Mind you while I’m happily suggesting pain and sacrifice for Coburn. The really important and dangerous bipartisan screwing of America continues apace as TPP and the EU trade deal are on track to be Fast Tracked when we all know that what would be best for the majority of America would be their immediate death.

Christ I’m tired of so-called Democrats selling out their base and the country on a regular basis. And I’m tired of trying to make that cost them personally enough to slow or end it. Mostly I’m tired of failing. I admit they have more stamina (and larger bank accounts then I do), they never die.

What he would fund is exactly where Dems and everyone from the NorthEast should demand all offsets come from, and be very clear that they will block any aid with offsets from anywhere that wouldn’t cause Coburn distress and pain – in other words if Coburn wants sacrifice it should start with his. You know target his sponsors and important campaign donors…

No, I mean a White House and their minions in Congress that took practically everything that might have made this Rube Goldberg of a plan work for actually providing health care and not just useless insurance (too expensive to actually go to the doctor) off the table to keep it “Bipartisan” even though everyone with a brain knew it was going to be passed using reconciliation and wasn’t going to be bipartisan in the least.

And if you think 2010 was a blood bath, wait until most of America actually realizes that ACA means that people who did have health care now less of it and the people who were supposed to get some don’t either as premiums and co-pays go up and subsidies get cut. Say 2016 at the latest…

bluevistas has a very good point. IF America had really been making excess use of its health care system prior to the downturn then, and I quote, “but also to rising levels of patient cost-sharing in private insurance plans that discourage use of services,” would mean that the cut back was actually a good thing. However we have little or no evidence that most of America was making excess use of the health care system. In fact, we had a great deal of evidence that a great deal of our country was locked out of health care or having to choose to put off care due to cost before the rising levels of patient cost sharing.

I would love to think this was a good thing and really meant that long term estimates of our country’s fiscal situation would benefit from this. However if it only means that people will continue to put off real health care (not having insurance, but health CARE) then our Medicare and Medicaid costs will skyrocket even further then current estimates as even more people do what so many are doing now – hanging on until those kick in.

That is one of the reasons why Obamacare is a huge friggin’ disaster waiting to happen. It gets more people insurance, but I’m betting we see less and less health care going along with that insurance due to the inability to eat, keep a roof over your head, pay for your mandatory insurance leaves little or nothing for the deductibles and co-pays.

I do not trust Obama in the slightest. However, I think our biggest hope might be the cloture rules. Yeah, I think if it gets a vote it will probably pass. But there might be just enough folks to stop it getting a vote.

And yes I know how sad it is that I’m hoping for this. But frankly, I’m less then outraged by the failure of the weak tea gun background check law to make it past cloture. One because it was weak tea, and little better then nothing, but two because it never had a shot in hell of making it into law even if the Senate did pass it. Despite my reputation of always wanting ponies, I actually do recognize reality. And the reality is that without Congress having to vote on this as the kids were being buried the chance to get it was slim and none. That it was even possible for that short period of time though is a small miracle and got a vote at all is a real chink in the armor.

Gotta love all those Dems who have noticed that Obama’s budget gives away the cow and gets them nothing. You know like Nadia Velasquez and Louise Slaughter. Both of whom consider it part of the negotiations. You know, ladies, just because you live in NY doesn’t mean that your district might not vote you out if you sell out their Nonnas…

You think Reid threatening this when Obama puts forth a budget his own party has members threatening to fillbuster is a coincidence?

Yeah, it could be toothless posturing, but if it isn’t it is all about making sure the Dems toe the line, betray their constituents and guarantee they will either be defeated or will be beat to shit and barely survive the next election instead of actually doing the right thing. This was Reid’s way of saying this is going to happen, we have the sacrificial Republicans lined up, you are not going to gum this up.

So he thinks his walking around money is perfectly adequate. All because someone else provides the roof over his head, the car he rides in, and the food in his belly. Hell if we all had that, we could all live on a hundred a week.

Have I mentioned I hate these people…

I have such Stockholm Syndrome where all this is concerned, I’m going to probably read news reports about this like a game giving points for reporting about how the people really using the Cyprus banks as tax havens and not as their local bank for business accounts and retirement savings got their money out using the London branches leaving the unconnected depositors holding the bag.

And yeah, I’ve come to the conclusion that until there is a real freakin’ bank run, not just the slow leaking ones we have seen already in Greece and Italy and…., that the leaders in all this will get that they have screwed up royally. That or when several hundred bank branches are blown up on the same night as their top people are dragged from their beds and treated to a hot tar skin treatment by people tired of being treated like suckers. Somehow I think only when Jamie Dimon and Anshu Jain and their tools like Merkel feel ‘threatened’ by austerity, will austerity loose its luster…

Can’t have someone in there who might buck the DLC standards and who knew they did nothing to help her. Seriously, I really believe they know if people who might stand up to the corporate overlords started appearing in Washington, the puppets might realize that being a wholly owned subsidiary is not necessary.

As cwaltz mentioned above – repair. I’m betting that robots in more openly public spaces will be needing a great deal of repair. Not just because they will not be popular with many people, but because the public is unthinking and stupid.

For instance, unless there is a human to bring the robot the shirts to fold and pick up the folded shirts to return to the appropriate cubby, the robot is going to be among the customers. Who will bump into it, kick it, knock it over, drop things on it, spill things on it, etc. The Gap folding robot will spend more time down then folding…

Robotic repair may rival plumbing as meaningful career very soon.

So wait, they managed to send Martha Stewart to jail for two years for lying to prosecutors. You want to tell me this guy has never done that?!?! IOW, if they can’t find another reason to jail his ass they aren’t looking. But then Stewart actually did something and wasn’t just a trader who did nothing but gamble other people’s assets to enrich themselves. You know so valuable to society they are too big to jail.

Republicans are smart enough to know they no longer have to lie about the deficit because they realized the President is doing it for them. He can do what they want and get the Dems to screw the poor and the elderly for them

Or did you not realize that this is their way of making sure their fingerprints aren’t on the crime.