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Grayson hit the nail on the head, and I do hope he gets his seat back next election!
of course the Libs still clinging to Obama's change are spinning this like crazy. it is starting to sound more like teaparty FOXtards on the Dem side at the same time Obama is acting more like a NeoConn in a blue tie.and Ron Paul's answer when he was finally allowed to talk was that they should not be denied treatment, just that if they do need treatment they have to take responsibility for themselves and pay for it with their money, because we shouldn't have to involuntarily pay more because someone else is stupid and decides to opt out if they can't pay for themselves. for people that cannot afford to pay in the system there are church funds, charity orgs, and individual health care savings accounts and familiy or community. or, if a person can't afford to be responsible for themselves then they shouldn't voluntarily opt out of the system. if you want to use the system you have to contribute to it. the teabaggers in the audience are obviously from the same cave as the ones that cheered Perry for being a pro-life, anti-abortion candidate that had 263 inmates executed. when that happened Perry did aplaud with them. i can assure you that Ron Paul was mortified but believes that they has their right to their opinion and he has the right to disagree. and if the moron that kept asking him while he was trying to answer wasn't such a whore for the GOP he would have shut up and listened. don't believe me? watch that part again. if anyone on that stage laughed or clapped it was Perry, not Paul. sounds like the Dems are getting scared of Ron Paul too. just like the NeoConns. they keep switching back and forth between attacking him if they don't understand him and stealing his policy points when they think they do. but the bottom line in this is that health care legislation is a states' rights thing. the feds steal too much, waste too much and if it is legislated in the state level like Vermont and Mass. it gives more control to the people and is always more economical and customisable to the local reigion's needs.
so... my vote is none of the above. i choose Ron Paul. Peace, Liberty and Prosperity!
Part E all the way. We could even start slowly by lowering the Medicare eligibility age by 5 years every year. In addition, negotiate with drug companies like the VA does!
The upside of the Tea Party's demented mob is that they just may kill the SickCare system that the profoundly demented liberal voters made even sicker — ObamaCare that mandates even greater profits for more denial of healthcare.
Who took the only sane and sensible solution, Single-Payer, off the table?
It was the near 70 million liberals who voted against Single-Payer when they mindlessly voted to provide a popular mandate for the corporate-state's most heavily corporate funded POTUS ever — that pre-installed corporate manufactured creature, Obama.
QUOTE: “If you’re starting from scratch, then a single-payer system — a government-managed system like Canada’s, which disconnects health insurance from employment — would probably make sense. But we’ve got all these legacy systems in place, and managing the transition, as well as adjusting the culture to a different system, would be difficult to pull off. So we may need a system that’s not so disruptive that people feel like suddenly what they’ve known for most of their lives is thrown by the wayside.”
— Barack Obama, in an 05/07/2007 New Yorker magazine interview explaining why Americans shouldn't properly replace a criminally corrupt insurance company profit care system that chains people to their employers, and often renders even those who have "insurance" health careless.
Obama frequently repeated his "No We Can't" disrupt this sick society's legacy systems message on the campaign trail, and near 70 million maniacs apparently either weren't listening to the change disqualifying qualifications he attached to his "promises" of change (all offered with his Cheshire Cat grin), or they manically assumed he was just saying that to get elected... or perhaps Obama's maniac millions never actually wanted any change to come.
The smarter half of the potential electorate (the half that never votes) might just start voting if (D) liberal voters didn't keep ensuring that elections serve no good purpose. There are no good Democrats.
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GOP Baggers Cantor Boehner McConnell demands and actions tell the whole story. They demand more and more corp cuts, loopholes,oil subsides while vowing to CUT education, disabled, old & sick and BREAK Obama . Tax es are lowest in 55 yrs but thats not enough Extreme Greed is a sad sign of our times The More they have the more they crave . These folks will do anything to get it so stay out of their way. I do like Ron Pauls stand on US 2 long failed wars based on lies & war profits. Wars must end in 12 months Not 2-3 yrs Pakistan harbors US enemies as does Yemen. Afghans are mostly illiterate and have been at wars for eons. Why must US occupt so many countries ? WE know the answer ....Lockheed Halliburton Blackwater - contractors who are robbing us blind .& making much more enemies Iraq was a gift to Bin laden / AL quada We occupy many foreign lands for Massive War profiteering / Power / control of Mid East Oil What would the US do if China or Iran occupied USA ? We would fight kill till they left our country for good.
NO good Dems huh ? Now isnt' that a bit extreme ?
Democrats provide a good distraction to ever corporate-state usefully prevent necessary systemic changes from occurring; Democrats are good at being devious; Democrats are good deceivers; Democrats are good liars; Democrats are good at gathering corporate campaign contributions; Democrat voters are most particularly good at self-delusion, self-gratification and their wholly undeserved self-congratulation... but there are no good Democrats.
The self-obsessed narcissistic Boomer liberals unrelentingly proudly display their self-contentment in their having life-long (D) supported reforms (new paint over old rot) to prevent any and every needed systemic change that might have possibly inconvenienced them. Their decades of corporate party (D) faction wrongly directly change prevention activism is why all our children now face a futureless future.
The Democrat faction of the corporate party ensured that there would be no viable political alternative to oppose their corporate-state militarist expansionism, their ruthless global economic exploitation, and their unsustainable ever increasing extraction based consumer culture.
There are no good Democrats. There never were any good Democrats.
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You show me a good Repiblican I'll show you a hippecrite liars and fools that don't uderstand any thing larger then the funding they get from the crock brothers or Alec or any of a number of rich croonies that want to make our government wothless by deregulating every thing so they can get richer and make us dead. the only real question is do the swallow or spit it out after sucking
ANY one who agrees with allowing a human die because they develope a serious illness is throwing their own under the bus with this belief of YEAH let them die --just plainly not Christian thinking!!! Remember, this could happen to you or your family in a micro minute when the insurance companies refuse to pay off on what you thought was great coverage.
A major problem with the tea party/republicon view on healthcare for all in this country, is that friends, family, churches etc. CAN NOT PROVIDE ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE! Friends, family, churches can assisit with food and shelter when neccesary, but healthcare must be provided by well educated, professional people. In my opinion healthcare is a basic human right which should be provided to all and paid for by all.