Health insurance

[Bronko]

My hardcore liberal sister-in-law (who is a scialist in every sense of the word) is furious with Obama. She resides in the Howard Dean camp that this bill is nothing the progressive core liberals wanted. Every item they wanted has been wiped clean. She admits it is junk and thinks Obama and Rahm sold out to the insurance lobby. She could spit on Obama today... three months ago she thought he walked on water. Piece by piece it is all coming undone... might explain this....

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[buckman]

I hear you..I just got back from the hardware store and 3 elderly gentlemen were discussing the bill and Obama and they were pissed off. They were talking about all his lies.. "Worst President ever"..and the guy that said that was like 90.

[eastendlu]

Originally Posted by buckman

I hear you..I just got back from the hardware store and 3 elderly gentlemen were discussing the bill and Obama and they were pissed off. They were talking about all his lies.. "Worst President ever"..and the guy that said that was like 90.

That same old guy probably still thinks Rock&Roll is evil

[buckman]

Originally Posted by eastendlu

That same old guy probably still thinks Rock&Roll is evil

Nice, Bash the old guy who fought in WWII

[Joe]

Interesting that hard left democrats are pissed off because its not socialized medicine, and the right is pissed off because it is socialized medicine.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by buckman

Nice, Bash the old guy who fought in WWII

Nice. Pull out the veteran card like he was suppose to know.

[buckman]

Originally Posted by Joe

Interesting that hard left democrats are pissed off because its not socialized medicine, and the right is pissed off because it is socialized medicine.

I'm pissed off because we can't afford it, it's a lousy bill that doesn't fix any problems but creates more hardship. It's based on fiscal lies. It screws senior citizens..... there is a reason they are doing it at this time. It's a sucky bill and they are ramming it down our collective throats. We deserve better. VOTE THEM OUT. or not. It's up to you.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by Joe

Interesting that hard left democrats are pissed off because its not socialized medicine, and the right is pissed off because it is socialized medicine.

No one really knows what it actually is aside from what Fox News, MSNBC and CNN reports.

In one poll, more than half of Americans want this to go through - in another, less than 40% want it - in yet another, a public-option has over 60% support.

As a business owner, I'm prepping ourselves to bend over, grab the ankles and take it like a prison inmate.

Nothing good will come from this.

[buckman]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Nice. Pull out the veteran card like he was suppose to know.

Try to discredit people who are old as stupid and you may eat a little crow That's a big problem in America. We don't tap into the vast wealth of knowledge and life experiences our older people have to offer.
Some of us think we are more knowledgable but we are not smarter. There is a difference.

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by buckman

I hear you..I just got back from the hardware store and 3 elderly gentlemen were discussing the bill and Obama and they were pissed off. They were talking about all his lies.. "Worst President ever"..and the guy that said that was like 90.

I'm sure the next sentence was going to be "and the damm government should keep their hands of my medicare"

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by buckman

Try to discredit people who are old as stupid and you may eat a little crow That's a big problem in America. We don't tap into the vast wealth of knowledge and life experiences our older people have to offer.
Some of us think we are more knowledgable but we are not smarter. There is a difference.

So what you're saying is that people of his generation *didn't* think that Rock & Roll was music of devil worshipers?

Seriously though, you're right. 4 years working full time as an EMT, about half our patients were basic transports to/from doctor's appts for people over 60. 10, 20, 30 minutes in the back of an ambulance with these folks with nothing to do but some paperwork allows a lot of time for discussion. Many people I'd see every (sometimes multiple times) a week and I always appreciated the knowledge I would gain from their opinion coming from the polar opposite side of the age spectrum, not to mention the wisdom that radiates from them if you take the time to listen.

Hell, just about everything I know about fishing is due to the overwhelming generosity of a few people (who have now become good friends) that have decades of fishing experience, some with more experience than years I've been alive. I hold a deep appreciate for their wisdom and guidance.

[buckman]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

So what you're saying is that people of his generation *didn't* think that Rock & Roll was music of devil worshipers?

