The Art of Not Giving a Shit…(until it happens to you)

October 30, 2025 Decker Culture, Current Events, Home Leave a comment

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The Big Changes To ACA Premiums At The Heart Of The Government Shutdown – via forbes.com

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace Open Enrollment period begins November 1, 2025, in most states and it’s shaping up to be a tricky one.

Premiums are going up, and the enhanced premium tax credits that have helped millions of Americans afford health care coverage are scheduled to expire at the end of the year. The debate over extending the credits has become a major sticking point in Washington—and one of the reasons for the current federal government shutdown.

The issue? In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) they passed in July, Republicans made permanent many other tax breaks, and even created some new temporary ones, but didn’t extend the ACA tax credits. Senate Republicans aren’t keen to do so in any short-term funding measure, and Democrats have said they won’t support any funding bill that leaves the tax credits out.

So what’s wrong with this? Permanent tax breaks for the wealthy are what makes this country great. Everyone knows this. Tax credits for the everyday person attempting to navigate the skyrocketing prices just to live in a decent fashion are definitively not what our government has a bit of concern about.

A bit of a closer look at the costs to come for those ordinary and troublesome people who can’t seem to pay their fair share to healthcare conglomerates:

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This is for self employed married parents in their 30’s with 4 kids.

Democrats did this with Obamacare 15 yrs ago and Johnson says Republicans have a mystery plan that is yet to be revealed to fix it.

But no one knows what it is and we’re told to stay home in our districts. https://t.co/UhN2BHrsHu
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 29, 2025

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

@RepMTG

Oct 29

Is it too much for me to ask what is my party’s plan to build the off ramp off of Obamacare onto price transparency, a competitive market, and affordable high quality care? Nov 1 is Saturday, starting open enrollment with already high premiums skyrocketing. It’s been 15 years.

What a loser! If you can’t afford these health care premiums, it just means you aren’t working hard enough. Maybe you have to take a second job, maybe even a third one. There’s tons of high paying 2nd and 3rd jobs paying a great wage here in shithole America. The government tells us this so of course it’s true. So just get busy!

And thank God the Vice President is on this. Check out the VP’s cup of overflowing concern:

Vice President JD Vance warned Thursday that holiday air travel could become a ‘disaster’ if the shutdown is not resolved.

‘What happens when the security lines are not an hour long, but they’re four hours long? What happens when pilots start not showing up for work because they’re so focused on paying the bills, they can’t fly the plane safely? That’s going to lead to massive delays,’ he said. – via dailymail.co.uk

I can’t imagine why they’re not paying their bills…can you? I mean it’s not the pilots, you nitwit, who aren’t getting paid, it’s the air traffic controllers who are employed by the government who aren’t getting paid. I know, such deep and complex problems, like that of performing a Bach fugue, are faced by these government shysters.

For more on this….the boys from Due Dissidence (dressed in Halloween costumes)