Oboma .. another term

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic.”
- Benjamin Franklin

Thetoolman wrote:Oboma...

"When people can't even spell their own President's name, that is the end of civilization."
-Leon Trotsky

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Amen to that Lazer

Well,
Thanks to Obama I can:
Get health insurance even with this pre-existing condition.
Keep my 23 y.o. son on my health insurance until he is financially stable.
Know that my daughters can expect the same pay for the same job as their male counterparts.
Attend the wedding of my childhood best friend and his husband.
Still buy a chevrolet.
Accept that my taxes will go up but Mitt Romney's will too.
Hope that we will not throw 2 trillion dollars at the defense budget that was never requested by the armed forces.
Hope that I will never again see unregulated financial speculation nearly destroy our economy.
Possibly retire someday.

President Barack Obama is not perfect, but he's a darn good moderate democrat. I don't like some of the things he's done but the good things he's done far out weigh the bad.

deerhound wrote:Amen to that Lazer

Double Amen

Pachyderm's Nose wrote:Well,
Thanks to Obama I can:
Get health insurance even with this pre-existing condition.
Keep my 23 y.o. son on my health insurance until he is financially stable.
Know that my daughters can expect the same pay for the same job as their male counterparts.
Attend the wedding of my childhood best friend and his husband.
Still buy a chevrolet.
Accept that my taxes will go up but Mitt Romney's will too.
Hope that we will not throw 2 trillion dollars at the defense budget that was never requested by the armed forces.
Hope that I will never again see unregulated financial speculation nearly destroy our economy.
Possibly retire someday.

President Barack Obama is not perfect, but he's a darn good moderate democrat. I don't like some of the things he's done but the good things he's done far out weigh the bad.

I just had to look to see where you are located. You didn't disappoint.

For what it's worth, I'm disappointed. The election didn't go the way I would have preferred it to have gone. But I've long been interested in the reaction in the financial market during the time period leading up to, and immediately following some event. In particular, I've been watching the S&P 500 and gold and silver prices. Presuming that the market's reaction to the news might indicate what the institutional investment community thinks we can expect in the next fiscal quarter or two, I was surprised that there wasn't a very strong reaction to the news. Sure, the S&P is down this morning, but that's to be expected. "Buy onthe rumor, sell on the news" has always seemed to be the pattern. And as that maxim would indicate, there was a selloff this morning, and gold and silver prices are up, but only a little. The reaction was oddly (to me) mild. Rather than forecasting doom and gloom and "let's go out and buy more guns," like some of my acquaintainces say, it seems to me the reaction is predicting "business as usual."

Thetoolman wrote: "When the people find that they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic.”
- Benjamin Franklin

Kinda like when our legislatures vote themselves a raise eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFGWVKXxm0

deltadave wrote:

Thetoolman wrote:Oboma...

"When people can't even spell their own President's name, that is the end of civilization."
-Leon Trotsky

At least he spelled most of the words correctly.

Pachyderm's Nose wrote:Well,
Thanks to Obama I can:
Get health insurance even with this pre-existing condition.
Keep my 23 y.o. son on my health insurance until he is financially stable.
Know that my daughters can expect the same pay for the same job as their male counterparts.
Attend the wedding of my childhood best friend and his husband.
Still buy a chevrolet.
Accept that my taxes will go up but Mitt Romney's will too.
Hope that we will not throw 2 trillion dollars at the defense budget that was never requested by the armed forces.
Hope that I will never again see unregulated financial speculation nearly destroy our economy.
Possibly retire someday.

President Barack Obama is not perfect, but he's a darn good moderate democrat. I don't like some of the things he's done but the good things he's done far out weigh the bad.

Agreed. Hopefully the Tea Party got the message and congress will go back to work FOR THE PEOPLE.

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Since politicians have been poor at doing what they promise,
I suspect many voted against the guy they most fear will take something away.
Anyone with a health history knows how devastating pre-existing conditions and
lifetime maximums can totally ruin good, hard-working people.
Also, eliminating even a little of the Medicare fraud has been important, hate to reopen those floodgates.

Slartybartfast wrote:For what it's worth, I'm disappointed. The election didn't go the way I would have preferred it to have gone. But I've long been interested in the reaction in the financial market during the time period leading up to, and immediately following some event. In particular, I've been watching the S&P 500 and gold and silver prices. Presuming that the market's reaction to the news might indicate what the institutional investment community thinks we can expect in the next fiscal quarter or two, I was surprised that there wasn't a very strong reaction to the news. Sure, the S&P is down this morning, but that's to be expected. "Buy onthe rumor, sell on the news" has always seemed to be the pattern. And as that maxim would indicate, there was a selloff this morning, and gold and silver prices are up, but only a little. The reaction was oddly (to me) mild. Rather than forecasting doom and gloom and "let's go out and buy more guns," like some of my acquaintainces say, it seems to me the reaction is predicting "business as usual."

Slart: obviously you haven't seen the Nasdaq, at this writing, its down 62 points... glad I got out...

Sheriff

chunkyfrog wrote:Since politicians have been poor at doing what they promise,
I suspect many voted against the guy they most fear will take something away.
Anyone with a health history knows how devastating pre-existing conditions and
lifetime maximums can totally ruin good, hard-working people.
Also, eliminating even a little of the Medicare fraud has been important, hate to reopen those floodgates.

But under Obamacare, will there ever even BE a Medicare any more?