DID YOU KNOW………… PART TWO.

· That one of the unintended (supposedly not known before passage) consequences of ObamaCare are that many companies will drop their employee medical coverage to save money. Here’s why: AT&T paid over $2.4 billion last year to cover medical costs for its 283,000 active employees. If the company dropped its health care plan and paid an annual penalty for each uninsured worker, the “fines” would total almost $600 million. So, that would leave AT&T with a tidy profit of $1.8 billion. Who’d have thunk it? Are we headed for a single-payer system when that occurs? You better believe it.

· That the Arizona legislature and Gov. Jan Brewer amended the original state immigration law so that local and state authorities can only question individuals on their immigration status after they’ve been stopped for a non-immigration offense? So, the Arizona law that has created so much turmoil and misinformation is actually less strict than the U.S. federal law that is on the books now. You go figure!

· That Al Gore’s venture capital firm of Kleiner-Perkins has invested more than a billion dollars in dozens of companies that is Kerry-Lieberman dependent (the Senate version of the “Cap and Trade” climate bill)? Is there a tie-in there? Of course not, why be so cynical?

· That the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) has revised its earlier estimates on ObamaCare and announced that instead of a savings there would be a doubling of certain costs from the legislation that was passed. It stated that over the first ten years, spending would exceed $115 billion. Two months prior, during the run-up to the vote on the ObamaCare bill that no one in the Congress had read in full, the figure was set at $55 billion based on faulty assumption set forth by Reid, Pelosi, and the Obama Administration. We can only wonder what new revelations will come out – and when – to show the actual cost of this massive legislation. My advice is to hold on to your wallets, the worst is yet to come.

· That Nature Magazine, the academic journal that introduced the world to X-Rays, DNA double helix, wave nature of particles, pulsars and more recently the human genome, is set to publish a paper in June that shows atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for only 5-10% of observed warming on Earth. The paper claims that the climate is warming, yes, but not because of greenhouse gases. This work shows conclusively that Al Gore’s much touted “scientific consensus” supporting human-caused global warming is a myth. In the largest effort to date to document global warming dissent in the scientific community, 31,486 Americans with university degrees in science – including 9,029 PhD., 7,157 MS, and DVM, and 12,714 BS or equivalent – have signed on with the Global Warming Petition Project to state that “the human-caused global warming hypothesis is without scientific validity”. Put that in your pipe, Al Gore, and smoke it.

· That George Soros, who has admitted to collaboration with the Nazi’s in his native Hungary during WWII, is one of the largest benefactors of liberal left- wing causes and the Democratic Party today. This billionaire felon has helped fund groups such as; Center for American Progress; Organizing for America (Obama’s community action group); People for the American Way; the now defunct liberal talk radio network “Air America”; Open Society Institute; MoveOn.Org.; America Coming Together; and in addition spent $26 million in 2004 trying to defeat George W. Bush for President. Can you imagine if the Republicans had a billionaire felon, like George Soros, as a benefactor? Both Keith Olbermann and Chris Mathews would have an on going hissy-fit, but somehow they don’t see a sinister connection by Obama and the Democrats with this former Nazi collaborator? I wonder why?

There, now you know!

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann