There are a lot of things broken in our health care system, and obamacare does nothing to fix it.  It just pushes the point that you pay or you go to jail, and the government has the decisions, not your doctor, for your treatment.  This specifically is for those who have a few years under their belt.

Fix the problems first.

The US has arguably the best health care on the planet, it is available to all, but it is just way to expensive.  The the cost issue (the cost of education, the cost of medication, the insane profits of insurance companies, the cost of doctors and nurses, etc).  Hospital board members are just like board members of startups or fortune 500 companies.  They want money.

So fix the money part, then people will be able to afford health care.

So many pages for this bill, few have read it.  This is a healthy law?

This country is financing 40 cents of every dollar spent.  That is just spending way too much.  We must balance our own personal budget.  A business must balance its budget or close the door (unless you are GM and push the too big to fail issue, and others...)

It took a majority to make this happen.

Has congress ever fixed a problem?  Usually, they just throw money on it.  Now, they do not have any.

And it was this administration that has pushed this country over the edge.  It is a train wreck that will not end for a while.  Retiring Senator Liberman stated that Congress is not willing to make the tough decisions to address the problem openly, let alone try to fix it.  The Dems are against a balanced budget commandment.

Both sides of the isle are wrong.  The White House is wrong.  The both the dems and the gop are wrong.  The dems are more wrong than the gop, but both are still wrong.  That is why this country is in the mess it is in today.  It is all about politics, not about being responsible and upholding your oath of office.

I have helped manage the ebay web site while managing the internal systems, helpdesk, and business systems.  I ran the support group for Netscape focusing on government solutions, the IT department for small microchip companies, for small dot com companies, and ran data centers for Lockheed for black whole projects.

I can not get an interview for desktop support, helpdesk, project manager or system administrator.  When I walked in for an interview at Google, they took one look at me (now 58), had a quick private conversation among themselves and told me that I was not a cultural fit for them.

Only a handful of interviews in silicon valley for the last three years.  There is something wrong with our economy and business practices.

Google used to post on their web site that if you are not currently employed, do not bother applying as you will not be considered.  The state assemble passed a lay making that illegal.  A friend of mine was a network engineer, working there as a contractor.  When he applied for a direct hire, they told him that he was not a cultural fit.  He was their best firewall person.  So they hired someone right out of Stanford without the Cisco certifications for the role.  Therefore, they just state that you are not a cultural fit if you are too old or unemployed.

Never in my over 20 years of working have I had an issue in trying to get a job.  The jobs have been leaving and the companies are not hiring the unemployed or those approaching retirement.

Yes, I do and will point fingers to the Obama administration for not working to fix the economy.  I have many friends in the same situation.

Yes, one finger is pointing at the Obama administration.  Stimulus money went overseas to train people to take our jobs.

Another is pointing to outsourcing.  With the push for complete outsourcing (e.g. cloud computing), a staff of IT folks is no longer in demand.  Now, just desktop support and a supervisor where there would be a director, two managers or more, system administrators, desktop support, email specialist, firewall and network specialist, etc.

So what do people like me do?  We must adapt.  Invest in a time of a bad economy into a different type of business.  To create something in a bad economy that is compelling for customers.  So all it takes is money and an idea to start.  In the San Francisco bay area, rent is insane, but there are opportunities.  In Reno (where we are going to sell our home), rent is cheap, but it is an oppressed environment with the highest unemployment in the nation (Nevada in general).

The economy has been greatly mismanaged by this administration and by congress (it takes both sides to mess things up).

I thought this should be under political for one statement I will make.

Tough times.  My short term contract job ended.  My quest for a full time job in 3 years has not hooked and landed anything.  Just sold my custom bass guitar, selling my Marklin digital train set, plus my jeep, and putting my house on the market.  I will keep trying to land a IT Manager or IT Director position.  Have tried system administrator an desktop support rolls, along with project manager.  Nothing.  To old, as I am just about to hit 60.

The stimulus did not work.  I know many in my shoes.

Are you better off now than you were before Obama took office?  How is the value of your savings account?  The value of your home?  Has it gone down?  How is your job or work environment?

Time for a real change, with real hope.  Obama failed.  Greed and liberals won.  The US suffered.  It took both isles to let this train wreck continue as it has.  Since Obama has been in office, our personal debt to the government has increased incredibly.  Each of us is on the hook for this debt.

