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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I approve. The law is the law. I am also drunk. Somehow this doesn't seem to affect my coherence. Makes me even less talkative than usual. Suspicious. Should remember to investigate.
Let's try to give this post some content.
I'm worried about the disparity in terms of technological backbone between the countryside and the big cities. Any specific reason why this kind of infrastructure isn't spreading faster? I fear there may grow an intolerably stark divide between the city and the country.
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I have a feeling that trial is going to get messy.
Rick Perry Says Texas Will Not Take Part in Obamacare
edited 15th Nov '12 5:21:23 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Unless he's going to provide something better than Obamacare, he's got literally no choice but to comply with the law. So he can probably block it for a while, but eventually he will have to bend to the federally mandated law. He's basically blowing hot air and costing millions of people their well being in the process.
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F*CK THE LAW!
edited 15th Nov '12 5:42:05 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Gov. Scott Walker plans to announce Friday morning whether Wisconsin will implement Obamacare
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You seemed to be saying that the states can just ignore the federal law when you said the feds can't tell the states what to do. I was pointing out a situation in which the fed basically told the states that they had to adopt a certain policy. I fail to see how they can't force the states to accept the medicaid expansion.
Just set up the exchange you idiot. It's going to happen one way or the other so you might as well have some marginal control over how it's implemented.
edited 15th Nov '12 5:48:34 PM by Kostya
@Handle: Can we please keep down the mockery? I realize this is upsetting, but there's only so many bad jokes one can make before it's an obnoxious echo chamber. You jumped over that line... a lot faster than normal.
@Kostya: 2014, I'm pretty sure, the off-year election. No idea of the Democrats have any candidates, or if another Republican is running against him. (Which has happened, but she sadly didn't get it.)
It's because it isn't as appealing to companies to put that infrastructure in at places that are less densely populated. Putting down fiber optics in a city, where you've got thousands of customers in just a few blocks, is much more appealing than laying fiber in a county that has thousands of people in the entire county.
Rick Perry is indeed a tool, but the Democratic runners weren't very good. I was in San Antonio when Rick Perry got elected last, and thus had to put up with the preceding month or two of political ads and discussion crowding up the TV in the BEQ.
States can't ignore federal law. They can, however, create more restrictive laws.
A state could say "the legal age limit for drinking is 25" basically, but not "18"
My guess is that Texas has been such a conservative state for so long that the democratic party may not have much in the way of an infrastructure in Texas, making it harder for them to run candidates. But then again, Houston.
edited 15th Nov '12 6:29:53 PM by TheyCallMeTomu
Whitehouse petition for a fact checking administration.
I have no doubt this will get lots of signatures.
I'm baaaaaaack

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