‘Affordable my butt’! POTUS suggests cutting back on cable, cell service could help you pay Obamacare [video]

http://twitter.com/#!/hale_razor/status/443781302597472256

That’s basically the gist of President Obama’s recent suggestion.

Last week, he participated in a town hall event geared toward the Hispanic community. One of the questions for him came from a man with a $36,000 annual income, who feels that his minimum monthly premium under Obamacare is too much for him. After offering Medicaid as a possible solution — and blaming states like Texas and Florida for not properly expanding Medicaid — President Obama suggested that people struggling to afford their monthly health insurance premiums just “haven’t prioritized health care,” and they might want to cut back on their cable and cell phone service.

http://twitter.com/#!/JohnEkdahl/status/443762204253638656

Yeah, we’re guessing it would not go over terribly well.

Some people kind of understood where the president was coming from:

http://twitter.com/#!/AmyOtto8/status/443780942314749952

He shouldn’t’ve made plans at all. The government has no business getting involved in our health care. And while his point about sound budgeting is a good one, is he, President Big Spender, really in a position to tell people how to allocate their money?

Definitely not. And many rightly bristled at his remarks:

http://twitter.com/#!/BenHowe/status/443768211226365953 http://twitter.com/#!/MooseMcKnuckle/status/443780415262695424 http://twitter.com/#!/NoahWehrman/status/443756119664521216 http://twitter.com/#!/Float_Girl/status/443765761165623296 http://twitter.com/#!/consunite/status/443765263922921472

Obama solution for healthcare: Cancel your cable.

Obama solution for energy independence: Inflate your tires.

Please stop. I'm begging.—   (@ConservativeLA) March 12, 2014

http://twitter.com/#!/OrwellForks/status/443764004813422592

Obama 2010: If you like your plan you can keep it.

Obama 2014: Do you really need your cable and cell phone?

#AffordableMyButt— Noah Wehrman (@NoahWehrman) March 12, 2014

Coming soon:

"Look, Billy! We got you Obamacare for Christmas. We couldn't afford anything else."

"Worst. Christmas. Ever."— Matthew (@Matthops82) March 12, 2014

It does suck, but at least there’s a silver lining:

http://twitter.com/#!/jtLOL/status/443780614441820160

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