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To: Cincinatus' Wife
As people switch coverage under Obamacare, they should get lower costs and more benefits, she said.

"Should" and "will" are two completely different concepts. I'm betting on "higher costs and less benefits".

4 posted on 11/03/2013 1:32:04 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Fresh Wind

1994:”A hard-edged question was posed to Hillary Rodham Clinton at her Whitewater news conference: what about “the suggestion in the R.T.C. memorandum . . . you and your husband knew or should have known that Whitewater was not cash-flowing and that notes or debts should have been paid”?

“Shoulda, coulda, woulda,” the First Lady replied. “We didn’t.”...............

Taken together, the term means “Spare me the useless excuses.” I reached Mrs. Clinton through her aides, each of whom was surprised at the good-natured nature of my follow-up question, to get her definition. Mrs. Clinton passes the word that she heard the expression often in Arkansas, and interprets it to mean:

“People can tell you that you should have, or could have, or would have, but the question is: Did you or didn’t you?”...............

The shoulda, coulda, woulda phrase (accepting Mrs. Clinton’s order as standard) has a wistfully resigned connotation that was evoked in 1854 by the poet John Greenleaf Whittier in “Maud Muller”:

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,

The saddest are these: “It might have been!”

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/magazine/on-language-shoulda-coulda-woulda.html


5 posted on 11/03/2013 1:39:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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