Congratulations, House Republicans!

Obama never knew how to communicate with the American people. One of his biggest mistake was not to work on 'jobs and wage increases.' He really didn't say anything about this subject; one of the major concerns of the American people. The middle class is being squeezed with small wage increases that barely keeps up with inflation. They also see the divide between the rich and themselves growing bigger and bigger, and they all feel hopeless/helpless. If the middle class is unhappy, they're going to take it out on the president - and they did.

I've always felt that Obama's advisors were all incompetent.

If you think the Hispanics were unhappy with Obama when he postponed immigration reform, he completely missed out on the middle class.

College tuition has gotten so bad, even middle class families are struggling to send their kids to college.

Obama should have sensed things were wrong when candidates in his own party distanced themselves from the leader of the party. Where in hell were his advisors?

Doing is his problem not messaging

1)we sent him to washington to fix it, like he promised he could do. 6 years in he has barely tried, has completely failed and washington in worse than ever

2) the biggest problem according to most of us is an economy that does not provide enough jobs income, does not represent our values, and skims too much wealth off to the fat cats. Obama did not give a ****, he wanted to get more people health care and drive up even further the already outrageous cost of our health care system, and so that is what he did.

3) designing at great expense an emergency economic stimulus program, but instead of trying to get max value for our dollar he spent a lot of it on his pet projects under the Rahm theory that one should never let a crisis go to waste, always try to use a crisis to get people to give you more of what you want. (Hey asshole, that is our money!)

4) taking too many lessons from Putin and ruling by decree

5) getting sent to Washington to great degree on the voting power of the young, then repeatedly ******* them over.

extra credit: constantly being an arrogant prick who claims to know better than the rest of us how one should live, then taking his marbles and going home when not everybody agrees to play the games under the rules he wants.

Ted Cruz Says Net Neutrality Is 'Obamacare For The Internet'
Source: Business Insider

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came out swinging after President Barack Obama wholeheartedly endorsed new internet regulations Monday morning.

Cruz, who is mulling a run for president in 2016, compared the entire concept of "net neutrality" — which posits that internet companies should not be allowed to speed or slow down their services for certain users — to Obama's much-maligned healthcare reform.

'"Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government," Cruz wrote on Twitter.

Cruz's spokeswoman, Amanda Carpenter, added that net neutrality would place the government "in charge of determining pricing, terms of service, and what products can be delivered. Sound like Obamacare much?"



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-net-neutrality-is-obamacare-for-the-internet-2014-11

Cruz is right.

Cruz is a very, very bright guy
and he holds REAL American principles.
Quod Vide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz





David

So in the spirit of consistency you are fine with the toll road putting a 45mph speed limit on your car because the manufacture refused to kick in the demanded money, right?

How does that follow ?

Republican Joni Ernst Admits Why Republicans Really Hate Obamacare
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/republican-admits-why-republicans-hate-obamacare.html

By Jonathan Chait

Conservatives have made a series of specific predictions about the effects of Obamacare — overall costs would rise, insurers would flee the exchanges, premiums would go up, the ranks of the uninsured would not even fall. All these predictions have failed. And yet conservative opposition to the law has not diminished. If you want to know why this is, listen to these secretly recorded comments from Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst, via Radio Iowa and Greg Sargent. Here Ernst, speaking candidly to supporters, gets to the root of conservative opposition:

“We’re looking at Obamacare right now. Once we start with those benefits in January, how are we going to get people off of those? It’s exponentially harder to remove people once they’ve already been on those programs…we rely on government for absolutely everything. And in the years since I was a small girl up until now into my adulthood with children of my own, we have lost a reliance on not only our own families, but so much of what our churches and private organizations used to do. They used to have wonderful food pantries. They used to provide clothing for those that really needed it. But we have gotten away from that. Now we’re at a point where the government will just give away anything.”


That’s the fundamental belief that motivates most, if not all, the conservative opposition: Health care should be a privilege rather than a right. If you can’t afford health insurance on your own, that is not the government’s problem.

I happen to find this belief morally bizarre. People who cannot afford their own insurance either don’t earn much money, or have health risks, or family members with health risks, too expensive to bear.

All of us non-socialists would agree that there ought to be some things rich people get to enjoy that poor people are deprived of. Access to health care is a strange choice of things to deprive the losers of — not least because one of the things you do to “earn” the ability to afford it is not just the normal market value of earning or inheriting a good income, but the usually random value of avoiding serious illness or accident.

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There's nothing "secret" about her words or the ideas behind them. There is excellent reason for serious, compassionate people to become concerned about the growing involvement of our government in every aspect of our lives, and the associated continuing disintegration of non-governmental civic organizations and institutions in our country.

The United States was founded on the principle of the primacy of local government and individual private initiatives to address social issues. Indeed this was the essential quality that, according to Alexis de Toqueville, in "Democracy in America" that distinguished the successful, authentically democratic American revolution from the authoritarian and unsuccessful French one.

The USSR was founded on the loftiest of principles and the assumption that the government and the party were the essential core element of every solution to every social and economic problem. Even apart from the murderous tyranny that resulted the, growing incompetence and sclerosis that resulted from the bureaucritization of every element of Soviet life produced only drab poverty; goods and services that few wanted and widespread misery.

We've had just a relatively small taste of that with ACA and the general incompetence and deceit that have emerged from the present administration. It isn't good and it will only get worse if it grows.

It's my belief that none of the extremes proposed here are what any democracy should strive for. All developed democracies provide their citizens with universal health care. That fact alone tells me that 'it's the right thing to do.' If the GOP doesn't like some aspects of ObamaCare, they can correct those issues rather than repealing the whole program. The GOP meme of "do it my way or the highway is scary and childish."

Even our Constitution is revised through Amendments. There's nothing wrong with the foundation; it just needs to be tweaked.

It doesn't destroy capitalism in any sense of that word; all democracies are capitalistic countries.

The success of any democracy is to provide its citizens with the very best in the standard of living possible. That doesn't mean the government has to provide everybody with everything. That's an extreme position that's not even contemplated.

What the government should provide are (in no particular order); 1) health care, 2) infrastructure, 3) safety, 4) security, 5) education, 6) equality, 7) food and shelter for all children, and 8) a livable minimum wage based on the cost of living within their community.

Nothing should be given freely, and people should pay a fee on a sliding scale.
Tax rates should be equal for everybody. It was determined some years ago that if everybody paid 17% of their income in taxes, our government will be sufficiently funded. Denmark's income tax rate is 55.6%, and nobody complains because all their citizens are taken care of. They are also the happiest people on this planet. What more proof does anyone need?

We are a Republic. Moron.

Iraq under Sadaam was a Republic. North Korea is a Republic. Communist China is a Republic. You don't seem to understand that the US is a democracy as well as a Republic, Pinkie. Countries can be both.

That you need not reply to me. You make me ill, and

U r ez to fool, Mr. Parados.
Both were MONARCHIES; hereditary monarchies, absolute monarchies,
more so than that of Louis XVI of France.

North Korea is STILL an absolute monarchy.





David

Sorry, David, you're wrong! North Korea is a theocracy. The eternal president claims to be god.

Enjoy your Republic which can be run by a tyrant while the rest of us rely on Democracy for our government to work.

North Korea is a REPUBLIC. To deny it is to show ignorance of the worst kind.

The CIA fact book calls North Korea a Republic with a communist state - one man dictatorship type government. No doubt about it. North Korea is a Republic. Iraq under Sadaam was a Republic. It seems some idiots on the right can't use words correctly.

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