Uh... I guess if you want to go to a country where you'll get strip-searched and humiliated very time you return from an anime convention, where you won't be able to bring any of your yaoi stuff with you and where you stand to be thrown in jail for purchasing it, sure, you can do that.
I'm just gonna stay in America where I can at least jerk off in peace.
We almost need another party entirely. I get so sick of this whole Democrats VS Republicans where issues don't even matter, it's just about beating the other group. American Politics suck.
Sorry that wasn't horribly insightful or eloquent, it's 8 am, it's cold and rainy, and I need a hug because the future is going to be rocky.
That's okay. I was reading comments on why people voted like they did. It's mostly that they're upset with Obama for not being Jesus and miraculously fixing all of the country's ills in one year, which he never said he'd be able to do.
This problem will take so long to fix it isn't even funny.
That's okay, though. My family has money so I'll be fine if the Republicans are in office. Let those middle-class Americans suffer with the decisions they've made. I'll enjoy my tax-cuts.
I read the same thing. Everyone's expecting for Obama to fix everything with a wave of his wand and a flick of his wrist. Im pretty sure he had already said it'd get worse before it got better, but I guess everyone was out boozin' that day. I say YAY to enjoying your tax-cuts and your family being fine!
THE ECONOMY DID IT, IN THE PANTRY, WITH THE CANDLESTICKecentromaticJanuary 20 2010, 19:47:05 UTC
I know that this seems bad (And the man is, at best, a back-peddling douche-bag on several issues. However, he's not the devil but then, I don't think you think he is), there are several key issues still in play. Health reform might be dead or it might just be sleeping- hard to read right now.
The good news is that 36 seats come due in November, so all is in flux.
In all honesty, we've been playing this game of back and forth for years and years and years- The economy is the wheel on what these elections ultimately turn and both parties have used it to their advantage in the past. Obama is actually in a "good" position, as he's only a year in and the indicators are saying that we are on an upswing- thus, if things do improve, he (and the Democrats by proxy ((unless they do something really dumb))) will reap the rewards. Thus, there best bet is some high profile, populist bills that have a shot of going through (Financial reform is a good bet), foster some feelings that the economy is being handled, allow the mentality to build that
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"Needless to say, The Republic will stagger on. That same "liberal" and "socialistic" gang of Democrats (who are bringing us the Afghan war, and just passed one of the largest tax cuts in history, and are about to follow that with another huge tax cut this year) will continue to accept the burden of governing. The healthcare system is broken, and has to be fixed, and sooner or later it will be. And, oblivious to the saga of Scott Brown, the U.S. economy will roar forward, or slide back, and create the political climate in which independents will make their choice, in 2010 and 2012.
The basic fact of politics, in Massachusetts and America, then, now, and forever, is that--barring war--there is no more potent political indicator than the status of our paychecks. It was proven in the national election of 2008, in Virginia and New Jersey last fall, and again last night."
I am terribly worried as well. This is what our country has come to? Blindly blocking everything that the other party tries to accomplish?
I have heard a number of friends tell me today that the current health care bill isn't the right one, that it doesn't contain the right kind of reforms.
Fair enough. It's a complicated issue, and there is not any one single way to fix it. Everyone has different ideas about how to fix health care.
Yet, the impression I'm being given is that the Republicans are *not* working to help develop a different version of the bill - they're just filibustering and blocking completely. This is not the way to develop the right kind of reform. And I fear that this pattern will continue to apply to a great many other things that need to get done.
The only way to develop the right kind of reform will be to actually go up against the health insurance companies. They have too much money for this to ever happen. We are always going to be at their mercy or at the mercy of some similar organization. The only way that this could ever be avoided would be to have some sort of system where the people who are in charge of running the organization would be the same people benefiting from it and that the system worked on a rotation basis.
But oh wait, they tried that in Russia. That was how communism worked early on. And we all can see how well that worked out.
The only way to avoid getting fucked is to have money. That's the lesson we can all learn from this kids.
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I'm just gonna stay in America where I can at least jerk off in peace.
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We almost need another party entirely. I get so sick of this whole Democrats VS Republicans where issues don't even matter, it's just about beating the other group. American Politics suck.
Sorry that wasn't horribly insightful or eloquent, it's 8 am, it's cold and rainy, and I need a hug because the future is going to be rocky.
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This problem will take so long to fix it isn't even funny.
That's okay, though. My family has money so I'll be fine if the Republicans are in office. Let those middle-class Americans suffer with the decisions they've made. I'll enjoy my tax-cuts.
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The good news is that 36 seats come due in November, so all is in flux.
In all honesty, we've been playing this game of back and forth for years and years and years- The economy is the wheel on what these elections ultimately turn and both parties have used it to their advantage in the past. Obama is actually in a "good" position, as he's only a year in and the indicators are saying that we are on an upswing- thus, if things do improve, he (and the Democrats by proxy ((unless they do something really dumb))) will reap the rewards. Thus, there best bet is some high profile, populist bills that have a shot of going through (Financial reform is a good bet), foster some feelings that the economy is being handled, allow the mentality to build that ( ... )
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"Needless to say, The Republic will stagger on. That same "liberal" and "socialistic" gang of Democrats (who are bringing us the Afghan war, and just passed one of the largest tax cuts in history, and are about to follow that with another huge tax cut this year) will continue to accept the burden of governing. The healthcare system is broken, and has to be fixed, and sooner or later it will be. And, oblivious to the saga of Scott Brown, the U.S. economy will roar forward, or slide back, and create the political climate in which independents will make their choice, in 2010 and 2012.
The basic fact of politics, in Massachusetts and America, then, now, and forever, is that--barring war--there is no more potent political indicator than the status of our paychecks. It was proven in the national election of 2008, in Virginia and New Jersey last fall, and again last night."
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I have heard a number of friends tell me today that the current health care bill isn't the right one, that it doesn't contain the right kind of reforms.
Fair enough. It's a complicated issue, and there is not any one single way to fix it. Everyone has different ideas about how to fix health care.
Yet, the impression I'm being given is that the Republicans are *not* working to help develop a different version of the bill - they're just filibustering and blocking completely. This is not the way to develop the right kind of reform. And I fear that this pattern will continue to apply to a great many other things that need to get done.
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But oh wait, they tried that in Russia. That was how communism worked early on. And we all can see how well that worked out.
The only way to avoid getting fucked is to have money. That's the lesson we can all learn from this kids.
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