恶人谷

sogno wrote:他的新政说到底是政府侵入个人生活选择权的问题。

Knowing wrote:

sogno wrote:他的新政说到底是政府侵入个人生活选择权的问题。

Jun wrote:当然侵犯了个人选择啦，侵犯了美国人民把自己的钱和利益被大财团，interest groups，大公司，花儿街抢的权利和选择么。人家自己愿意，"Please, screw me, fcuk me, right in the ass." 谁敢拦着不让他被 fcuk 的权利他就跟谁急，一边被 screw 一边欢呼。

，好像都是说这是拿中产阶级的钱去补穷人

Knowing wrote:麻省失利有不少地方性原因，主要一条就是民主党候选人太托大的，觉得肯定没问题，都没怎么出门竞选。共和党候选人年轻美貌很有领袖魅力，非常积极，在最后两周大幅度逆转形势。

Knowing wrote:

，好像都是说这是拿中产阶级的钱去补穷人

麻省失利有不少地方性原因，主要一条就是民主党候选人太托大的，觉得肯定没问题，都没怎么出门竞选。共和党候选人年轻美貌很有领袖魅力，非常积极，在最后两周大幅度逆转形势。当然大气候是失业率高人民对政府不满意，健康保险改革弄了半天尽是在那里互相内部交易。百分之六十的人希望有publich option , 但是就因为joe lieberman 一个sob 单手掐死了，还加了好多对堕胎的限制，民主党占那么大的优势却搞不定自己，左派们都很不爽，没热情出门投票。

其实我觉得本来民主政治的优点和缺点都在于它的巨大惯性, 不是一两个领导人就能有很大改变的. 布什这种不遵循规则的除外. 即使是在布什领导下, 美国还是美国么.

simonsun wrote:帅哥卖6.4比军火给台湾。

Jun wrote:现在参议院的健康保险立法案，就是间接给保险公司塞钱的。

美国人民还真不用怕公司企业被国有化，国家政府政客们都是揣在私营工业大财团兜里的，不过是左手换到右手而已。

一两年前我预料的那些事儿大多都应验了。

Double-think nation

Polls then and now show that the overwhelming majority of Americans support the idea of health reform -- more than 80 percent, according to a recent analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine. But they don't like the specifics of any plan.

This ambivalence can be explained by the theory of cognitive dissonance, the anxiety and anger that comes from holding two contradictory ideas at once. On one side, we believe in rugged individualism and want Big Brother to stay out of our lives. On the other side, we expect government to rescue us if we get in trouble.

"Americans are like motorcyclists about to take a spill," says Uwe E. Reinhardt, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. Born free, they don't want the government to tell them to wear a helmet. Then when they get injured, they expect the government to take care of them -- thanks to a 1986 bill (signed by rugged individualist Ronald Reagan) that ambulances and hospitals provide emergency services regardless of a patient's ability to pay. "The motorcyclist is a rugged individualist until he needs to go to the hospital."

This double-think is so pervasive in health care that constituents keep telling Congress: Don't let the government mess with my Medicare!

Unresolved, this cognitive dissonance "drives people nuts," says Reinhardt. Psychologists know that people trapped in double-think can become defensive and angry as they try to justify one side or the other to dispel their uneasy ambivalence.

Over the past year, there has been no grand communicator to help people reconcile these contradictory beliefs into a coherent philosophy of life that embraces personal freedom protected by a social safety net.

The president has remained aloof. As he said in the State of the Union address: "I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people."