Naomi (07-08-2014)
Naomi (07-08-2014)
My Neopets accounts got frozen... thanks a lot Obama. D'=
Double.Trouble (07-10-2014),♥ Hydrapple ♥ (07-10-2014),Naomi (07-08-2014),osiyo (07-08-2014)
Oh boy. A shit storm is definitely coming and if you don't think Obama has his hands in it then you are just another sheep of the system.
He might have done some good things and he might have done some bad and who knows what out weighs what. Not every piece of information being spoon-fed to us by the media and on the internet is 100% accurate but looking at the state America is in right now compared to 2008 - something clearly went wrong.
(you need an account to see links) - here is a fun website to check out and there is awesome video that breaks the concept down nicely which can be found on netflix.
But I honestly see no light at the end of this tunnel. America has reached it's peak and is now in a decline. No civilization lasts forever.
-negative Nancy out
baileaf (07-09-2014),I_royalty_I (07-08-2014)
I_royalty_I (07-08-2014),Naomi (07-08-2014)
No, I have not liked Obama's presidency.
I think as a person he seems very cool and someone I'd love to hang out with.
However, his approach to combating the fiscal after-wakes of the mortgage crises was exceptionally poor. Overall, I strongly dislike his fiscal policies really. Student Loans is another big one off the top of my head. Allowing such high risk zero credit kids to borrow unfathomable sums is ridiculous and keeps ballooning. Shit. How did the housing crisis happen? Fucking crazy debt collats mixed with subprime loans because the gov't came to a conclusion that a house was so important a commodity that dangling bloodied meat over Wallstreet was a great idea.
I just have this feeling that this student loans bubble will burst into something bad bad bad...
Yeah, I'm going to stick with data and trends. You cannot compare outliers to the rest of the data, unfortunately. We won't know the full story for a number of years more.
There are a lot of interesting articles on these topics you are bringing up. It's important to read a wide selection to gain a breadth of understanding. Healthcare is a multifaceted beast where there is no good answer, and I agree that Obama has done a terrible job of actually making the change effective. I think I just disagree about how it should be fixed. I think the best option would be to make a public option, operated by the government (state or federal, doesn't matter so much). Since it does not need to turn a profit, it could regulate costs more effectively, thus forcing insurers to be more realistic in their costs.
I think it criminal how much money is made in the health industry. I find it disgusting how hospitals and health insurance companies extort such grotesque sums of money for what should be a basic right.
as for your comments on illegal immigrants...
(you need an account to see links)
There are no girls on the internet.
It makes the fact more amazing Demetri. Biracial kids can be hated in many places, by racist white people, and black people alike. My aunt was raised in the city and has biracial kids. This one black man came up to he daughter and said "Why is your mommy white?".
I apologize if you dislike my post, and I understand that you thought it was racist, but I didn't know how the statement would be taken.
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What we really need is for that richest 1% to spread some of that wealth! I mean literally, not even a big share of their wealth, but like the teeniest little chip of it. Everyone else is scraping by (high class, middle class, low class alike), and they're sitting at the top with a huge portion of our country's wealth. Just watch the video to see exactly how messed up the distribution of wealth is:
Although the situation is worse when you look on a global scale:
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I_royalty_I (07-08-2014)
Free JD!
I find it incredibly difficult to agree with anything that Sarah Palin thinks
I live in Texas, and the kind of people who want to impeach Obama are the same people who have "SECEDE!!!" bumper stickers on their beat up 1980s diesel Ford pickup, right next to the Cabela's logo (that looks like a man on fire, I might add)
And honestly, I don't care what the president is doing. You can't change it, and I'm starting to believe (inb4 conspiracy theory) that the president is just a face and that he has very little say in the decision that "he" supposedly makes. On that note, I did not vote for him. Voting doesn't *really* mean anything, but I still refuse to vote for a president that I do not want. Both times that I've been old enough to vote, I have written in Stephen Colbert
Colby (07-16-2014),Double.Trouble (07-10-2014)