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- I couldn't agree more. When one questions Obama's actions, he/she is labled a nazi, a 'bushie', all sorts of silly, kindergarten style names. If one points out Bush's failures, he/she is quickly labled as a socialist ot 'dumbocrat'. Cute, but childish.
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- It's sad to see how many people fall into the "Our party guys can do no wrong" grouping. I saw with the Bush loyalists and I am now seeing it with the Obama loyalists. For these programmed lemmings, the idea that "their guy" might be making mistakes is blasphemy and they react the same way a hardcore religious person reacts when you tell them there might not be a God. Obama is like the Beatles & they are the tear filled, screaming teenagers in the front row. The Bushbots were no different. Objectivity is strange concept for some.
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- If people think that Trickle Down Economics have failed, can someone explain to me how Trickle up works and sight some examples of thriving economies that practice this?
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- 3. Forget the Republicans. Forget bipartisanship. Universal healthcare can pass with 51 votes. You can get 51 votes if you give up on trying to persuade a handful of Republicans to cross over. Eight years ago George W. Bush passed his huge tax cut, mostly for the wealthy, by wrapping it in an all-or-nothing reconciliation measure and daring Democrats to vote against it. You should do the same with healthcare.
The democrats will be the ones to defeat Socialized Healthcare thank god. These people that want free Healthcare have no clue what it is and what it will cost.
In the latest draft from congress, Elected Official such as Dodd and such have exempted themselves fro Universal Coverage in favor of their current tax payer paid for life plan. - Reply to this comment
- You righties are totally uninterested in the truth! The truth is you and your kind virtually destroyed our country and now an amazing amount of progress has been made towards fixing it in only 5 months.
And you know it! That's why your screeching lies get shriller and further out there everyday.
Fortunately, you no longer matter.
YES WE CAN! - Reply to this comment
- Everything you list here represent problems that were caused directly by your heroes the GOP starting with Gingrich/Delay and continuing up through the end of the Bush veto.
Bush is the one that stood up at his first State of the Union garble and threw down the gauntlet. ("Axis of Evil etc")
President Obama is simply cleaning up 15 years worth of GOP bungling, greed, deregulation, favoritism and an absolute lack of anything positive for anyone except their now much richer friends.
Fortunately they are gone, and with the upcoming 2010 elections, we will see a bigger shift, probably 65/35 split in the Senate. Then the little spoiled rich white boy obstructionists that you adore will finally be in a place where they can no longer hamper the outstanding efforts to fix their mess. Finally some daylight after years of GOP gloom!
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- The bail-outs were wrong, but better than the alternative. Some banks have already paid back the money. The taxpayer's getting 7.5% interest on the loan to Citigroup. Chrysler's alrady out of bankruptcy, GM's headed that way. Thousands of jobs have been saved, even though the number of unemployed is still increasing, it's increasing at an ever slower rate and will turn around. Obama's got more done to benefit the country in 5 months than shrub did in 8 years. I reckon he's doing a great job, given he's only getting interference from the GOPigs while they have not had a new idea since Ray-gun, and we all know how that worked out.
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- Isn't Phil Gramm dead? Haven't heard of him for so long, I think he must be.
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- I voted for Obama and do not wish to see the GOP take control in 2010. However, I am not happy with Obama at all. He appears to be a light weight Bush and it's starting to bother me. The bail outs were wrong and did not help much. Be it the banks or some other business, we as tax payers lost. What happened to "open government"? It sure seems like Obama, who was against Bush's secrecy is now fighting to keep it. His choice for Supreme Court bothers me too. Obama has backed off promises he made while running for President. I understand the GOP caused most of the problems we are now facing, however, Obama is acting more like a tv star then the President.
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- The bail-outs were wrong, but better than the alternative. Some banks have already paid back the money. The taxpayer's getting 7.5% interest on the loan to Citigroup. Chrysler's alrady out of bankruptcy, GM's headed that way. Thousands of jobs have been saved, even though the number of unemployed is still increasing, it's increasing at an ever slower rate and will turn around. Obama's got more done to benefit the country in 5 months than shrub did in 8 years. I reckon he's doing a great job, given he's only getting interference from the GOPigs while they have not had a new idea since Ray-gun, and we all know how that worked out.
- Gee, sounds like any criticism of the prez
is out of line with some of these posters.
Yeah, the prez says some purty things.
As the guy in the movie said,
"sure got a purty mouth" - Reply to this comment
- First came the claim that he had 'experience'. Then the promise of 'change' implying that he had a solution. After that came a litant of ill concieved promises. Now we have the whines that its not his fault, he's overwhelmed, and 'has made mistakes'.
Billions for failing companies, billions for muslim countries, billions more for Wall Street contibutors, and even more billions for political 'friends' while our most populated and economically important state faces bankruptcy.
