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- Here we go again. Republican politicians screaching and squacking about universal health care when their health care benefits are provided by the tax payers, then the Republicans supporters repeat the same screaching and squacking while they pay those health benefits for the ones who can afford to pay their own. I never understood the concept of being willing to pay things like this for the wealthy and not blink an eye, yet ask them to pay for the middle or lower class and they riot.
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- "Republican politicians screaching and squacking about universal health care when their health care benefits are provided by the tax payers"
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Exactly! When all American's health care benefits are provided by the taxpayers, and we get exactly the same coverage as the congresscritters, America will finally have reformed health care!
- "Republican politicians screaching and squacking about universal health care when their health care benefits are provided by the tax payers"
- HAVING JUST SPENT SOME TIME IN THE HOSPITAL, I CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY BECAUSE I AM ON MEDICARE.
ALL OF YOU, NO MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE FENCE YOU ARE ON WILL EVENTALLY BECOME MY AGE (70). IT IS THE ONE CERTAINTY OF LIFE THAT CANNOT BE LEGISLATED OR CHANGED.
WHEN YOU GET THROUGH ALL THE CRAP OF POLITICS AND TAX PARANOIA IT ALL GETS DOWN TO THIS---IT EITHER WORKS OR IT DOESN'T--PERIOD!!!!
THE CURRENT SYSTEM HAS HAD ENOUGH TIME TO PERFORM AND DOES NOT WORK. EVERYONE AGREES ON THIS. THE AMOUNT OF ANY TAX INCREASE AT AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL AMOUNTS TO "BIRDCRAP" COMPARED TO WHAT IT WILL COST IF YOU WAIT!!
CONSERVATIVE, DO NOTHING PRINCIPLES SIMPLY ARE NOTHING LESS THAN "MORE OF THE SAME", WHICH DOESN'T WORK.
SO IT COMES DOWN TO THIS FOLKS---LEAVE YOUR FEET IN CONCRETE THAT DOES NOTHING BUT HARDEN OR GET OUR BUTTS MOVING ON SOMETHING THAT WORKS!!
I AM 70 AND I HAVE MINE THROUGH MEDICARE--BUT I AM A LOT MORE CONCERNED ABOUT MY KIDS AND GRANDKIDS!!!!
ANYTHING ELSE DEBATED ON THIS IS STRICTLY POLITICS AND FLUFF!!! - Reply to this comment
- "We have 3 to 4 times as many lobbyists in DC as elected representatives."
*Professional* lobbyists should be banned. I sincerely believe that offering a sales pitch should not be considered a "free speech" issue.
A single payer system such as you suggest does sound a lot more financially viable than anything currently offered by government. - Reply to this comment
- To those who think what we have presently in the USA is capitalism, please think again. When corporations run the government or the government runs the corporations, you have Fascism. We have 3 to 4 times as many lobbyists in DC as elected representatives. Many of our elected benefit by not understanding the issues and concerns of the sheeple they represent.
To those who point to the problems with medicare, there is one thing many people forget regarding medicare, those who have it, are on the whole, in need of health care more than the general public since they are either elderly and or disabled. This means the cost to operate such a system would cost more per capita than a single payer, medicare for all which would also include younger and healthier participants. - Reply to this comment
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- "We have 3 to 4 times as many lobbyists in DC as elected representatives."
*Professional* lobbyists should be banned. I sincerely believe that offering a sales pitch should not be considered a "free speech" issue.
A single payer system such as you suggest does sound a lot more financially viable than anything currently offered by government.
- "We have 3 to 4 times as many lobbyists in DC as elected representatives."
- "Or are you some kind of special elite if you can get yourself elected to the Senate?"
Yes. - Reply to this comment
- The "right" is not against improving anyone's quality of life. They simply demand that you pay for it while they set the price. And if you can't afford the price, do without.
