Forbes magazine editor and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes
tells Newsmax that Obamacare is "ridiculous and destructive" and is
imploding because it wasn't workable in the first place.
But President Barack Obama is in a "bubble" regarding the healthcare
reform bill while the "rest of the country crumbles," Forbes asserts.
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He also says the immigration reform bill passed in the Senate won't fly
in the House, and he favors a piecemeal approach instead.
Story continues below the video.
Forbes is president and CEO of Forbes Inc. He ran for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, urging the adoption of a flat
income tax with a single tax rate.
His latest book is "Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't."
The White House clearly sees the negative impact Obamacare's employer
mandate would have had on the economy and that is why it is being
delayed, many employers and healthcare experts are saying. But some
employers are still saying they want to hold back on hiring and maybe
cut back on hours.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV on Monday, Forbes offers his take on the healthcare bill.
"In terms of implementation, Obamacare is imploding because it's
unworkable in the first place: the idea that people with spreadsheets in
Washington can run 20 percent of the economy," he declares.
"Bad ideas or destructive ideas die a very hard death, so they still
have this illusion in healthcare," Forbes said. "It's going to get
worse, it's not going to get better. They're doing real harm to the
medical device industry, which has been critical for improvements in the
standard of healthcare in this country.
"They are hoping that maybe putting implementation off a year on the
employer mandate would somehow get businesses to hire. In the real
world, if you think something is going to hit you hard a year from now
or a month from now, you're not going to hire when you see bad things
coming down the road. So it has distorted patterns in terms of hiring,
which is why in these jobs reports you see more part-time jobs being
created than full-time jobs.
"It's ridiculous and destructive," Forbes said.
According to an article from Forbes.com, the union representing IRS
employees is very concerned about having to join the Obamacare
healthcare insurance exchanges — and the IRS is the agency in charge of
running Obamacare.
"These unions worked so hard to get Obamacare passed and somehow thought
they'd be exempt from it. It's quite a delight to see — if it wasn't so
destructive for the rest of us in terms of healthcare.
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"You're going to see more and more union complaints. But unfortunately,
the president is in such a bubble right now he ignores the whole thing
and just figures somehow it's all going to work out at the end of the
day and he'll have his place on Mount Rushmore.
"The details are for underlings, and he thinks grand thoughts and makes
speeches while the rest of the country crumbles. So you're going to see
much more carping by the unions, but it's about three years too late.
They should have been concerned when this thing was being formulated in
the first place."
Asked if Republicans are missing an opportunity by not providing an
alternative to Obamacare, Forbes observes: "They should continue passing
bills such as allowing nationwide shopping for health insurance. I
don't know why they don't dust that off and pass it in the House and let
Harry Reid kill it in the Senate.
"At least set the foundations on positive reforms on healthcare. That
would be a major one. Equalize tax treatment in terms of healthcare.
They will get something on that by year's end. Remove some of the
obstacles in terms of health savings accounts and the like," he said.
"They should be putting [these changes] out there piece by piece, having
votes on them so the Democrats get on the right side of these positive
issues, and have the mantra [that] patients should control healthcare,
not third parties and certainly not government bureaucracies."
Forbes agrees that Republicans seem more reactive instead of proactive on this issue.
"Republicans are still recovering from the debacle of November of 2012,
but you're seeing, certainly on the governors' side, some governors
doing very innovative things," he said.
"Just on the tax front, North Carolina, with a Republican governor, Pat
McCrory, passed a fantastic tax bill — major cuts in the state income
tax, cutting the corporate tax significantly. So North Carolina, which
had one of the worst tax systems in the Southeast, in fact the whole
East Coast, now has one of the best systems.
"So you're seeing on the governors' level some real reforms. That's where I'm looking, not to Washington."
Turning to immigration, Forbes offers his view of reform from a business perspective.
"We do need immigrants in the economy to meet the certain needs of the workforce," he says.
"Remember they had amnesty back in 1986, but they did not put in
policies that allowed for work programs to meet the needs of the
economy. So now, instead of 3 million illegals, we have 11 million. Just
from a security viewpoint, we should know who those folks are.
"What you'll eventually see in the House, instead of trying to vote on a
comprehensive bill — which will not pass — you're going to see a
piece-by-piece approach and have those pieces go in conference with the
Senate.
"One of the key things is to reform the current system so those who
played by the rules get quick justice instead of the huge arbitrary
bureaucratic delays you get today. Don't punish those who play by the
rules.
"You're going to see more of a move to meet the legitimate needs of the
U.S. economy. For example, this thing called H-1B visas for high
technology, they're raising that from about 60,000 visas to 110,000. The
industry will tell you, if you want real research done in this country
and technological advances, we need 200,000 to 300,000 of these visas a
year, so let's raise that number in the House ... so we meet the needs
of the economy and be a place of opportunity, but know who these folks
are," he said.
Instead of trying to pass one comprehensive bill, "parse it out and do
it piece by piece," Forbes insists. "For example, have a green card in
your diploma if you get an advanced degree in this country. We helped
develop your brain power and your sense of innovation, and we'd like to
have it used in this country instead of a country and a company
overseas.
