Fall Of The West Reason 495996977: Oregon And The Parking Dilemma

Obamacare is sure to wreak unseen havoc on the U.S. economy (it's ok, business and their greedy profits will adjust) and so there are a lot of issues yet to be resolved.

Like. Let's see.

How about parking?

From the Cascade Policy Institute (link above):

"Oregon is scrambling to open its new federally mandated health insurance exchange, dubbed Cover Oregon, on time October 1^st.  Since the commodity being marketed is health insurance, one can only imagine the number of things going wrong: price quotes, online application forms, privacy protection, etc.

But when Cover Oregon’s Chief Operating Officer went on a recent multi-state conference call with President Obama to discuss the problems various states were having with their exchanges, she didn’t mention any of those issues. She said the number one problem for her organization was parking.
When asked by the President to clarify, she said, “We have 150 employees at our Tualatin office, and only 96 parking spaces.” The President had to tell her that even the vast powers of the Oval Office did not extend to solving local parking shortages.

This was a classic Oregon moment. In a conversation about how the state will ration health care―an industry covering roughly one-seventh of the economy―we discover that management can’t even successfully ration parking for their own employees.
ObamaCare is already collapsing under its own weight. Things are likely to get much worse before they get better."

Remember folks, these are the people making decisions on your behalf.

She should come to Quebec.  Or go to Vermont. Or California. Or Massachusetts.  Or New York.

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Always remember, an economy can function with a bureaucrat. A bureaucrat can't function without an economy of which private enterprise is the key ingredient.