Why Dr. Bob Johnson Remains My Choice to Represent The First District! Now Obama Gooses Himself!

As you know I am actively supporting Dr. Bob Johnson to succeed to Jack Kingston's District 1 Congressional seat.

I have explicitly listed my reasons in previous memos.

It now seems one of the leading candidates is possibly engaged in some self serving legislation. (See below.)

Once again I will repeat my reasons for supporting Dr. Bob:

1) Bob served in The Rangers for 26 years and we have plenty of military in our region.  Congress has less former military members serving and we need military minds in Congress at this critical time.

2)  Bob is a practicing physician, as is his lovely Asian wife.  It goes without saying we need more people in Congress who understand what needs to be undertaken to make sensible reforms in our health care delivery

It should be obvious to any right thinking person, regardless of political affiliation, that Obamacare is not the answer.

3)  Bob has signed a pledge, should he win, not to be a 'professional politician.' In the vein of Jefferson, Bob considers himself a 'citizen politician' and after several terms will return to private life..

4) I have spent a great deal of time with Bob and I am convinced Bob has a good heart, has Conservative values and principles and will serve the interests of our district well.  He understands constituent service and is committed to follow in Jack's path in that regard.

That said he is a willing listener, is intelligent and an independent thinker. Unlike some running for the same seat I do not see Bob as a go along get along politician. 

But one should never dismiss the effect of drinking Potomac Water on even the most faithful and trustworthy

5) Bob now owns a farm and understands the rational need to protect our environment but in a sensible manner.

6) Bob is committed to stand against unbridled spending

7) Bob has a fine family and believes education is a critical lever. His youngest son is at West Point, his daughter just received early acceptance to Harvard and the vaulted Honor's Program opportunity to go to ACUGA.

He has a third oldest son who attended West Point but chose another path after his second year.

8) Finally, Bob does not consider he is entitled to anything and must work hard to earn the right to serve. It is part of his DNA because Bob was born to parents who were not privileged and he has worked all his life.