While that approach may be appropriate for buying a new suit or a car, it has no place in health care. - Reply to this comment
- One of out every three healthcare dollars in America is spent on administrative costs. The figure in Canada, with single payer, is 1%. Why spend money trying to figure who is covered, and for what, if everyone is covered? The savings in switching to single payer is $400 million annually, immediately, just in lower administrative costs. The coverage goes from 50 million uninsured to EVERYONE insured, and the healthcare is superior in almost all instances.
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- "Where does Senator Grassley get his health care?"
The same place any American can get it, the National Health Insurance option can provide a great policy at an affordable price. It is your choice, a public policy, a private policy or no policy, if that is what you choose. - Reply to this comment
- Where does Senator Grassley get his health care? He and his family have one of the best public option, partially-taxpayer-funded plans in this nation. If it is good enough for them, why shouldn't the rest of us be able to buy into it? Or are you some kind of special elite if you can get yourself elected to the Senate?
Don't forget--50 million are uninsured, millions more are under insured, 60% of personal bankruptcies come because of medical costs, congressional hearings have shown that tens of thousands are suffering rescission--insurance companies canceling paid-up health care insurance when the insured gets an expensive illness.
Also, remember the Medicare Drug Plan foisted off on us by the GOP and the drug and insurance industries. That plan had a huge donut hole, and one year after it went into effect insurance and drug prices skyrocketed. The same thing will happen here if there is no public option plan to keep the rich insurance companies and their milti-millionaire CEOs from manipulating the system so they get richer. - Reply to this comment
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- "Where does Senator Grassley get his health care?"
The same place any American can get it, the National Health Insurance option can provide a great policy at an affordable price. It is your choice, a public policy, a private policy or no policy, if that is what you choose.
- IF you have a better option lets hear it. Frankly I'm so tired of you deny and stall folks it's beyond belief. We have tried YOUR way for about 3 decades and to say it has been a complete and total failure is an understatement. This is CERTAINLY one case when Stay the Course is NOT an option. So stop being so childish about losing the election and get into the debate.
- "Where does Senator Grassley get his health care?"
- CBS's description from above is a complete distortion of what happened:
<blockquote>Both senators see the option of an alternative patient-owned cooperative system as a possible point of agreement between committee members.</blockquote>
In fact, the only one interested in a "cooperative" was fill-in host John Dickerson who brought it up entirely on his own -- not once but twice. He did this completely unrelated to what the Senators were saying. In fact, Dickerson brought it up the 2nd time immediately after Shumer mentioned that the public option was supported by 70% of the American Public.
So you've got to ask yourself, whose agenda was Dickerson promoting in bringing up something that neither of his guests were discussing at the cost of completely ignoring something that's supported by 70% of the American Public? - Reply to this comment
- When times are tough, companies get rid of middle management. If we nationalize the health care industry we get rid of the middle management: the insurance companies. If we elimated all their staff, health care would have to be cheaper, wouldn't it?
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- In the beginning, HMOs were a good idea, but the law changed them. Initially HMOs like Kaiser charged all members the same and provided care with their employed doctors at their own hospitals. It was cheaper than other forms of health insurance. Now there are HMOs which are money changers tking premiums and dividing them up between independent doctors and hosptials. These new HMOs are just an insurance plan with less benefits.
- Wait a minute...
Senator Charles Grassley (who is up for reelection in 2010) is a multimillionaire. He was the LEADER on getting the estate tax repeal legislation for the super-rich who make up the 2% of Americans.
It is obvious that Senator Grassley, doesn't give a hoot about the 47,000,000 million of us who have no health insurance or the 98% of us who are not super-rich. - Reply to this comment
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- Grassley has 'been in the pocket' of the AMA, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries for DECADES!
To him, even discussion of regulating these industries is 'off the table'; that's how protective he is of his corporate clients!
His actions and misactions to protect these industries, have CAUSED the very problems we are faced with in these industries today! He badly needs to be replaced!
It remains to be seen, whether or not, that occurs in 2010!
- Grassley has 'been in the pocket' of the AMA, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries for DECADES!
