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| Subject: LOL, more people have applied for a one way ticket to Mars than have signed up for Obamacare Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:55 pm | |
| So, how many people have actually enrolled in Obamacare? The Obama administration is too embarrassed to tell anybody. Estimates range range from anywhere between 51,000 on the high end and a paltry 5,000 on the low end.
By comparison, more than 200,000 people have applied for a one way ticket to leave Earth and live on Mars forever.
from Wired:
Over 200,000 people have applied to live on Mars as part of an ambitious proposal by private foundation Mars One to establish a human settlement on the Red Planet by 2023.
Amongst the 200,000+ applicants are four who, according to the Mars One mission roadmap, would leave Earth forever in 2022 and arrive on Mars in 2023.
There are no plans for any of the settlers to return to Earth and the chosen few must come to terms with leaving Earth behind for the rest of their lives.
read the rest (h/t Ace)
I realize that this is a little silly, but it just to illustrate the point of how bad the Obamacare exchange websites have been. When you’ve got people like former Obama spokesperson Robert Gibbs saying what an embarrassment, you know it’s a disaster.
http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/64353197044/more-people-have-applied-for-a-one-way-ticket-to-mars |
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| Subject: Re: LOL, more people have applied for a one way ticket to Mars than have signed up for Obamacare Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:08 pm | |
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