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6:21 pm on August 4th, 2009 1
It will take only 1 violent incident by you racist, fascist pricks for your whole nazi movement to collapse. I can hardly wait!
7:54 pm on August 4th, 2009 2
Tony,
It is so refreshing to hear a comment like yours but then again we get to hear those comments day in and day out by ignorant liberals like yourself. Maybe if you educated yourself a little bit, you would understand why we take the position that we do. There is nothing racist or fascist about our post. Your language shows the depth of your character and education. I feel sorry for individuals like yourself who let others think for you.
8:25 pm on August 4th, 2009 3
As usual, you and your ilk lie, e.g., it’s “refreshing” to hear my comments. I don’t think so. My point is that if you disagree with someone and some point, you don’t just shut them down. What’s wrong with honest debate?
10:05 pm on August 4th, 2009 4
Tony,
Obviously you have no clue when sarcasm is being bandied about. It is not nice to call someone a lier but then again it was not nice of me to call you ignorant even if it was obvious.
There is nothing wrong with honest debate but I find it interesting that it is not ok for conservatives to shout people down but it is ok for liberals. Many times I have had to listen to a liberal spew their stupidity and hatred and then be shouted down by them when I calmly present the facts. The same thing most likely was happening at the town meetings and meet the congressman events.
I myself had an interesting experiencing with my own Congressman (D). When I calmly made my case about the stimulus package. He told me to go reread history because stimulus spending had worked before during the Great Depression. This was an utter and complete lie as well he insulted a constituent by calling them ignorant when in fact it was he who was ignorant and lying.
I could have resorted to the liberal tactic of shouting and carrying on but instead I just thanked him and went about my business. Then I proceeded to tell everyone I knew how the Congressman had treated me and I am able to provide a witness as well. Which do you think will be more effective in the end. Do you honestly think that the people there will just say - oh I did a great job I shouted him/her down. No they will end up doing what I did and telling each and everyone of their friends or acquaintances what the experience was like and how the Congressman/women treated them.
Let me put my reasoning for posting on this blog and my view of the treatment that the current administration and Democrat controlled Congress is experiencing in an easy to understand phrase - “What is good for the goose is good for the gander”
Finally, if you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen - yep I went there.
10:21 pm on August 5th, 2009 5
Well, you can see how much traffic there is on this blog. I’m going somewhere else to do some enlightening. Read the following, “patriot 76″ and try to get your head a little more clear:
What’s Not to Like?
Reform? Why do we need health-care reform? Everything is just fine the way it is.
By Jonathan Alter | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jul 31, 2009
Go ahead, shoot me. I like the status quo on health care in the United States. I’ve got health insurance and I don’t give a damn about the 47 million suckers who don’t. Obama and Congress must be stopped. No bill! I’m better off the way things are.
I’m with that woman who wrote the president complaining about “socialized medicine” and added: “Now keep your hands off my Medicare.” That’s the spirit!
Why should I be entitled to the same insurance that members of Congress get? Blue Dogs need a lot of medical attention to treat their blueness. I’m just a regular guy and definitely deserve less.
I had cancer a few years ago. I like the fact that if I lose my job, I won’t be able to get any insurance because of my illness. It reminds me of my homeowners’ insurance, which gets canceled after a break-in. I like the choice I’d face if, God forbid, the cancer recurs—sell my house to pay for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatment, or die. That’s what you call a “post-existing condition.”
I like the absence of catastrophic insurance today. It meant that my health-insurance plan (one of the better ones, by the way) only covered about 75 percent of the cost of my cutting-edge treatment. That’s as it should be—face cancer and shell out huge amounts of money at the same time. Nice.
I like the “lifetime limits” that many policies have today. Missed the fine print on that one, did you? It means that after you exceed a certain amount of reimbursement, you don’t get anything more from the insurance company. That’s fair.
Speaking of fair, it seems fair to me that cost-cutting bureaucrats at the insurance companies—not doctors—decide what’s reimbursable. After all, the insurance companies know best.
Yes, the insurance company status quo rocks. I learned recently about something called the “loading fees” of insurance companies. That’s how much of every health-care dollar gets spent by insurance companies on things other than the medical care—paperwork, marketing, profits, etc. According to a University of Minnesota study, up to 47 percent of all the money going into the health-insurance system is consumed in “loading fees.” Even good insurance companies spend close to 30 percent on nonmedical stuff. Sweet.
