,” by which he means urban poor—those he says can be counted on to commit crimes if they were ever born.com01

Gruber co-authored a paper during the Clinton years which argued that legal abortion had saved the U.S. taxpayer upwards of $14 billion in welfare benefits and that it also lowered crime.com02

Gruber’s work heavily influenced other researchers, including a paper called The Impact of Legalized Abortion by Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago, whose later book Freakonomics and whose ongoing work makes the strongest case that abortion legalizations in the 1970s caused a dramatic drop in crime twenty years later.

Pro-lifers have always wondered why the black community has not responded more aggressively to the fact that so many abortion clinics are located in poor neighborhoods and why the black abortion rate is so much higher than whites.

A documentary called Maafa 21 argues that abortion is a part of what they called a “black genocide.”com03

African-American marketing expert Ryan Scott Bomberger founded an organization called The Radiance Foundation that makes commercials for the unborn child with a special emphasis on the high incidence of black abortion. Emmy-wining Bomberger’s toomanyaborted.com campaign looks specifically at black abortion. One meme calls abortion a “civil wrong” and that blacks are “still not free at last” because of abortion. Bomberger is being sued by the NAACP for calling the group “pro-abortion.”

A group called 41 Percent tracks all abortions in New York City, which has an abortion rate at twice the national average, points out that the abortion rate in the largely black borough of The Bronx is an astounding 47%.

These are the types of communities Gruber meant when he referred the “marginal children” who were the most likely to end up on welfare and committing crimes if they were allowed to be born.

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Michael BeckerMichael Becker is a long time activist and a businessman. He’s been involved in the pro-life movement since 1976 and has been counseling addicts and ministering to prison inmates since 1980. Becker is a Curmudgeon. He has decades of experience as an operations executive in turnaround situations and in mortgage banking. He blogs regularly at The Right Curmudgeon, The Minority Report, Wizbang, Unified Patriots and Joe for America. He lives in Phoenix and is almost always armed.

 

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Jonathan Gruber apologizes to Congress for ‘inexcusable’ political comments about Obamacare


By Tom Howell Jr. – The Washington Times – Updated: 1:38 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9, 2014

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MIT economist Jonathan Gruber listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, as he testified before the House Oversight Committee health care hearing. Congressional Democrats charged Tuesday that Republicans are seizing on a health adviser's self-described "thoughtless" and misleading remarks to attack President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, as he testified before the House Oversight Committee health care hearing. Congressional Democrats charged Tuesday that Republicans are seizing on a health adviser’s self-described “thoughtless” and … more >

Gruber-Head-NRD-600-w-logoJonathan Gruber, the man whose clumsy remarks sparked the latest Obamacare headache for the White House, apologized to Congress for “glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting” observations about the stupidity of the American voters and how the health overhaul passed, testifying Tuesday he shouldn’t have forayed into politics in his academic speeches.

Mr. Gruber said his caught-on-tape comments should not reflect poorly on President Obama’s signature achievement, which is under threat in the courts and from Republican opponents set to take full control of Congress.

“It’s never appropriate to try to make oneself seem more important or smarter by demeaning others. I knew better. I know better. I’m embarrassed, and I’m sorry,” Mr. Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the House oversight committee.

The economist downplayed his role in the formation of the Affordable Care Act, saying he provided microsimulation models to describe the reforms’ impacts and was not the law’s “architect.”Complete Message

Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican, and his fellow Republicans were not deterred by his attempts to dampen the scandal, saying his remarks were not mistakes, but rather an inadvertent look at health law’s harsh truths.

For four hours, they highlighted the economist’s penchant for braggadocio and threatened to subpoena records to find out how much he was paid to help the Obama administration.

The panel’s top Democrat, meanwhile, scolded him for gifting the GOP another weapon in their fight against Obamacare.

“Man, you did a great job. You wrapped it up with a bow,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland.The-Suicide-King

He also chided Republicans for failing to offer a comprehensive solution to Obamacare, and failing to acknowledge that their 2012 nominee for president, Mitt Romney, worked with Mr. Gruber to pass health reforms that paved the way for Mr. Obama’s national vision.

Undeterred, Mr. Issa used large TV screens to play Mr. Gruber’s remarks. In one, the economist said the law was scored in a “tortured” way to game budget rules and obscure its impact from the American public.

Obamcare’s opponents have held up Mr. Gruber’s comments as exhibit “A” in what’s wrong with Obamacare and how Democratic majorities muscled it through Congress in 2010.Hazardous

The comments were a setback for the Obama administration, which had been trying to move on from a botched rollout last year and outrage over health-plan cancellations despite Mr. Obama’s pledge that Americans could keep their coverage.

Tuesday’s lengthy hearing did not turn into the gloves-off sparring match that many anticipated, although it did have its awkward moments.

At one point, Mr. Issa asked Mr. Gruber: “Are you stupid?”

“I don’t think so, no,” Mr. Gruber replied.1

His testimony overshadowed that of an actual government official, Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), who testified it was “regrettable” that her agency included 400,000 dental plans with the enrollment figures it reported to the committee earlier this fall.

