America - Do you need a 2x4 upside the head?

[DearAbby]

People have to see through the charade, when they see how ObamaCare affects their lives.

Those rebate checks being sent out via Insurance Companies GOUGING YOU...you have ObamaCare to thank for that...will be a real good place to start. THAT GET'S PEOPLE'S ATTENTION...CHECKS IN THE MAILBOX...America does a double take...Wait a minute...$235 Million dollar campaign against, OUR MONEY BEING SENT BACK TO US????

Do you need a 2x4 upside the head?

[HereSince1628]

1. Technically, that'd be a 3.5 x 1.5, cuz here in the US we get less for what we pay for

er sumthin like that there

[FSogol]

2. Still called a 2x4 though...

[rateyes]

3. Politically speaking.

[HereSince1628]

4. Yep, we've bought into the lie! less for more = profit

Not to say that a stick-built house of 1.5 x 3.5 won't stand.

[ashling]

7. Dimension lumber goes by the size cut at the mill

before it is kiln dried and planed. Kind of like buying a 12 oz steak at a restraunt - it's only 12 oz. if you get it extremely rare - like raw.

[HereSince1628]

11. Well, some of it is drying, but different species have different hardness and shrink differently

That would result in slightly different dimensions for the same nominal dimensions...

Have you found 5/4 stair tread in oak or pine to be anything other than 1 inch thick?

[ashling]

12. When I worked at the saw mill

Our finished product was planed to a standard thickness for said lumber. I admit, that we only produced pine framing lumber. I would rather re-saw my own anyway.

[HereSince1628]

13. Yep, wood is planed to a standard.

[belcffub]

9. I get mine from an Amish mill

they're 2x4.... your just shopping in the wrong place

[AnotherMcIntosh]

5. Free money? Or at least our money being sent back to us? Yea, I'm for that.

[Fawke Em]

6. Does it go to the people or to their employers?

Because, if it goes to their employers, they may never know about it.

[Festivito]

15. The payer. One so far got a one-month reduction of premium, also a premium reduction hereon.

[echofreak]

8. hah

A healthcare plan that we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a congress that EXEMPTED themselves from it, signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who DIDN'T pay his taxes [Timothy Geithner], for which we’ll be taxed for 4 years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke!!!

[tanyev]

10. More like a clue by four.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. I think the problem may be

too many 2x4's to head already.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. In the form of faux snooze and right wing hate radio....