"Basic reforms like that would pass pretty quickly. And on contentious
issues, let it have an up-and-down vote and send it to conference and if
the White House is interested in getting a reform bill, one that may
not be totally to its liking but one that deals with most of the
problems, they'll get one."
Forbes also addresses the recent bankruptcy filing by Detroit — the largest American city ever to file.
"It's already having an effect on the [municipal] bond market, as
everyone scrambles to see who actually might be in trouble," he tells
Newsmax.
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"As they go through the hard process of redoing these pensions, redoing
these healthcare plans, you're going to see other unions be able to say
in other cities, hey we don't like to do this, look what happened in
Detroit. Bond-holders got wiped out, pensioners got hit hard, healthcare
benefits got slashed. Let's try to avoid that here, and you might get
some serious negotiation."
"There are very positive things that can be done, especially in
healthcare in the area of health-savings accounts, which would save
these funds huge amounts of money, but also give patients control over
healthcare. And at the end of the day, the beneficiaries would be better
off," Forbes says.
"But that kind of innovative thinking is not seen yet. And in terms of a
restructuring, one of the things I hope they do in Detroit, and they
will with the agent appointed by [Michigan] Gov. Snyder, is put in a low
tax regime. When you have a low tax regime, you get people moving [and]
small business starting up — and these areas can come back to life
again."
In his Newsmax interview, Forbes also says Obama is favoring "medieval technologies" over oil, gas, and coal.
And he maintains that reforms to America's "silly" corporate tax code could bring in billions of dollars of "free money."
Conservative Blogger
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Representative Steve King vs. the Republican Leadership’s message on Illegal Immigration
The left doesn’t like to hear the truth about illegal immigration and apparently the Republican Leadership doesn’t either. Republican
so called leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor, as well as a few others
in the Republican Party, are quick to criticize negative comments by
Representative Steve King of Iowa on Illegal Aliens and then they fail
to even attempt to paint an accurate picture of the reality of Illegal
Immigration. They are the problem with the Republican Leadership and the
Republican message on Illegal immigration, not Representative Steve
King who at least tries to paint an accurate picture of reality!
The left likes to
portray all Illegal Aliens as hard working people who are just trying to
feed their poor starving families and all Dreamers as Valedictorians in
school. All too many on the right are all to happy to let the left
paint that deceptive picture perfect portrait of Illegal Immigration
without even attempting paint an accurate picture of how it effects
Americans. Then many politicians in the Republican party hide from the
issue and have a hard time defending the Republican Party’s no amnesty
position. Well da, if the picture of illegals is they're all wonderful
and never done anything wrong, instead of based on reality, of course
it's harder to defend!
The fact is some
illegals are hard working families and or Valedictorians and some are
drug runners and or have committed horrendous crimes like murder and
rape but most are in-between. The reality is Illegal Aliens are all here
illegally in violation of the Rule of Law and a huge majority of the
Illegal Alien population cost the American Taxpayer billions of dollars
every year and negatively effects and destroys the American job market
by lowering wages and taking jobs American's desperately need. Hey
Republican criticizers, what about really defending the American
people’s position instead of aiding the Left in defending their
deceitful destructive position of reality? How about painting a portrait
of reality and when the left paints a picture of all Valedictorians
point out, as Steve King did, that yes there are some but there is this
sad other side of the story that pro amnesty proponents don’t like to
talk about. Then tell the truly sad story of a horrendous crime
committed by an illegal alien that destroyed an American Family's life. A
100% truly preventable crime on American Society by somebody who
shouldn't even be here. That's the sad, mind-blowing reality and those
factual based stories are just as easy to find and ALMOST NOBODY IN
POLITICS speaks out about how many American Family's Lives are totally
destroyed by the acts of Illegal Aliens and a Government that chooses to
look the other way. Almost nobody in politics speaks out EXCEPT, people
like Representative Steve King of Iowa, who at least tries!
The fact is the
overall effects of Illegal Immigration have been and will continue to be
a very destructive force on American lives and American families.
Amnesty will not change that fact, it will only solidify the continuing
destruction. Enforcement is the only thing that will stop the
destruction and preserve America’s right as a Sovereign nation! Immigration
is a wonderful natural resource to this nation but like so many other
natural resources humans and politicians have a habit of abusing and
destroying the worth, our current immigration system is no exception.
Immigration must be controlled and at a level that compliments American
Society where Immigrants integrate and melt into American Society not
become a dominate flood of Open Borders; as the current system is
dangerously close to and not as the Senate Bill S.744 (or anything close
to it ) would do by it’s destructive Guest Worker and total Amnesty
provisions that will add a minimum of 33 million new legal immigrants in
the first decade alone, a flood by any measure.
I have now called
Representatives Steve King's office and told him "Thanks for speaking
for the American people" and then I called the supposed to be leaders of
the Republican Party Boehner and Cantor who don't know how to paint a
picture of reality, and I left them my message above. Hope you will do
the same!
Laura Ingraham said it well on the O’Reilly Factor, thanks for the link Kathryn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyk5c1UWtXo&feature=player_embedded
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