Thank God I have a son who is going to take us in.  It says something on how you live your life, how you raise your family, and pushing family values on your family and those around you.

So are you in better shape now?  How is this hope and change working for you?

A liberal mind sees truth in a liberal manner (pro socialism, big government, controls on what you can buy or eat, think, speak, etc).
A Republican sees truth in a Republican manner
A democrat sees truth in a democrat manner
A conservative sees truth.

A true democrat is rare bread, many true democrats are now independents or have become republicans, like me.  I am a conservative democrat and do not support liberalism.  So unfortunately, I vote much more so for republicans than democrats.

Regardless of the political party, that was wrong.

As I live in a part of the country that has only Democrats for elected officials, there is nobody in office that I have voted for.

There is more violence and hatred from the left than from the right.  I have seen my friends new Mbenz vandalized because he has a license plate frame that states "Friends don't let friends vote liberal".  New car.  Picked it up on a Wednesday.  Drove to a nice resteraunt in San Francisco for Friday Night, vallet parking, and got it back keyed, windows broken, headlights and tallights broken, two tires flat, covered in Obama 2012 stickers.

My church in San Francisco was attacked by the GLTC (Gay, Lesben, Transgender Community) and the church was attacked with molitoff cocktails, people going to church were barred form attending.  (over 10 years ago now).  Not covered by any news until a video got to Fox news, then Fox news went to the San Francisco City Council.  So much to the story - the city council forbids the police from interfearing from anything the GLTC is doing.  They just did a perimeter around the church, just in case the building caught fire.  No arrests were made.  The city council denied it happened even though the video had the police chief and fire chief there, with many, many police and firemen.  No protection of the church or those going to church.

Yes, true colors.
The left is filled with hate, the democrat party has been taken over by them.  No, I do not put all democrats into that mess.  Please note that I am a JFK style democrat.  Like Regan, I left the democrat party because it stopped being the democrat party.

It has everything to do with government spending AND trade.  I guess that nobody has been paying attention.  The bigger a government gets, the more money it needs.  The more money it needs, the more it taxes.  The more it taxes, the less money will flow.  The less money flows, the more government needs to tax.  If there is not enough tax money, the government gets loans to spend more money.

So I disagree, respectfully.

Ah,

Talking about some of the common perspectives, but not organizing with each other.  That makes sense.

Occupy, on the surface, has very legitimate arguments that I do agree with, as to the Tea Party.  But when you dig deep, there are different perspectives on solutions.

I read something on the Dilbert blog.  Currently, we deal with lawyers as politicians, and the media eats it up.  "My way is good, your way is bad"

IF we had technologist or engineers, the results would be: "Good solution", "Better Solution", or "Bad Solution that fails logic test"

So there may be a surface of agreement on some issues between the Tea Party and Occupy, there could be no concurrence on a solution.

Such as supporting abortion, bypassing the constitution because it just gets in the way, fiscal responsibility that may be the doom of this country...

Obama conservative?  Another redefinition of terms.

Don't get me wrong.  I do not like staunch democrats or staunch republicans as there is a disconnect of their brain when it comes to anything political.  Honest criticism is fine, but not just of opposing political perspectives.  The standards are the same, regardless of party.

And Tea Party working with Occupy protestors?  I really must read that link

Actually, they do.  The Democrats and those that supported them were close in spending to the Gov's spending, not counting the Union.  I read an article linked from Drudge that indicated sources where the UNION spent more that both the Gov and Dem combined.

I would not have stated it if I did not read it.  Washington Journal?  Washington Post?

We need real hope and real change from what has been happening these last 3 years, and also from what some of the stuff Bush did (and from some of the stuff that all of the other presidents, regardless of party, have dome).

It starts with a different POTUS.

If there is a common code, a moral law, where did the standard come from?  If from man, void of God, then the standard is a belief.

Math is universal.  Regardless of the education level of people across time and distance, is still structured by mathematical rules.  Moral law, through history, has not really changed much.  If you try to push in a political thought, it becomes a belief, a culture, not an absolute.  For example, throught history, all countries and civilizations respected those that fought in battle, not run from it, told the truth and not lie, dedicated to their spouse not cheat, etc.  Those basic foundations are found back to the beginning for recorded history.

