by Wayne Allyn Root of Personal
Liberty.
Barack Obama and the Democrats are
facing a disaster at the voting booth in November. His ratings have hit
all-time lows. Seventy percent of the public believes America is headed in the
wrong direction.
Polls rate Obama the worst president
since World War II — lower than even Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter.
And Obamacare also rates at all-time
lows. Remarkably it just experienced one of the biggest month-to-month opinion
drops in the history of polling.
Yet Obama and his Kool-Aid-drinking
Democratic supporters are so ideological, delusional and out of touch with
middle-class America, they don’t understand why this is happening.
My new book, “The Murder of the
Middle Class,” is about how America and our greatest middle-class asset (the
middle class) are being destroyed from within.
It is important to know this murder
is not just due to misguided, inept or amateurish policies. It is a deliberate,
purposeful and planned destruction. Every day, the middle class sees their jobs
being destroyed and replaced by low-wage, part-time jobs and/or government
checks. Every day, their bills for gasoline, electricity, groceries and health
insurance go up. Every day, their job prospects, income and assets go down.
Little by little, the proud middle
class is being forced to grovel for government checks or subsidies just to
survive. It is not happening by accident, mistake or coincidence. This is a
purposeful plan, and it is succeeding. How do I know? I was Obama’s
college classmate at Columbia University, where we studied this exact plan that
he has been implementing for the past six years.
It took a while, but middle-class
Americans are finally realizing that with friends like Obama, who needs enemies?
They’re finally learning to watch what Obama does, not what he says. The middle
class is finally understanding that when Obama says he wants to “save” the
middle class, the proper reaction is to reach for our wallets.
What made the light bulb go off?
What turned the middle class against Obama? In a word: Obamacare. The reason is
simple. Obamacare is no longer a theory in a campaign speech. America’s middle
class is now living and experiencing Obamacare.
Here’s a story that sums up what is
happening in the real world — outside Washington, D.C. I landed at the airport
last week and hailed a cab. With no prodding, and as cab drivers are prone to
do, the taxi driver wanted to vent. About what? Obamacare. He believes
Obamacare has ruined his life. His words, not mine.
This taxi driver had just heard from
his insurance agent. He and his wife are in their late 40s. They just found out
their premium will double starting Jan. 1. But that’s only the start of
their pain. Their co-pay is tripling from $10 per doctor visit to $30. Their
surgery coverage is going from 90 percent to only 80 percent. And their
deductible is doubling from $500 to $1,000. Add it up and this middle-class
couple faces a tripling of healthcare expenses.
The reason, of course, is because
Obamacare demands this middle-aged couple pay to cover pregnancy, prenatal
care, sex change surgery and abortions — none of which they’ll ever need in his
remaining lifetime. And, of course, the middle class has to pay double or
triple to cover the costs of 30 million poor people receiving Obamacare free.
While I don’t know if this cabbie
understood the reasons why his healthcare costs were tripling, he certainly
understands the effect these dramatic Obamacare cost increases will have on his
middle-class lifestyle. It will destroy it.
He also clearly understands his
options. He said his options are to:
- Go without health insurance (now against the law) and pray no one in his family gets sick.
- Or declare bankruptcy, give up his home in foreclosure, and move into a small apartment.
- Or quit his job and live on the government dole.
These are the choices left for
middle-class Americans because of Obamacare.
My personal story is similar. Before
Obamacare, my family’s health insurance was $500 per month. Today, it’s $1,700
per month (but about to get much worse). Aetna just canceled my policy
(effective Jan. 1). I’ve never been sick. They blamed it on the mandates and
costs of Obamacare.
Will the new policy be $2,500 per
month? $3,000? How high can it go? Few small-business owners can afford $30,000
or more per year for health insurance. This is a disaster. This is financial
ruin. As small business owners like me close our businesses or lay off
employees to pay for Obamacare, that’s the death of full-time jobs in America.
This is the murder of the middle
class. This same story is playing out across America. The middle class is being
financially murdered, and they know it. It’s hitting their pocketbooks hard.
While many of us conservative pundits predicted it, the cat is now out of the
bag. Obamacare is no longer a theory on paper or political lies at a campaign
rally. Obamacare is the law. People are experiencing it, and it is destroying
middle-class lives from coast to coast.
So finally, the slumbering giant has
awakened. The middle class understands the truth: Obamacare isn’t helping us.
Obamacare is our enemy. We now know Obama committed fraud when he said, “If you
like your insurance, you can keep it.” We know he lied when he said our prices
would go down. We know he lied when he said our quality of care would not go
down. We know he lied when he said we could keep our current doctors. We know
he lied when he said Obamacare would help the economy. We know he lied when he
said it wouldn’t kill jobs. We now know that Obamacare is the death of our
middle-class quality of life.
But that was the plan all along. It
was never about improving healthcare. It was always about income redistribution
to shift the cost to the middle class. It was always about making the middle
class poor and dependent on government.
Yes, Obama has been successful in
his purposeful plan to murder the middle class. But wait until he sees what
we’re going to do to him and his Democratic allies in November. The middle
class is enraged like never before. And we will have our revenge.
I’m Wayne Allyn Root for Personal
Liberty. See you next week. God bless America.
http://personalliberty.com/rage-revenge-middle-class/
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