Republicans Don't Support Obamacare- Who Would Hav

Republicans Don't Support Obamacare- Who Would Have Thought?

""Without the political attacks, Gruber said, the Affordable Care Act will work.

"No doubt in my mind that if people left it alone for three years and let it run, it will be highly successful," he contends, "but that is not the world we live in."

From Gruber's perspective, the GOP attacks reveal a "small minded" opposition focused on damaging President Obama instead of fixing the nation's costly, inefficient healthcare system.

Gruber recalls then-Gov. Romney and a representative of the conservative Heritage Foundation standing on stage with a Democrat, then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (Mass.), to sign the state law that is the model for the national version. The state law is popular and successful.""

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If the design of the rollout was to expect no Republican opposition for over seven years, why was it there was no Republican support for Obomacare? Was the plan to retain the House, so all opposition could be crushed? "ShutUp" they explained.

It appears to me that the Democrat Party is guilty of malpractice. They re too used to the establishment support from the federal clerical class, and unions. Lawyers, the University propaganda machine, Teachers throughout the federally controlled education system, and the Mainstream Media.

The problem appears to be the various parts are falling on their swords, causing thier influence to decrease, and thier careers to terminate. The type of people who support the establishment are not those expecting to sacrifice.

Maybe they should look for a bigger tent, which appears to have momentum to taking over the current establishment. Rats on a sinking ship and fleas on a dead dog, have the sense to look for another safe haven. Are Democrats?


Dave Farnsworth

Power to the political

Power to the political
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20140330,0,1556558.column#axzz2xRmRqdvE

"To suggest that such organizations can effectively supplant government social programs is worse than a mere fantasy — it's a cynical and dangerous fantasy that serves only as a talking point to cut those programs.

The truth is that private, communal and religious giving simply can't meet the needs that government programs handle."

Those are:
1. Divert funds to political allies.
2. Keeping trapped the ignorant mass of peons
3. Empower  political bosses to buy elections

The ninny state

The ninny state

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-25/say-a-prayer-for-hobby-lobby-s-employees

"Hobby Lobby is a for-profit corporation selling arts and crafts. " what significance is "for-profit"? Is this a progressive sin?

"Like him, it worships, sins, is forgiven, reads the Bible and, if it all works out, is going to heaven." Well corporations have eternal life, the author has complained that they sin, why not a positive human attribute?

 "Hobby Lobby is like the Jehovah's Witnesses, only with stores" Now she has gone too far, as a godless progressive, she has no right...

My mistake is confusing the author with a rational person. She is not. She is a progressive. Why she is allowed to palute the dialog, I don't know. Obviously mentally challenged.

Unfunny present Obama

Unfunny present Obama

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/373868/power-isnt-funny-charles-c-w-cooke

"For all of the nonchalant assurances that he is neither a "dictator" nor an "emperor," Barack Obama is certainly trigger-happy with the power jokes.

The president's latest witticism was inspired by his much-debated appearance on Between Two Ferns, during which he traded carefully scripted barbs with actor Zach Galifianakis. "Zach actually was pretty nervous," Obama explained to Ryan Seacrest in a postmortem interview. "His whole character is to go after the guest, and I think he was looking around and seeing all these Secret Service guys with guns and thinking, I wonder what happens here if I cross the line? But we had a great time.""

It is good to be king, don't tell him he is not, it could be fatal.

Return the status quo anti

Return the status quo anti

http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/ukraine/nuclear/

"Upon the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited the third largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world after the Russian Federation and the United States. However, in the January 1994 Trilateral Statement, Ukraine committed to full disarmament. Kiev joined the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state in 1994, acceded to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), and having transferred all of its nuclear warheads to Russia for elimination, became nuclear-weapon-free in 1996."

If Russia is not in compliance due to aggression why not restore the nuclear arms. Expand to include all the former soviet clients who have achieved stable democracies.

Say it ain't So Miss House Majority Leader

Say it ain't So Miss House Majority Leader

http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-finds-unwinding-obamacare-vexing-now-that-its-taken-root/article/2546213


"Given that, Levin concludes: "It's much easier to transition from a prescriptive system to a more open system than vice versa."

Perhaps. But the bottom line is that if Republicans somehow had their way and were able to move the country to a post-Obamacare system, the process would involve imposing a sprawling set of changes on top of the sprawling changes that have already occurred during Obamacare. Even if it were all for the best, that's a lot of change. At some point, fatigue will set in."

Perhaps we (Republicans) need neither to repeal or replace. As mentioned, A voluntary system need not repeal, it can both change to allow deviations from the current plans, and allow the ObamaCare system to self-destruct. As people fell off the ObamaCare bandwagon through executive incompetence, small programs can be introduced to catch falling citizenry, and allowing the executive to explain why they shouldn't be saved.

And the insurance industry need not be restored. It was a function of failed government price controls in World War II. Good riddance. The insurance companies were complacent in the fraud and cronyism of Obamacare.

Health savings accounts can be added, using the wreck of Obamacare to act as the insurance portion, to be signed for when needed. Ben Carson's setting up of medical savings accounts to grow as the individuals grow could be funded at birth. Maybe insurance by another name could be allowed to the acceptable plans.

Maybe individuals could opt out of Medicare and medical with an appropriately funded alternate plan. How many people now in Medicare expect it to be there when they are due to receive it. A plan allowing an opt out could save taxpayers money by reducing the Medicare obligation at fire sale prices.


Dave Farnsworth

The problem with government

The problem with government

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/opinion/americas-underappreciated-entrepreneur-the-federal-government.html

"Imagine a world in which the United States government — not the private sector — is the economy's indispensable entrepreneur, innovating at the frontiers of science and technology, able and willing to take risks and to persevere through uncertainty.

