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ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 11:40 PM Oct 2013

Some current Anti-Obamacare "Pants on Fire" lies and assorted others

making the circuit these days according to Politifact. Be ready for the water cooler whoppers.

Says a man opted out of Obamacare after the marketplace launched on Oct. 1, 2013, and was informed he owed a $4,000 fine.


"Obama Declares November National Muslim Appreciation Month."

In a "sweetheart deal … members of Congress, thanks to the Obama administration, are going to be the only people in America to get subsidies in the Obamacare exchanges."

"Obamacare will question your sex life."

Warren Buffett recently said "Scrap Obamacare and Start All Over."

"America’s gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium’s if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S."

Obamacare provision will allow "forced home inspections" by government agents.

A United Nations working group has "adopted a proposed agenda" to enable member nations to "disarm civilians within their borders."

Under Obamacare, "75 percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours."
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/rulings/pants-fire/

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