The Choate-Weinberg Report: Maybe It's Time To Throw Them ALL Out

It took the home of the 15¢ hamburger to show how expensive Barack Hussein Obamacare is going to be.

Ever since Nevada’s Patron Saint Harry Reid decided that Obamacare was an essential part of his legislative agenda (the public sentiment be damned) businesses large and small warned Congress that what was included in the 2900 pages most of them had not read was toxic.

Last week, McDonalds told the world—and the Obama administration—that it would be forced to drop its mini-med plans it had specifically developed for its 30,000 mostly young, mostly part-time workers.

Why?

Well, it seems that in that 2900 pages, one of the toxic provisions which was not read my most of Congress and the administration is a provision which sets minimums which must be covered—never mind what people actually want to buy.

What McDonalds had developed was a plan which cost $14 a paycheck that covered most of what mostly young, mostly part-time people actually needed. It is not—by any means—what Congress grants itself that we pay for.

But it is what makes health care—with limits—affordable to people who may work 20 hours a week for minimum wage.

And, having exposed Obamacare for what it actually is, two things happened when McDonalds pointed this out in public.

First, Senator Jay Rockefeller—a blowhard Democrat—opened an “investigation” into the McDonalds plan. Anything which has “limited” benefits can’t be any good, right?

And, second, the White House put its collective finger in the wind and suggested that they will gratuitously “waive” the requirements of the law its occupants probably had not read so Micky D’s could go on offering an affordable alternative to its employees.

Isn’t that special.

You can now officially embarrass the White House into waiving the requirements of what it describes as its signature legislation because some clowns (Obama, Reid and Nancy Pelosi among them) had not read a bill they jammed down our throats.

Next up will be Wal Mart. And every other business which has gone out of its way to work with its employees amongst the terrible economics of health care to find a way to help them out.

The problem here is not that we can’t do something.

McDonalds and Wal Mart already have.

The problem here is that Barack Hussein Obama always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and, as a result, mere employers know nothing.

This is what happens when you elect someone to run the country who has never run a candy store much less a city or a state.

The person who knows nothing—it turns out—is the young President who has actually never even held a real job.

But he’s not the only culprit. There are 100 Senators and 435 Congressmen led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who think it is more important to investigate steroids in Major League Baseball and make sure musicians get paid by radio stations for playing their music than getting healthcare right or dealing with the nation’s tax structure.

Lest you think this is a partisan rant, let me assure you, it is not.

Simply put, if we threw the baby out with the bathwater in November, I can live with that.

The America which needs to be “fundamentally transformed” resides mostly between the Capitol Building and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

If we lose some of the few good guys left in the crossfire, well, that’s the nature of war.