As New Year’s Day approaches, I’m reminded of the Chinese curse, “May you be born in interesting times,” because 2014 is likely to be a very interesting year. I expect the Democrats will be trying to distance themselves from their failed Affordable Care Act, while Republicans will be doing their best to avoid actually reading it before attacking. There are some impressive trends emerging that will make 2014 very, very different, and might even fix the problem we have with a U.S. Congress that thought Dumb and Dumber was a how-to film.
2014 will be the year that lower and middle income citizens of the world develop Ritchie Robots to replace the wealthy. The Ritchie Robots will be more efficient at spending money and creating jobs. Government robots will also be developed to replace humans in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
"I expect the Democrats will be trying to distance themselves from their failed Affordable Health Care Act, while Republicans will be doing their best to avoid actually reading it before attacking."
And, certain other people will continue to ignore its successes, ignore the fact that its a retcon of a Republican idea (and therefor hardly the Democrat's failure, if it is one, since they had a whole list of things they wanted to do, but didn't, so it would actually pass a Republican held congress), and, just for symmetry, also ignore the fact that nearly every state it "is" failing is, it is due to either a) the state refusing to participate fully, or at all, or b) lying their ass off to their citizens, in an attempt to convince them to not use it.
Its kind of like the whole hating Obama thing. There are enough idiot things he is doing/has done to have a problem with (though, many of those things are ones the other side would have fully supported, if they where doing it, then tried to hide under the rug, so the public didn't know about them, like spy programs, drone missions, etc.), without making completely insane BS up, or blaming him for things that where either done, or set in motion, before he was in office, and had no way to stop. Its kind of like conspiracy theories - "The government is incompetent and incapable of doing things right, but they successfully planned, and hid truth about... {a long list of stupid things they supposedly kept secret from the public}" The people apposed to Obama would have us believe that he is simultaneously incompetent at his jobs, and possessing the sort of dictatorial super powers of a third world dictator, and so, ***should have been able*** to do anything he wanted, and make congress and the rest of the government go along with it, by simply proclaiming it to be so, and having it magically happen (which, since he hasn't, is explained to us as a few heroic Tea Partiers standing in the way of his super powers with ... a lead shield and kryptonite, or something? lol
Its insane the contortions people go through to deny reality, because they can't grasp that presidents are, by design, powerless in the face of another branch of government refusing to work with them, or that bills "have flaws", sometimes major ones, especially if they are based on "Republican" legislation, and gutted of half of the stuff they needed to work right.
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4 Unsettling Prospects for 2014
Posted by: Rob Enderle December 30, 2013 05:00 AMAs New Year’s Day approaches, I’m reminded of the Chinese curse, “May you be born in interesting times,” because 2014 is likely to be a very interesting year. I expect the Democrats will be trying to distance themselves from their failed Affordable Care Act, while Republicans will be doing their best to avoid actually reading it before attacking. There are some impressive trends emerging that will make 2014 very, very different, and might even fix the problem we have with a U.S. Congress that thought Dumb and Dumber was a how-to film.
And, certain other people will continue to ignore its successes, ignore the fact that its a retcon of a Republican idea (and therefor hardly the Democrat's failure, if it is one, since they had a whole list of things they wanted to do, but didn't, so it would actually pass a Republican held congress), and, just for symmetry, also ignore the fact that nearly every state it "is" failing is, it is due to either a) the state refusing to participate fully, or at all, or b) lying their ass off to their citizens, in an attempt to convince them to not use it.
Its kind of like the whole hating Obama thing. There are enough idiot things he is doing/has done to have a problem with (though, many of those things are ones the other side would have fully supported, if they where doing it, then tried to hide under the rug, so the public didn't know about them, like spy programs, drone missions, etc.), without making completely insane BS up, or blaming him for things that where either done, or set in motion, before he was in office, and had no way to stop. Its kind of like conspiracy theories - "The government is incompetent and incapable of doing things right, but they successfully planned, and hid truth about... {a long list of stupid things they supposedly kept secret from the public}" The people apposed to Obama would have us believe that he is simultaneously incompetent at his jobs, and possessing the sort of dictatorial super powers of a third world dictator, and so, ***should have been able*** to do anything he wanted, and make congress and the rest of the government go along with it, by simply proclaiming it to be so, and having it magically happen (which, since he hasn't, is explained to us as a few heroic Tea Partiers standing in the way of his super powers with ... a lead shield and kryptonite, or something? lol
Its insane the contortions people go through to deny reality, because they can't grasp that presidents are, by design, powerless in the face of another branch of government refusing to work with them, or that bills "have flaws", sometimes major ones, especially if they are based on "Republican" legislation, and gutted of half of the stuff they needed to work right.