The good news is that the $8,000 a year per family that Americans pay for their employer-based health insurance is heading up! According to the Council of Economic Advisers, it will hit $25,000 per family by 2025. The sourpusses who want health-care reform say that’s “unsustainable.” Au contraire.
And how could the supporters of these reform bills believe in anything as stupid as a “public option”? Do they really believe that the health-insurance cartel deserves a little competition to keep them honest? Back in the day, they had a word for competition. A bad word. They called it capitalism. FedEx versus the U.S. Postal Service, CNN versus PBS—just because it’s government-backed doesn’t mean you can’t compete against it. If they believed in capitalism, the insurance companies would join the fray and compete.
I’m glad they don’t. I prefer the status quo, where the for-profit insurance companies suck at the teat of the federal government. Corporate welfare’s what we’ve got, and it’s a damn good system. Through a wonderful program called Medicare Advantage, the insurance companies receive hundreds of billions of dollars in fees to administer a program that the government is already running. Don’t touch that baby. You’d be messing with the handiwork of some fine lobbyists.
You know what part of the status quo I like best? It’s a longstanding system for paying doctors called “fee for service.” That’s where doctors get paid for each procedure they perform, as if my auto dealer got paid separately for the steering wheel, brakes, and horn instead of for the car. Fee-for-service is why the medical care at that doc-in-a-box at my mall is so superior to the Mayo Clinic or Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where the doctors are on salary. Who would want to mess with that?
OK, if you really press me, I’m for one change. It’s the one that Republicans trot out to prove they’re “reformers,” too. We could save our whole system if we just capped malpractice awards. Two of our biggest states—California and Texas—did it a few years ago and nothing has changed there, but who cares? It sounds good.
So tell your congressmen and senators when they’re home for the summer recess that it’s too soon to address this issue. We’ve only been debating it for 97 years, since Theodore Roosevelt put national health insurance in the Bull Moose Party platform of 1912. We’ve only had 745 congressional hearings on the subject (I made that number up, but it’s got to be close). That’s not enough! Let’s study this problem more before we do anything about it.
Did I say “problem”? Who said there was a problem? Not me. I like the status quo.
Find this article at http://www.newsweek.com/id/209817
10:28 pm on August 5th, 2009 6
Tony,
Same liberal crap we have been hearing from someone who does absolutely no research. Newsweek is not known for it’s fair and unbiased reporting. It is too bad you cannot handle someone else’s opinion. I have been reading drivel like that for some time. Instead of citing articles like this, why don’t you show me where in the Constitution (or any other founding document along with the personal and public writings of our Founding fathers) it says that health care is a right? Then maybe just maybe I will listen to the lies coming out of this White House. However, I am very confident that you will find no such reference.
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8:34 am on August 6th, 2009 7
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9:24 am on August 8th, 2009 8
I suppose that when you are out of ideas operation embarrass your liberal AND CONSERVATIVE congressman is what you are left with. It looks like the republicans who endorse this behavior know their chance of staying in office is laughable so they have nothing to lose. So when a conservative has a town meeting, it looks like they will have an unpleasant experience as well. It’s not a stretch to all you partisan slimeballs to take pages from each others books making democracy unpleasant for real non-partisan Americans. Shame on the left AND right. You are not on America’s side, you are on your party’s side.
5:32 pm on August 8th, 2009 9
That is right you embarrass them with the facts. Most of these Congressmen/women have not read these bills and have no real clue what is in them other than what they want us to know or what they have been told by the leadership. It does not matter if they are liberal or conservative, our representatives need to know that we will not stand for them voting on bills that they have not read. If we can show others, that the representative is ignorant of their own bills then we have accomplished a lot. This in turn will encourage people to get informed and bombard their representative with phone calls, emails and visits to let them know what we want and do not want when it comes to legislation.
As far as the republicans who endorse this behavior - well it sounds to me that you are antithetical to your name of anti-partisan. That in and of itself is a very partisan statement. That is a little bit like the pot calling the kettle black - but thank you for showing your true colors.
Here is an interesting fact. We have a republican form of government not a democracy. I wish people would learn that and quit referring to our government as a democracy. We are a republic and have been since the Constitution was enacted.
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1:43 pm on August 12th, 2009 10
This is embarrassing, when it was a matter of going to an unjust war the same group called the protestors trators. Now that group is basically acting like bunch of poorly organized grade school thugs to fight against a bill which has more promise than anything produced by either party in the last 20 years. Its shameful.
JN