In the story, the fool in the White House says this..

In remarks at the White House, Obama rejected arguments by Republican opponents of the bill that it will increase the federal deficit.

“That argument that opponents are making against this bill does not hold water,” Obama said.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the Senate bill will reduce the deficit by $132 billion in the first 10 years, Obama said.

Of course, we can always hope that someone with a sense of fair play will take out the Nelson bribe. If they do…

Nelson told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that he would withdraw his support if the final bill gets changed too much from the Senate version under consideration.

Among other things, Nelson had a provision added to the bill requiring the federal government to cover Nebraska’s costs for expanded Medicaid coverage after 2016. No other state is currently slated to receive such a benefit.

Good luck next time.

The whole world is moving towards ‘socialism,’ which mean simply that those in power will be the privileged ones. The rest work for them. Very similar to what the Federal Governments now believes they are entitled to.

Be happy with your newly found country. I suggest you go into a career in the health care field.

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Thanks for the complement. I think the religious exemption is your best bet – good luck with that one. But, it only works for adults – people will still have to pay into a plan for children, at least that is how I think the courts lean. Maybe you could say you worship at the Church of the Declaration (of Independence)….

I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes America tick. A lot of the people who have come here – even going back 10,000 years – were willing to take risks, to trade the known for a chance at a better unknown.

I took a quick look at the Declaration of Independence again and it states that our unalienable rights include the “pursuit of Happiness.” It doesn’t say “you’d better be happy or else” or “it is the state’s responsibility to make you happy.” So…I think it is reasonable for the state to facilitate, encourage and at a basic level provide people the opportunity to seek their own happiness (and for the purposes of this post to be healthy) but one of the key reasons for declaring independence was coercion and servitude. Are we now coming full circle?

Democracy (and to a certain extent capitalism – when the system isn’t so rigged) is risky, it is hard, but it gives you a chance at more. That chance doesn’t exist for a lot of people in this world – that is why they are willing to leave their known for the US’s unknown and a chance at more. As time and events show, our model has flaws and needs to be revised but I’m not ready to discard it, as I fear some in power wish to do now.

Unfortunately, with the political parties as they currently stand, I don’t know how to work positively to change the change! And, I don’t know what is worse, people claiming change who aren’t really changing anything except who gets to line their pockets (more of the same, only trading inside-the-beltway for Chicago style – what is this, inside-the-loop?). This will continue to harm the country. Or we will have an extreme change away from US-style democracy that will cause at least a generation of negative fallout for possibly everyone in the country. Both stink and I’m afraid they are our only “choices” right now.

Because the average life expectancy in 1950 was 68.2 years. People were pretty much “worn out and used up” even earlier. The current life expectancy is 10 years longer.

If money gets too tight, maybe we should consider cutting back on habitual warfare. By some calculations military-related spending sucks up over 58% of the GDP.