- Exactly! The democrats in congress should simply ram legislation through. I don't quiet understand why they are being so lilly-livered.
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- Even though it would be much better to have 'single payer' health care in America due to the ever-spiraling costs, the moronic, minority republiCONS will fight this even harder than the public OPTION, in order to keep their campaign money from BIG PHARMA and BIG INSURANCE, since BIG BIZ comes well before WE THE PEOPLE.
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- Exactly! The democrats in congress should simply ram legislation through. I don't quiet understand why they are being so lilly-livered.
- You mean like Dodd did with Freddie and Fannie? Or do you just give him a pass. If you were to look, the top three campaign contributions from both banks were to Democrats. So before you start throwing stones, do some research. You democrats like to bring up stuff like this and act as if you are better, when you are not. Dodd, told us the banks were fine, the were not. So stop acting like you democrats are perfect.
by iam4honesty July 5, 2009 10:42 AM PDT
Exactly! The democrats in congress should simply ram legislation through. I don't quiet understand why they are being so lilly-livered.
Obviously there are a lot of things about the democrats you do not understand.
by rightaboutit July 5, 2009 11:29 AM PDT
I'm beginning to think the democrats lack a spine. They want to be bipartisan. We need to track these spineless democrats and send them packing to.
You know, if you did that, you would be getting rid of a lot of the senate. But good, go ahead do that. At least if you get rid of those who need to be gotten rid of, this country might stand a chance. But I am totally against and All Democrat or All Republican Congress
- It is absolute insanity to rely upon the for-profit insurance industry for needed health care reform, since it is much smarter to allow physicians and patients to make decisions on their health care instead of GREEDY lawyers posing as insurance claims supervisors!
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- Exactly! We need affordable health care for all Americans, and must reform our present unsustainable and unaffordable health care debacle, before the 80 million baby boomers retire over the next 2 decades.
The status qo cannot be sustained, and the for-profit insurance companies cannot be let dictate the new course for our health care. - Reply to this comment
- Yes, and the fire departments are 'socialized' fire protection, police departments are 'socialized' crime prevention, the public school system is a 'socialized' education system, and on and on. Pure capitalism will not work. Social buffers are necessary to prevent a capitalist system from morphing into a feudal system with all the wealth in a few hands. Further, malpractice lawyers are not the problem. My wife's malpractice insurance is not that much more than our health insurance. The problem is a result of allowing insurance companies to take control of our health care system. If you attack malpractice attorneys you remove the only protection patients have from incompetent practitioners. Last year, more Americans died as a result of medical mistakes than were killed in the entire Vietnam war. The ONLY solution to this mess is universal health care, a single-payer system. It's working well in countries all around the world, are we afraid Americans are not bright enough to administer it efficiently? And, anyone who has traveled extensively, as I have, will tell you that all those horror stories you are hearing from the right about long waits, substandard care, etc. are just that, stories. Remember, for an American without health coverage the wait is eternal.
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- It is doubtful that the majority of our elected officials understand the health care crisis encountered by working Americans, when his pockets are lined by not understanding it.
Since the begining of 2009, the health care lobbyists have spent close to a million dollars a day "donating' to our elected officials. These same elected officials have "Hummer type health plans", that the US taxpayers foot the majority of the bill for. While hard working Americans loose their jobs and health care coverage, these same elected officials receive automatic pay increases. This is even when they vote against the will of the populous who voted them in.
