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I have to wonder what the Obama Justice Dept has on Roberts.
I did not make the original comment bringing that up, read the history again or admit you should not have jumped in.
Minor, LOL. This is what happens when Congress passes such a huge law there ends up a problem it expects the Supreme Court to edit for them.
Again, not minor. A real change on what is a State and why it now means much more.
Yes it is, and for the reasons mentioned. Now the term "State" has an expanded definition. Interpret does not mean edit the meaning of words to make the government happy.
And you give us yet another reason not to give a Bush a 4th term. Like we needed it.:lol:
So when you guys say you are against a "nanny State" you don't mean the Federal Govt.? Which State do you mean then? There are 50 of them.
generally, people who stay poor do so largely because of decisions that they make, such as quitting school, having children out of wedlock, etc.
Compared to America you're second rate
If the American people don't want Obamacare, and we don't, then it won't outlast Obama. Your defeatism might be true if we were talking about Canadians, but we're talking about Americans here. We're doers.
And you give us yet another reason not to give a Bush a 4th term. Like we needed it.:lol:
gonTrue. They own it. I do have to wonder if they are politically suicidal. Mostly due to obamacare, the democrats have lost control of both houses of congress. They have also lost control of state legislatures in the majority of states. My own state legislature since the passage of obamacare has gone from democrat to republican for the first time since Ulyssess S Grant was president.Since it was voted into law the American people have been against the law. While I disagree with the SOCTUS ruling, I guess the upside is that Democrats can't run from this legislation anymore.
Jiminy Cricket!!!
As Majority Leader of the House, Pelosi wasn't privy to the Senate bill until after it passed. Once the Senate passed their bill then it goes to the house so they can read and vote on it. That's just how congress works.
"...Her contention was that the Senate “didn’t have a bill.” And until the Senate produced an actual piece of legislation that could be matched up and debated against what was passed by the House, no one truly knew what would be voted on.
“It’s because we didn’t have a Senate bill,” Pelosi said forcefully before Eleanor Clift of Newsweek even finished asking her a question about the statement’s context. “We were urging the Senate to pass a bill.” ...."
Pelosi defends her infamous health care remark - The Washington Post
I said this earlier: Americans don't want Obamacare. They just want what's in it.
People that are honest ?
People that are hard working ?
People that are intelligent ?
People that are self reliant ?
People that are proud of their State and Country ?
So you prefer people that are under the perpetual influence of IQ lowering psychoactive chemical compounds to real Texans ?
I have to wonder what the Obama Justice Dept has on Roberts.
Another win for the leeches. No wonder this country is sucking more and more. Oh well, at least now there is zero incentive (political or otherwise) for the majority of states who have not set up their exchanges to do so now. Coupled with the failure to expand medicare in about half the states, at least leeches aren't routing.
They never read it even after it passed,
By the way.. the Senate and the House were both ruled by the left at that time.
Obama Care is owned by the Left since not a single republican in Wash. voted for it.
I did not make the original comment bringing that up, read the history again or admit you should not have jumped in.
you are arguing that Congress intended a result, on one of the biggest provisions in the bill, that received no debate in Congress
They never read it even after it passed, They didn't have to.. they just invested their time defending it and they continued doing it today.
Get out of the basement and stop drinking the kool aid.
By the way.. the Senate and the House were both ruled by the left at that time.
Obama Care is owned by the Left since not a single republican in Wash. voted for it.
Canada scores significantly higher than we do on the Economic Freedom Index, they have a lower rate of single-motherhood, their lower corporate tax rate raises more revenue than ours, and as a result their middle class is richer.
..... that's nice. I thought that once too. Then we had the 2012 election and I started paying more attention to who was driving American culture, the American future, etc.
Americans are whiny, litigious, narcissists still coasting off of the accomplishments of the WWII generation. We lack self-discipline and self-control.
