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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

March 22, 2013 04:52 PM Forum: Politics

The "affordable" Health Care Act Kicks In,,,

Posted By Dave Snope
Don't worry, they'll do their best to keep the standard of care higher than Burundi or Malawi.

“Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience.” ObamaCare official Henry Chao.

“The time for debating about the size of text on the screen or the color or is it a world-class user experience, that’s what we used to talk about two years ago,” Henry Chao, an official at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services who is overseeing the technology of the exchanges said at a recent conference. “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience.”

Chao also described himself as “nervous.” His comments, which came at a policy meeting of insurance industry lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans, were first reported by CQ Health Beat and picked up by Avik Roy at Forbes.
 http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-official-lets-just-make-sure-its-not-a-third-world-experience/article/2525132?custom_click=rss

March 23, 2013 01:35 AM Forum: Politics

The "affordable" Health Care Act Kicks In,,,

Posted By Dave Snope
Study: Obamacare threatens 3.2 million small business jobs.

That's just in one industry:

Over one-third of the 9.1 million full-time jobs among America's diverse business franchises could be cut back or eliminated by Obamacare as small businesses struggle to maintain profitability while coughing up money to pay for Washington-mandated health care coverage, according to the International Franchise Association.

The threat of hitting 3.2 million full-time workers as the Affordable Care Act takes effect next year is prompting the owners of fast food restaurants, service companies and other franchises to urge Congress to make significant changes in Obamacare.

The new statistics show that California franchises would be hit the hardest. The association said the state is home to 925,000 franchise full-time jobs, and that 324,604 are in jeopardy.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/study-obamacare-threatens-3.2-million-small-business-jobs/article/2525125?custom_click=rss

April 1, 2013 09:48 PM Forum: Politics

The "affordable" Health Care Act Kicks In,,,

Posted By Dave Snope
Obama's predictions about the cost of his healthcare were less accurate than this:


April 2, 2013 05:45 AM Forum: Politics

The "affordable" Health Care Act Kicks In,,,

Posted By Dave Snope
It was not a tax, then it was a tax, so now there is this:

(Washington Times) “Obamacare” looks increasingly inevitable, but one lawsuit making its way through the court system could pull the plug on the sweeping federal health care law.

A challenge filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation contends that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because the bill originated in the Senate, not the House. Under the Origination Clause of the Constitution, all bills raising revenue must begin in the House.

The Supreme Court upheld most provisions of the act in June, but Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. took pains in the majority opinion to define Obamacare as a federal tax, not a mandate. That was when the Sacramento, Calif.-based foundation’s attorneys had their “aha” moment.

“The court there quite explicitly says, ‘This is not a law passed under the Commerce Clause; this is just a tax,’” foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur said at a Cato Institute forum on legal challenges to the health care act. “Well, then the Origination Clause ought to apply. The courts should not be out there carving in new exceptions to the Origination Clause.”

April 3, 2013 06:04 PM Forum: Politics

Don't Want This From Keystone

Posted By Dave Snope
No we don't.

But why would a person worry that the newest and most high-tech non-corrosive pipeline would be the one to leak? Isn't that feeling irrational, when there are approximately 55,000 miles of existing crude oil trunk lines in the U.S., as well as almost 100,000 miles of refined product pipelines and 40,000 miles of crude oil gathering pipelines, some of which are old corroded iron pipes? Why not embrace the 2000 miles of fresh new high standard pipeline and do your worrying about a hundred thousand miles of old pipelines?

Maybe Obama should offer a special tax credit to turn in your old leaky iron pipes and replace them with safe modern pipes. I could get behind an idea like that (since it's mine), especially if they divert some of the money from the green energy crony boondoggles, and the money to study why lesbians are fat, cupcake store subsidies, morrocan pottery classes, video game controller design grant...

April 4, 2013 07:50 AM Forum: Politics

Time to be concerned

Posted By Dave Snope
That sounds reactionary and perhaps unconstitutional.

But why would you compare them to the father organisation of modern militant terrorism that currently wants to drive the Jews out of Israel by force? Or are you just trying to get a rise out of people? North Carolina Christians are some of the kindest and gentlest people that I have ever met in my life. With all the problems in this country, the last thing we have to worry about those people forcing anybody to do anything except to have another piece of pie after they've stuffed you with dinner.

April 15, 2013 04:03 AM Forum: Politics

Profits up - wages down. Duh!

Posted By Dave Snope
What a load of bovine excrement. Blodget is a far leftist, and so is his article, and so is his magazine. Who tries to make a political point out of Wages As A Percent of GDP? All that guy ever wants to do is tax the rich, make them pay "their fair share", and that "you didn't build that". Who else argues that an increase in corporate efficiency is a bad thing? It should be a good thing, or if you don't want to qualify it, it should be the thing that all corporations strive to do as their number one directive. Only a liberal doesn't understand that wages go up when the economy improves and there is competition for jobs. Only a liberal doesn't understand why the economy is being depressed by the policies of the current administration.

April 18, 2013 05:40 PM Forum: Politics

Baby lost his pacifier

Posted By Dave Snope
Another litany of lies about lies with a good dose of extreme strawmen tossed in. The Liar In Chief talks like a ten-year old caught being wrong.

April 20, 2013 12:58 AM Forum: Politics

Andrew Cuomo - Dipstick

Posted By Dave Snope
He's a dipstick for relating it to climate change -- when there has been no increase in extreme weather except for it having gotten milder in the case of hurricanes, and weather patterns are nothing that haven't happened before and are always later explained by scientists without "climate change".

April 21, 2013 12:33 AM Forum: Politics

What, They Couldn't Have Tracked Him?

Posted By Dave Snope
They could have deported him after his domestic abuse case. Maybe in the future they'll have learned a lesson and will be more aggressive about deporting someone who has any combination of "minor" felonies such as abuse, DUI, along with suspicion of contacts with extremist groups.


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