Originally Posted by PornMD

I'm helping to support my family - I'm not married or have children, I'm talking about parents/step-parents, brothers/sisters, even friends. If I wasn't fortunate enough to have gotten into domains when I did and found major success with it, I can tell you that more than just my brother would be living on the street right now. If I was supporting only myself like what someone single my age would be doing in an avg economy would, I'd be passing with flying colors. So fuck that part of your quote, buddy. Stop making some shitty fucking assumption/judgment. Maybe your family is one of the few that hasn't been affected by the economy - if so, congrats - want a fucking medal?

That's besides the point anyways. Tell me exactly how this helps the economy NOW. Helping it in the long run might be great, but tell someone who's about to be living on the street in a couple of months who omg happens to not be sick with anything major YET how the past year of focus on this bill has helped their lives. "Nothing has worked" because nothing was tried - he was focused on this bill instead of working to find a solution or perhaps trying something that might work. This could be the greatest solution to health care the world has ever seen, but tons of people will still be losing their homes and will be jobless, and most of those people won't give a flying fuck about this bill.

Also, don't put words into my mouth like I can already tell you probably will - I do NOT blame the problems of this economy on Obama. Bush clearly fucked the country up due to the Iraq War among other things and Obama would have to reverse the momentum downward from the bank failures etc. in addition to building momentum upward. That said, he got elected just as much because he said he could fix the economy (and because everyone was scared to death of McCain dying = Palin as president), and it's such a more widespread problem affecting so many more people than this health care issue that he should have been PRIMARILY focused on THAT instead. But no, he saw the vast majority dem congress and senate and thought "shit, this health care reform thing will be a breeze to pass" and thought wrong, then rather than let it rest until later and shifting focus on something more important that he should have been focused on anyways, he basically waged a several month campaign to get health care passed. Hey, great.

So when tons of democrats get voted out in the next elections, Obama can wonder why the people are so pissed at them after they passed the almighty health care reform bill.