2014 Throw The Bums Out –Image: Tea Party News Network
(Gallup) The enduring unpopularity of Congress appears to have seeped into the nation’s 435 Congressional districts as a record low percentage of registered voters 46% now say their own Congressional representative deserves to be reelected .
Equally historic, the share of voters saying most Members of Congress deserve to be reelected has fallen to 17%
Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 May We Never Forget
Image: LibertyHQ@Twitter
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In the alternative, Greg Gutfeld’s ‘Drinking Game for the SOTU’ may be a whole lot more enjoyable.
(LA Observed) The news that President Obama is pumping cash from his latest big government, anti-poverty initiative in Los Angeles (to projects only north of the Santa Monica Fwy) hasn’t been setting well with some.
Los Angeles “Promise Zones” of Pico-Union, Westlake, Hollywood, East Hollywood and Koreatown, now qualify for $500 Million of federal bailout money over 10 years but why?
Upon investigation,one has learned that a group called ‘Youth Policy Institute’ (YPI) located in Hollywood and run by Dixon Slingerland, that received the Obama “Promise Zones” grant money, has been a big money contributor to Mayor Eric Garcetti’s political career since 2002
Slingerland has likewise was big money bundler for ‘Team Obama’ since 2007 according to the Daily Caller raising $744,000 in political contributions and has also contributed over $44,000 in 2012 according to Campaign Money.com to other Democrats, these include: Hillary Clinton, California Congressional Rep’s Howard Berman, Janice Hahn and Tony Cardenas, DNC Chair & Florida Congressional Rep Debbi Wasserman-Schultz and to the Obama Victory Fund.
Why am I not surprised that Obama’s “Promise Zone” Los Angeles grant money is nothing more than ‘political pay-back’ to ‘Team Obama’ and Democrats big money contributors.
Flashback: Remember George Kaiser, Billionaire ‘Team Obama’ donor and chief investor of now bankrupt Solyndra which cost taxpayers some $528 Million in Obama’s $9 Billion ‘Green Energy’ scheme.
Reaganomics -v- Obamanomics Image: Cheri Kentucky@Twitter
(Reuters) Walmart announced on Friday that it had cut 2,300 jobs which include hourly workers and assistant managers at ‘Sam’s Club’ retail warehouse, its biggest round of layoff’s since 2010
On the 10 January, I wrote here that only 74,000 jobs were created in December as U.S. job growth skids to its lowest level since 2011
Related: After 5 Yrs Obamanomics Record 100M Americans Not Working
Kangavari@Twitter “The wait times for your hotline are a joke–said 30 minutes been on for an hour and twenty. Can’t login to my account either.”
AMomster@Twitter “No health insurance ID yet. Paid over 2 months ago. Still getting letters saying I haven’t paid. @CoveredCA”
What Others Are Saying to CoveredCalifornia@Facebook
Edna Pontellier “I never succeeded in getting anyone on the phone. I made another futile attempt at ‘live chat’ tonight. Not only do you get dropped after 90 minutes of waiting, the option to fill out an online form to submit always ALWAYS fails…”
Brennan King Cane “Not great news about Orange County’s Medi-Cal provider.”
Federal Regulators Fault OC’s CalOptima –Orange County Register
Mike Reaume “Have you noticed there is not one positive post on this entire page? Peter Lee are you listening?”
Victoria Hicks Castellaccio “Thanks for taking more money out of my families pocket. My new ObamaCare plan from Kaiser is costing us $6100 for my impending birth. Under my old NON-ObamaCare plan, the same delivery would have been $250 a day! Kaiser is telling me they can’t upgrade the plan and save $5500 because YOU won’t let them. Is this true? You won’t help save a family $5500? Who are you helping?”
Richard Dickman “My wife received her Anthem BC card eff 1-1-2014 couple of weeks ago. Paid Anthem online…I believe we are covered. Yesterday I got a letter from ‘Covered CA’ wanting birth certificate and SSN card and that we have 90 days, what gives? We were both born and raised here in California and all that info was given previous plus we mailed ‘twice’ income verification…So my question is, do we disregard the letter from ‘Covered CA’ on 1-17 or respond? Will this jeopardize our coverage with Anthem? I don’t want to send more personal info that they already have and have it floating around somewhere, especially with this Target mess…”
Danny Marks from Los Angeles “Are experiencing issues with your site–I have been trying to apply for weeks and continue to get system errors and got this when I tried to chat with someone.”
