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To: Lane3 who wrote (135374)	3/30/2010 4:38:38 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 543281

<<< And each new administration has it's own wheel to re-invent.] >>> That is probably true. History keeps repeating itself but over time, if educable people are at the helm, they can get things done. The best analogy of how things work, that I can think of, is that guiding such a huge economy is like steering a huge oil tanker. You are not going to be able to turn on a dime, you can only make a course correction. I think Obama understands this and that is what he has done with health care.

To: Lane3 who wrote (135374)	3/30/2010 4:38:38 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 543281

dup

To: Lane3 who wrote (135374)	3/30/2010 5:38:20 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Respond to of 543281

Indeed, but that doesn't speak to enforcement shortfall. Enforcement isn't just for regulatory agencies. I read the other day--don't know if it's so--that the law doesn't contain a mechanism to enforce the insurance mandate, either. === There has been a lot of complaining lately because the IRS will be enforcing the insurance mandate, and has been allocated resources to do so. google.com I guess they are in as good a position to be a pain in the ass as anyone. I don't think it is practical to have an Insurance Mandate Police Force that will kick ass and take names over what appears to me to be just another welfare program. A mechanism to enforce laws in general does not exist (otherwise people would not feel compelled to buy home and car alarms). There is a mechanism which enforces the law in a small fraction of the instances in which the law is broken, but a mechanism to enforce the law ... no, that does not exist.