first of all let's get something straight between us.....1) Thanks for calling me slim. 2) I respect any man with a keen eye for debauchery Man, about the socialist thing....all bull shit aside, I just don't see it. I've entertained the idea that Obamacare might be the reason for this line of thinking but it actually preserved the free market, as opposed to Hillarycare which would have completely socialized it. I've even thought that maybe some of the talk about income disparity makes a socialist scenario plausible but that is more of a common place economic conversation that has been going on between capitalistic economists for many decades but I don't think it amounts to socialism. I get it that there are folks who just flat disagree with his politics and I can respect that, it's just the way it is. That said, some of the socialist talk is a little over the top. Have you seen what the stock market has been doing? These are tough economic times; have been since 2009 when the whole thing tanked. Has it rebounded as quickly as I would like? No way. My profits have been improving and this past year has been great but I can definitely see where there is a ton of room for growth if only we could solve some of the more pressing economic issues. Unfortunately some of these things have to be resolved by our politicians and to date we can't seem to get them to accomplish that. The one thing I will grant you is this: I do believe Obama will have to leave office before we are able to hammer out some of these issues. I personally like the guy but, in spite of what I consider to be his best efforts otherwise, he has been a very polarizing figure. Much of that I do attribute to his skin color. It's hard to quantify something like that but there are a lot of older folks who are in power who are a part of a generation that didn't think black people belonged in the same restaurants, much less holding the highest office in the land.
It's been cut in half because of sequester. And even at current spending levels it's double what W ran. The sequester is basically gutting the military. The current national debt is approaching 18 trillion. It was 10 trillion 5 years ago.
Wrong again my friend. The sequester is only part of the equation. We also raised taxes on the highest income earners, passed the budget control act and yes, the sequester. We also ended the Iraq war. We have also seen the unemployment numbers go from 10% down to 7% which means more tax payers and more money coming into the system. The sequester affects the military and social programs evenly. When W left office, he did so with a 1.4 trillion dollar per year budget deficit. The CBO recently predicted the deficit would be around 600 billion this year, so the spending levels are no where near what W was spending.
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 3,000,000 fewer workers 16 or over in the workforce now. That's why Barry's labor stats are %7. It's because there are fewer jobs.
According to Grassley, the purpose behind the amendment was not to punish feds, but “to require that elected officials and federal employees purchase insurance in the same manner proposed in the [bill] for private citizens.” Let's see how long that last after they realize.... "State insurance commissioners have long seen themselves as protectors of the public's wallets -- the officials who say "no" to insurers' requests to increase health insurance premiums. It has not yet sunk in that on this coming New Year's Day, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will flip the commissioners' motives upside-down, prompting them to approve and even encourage premium increases, says Robert F. Graboyes, a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center and professor of health economics at Virginia Commonwealth University." http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23855 Please. For every one-off do-gooder story you come up with, I can provide an equalizer on the other side. Congress is full of self-centered money hungry lazy ass public servants who don't do right by "their" employees i.e. the US taxpayer. See how that works? Nunya. The dense is strong with this one. The OPM created the exception so that each congressional office could protect their own fiefdom. They all want to maintain a large admin staff and ensure that they continue to get as much money as possible. There is no reason why a congress person can't figure out how to get a policy on the marketplace....just like every single one of their constituents. That is the point. Citizens aren't getting help. Why in hell should an overpaid, taxpayer leach like Pelosi for instance, get any freakin help? Right. Because The Daily Banter is soooo respected on the interwebs. Awesome. Intellectually lame.....that is so awesome.
You clearly have no idea how insurance works. I wish we had socialized medicine and not this Conservative bullshit for healthcare you call Obamacare.
I have a great Idea of how it works. Maybe you didn't know you were about to insure yourself against getting knocked up and its unsettling. It should be.
I'm sincerely glad you showed up. Well, not you, specifically, but someone of the same school of thought as NC. I was starting to feel like we were piling on and I don't like to see pile-ons; even if it's someone I'm not agreeing with.
NC is handling himself just fine in the face of the massive tsunami of stupidity that runs rampant on this board. He has far more patience than I do. I tend to just cut to the chase and disassociate myself from people incapable of reason. It's a futile effort wit this group. I have been watching for years. They rationalize ridiculous notions because it's just makes sense to them, find another misguided soul who thinks the same misguided, uneducated bullshit and feel it's proof they're not full of shit. In reality all they did is find another brother idiot. No amount of proof will ever change their minds because they're more concerned with not being proven wrong than having a shred of integrity...
