The Obamagood Thread

[Sean Renaud]

I can't speak for Severus and wouldn't presume to but a better understanding of history made me be more 'progressive' and I think I'm still and an An-Cap at heart but I think of it it more as as a goal than a reality.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I think a better understanding of history is the perfect reason the move on issues of policy.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I'm something of a history buff, so, yes, that's a factor, but also critical is just the fact of what is going on with things like the state of our working poor, the shrinkage of our middle class, the growth of our national debt, and what has been a "jobless" recovery. In the past, corporations used to invest a bit more into their companies and workers, as well as giving more to charity. That's changed. The Andrew Carnegies and Henry Fords, who understood the value of giving back and bringing the rest of the country with them, are gone. Instead, you get Steve Forbes and the Koch Brothers, who campaign to gut vital services in favor of lower taxes for themselves.

I've seen my home state of Arizona cut education spending to the bone and the result has been a slower recovery than the rise in housing prices should indicate. We need a more educated workforce to get more jobs. Clearly, something other than teacher unions are at fault, when charter schools haven't been enough to overcome the negative impact of severe cuts. Arizona has been a laboratory for the idea that "we don't need to spend more, we just need to do more with what we have." That idea has failed. Arizona's education system is an embarrassment in the nation. It has gotten so bad that Governor Doug Ducey has resorted to dipping into an emergency trust fund set aside some time back to pay a little more toward education, to the tune of 1.7 billion dollars.

Things like that have made me consider that perhaps the calls for more education spending are not out of line. When schools have classrooms too full without enough textbooks for all students, when arts, music, and shop programs are slashed, and too much focus is given to AIMS tests and not enough to foreign language studies, things need to change. We've tried the Right's education policies and they haven't worked in Arizona or elsewhere.

That's just one example, of course. Another is that in the GOP, the Tea Party has set the agenda and nobody has been able to get anything useful through Congress. We have the sequestration because of a failure to find a long-term solution to the budget and the debt ceiling. The GOP used to work with Democrats to help govern. Agree or disagree with Newt Gingrich, he worked with Clinton. Boehner and McConnell won't work with Obama to get anything done.

So, yes, I'm moving to the middle. Real life has a tendency to dash dreams and theories. The supply-side binge is over and we have one hell of a hangover.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I understand all of that. I currently reside in WI, and we're feeling the same hit to education, or just starting too. Walker's going to have a hard time pedaling his wares on a national stage. His far right overreach has lost him a lot of Republican support. In a sick way, I'm glad for the short terms hurt caused by these policies, because they'll be better for everyone in the long run. More people like yourself will care more for the working poor, education, etc. There will always be those so far to the right of center they're blind.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Yeah, some of those are in my own family. I grew up in a very Republican household of the religious right stripe. My father probably still thinks that Obama was born in Kenya or whatever else Glenn Beck says and they both still think that same-sex marriage is a threat to their freedom of religion.

But, yes, for me, facts tend to affect my outlook on things.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

“These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made. The difference is they did not have the kinds of support structures, the second chances, the resources that would allow them to survive those mistakes.”

—President Obama after visiting the federal prison in El Reno, Oklahoma

http://go.wh.gov/ElReno

 

[Ramone45]

Props for fighting for gay rights in Kenya. So what if the place is a fucking hell hole. We have to make sure we take care of less than 2% of the population. Screw tolerance. The Kenyans should think like US because we have our priorities straight (no offense). So with all the shit happening, this is what we're worried about at the highest level. The Kenyan President is like, 'WTF".

 

[phrodeau]

Props for fighting for gay rights in Kenya. So what if the place is a fucking hell hole. We have to make sure we take care of less than 2% of the population. Screw tolerance. The Kenyans should think like US because we have our priorities straight (no offense). So with all the shit happening, this is what we're worried about at the highest level. The Kenyan President is like, 'WTF".

How many sound bites were you fed?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Props for fighting for gay rights in Kenya. So what if the place is a fucking hell hole. We have to make sure we take care of less than 2% of the population. Screw tolerance. The Kenyans should think like US because we have our priorities straight (no offense). So with all the shit happening, this is what we're worried about at the highest level. The Kenyan President is like, 'WTF".