.

You guys liked " Waterboy" eh?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

As a business owner, I'm prepping ourselves to bend over, grab the ankles and take it like a prison inmate.

and you'll be getting exactly what you voted for...he warned you and you didn't listen....... Hope and Change

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by scottw

and you'll be getting exactly what you voted for...he warned you and you didn't listen....... Hope and Change

Actually, this isn't at all the HC Overhaul that was campaigned. So, you're wrong.

Also, as many of you forget, Obama isn't drafting the bill. He's blindly campaigning for the American people to get behind whatever the House and Senate come up with. Essentially, even he doesn't fully know what he's trying to sell. That isn't a defense for his actions, but this certainly isn't "Obama's Bill" as many of you like to portray it as.

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Actually, this isn't at all the HC Overhaul that was campaigned. So, you're wrong.

Also, as many of you forget, Obama isn't drafting the bill. He's blindly campaigning for the American people to get behind whatever the House and Senate come up with. Essentially, even he doesn't fully know what he's trying to sell. That isn't a defense for his actions, but this certainly isn't "Obama's Bill" as many of you like to portray it as.

Johhny, this is not Obama's bill, per se. It's his forcing something through so he has one accomplishment to hang his hat on after a year in office. It's sad how he had to use threats and scare tactics just so he could claim that one of his campaign promises was kept after a year. I can't wait to hear him proclaim success with a plan that most Americans want nothing to do with.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by fishbones

Johhny, this is not Obama's bill, per se. It's his forcing something through so he has one accomplishment to hang his hat on after a year in office. It's sad how he had to use threats and scare tactics just so he could claim that one of his campaign promises was kept after a year. I can't wait to hear him proclaim success with a plan that most Americans want nothing to do with.

You're right. When the bill passes and he signs it, then signing off on it is completely on his shoulders, as is his current campaigning for it. However, many portray this entire situation as though Obama has sat down and written every nonsense clause in the bill and has personal ownership over the contents, which isn't the case at all - the idiots in the House and Senate hold that responsibility.

In the end, it's just easier for people to bitch about Obama and state the contents of the bill are completely his fault then doing a some research into who has been pushing which sections, who is requiring earmarks for their vote, who is for or against the abortion sections, or who's for the public-option.

I agree that he should be criticized about his blind support for the bill, but this isn't "Obama's Bill" as people here (and Obama himself) often portray it as. People tend to forget that we have a Legislative branch of government that does the legislating.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by buckman

Try to discredit people who are old as stupid and you may eat a little crow That's a big problem in America. We don't tap into the vast wealth of knowledge and life experiences our older people have to offer.
Some of us think we are more knowledgable but we are not smarter. There is a difference.

Thanks Buckman, at age 70, I couldn't agree with you more.

Imho, intelligence without being tempered with experience and wisdom is not intelligence at all.

Everything we ever learn comes from someone else and if we are intelligent we'll never stop learning and listening to others.

When your young you never think you'll get old, but trust me, enjoy everyday, cause you'll be a senior in the wink of an eye.
Now your runnin, soon you'll be walkin.

Btw- i still love my Rock and Roll, Classic Rock and even some Rap.
Listen to it everyday. Most of my friends do too.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

I agree that he should be criticized about his blind support for the bill, but this isn't "Obama's Bill" as people here (and Obama himself) often portray it as. People tend to forget that we have a Legislative branch of government that does the legislating.

I would call, it an "Obama, Pelosi, Reid Bill" as they are the main players,
the ones filling the back rooms with deals,with some calling it bribes and threats to get it passed.
I don't call that legislating, and certainly not representing the will of the American people.

But in the end Obama owns it, as it was his campaign promise to get one passed.

[buckman]

He doesn't have to sign it JD.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by buckman

He doesn't have to sign it JD.

Yup, let's see the Obama Balls on the table here. We are gettin fleeced.

Oh, I forgot, Demcratic majority house and senate, oops!!