Health insurance corporations, like all other corporations, by law can only consider the intent of their shareholders. It is legally bound to puts its bottom line before everything else, even the public good. In order to do this in the health insurance industry, they must deny a certain percentage of claims for service. It is nothing personal toward the policy holder, who in essence is just collateral damage. Many inusred Americans have self funded insurance plans, not regualted by the state, but by the US Dept. of Labor. When these plans fail to have sufficient money (either by too low of premiums or too high of claims), often the unsuspecting claiments are left paying most of what they thought was covered. Many Americans are one illness away from bankruptcy or foreclosure. Not our elected officials. They receive the best health plans(for life), and many receive donations to keep this system in place. It is time for we the people to know who on the hill receives money from whom, especially when for many Americans (about 20,000 a year), it is a matter of life and death. - Reply to this comment
- It is insanity to continue to allow greedy insurance companies make the health decisions for our families. Insurance companies need to be taken out of the equation. Those of you on the right need to stop parroting the talking points of the insurance companies. They are not in your best interest. Remember the basic rights? 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness'. Insurance companies are denying many people to the basic right to Life. People are dying for lack of care!! Why do you people insist on turning America into a third world country? Every other industrialized nation on earth has universal health care. Oh, that's right, I almost forgot. The right wing is anti-science, anti-progress, anti-anything that might improve the human condition. The Bushites would like to continue goose-stepping backwards into darkness. "NOT WITH MY MONEY!!" They scream. And, although they worship 'their money' they claim to be 'Christians'. Let's get this straight once and for all, republicans DO NOT represent christian doctrine! Show me an example of Jesus' intolerance (except toward money-changers in the temple). Show me an example of Jesus taking the stance that 'I am not my brother's keeper'. The republican party of today more closely resembles the Taliban than Christianity. Grow a brain and support a single-payer health care system!
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- It is absolute insanity to rely upon the for-profit insurance industry for needed health care reform, since it is much smarter to allow physicians and patients to make decisions on their health care instead of GREEDY lawyers posing as insurance claims supervisors!
- The "right" is not against improving anyone's quality of life. They simply demand that you pay for it while they set the price. And if you can't afford the price, do without.
While that approach may be appropriate for buying a new suit or a car, it has no place in health care.
- It seems some do not care about the nation or it's people. If they can not make a profit then it's off the table. Frankly when we spend TWICE what anyone else does and provide much less, I say it's time we tried something different. Let's put a Public Plan out there and let the PEOPLE make the decision as to how we go with this.
- So your "wife" doesn't pay more for malparactice insurance than she pays for health insurance. And you think that the only solution is a single payer system. Like yeah we are believing that you could actually be married to anyone. ROFLMAO You are a bozo that probably thinks that your opinion is special. *** do you care? A**hole
- Everyone should realize the potential debt burden of the babyboom generation. If we do not now begin to prevent disease we will bankrupt our future. Manditory health insurance to cover all of our basic needs will help business compete. Risk based insurance pools are making insurance too expensive for business and individuals. Medicare is American socialized medicine. We can have an affordable health care program if we cut out the malparactice lawyers out of the pie. More money is spent on them than cancer or AIDS research or the NIH. We need health care that everyone can afford.
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- Yes, and the fire departments are 'socialized' fire protection, police departments are 'socialized' crime prevention, the public school system is a 'socialized' education system, and on and on. Pure capitalism will not work. Social buffers are necessary to prevent a capitalist system from morphing into a feudal system with all the wealth in a few hands. Further, malpractice lawyers are not the problem. My wife's malpractice insurance is not that much more than our health insurance. The problem is a result of allowing insurance companies to take control of our health care system. If you attack malpractice attorneys you remove the only protection patients have from incompetent practitioners. Last year, more Americans died as a result of medical mistakes than were killed in the entire Vietnam war. The ONLY solution to this mess is universal health care, a single-payer system. It's working well in countries all around the world, are we afraid Americans are not bright enough to administer it efficiently? And, anyone who has traveled extensively, as I have, will tell you that all those horror stories you are hearing from the right about long waits, substandard care, etc. are just that, stories. Remember, for an American without health coverage the wait is eternal.
- Exactly! We need affordable health care for all Americans, and must reform our present unsustainable and unaffordable health care debacle, before the 80 million baby boomers retire over the next 2 decades.
The status qo cannot be sustained, and the for-profit insurance companies cannot be let dictate the new course for our health care.