So with that understanding, where did it come from?

We have instincts, but we can choose to override them.  So instincts are not morals.

Now he wants to give amnesty to illegals, AND to create jobs for them.  He is doing this with a pen stroke, and NOT talking to congress.

What about those of us who are looking for work?  Or those of us who are grossly underemployed?  What about the fact that the US has lost it's place as the source of international commerce (using the dollar as the foundation of trade)?

Who on the form is better off now than before Obama took office?

He put (and congress voted for it) someone on the supreme court that never spent time as a judge.

Every elected official has done something that everybody can applaud.  Every elected official has done something that everybody can question how the bum got elected (if you ignore those with political idolatry).

Do I like Mitt Romney?  No.  There is nobody out there on either sides of the isle that I have great respect for.  But it can not get worst than Obama.  Initially, hope and change.  What has happened, is we have lost our country standing, the country is so deep in debt that the US government is financing 40% of every dollar spent, and there is no hope to get out of the mess.

It will take a painful effort to fix what he broke (government finances, country standing, private sector employment, etc).

It is all about jobs and fiscal responsibility.  His watch.  His failure to lead with an open, clear vision.  A big government will not fix these problems.  Action will.

He has created the worst threat to this country, for what it stands for (freedom, independence) than what any foreign power has ever pushed against it.

40% of every dollar that the government spends is financed.
A majority of people have lost a majority of their worth (housing market crash, investments)
More and more jobs are being sent overseas.  Stimulus money went to India to help that process.
The US has lost the international financial strength of being the currency for international trade.
His signing statements on subjects that require congress approval violate the constitution.
Unemployment is still going up.
The one organization that is hiring is the federal government which has grown more under his administration by an incredible amount. 
He believes the private sector is doing fine.  Then he stated that it is not.  Then stated that the government is not big enough to stimulate the private sector.
Many who have found jobs are grossly under employed.  I used to make over 160k.  Now I make under 50k (to keep a roof over our heads).

No, he is the worst president in history. 
I do not buy into political idolatry as both parties look at power and authority, not fixing problems.

Religion (as in organized with parent higher structures, like a corporation) is not necessarily a good thing, but there can be good or bad from it.
Atheism is bad.  It ignores moral law (different than a moral belief which people try to justify).
Faith (christian) is good.

When you try to find that something where there is justice for all, it implies that there is some international law (it's not fair!)

Try reading Mere Christianity.  It may open your eyes.

IT looks as if the huge amount of money that the Unions put into the recall just proved that the private sector wants fiscal responsibility.  Since the governor pushed for the change, the results have been no layoffs, extra funds for schools, and the state in not in the red.  Also, the government is not held to ransom by unions or their employees.

The public has voted.

Meat!
Beans served on the side, as is minced onion and grated cheese.  Allow others to "spoil" their serving as they wish.

I use several types of dried and fresh chillies:
DRIED
Anaheim
Pasilla
New Mexico
Chili De Arbol
FRESH
Serrano
Jalapeno
(option - Habenereo, just one!)

The ratio of ground and cubed as provided above is a good one:  2 ground to 1 cubed.

To prepare the dried chillies, I will steam them, put them in a food processor, chop them up, then push the pulp through a medium to fine wire mesh basket of some sort.  That will get you the real good pungent chili flavor!

Ground Cumin is critical!
Onions (different types, but not too much!)
Tomatoes (blanch them, peal them, and dice them up in a food processor)

Ah, so much more to add....
Soak the meat in Jack Daniels overnight (add some of the elixir as broth to the cooking chilli!
If 5 lbs of meat, add 1/2 pound of ground pork...

Now THAT is a post!

There was a comment on the radio that cracked me up It was something like:

"The person who will will the nomination and the election will be the person who has less Daffy Duck moments and more Bugs Bunny moments that the other person(s).  Bugs and Daffy are polar opposites.  Bugs is calm, cool, and collective.  Daffy just blows it."

So thinking back over the last several election cycles, it is true!  Regan had many Bugs moments and no Daffy moments.  As did GW Bush.  Clinton has his also.  Obama was filled with Bugs, but with no substance (still, the other side - McCain had more than their share of daffy moments).

Kinda funny, if you think about it.