How's that "Hope and Change" working?

[willy]

Really? Why? Because he is a liar, a crook and a died in the wool socialist.
He feels nothing for the American People, actually holds them in disdain for not embracing the obviousness of his socialist ideals.
He holds the Constitution in disdain, feels it unduly restricts his plans for the utopian dream of his fathers.
He has secretly plotted against large segments of the American People to fundamentally transform America, starting with Fast and Furious, continuing with using the IRS to target Americans who disagree with him and a dozen other things that completely explain what kind of anti American trash he is.

The sorry thing for us as Americans, this country elected him twice. Shame on us.
We have a chance tomorrow to start fixing it, hopefully our liberal friends and we all have them God Bless their hearts have the courage and foresight to help

[willy]

Maybe, just maybe there is hope tonight that the American People can see the forest for the trees.
The Senate is now in the hands of people who will actually debate issues and vote on Bill's presented to them by the Peoples House.
Harry Reid go sit down with the rest of the scum.

[Destroyer]

Yesterday, we, the American public, sent a clear message to both parties that we do not like the president's policy's, that we do not want America to be "fundamentally changed". Over the past 6 years, the house has sent over 800 bills to the Senate. All sat in limbo because Harry Reid, acting on the presidents orders, would not let any of them come up for a vote. Now admittedly, not every bill was good, and not every bill would have passed. But the point is that none of them were even debated... none of them ever came to the floor for a vote. Hopefully with the Senate and the Congress now firmly in the hands of the Republicans that logjam will finally be cleared and Washington will actually start doing what they are getting paid to do. Do not expect every bill to be signed by the president. He still has the very powerful veto pen in his pocket. But at least if he veto's everything that comes before him the American public will see who the real party of "no" is. Let us hope and pray that he doesn't just reject everything that comes before him since we have some very real problems with this country and we need both parties working together to fix them.

Yes, I personally am elated with the election results, but I am also cognoscente of the fact that now we have an obligation and a sacred duty to try to work together and resolve some of the problems facing us. ISIS, Ebloa, Keystone, Immigration, & Minimum wage are just a few of them. The time for politics is over. The real work begins now!

[spareparts]

an update on that hope and change bs. We got our revised summary for health insurance for next year, it will be $1142 per month for me and my two daughters at $5000 deductible/out of pocket per year. Before O care, it was $546 per month with a $1000 deductible/out of pocket. I want to personally thank all the asshats that voted for this crap, you can show your appreciation by making a monthly payment to my personal account to offset my increased premiums. I take cash check and paypal. Before any one suggest it, we make too much money to get the subsidies and because of my daughters health history I'm not taking any chance by shopping another company. Changes are coming again for the health care industry and its not going to get any better. I blame all who voted for this crap.

[bradford]

Spare that sucks man.

I'm wondering what I'm gonna do next time mine goes up. Maxed out at the most I'm willing to afford now. My flood insurance about doubled this year too. Never had a claim. The policy is administrated by my old insurance company. My new guy told me NOT to switch it over to him because he's had others go up 4-5 times what they were paying! If I didn't have family that counted on me for certain things I'd seriously go John Galt. Check out of society and refuse to play the game. Find an old trawler to live on and not own anything.

[spareparts]

the worse part is, if my wife were on this policy, it would be an additional $759 per month. Luckily she is on her companies policy(its gotten pretty crappy as well). My health insurance is by far the most expensive thing we have. I have a reasonable house payment(far less than the insurance), our vehicles are paid for(newest one is an 02 with 165k miles) We have one credit card with less than a $500 balance and thats it. I just paid out $1400 for dental work as well. Right now I'm considering closing my business if I can get on with a plant maintenance company that services Google and Boeing. I've had to go back to school to get the classes I need to get hired on. The money will be less but they offer family insurance policies that will offset the income difference(I'll still keep Kendall on her same policy). We are witnessing the demise of the middle class and small business.

[THEFERMANATOR]

I feel your pain. We don't pay nowhere near what you are, but it is sad that health insurance is also our biggest out of pocket expense, and has just about put us in the poor house. My wife is a teacher, and it used to be you became a teacher for the benefits, well not no more. She is now paying $60 a month(I know not much, but her pay is very low because she is supposed to get benefits to offset it and bring it up to what other public teachers make), we pay $380 a month for mine through the exchange(Hated doing it, but had to so we could afford groceries), and our son is through the state. Before ocare we could all have PREMIUM insurance through her work that covered EVERYTHING for under $250 a month, now there crappy coverage(that meets ocare guidelines) is $800 a month for a family. We spend more on insurance than anything else in this world if you really think about it. Health, dental, vision, life, burial, auto, gap, homeowners, finance, mortgage, and so on. It is scary to think of what some people really pay out in insurance every month. We don't have that many coverages, and we spend close to half of our income on insurance alone every year. We don't make much, but we barely skim by. You shouldn't have to make a $100K a year to live a decent life, but anymore it looks that way.

I remember as a kid our family didn't make but about $40K a year, and we lived a very nice life, and weren't wanting for much. But today $40K a year is barely living above poverty if you live by the rules.