To: Alighieri who wrote (844079 ) 3/21/2015 8:22:14 PM From: i-node Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578448 >> Considering the magnitude of the mess, it was a sharp reversal...and it happened just as Obama took office.. That's bullshit. It took SIX FULL YEARS to start seeing signs reasonable economic growth and even today, although we've seen a 4-point drop in unemployment from the worst of it, labor force participation has dropped by around the same amount, meaning unemployment is essentially around 10%, comparatively, today. While there are hopeful signs in the economy, we are STILL in difficult economic circumstances. Economic growth continues to be tentative but be turning around now. Seven years later. >> Neither Pelosi nor the CBO said that...what they did say is that they would be free to become entrepreneurs... In fairness, Pelosi *DID* add that onto the end:House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Obamacare facilitates the type of “liberation” that the “Founders had in mind” because it allows you to quit your job and become a “photographer,” a “writer,” a “musician”--or “whatever.” “As you hear from these stories, this is a liberation,” Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill news conference Thursday. “This is what our founders had in mind--ever expanding opportunity for people. “You want to be a photographer or a writer or a musician, whatever -- an artist, you want to be self-employed, if you want to start a business, you want to change jobs, you no longer are prohibited from doing that because you can’t have access to health care, especially because you do not want to put your family at risk,” she said. That, of course, was nonsense -- having worked with many, many people who were starting businesses, never once have I heard of health insurance being a factor. Never.