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To: SilentZ who wrote (729515)	7/28/2013 7:41:47 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1576591

Obama Realizes People Don't Like Obamacare

To: SilentZ who wrote (729515)	7/28/2013 8:44:26 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1576591

Why the Glum Faces, Obamacare Lovers? capitalismmagazine.com Michael J Hurd (2013.07.21 ) Article: We keep reading that Obama is suspending, delaying or possibly even eliminating Obamacare requirements, at least for favored parties and until after the 2014 Congressional elections. For the latest on this see, “It’s not just the employer mandate: Three Obamacare delays you haven’t heard about,” at washingtonpost.com, 7/8/13. If Obamacare is such a good thing, then why must he do this? If Obamacare is good for business, then why does most of the pressure to curb it, or apply it selectively, come from businesses? I would think that if Obamacare were even 10 percent as magnificent as we’ve been led to believe, there would not even be a temptation to delay its implementation one more day. Imagine if, at the start of the American republic, that George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (our first four Presidents) had offered waivers or delays to implement the Bill of Rights. “Well, we have freedom of the press, but not until 1810, to give the people a chance to get it up and running.” It’s absurd, of course. But to hear proponents of Obamacare talk about the law, you’d think it was at least as lofty and important, in principle, as the original Bill of Rights. They talk of a moral and political “right” to health care, even claiming it’s implicitly embodied in the Constitution. OK, then. Why the delay? Obama, and most of his supporters, live in an intellectual and psychological vacuum, at least on matters such as this. It’s a vacuum of willful non-questioning. It leads to an attitude of great hostility towards those who dissent, because dissension gets in the way of evasiveness. It’s a state of knowing self-deceit. It reminds me of the way a lot of people lead their lives, with predictable mediocre (or even disastrous) results. It’s more than an academic issue. You cannot dismiss medical care as “just politics.” Health care is one of the most important things there is. Ask anyone who has ever been sick, and survived to tell the tale. We’re about to impose a massive new law on doctors, nurses, surgeons and hospitals that is so confusing and restrictive that even the law’s strongest proponents cannot see fit to impose it…just yet. Before Obama’s reelection, proponents of Obamacare could whine, “It’s those awful Tea Party types. They spread lies, and so we cannot act rationally so long as they’re allowed to speak.” Well, we’ve all heard the news about the IRS singling out Tea Party advocates for special requirements. And I see no real influence of the Tea Party in Congress, since the Republican Speaker of the House barely pays them any attention, and certainly few or none of the Republican Senators do. So what’s the excuse now, Obamacare supporters? You have what you want. You control the executive branch, the Supreme Court (on this issue at least), all of academia, and most of the media. Your dream law has passed, and it’s the law of the land. Even the Republican Speaker of the House has proclaimed it as such. I understand the human phenomenon of procrastination. I realize people sometimes procrastinate on doing things they know, objectively, should be done, but that they don’t find pleasant to do. But that makes no sense here. Proponents of socialized medicine have waited almost a century for this to finally pass in the United States. Nobody stands in their way to block its implementation. So again: why the delay? Full Story

To: SilentZ who wrote (729515)	7/29/2013 12:01:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576591

>“There are already rumours circulating that Osama bin Laden is being held somewhere already and it’s only that they are trying to decide what day they should bring him out,” McDermott told Confederation of Indian Industry representatives at a luncheon in New Delhi on Thursday. Yes, my apologies..........I missed that it was WorldNet..........Because they spelled rumor with a 'u', I figured it was a foreign paper and didn't pay too much attention to the name in the masthead. Interestingly enough, he did make a similar comment about Saddam Hussein the year before: community.seattletimes.nwsource.com So, yeah, the dude was irresponsible. He should not have said that. That sort of conduct is unbecoming of a Congressman. Is it really? Bush/Cheney are people who started a war over innuendo and were unwilling to wait for validation as to whether Saddam had WMDs. They sent Powell, the credible, to the UN who pushed hard the WMD meme. When you set up to deceive and intentionally withhold important information and misrepresent the info you do give out, I think its imperative that our elected officials question everything that is being done. Let's not forget the atmosphere that existed back then after 9/11 where people were afraid to object to anything that might be seen as criticism of Bush/Cheney and the crap they were pulling. Seems to me McDermott showed some courage questioning the Bush/Cheney BS.