Health Care Reform: All Americans Must Now Pay Child Support

Dear America:

A Christmas Eve vote in the U.S. Senate now makes it mandatory for ALL of us to pay child support -- even happily married couples.

This is a tongue in cheek statement of course, not really true ... or is it?

We must be joking, because the only Senate vote in recent days concerned Obama's historic health care reform plan. That decision will compel all Americans to buy substandard health insurance from private insurance companies if it is eventually reconciled with earlier House legislation.

Ah, you didn't hear about this while you were out Christmas shopping? Well, that's exactly what your senators were hoping for, that you'd be distracted, because they wouldn't want ordinary people getting in the way of government for the people, by the people, now would they?

And so, America, you now get to see how it feels to pay child support like every non-custodial parent.

But you have no children, you say? You are happily married you say? Health care has absolutely nothing to do with family law or child support, you say?

Guess again after we give you a few parallels:

As is the case with child support, mandatory health care will place on your back an arbitrary financial responsibility without any regard for your actual income.

Mandatory health care will take away any of your spending choices; you'll never know how your money is being spent and even if you did, and if you disapproved, it wouldn't matter anyway.

Mandatory health care -- if you refuse to pay it, or are unable to pay it -- will make you the subject of numerous legal penalties, including jail time.

Mandatory health care will dominate your life and be a constant source of anxiety. It will affect your credit rating and it will eat away at your freedom to pursue whatever career or whatever line of business you choose to be in, just like child support.

So yes, America, you will be paying child support. Enjoy it!

After all, you've been telling divorced dads and non-custodial parents for years how happy they should be following the dictates of judges and faceless authorities.

Think about this when you are sitting before all-powerful government health panels that will ration your health care and decide whether you live or die. Think about this when your hard-earned money is used to pay for abortions and for illegal aliens. Think about this when you are unable to pay for your substandard policy and are called a "deadbeat". Think about this when you are arrested in the middle of the night, when the authorities decide to roundup those who can't or won't pay.

And from those of us in the fathers' rights/non-custodial parents' rights movement, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to the Senators who made this all possible. Thank you for showing America what it means to be us! And thank you, America, for letting it happen.

The Organizing Members of NCPForce!

Responsibility Obama Style Revisited: Queen Michelle's 26 Servants

Several months ago, we told our readers about the Obama free-wheeling, free-spending ways in the White House during a time of economic crisis. This was in our article, Responsibility, Obama Style, which is still available on this site for those who missed it.

We now learn that First Lady, Michelle Obama -- who joined her husband tagteaming dads on Father's Day this year -- apparently believes she is a queen.

According to FactCheck.org and an article in the Canada Free Press, Michelle Obama employs 26 personal servants on the public's dime. This is more personal servants than any other First Lady in history, even more than the much maligned Bush family.

And the cost for all this? Hold onto your hats: a stunning $1,750,000 per year!

Here's a list of some of the servants and the cost for each; Michelle's private hairdresser and make-up artist are not included:

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $102,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $65,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $60,000 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $45,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $36,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $36,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

We'd like to leave you with the following quote of Michelle Obama:

“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.”
— Michelle Obama