Obama said he would veto any effort to repeal the insurance requirement, calling it "a line I can't cross" because it would "undermine the structure of the law".
In other words, the lowest wage workers would in the short-term get a few bucks more in their pocket in exchange for the government continuing to push a trade policy that undermines the structure of the country's job base, and new efforts to eviscerate workplace, environmental and union protection regulations that would solidify wage gains for the long term.
In truth, the aim is not – in the jargon of 1968 from which the promiscuous Cameron is not ashamed to borrow – to "shift power to the people", but to undermine the structures of local democracy.
A tiny ancient relic can cause havoc: tree stumps and pipes, buried decades ago in an earthen levee's innards, can rot or rust, undermining the structure with no outward sign of trouble.
"A lot of these 'leveragers' and 'greenmailers' are undermining the fundamental structure of our economy," he said in a 1985 interview.
According to another video artist, Paik is really undermining the commercial structure of TV.
President Obama's plan provides a balanced approach (albeit relying somewhat too much on spending cuts and not enough on revenue increases), shared sacrifice and real deficit reduction without undermining the fundamental structure of our health care safety net programs.
But these relationships are undermined by the structure of modern society, in which the individual "no longer belongs to God, to himself, to his beloved, to his art or to his science, he is conscious of belonging in all things to an abstraction, just as a serf belongs to an estate".
In contrast, a permissive attitude towards excessive alcohol use and side-misuse of non-prescribed substances undermines the structure of the treatment milieu and may stimulate relapses among less motivated patients [ 9, 14, 17].
A recent study by the International Crisis Group found that "political partisanship has permeated every level of the security apparatus, undermining the command structures" of the Army and police, and that the unity government "has yet to tackle the corruption, nepotism and factionalism within it.
