No doubdt about it, these people are delusional, stupid and insane. This is an extremely dangerous combination.
These people are really starting to piss me off.
These people are really starting to piss me off.
This is outright totalitarian government. It must be abolished or we will be living in the 1960's equivalent of the USSR/Cuba/China. Can you imagine how these people talk in private if this is what they are willing to say publicly?
I have a “mandate” as well. It’s called the Second Amendment.
The HELL they do!
Just where do they suppose said "mandate" comes from?
This scourge must be eliminated...this thinking that unelected administrators have the power to do whatever they wish. And, that thinking ORIGINATES in both the White House and the Congress.
These people must learn fear of THE people.
I wonder what her house looks like. I wonder what kind of car she drives. I wonder where she goes for vacation — putzing around the garden at home and relaxing, or jetting off to some exotic location?
I don’t WANT a high efficiency toaster.
Let me give a shining example of envirowackiness that has become so commonplace, that I doubt many make notice of it any more. Or else, there is something fundamental that I just don’t get.
Last weekend I picked up at a street fair a couple of thick promotional drink coasters of a local bank. Made of something that feels like hard cardboard. On them is printed the bank’s name and logo, and the assurance that they were made of “100% recyclable materials”. Fine. Turn them around and see a sign saying they were Made in China. In China? Why would the Chinese care to announce that these throwaway things were 100% recyclable? Well, because that was what the Americans specified in the manufacturing order, yes? To impress me. To ease my environmentally concerned conscience. But. Can we trust the Chinese that the statement is true? Who’s checking? Knowing what we know of Chinese manufacturing practices, I’d sooner bet that they were made of asbestos with a generous dose of DDT to glue it together and keep the moquitos away. Still, that’s a minor point.
The big point is the amount of energy expended to transport these things from China to the U.S., the environmental “damage” done to do it (big container ships polluting the oceans bringing containers filled with drink coasters, imagine), and all the “bad” things done to Mother Earth to give away such trinkets at a street fair, trinkets which could well have been made by hand or with simple tools by homeless persons right here where they live under the local freeway. But hey, we’re saving Mother Earth, let’s not think about it too much. Unexamined life is worth living in self-righteous bliss!
Yay! Then they can just raise our taxes by that much to make sure we don't pocket one penny of our "savings". Besides, unemployed people aren't going to be able to buy these new products. Did they factor the unemployment rate into the "savings"?
Uh, Ms. Meddling Tyrant, maam? Every time we use less of some utility such as water or electricity, they find that they're making less money, run to the oversight board, ramble on about how some of their costs are fixed so they want to raise the rates so they make the same money while providing US with less product.
So you're saddling us with more expensive, probably less reliable products with less robust designs, which will no doubt be difficult to impossible to service ourselves, in addition to STEALING our FREEDOM to make our own buying decisions, all in an effort to save us money you'll then allow the utility to confiscate from us in the form of increased rates????? And which even if we got to keep it would probably be less than the premium we'll now have no choice about paying up front? What would we ever do without you?
Obama’s plan is to throw us over the edge, utilizing his policy makers as a weapon of mass destruction.
Have you seen this crap?
‘We’re going to make people save money for themselves,’
It is only Fascism when Republicans do it - Sincerely, your local Dem.
Mandate to force. Says it all.