So testilies Jay Carney in regards to the Obama Admin request to increase ObamaCare subsidies 107%
The cost of subsidies for those seeking government aid through ObamaCare has increased dramatically, critics say – even before a single dollar has been collected.
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah wrote a letter to the administration asking why the president is already requesting 107 percent more than three years ago to pay for subsidies.
“They low-balled everything, and they knew they were not asking for enough money to actually do this,” John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis said. “And so now they are coming along saying: ‘Oh, we’ve just discovered we don’t have enough money’. They should’ve known that from day one.” […]
The remarks followed by days the administration’s announcement it was easing requirements on those seeking government aid through ObamaCare, making it easier to apply for subsidies.
White House spokesman Jay Carney portrayed it as another example of flexibility.
“We have made clear all along when it comes to working with states that we are flexible with the way that they implement the Affordable Care Act,” he said.
That “flexibility”, including the delaying of the employer mandate to after the 2014 election cycle, is just to further create conditions for a single-payer system. Nudge, nudge, push, push.
Socialism by evolution rather than revolution.
Can’t you damn “people” just let “the man” do what he and he alone has the vision, the intelligence to see MUST BE DONE! This mess “we” have is all YOUR fault you know, not his, never his.
Not just “bright,” Obama-bright.
“Flexibility” is just another way of saying rule by man, a man, not by law[s]. Laws which are always “poorly designed” because they require that fine, intelligent, hard working, government union employees jump through all those hoops instead of just doing that which they know is socially just and right. “Hoop-jumping” is for thee to do not me and mine. The master[s] don’t “jump-hoop.”
Or as Mark Steyn writes that the same situation occurred before.
This Canadian train wreck is starting to smell.
The smelly part? Air brakes aren’t powered. Power is required to release air brakes. Or more precisely, air is required, which is supplied by the compressor in the engine. If the engine is shut down and the air brakes set, to release them, you would have to start the engine and rebuild the air supply before the brakes could be released.
So, what’s up with that statement, what am I missing?
Oops, link…
“Power is required to release air brakes.Or more precisely, air is required, which is supplied by the compressor in the engine.”
I was laboring under that impression as well, LB.
Air Brakes
So testilies Jay Carney
Oh. NOT a typo, then.
I believe the style book dictates the formulation “White House spokes-weasel”…
If (I’ll grant that’s a bif if) I’m understanding what I’m reading positive pressure is required to both apply the breaks and release the breaks. That is, the pressure is positive at all times, and it’s the change of pressure that engages or disengages the brake. No engine power, no compression, no compression, no resevoir recharge (either main or auxiliary), no resevoir recharge and eventually the brakes fail.
And then there’s this:
How do you get crude oil to “explode?” Spill? Yes. Burn? Maybe but it is hard to ignite. Explode? By itself from a collision/derailment? 5 cars, in blasts (plural), destroying 30 buildings? That stretches credulity.
I just always though if there was no air at all, the brakes would engage, or remain so.
Live and learn.
I take that back from looking at images. An intact car amid a fire could heat up and pressurize till rupture which would then be a big fireball and an explosion.
What makes you think it was crude oil? Given the quality of reporting these days, who knows what “oil” means.
Also, don’t rule out the possibility of ruptured natural gas lines as the ignition source.
And then there’s this:
Buried six feet underground alongside the railroad right-of-way is a 14″ high pressure petroleum transit pipeline operated by Calnev Pipeline. The pipeline was marked with stakes during cleanup to avoid the risk of it being accidentally damaged. Service on the track where the derailment happened was restored four days after the crash. Thirteen days after the train wreck on May 25, 1989, at 8:05 a.m., shortly after eyewitnesses heard a train pass through the derailment site, the pipeline burst at a point on the curve where the derailment happened, showering the neighborhood with what appeared to be a peculiar vapor, which ignited into a large fire that burned for close to seven hours and emitted a plume of smoke three hundred feet into the air.
I don’t have the foggiest idea what kind of vapor was being given off here, but something similiar might have happened in Canada.
That story has this:
Which sounds like a lot but isn’t really from 73 cars which would be generally from 20,000 to 30,000 gallons each.