That is the world depicted in "The Entrepreneurial State," a recent book by Mariana Mazzucato, an economist at the University of Sussex who specializes in innovation. And it is, in fact, the way the United States has operated since World War II. Through the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and other agencies and departments, the government has for decades gone beyond financing research and creating the conditions for innovation to occur; it has also envisioned the future, engaged in the riskiest experimentation and overseen the commercialization process."

This conceit that the Government is the superior form of enterprise is progressive fantasy. A state government perhaps, if the states are allowed to fail and disappear.

"willing to take risks and to persevere through uncertainty." is certainly true of any us federal program, but there is no risk if absolute failure is acceptable. Programs that risk and fail must have some downside if the failures are to be purged from the system. In government, failures clog the system and starve programs that might be effective. If program managers who failed, were to be removed from government never to return, government could be a effective innovator. In fact, if you view government as a parasite, whose goal is to grow itself, it seems to be a success, until the host dies.

In nature, the host dies and the smarter parasites survive by letting the host survive. Government isn't even a competent parasite.

Liberalism"s Mental Disease

Liberalism"s Mental Disease
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-the-lefts-half-century-of-denial-over-poverty/2014/03/21/1aeaff4e-b049-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html

"Next March, serious people will be wondering why the problem Moynihan articulated half a century earlier has become so much worse while so much else — including the astonishingly rapid receding of racism and discrimination — has become so much better. One reason is what Moynihan called "the leakage of reality from American life." Judging by the blend of malice, ignorance and intellectual sloth in the left's reaction to Ryan's unexceptionable remarks, the leak has become, among some factions, a cataract."

It time to think or quit claiming to be a thinker.



Dave Farnsworth

The "lazy" intellectuals

The "lazy" intellectuals

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/13/paul-ryan-inner-city-comment-working-poor

Ana Marie Cox, the lazy intellectual. She writes for other lazy intellectuals who evidently do not have the decoder ring.

"It's this last bit that's gotten Ryan in the most trouble, stirring up accusations of intentional (if subtle) racism. The logic is transitive and not direct: by "inner cities" Ryan meant black; by describing black men as not "learning" the "value and culture of work" – and since Charles Murray has called poor people "lazy" – Ryan was saying black men were lazy. So: "inner cities" = black people; "inner cities" = not valuing work; not valuing work = "lazy"; therefore what Paul Ryan really meant is "black people = lazy"."


It's not "Ryan was saying" it is what Ana Marie Cox is saying, and shame on her. What she is not saying but is thinking is that she owns these black people, and needs to keep them captives.

People in the culturally deprived inner cities, are lacking incentives because the culture, black, white, Hispanic sees work as for suckers. A criminal quick buck is desired. If you don't agree with this, life is made harder. It is not insignificant that the democrats control the inner cities, and keep the residents down. The residents are a voting block "owned" by the democrats who block paths to improvement like charter schools.

When a minority person breaks through these barriers, he is derided as a race treaters.

Similarly, writers, are not allowed to develop their one thoughts when entrapped in the progressive propaganda machine.

Let's us pray for the victims of inner city cultural suppression, and also the minds captive to progressive new-speak.


Dave Farnsworth

Where liberals get it wrong

Where liberals get it wrong

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372344/bait-and-switch-liberalism-william-voegeli/page/0/1

"Classical liberalism (think John Locke, not John Rawls) offered a different way to reconcile individual interest and political duty. Self-interest, rightly understood and pursued, was the public interest. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest," Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations. We can reduce and ultimately eliminate the discord within and between nations by inducing people to focus on commerce and industry, which can make everyone who plays that positive-sum game better off. "He that encloses land, and has a greater plenty of the conveniences of life from ten acres than he could have from a hundred left to nature," according to Locke's Second Treatise, "may truly be said to give ninety acres to mankind." "

This is a great explanation, better than the hidden hand.  Individuals seeking there own interest, create wealth.

What to do; What to do?

What to do; What to do?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/01/nato_needs_to_move_now_on_crimea

The measure mentioned her an economic measures should be initiate with no further warning. The goal is to convince Russia that the cold war is on again

The goal should be the obliteration of an old enemy.

Leave it to China to pick up the pieces

The Political "Surge"

The Political "Surge"

"Like the peace movement, the Tea Party movement brought hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people into political activity, people with strong convictions, not on peripheral, but on fundamental issues of public policy.

They supplied energy and enthusiasm plainly lacking in the Democratic Party in 1969 and the Republican Party in 2009.

Such surges into politics will bring in many wackos, weirdos and wannabes. But they also include many solid citizens and some with finely honed political instincts."

I hope this is describing me, that is the solid citizen, not one of the 'W's".

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Dave Farnsworth

An illustration of lynch law.

An illustration of lynch law.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/opinion/collins-arizona-sort-of-helps-out.html?_r=0

"It's been quite a week in Arizona. First, the Legislature passed a bill that, in effect, gave businesses the right to discriminate against gay couples. The state's actual business community was horrified. Everybody from Mitt Romney to Newt Gingrich was ticked off."

Actually, in effect did nothing. That was the problem. The businesses in question had the right to not do business, anyway. This exposed the conservatives to the attack of the uninformed, of which there are apparently legion.

I am ashamed to have been caught reading the NYT, as its pages are devoted to the views of the uninformed. An informed person, would have taken issue with the second sentence:" First, the Legislature passed a bill that, in effect, gave businesses the right to discriminate against gay couples." I don't believe sexual orientation were in the text of the law. If the "In effect" clause is mentioned, the reasoning of why this is so needs to be mentioned.

I pledge to do better. To not accept fact free discussion from the NYT.



Dave Farnsworth