A net of 9 million people have lost their private health plans, thanks to Obamacare

Via Billy

 

Three years ago, on the eve of Obamacare’s implementation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that President Obama's centerpiece legislation would result in an average of 201 million people having private health insurance in any given month of 2016. Now that 2016 is here, the CBO says that just 177 million people, on average, will have private health insurance in any given month of this year—a shortfall of 24 million people.

Indeed, based on the CBO's own numbers, it seems possible that Obamacare has actually reduced the number of people with private health insurance. In 2013, the CBO projected that, without Obamacare, 186 million people would be covered by private health insurance in 2016—160 million on employer-based plans, 26 million on individually purchased plans. The CBO now says that, with Obamacare, 177 million people will be covered by private health insurance in 2016—155 million on employer-based plans, 12 million on plans bought through Obamacare's government-run exchanges, and 9 million on other individually purchased plans (plus a rounding error of 1 million).

More @ The Weekly Standard

The Appalachian Messenger: April 1, 2016

 

This week’s edition of the Appalachian Messenger has articles by:

Robert Gore
The Biggest Short

Paul Rosenberg
With Millstones Around Our Necks

David DeGerolamo
Haywood County, NC – 2nd Amendment Overreach

Sparks31
Reality

Click here for the April 1, 2016 edition.

93,482,000 Americans Out of Labor Force in March

Via Billy

 

The number of Americans not participating in the workforce in March dipped again compared to the previous month but was still higher than it was a year ago, according to Labor Department data released Friday.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 93,482,000 Americans were neither employed nor had made an effort to find employment in March.

March’s non-participation level continues a multi-month trend of decline after the number of people out of the workforce hit a record high of 94,610,000 in October — declining another 206,000 compared to February.

More @ Breitbart

VIDEO=> Chicago Man Gunned Down While Live Streaming Video

Via Billy
 

A black man was gunned down live on camera by another black man in Chicago yesterday.

He was using Facebook’s live streaming service when he was slaughtered in broad daylight.

More @ The Gateway Pundit

Man gets 30 years for killing boy, 9, over missing piece of birthday cake

Via Merlin1246

 

A man accused of fatally beating his girlfriend’s 9-year-old son over a missing piece of birthday cake pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday and was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a judge who likened the boy’s treatment to torture. 

For weeks before the beating, Jack Garcia was a virtual prisoner in the Hagerstown apartment he shared with his mother, her brother and her fiancé Robert Leroy Wilson, a prosecutor said. Jack was routinely deprived of food if Wilson felt the boy hadn’t exerted himself enough, and he was handcuffed to a chair or beaten with a bamboo sword if he took food without permission, the evidence showed.

“What a bleak existence this little person had,” said Washington County Circuit Judge M. Kenneth Long.

More @ The Star

State Department Suspends Probe Of "Top Secret" Clinton Emails

Via sauced07

While the media goes into a frenzy every time someone is punched or maced at a Trump rally, or frankly any time Trump says anything out of place (and lately he has has had more than his fair share of supply), what according to many is the real scandal, is quietly being doused with the media obligingly looking the other way.

Moments ago, AP reported that the State Department has suspended its internal review into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or her top aides mishandled emails containing information now deemed "top secret."

Spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said Friday the department had paused the review to avoid complicating or impeding an ongoing FBI investigation into Clinton's use of a private server while she was America's top diplomat. She said the review would remain "on hold" pending completion of the FBI probe. The review could result in counseling, warnings or other action if findings show information was mishandled.

More @ Zero Hedge

For Sale: 319 Holly Lane, Cape Carteret, NC 28584

 ALL FURNISHINGS STAY except personal items.

More @ Century 21

Some Cultures Are Better Than Others

Via comment by Quartermain on A Majority of States Now Directly Defying Obama on...

A Majority of States Now Directly Defying Obama on Illegal Immigration Order!

Via Billy

Earlier this week Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a merits brief on behalf of a majority coalition of states arguing against President Obama’s illegal immigration executive actions. Texas is now joined in lawsuit against the Obama administration by Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin. That means a majority of our nation, 26 states thus far, are standing in defiance of what they argue (and we agree) is the illegal and unconstitutional actions taken by the Obama administration on illegal immigration.

More @ Eagle Rising

Whoa!

Via grossfater_m: off of Oleg Volk's Friend's Site

 

Mind boggling.