Simply stating I'm lying doesn't mean I'm lying. ObamaCare said we could keep our health care plans and doctors if we wanted and we can't. They repeated this line dozens of times and it's a lie. The president said in 2009 that, by the end of his first term, American families would be saving $2,500 in premiums a year and that hasn't happened. Already 4.2 million Americans have lost health care and it's estimated up to 16 million people will lose health care. I could go on but I think you get the point. I really would like people to be less emotional and simply look at the data. Even the CBO's estimates for how much ObamaCare will cost have changed significantly since they originally came out...
How long until people hack the ObamaCare database and steal everyone's identities? How long until fraud is rampant (e.g. massive government programs always have a lot of fraud in them, this will be the largest government program so expect billions of dollars of fraudulent claims).
I really hope ObamaCare works but it wasn't very well thought through...couldn't even get a web site to work. They expected to sign up 30 - 40 million people and the web site could support only ~1,000 people at a time. WTF?
To repeat the lies the Democrats have spewed would take far too long. I want it to work, but it's based in party politics, supported by lies, and the website was written by an incompetent company run by Michelle Obama's classmate's company who got more contract work after they FUBARed HealthCare.gov. No accountability, no truth, and the worst part is health care premiums have gone up with worse care (quality of care is assumed worse due to the numerous high quality hospitals not supporting ObamaCare).
Can the DSP or SBIRS constellations do this when over the US and not looking for ICBM launches over foreign territory? I bet they can but maybe the NSA is already tasking them to scan our homes to see what we're grilling outside for dinner (it aids with drone strike accuracy probably:) )
Look at total murders per capita...you obviously want to showcase the facts and figures that show you're the winner but read the articles and you'll see there are more murders per capita where guns are banned/restricted.
There are numerous other studies that show that in regions that restrict people's right to carry a firearm the crime rate is higher. This is evident at the locale (e.g. shopping malls), city (e.g. Chicago, Washington DC), state, and country if you want to go to Europe and check statistics. There will always be outliers so you could always make a case if you extract a small sample (although Australia is a rather large sample), but generally, the data proves guns aren't attributable to crime...the opposite is true in fact (e.g. less gun restrictions equals less violent crime).
Exactly, thanks for clarifying my point. I'm in one of the few Air Force combat (support) units, we typically use 5.56mm and 7.62mm rifles (e.g. M-16, M-4, M-249, etc.) and the occasional M-9 pistol. "Assault weapon" is a term the media likes to use to scare people which subsequently allows the left to push their gun-control agenda. The bottom line is this is a people problem, not a gun problem. There is some underlying issue in America that's pushing people to their breaking point...again, take away the guns and they'll make bombs, poisons, use knives, etc. Maybe it's due in part to the "wussification of America", the PC police, the horrible economy, or some other problem, perceived or real.
Ban guns and they kill with knives, bombs, bats, or something else. Guns are not the root of the problem and your way of thinking is very superficial and simplistic.
No...the perpetrator used an "assault rifle"...which people in the military call "small arms" which are banned for hunting deer with because of their inability to kill them cleanly. I wonder if the weapon type will change like the DC Naval Yard shooting where the weapon was initially erroneously reported as an "assault rifle" then changed to a Vice-President Biden-approved shotgun. Let's avoid knee-jerk gun control and let's instead focus on the problems that cause people to lash out...most likely shitty jobs, shitty attitudes, and stupid politics that screw up people's lives and livelihoods. If guns were outlawed, the perpetrator would use a so-called "assault knife" or "assault baseball bat" to commit the crimes with.
...and let's hope the US Government has enough sense to not pay the clowns who built that FUBARed website. Interesting Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website and won the contract in a rare no-bid contract. Very fishy...
It may have been a Republican President who signed it into law but the current Democratic President expanded it 100-fold. We as citizens need to stand up and oppose this if we deem it too invasive rather than call each other names.
Right, but the President has gotten things done due to him caring enough to push them to work through their issues. I think the budget just isn't important enough for him to dedicate his time towards. Lack of a budget and knowing what and where money will be spent may be exacerbating our problems.
So he was hired to "analyze and streamline the government's budget concerns" yet the government hasn't developed an actual budget for quite some time...keep up the good work.
People are scared of the mysterious boogeyman/bad guy we're told is out there and trying to get us. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but I think it's hard for the average person to feel this isn't helping protect them. They are too short sighted, perhaps, to see the long-term effect this may have where we become 1984 or Animal Farm.
This is fairly typical in government contracting...pay a lot and get something that barely functions but now you got to pay more to finish it because you've invested too much already to just throw it out. Once it's up and able to handle the customer base I'm sure they'll consider adding security or protect the data somehow which will cost another ton of money. They'll perfect it, but at what cost, how long, and why didn't they do this earlier? Some states' exchanges have been up and running great but they (the states) started creating them earlier.
Everything is technically "learning" but it's not the intent of the school district to hand out iPads only to have student hack them so they can surf YouTube and play Angry Bird in class.
I would think the school district would have the student sign something where the student would have to relinquish the iPad if they modified it to gain access to unauthorized content or circumvent the school software. If only students would put this much effort into learning...
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Simply stating I'm lying doesn't mean I'm lying. ObamaCare said we could keep our health care plans and doctors if we wanted and we can't. They repeated this line dozens of times and it's a lie. The president said in 2009 that, by the end of his first term, American families would be saving $2,500 in premiums a year and that hasn't happened. Already 4.2 million Americans have lost health care and it's estimated up to 16 million people will lose health care. I could go on but I think you get the point. I really would like people to be less emotional and simply look at the data. Even the CBO's estimates for how much ObamaCare will cost have changed significantly since they originally came out...