Because we are whiny narcissists, we are attracted to whiny narcissists. We put one in the White House two elections running because he talked pretty to us, and the guy in second place in New Hampshire for the GOP right now is a reality TV star who's schtick is that he's good at being an idiot in public without experiencing the kind of personal shame that would constrain others. We've demanded that our politicians Tell Us About The Rabbits so much that we took the worlds' engine house and turned it into history's largest liability.
We haven't been able to "win" a war since the 1940's because we get bored and because it's hard, and we don't do "hard" anymore. What we "do" - what we "specialize" in "doing" - now as an industrial base is finding new ways to like each others' funny cat pictures on the internet. The Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia are on fire and what America is spending her time on is whether or not people who fly flags are mean and dudes who want to touch each others' penises before cutting them off. Because all that other stuff is hard, and we don't do "hard" anymore. We prefer to sue people who expect us to do hard, or maybe demand a handout for failing to do hard.
We forgot how to America and in the next couple of decades reality is going to **** us hard. It's okay. I and my children will be part of the ruling class in the dilapidated, sad, failed little angry self-absorbed society who shares a name with America. And those who suffer? I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh, because they will have gotten exactly what they voted for.
How is it you came by this knowledge? A careful and thorough sociological analysis?
There's no doubt that dropping out of school is a big problem getting ahead. But if you have a high school diploma and got married before you had kids, yer saying you have a better than even chance to move out of poverty?
What are the other "decisions" you should get right?
And I don't see how getting married would make such a difference
Yer analysis doesn't strike me as having a lot of validity.
An accurate and irrelevent statement. Congratulations.No, you say
And the interstate highway is paid for and owned by Uncle Sam.
Send that to me in a check or Paypal would ya? It's more like, $0, but if you want to give me money I won't say no.$17,362.54
Don't care where it grew from. Irrelevant. We're talking about money, not history.The Internet grew out of federal spending — "a prime example of the importance of government spending to scientific advances and innovation."
It didn't help me, I don't work in the Auto Industry. So are you willing to pay my car payments? No I didn't think so.Auto bailout saved that industry. Federal money has done a lot for driving safety, fuel mileage, and lower levels of pollution.
It wouldn't be operating if it didn't mandate by LAW people must pay taxes.But it wouldn't be operating without current revenues, some of which are federal.
I don't have a choice but to pay taxes - it's that or go to jail.It should be noted that you pay federal taxes as well. As Colonel Cathcart would say, "It's all part of the contract."
And the sky is blue, dogs bark and water is wet.You said yerself that he could go to prison for not paying. That would be a choice.
And you give us yet another reason not to give a Bush a 4th term. Like we needed it.:lol:
Evidently you missed out on civics class. The Federal Court System is the ultimate arbiters of federal law. They are the only authority in regards to federal law that counts. You may not like that, but that is how it works in the USA. Its pointless to debate a SCOTUS decision, because our opinions are all irrelevant. If you don't like the ACA, then you simply have to support candidates and convince your peers to support candidates that will repeal the law and of course vote in a president that will not veto their repeal. Good luck with that. I think you have about a zero percent chance on that.
Quit your bellyaching, you sound old.
First of all, 18 more months and Marco Rubio will be president of the United States. And he'll be the greatest president since Ronald Reagan.
I believe that the hand of divine providence has always guided America
America will be fine. In fact, it's never been better.
We smashed and owned the Soviets in the Cold War, leaving us the only superpower in the world.
We dominate the world's high tech industry
the banking and finance industry, the media, etc.
We are utterly and completely dominant on the world stage in a way that no nation has ever been in the history of the world
In fact, you're living in the golden age of the American Era. Pax Americana, I believe they call it.
The debt is high, so what? Name one country that doesn't have a high national debt.
Look at what's going on in the EU right now with Greece. The whole thing looks ready to implode.
China? Would you trade places with China? I sure as hell wouldn't. China has a whole host of problems we can't even begin to discuss or it would take up an entire page.
And in 18 months, the Obama experiment will end, and the country will vote in a CONSERVATIVE who will be our next Reagan.
I have to wonder what the Obama Justice Dept has on Roberts.