- One of out every three healthcare dollars in America is spent on administrative costs. The figure in Canada, with single payer, is 1%. Why spend money trying to figure who is covered, and for what, if everyone is covered? The savings in switching to single payer is $400 million annually, immediately, just in lower administrative costs. The coverage goes from 50 million uninsured to EVERYONE insured, and the healthcare is superior in almost all instances.
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by iam4honesty July 5, 2009 10:19 AM PDT
Yes, and the fire departments are 'socialized' fire protection, police departments are 'socialized' crime prevention, the public school system is a 'socialized' education system, and on and on. Pure capitalism will not work.
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Capitalism has worked in this country for over 200 years...where did you get your information, off some commie rag?
Fire, police departments and public schools are NOT socialized programs, they are programs supported and regulated by locals...and have nothing whatsoever to do with federal government.
Never taken a civics class?
Your little offerings never cease to entertain. Thank you so much for the information. I had no idea the federal government has absolutely nothing to do with public education, and yes, I did take a 'civics' class. If I remember correctly that was in Junior High School. However, I am one of those you would probably call an elitist. I stayed in school. My studies at the university were Sociology, Psychology and Political Science. So maybe you can understand how some of the things that you and I were both taught in 'civics' class got pushed to the back a little.
I will say this, though, you are correct. Our country has nurtured a capitalist system for more than two hundred years. I shuddered a few times but was held upright by a few different programs that benefited the common citizen, like medicare and social security. Without the addition of 'social' programs such as those it is likely we would now be living in a different system.
- Our entire health care system is corrupt and immoral.
Taking care of our sick and needy should be a national moral imperative, as it is in many other countries.
We need to take the profit out of health care.
We don't need millionaire doctors.
We don't need those that prey upon the sick and needy, such as the vulture-like, predatory insurance companies.
We don't need hospitals and HMO's to make billions in profits at the expense of those unfortunate enough to be sick.
WE DON'T NEED POLITICIANS THAT ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. VOTE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM OUT ON THEIR EARS.
Demand Universal Health Care right now!
- Excellent post iam4honesty. We have seen what the "Market" has done with health care over the last 3 decades and it has not only not gotten any better it has gotten much worse.
- Iam4honesty:
YOU and elitist? Please. Your nothing of the sort. And for you to say something like "I am one of those you would probably call an elitist. I stayed in school. My studies at the university were Sociology, Psychology and Political Science. So maybe you can understand how some of the things that you and I were both taught in 'civics' class got pushed to the back a little."
Now prove that Rowdy did not finish school? Prove that most Republicans did not finish school. Come on, you got a big mouth and I am tired of you constant krap. You think you are so smart and you like to belittle those who are against you. So now lets see how smart you aren't. I have talked to College Professors that would disagree with you. So lets go, take your best shot, or are you going to cower down and not prove it. I mean you have done a good job now avoiding me. Come on, prove you are 4 honesty, lets see some honesty from you for once in your miserable life
- by libscrytoo July 5, 2009 3:00 PM PDT
Iam4honesty:
YOU and elitist? Please. Your nothing of the sort. And for you to say something like "I am one of those you would probably call an elitist. I stayed in school. My studies at the university were Sociology, Psychology and Political Science. So maybe you can understand how some of the things that you and I were both taught in 'civics' class got pushed to the back a little."
Now prove that Rowdy did not finish school? Prove that most Republicans did not finish school. Come on, you got a big mouth and I am tired of you constant krap. You think you are so smart and you like to belittle those who are against you. So now lets see how smart you aren't. I have talked to College Professors that would disagree with you. So lets go, take your best shot, or are you going to cower down and not prove it. I mean you have done a good job now avoiding me. Come on, prove you are 4 honesty, lets see some honesty from you for once in your miserable life
Pithy little feller, aren't you? You sure can get a burr under your saddle. What made you such an angry little dude? Too early toilet training?
- ROWDY!!!
