Posted on 10/09/2013 6:44:14 PM PDT by sickoflibs
Those men were drafted. Then they served one year there and got out. Going there was like choosing the short straw.
The French learned their lesson and got out but Johnson trying to not look weak wanting to promote his Great Society stuck us there without any thought as to how he would end it.
One of my favorite idiot movies to laugh at is the Green Berets with John Wayne. In that he makes it look like Vietnam was like MacArthur and the Japanese. "Someday I kill all stinkin Cong' says Japanese Sulu the homo, playing the SVN officer.
THE NVN Communists were willing to fight and die to win, those losers in the South were not and instead they expected us to do it for them,.
By the time Nixon got it the was over, Americans had long lost patience.
“Just doubling? Ive heard of 3 to 4 times from many different sources; some are people I know personally...”
Whoah nelly.
Very insightful, SOL-—but we need tongue-tied Repubs to explain their positions as good as you do.
I nominate SOL to be Congressional Coach.
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Ponder this, guys.
REFEERENCE--EXCERPTS A November 30, 2012 Cato.com report indicated the Insurance Exchanges will cost Twice What it Costs to Administer Medicare (NOT what he's told Americans).
ONE STATE'S LAUNCH COSTS Then in March 2013 CATO.COM reported "The Cost to Launch the California Health Insurance Exchange is $910 million".
So far (2012) California has received $910 million in federal grants to launch its new health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). The California exchange, "Covered California," has so far awarded a $183 million contract to Accenture to build the website, enrollment, and eligibility system and another $174 million to operate the exchange for four years.
The state will also spend $250 million on a two-year marketing campaign. By comparison California Senator Barbara Boxer spent $28 million on her 2010 statewide reelection campaign while her challenger spent another $22 million.
The most recent installment of the $910 million in federal money was a $674 million grant. The exchange's executive director noted that was less than the $706 million he had asked for. "The feds reduced the 2014 potential payment for outreach and enrollment by about $30 million," he said. "But we think we have enough resources on hand to do the biggest outreach that I have ever seen."
For additional perspective....private insurance marketing site, Esurance sells not only health insurance but also things like homeowners and auto insurance across the country......author put his zip code into their system along with his age, they offered him 87 different health plans from all the big players in my area.
Now granted, the new health insurance exchanges are more complex because they have to interface with Medicaid and the IRS as well as calculate subsidies. But the order of magnitude difference in what it cost to launch esurance compared to the California exchange is pretty big.
Privately funded Esurance began its multi-product national web business in 1998 with an initial $5.5 million round of venture fund investment in 1999 and a second round of $34 million a few months later.
The start-up experience of other major web companies is also instructive. Facebook received $13.7 million to launch in 2005. eBay was founded in 1995 and received its first venture money in 1997$6.7 million.
Even doubling these private investments for inflation still leaves quite a gap.
SOURCE http://www.cato.org/blog/californias-obamacare-exchange-costs-56-times-more-launch-facebook
Thanks, that one was a real easy one for me to write.
Explaining Repubs is more difficult but explaining Dems is easy.
I know what you mean. Often I get so frustrated when I see GOPs on TV interviews stumbling and getting beat up I have to turn the channel.
‘ Why wont you just pass the clean CR and open the government?”
‘Why wont you justput the clean CR up for a House vote to open the government?”
“So when will the shutdown end?”
GOP answer ‘DUHHHHH”
My answer “It will end when you do your job and report how Obama is trying to score political points by hurting Americans with these actions and he refuses to compromise. Only then will he act reasonable.”
My sanity is not gonna last 3 more years.
Verbally challenged GOP characters need a Cyrano de Bergerac to put words in their mouths.
here's another observation on this.
Yes FNC like on Megyn Kelly's show did play up that those illegals got that permit for the rally while the park was closed to us US citizens, but did you see any GOP Senators or house members voicing outrage about it on TV??
It was after Sunday so it wouldnt be on the Sunday shows yet, but it seems like they are so terrified of Hispanics now they wont even call Obama out for screwing us on this, putting illegals on the line in FRONT of us Americans.
You all see the same?
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Obamas New Shutdown Scam: Reverse his own position and then claim he saved his victims from the GOP, sickoflibs wrote:
RE :What lost that war was that the NVN soldiers were willing to fight and our allies the South SVN army expected us to fight for them, to do their jobs.
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Is that what you learned in school ? You sure as hell didnt serve there. I hope other FRs who served there will respond to your stupid rant. To which you replied:
“Those men were drafted. Then they served one year there and got out. Going there was like choosing the short straw.
The French learned their lesson and got out but Johnson trying to not look weak wanting to promote his Great Society stuck us there without any thought as to how he would end it.
One of my favorite idiot movies to laugh at is the Green Berets with John Wayne. In that he makes it look like Vietnam was like MacArthur and the Japanese. “Someday I kill all stinkin Cong’ says Japanese Sulu the homo, playing the SVN officer.
THE NVN Communists were willing to fight and die to win, those losers in the South were not and instead they expected us to do it for them,.
By the time Nixon got it the was over, Americans had long lost patience.”
I was right. All you know about that conflict was what you learned in school or from the MSM . Your comments do demonstrate however why that bringing up that defunding would require an examination of the media played in it which the GOPES would be reluctant to do. If you spouted off to me in person or to a Marine or a member of the volunteer Airborne forces who were doing the combat, as you have here you might (should) get knocked on your stupid ignorant butt .
Whatever. The guy is an asshole.
You old geezers would have to let go of your walkers first,
This isnt 1979
BAWHAHAHAHA
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