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Tuesday, November 15,2011
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Ian Jacoby, Views Editor
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How do you believe
the Supreme Court
will rule on the
constitutionality of
President Obamas
health-care package?
I think every person has the
right to health care, you know, to
get attainable health care. I think
you should get a right to choose,
but I think it should be available
to anybody; for it to be attainable,
for it to not be super-hard to get."
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"I think that the Supreme Court
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Obamas health-care reform
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it as nobody really has health
care. Thirty-one million people
doiit have health insurance right
now in America, so I'm pretty
sure the Supreme Court will
look into that and based on their
other decisions, they're probably
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Staff Editorial
NT Daily Edboard: Nods and Shakes
Nod: U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court agreed
on Monday to hear a challenge to
President Obama's Patient Protection
andAffordable Care Act. The court will
hear arguments about the constitu-
tionality of the "individual mandate"
which requires individuals to purchase
health-care coverage.
The ruling will determine both
the constitutionality of that part of
package, and if unconstitutional
whether or not the rest of the health-
care package can remain law.
Opponents of the mandate argue
that the ability to mandate citizens
to purchase certain products is a
far too enticing ability for Congress
to have and that it could be abused
for economic gains in the future.
Proponents of the mandate contend
it's a necessary mechanism for the
rest of the plan to have a beneficial
outcome.
The Supreme Court should be
applauded for recognizing the magni-
tude and divisiveness of this case by
granting an exceptional five and a half
hours for oral argument.
Political nerds stay tuned.
Shake: NBA
There goes the season.
The National Basketball Players
Association rejected the owner's final
offer in the bargaining process and
declared it will decertify its union
and take the owners to court in an
anti-trust lawsuit.
The NBPA has never filed for decer-
tification. All three lockouts before this
one were solved through the collective
bargaining process, and none of them
resulted in a cancelled season.
Decertification and the ensuing
legal battle are sure to be a lengthy
affair and will likely create enough
of a delay to destroy any chance of a
basketball season.
Those hurt the most by the lack of
a season won't be the owners whose
main source of revenue isn't usually
their own franchise, nor the players
who are paid an average of $5 million
a year, but rather the food service
workers in the teams' arenas, the
ticket checkers and the box office
salesman who depend upon 41 home
games a year to maintain their live-
lihood.
Nod: Coach Dan McCarney
After Saturday's win against
Troy, UNT head football coach Dan
McCarney said he was giving every
one of his seniors a game ball, even
if that meant him writing the check.
He emphasized that this was a huge
win for a program that's been through
quite a few ups and downs over the
past fewyears and the players deserve
praise.
Whatever McCarney is doing, it's
working.
While UNT hasn't had the most
compelling season, the four-win mark
makes this as its best effort since
2004.
This could mark a turning point
for the team and the true beginning
of "The McCarney Era."
With a win in each of its last two
home games the Mean Green would
become bowl eligible. It's a bit early
to get excited about potential bowls,
but as a fan of Mean Green fo otball it's
hard not to be giddy about both the
direction of the program and Coach
McCarney's enthusiasm.
Columns
Got ninety-nine
problems
but a shirt ain't one
When Jay-Z and Kanye West - two
guys who in 2011 essentially get paid
very well for being very good at talking
about how very well they get paid -
paid a friendly visit to Occupy Wall
Street a couple weeks ago, the confu-
sion was understandable.
Jay "I ain't a businessman, I'm a
business, man"-Z may wear more gold
chains and listen to better music than
the barons of Wall Street, but let's not
kid ourselves. He's sold more than
50 million records, was the (mostly)
undisputed best rapper alive for the
better part of a decade, bumps elbows
with Warren Buffett on private jets,
gives massive contributions to pres-
idential campaigns, was president
of a major record label, and has an
estimated net worth of about $500
million.
Jay-Z is the 1 percent.
But that doesn't mean he can't
cash-in on the 99 percent.