The United States Congress
The Congress of the United States, composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate, passes legislation that affects public education in the United States. The Congress has power to do this under the "Commerce" and "General Welfare" clauses of the U.S. Constitution. The laws, or statutes, passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President that affect public education are of two general types. Some are general statutes concerning areas such as civil rights, which also affect education, while others are specific statutes that apply only to education. Examples of the first type are Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-352), codified at 42 U.S.C. Sect. 2000(e), et seq, and the Age Discrimination In Employment Act of 1967 (P.L. 90-202), codified at 29 U.S.C. Sect. 621, et seq, and their amendments. Most specific statutes that apply only to public education require that the public school be a recipient of federal funds. Examples of such statutes are Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-318), codified at 42 U.S.C. Sect. 1681, et seq and The Equal Access Act (EAA) of 1984 (P.L. 98-377), codified at 20 U.S.C. Sect. 4071, et seq. Title IX applies to both private and public schools that receive federal financial assistance.
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$1337 DOLLARS A MONTH BARELY MAKES A HOUSE OR RENTAL PAYMENT for pete's sakes!!!
You may need to rent a smaller trailer.
- texassanna says:
"NEVER! Every one of THEIR socialist programs...."
"...nothing more than another commie HOAX!"
"and with the commie government health care plan"
"....RIP OFF socialist program"
"...than the corrupt commies that instigated the program"
"...when their commmie arse is voted out"
"Iamnotforhonesty, I guess your stupid education can't quite account for the MORONIC socialist plan your commies in government have devised AND ROBBED! "
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GEEZ.......between all those 'socialists" and 'commies,' your little head couldn't even fathom a rightwing extremist whacko attacking a doctor, an insurance company, or just innocent civilians....but the enemy is amongst us.
- Obama and the congress and senate will never do anything with malpractice. They are all lawyers and no matter who else they put out of work( thousands of insurance agents and insurance company employees)they won't do anything to curb lawyers money or employment.
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Now prove that Rowdy did not finish school? Prove that most Republicans did not finish school.
OK!!
by slownewsday_05 July 5, 2009 5:32 PM PDT
Rowdy's simply a caricature of the perfect brainwashed right-winger.
She never bothers to research ANYthing before she posts.
- tell again how the Declaration of Independence is IN the Constution...
- tell us again how we never killed millions of American Indians during the settling of this nation
- tell us again how Freedom of Speech can be applied to private entities...
- tell us again how Iraelis are a "superior race" to us
- tell us how there were more than 21 viable embryonic stem-cell lines available for government-research funding
ROFLMMFAO!!!!!
- by iam4honesty July 5, 2009 3:27 PM PDT
by libscrytoo July 5, 2009 3:00 PM PDT
Iam4honesty:
YOU and elitist? Please. Your nothing of the sort. And for you to say something like "I am one of those you would probably call an elitist. I stayed in school. My studies at the university were Sociology, Psychology and Political Science. So maybe you can understand how some of the things that you and I were both taught in 'civics' class got pushed to the back a little."
Now prove that Rowdy did not finish school? Prove that most Republicans did not finish school. Come on, you got a big mouth and I am tired of you constant krap. You think you are so smart and you like to belittle those who are against you. So now lets see how smart you aren't. I have talked to College Professors that would disagree with you. So lets go, take your best shot, or are you going to cower down and not prove it. I mean you have done a good job now avoiding me. Come on, prove you are 4 honesty, lets see some honesty from you for once in your miserable life
Pithy little feller, aren't you? You sure can get a burr under your saddle. What made you such an angry little dude? Too early toilet training?
As I suspected. You have nothing to prove your point. All you do is talk about #s that you can't even back up. Poor Democrat, you must really want to hope that only 17% of Americans are Republicans. Come on Junior, time to wake up. Time to come to reality. Time to understand that only 63% of Americans approve of Obama. And 48% of those think he has not done anything yet
- by slownewsday_05 July 5, 2009 5:32 PM PDT
Rowdy's simply a caricature of the perfect brainwashed right-winger.
She never bothers to research ANYthing before she posts.
