House of Eratosthenes

Everyone said, loud enough for the others to hear: “Look at the Emperor’s new clothes. They’re beautiful!”

“What a marvellous train!”

“And the colors! The colors of that beautiful fabric! I have never seen anything like it in my life!” They all tried to conceal their disappointment at not being able to see the clothes, and since nobody was willing to admit his own stupidity and incompetence, they all behaved as the two scoundrels had predicted.

A child, however, who had no important job and could only see things as his eyes showed them to him, went up to the carriage.

“The Emperor is naked,” he said.

“Fool!” his father reprimanded, running after him. “Don’t talk nonsense!” He grabbed his child and took him away. But the boy’s remark, which had been heard by the bystanders, was repeated over and over again until everyone cried:

“The boy is right! The Emperor is naked! It’s true!”

The Emperor realized that the people were right but could not admit to that. He though it better to continue the procession under the illusion that anyone who couldn’t see his clothes was either stupid or incompetent. And he stood stiffly on his carriage, while behind him a page held his imaginary mantle.

With that bit of background, we now turn to the latest post up at Rhymes With Girls and Cars:

I don’t understand what ‘exchanges’ are supposed to be, in the context of Obamacare. We are constantly told that ‘exchanges’ are a huge part of it. And that there’s a lot of effort involved in ‘setting up an exchange’. Some states will, some states won’t. Etc.

I don’t get it.

To me an ‘exchange’ is a room with some phones. Actually, you don’t even need that. It’s a bunch of guys in a room exchanging stuff. Actually the room is optional, they could be out in a town square somewhere.

So why do they need to ‘set it up’? Why is it so much effort? I mean okay, I guess they’ll buy some computers, office space etc. But besides that?

On the flip side, why is it so important? What’s so magic about it? Once these ‘exchanges’ exist, what will happen? Is there a big demand amongst insurance companies to ‘exchange’ stuff (insurance contracts – I guess?) with each other, and if there is, why aren’t they setting up the exchange themselves, or if there’s not, how will setting one up help anything?

It would be pretty nice if we had a President who was obliged to answer some unwelcome questions now and then, so we could get this kind of information from, let’s say by way of example, a free and independent press diligently scrutinizing those in power, lending transparency to the daily functions of government. That way we could have enlightening dialogue rather than a bunch of polished little talking points being put in circulation.

For lack of that, we have me, with my years and years of experience in software development, server engineering and project management in the health care industry. And from that impressive background, I can condescendingly pat you peasants on the head and give you the benefits of my wisdom, ho ho! And the answer to your question is, “What is an exchange?”…and all the rest of your little questions…is…

…um…

++blink++

Well, tell you what. Let me get back to you on that.

Let me be clear, make no mistake, for far too long we have, blah blah blah…woozie wuzzel?

Sure, an exchange is when you give$10 dollars to someone for a promissory note. Due on retirement, and “protected” by gub’mint promise.
THEY exchange it for a $100 promisary note to “insure” results of a third party promisary note of $1000 in exchange for …say…a house.

Because the gub’mint high density housing where they lived was shitty, because THEY
lived there, were responsable for mainting “civil” conditions there, and had no skin in the game in the first place. THAT came from your GRANDPARENTS “retirement investment scheme” that was raided to pay union labor rates for astonishingly low productivity, to produce what is often refered to as “The Projects”, or “low income” clustered housing.
It was called an exchange for an “investment”.

Somehow, fearing sustainability of the gub’mint “pay stub”scheme, you get 10% “return” of your initial EXTRA “retirement/children’s PRIVATE education investment”-either complicated financial insturment, or real estate-“confiscated and [i]exchanged[/i], for the “public good”. This is is called either Eminant Domain, or bundled high risk mortgage “unexpected consequences”. Other folks, with precious little actual skin in the game, exchange “forgiven” promisary notes for “credit ratings” to “buy” intellegence at a school ,boyed on your remaining $10 to “insure” the $1000 worth of “intellegence” with $100 gub’mint promissory notes.

Those outstanding promissory “exchanges” for [i]intellegence certificates[/i] (themselves promissory notes) are now pegged at $1,000,000,000. Pass or fail.
Not to worry, unlike house loans, it’s [i]against the law[/i] for folks to simply say
“Screw THAT, I’m just not gonna pay.”, unlike when our grandparents sought higher education [i]certificate’s of attendance[/i] in the humanities and communications.
(Just wait til’ folks who might try …give the hospital appointment receptionist their SSN! in “exchange” for treatment for an STD)
SEE: Tattooed bar code-Idiocracy: The Movie.
SEE: Natures End; Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka- ISBN: 0-446-51344-X

For referance, the current “exchange” rate for 1 oz. of Gold (also subject to confiscation…for the good of “the common good”) is about $1650., IF your buying at the “discount bulk” rate for 1000 oz. [i]Shipping and handling [/i] extra.
The 10-cents-on-a-dollar folk currently owe “other people” about $16,000,000,000,000.

Folks who have the audacity to merit actual sucess will be punished by a higher “fair’ manditory rate of “exchange” (um…because THAT’s where the money is…) of their gold for …um….neglected military and “infrastructure”, as well as “free” education explaining why this is all good. The “other people” will “exchange” their $16X10^12 [i]promisory notes[/i] for real estate, previously subject to “Eminant Domain”…um…for the common good.

Hope I cleared that up.
- CaptDMO | 03/30/2013 @ 13:45
*sigh* Wrong site, bad tags.
- CaptDMO | 03/30/2013 @ 13:47

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