FACT CHECK: Distortions rife in health care debate

If I haven't posted this before, let it be known that I am very much in favor of everyone in Post-Modern Civilizations to have easy access to Health Care. Yes, that's the short version--you're welcome.

We're in a Depression with record Unemployment as we're trying to be the last industrialized country to get Universal Health Care, but apparently people are more concerned with Obama's US Birth Certificate. This is after 2 separate declarations by the state of Hawaii that he is a US-national, settling the matter. So what do the time-wasting fucks ( Read more... )

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I like how he's doing the same thing, but pretends he isn't via not-so-subtle semantic re-defining. I wonder how much of the populace he's actually fooling with this tactic.

I have mixed feelings on how to best handle this. My reaction is that this is inherently wrong, to detain people for crimes they haven't yet ( Read more... )

"The first job of my administration is to put people back to work and get our economy moving again.".

It's good to see that Obama is going to be doing at least 2 of the 4 things I've suggested by combining job creation with alternative energy resources. I'm looking forward to seeing my thoughts are--for the first time in 8 years--going to be ( Read more... )

I'm no expert on such things, but it seems like if we need both jobs and alternative energy sources, then building, installing, and operating wind and solar panel farms would be just one of countless ways to being accomplishing both. Not to mention updating our infrastructure so that, say, we don't have a repeat of the bridge collapse we had in ( Read more... )