The Kenyan president should really know his goddamn place and be happy that Obama bothered to go at all. As is often the case perhaps Obama could have handled it better but as a whole we are far too kind when it comes to these kinds of measures.

Yes, fuck "tolerance" because what you think of as tolerance is actually ignoring evil.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[DooleyDarter]

Too bad we couldn't have given the president of Kenya a couple of goats and cows to keep Barry over there

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Too bad we couldn't have given the president of Kenya a couple of goats and cows to keep Barry over there

You and your family would've been out of a week's worth of meat and milk on your low-end sharecropper farm if we'd done that, though. Be grateful for your small blessings.

 

[DooleyDarter]

You and your family would've been out of a week's worth of meat and milk on your low-end sharecropper farm if we'd done that, though. Be grateful for your small blessings.

*L* we have a wilderbeast as a back up

 

[Sean Renaud]

Too bad we couldn't have given the president of Kenya a couple of goats and cows to keep Barry over there

Wow, funny. What's really too bad is we can't give Obama a third term but hey stupid rules are stupid.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

the loser experiment is almost over ... can't wait to see the obama regime go. hopefully we can end the obama slavery trade

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Obeezy stylin' in 1992

 

[RjThoughts]

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Obeezy stylin' in 1992

Thugs, one and all!!!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

29 Leading U.S. Nuclear Scientists Praise 'unprecedented' Iran Deal

In letter to Obama, scientists - among them 5 Nobel laureates - say deal can serve as 'guidepost for future nonproliferation agreements.'

Twenty-nine top U.S. nuclear scientists - including five Nobel laureates - sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Saturday praising the nuclear deal reached between world powers and Iran in July.

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[NeverEndingMe]

the obama regime is coming to an end ... we are one day closer to the collapse

 

[NeverEndingMe]

yep, you and the obama lack balls

Thugs, one and all!!!

 

[RjThoughts]

Unemployment down
Stock market WAY up
Deficit down
Gallon of gas NOT at $5

And the whiners can't accept these facts and more!

 

[Aglaopheme]

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx_mobile.html


For the first time in more than 50 years of surveys, the CDC on Wednesday reported that more than 90% of Americans — 90.8% of us, to be specific — have health insurance.

Until now, no major survey had ever found that the uninsured rate in America has hit single digits.


The data comes from the National Health Interview Survey, which the CDC and the Census Bureau have been conducting for more than 50 years. The questions have sometimes changed, but until this year, the answers haven’t: More than 10% of respondents, and sometimes as many as 18% of Americans, have reported that they’ve been uninsured.

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The clear factor is the Affordable Care Act’s push for coverage expansion, which kicked in almost two years ago. I spoke about the ACA’s role with several experts back in June, and you can easily see the law’s effects on the chart.

Nearly 16 million fewer Americans were uninsured in early 2015 compared to 2013.

And based on past precedent, there’s every expectation that the uninsured rate will continue to go down as enrollment in the ACA exchanges and Medicaid keeps going up.

For example, the CDC issues data on the uninsured rate throughout the year, and Wednesday’s results are based on surveys conducted between January and March of 2015. (Since it’s not full-year data, CDC calls it their early release program.) And last year’s equivalent early-release report, which surveyed Americans between January and March 2014, found that 13.1% of Americans were uninsured at the time. But after a full year’s worth of 2014 data, the number of uninsured was down to 11.5%.


CDC’s new report also plays up the divide between Medicaid expansion states and non-Medicaid expansion states.

In states that haven’t expanded in Medicaid, about 23% of residents under age-65 were uninsured in 2013; that’s down to about 17%. But in states that have expanded Medicaid? The comparable uninsured rate has fallen from about 18.5% in 2013 to 10.5% this year.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Just to add to the above, I am involved with a charity that helps people in short term need. We'll help with rent, utilities, car repairs, gas, farmer's market vouchers, etc. A large, if not the largest, portion of our clients need assistance due to large medical bills.

 

[just4friends]

Bah
Obama care is failing ! All the politicians who I love and who care about me tell me I would be better off without Obama care and that I will pay hundreds less in taxes every year! Socialism sucks! This is communism!!

Now... Go to the emergency room once... Even without a serious injury... Poof ! Tax refund gone! Welcome to debt!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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