Covered California “Hi Danny: Our online chat isn’t working for everyone right now; If you need to contact us call 1-800….If you’re still getting that error, trying logging in with a different browser or making sure your browser is fully up to date.”
Danny Marks from Los Angeles “Excellent suggestion only that every time I call that number it tells me you are experiencing a high volume of calls and to use the website and then hangs up.”
Loic Conte from Los Angeles “Am I the only one to not being able to create only 1 household member? I always have to complete information for 2 members both with my name? Like if I was 2 people! Please help.”
Kevin Gambetti “Because of lies told to me by ‘Covered California’ I may lose everything. I’m disabled and now they forced me on Medi-Cal which does not support my doctors and they refused to let me get and pay for my own plan that would let me keep my doctors and save my life. I think this is to kill off the sick and old, really…”
Maureen O’Brien “Fix your system!!! I qualified and was approved for financial assistance when I applied in December through ‘Covered California’ and even paid my first month premium with ‘Blue Shield’ and received my ‘Welcome’ packet and ID card–only to get a letter from ‘Covered California’ last week inexplicably stating that I now don’t qualify for assistance and that my ObamaCare policy will be canceled in 90 days!!!! No one answers your Help Line to explain this snafu. Stop all the hype and start getting your act together Covered California!!!! Even your above link doesn’t work. What is going on????”
Mimi Ahmadi from Beverly Hills “I get ObamaCare but most of doctors, clinics and hospitals they don’t accept…I had Blue Cross PPO and right now I have Blue Shield…they say they don’t accept because they don’t pay good, unfortunately since last two weeks my shoulder and neck was painful and I had to do X-Ray and MRI and they don’t accept. I pay $107 for this insurance, I have cancer. I worry about that if this insurance doesn’t work what can I do.”
‘Covered California’ Did Batman Arrange for People to Lose Their Health Plans and Doctors Despite Mayor of Gotham Pledge to the Contrary?’
Hugh Hewitt@Twitter
Another Stupid ‘Covered California’ Ad How is This Going to Convince Anyone to Run Out and Buy ObamaCare?
Dah…
Lots of Empty Chairs at ‘Covered California’ Forum Hosted by the SCV Democrat Action Alliance –Image: Assemblyman Scott Wilk@Twitter
(Business Journals) ‘Covered California’ received another $155 Million this week from the American taxpayers which is to be used for more outreach and marketing.
On the 17 January, I wrote here following the absurd ‘Covered California’ Richard Simmons Dance Shake-a-Thon, if ObamaCare is so good, why are we wasting taxpayers money on stupid marketing and advertisement campaigns, wouldn’t ObamaCare sell itself?
Covered California Claims Its Very Close at Meeting Its Goals But What are the Facts?
Democrats claimed their original goal was to insure 30 Million uninsured Americans, so for California to do its part, I wrote here that 1.1 Million insured California residents lost their health insurance.
So if we’re to believe ‘Covered California’ it has been able to reinsure some 625,000 out of 1.1 Million residents who previously purchased their own health insurance but were canceled because of the ACA, how does this keep the risk pool balanced to prevent the ObamaCare death spiral which destroys the private insurance marketplace?
While were discussing the ObamaCare/Covered California enrollment numbers, how many of the enrollees have actually paid their first months premiums?
We know that according to ‘Covered California’ that it claims (above) that 1.2 Million+ enrollees are: (a) transitioning to Medi-Cal; (b) eligible for Medi-Cal.
What is ‘Covered California’ not telling us about its actual enrollment data?
Whoops, Reality Check…
25% of ‘Covered California’ Enrollees Have Yet to Pay 1st Premium
Related: After Enrolling in ‘Covered CA’ Sick Woman Can’t Find Doctor
‘Covered CA’ Criticized for Low Latino Sign-Ups and Paperwork Problems
Krauthammer on Healthcare.gov: ‘All Hell is Going to Break Loose’
(Market Watch) While the Obama Administration grades its housing recovery with a solid B+ foreclosures reached a 3 year high in 2013
States with the highest foreclosure rates in the country in 2013 according to RealtyTrac include:
Total foreclosure activity in 2013 increased in 10 states compared to 2012 including:
Ken Lenga@Twitter “Absolutely pathetic, ‘Covered CA’ glad I have nothing better to do for the next 22:52”
Mpaulaoliveira@Twitter “TERRIBLE experience with @CoveredCA supposed to wait over 1h in queue to reset password??? 1-877-phone occupied? OMG.”
California Unemployment and How It Compares to 49 Other States