Schumer and senate Dems shut down the government to hide their incompetence on Obozocare

Amusing fact that Democrats will scream is fake:
    In 2011 the average price of gasoline was $3.53 per gallon.
    Right now (Oct 25, 2025) the average price is $3.06.
    For the math-challenged, that's a DEcrease of 13% in 14 years.

Now consider the laughably-misnamed "Affordable Care Act" (a.k.a. Obozocare)--which the Democrats passed in 2010 without a single GOP vote, and without including a single Republican amendment.  

In the 14 years since then, the premiums for health insurance under Obozocare have DOUBLED.  That's a 100% increase for those premiums, vs. a 13% DEcrease for gasoline over the same time period.

Obozo himself said many times--on video-- that if congress passed what the Media called "his signature achievement" it would "bend the curve," flattening the cost of health care.  So tell us, Democrats:  DID IT DO THAT?

Democrats: "Sure!  Duh premiums haz only gone up by about (mumble), an' dat is ALL jus' due to inflation, caused by duh Trump tariffs!  Cuz, see, we import so many of ouah medical devices and supplies, right?  Sure!"
   "An' if ouah great prezzy Barack (pbuh) an' duh Dems hadn't rammed the 'Affordable Care Act' into law, 30 million po' Americans wouldn't be able to afford health care!  Cost wudda gone up WAY mo' den 100%, see?  So we Dems wuz right!  His wunnerful law haz caused the cost of health care to just match the rate of inflation of duh rest of the economy!"

Really, sparky?  Gasoline is DOWN 13% in the same time period that Obozocare premiums have doubled (i.e. increased 100%).  Or would you like to dispute those numbers?

If you ask google "how much inflation since 2011 you get the answer "44.03%"  Yet Obozocare premiums have doubled.

Democrats: "Well, see...sure, duh gov'ment is spending more on healthcare, but dat's entirely because way mo' pipo depend on Obamacare now den when it first began!  Yep yep yep!"

Really, sparky?  Cuz premiums represent the total estimated cost divided by the number of people covered in each "plan."  So that should be a wash.  Try again.

Democrats: "Well sure, but now dere are 20 million MORE illegal...wait, poor "undocumented Americans" dat mus' be given free health care, and since dey cain't pay, yew workin' folks gotta pay duh entire cost of dere premiums.  See?"

Wait, Democrats have been bleating for months that NO illegals were getting taxpayer-funded health care.

Democrats: "Absolutely true!  Ain't NO illegals gettin' free health care, cuz as we Dems always say,  'No one is illegal!'  Dey is correctly called "temporarily undocumented Americans!"  So SEE, deplorable?  No illegals are gettin' free healthcare!
   Chuck Schumer an' Hakeem Jeffries an' AOC an' Speaker Pelosi haz tol' ya over an' over, no illegals gettin' free healthcare!  An' yew gotta believe 'em, cuz dey've nevah lied to ya befo,' right?"

Okay, sarc off:  Point is that Obozo and the Dems promised Americans that passing Obozocare would "bend the curve" of medical costs downward, but in reality the cost just of premiums for Obozocare has doubled in 14 years--while overall inflation is "only" up 44% over that period.  And the cost of gasoline (which Democrats routinely scream is breaking family budgets!) is actually DOWN 13% over the same period.

Democrats will fight to ensure you don't know that.  Like all their policies, Obozocare was and is a costly boondoggle.  And expert economists--like the notorious Jonathan Gruber (whose name gives us "gruberment"--knew their premium projections were lies.  Gruber even joked--on video--that the only way they got this abomination passed was because the American people were too stupid to understand what it really did.  Seriously.

Democrats: "But we MUST give po' pipo free health care!  Like free housing and free food, it's a basic human right!"

Try this:  Health experts say sweet drinks are poison, so stop allowing food stamps to be used to buy ANY drinks other than plain water and milk.  
   Health experts say junk food hurts health and increases obesity, so stop letting people use food stamps to buy junk food, candy, potato chips, chocolate, chewing gum and so on.  Just hamburger, veggies, noodles and milk.  Those changes alone will not only save billions a year but will also make Americans healthier--cutting the cost of health care.
   Increase penalties for food-stamp fraud. on both beneficiaries and stores: Fine stores $1,000 per offense.  For recipients, first offense and your food stamps are cut in half for a year.  Second offense in a year and they're cut in half again.  Another billion saved.  
   Make all that federal law.  If a state doesn't comply, cut the money it gets from taxpayers for Medicaid and food stamps.
   And stop both Medicare and Medicaid from paying for sex-change ops and cosmetic surgeries.  Another billion saved.  

Of course Chuckie Schumer and his faaaabulous senate Democrats will block all the above measures, using the filibuster.

That brings us to the current gruberment shutdown: Back during duh Chyna virus in 2020, when state gruberments ordered most businesses closed cuz of "Doctor Science," Democrats pushed thru a pork measure to give people extra money ("subsidies") to pay dere Obozocare premiums.  Dems said these special, extra "subsidies" would end in 2025 or so.  
   And here we are.  But now, because of cynical, lying "experts" like Jon Gruber, Obozocare premiums are gonna double--rising at twice the rate of overall inflation.  So to avoid being exposed as liars and con-artists, Dems are DEMANDING that their extra, special, Chyna-virus subsidies be *extended!*   
   Yep yep yep!  They're wailing that for some never-explained reason, millions of Americans aren't gonna be able to afford their health insurance!  Of course they never explain that but for their fraud or incompetence, health insurance would have only gone up at the same rate as everything else, and no one would be losing *anything* (except totally lousy insurance). 

SO...the Dems want taxpayers to pay the extra, special Chyna-virus subsidies that they said were only temporary and would expire now.  But do ya think if the GOP caves, Democrats will *ever STOP those "subsidies"?*  Not at all.  The Dems can *never* stop the subsidies without triggering the painful reckoning that their dumb policies *absolutely guaranteed.*  Because if the subsidies are *ever* stopped, we're back to square one.

So Schumer and the Dems demanded that the GOP cover for the Dems' incompetent underestimate of premiums.  When the GOP refused, Schumer and the Dems shut down the gruberment,  using the Dem minority to filibuster to prevent a "continuing resolution" from being passed to re-open the government.

For young Americans: senate rules provide that the minority party in the senate can block all bills with just 41 votes.  So with 46 Democrats in the senate, they can let 3 or 4 vote with the GOP to avoid looking like they support the shutdown.

If your parents are federal employees, and they start missing paychecks, the Dems and the Lying, Democrat-fellating Mainstream Media will scream that it's because of the GOP.  But it's the Dems who did it, and have now used their MINORITY in the senate to vote TEN times to keep it shut down.