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Valerie Jarrett, a key capo in the Obama Administration, posted to her Twitter account Monday that you should sign up for Obamacare, and that doing so is “easy peasy.” The deadline has come and gone (unless you live in California or Oregon or clicked the blue box, then there is no deadline for when to sign up) but the question remains: who says it’s “easy peasy,” and to whom?
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Certainly, signing up for Obamacare has not been “easy peasy.” For starters, the website didn’t originally work. Then, it did but it didn’t take your money. Then sometimes it would take your money and charge you twice.
Then, it let you sign up but you weren’t sure if you paid or if you had to pay or when you had pay or if you’d get a bill or if it would come off your taxes or if Oprah would come down your street with a bullhorn in hand, bellowing, “You Get Free Healthcare! And You Get Free Healthcare! Everybody Gets Free Healthcare!”
On the second to final day of Obamacare open enrollment, the website was “unavailable,” which is Obamacare-apologist speak for, “It crashed and we don’t know why, but it’s a great excuse to have more deadline extensions, amiright?”
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that people were not educated on how to use the Internet. Yes, he called all of America too stupid to engage a website that was poorly created, inefficiently managed and wholly not up to the task of subjugating Americans. (Perhaps if he had spent $16,000 on educating Nevada citizens instead of funneling that campaign cash to his granddaughter, some people would have had an easier time signing up!)
No, signing up for Obamacare was not “easy peasy.” In Maryland, they gave up the ghost on their own state system. In Oregon, the corruption in building the website led to investigations. (Exchange officials found 48 different errors in creating the site, which received over $300 million in federal funds for its creation.)
So how could Jarrett come to this conclusion, and say the words “easy peasy?” Why speak like that to America?
Finding a definitive origin to “easy peasy” is difficult. Many theories exist online, but a few of them push to the same places; school playgrounds in the UK and detergent commercial in England from 1970’s. The name of the detergent was “Sqezy.” (A website exists for the detergent, and it clearly says “easy peasy lemon squeezy.” They also have a glass cleaner called “Wizz.” I’ll pass on that.)
For years, the mainstream media have gone through the laborious exercise of explaining what President Obama meant to say; Obamacare has been no exception. They told us that President Obama is too smart, and that things need to be re-explained so that we simpletons can understand the force of his genius.
It’s why, when your health care plan was cancelled, you were told that your original plans was terrible, anyway. It’s why, when Solyndra was allowed to steal $500 million from U.S. taxpayers, we were told that we need to be more like China and invest in green tech — no matter the cost. It’s why we know about President Obama’s NCAA bracket but not about his whereabouts on the night the consulate in Libya was attacked and four Americans lost their lives.
His bracket went bust. Who picks U of A over Wisconsin? And how little does that matter compared to the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith?
Jarrett’s “easy peasy” comment fits in perfectly with the media’s narrative and President Obama’s own actions. They make the big decisions, and let us know what they think we need to know in spoon fed chunks, delivered by the appropriate agencies. They’ll lift our spirits by telling us that signing up for programs they forced upon is super fun, and they’ll conduct foreign policy through selfies.
It’s elitists speaking to Americans as if they’re children. And far too many Americans are more than willing to take their medicine, follow their blind leaders and call them mom and dad.