More government regulators now promise... really, for sure, positively, absolutely we're gonna get it right this time - uh huh. Guaranteeing certain corporations they're 'to big to fail' puts the government in direct competition with small, innovative companies and banks. All to the public's detriment.
The Obama administration has already encouraged sub-prime auto loans through an agreement with GMAC. Barney Frank has already requested that banks loosen loan new qualifications... here we go again. - Reply to this comment
- Here's a rundown of all the money that the people in Congress who are blocking real reform in health care have received from the health care industry.
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $4,026,933)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $2,833,731)
*Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $2,758,468)
And when you just go right to Big Insurance, the non-presidential candidates who got the biggest legalized bribes were the 7 senators who have been tasked with the job of killing single-payer:
Ben Nelson (DLC-NE- $1,196,799)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $1,184,113)
Joe Lieberman (DLC- CT- $1,036,302)
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $1,035,530)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $981,400)
*Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $929,207)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA- $884,724)
Number of Americans without health insurance:
2000 = 42.6 million
2009 = 82 million - Reply to this comment
- According to a recent report, the United States has $480 billion in excess spending each year in comparison to Western European nations that have universal health insurance coverage. The costs are mainly associated with excess administrative costs and poorer quality of care.
The United States spends six times more per capita on the administration of the health care system than its peer Western European nations.
Fierce Healthcare reports the following top 10 insurance company CEO salaries for 2008.
* Ron Williams - Aetna - Total Compensation: $24,300,112.
* H. Edward Hanway - CIGNA - Total Compensation: $12,236,740.
* Angela Braly - WellPoint - Total Compensation: $9,844,212.
* Dale Wolf - Coventry Health Care - Total Compensation: $9,047,469.
* Michael Neidorff - Centene - Total Compensation: $8,774,483.
* James Carlson - AMERIGROUP - Total Compensation: $5,292,546.
* Michael McCallister - Humana - Total Compensation: $4,764,309.
* Jay Gellert - Health Net - Total Compensation: $4,425,355.
* Richard Barasch - Universal American - Total Compensation: $3,503,702.
* Stephen Hemsley - UnitedHealth Group - Total Compensation: $3,241,042.
When American patients trust their health to a for-profit insurance company, they?re doing nothing less than gambling with their lives in a game where the odds are stacked in favor of the insurance company.
These are salaries reminiscent of the AIGs, the Goldman Sachs, the Merrill Lynch?s, and other Wall Street CEOs who also pillaged from the American taxpayer and turned around and gave themselves and their executives multi-million dollars bonuses.
The Single payer, health care option initially proposed by President Obama on his campaign trail is merely health coverage, like Medicare, but it is for anyone who wants it. Single payer eliminates insurance companies as pricey middlemen. The government pays care providers directly. It?s a system that polls consistently have shown the American people favoring by as much as two-to-one. Of course, it is this option that these CEOs and Congress are fighting against because it means less profit for health care companies who favor their bottom line over quality, more affordable health care coverage.
The existing health care option proposed by Congress, the GOP and Sen. John McCain falls short, (and they know it) because:
* Many Americans, especially American families, cannot afford the insurance premiums offered by employers. As cost of housing, fuel, education, food, insurance continues to rise; salaries across the board have been stagnant or declined.
* Health insurance continues to increase, and rise without question and Americans who lose a job, or self-employed, work part-time, retire or divorce are cut off by employer health care coverage, if they even had it.
* No American can actually afford COBRA insurance, the premiums are cost prohibitive and employers know it.
* The Republican, GOP plan to force Americans to buy health coverage and giving them a small tax break means these same families who cannot afford to buy health insurance now, certainly cannot afford to buy the more expensive insurance under their plan. - Reply to this comment
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- Here's a rundown of all the money that the people in Congress who are blocking real reform in health care have received from the health care industry.
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $4,026,933)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $2,833,731)
*Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $2,758,468)
And when you just go right to Big Insurance, the non-presidential candidates who got the biggest legalized bribes were the 7 senators who have been tasked with the job of killing single-payer:
Ben Nelson (DLC-NE- $1,196,799)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $1,184,113)
Joe Lieberman (DLC- CT- $1,036,302)
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $1,035,530)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $981,400)
*Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $929,207)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA- $884,724)
Number of Americans without health insurance:
2000 = 42.6 million
2009 = 82 million
- Here's a rundown of all the money that the people in Congress who are blocking real reform in health care have received from the health care industry.
- My last day is Friday.....
No job, No hope for one, Can't sell the house, Can't make the note on unemployement.
I've worked 30 years, been faithful to my job, paid my taxes, and tried to help those around me. For what?
