God damn it. How the hell do you get blindsided by your own f%$#@*g legislation???

[RobinA]

85. I Believe

they were blindsided. Why? Because no one running things in Washington these days appears to have any acquaintance, or at least any recent acquaintance, with the real world. They all went to the same three Ivy schools. They all come from the same two industries, academia and finance - neither known for its connection to actual people. They taught each other, they mentor each other, they hire each other, they work for each other.

They don't have to worry about insurance companies, credit card companies or banks (except the ones they run). They don't know how Joe Average thinks or interprets what they say. (Hence, "You can keep your policy.&quot They don't know how insurance companies operate with their policy-holders. ("Surprise! We're cancelling policies now so we can blame Obamacare!&quot . They have "people" who deal with software and most other operations of day to day life for them, so they don't get (on an operational basis) that glitchy software even exists.

The political elite in this country is getting further and further from ever having actually DONE anything in life or ever having lived as the rest of the population lives. So they don't anticipate the kind of problems we're seeing with ACA. They all need to go manage a McDonalds for three years and then come back with some education about how the world and people in it work and how to solve the resultant problems.

Incidently, I think this is part of the attraction so many have to Chris Christie. He's a loudmouth, a bully, walks around with his foot in his mouth half the time, isn't exactly your movie image of a US president, isn't the moderate he gets credit for being, but he's a real person who seems to come from the same planet as the rest of us.