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Gibbs Evades Question of Whether Obama Agrees With His Medicare Director That Health-Care System Must Redistribute Wealth
Thursday, July 08, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer


White House press secretary Robert Gibbs (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs has evaded answering the question of whether President Barack Obama agrees with Dr. Donald Berwick, his newly appointed director of Medicare and Medicaid, who has insisted that health-care systems must redistribute wealth.

“Excellent health care is by definition redistributional,” Berwick said in a speech delivered on July 1, 2008.

When asked directly at the July 7 White House press briefing whether Obama agreed with this, Gibbs would not answer the question. Instead, he parried it with jocular statements about the provenance of the quote..............>>>>.............>>>>.............http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69149

The Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich, was the largest "redistribution of wealth" in our countries history.

ONLY in a world gone mad, filled with hateful, nasty little peculators of the leftist stripe, would taking a small bit less from a productive member of society, whose sweat made the country run- be considered "redistributing wealth to the rich."

When a community loses a large sum of money circulating in its confines (say a company HQ moves out) then THAT is considered and IS bad for the community. But when more of a sum of money remains in a community, then liberals (who re allergic to truths and natural law) find it wrong. But only because they are not able to confiscate it.

Liberal democraps only seek to tax more to eliminate American economic freedom, thus taking away an essential right of those who work- the freedom to spend what the create as they wish, and most wisely. Liberal democraps do this so that they have more power unto themselves, as all rotten, black hearted tyrants do. And that is the definition of a liberal democrap: a black hearted, covetous, power mad tyrant.

Are Overdue Reports Concealing ObamaCare Impact On Medicare?

By PETER FERRARA Posted 07/06/2010 06:04 PM ET

Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May.  Now it's July, and there's no sign of this year's report.  What is the Obama administration hiding?

The annual report includes detailed information about Social Security and its financing over the next 75 years, produced by the Office of the Actuary of the Social Security Administration.

The Congressional Budget Office reported last week in its Long Term Budget Outlook that Social Security was already running a deficit this year.  According to last year's Social Security Trustees Report, that was not supposed to happen until 2015, with the trust fund to run out completely by 2037.

With the disastrous Obama economy, the great Social Security surplus that started in the Reagan administration is gone completely.

Every year, the federal government has been raiding the Social Security trust funds to take that annual surplus and spend it on the rest of the federal government's runaway spending, leaving the trust funds only with IOUs backed by nothing but politicians' promise to pay it back when it's needed. Now even that annual surplus is gone. How soon will the trust funds run out completely now?
President Obama keeps telling us a fairy tale that he saved us from another Great Depression. But he is actually leading us into another Depression.

The National Bureau of Economic Research scores the recession as officially starting in December 2007.  Thirty-one months later, with unemployment still near 10% and the work force still declining, the NBER says it still cannot determine an official end to the recession.

The longest recession since World War II previously was 16 months, with the average being 10 months.  By next month, it will be twice as long as the previous postwar record since the latest recession started.  The markets echoed by many pundits are now suggesting a renewed double-dip downturn may be starting, with the comprehensive Obama tax rate increases next year poised to pour napalm on this developing bonfire.

How soon will the trust funds run out with this utter failure of 1930s-style Obamanomics?

The implications for Social Security aren't what the Obama administration is hiding by delaying the annual trustees reports. Those annual reports also include information regarding Medicare over the next 75 years. What the administration is trying to hide are sweeping draconian cuts to Medicare resulting from the ObamaCare legislation, which the annual report will document.

The money the boomers put into their social security for decades is GONE!!!! It is now up to the next young generation to pay for them in their retirement years! Couple that with an ever growing deficit, and the government has strapped this next generation with an almost unsistainable debt.

The post office is a mess, frannie mae and freddie mac are a mess and social security is a mess.........and now they want to control healthcare!!!!! Like Reagan once said....'the government is not the solution, the government IS the problem'. WAKE UP PEOPLE!