How long until people hack the ObamaCare database and steal everyone's identities? How long until fraud is rampant (e.g. massive government programs always have a lot of fraud in them, this will be the largest government program so expect billions of dollars of fraudulent claims).
I really hope ObamaCare works but it wasn't very well thought through...couldn't even get a web site to work. They expected to sign up 30 - 40 million people and the web site could support only ~1,000 people at a time. WTF?
To repeat the lies the Democrats have spewed would take far too long. I want it to work, but it's based in party politics, supported by lies, and the website was written by an incompetent company run by Michelle Obama's classmate's company who got more contract work after they FUBARed HealthCare.gov. No accountability, no truth, and the worst part is health care premiums have gone up with worse care (quality of care is assumed worse due to the numerous high quality hospitals not supporting ObamaCare).
Can the DSP or SBIRS constellations do this when over the US and not looking for ICBM launches over foreign territory? I bet they can but maybe the NSA is already tasking them to scan our homes to see what we're grilling outside for dinner (it aids with drone strike accuracy probably :) )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PTF8syW9Kc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PTF8syW9Kc
What a stupid storyof course your consumption will increase IF YOU LET IT. To quote my niece, "Duh."
Look at total murders per capita...you obviously want to showcase the facts and figures that show you're the winner but read the articles and you'll see there are more murders per capita where guns are banned/restricted.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/12/U-N-Maps-Show-U-S-High-In-Gun-Ownership-Low-In-Homicides
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/gun-homicides-ownership/table/
http://tewksburylab.org/blog/2012/12/gun-violence-and-gun-ownership-lets-look-at-the-data/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/schoo-shooting-how-do-u-s-gun-homicides-compare-with-the-rest-of-the-world/
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
http://gunowners.org/op0746.htm
There are numerous other studies that show that in regions that restrict people's right to carry a firearm the crime rate is higher. This is evident at the locale (e.g. shopping malls), city (e.g. Chicago, Washington DC), state, and country if you want to go to Europe and check statistics. There will always be outliers so you could always make a case if you extract a small sample (although Australia is a rather large sample), but generally, the data proves guns aren't attributable to crime...the opposite is true in fact (e.g. less gun restrictions equals less violent crime).
Exactly, thanks for clarifying my point. I'm in one of the few Air Force combat (support) units, we typically use 5.56mm and 7.62mm rifles (e.g. M-16, M-4, M-249, etc.) and the occasional M-9 pistol. "Assault weapon" is a term the media likes to use to scare people which subsequently allows the left to push their gun-control agenda. The bottom line is this is a people problem, not a gun problem. There is some underlying issue in America that's pushing people to their breaking point...again, take away the guns and they'll make bombs, poisons, use knives, etc. Maybe it's due in part to the "wussification of America", the PC police, the horrible economy, or some other problem, perceived or real.
Ban guns and they kill with knives, bombs, bats, or something else. Guns are not the root of the problem and your way of thinking is very superficial and simplistic.
No...the perpetrator used an "assault rifle"...which people in the military call "small arms" which are banned for hunting deer with because of their inability to kill them cleanly. I wonder if the weapon type will change like the DC Naval Yard shooting where the weapon was initially erroneously reported as an "assault rifle" then changed to a Vice-President Biden-approved shotgun. Let's avoid knee-jerk gun control and let's instead focus on the problems that cause people to lash out...most likely shitty jobs, shitty attitudes, and stupid politics that screw up people's lives and livelihoods. If guns were outlawed, the perpetrator would use a so-called "assault knife" or "assault baseball bat" to commit the crimes with.
...and let's hope the US Government has enough sense to not pay the clowns who built that FUBARed website. Interesting Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website and won the contract in a rare no-bid contract. Very fishy...
It may have been a Republican President who signed it into law but the current Democratic President expanded it 100-fold. We as citizens need to stand up and oppose this if we deem it too invasive rather than call each other names.
Right, but the President has gotten things done due to him caring enough to push them to work through their issues. I think the budget just isn't important enough for him to dedicate his time towards. Lack of a budget and knowing what and where money will be spent may be exacerbating our problems.
So he was hired to "analyze and streamline the government's budget concerns" yet the government hasn't developed an actual budget for quite some time...keep up the good work.
People are scared of the mysterious boogeyman/bad guy we're told is out there and trying to get us. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but I think it's hard for the average person to feel this isn't helping protect them. They are too short sighted, perhaps, to see the long-term effect this may have where we become 1984 or Animal Farm.
This is fairly typical in government contracting...pay a lot and get something that barely functions but now you got to pay more to finish it because you've invested too much already to just throw it out. Once it's up and able to handle the customer base I'm sure they'll consider adding security or protect the data somehow which will cost another ton of money. They'll perfect it, but at what cost, how long, and why didn't they do this earlier? Some states' exchanges have been up and running great but they (the states) started creating them earlier.
Yeah, hopefully it will run on my shiney new G5 PowerBook which also is finally here.
Touche, this is a lot of money simply for a "cool" office.
How long until Samsung and Microsoft both announce their plans to build similar circular "spaceship-like" HQs?
They nearly always do receive back pay though...and they will this time as well.
The shutdown makes little fiscal sense, especially when you consider that those employees furloughed will most likely receive back pay.
Everything is technically "learning" but it's not the intent of the school district to hand out iPads only to have student hack them so they can surf YouTube and play Angry Bird in class.
I would think the school district would have the student sign something where the student would have to relinquish the iPad if they modified it to gain access to unauthorized content or circumvent the school software. If only students would put this much effort into learning...