One question. Who are "WE" ? "Victory over Germany was declared on May 18th, 1945. The time it took from the Declaration of War to Victory over Germany was 3 years, 5 months and 7 days. Actually amazing when you consider it."
Others were fighting and dying for some time before WE got involved. The rest I agree with. Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred. >________________________________ > From: Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 2:57 PM >Subject: Re: [MBZ] I am about to be ill > > >Craig wrote: > >Witless Wednesday; Obamacare By The Numbers > By Mike | November 13, 2013 - 11:00 am | America, Future, Libertarian, >Politics, Witless Wednesday > >I have been asked to put the recent circus called Obamacare into perspective. >Other than a disbelief in Progressivism as a viable policy, I have tried to be >at least reasonable about my critique of this administration. I’ve given him >the >benefit of the doubt on most right-wing fear mongering. I don’t put much >weight >into him being a Muslim agent, or Kenyan citizen, I don’t really believe he is >the Anti-Christ. I’m not wont to call the president, and his cabinet of >buffoons, evil. Sadly, though, he is turning out to be pretty much what I >feared >all along; > >He’s turning out to be as incompetent as every other far-left politician we >have >elected. Not evil, just incompetent. Progressivism is a policy of buffoonery >as >it is, and he is the most Progressive president we have ever elected. It’s >just >that now, with his name-sake achievement out in the open for public >consumption, >no amount of spin and rhetoric can cover for it anymore. That’s the problem >with >building a house of cards, one ill wind will topple it. > > >So, the best comparison I can offer is the last time we mobilized an entire >government to accomplish a task. Forget for the moment the cost, the >duplicity, >the falsehoods, and even the spin. Let’s look at what I consider the true >telling of Progressive incompetence, by the numbers. > >We declared war on Japan on December 8th, 1941 a day after the attack on Pearl >Harbor, and war on Germany on December 11th. We had to build an army, an Air >Force and rebuild a Navy. We had to mobilize a public and retool our >industrial >base to manufacture tanks, planes, guns and bombs. We had to fight back >Fascism’s gains in Africa, Italy and across the Middle East. We had to >organize >and implement the largest invasion in the history of the World and beat >Germany >back across the Rhine. Victory over Germany was declared on May 18th, 1945. >The >time it took from the Declaration of War to Victory over Germany was 3 years, >5 >months and 7 days. Actually amazing when you consider it. > >Now, let’s look at the modern equivalent; > >The Affordable Care Act was signed into law and fully funded on March 23rd, >2010. The website roll out, the public face of the act, was rolled out on >October 1st, 2013. They had the entire Federal Government working on this >program, and spared no expense. From implementation to execution of the law >took >3 years, 5 months, and 8 days. 1 day longer than it took to declare victory in >Germany. Look at Germany today. Look at Healthcare.gov. Draw your own >conclusions as to how well a bureaucracy can run anything, much less a program >that impacts every one of us. Anyway you look at it, it is incompetency on >parade. > >The saddest of all, is not the bumbling, the lies, the incompetence. Even the >hard core left Democrats are turning on the administration now. Clinton, >Landreau and even Feinstein are now dodging for cover and looking for excuses. >All trying to save the Democratic brand. Clinton of course knows this debacle >will crush Hillary’s chance at the presidency. Landreau is up for reelection >this year, so it’s no surprise her and 18 other Senate Democrats are now >crying >about the bill. Feinstein knows it will overturn the Senate in 2014, so she’s >now panicked. Even the Democratic cheerleaders in the domestic media can no >longer cover for a farce this obvious. Their ratings are in the toilet, and >they’re starting to figure why. The thing that is making me witless this >Wednesday is that a majority of voters still haven’t seemed to figure out what >kind of albatross they have had strapped to their futures. What’s the old >saying? No matter how big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to follow >them. > >So, another Wednesday, another reason to be witless. If you can excuse this >debacle, or point blame anywhere else but this incompetent administration; >then >welcome to the witless class, they have you right where they want you. I leave >you with a few reminders before you consider voting in 2014. > >And before you consider putting another progressive in office, the last word >on >the matter; > >Have a great Wednesday. Get yourself out of the Witless Class. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