[Fly Rod]

Originally Posted by Bronko

My hardcore liberal sister-in-law (who is a scialist in every sense of the word) is furious with Obama. She resides in the Howard Dean camp that this bill is nothing the progressive core liberals wanted. Every item they wanted has been wiped clean. She admits it is junk and thinks Obama and Rahm sold out to the insurance lobby. She could spit on Obama today... three months ago she thought he walked on water. Piece by piece it is all coming undone... might explain this....

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Is your sister in law a Blonde?

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Fly Rod

Is your sister in law a Blonde?

I don't know, are you an Ass

[justplugit]

This bill looks like a Christmas tree with goodies for all the holdouts.

Reid says "A number of states are treated differently than other states.
That's what legislation is all about, compromise."

Ya right, he's gotta be kiddin me.
Looks like a desperation bill, which gives whatever they want for the holdouts, so they can meet an artificial dead line,
at our cost.
Took a no cost Medicaid offer for Nevada for Nelson to sell out.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by buckman

He doesn't have to sign it JD.

Nope, he doesn't... but he will and I've acknowledged that he will with:
"When the bill passes and he signs it, then signing off on it is completely on his shoulders, as is his current campaigning for it."

[scottw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Actually, this isn't at all the HC Overhaul that was campaigned. So, you're wrong.

Also, as many of you forget, Obama isn't drafting the bill. He's blindly campaigning for the American people to get behind whatever the House and Senate come up with. Essentially, even he doesn't fully know what he's trying to sell. That isn't a defense for his actions, but this certainly isn't "Obama's Bill" as many of you like to portray it as.

Obama says he's getting 95% of what he wanted in the bill, one of you is lying...

"Obama said the Senate legislation accomplishes 95 percent of what he wanted on health care. "Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill," the president said in an interview with The Washington Post."

there's that pesky number again 95%.....


again...let me be clear ... EVERY SINGLE CRITERIA FOR REFORM I PUT FORWARD IS IN THIS BILL....

QUOTE justplugit:
"I would call, it an "Obama, Pelosi, Reid Bill" as they are the main players"

I believe we have a new Axis of Evil

[TheSpecialist]

No matter he is a one term wonder, and then when a republican gets voted in the short sighted will just blame the republicans for the bad health care plan.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Joe

Interesting that hard left democrats are pissed off because its not socialized medicine, and the right is pissed off because it is socialized medicine.

It's not so much an either/or as it is a too much socialism vs. wanting more socialism. For the hard left, it was a chance for a big leap toward a socialist state instead of the slower, incremental shifting toward the Hobbesian Leviathan that has been occuring almost from the nation's beginning. The financial "crisis," the climate change conference, and the health care bill were massive opportunities to reinterpret/change the Constitution as granting positive powers to the State to DO for us as a group rather than only being a list of prohibitions of what it CANNOT DO against us as individuals, as well as opportunities to redistribute wealth from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

But, incremental steps in a socialist direction have been taken. That's why there is displeasure on both sides.

[buckman]

This is no fun!!! No one want's to defend any of this. Isn't this what you Obama lovers wanted???

[scottw]

Originally Posted by buckman

This is no fun!!! No one want's to defend any of this. Isn't this what you Obama lovers wanted???

just wait till next year...VAT tax..they're talking a financial transactions tax, Charlie Wrangle and Geitner are planning to "tweak" the tax code to make sure everyone is paying their fair share even though neither pay their own taxes, amnesty for millions and millions, Cap and Trade, extend unemployment again and again, more stimulus, Card Check, maybe save or create a job or two....hope the Obama's enjoy their Hawiian holiday...seems like they never get away in these difficult financial times when everyone is struggling....

hey, what ever happened to Kawanzaa?...I swear I have not heard the word once this season...don't tell me it's gone the way of Ebonics? I used to think it was cool when the kids came home from school with the Kawanzaa hats...oh well... Happy Kawanzaa to all....and to American Freedom and Liberty...good night...

[buckman]

Oh damn Harry, we may have a little math problem.