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Nice opening line, Ms. Huffington. Very nice indeed. What a wicked sense of humor you have. This was certainly one of you better "Sunday Roundups". That one line made the article.
You might enjoy this song I wrote in support of the President. Think of it as a pleasant way to counter all the anti-Obama propaganda you're going to encounter between now and the elections.
It's called "Obama". It's on YouTube.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSZNNWisAk
President Obama's not perfect, but he's so much better than Romney.
Oh by all means, please continue, David Steven.
At some point you'd have to concede
that the President's not perfect (Who is? Are you?) but
nonetheless he's is so much better than Mitt Romney
and I HAVEN'T run out of my word allotment here... (smile):)
2-O-12
I doubt that time matters---we may never recover. ":^p
I noticed this same failure of our government during the health care debate. A friend jumped the line in England went directly to a doctor and paid in cash for a surgery. The cost? $5,000. My mother had the exact same surgery here and the same device. Her out of pocket? $5,000! But the bill was a total of $30,000! The true value of the surgery is likely somewhere around $5,000. The rest? I have a pretty good idea.
So the same goes for education, the true value and the costs are so out of whack because of government involvement. The housing bubble and current malaise was ignited by Fannie and Freddie’s government mandate to expand home ownership. We are just now seeing the true value of that real estate. Another anecdotal conclusion that is irrefutable in practice. The government is helping create these bubbles and bust cycles.
So this begs the next question. The true value of our current government. The GAO says there is $400 billion of duplication. I say thats low.
The only logical conclusion is that government is growing for its own sake. Even if the programs have little to no real value. When the GAO , the only government agency that cannot be manipulated says you have a spending problem, you better believe them. The CBO can be gamed with false assumptions.
The Obama 2013 fiscal cliff makes everything unaffordable.
Health care is a different issue. You seem to prefer the English system, you know, single payer, socialism.
The Republicans are with you on your position of education (subsidized eduction -kill it) and against your position on health care.
On Health Care: Many businesses supported single payer in fact. But what Obama passed along with huge amounts of political payoffs and graft demonstrates someone that was bent on passing anything as a legacy, as opposed to common sense. In advance there was no medicine negotiation, biologics excluded and in the end an enormous give away to the Insurance industry. Today they are writing *junk* polices for another 50 million forced consumers!
Consistent with my argument on value. IF Obama fixed it and then passed HCR, we would be in a better place. But what he did was add 50 million people more onto the most expensive system in the world that results in mediocre outcomes.
And what is the worst thing? These people are already in a system that accounts for everyone financially right now. When this program became so bastardized, we should have stopped at preexisting conditions and allowing children to stay on their parents policies and have been done with it.
We cannot afford the waste any more. Already the startup costs have doubled from $100B to $200B from what Obama promised. We are destined to have a more costly system with worse outcomes.
That is the government in action and the evidence is irrefutable and defenseless of course.
no one has connected the low unemployment to the republicans firing of governmant workers it has been a successful approach to increase the unemployment and to sabatoge the democratic process Without the middleclass who buys the goods need money to purchass There is DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE MUNICIPLE LOSS OF JOBS AND THE ECONOMY
If the gov borrows money from other countries with interest and "deals" to give to the middle class to spend on products made in other countries, then how in the world does that benefit this nation?
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RE: Obama's "much slower moves to address the student debt crisis affecting millions of college students and grads, including many who went door-to-door and to the polls for him in '08 and helped get him elected." Well said - Obama will be re-elected because the Republicans are so offensive (JMHO!) and the best they have to offer - Romney - is not acceptable/electable.
But I QUESTION whether Obama - (who is erudite, charming, intelligent, possibly as charismatic as Clinton, looks fantastic in a Tux!) - has a REAL, GENUINE commitment to resolving the very grave economic problems that continue to PLAGUE working-class Americans like me.
At the end of the day, my circumstances have diminished! Life & earning a living are MUCH more difficult for me now than 4 years ago. I am aware Obama did NOT cause these problems; he inherited a very bad situation from G W.
But he took the job of President to bring about significant, POSITIVE change. IMHO, he has failed to do so, and failed to fix the problems. I'd never vote for Romney or any other Republican candidate, but Obama so far seems to have been marginally effective.
We need FDR, who was the Real Thing.
Arianna, thank you for your insight and straight talk.
I'm a working-class Democrat, Romney doesn't even grasp my problems - and IMHO, wouldn't care.
I respect your efforts to evaluate & make YOUR OWN best possible choice.
I hope whoever is elected President in 2012 FIXES the the Economy! JOBS JOBS JOBS for American Citizens are the answer!
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