DOESN'T OBAMA HAVE A GULAG FOR VOICES LIKE THIS? – AT 9:10 A.M. ET:   Yessirree, Obama and his legions are for the working man.  Regular folks.  But wait a minute?  How has the working man or woman gained from this administration?  People are asking questions.  The Obamans will not like the answers.  From Fox:

A new report from a major U.S. union says ObamaCare will hasten income inequality.

Although it defends the intent behind the Affordable Care Act, the report, entitled “The Irony of ObamaCare: Making inequality worse,” concludes that the law will transfer a billion dollars in wealth to insurance companies, uneven the playing field in the market, force employers to cut back on hours and result in pay decreases, Ralston Reports said.

“The promise of Obamacare was the right one and the hope for extending healthcare coverage to the un-and under-insured a step in the right direction,” the report says. “Yet the unintended consequences will hit the average, hard-working American where it hurts: in the wallet.”

The document was put out by Unite Here, a hospitality industry union representing workers in the U.S. and Canada. The union of nearly 300,000 has been critical of the health law before.

The report says it’s “ironic” that the Obama administration is publicly discussing income inequality though it has yet to make the changes to ObamaCare that Unite Here believes are necessary to avoid exacerbating income disparity.

“Having already made efforts to accommodate businesses, churches and congressional staff, it is ironic that the administration is now highlighting issues of economic inequality without acting to preserve health plans that have been achieving the goals of the ACA for decades,” the report concludes. “Without a smart fix, the ACA will heighten the inequality that the Administration seeks to reduce … We cannot sit idly by as the politicians carve up our health plans while they carve out exceptions for themselves and every special interest feeding at the trough in Washington.”

COMMENT:  There was a time when it could be reasonably argued that the Democratic Party was the working person's party.  But today it's a party run by elitists who hand down their edicts and believe they know what's best for people they've never met.  So it's not shocking that the party's signature "achievement," Obamacare, is actually hurting the very people it is presumably designed to help.

Will Democrats listen?  I think some in Congress and in the states will.  But the Obamans listen to no one except themselves.  They get their tone, their approach, from the man at the top. 

March 10, 2014