Bill Is A Fucking Jackass - An Analogy

Unfortunately this scenario is all too familiar to many Americans. I wouldn't want Bill in my workplace sabotaging things when he doesn't get his way. Would you?

So, imagine that the company you work for held a poll, and asked everyone if they thought it would be a good idea to put a soda machine in the break room. The poll came back, and the majority of your colleagues said “Yes”, indicating that they would like a soda machine.

Some said no, but the majority said yes. So, a week later, there’s a soda machine.

Now imagine that Bill in accounting voted against the soda machine. He has a strong hatred for caffeinated soft drinks, thinks they are bad you you, whatever. He campaigns throughout the office to get the machine removed. Well, management decides “OK, we’ll ask again” and again, the majority of people say “Yes, lets keep the soda machine.”

Bill continues to campaign, and management continues to ask the employees, and every time, the answer is in favor of the soda machine. This happens, lets say… 35 times.

Eventually, Bill says “OK, I’M NOT PROCESSING PAYROLL ANYMORE UNTIL THE SODA MACHINE IS REMOVED”, so nobody will get paid unless management removes the machine.

What should we do???

Answer: Fire Bill and get someone who will do the fucking job.
Bonus: Bill tells everyone that he was willing to “Negotiate”, to come to a solution where everyone got their payroll checks, but only so long as that negotiation capitulated to his demand to remove the soda machine.

Bill is a fucking jackass.

-Anonymous

Now, now. Don't make him seem so unreasonable. He's also willing to unplug the soda machine, or remove the sodas from it.

And then remove it.

Excellent.

This is excellent, I agree. Too bad we don't have a Queen who can and would (through her Governor-General) fire all of Congress and force a snap election, like she did in Australia. And behold, a government shutdown has never happened there again.

The 2014 elections will be interesting. Every single Republican needs to be fired.

The horrors... think of all the little soda bottles with their tops torn off,
empty and waiting to be returned to the supermarket.

It would be IF the dollar being spent, was a dollar that wasn't simply printed up by the feds, out of nothing but fancy paper and inks.

Take it a step further and see where it leads: The gov't decides it's a stimulus to the economy, and we definitely need a stimulus, so they give everyone food stamps, and lots of them.

The problem is, there is no more wealth added to the economy to support it. So our dollar goes into free fall, as inflation flies through the roof.

Almost every gov't does a bit of this, because they know that normally, there IS some wealth being added to their economy, year by year. In our case, we've overdone it, causing our dollar to sink in value, year after year.

The $0.84 in the $1.84 is wealth added to the economy.

And the $1.00 is food for the hungry.

If you're looking for places we've overdone it, don't look to food stamps.

Oregon is considered a "blue state" but this is primarily because
there are 2 "ultrablue" voting areas (Portland and Eugene)
that essentially control national elections.
But the rest of the state is intensely "red",
and the GOP is well represented in the State legislature.

But poverty is spread across the state, and 15% of the 3.9 million
population fall in the legal definitions of qualifying for assistance.

This article is about sign-ups during the first 2 weeks of Obamacare:


The Oregonian
Nick Budnck
10/17/13

Oregon cuts tally of people lacking health insurance by 10 percent in two weeks

Kentucky leads the way.

Today on Meet the Press, Mitch McConnell was interviewed about the
situation of the government shutdown, debt ceiling, and the GOP.
Obamacare was discussed twice, and McConnell made the following statement:

Does McConnell addictively lie, was he ill-informed,
or inverting a fact into yet another false GOP talking point ?

Whichever - Oregon has already signed up 56,000 - in the first 2 weeks.
--- as previously posted here

Or, for the GOP, 56,000 people translates into "no one".

Thank the stars that we don't take it a step further. Lets talk about reality, only the lowest end of income qualifies for food stamps. So, in reality your argument here is pretty much hot air.

I have not heard what the Conservative leaders are saying about Obamacare, but I've heard no less than THREE Conservative talk show hosts - which is a LOT for me (caught them on breaks between ball games this weekend), remark that Obamacare is finished because of the poor roll out, the web site failures, etc.

And I've had my nose into some coding this last week, but that strikes me as the DUMBEST idea! A national health care plan will destroy itself, because the website failed during the first few weeks?

No way.

Conservative talk show hosts, you should hang your heads in shame on this crazy idea. :(

The British press has published some actual enrolled numbers into Obamacare, but official numbers in total, haven't been officially released yet. Whatever the numbers are, they should easily get the 7 million people that they say they will require, to keep the ACA viable. Out of over 400 million people or so, I'm sure they can enroll 7 million.

I'm not sure the ACA is worth spending a lot more time arguing over. It is the law, and it obviously will be tried for at least the next 15 to 24 months, to see how it goes. We have more pressing issues right now, like Iran's nuclear negotiations (now going on), the war still going on in Afghanistan, and our inability to stop the Fed's from over-spending.

You tried to stop ACA, but it was ill-timed and failed. Time to move on. We have a country to run here.

I heard some snippet at NPR this morning that said there are tons of people going to the sites to check them out and not actually trying to do anything. Tourists, basically.

They also said that most people disapprove of the sites in some poll they did, but the people who actually have gone to the sites rate them better than the people who haven't been.

For what it's worth, I checked out the site for Virginia, and was amazed at the number of options available. The prices were more than I'm paying now for my portion of my employer provided plan, but I'd need to dig out some paperwork to see if they are more than what I and my employer are paying combined. I think they are comparable. Also, at our income level and family size, we would be eligible for some discount. Not sure how much.

I heard an NPR report, last week maybe, interviewing a code monkey who explained how stupid the government always is on this kind of stuff. Basically they want all the functionality immediately instead a building a little at a time and adding more bells and whistles with each release like everyone else does it.

Cheney is the topic of talking heads this week because he has "authored" a book about his heart.

USA TODAY
Susan Page
October 21, 2013
Cheney book documents his struggles with heart disease
.

Ummmm.... what are the odds for getting a transplant if you are/were not VP of the US government ?

Attachment 45799

By the way, Cheney supports the Tea Party assault on Obamacare.