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It's the insurance companies who have been caught offering rip-off plans who withdrew them when they got caught being below the standard.
Whatever arbitrary standard Obama wished to apply based upon his own agenda is irrelevant.
To hear Obama speak is to hear someone not able to make up his mind, whether to be Mister Thompson or to be Wesley Mouch. ("I can't help it! I can't do anything about it! I need wider powers!") At least Mister Thompson knew what he was about--most of the time. He hired Floyd Ferris to build him Project X, for example.
But I kept waiting for the picture to white-out, and "a man's cold, implacable voice, the kind that [has] not bee heard on the airwaves for years," say:
"Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Obama will not speak to you anymore. His time is up. I have taken it over. You wanted an explanation of the failure of the latest government program to work as advertised. I am the man who will now give you one."
So much for "liberal media."
I find it so sad that so many have to look down upon others instead of helping. Seems kind of un-American to me.
Yep... always someone else's fault...
Sorry.
Forgive me for massive generalization, but I think it's not inaccurate: Generally, folks in rural areas don't have tons of services and infrastructure to "supply their everyday needs," while urban/city-dwellers MUST rely on tons of "government services" and support infrastructure in order to merely survive... from massive power stations to garbage pickup.
So, where there are tons of people who rely on "government" for their comfort, they're going to vote for someone who promises to continue those deliveries, while other "kinds of people," more accustomed to fending for themselves and helping their neighbors because their neighbors help them WON'T vote for those kinds of "free teats."
Comment?
It cuts both ways.
I agree that rural areas are more Republican these days. (Many Democrats also have support in rural areas, of course, as noted above). But it is a matter of tradition, inertia, habit. From that, people make up reasons for the beliefs they begin with.
Just by comparison, in Detroit, pro-union Democrats are often NRA members. "You dance with the one who brought you to the party."
The self-sufficiency of the farmer is just the icon of a myth. The story is that they support themselves on their own land and sell their surplus in the village to buy finished goods and tools. That might have been true in frontier times, but even so, without those finished goods and tools, instead of a plows and harrows powered with tractors, they would be walking their plots, using sharp sticks to plant seeds.
The "massive power stations" are a perfect case in point. In 2003-2005 we lived so far out in the woods that our neighbors were turkeys and deer and our home got electricity from a local co-operative. Show me a farm that runs from its own windmills today.
In fact, speaking of icons... You know the movie, The Wizard of Oz. Think about how POOR that farm was: no paint on anything. The incubator broke down ... but the myth is that Uncle Henry (or his three helpers) could fix anything that broke. Obviously, they could not.
Farming is just another industry. In fact, division of labor - which originated in the cities - was taken to the farms: in the Middle Ages, plowboys and milk maids worked for hire from farm to farm. And of course, the smithy was historically an independent craftsman upon whom rural people depended. Moreover, even shoeing a horse took two crafts: the smith and the farrier.
I disagree. You have proof for this assertion? Considering that this 'rural State' has two conservative Senators, Republican representatives, Republican governor, and now Republican controlled legislature, I don't think it's a matter of inertia, tradition or habit. I think that people in this State, by and large, listen to what someone on the left says, conclude they're a loony, then listen to what the Republican or conservative says, and recognizes common sense, and votes appropriately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYMla7qlB...
I love how people talk in generalities that span centuries. "Back in Roman times"... as if the Rome of the founding was the same as the Rome of the Empire or of the dissolution.
"In the middle ages"; as static as they were, systems *did* change. In the early middle ages, plowboys and milk maids didn't work for hire from farm to farm. Farmers pooled their resources, forming villages, because oxen, horses, horse collars, plows, and so on were expensive.
Falk's Second Law:
"Never trust generalizations."
(Beware of people who don't get that one......)
Mental illness, perpetuated and passed on by tenured professors.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12...
I really don't know of anything the man's said that rings true. His goals don't seem to have any relation to anything he's done or represented in public positions. He's a tool and a talking head, but he's very, very dangerous to the citizenry of this nation. He pays no attention to the Constitution and seems to have no trepidation of his legacy after (I hope soon) leaving office.
But to me, the truly scary thing is that he won, twice. Equally scary, IMHO, was the two men the Republican's chose to run against him. It's almost as if they helped him win by choosing who they did.
Obama is a puppet to the likes of Valerie Jarrett and George Soros, and not nearly as smart as he is given credit for being. he is not the master mind, just the trained pet who does the bidding as he is told. His main skill was and still is community organizing aka: community dissention. Even a dog can learn to do tricks for a master. Saul Alinsky's methods were his training manual.
The fact that he ever had the trust of the nation is more a measure of the apathy and stupidity of the citizens than the brilliance of anything his handlers did.The facts were there if citizens cared to find them on their own.
communist, socialist, fascist, nazi, progressive... different words to describe the same mindset and philosophy.
At the most, dropping dead of a heart attack while on a 2am jog.
Ain't nothing true except Obama was born in Hawaii.