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| 2013-11-16 |
As Obamacare continues its spectacular public impersonation of the LZ Hindenburg, dropping flaming wreckage across the politico-economic landscape, I am still just utterly gobsmacked at the dazed bafflement on the face of the true believers in government. "How could this be going so spectacularly wrong?" goes the hand-wringing lament. How could it not? Seriously! You think a bunch of people can sit down and... Lux Fiat! ...re-write the rules for how 15% of the economy works in one fell swoop, in what amounts to a giant bong-fueled bull session, and have nothing go wrong? You might as well try to change the spark plugs on your car while the engine's running. Then again, these are people who think that the efficiency of internal combustion engines or the amount of water it takes to carry off a turd are governed by legislative magic and not the laws of physics. The naive credulity these people have towards the power of government, their blind faith that they can tamper with the machinery without it hurting anybody, differs in kind nor quality not one lick from the most snake-handlin' Pentecostal's faith that Jesus will keep the serpent from biting. (As an aside, I'll note that stuff like this happens in microcosm all the time, when government decides to meddle with one industry or another, but rarely does it meddle on such high profile with an economic sector that affects everybody all at once, and on such short notice, to boot. This isn't trying to gradually phase out gas guzzlers over ten years; this is making all cars that don't get >30MPG illegal to drive in January. But don't worry! If your cars don't meet the standard, the government will have a new car ready for you on the 1st. Promise! They've almost got the car factory finished!) |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #6 Now that is an insult to Frankenstein: 1) He wasn't intended to become a monster. Obamacare was designed from top to bottom to fail and cause as much damage to the healthcare system as possible. 2) Frankenstein is much more caring. Just ask that old fiddler. Obumblecare is much more harsh and cruel. Just ask that Cancer victim who lost her insurance. 3) Frankenstein can be killed. The jury's still out on Obumblecare. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-11-16 22:11 |
| #5 Ladies and Gentlemen, we have created a monster. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-11-16 19:39 |
| #4 Without fail every news article posted by the left wing media blames the failure of the ACA on a single disfunctional web site. To suggest that thousands of the best IT professionals in this country could not fix a failed web site in just a matter of days is ridicules. What the ACA has is a gigantic lumbering, stumbling, morphing, slobbering example of a failed business model. The management module appears to be layer upon layer upon layer of other content management systems of mind–boggling complexity. The main database system is reported to be a virtual myriad of sub-database systems all drawing from and interacting with the database systems of the IRS, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Judicial, Welfare, insurance, and who knows how many other private or governmental entitys. The whole priority of repair to the Obamacare system must absolutely be to prevent contamination of the other normally functioning government systems. Try to imagine the chaos that would ensue if the ACA system caused the entire IRS database system to collapse. The purpose of the Obamacare web site is simply to interact with the viewers and display information sent to or retrieved from the massive Obamacare system itself. To simply suggest that Obama has a web site problem is probably the understatement of the century. |
| Posted by: junkiron 2013-11-16 18:55 |
| #3 Yeah, no one's ever done that before this article... |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-11-16 12:34 |
| #2 You know, copy-pasting the entire article is tacky as hell. |
| Posted by: Ho Chi Poodle4334 2013-11-16 12:31 |
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