Subject: I-Team investigates pharmacy bill - Atlanta News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports |  FOX 5 Left click:  http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/24949608/i-team-investigates-pharmacy-bill === John Bogle is a grand old man of Wall Street. This is what he thinks about the current market environment.  (See 1  below.) === A little Nebraskan humor: You can never underestimate the inventiveness of American Farm Boys: At a high school in Nebraska, a group of male students played a prank. They let three goats loose inside the school. But before turning them loose, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1, 2  and 4. School Administrators spent most of the day looking for No. 3. And you thought there was nothing to do in Nebraska! === When Republicans sought to  have 'Obamascare's' impact on individuals  postponed, as he was doing with just abut every liberal leaning voting sector, he refused and engaged in harsh attacks on Republicans  Now he is doing it. Why?  Because he is frightened about the voter  backlash that is occurring. So what was once good for 'gander unions' but not for' goose citizens' now appears justifiable even to the point of  goosing his own treasured  legislation.. (See 2 below.) ==== Dick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Bogle: Stocks May Drop 25 Percent, But Still  Make Sense Long Term By Dan Weil Stocks remain attractive as a long-term investment, though they may plunge as much as 25 percent as the  Federal Reserve normalizes its accommodative monetary policy, says John C. "Jack" Bogle, senior chairman  and founder of The Vanguard Group. Investors would do better diversifying their portfolios rather than trying to time the market, he tells CNBC.  The stock markets moves in "fits and starts," and fundamentals such as earnings remain solid, Bogle notes.  "What does not move in fits and starts is what the stock market enables you to do, which is own corporate  America." Stock market returns should shadow nominal GNP, which is set to grow approximately 5 percent annually,  plus dividends, which should total approximately 2 percent, he maintains.  That gives you a long-term annual return of about 7 percent, which means you would double your money in  10 years, Bogle predicts. Instead of exiting equities, investors should own some bonds as "ballast" against turmoil in stocks, he suggests. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index traded at 1,874.57 Tuesday morning. Many experts anticipate continued gains for stocks. "The equity market is going to make continued progress in a two-steps-forward, one-step-back kind of  progression,” Jim Russell, senior equity strategist for U.S. Bank Wealth Management, tells Bloomberg.  "We're still evaluating how much of the economic weakness is weather related and how much of it is  legitimate. We're hopeful that much of the weakness we've seen is weather related and that we'll get a  snap back in the second quarter." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) ObamaCare's Secret Mandate  Exemption HHS quietly repeals the individual purchase rule  for two more years. ObamaCare's implementers continue to roam the battlefield and shoot their own wounded, and the  latest casualty is the core of the Affordable Care Act—the individual mandate.  To wit, last week the Administration quietly excused millions of people from the requirement to  purchase health insurance or else pay a tax penalty. This latest political reconstruction has received  zero media notice, and the Health and Human Services Department didn't think the details were worth  discussing in a conference call, press materials or fact sheet. Instead, the mandate suspension was  buried in an unrelated rule that was meant to preserve some health plans that don't comply with ObamaCare benefit and redistribution mandates. Our sources only noticed the change this week. That seven-page technical bulletin includes a paragraph and footnote that casually mention that a rule  in a separate December 2013 bulletin would be extended for two more years, until 2016. Lo and  behold, it turns out this second rule, which was supposed to last for only a year, allows Americans  whose coverage was cancelled to opt out of the mandate altogether. In 2013, HHS decided that ObamaCare's wave of policy terminations qualified as a "hardship" that  entitled people to a special type of coverage designed for people under age 30 or a mandate  exemption. HHS originally defined and reserved hardship exemptions for the truly down and out such  as battered women, the evicted and bankrupts. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images But amid the post-rollout political backlash, last week  the agency created a new category: Now all you need  to do is fill out a form attesting that your plan was  cancelled and that you "believe that the plan options  available in the [ObamaCare] Marketplace in your area  are more expensive than your cancelled health  insurance policy" or "you consider other available  policies unaffordable." This lax standard—no formula or hard test beyond a person's belief—at least ostensibly requires proof  such as an insurer termination notice. But people can also qualify for hardships for the unspecified  nonreason that "you experienced another hardship in obtaining health insurance," which only  requires "documentation if possible." And yet another waiver is available to those who say they are  merely unable to afford coverage, regardless of their prior insurance. In a word, these shifting legal  benchmarks offer an exemption to everyone who conceivably wants one. Keep in mind that the White House argued at the Supreme Court that the individual mandate to buy  insurance was indispensable to the law's success, and President Obama continues to say he'd veto  the bipartisan bills that would delay or repeal it. So why areObamaCare liberals silently gutting their  own creation now? The answers are the implementation fiasco and politics. HHS revealed Tuesday that only 940,000  people signed up for an ObamaCare plan in February, bringing the total to about 4.2 million, well below  the original 5.7 million projection. The predicted "surge" of young beneficiaries isn't materializing even  as the end-of-March deadline approaches, and enrollment decelerated in February. Meanwhile, a McKinsey & Company survey reports that a mere 27% of people joining the exchanges  were previously uninsured through February. The survey also found that about half of people who  shopped for a plan but did not enroll said premiums were too expensive, even though 80% of this  group qualify for subsidies. Some substantial share of the people ObamaCare is supposed to help  say it is a bad financial value. You might even call it a hardship. HHS is also trying to pre-empt the inevitable political blowback from the nasty 2015 tax surprise of  fining the uninsured for being uninsured, which could help reopen ObamaCare if voters elect a  Republican Senate this November. Keeping its mandate waiver secret for now is an attempt get past  November and in the meantime sign up as many people as possible for government-subsidized  health care. Our sources in the insurance industry are worried the regulatory loophole sets a mandate  non-enforcement precedent, and they're probably right. The longer it is not enforced, the less likely any President will enforce it. The larger point is that there have been so many unilateral executive waivers and delays that  ObamaCare must be unrecognizable to its drafters, to the extent they ever knew what the law  contained. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------