Do You Like Being Called Stupid?

It’s bad enough to be called stupid – but then for someone to say they’re glad you’re stupid so they can pull things over on you? That’s just insulting.

And insulted is how every American should feel when they hear the comments made by Jonathan Gruber, an economist from MIT who helped write the Obamacare law.

They weren’t supposed to get out into the public hearing, but now they finally have.

Take a look:

Some choice excerpts:

This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not square the mandate as taxes. If CBO squares the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.

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.

…and that passed, because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.

It’s a very clever, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.

This reveals a lot about the mindset behind our government healthcare law and the people who wrote and pushed it.

The big government crowd is convinced they know what is right for everyone, and arrogantly think ordinary people don’t know what’s in their own best interests. But they also know that people won’t readily sign away control of their lives. We are made to love freedom! So they have to lie, manipulate, and bribe the American people to get their way. That’s why they had to deliberately write this law in such a deceptive manner. If more people knew what was really in Obamacare, it never would have been allowed to pass.

Also curious is just how long Gruber’s comments took to get out to the public. He made these comments in an academic conference over a year ago. It took one ordinary citizen to find the video and post it online for the story to go viral – one citizen whose health insurance was yanked after the ACA passed, incidentally.

Richard Weinstein believed Obama when he promised he could keep his plan. When the promise turned out to be false, he decided to do something about it. “I’m watching the news, and at that time I was thinking: Hey, the administration was not telling people the truth, and the media was doing nothing!”

He started his own investigation, digging around on what self-proclaimed architects of the law had said about it. And boy, did he hit gold.

The first video to make waves was about state versus federal exchanges and subsidies (the very issue that is now going before the Supreme Court). Gruber explained how the bill was designed to work:

What’s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying [to] your citizens you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country.

Even after the videos hit the internet, the mainstream media certainly didn’t jump on the story. Weinstein says this is another thing about the whole debacle that he finds troubling:

It’s terrifying that the guy in his mom’s basement is finding his stuff, and nobody else is. I really do find this disturbing.

Now that he’s embarrassed them, we get to watch Nancy Pelosi and the White House deny that Jonathan Gruber was even a part of Obamacare.

But we won’t buy it. Because we’re not stupid.