When the dental plans were excluded, Obamacare enrollment fell to 6.7 million in the first go-around, or less than the 7 million target the Congressional Budget Office had estimated.Got-Your-Back

Mr. Issa, who denied Mrs. Tavenner’s request to testify apart from Mr. Gruber, said it took a staffer 20 minutes to find the error.

“Simply put, this was a mistake,” Mrs. Tavenner said, vowing it would not happen again.

Mr. Gruber made a clarification of his own, regarding the context of taped remarks in which he seems to suggest Obamacare subsidies should only flow to state-run exchanges.

A lawsuit before the Supreme Court makes that same argument and could seriously dent the health care law by cutting off the tax credits to about two-thirds of the states, which use the federally run exchange.FrankenG-600-LI

Mr. Gruber said he was speaking hypothetically about what would happen if the Obama administration, “for whatever reason, might not create a federal exchange.” If that happened, the only way states could be sure that their residents would get tax credits would be to set up their own exchanges, he told the committee.

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Ann Coulter Letter; “Downing Street Gruber”


By: Ann Coulter  /  11/19/2014 09:48 PM

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Obamacare Architect: Lack of Transparency Was Key Because ‘Stupidity Of The American Voter’ Would Have Killed Obamacare

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said that lack of transparency was a major part of getting Obamacare passed because “the stupidity of the American voter” would have killed the law if more people knew what was in it. Gruber, the MIT professor who served as a technical consultant to the Obama administration during Obamacare’s design, also made clear during a panel quietly captured on video that the individual mandate, which was only upheld by the Supreme Court because it was a tax, was not actually a tax.??

Isn’t Jonathan Gruber worse than the Downing Street memo?

Gruber, who was paid half a million dollars to design Obamacare, is on tape bragging about how the Democrats relied on “the stupidity of the American voter” to pass that law. Which, ironically, was sort of a stupid thing to say on camera.

By now there are so many tapes of Gruber explaining how Obamacare fooled stupid Americans that they’re being released as a boxed set in time for Christmas.

Gruber, who will hereafter be known as “the architect of Obamacare,” said:

“If you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in — if you made it explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. … Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.”Partyof Deceit Spin and Lies

The Downing Street memo consisted of minutes from a July 2002 meeting of British labor, defense and intelligence officials during the run-up to the Iraq War, in which the MI6 head, Richard Dearlove, reportedly said that “Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

These notes from a British cabinet meeting were called the smoking gun of Bush’s lying his way into war.

The Downing Street memo was written about in dozens of New York Times articles — including six hysterical Frank Rich op-eds. It has been mentioned more than a hundred times in The Washington Post. It was covered on ABC’s “Nightline,” by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” on NBC’s “Meet the Press” — even on the “Today” show. It was discussed nightly on MSNBC, where Keith Olbermann covered it like it was Kim Kardashian and he was the E! Network.

Liberal Media BiasBy contrast, this week, NBC’s Chuck Todd dismissed the Gruber tapes as “a political story” and The New York Times said of Gruber: “In truth, his role was limited.” (NYT, March 28, 2012: “Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, (then) the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation.”)

But when the Downing Street memo came out, conservatives weren’t allowed to say, Yeah, well, the British memo writer didn’t have anything to do with the president’s decision to go to war – even though that guy really didn’t have anything to do with it.

Those weren’t Tony Blair’s notes. They were a secretary’s interpretation of the MI6 chief’s interpretation of the Bush administration’s argument to the United Nations. It’s like a movie review, written by someone who knew someone who had seen the movie.

The memo writer also wasn’t being paid $400,000 by the Bush administration to make Iraq War policy. Jonathan Gruber was paid that much — plus another several million from the states — to design Obamacare.

You don’t pay a half-million dollars to someone who is only peripherally involved in making policy. (Unless we’re talking about Obama himself.)Liberalism a mental disorder

There was no tape of Bush and Blair running around saying: Trust this guy — the memo writer is our guide! But that’s what Obama, Nancy Pelosi, then-Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats said about Gruber.

– Kerry on Oct. 1, 2009: “(Gruber) has been our guide on a lot of this …”

– Pelosi on Nov. 5, 2009: “Our bill brings down rates — I don’t know if you have seen Jonathan Gruber’s MIT analysis …”

– Obama’s Organizing for Action website, until the tapes surfaced: “Jon Gruber, who helped write Obamacare …”Partyof Deceit Spin and Lies

Gruber had more than a dozen meetings at the White House during the drafting of Obamacare. The Downing Street memo writer had no meetings at the Bush White House. Even the guy he was quoting had only one.

The outrage over the Downing Street memo concerned the claim — in the memo writer’s words — that the intelligence was being “fixed” around a policy. Although a number of commentators claimed that the British meaning of “fixed” is more like “arranged,” let’s assume “fixed” implies trickery.

It’s still one word! Gruber has given six different speeches rambling at length about how Obamacare was intended to deceive “stupid” voters.obama-liar4-266x189

You can’t say the Downing Street memo was a totally legitimate news story, but that the Gruber tapes are meaningless.

