(08-20-2016 04:22 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  My small, family run, business is now on its third policy since the 2010 enactment of the non-Affordable Care Act. My premiums have increased 80% during that time. If most of my employees were not family, I would have have long ago told them that their on they're on own for insurance coverage.

We instead are knuckling down as best we can. There have been no raises for the past five years, and no new hires during that time either. All so the worthless p.o.s. currently occupying the White House can feel noble about himself.

If ever there was a time for a sensible Republican, this was the year for it. Instead, we get a self-sabotaging egomaniac, who would rather preen than take the time to become coherent on even the most basic issues. We're toast as a nation.

I think it's actually even WORSE than that on the GOP side. The only people on the GOP side with principles (Rand) or even a VERY modest positive track record in government (Walker... maybe Gilmore, Jindal) were among the very first out of the field. Everybody who stayed in to the bitter end was just as worthless.