His multi-million dollar corpo-
rate clothing company Rocawear
started selling "Occupy [W1 All
Streets" T-shirts, and keeping all
the money, in a move so ironic Che
Guevara T-shirts are officially no
longer ironic.
As quite a few journalists, sociolo-
gists, bloggers, occupiers and people
who spend too much time thinking
about blogs, occupations and Jay-Z
have pointed out, the Occupy move-
ment doesn't inherently have a
problem with rich people.
Americans love rich people. We
love it when some farm boy with not
a scrap to his name (or some street
hustler scraping by in Brooklyn) puts
in plenty of hard, honest work and
becomes the owner of a thriving
business (or makes a lot of money
rapping, whatever). You work hard,
you play fair, you give a little back, go
ahead and be a millionaire.
What Americans shouldn't love is
the elite cadre of insanely rich who
knowingly tanked the economy and
put honest, hardworking people out
of jobs so they could make a quick
buck.
Shawn Carter should be ashamed
of himself. I know he said you "Can't
Knock The Hustle" but everyone
wearing Rocawear needs to "Change
Clothes." I know this is just "Politics
As Usual" but I guess I naively hold on
to this hope that people whose music
I enjoy won't go and co-opt an ideal-
istic movement to make "Mo' Money"
they really, really don't need.
Can I get a....
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Alex Macon is a senior staff writer far
the Daily. He can be reached at alexd-
macon@yahoo.com.
Perry's orget ulness
should be the least
o his worries
To hear some analysts, GOP
presidential candidate Rick Perry's
brain freeze during Wednesday's
economics debate was a disaster for
his campaign.
For instance, political commen-
tator Larry J. Sabato said: "To my
memory, Perry's forgetfulness is
the most devastating moment of
any modern primary debate." But
there are other things about Perry's
performance, and his candidacy in
general, that are more worrisome
than a momentary memory lapse,
however embarrassing.
The "oops" moment quickly
became fodder for comedians, and
Perry and his campaign defen-
sively joined in the laughter. (On
Thursday night, he appeared on
David Letterman's program.)
It was certainly excruciating to
watch Perry struggle to name the
third government agency he would
abolish: "I would do away with the
Education, the Commerce and - let's
see - I can't. The third one, I can't.
Sorry. Oops."
Yet is it fair to suggest that Perry's
lapse is disqualifying?
Who among us has not experi-
enced a brain freeze, in settings far
less intimidating that a nationally
televised debate? The argument that
Perry's lapse is nevertheless signif-
icant is based on the notion that
his forgetfulness was proof that he
wasn't conversant with his own posi-
tions, as if the idea of abolishing the
Energy Department were the product
of campaign staff work that he never
quite mastered.
But in fact, abolishing the Energy
Department is perfectly consistent
with the views of an oil-state governor
about federal regulation of energy.
The notion that he doesn't know
what the department is or does is
absurd.
Another theory of why the brain
freeze attracted such comment is that
it was the latest in a series of tongue-
tied performances by Perry in this
season's GOP debates.
Had another candidate groped for
a word, according to this theory, the
lapse would soon have been forgotten.
That may be true, but while Perry's
appearances, taken together, may
reflect badly on his ability to perform
in front of a crowd, even that isn't
necessarily a disqualifying factor.
Far more disturbing than Perry's
speechlessness were words that actu-
ally were uttered at the debate. In
opposing "bailouts," for instance,
several candidates played down the
relationship between the U.S. and
European economies.
Suggesting that he didn't think
it was necessary to rescue foreign
nations on the verge of default, Perry
said: "It doesn't make any difference
whether it's Wall Street or whether it's
some corporate entity or whether it's
some European country. If you are too
big to fail, you are too big."
That answer ignores the potentially
devastating effect on the U.S. economy
of cascading failures in Europe. It was
a point better forgotten.
This editorial appeared in the Los
Angeles Times on Friday.
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