A majority of American want one.
It’s nice to see a majority of Americans finally catching up with me — I’ve been unhappy with both parties all my adult life, and been unhappy with the direction of the country for as long. The problem is that there’s no agreement on what that third party would look like, or what its principles would be. I want it limited government/libertarian, but I’ll bet a lot of the Democrats are looking for something more socialist and bigger government.
“Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me for five years, and I’m an Obama voter.”
No, “health care” is not health insurance.
[Update a few minuts later]
Obama’s web site is crashing because they didn’t want you to know how unaffordable the “Affordable” Care Act is.
It’s almost like the whole thing has been based on lies, for years.
Clark Lindsey has a roundup.
It’s funny to read this old post from almost a decade ago (in which I first proposed the Astronaut Glove Challenge), and see how little has changed.
Why they’re about to plunge.
Good news for the country, and education, but bad news for all those about to fall off the gravy train.
Thoughts from Richard Epstein.
Even its supporters are having trouble excusing it. Read this from Ezra Klein.
Hey, it’s not like this wasn’t perfectly predictable, and predicted.
[Update a while later]
Was the site crash caused by rate shock?
[Update a few minutes later]
Wow, even the New York Times is becoming racist:
“These are not glitches,” said an insurance executive who has participated in many conference calls on the federal exchange. Like many people interviewed for this article, the executive spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying he did not wish to alienate the federal officials with whom he works. “The extent of the problems is pretty enormous. At the end of our calls, people say, ‘It’s awful, just awful.’ ”
Interviews with two dozen contractors, current and former government officials, insurance executives and consumer advocates, as well as an examination of confidential administration documents, point to a series of missteps — financial, technical and managerial — that led to the troubles.
It’s almost like these people think politics is more important than actually competently running the government.
More people should laugh at the partisan clowns at CNN:
PAUL: (Laughs) No. I’ve always been a Republican, and I’m one of those people who actually is a real lover of the history of the Republican Party from the days of abolition to the days of civil rights. The Republican Party has a really rich history. In our state, I’m really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democratic Party, so I am proud to be Republican. I can’t imagine being anything else.
What an idiot she is. Why would he want to become a member of the true racist party?
I’m not a big fan of the holiday, but I’m also not a big fan of the politically correct brigades who condemn it. Some thoughts from Instapundit.
…says that blacks are worse off after five years of Obama.
Why is Tavis Smiley such a racist?
Yes, by all means, you should earn less money:
This, right here, is the toxic essence of the welfare state. It’s already been proven over and over that for the lower classes, welfare incentivizes permanent dependence: Since one gets more money receiving a raft of federal entitlements than one would get earning a salary at a low-level job, it’s a rational economic decision to remain unemployed, on purpose. Which millions of Americans do, generation after generation, creating a permanent underclass that only consumes the common treasury without ever contributing anything to it.
What Obamacare does, as demonstrated by this eye-opening article, is bring the same economic disincentive to the middle class: It is now a rational economic decision for the average American to earn less money. And to earn less you must work less, and when you work less, you contribute less to the common good.
With people intentionally contributing less to the common good, there will be less federal money available to finance the subsidies (which are fiscally unaffordable even without this problem), leading to an unavoidable downward economic spiral for the entire nation.
That’s OK. Remember, the president told us that, at some point, you’ve earned enough money. He’s just lowering that point.
The veterans tear down the Barrycades.