Someone needs to tell me how much this is going to cost me so I can adjust spending accordingly. If I now have to buy health insurance, I can't be buying something else.
Gosh darn simple math.
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McCain says they're going to repeal it.
The thing that got lost in the MSM's coverage (and it was most likely intentional) is that the majority of Americans didn't want this bill passed.
So to me, the most important thing about this bill was that our representatives voted against their constituents wishes.
That's scary shit. I told the wife "This is going to be the justification for some nutjob(s) to get violent". Place your bets now on when that's going to happen.
I also want to point out the typical Democrat "pay for votes" tactic in the bill. Among the immediate benefits are allowing people to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26 and paying for senior citizens' prescriptions. I guess buying votes is ok as long as you can disguise it as "helping people".
The thing that got lost in the MSM's coverage (and it was most likely intentional) is that the majority of Americans didn't want this bill passed.
So to me, the most important thing about this bill was that our representatives voted against their constituents wishes.
That's scary shit. I told the wife "This is going to be the justification for some nutjob(s) to get violent". Place your bets now on when that's going to happen.
I also want to point out the typical Democrat "pay for votes" tactic in the bill. Among the immediate benefits are allowing people to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26 and paying for senior citizens' prescriptions. I guess buying votes is ok as long as you can disguise it as "helping people".
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Yeah, I trust the adaptable, dynamic, responsive, in-touch, charismatic leaders of the GOP to derail this thing ... just like they failed to do for the past several months.Leisher wrote:McCain says they're going to repeal it.
He said he was repulsed by "all this euphoria going on" and argued that "outside the Beltway, the American people are very angry. They don't like it and we're going to repeal this."
Were there any mass demonstrations outside the White House today? Congress?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Crap. That corollary had been lying dormant in my brain up till this point. Fuck, how long before FDA- &\or department of health-inspired legislation crops up that makes sweeping changes to what substances we can consume in processed foods? Like New York's proposed ban on salt, except on the national level?TheCatt wrote:Well, the good news is you now have the right to abuse any fat ass who super sizes their french fries, you know, since we're all in this together.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
No, because the people who hate it are all busy having jobs. The bums that have time for a quick spontaneous march on Washington because they don't have to go to work all like it fine. But then they aren't the ones paying for it.Malcolm wrote:Were there any mass demonstrations outside the White House today? Congress?
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They couldn't build the machine to keep up with me.GORDON wrote:John Spartan, you have been fined one-half credit for violation of the Language Morality Act.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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John Spartan, you have been fined one-half credit for violation of the Language Morality Act.
I have been saying for years that the writers of that film were prophets.
Well you all have "heard" lots more than I have. I am reserving my opinion until I find out what it is all about, which so far has been lots of rumors and speculation. I want to see the end results, then I can decide how it will affect me and mine.
Yeah, I don't need to shoot myself to know that I'm not bullet proof.
It doesn't matter how you feel about the issue of health care. It doesn't matter how you feel about society taking care of those who can't or refuse to take care of themselves. The real issue is that our elected officials passed a bill into law that most Americans did NOT want to be made a law. The Democrats have officially told the American people that they think we're too stupid to run our own lives.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Hasn't that been the basis of their entire platform for generations now?
That's been the underlying plan for both political parties for quite some time. I can barely classify members of Congress as people anymore. They're their own separate subspecies.
EDIT : In order to swipe a few pachyderm votes, I hear there's promise that $0 will fund anything relating to abortions. Compromise : another word for a half-assed solution that nobody wants.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."