Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?

Re:Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots? by refurb on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:25PM (#5758909)

You don't think your oversimplifying the situation? There was more going on when Bush took office than just a balanced budget.

BTW, Obama isn't attacking healthcare costs, he's expanding coverage. The cost part comes next.

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Re:Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots? by jbooth on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:42PM (#5759048)

Sure, there was a recession, which I alluded to, and other stuff, well, I was working with a few sentences, not a book.

The CBO graded obamacare as reducing medicare costs (the biggest driver of our budget deficits). Expanding coverage should have a positive impact on costs, too. But I agree that expanding coverage was at least as important the bill's authors.

I wasn't trying to oversimplify the situation more than is necessary for a few sentence summary -- and people could disagree with my characterization. The coverage towards each president from the Economist is enlightening though, especially when you divorce it from policy or compare their coverage of similar policies from both administrations. That's where the hackiness comes in.

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Re:Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots? by refurb on Thursday May 23, 2013 @06:54PM (#5760074)

Fair enough. Your original post just came across a little "this is how it is".

Keep an eye out on the cost when the ACA fully rolls out. I'm in the industry and it's not turning out the way people predicted.

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