John - My personal take on a drone is "I was shooting trap in my back yard when this gizmo flew right where I was shooting officer". Of course, not everybody has a trap range in thier back yard. :)

do you have any idea how many people like the cancer
patients could be helped by just giving them the cash
and letting the bureaucrats go wanting??? -- j

as for me, star, I always take a dose of self-aware
salts when I decide to enter something via keyboard
here ... what would I say if I was snooping on me?

make it fluffy and distracting;;; the joke is on them
if I maintain my discipline better than they do!!! -- j

Aspera -- Aspiration, hardship.
Scientam -- Science, learning.
Pretty much the same. Both require effort and cannot be obtained through handouts.

My university's motto is Ad Astra Per Scientiam, or To the Stars Through Learning.

Well...you should be gratified to know that you and your compatriots are not the only one's frustrated. The motto "ad astra per aspera" has turned into ad astra per aspirin.

As someone who teaches the rocket scientists, tell me about it.

It has to be more like 1887, so as to be earlier than the Interstate Commerce Act, as that was one of the primary things that allowed them to get their meat-hooks into everything. However, pre- Federal Reserve would be better than nothing.

Already has in an industrial basis.
Also, we should have an established moon base by now and well on our way to Mars.

There are very few in our circles. Working class, producers. Lots of moochers out there.

Absolutely the "cost" is unchanged. They were informed last year that the cost was going to be increased this year to an amount that was more than their income. Just what are people to do who are absolutely reliant on medical services to stay alive? I don't have a answer.

I know how the conspiracy between the liberals, labor and medicine got us here, but just how can we unwind the clock without leaving a lot of dieing people in the gutter? Without medical intervention this past week, I'd be dead by now, or very close. And I do have some medical coverage. People who don't and find themselves in need of emergency care can be financially wiped out in a afternoon. Many are with coverage. Had I not been healthy enough to make the 150 mile drive to "my" VA hospital last Sunday, I'd be $65,000 in debt today. I know because it's happened to me.

As a result of what has happened in the last ten years, the rate of innovation will undoubtedly slow to a crawl, too.

Four legs are better than two legs.

They also should point out the vote buying that was done to pass the unaffordable no-care act.

Stargeezer, you know one more person who has been helped by Obamascare than I do.

We are not living in a real world. Welcome to liberal Fantasyland.

At a minimum, we need to eliminate the part of the Constitution that permits the feds to borrow money.

I would actually be content to keep the entire constitution as it stands, including the modern amendments. It would not be too big a project to individually nullify the amendments that limited individual liberty and add amendments that required government accountability, visibility (I won't say 'transparency' because every gov has covert ops.), and financial responsibility.

I would go for repealing all federal and state laws, regulations, organizations, and stipends that have come into existence after a certain point - probably around WWII. This is too big a job to handle by examining the individual laws. In medieval Iceland, if a Lawspeaker forgot to recite a law for 3 Things running, and no one called him on it, it was officially 'not a law' any more. I think that if we scrap a Whole Lot of laws, we will find that most people do not miss them and will not go to the effort to re-pass them.

Keeping the whole constitution is a cheap shot - the major problems we have are not in the constitution but in the fact (my opinion) that many of the laws that have been passed have never been vetted for adherence to the Constitution, esp the Bill of Rights. This needs to be a prereq before 'something proposed' becomes 'law'. We need more than a 'pen and phone' approach to governance.

Jan

Many will be hurt by this. I am glad your friends were helped but we could have done a lot of things to bring down the cost of health care and insurance. O care did none of them. They just shifted the cost burden. In a real world I would expect changes or the law to be scrapped completely. This administration wants control over health care no matter what the cost.

Rich - I know ONE person who has been helped by the act and untold numbers who are all being hurt. Either I know a particularly large number of "producers" and a very low number of "moochers" (I hope) or the act is worthless for most people.

In the one case who was helped he and his wife were on a state subsidized ins program because they had both had cancer and were uninsurable. The state program cost them $1600 a month of their salary of $2400 a month. (Because of a business relationship I do know the real numbers) Their cost of O-care was $480 a month. These folks are employed and are trying to start a small resale business, but they were being bled dry by ins they could not live without.

As much as I'm thrilled they are being taken care of, even if it's a short time, O-care is a house of cards that WILL come falling down.

The only question is how many people like our friends will be destroyed in the collapse.