Thank God Obama is back for another 4 years. God bless America for making the right choice.
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Thank God Obama is back for another 4 years. God bless America for making the right choice.
[QUOTE=Member #2041; 428882]I have continued to do consulting part time since I retired in late 2005. I still make $50-80K per year working an average of 10-15 hours a week since I retired. Nonetheless, what I am most pleased about is that, when Obamacare fully kicks in in the beginning of 2014, my healthcare costs will be cut in half (I'm a Type II Diabetic, and I expect my insurance to go from nearly $800 / month to somewhere between $400-500 a month with far better coverage and smaller deductibles.
BTW, CBS just released the results of their exit polling on the economy, that voters nationally only gave Romney a 1% edge on ability to manage the economy 49-48, with Romney losing on just about EVERY other issue that voters considered to be important.[/QUOTE]Good luck with your fantasy about Obamacare and reduced costs. I (honestly) hope that you will never fall victim to rationing, since for folks with your condition it often translates into something much more significant than inconvenient timing. Don't forget, with Obamacare, you have absolutely no (repeat "no") coverage the moment you set foot on foreign soil. Unless you want to be a burden on others, you'll need to pick up supplemental insurance as well as evacuation insurance, which will definitely eat into your perceived savings.
However, let's look at this from a wider perspective, you are willing to contribute to the destruction of the Founders' vision for $300-400 / month. That says a lot about you.
[QUOTE=Wild Walleye; 428885]Good luck with your fantasy about Obamacare and reduced costs. I (honestly) hope that you will never fall victim to rationing, since for folks with your condition it often translates into something much more significant than inconvenient timing. Don't forget, with Obamacare, you have absolutely no (repeat "no") coverage the moment you set foot on foreign soil. Unless you want to be a burden on others, you'll need to pick up supplemental insurance as well as evacuation insurance, which will definitely eat into your perceived savings.
However, let's look at this from a wider perspective, you are willing to contribute to the destruction of the Founders' vision for $300-400 / month. That says a lot about you.[/QUOTE]Actually, I have coverage on foreign soil because I have dollars, and I can afford the out-of pocket cash costs in most countries OTHER than the USA. And the fact is, PRIOR to Obamacare, in 2007 I got dropped from a plan where I was paying $240 per month, when my COBRA expired, and forced to go to a HIPAA plan where my costs jumped immediately to $550 per month (now increased to $735) for vastly inferior coverage. Under Obamacare, I am guaranteed the right to be able to buy similar coverage to that which I was dropped in 2007. It will cost more than it did in 2007, but prior to Obamacare, insurance costs were already increasing at close to 15% annually.
And frankly, the Founders said that in their vision, I had an inalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Surely, in the 21st century, that also encompasses the right to have access to purchase healthcare insurance at the same market prices as you, irrespective of my employment situation - as I WAS insured when I was diagnosed, and only was dropped because the employer I had worked for when I got that insurance went out of business.
Regarding productive Americans, weren't all you Republicans and Republicans masquerading themselves as Libertarians screaming about how capital should be untaxed or taxed at preferential rates or whatever? Just because I am not dumb enough to work after I don't need to, doesn't make me unproductive. It means I won. Now, instead of contributing my human capital to the capitalist leeches, I will contribute my surplus capital to the investment pool in exchange for a modest and humble rate of return. The system has worked for me throughout Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
Earn more than you spend and good things will happen. This is true regardless of what you believe 'good things' to be. And, this applies to governments as well. An Obama reined in by a Republican congress is not that bad of a deal. Similarly a Romney reined in by a Democratic senate would not have been the end of the world.
Sometimes the best political strategy is as enunciated by Ferdinand of Castille to the first méxican viceroy: Do little and do it slowly.
So if Obama wanted to reach out to the other side he should eliminate say three government agencies immediately. I would love to see him do that.
It looks like most of You Red Necks only got what Romney wanted, Home Education.
How did that work out?
You and the Midwest and Southern people voted, just want they wanted the Southern 47%ers to vote, they are really the Non-Educated people in Our Country.
They are like the Marines. God bless Them. The Republicans want victims that have little brains and told what to Do, they need only pass to pass the 35% mentality test.
They do not want You that can think.
Because they can not control your mind.
Go Back to School!
Senility is a terrible thing.
Which you Red Necks and Midwestern Noneducational People Need.
Home Education did not work, as Romney said it Would.
He Lied to You.
P.S.
Why is it that some people lose their minds when they are young, or are they misguided?
Hitler was good at that.
The Donald has spoken.
"We should have a revolution in this country!"
[url]http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83450.html?hp=r16[/url]
[QUOTE=Member #2041;428876]No doubt that's really high on Obama's 2nd term to-do list.[/QUOTE]But maybe, it was an unpardonable act that he committed.
[QUOTE=WorldTravel69; 428893]Which you Red Necks and Midwestern Noneducational People Need.
Home Education did not work, as Romney said it Would.
He Lied to You.
P. S.
Why is it that some people lose their minds when they are young, or are they misguided?
Hitler was good at that.[/QUOTE]Not everyone has the aptitude to be educated. Some folks are congenitally stupid. For example, some posters here who were consistently in extreme denial as the late polling was clearly breaking toward Obama. I was even told by one of them that major polling organizations do not correct for their known sampling biases. It was all that I could do to control my laughter, as I have designed these sort of polling methodologies in a prior job and it happens to be my area of academic expertise. I won't name names, but anyone who reads the forum back 2 days will be able to figure it out.
[QUOTE=WorldTravel69; 428893]Which you Red Necks and Midwestern Noneducational People Need.
Home Education did not work, as Romney said it Would.
He Lied to You.
P. S.
Why is it that some people lose their minds when they are young, or are they misguided?
Hitler was good at that.[/QUOTE]You are either drunk or dumber than a bag full of hammers.
[url]http://news.msn.com/politics/election-day-2012-ballot-initiatives[/url]
Smoke it if you got it!
The USA stock futures markets are now only very slightly in the negative (like -0.2%) and all the international stock exchanges are significantly in the positive, for those who were wondering what the rest of the world thought of this election.
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/us/politics/obama-romney-presidential-election-2012.html?_r=0[/url]
Only in the make-believe world of fox news and the radical right wing is Obama a radical anything. George Bush, the younger, committed more class warfare and income redistribution than than Barack ever even imagined.
A decent & intellligent man, the victim Milt Romney was strangled by the Tea Party. No other wounds or marks found on body & limbs.