- tell again how the Declaration of Independence is IN the Constution...
- tell us again how we never killed millions of American Indians during the settling of this nation
- tell us again how Freedom of Speech can be applied to private entities...
- tell us again how Iraelis are a "superior race" to us
- tell us how there were more than 21 viable embryonic stem-cell lines available for government-research funding.
Proclaims anything that allows her to screech with no knowledge to back it up.
Her own shadow probably makes her yell "commie!!"
Rowdy is the Chicken Little of CBS.
Slow,
What is the difference between the lying right and lying left?
Answer: Nothing. A lie is still a lie. And there are plenty of posters from the democratic side who post with out research. In fact Iam4honest, Lastdance, skyk, (just to name a few) all fit into that category
- by iam4honesty July 5, 2009 5:44 PM PDT
by libscrytoo
Now prove that Rowdy did not finish school? Prove that most Republicans did not finish school.
OK!!
by slownewsday_05 July 5, 2009 5:32 PM PDT
Rowdy's simply a caricature of the perfect brainwashed right-winger.
She never bothers to research ANYthing before she posts.
- tell again how the Declaration of Independence is IN the Constution...
- tell us again how we never killed millions of American Indians during the settling of this nation
- tell us again how Freedom of Speech can be applied to private entities...
- tell us again how Iraelis are a "superior race" to us
- tell us how there were more than 21 viable embryonic stem-cell lines available for government-research funding
ROFLMMFAO!!!!!
Is that what you call proof? Please, sorry I asked you to prove it, not listen to another democrat. But I can see you HAVE NO PROOF. ROTFLMAO!!!
- slownewsday_05 says:
Rowdy's simply a caricature of the perfect brainwashed right-winger.
Her own shadow probably makes her yell "commie!!"
Rowdy is the Chicken Little of CBS.
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Yep....brainwashed rightwads tend to spew the same ignorant rants, all heard on the murdoch foxnewsus propagandus for dummies.
- libscrytoo goes out on the limb and says:
"Time to understand that only 63% of Americans approve of Obama."
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OK....and your point is that only about 2/3 of all Americans approve of President Obama....or in other words.....a vast majority!
.......while you're in the vast MINORITY still whining....
.....still cryin' about being a "sore-loserman".....
Please..... go cry on caribou barbi's shoulder, since cryin', whining, little republiCONS look and sound like little children.....
- "Medpac" wants to treat the symptoms (malpractice payments) rather than the disease, malpractice itself. Data from the National Practitioner Data Bank show that from one to two percent of physicians are responsible for over half of all the malpractice payments. Many of these physicians have multiple payments in their records. If physicians spent as much time working to revoke or restrict the licenses of the very few physicians causing the bulk of the problem as they spend complaining about lawyers, it would go a long way toward both reducing malpractice costs but also protecting patients. Trying to cap malpractice payments does nothing to protect patients and would allow incompetent or dangerous physicians to continue to practice while protecting them from the consequences of their malpractice by shifting the costs to their victims.
- iam4honesty and others: the one thing you seem to not get is that fire departments, police departments and school systems are NOT RUN by the Federal government, they are run by state or local governments. There is a HUGE difference between the two. Federal government has always been intended to be SMALL, whereas the local and state governments are the ones with the control, with local having the major portion so that 'WE THE PEOPLE" have more say in what concerns us. That is what the Constitution of The United States calls for - please read and study it.
iam4honesty is out and out lying when he says it is working in other countries, it isn't even working in the few states that have tried in the U.S. Do not be deceived. And we should be VERY afraid to let the government run it - do you really think there are no problems with Medicare, Social Security and any other programs the Feds run? Speaking of Feds - they can not even control the Federal Reserve.
And you tell me, WHY should any of us accept ANYTHING that the President nor Congress will accept for themselves?
Do we need some kind of reform? Yes, but not what they intend for us. Watch ABC's exclusive with the President, not only listen to what he is saying (scary), but listen to what he DOESN'T say.
