Cookin' The Books -

 So, the first Obamacare sign up numbers were released last week and, as expected, they ain't pretty, folks. Just over 106 thousand of our fellow citizens have managed to weed through the abomination known as Healthcare.gov
 Now if you thought the administration, especially this administration would give us the true figure and you thought 'not a

chance,' you'd be right. They cooked the books. That 100K is not a number that means 106K people have actually signed up and paid. It means 106K have Obamacare maybe in their shopping cart. Some may have taken it out of their cart and put it back on the shelf. 
But just for conversations sake, lets say 106 plus insurance-poor friends did actually sign up, paid their first premium and were now fully invested in the health care program and insured. It's still an embarrassment. Obama and company were looking for some 500K to have signed up by now. Obamacare is well on its way to imploding.

Rep. Pelosi

 On a side note the loony tune Congresswoman from California, Nancy Pelosi, claims 500,000 have already signed up. Hmmm...where did she get that number? Could it be the 500K the Obama's really expected. We never know which planet Nancy is on, do we?
The sad part of all this is some 50 million people have been dumped from their insurance plans because of Obamacare and because the website to find a plan doesn't work...well, you know the rest.

As for future numbers the government puts out, do we really think we'll ever get the right number? Not if history dictates. We get weekly and monthly employment/unemployment figures. They're not right either. The government bean counters tell us X number of people filed for unemployment over a given period of time, and that's the number they say are unemployed. What they don't include

is the 25 million people who are unemployed and have given up looking for work because it's not there. They may have given up, but they're still unemployed...I speak from first personal first hand knowledge. Add the 25 million of us to the unemployment number and the unemployment rate is closer to 13 per cent, not the government's number of 7.3 per cent (which is still too high). 

So anytime you hear a government number for anything, you can bet it's not the right number. They probably cooked the books.




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