I'm all used up - Reply to this comment
- What Obama Must Do To Save Universal Healthcare
By Susie Madrak Monday Jun 22, 2009
If you want to save universal healthcare, you must do several things, and soon:
1. Go to the nation. You're not only a powerful orator; you're also capable of motivating, energizing, and mobilizing the American public. You must go on the road -- building public support by forcefully making the case for universal health care everywhere around the country. The latest Wall Street Journal poll shows that three out of four Americans want universal healthcare. But the vast majority don't know what's happening on the Hill, don't know how much money the medical-industrial lobbies are spending to defeat it, and have no idea how much demagoguery they're about to be exposed to. You must tell them. And don't be reluctant to take on those vested interests directly. Name names. They've decided to fight you. You must fight them.
This is the president's biggest weakness. Please, more drama, Obama!
2. Be LBJ. So far, Lyndon Johnson has been the only president to defeat the American Medical Association and the rest of the medical-industrial complex. He got Medicare and Medicaid despite their cries of "socialized medicine" because he knocked heads on the Hill. He told Congress exactly what he wanted, cajoled and threatened those who resisted, and counted noses every hour until he had the votes he needed. When you're not on the road, you have to be twisting congressional arms and drawing a line in the sand. Be tough.
3. Forget the Republicans. Forget bipartisanship. Universal healthcare can pass with 51 votes. You can get 51 votes if you give up on trying to persuade a handful of Republicans to cross over. Eight years ago George W. Bush passed his huge tax cut, mostly for the wealthy, by wrapping it in an all-or-nothing reconciliation measure and daring Democrats to vote against it. You should do the same with healthcare.
4. Insist on a real public option. It's the linchpin of universal healthcare. It's one thing to give up on single payer, and say that a public option is the best feasible alternative. But further compromise would essentially gut any healthcare plan. Don't accept Kent Conrad's ersatz public option masquerading as a "healthcare cooperative." Cooperatives won't have the authority, scale, or leverage to negotiate low prices and keep private insurers honest.
5. Demand that taxes be raised on the wealthy to ensure that all Americans get affordable healthcare. Not even a real public option will hold down costs enough to make healthcare affordable to most American families in years to come. So you'll need to tax the wealthy. Don't back down on your original proposal to limit their deductions. And support a cap on how much employee-provided healthcare can be provided tax free. Yes, you opposed this during your campaign. But you have no choice but to reverse yourself on this. These are the only two big pots of money.
6. Put everything else on hold. As important as they are, your other agenda items -- financial reform, home mortgage mitigation, cap-and-trade legislation -- pale in significance relative to universal healthcare. By pushing everything at once, you take the public's mind off the biggest goal, diffuses your energies, blur your public message, and fuel the demagogues who say you're trying to take over the private sector. You have to win this. - Reply to this comment
- Some of you posters are no doubt real winners in your world. I guess you didnt have any problems with living beyond your means to add to the crisis.Pleas feel free to post your solutions to these afore mentioned in your posts.YOU PEOPLE SH---T IN YOUR OWN NEST BUT WANT SOMEONE ELSE TO SWEEP IT OUT . YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE OPTION OF GTF OUT OF THIS COUNTRY,TAKE YOUR DEADBEAT CHILDREN WITH YOU.
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- by stuart2021 June 23, 2009 5:27 AM PDT
Look Hungry! The neos can't even get in agreement amongst themselves. And they want us to listen to them!!??? ROTFLMAO!!!
Morning Stu!
Comical isn't it? "USASTILLONTOP" is a particularly annoying troll. He's been whining and crying for DAYS that "Obama should do something about Iran", but he can't say WHAT Obama should do.
Apparently his handlers, (Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh), forgot to give him those talking points! He was only told to "oppose Obama", so that's what he's doing. - Reply to this comment
- Mr-Man_007,
Remember, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. Just take the advice of Phil Gramm (he'd be the treasury secretary if McCain had won) and quit whining. - Reply to this comment
- by USASTILLONTOP June 23, 2009 5:20 AM PDT
hungry1968-15- Keep yapping hungry, you're a joke. Nobody here expects the economy to be fixed already, however its getting worse you tool.He has lied to you numerous times and you just sit there and except it.. You deserve what you get. It's actually funny to watch you.
"Nobody here expects the economy to be fixed already?" Did you miss the VERY FIRST COMMENT in this thread?!?!
"by enriquieGonzales June 23, 2009 4:29 AM PDT
Where the Jobs!!
Where the Better Economy!!"
Looks to me that your brainless twin brother already expects our economic woes to be corrected.
And I'm STILL waiting for you to answer the question I asked you at least 6 times yesterday: What is Obama supposed to do or say in regards to Iran? Do you REALLY think that there is anything he can say that is going to benefit the revolutionary's, without emboldening the regime, while miring us even deeper in a country's political system that hates our guts already? - Reply to this comment
- Well, the Bush Admin would not take the blame for 9-11 which occurred on it's watch. So, Obama has at least a minimum of 8 months before he has to assume responsibility for what happens on his watch.
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