Obama Healthcare Reform Bill is a Mammoth Job Killer

March 17, 2010 RSS Feed Print

By Ron Bonjean, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

What are the top three priorities of any Democratic or Republican White House if they are faced with skyrocketing unemployment and billions of dollars spent on extended unemployment benefits? The answer of course is creating the right economic conditions to grow jobs, jobs, and more jobs. But the Democratic leadership believes in a very different course of action. Their solution is to spend most of their time on attempting to pass a $1 trillion healthcare bill and claim that it will create more jobs.

Speaker Pelosi says a report by the Center for American Progress estimates that the Democrats’ healthcare bill would create 250,000 to 400,000 jobs per year over 10 years. However, a new study released by Americans for Tax Reform reports the exact opposite will happen. Using the center’s own methodology, it finds that the healthcare bill proposed by Democrats would destroy a total of 120,000 to 700,000 jobs by 2019. And the Heritage Foundation recently released its own analysis that the healthcare bill will lead to an estimated 690,000 lost job opportunities per year.

The national unemployment rate is fluctuating from double digit figures to the current rate of 9.7 percent. Millions of Americans haven’t had a job in more than a year and still receive unemployment benefits from the federal government. And now our nation’s debt is threatening our worldwide credit rating due to the trillions of dollars in runaway spending.

So given this drastic situation, why has the Democratic leadership tackled this fundamental problem of economic growth by proposing a massive government takeover of healthcare? It will threaten to place our country further in debt with billions in government subsidies to cover unfunded mandates and the federalization of the healthcare insurance industry. Businesses will be forced to pay major fines for not covering employees. Translation: The healthcare proposal will be a mammoth job killing terminator with a federal license to destroy American small business.

Every day that the White House spends on other issues besides working to create the right conditions for positive job growth is another day that millions of unemployed American voters grow angrier. A better idea would be for the majority to just call in sick to work since they aren’t doing the job voters want them to perform. Faking a head cold might be a better approach because if they pass this healthcare bill, many Democrats who vote for it will probably be looking for work after November.

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Versus the liberal ideologue's classy strategy of ignoring facts and just throwing insults?

Rich of CO 6:19PM March 29, 2010

Republican, conservative, ideologues are fun to debate because their argument is always the same and always predictable. Discredit the source, kill the messenger, then point out the merits of your narrow minded point of view while hiding behind your god and patriotism. Your group is an an embarrassment in this country and a joke in the eyes of the world.

nick of CA 11:16AM March 26, 2010

With or without passing the Dem Soc/Comms H.C. bill, will only be a temporary solution to many problems that Americans face in the coming future as long as Obama remains in office. To propose the passing of this bill is to recommend a change in H.C. programs that are currently in existence that affect more than 300.000,000 Americans that may or may not be satisfied with their current plans. If our Soc/Comm president is really sympathetic towards the small percentage of those that have no H.C. then the argument should be as to how to resolve this problem. Not to destroy programs that have been functioning for decades and cover at least 70% of Americans that don't want any changes to their plans. But rather than going after the insurance companies and the corporations that had contributed millions to his campaign and had created Americas economic and infrastructure problems he'd rather burden the citizen with new taxes and the redistribution of social programs that have been in existance for more than 70 years. This Soc/Comm president who was voted in by gullible Americans who thought they were going to get something for free, will continue to try to change America as he constantly reminds us, from the way it is to a system (Soc/Communist) by redistributing the wealth to those less fortunate. But the idiocy of this idiot is that by taxing the wealthy even more than they're currently taxed and forcing small business owners to take on a health program that many can't afford, the Dems Soc/Comms are incrementally destroying the middle class system. And like many European countries, destroying the dreams of an individual to compete in the market and to achieve their lives goal of independence and prosperity. Thus destroying the American system, and reverting the only true democratic country on this planet back to the dark ages when there were only TWO classes of citizens, the RICH and the POOR. By not giving a small business owner the opportunity to choose from a list of H.C. plans private or government and forcing them into a program with higher premiums will leave many business owners no choice but to let employees go. Thus the poor and the middleclass to survive, will have to work even harder to meet the tax goals set for the programs implemented by this Soc/Comm Admin which will create a larger crevice between the rich and the poor. Obama as president, like past communist leaders can lie and manipulate many naive citizens to believe what he says but the TRUE AMERICAN who knows and loves their liberty and their freedom to speak out will not be fooled by his fake smiles and his rhetorical phrases. He may try to tax us to death or take things away from us, but one thing the Americans have that many citizens in other countries don't have and that is the VOTE!!! To VOTE OUT Dictators like Obama in 2012 and also this year, those politicians of either party who side and want to implement his agenda of destroying the American system!!!

BORN AMERICAN of CA 12:06AM March 20, 2010

Ron Bonjean

Ron Bonjean

Ron Bonjean is a partner with Singer Bonjean Strategies and the owner of the The Bonjean Company, both full service public affairs firms. He was chief of staff for the Senate Republican Conference under Senator Jon Kyl (Ariz.) and the top spokesman for then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), -Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), -U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans, and other House members. Contact him at ron@singerbonjean.com

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