Ninety-nine percent of Americans were utterly unaffected by the invasion of Iraq — other than to be made safer, until Obama threw our victory away. Every American is affected by Obamacare.com 01

The bald-faced lies told to pass Obamacare expose not only that law, but all Democratic economic claims. When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won’t pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.

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Posted on November 20, 2014

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Guess What? Obama Social Media Posters are Trolls


 

Posted by Michael BeckerMichael Becker on JoeForAmerica.com— November 18, 2014

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Surprise, surprise!  Barack Obama social media – his Twitter feed and Facebook page – are driven by just a handful of trolls.  What looks like hundreds of thousands of supporters is really just a couple of hundred people and their sock puppets.

We’ve got President Troll supported loudly by troll supporters.  What a shock.

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If you’re a regular commenter on political sites you’ll see that the Obamaphiles tend to follow a very distinct pattern of cutting and pasting the same comments over and over, and those comments often show up under multiple posters.  It turns out that the Obama supporters are engaging in sock puppetry, creating fake user IDs to make it appear that there is more support for an idea than there really is.

Americans began heading anew this weekend to President Obama’s official Obamacare Facebook page to gather information on the new round of health care enrollment, share their experiences shopping for insurance on the federal exchange and voice their opinions on the president’s signature domestic achievement.

However, what some would view as a robust marketplace of ideas is actually controlled by just a few, an analysis of the Web page shows.

Sixty percent of the site’s 226,838 comments generated from September 2012 to early last month can be attributed to fewer than 100 unique profiles, according to an analysis completed by The Washington Times with assistance from an outside data analytics team.

Personally, we think is simply a duplication of the 2012 election results.  A handful of supporters showing up lots of times.  Zombie voting, if you will.Partyof Deceit Spin and Lies

The ObamaCare website is a clone of the President’s OFA Twitter feed.  He appears to have about 43 million followers.  Researchers at Barracuda, a computer security company in Campbell, California, found that about half of those “followers” were fake.  In the name of accountability and transparency Organizing for Action declined to comment on Barracuda’s findings.

You really should read the whole article, the Washington Times has done an outstanding job of investigative journalism.  The bottom line, the President’s overwhelming social media presence is every bit as phony as everything else about this President.  He’s grubered* the American people now for about eight years and we’ve still got twenty six months to go.

We really think that history won’t be kind to President Present.  He’ll likely be nothing more than a footnote, the first – and perhaps last – black president.  He’ll be ignored by historians, who are largely liberals, because his record is so deceitful that they won’t be able to cover it up so they’ll just ignore it.culture of deciet

Kind of like in ancient Egypt when Pharaoh cast someone out of court and had all mention of them chipped from the histories or when Stalin had people photoshopped out of official pictures.

A fitting end for an empty suit pretending to sit in an empty chair.  Clint Eastwood was right on the money.

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Michael BeckerMichael Becker is a long time activist and a businessman. He’s been involved in the pro-life movement since 1976 and has been counseling addicts and ministering to prison inmates since 1980. Becker is a Curmudgeon. He has decades of experience as an operations executive in turnaround situations and in mortgage banking. He blogs regularly at The Right Curmudgeon, The Minority Report, Wizbang, Unified Patriots and Joe for America. He lives in Phoenix and is almost always armed.

 

 

 

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Video: Interview Gets Tense in a Hurry When TV Hosts Confront Senator Over Obamacare Architect’s Revealing Comments


Posted by / Nov. 11, 2014

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King said he was unsure of what Gruber was talking about and made it clear he doesn’t “endorse those kinds of comments.” He then defended the way Obamacare was passed.

“Everybody knew that there were going to be additional taxes required to support the premiums under the Affordable Care Act. I don’t see it as any deep dark conspiracy,” he added.

“Really? Senator, he said he wasn’t transparent. He wasn’t telling the truth,” host Brian Kilmeade responded.

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The senator then seemingly downplayed Gruber’s role in crafting Obamacare. King was not in the Senate when the law was voted on.

“Who was he? I don’t know where he was in the process,” King said.

When co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle argued Gruber’s comments confirm the American people were purposefully not informed that Obamacare would “tax and penalize” people, King went slightly off topic and stressed the importance of having insurance.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. Tax and penalize? Hold it, hold it, hold it,” King interjected. “We’ve got eight million people that have insurance now that didn’t before and don’t lecture me about this because 40 years ago, I had insurance. If I hadn’t had it, it caught a cancer that saved my life. If I hadn’t had insurance I’d be dead.”Liberalism a mental disorder

“What does that have to do with it?” Kilmeade asked.

“It has to do with having insurance, man. If you don’t have insurance, it’s a high risk,” King shot back.

Confronted again with claims that Gruber’s remarks show “they lied about a health plan to the American people,” King asserted he was only “one guy” involved in the creation and passage of Obamacare. He then suggested the TV hosts believe “people shouldn’t have health insurance.”

“Are you that cruel? That is what you’re saying,” the senator added.

“Oh, my goodness,” a frustrated Kilmeade reacted.

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