Hat tip Boston Bob
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said that lack of transparency was a major part of getting Obamacare passed because “the stupidity of the American voter” would have killed the law if more people knew what was in it.
Gruber, the MIT professor who served as a technical consultant to the Obama administration during Obamacare’s design, also made clear during a panel quietly captured on video that the individual mandate, which was only upheld by the Supreme Court because it was a tax, was not actually a tax.
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.” – Jonathan Gruber
The media love affair is over for the prez, and most democrats it would seem.
They don even bother hiding their disdain for us lessers.
How much you want to bet this arrogant prick is exempt from Obamacare? Only for us stupid peons, right Gruber?
Iska,
I was thinking the same thing. The utter disdain the academic elite ( I use those words loosely) have for the average working stiff shows no bounds. Cambridge professors are pretty much all cut from the same cloth, uber liberal/progressive douche bags. Our own Lizzie Warren made $350,000 a year to teach one class at Harvard and has the balls to complain about the high cost of a college education. I would love to get this asshole out on a job site roofing or framing for 8 to 10 hours and see how his attitude would change, if he survived.
Bob.
Does anyone have this assholes email or mailing address – this stupid American voter might like to contact him.
Anyone got terminal illness and wish to do planet a favor on way out?
Agree with disdain,add to that contempt for America and Americans.These low life scum will one day pay dearly for their actions.At this point it is clearly us or them-Martial law will bring UN boots on the ground and a Obama dictatorship
Obamacare was written by the jews. Big surprise. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
I wonder if he’d stick by his ends justify the means mantra when he is confronted by an angry mob with pitchforks and torches, or if he will be able to apply the same philosophy to the mob’s actions against him.
Filthy elitist scum bag of pus.
“Government attracts mediocre, low IQ, power hungry, narrow minded, paper pushing, rules oriented, dimwits who think they can run your life better than yourself.” – Jim Quinn
Gruber is one of these.
He used deception , half truths and out right lies to deceive millions of people and he is proud of it. Sounds like Satan.
Just waiting for SHTF. Maybe then justice will be served.
Olga
From a ZH comment:
And hey, fellow ZH’ers…if ya wanna send this treasonous piece of shit a message or give him a phone call. Well here’s his contact info at MIT!
http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj
Thanks. It won’t take long to type “asshole”.
What a Show!
Mark Levin did a one hour rant about this Lefty lump of shit last night.
It was a spectacular show, not to be missed.
Note the friggin smart ass, I am Smarter Than You Grin this sneaky little prick has. All the Lefty
s have it Axelrod,Holder, Emanuel, and that lefty dick head Krugman has it the most pronounced.
They all SUCK
Mark Levin for PRESIDENT!!!
Link to show below as well as pic of the Grand Lefty Wizard.
http://www.marklevinshow.com/common/page.php?id=191
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OOPs, I forgot to mention MSM chief Obama bummy licker Alan Holmes, another sneaky grinning wise ass lefty.
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MLES!
Fox has been playing this today,
Stuart Varney is going to play it again he just announced on Fox Business because it has become such a hit.
The school where dick head gave his speech on how he conned everybody has pulled the video, but of course it’s to late now.
Fox Business just going ballistic over this Gruber film.
Outraged e-mails pouring in.
Lou Dobbs doing a specail tonight with the guy who leaked it.
Other networks trying their shameless Lefty best ot ignore it. They never did, nor ever will have the slightest bit of shame.
Just posted on Market Ticker, I had to share – Spread the love peoples!
Jonathan Gruber – http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj
Contact Information
Phone: (617) 253-8892
Fax: (617) 253-1330
Email: [email protected]
Address:
MIT Department of Economics
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg E17-220
Cambridge MA 02139
Support Staff:
John Arditi
Phone: (617) 253-8887
Email: [email protected]
A listing of his books, do you seen a theme that ties his works together. He seems to love to spend other peoples money.
Bob.
Jonathan Gruber
Books
Public Finance and Public Policy, 4th Edition, New York: Worth Publishers, 2013
Health Care Reform: What it is, Why it’s Necessary, How it Works
Authored by Jonathan Gruber, Illustrated by Nathan Schreiber
Published by Hill and Wang, A Division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011.
Public Finance and Public Policy, 3rd Edition. New York: Worth Publishers, 2010.
Public Finance and Public Policy, 2nd Edition. New York: Worth Publishers, 2007.
Public Finance and Public Policy, 1st Edition. New York: Worth Publishers. 2005.
Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment (with David Wise). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
An Economic Perspective on the Problems of Disadvantaged Youth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
The Fiscal Implications of Social Security Reform Around the World (with David Wise). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation (with David Wise). Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Risky Behavior Among Youth: An Economic Analysis, editor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Social Security and Retirement Around the World, editor (with David Wise). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Oh, Oh look, University Of Chicago Press. No coincidence here.
Bob.
@Bostonbob – What a list of rubbish, the man makes more from writing textbooks then any 10 normal “privileged white males” make over the course several years. No wonder he thinks the po’ need liftin’ up, his basis of comparison is completely jacked.
Lets round up every one of them and put them to work on a ranch in northern Montana. Give them a taste of how hard life can be.
One note though, Bostonbob. The University of Chicago Press is one of the largest textbook publishers in the US. 90% of my technical textbooks were published by them. The fact that his books were published by them isn’t really that large of a surprise.