tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post5101306297922973619..comments2023-11-02T03:10:39.674-07:00Comments on GeeeeeZ!: CLOSE THE GOVERNMENT DOWN!Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-88661108356751504342013-10-02T05:25:42.043-07:002013-10-02T05:25:42.043-07:00Actually, only 12% of health care spending is curr...Actually, only <a href="http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/medicare-and-medicaid-spending-growth-1965" rel="nofollow">12%</a> of health care spending is currently "laissez faire" out-of-pocket spending. <br /><br /> so much for your argument!Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-41713155910967798002013-10-02T05:11:26.847-07:002013-10-02T05:11:26.847-07:00We DO know that a for profit model, which is only ...<i>We DO know that a for profit model, which is only unsubsidized in the minds of deluded laissez faire fellow travelers, has not been able to restrain premiums.</i><br /><br />Do we?<br /><br />we're already almost half way to single payer, duckman. how is THAT laissaz faire?<br /><br /><i>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The U.S. government will foot the bill for half of all health care costs in the United States by 2020, according to a government report released Thursday.<br /><br />That's up from 44% just two years ago, and reflects both the rising cost of health care and the fact that millions more people will have access to it under health reform, said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.</i><br /><br />I suspect that the reason health care costs are increasing is because government subsidies are increasing. I know, that's just "crazy talk"! ;)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-19582632351693062342013-10-01T20:30:44.974-07:002013-10-01T20:30:44.974-07:002014 won't go well for the Republicans.
In re...2014 won't go well for the Republicans.<br /><br />In reality this shutdown belongs to both dysfunctional parties marching to the beat of their Oligarch masters.<br /><br />Ho Hum, as the monkeys throw wrenches at each other so their masters behind the curtains give them more bananas.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-885338150234447432013-10-01T20:27:54.118-07:002013-10-01T20:27:54.118-07:00There have been many government shutdowns over our...There have been many government shutdowns over our history. It's all political.Carennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-47489027400608151162013-10-01T14:40:30.703-07:002013-10-01T14:40:30.703-07:00"what's going to happen? "
What, me..."what's going to happen? "<br /><br />What, me worry?Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665311979954859271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-52008936815566152372013-10-01T14:19:29.213-07:002013-10-01T14:19:29.213-07:00If progressives had done a blitz campaign to label...If progressives had done a blitz campaign to label ACA, Obamacare, we would be accused of following Alinsky tactics.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-76593141504086995722013-10-01T13:58:54.016-07:002013-10-01T13:58:54.016-07:00Well, we'll find won't, won't we, Farm...Well, we'll find won't, won't we, Farmer.<br /><br />We DO know that a for profit model, which is only unsubsidized in the minds of deluded laissez faire fellow travelers, has not been able to restrain premiums.<br /><br />Now ACA is undoubtedly flawed but it is a start toward intelligent models used by the rest of the industrial world.<br /><br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-39718012625744503992013-10-01T13:34:25.864-07:002013-10-01T13:34:25.864-07:00the flawed premise of the "affordable" c...the flawed premise of the "affordable" care act...<br /><br /><b>that subsidizing a commodity makes the cost go DOWN.</b><br /><br />how does THAT work, ducky? Anybody got kids in college?Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-69199153930399480422013-10-01T13:04:42.033-07:002013-10-01T13:04:42.033-07:00Beak,
The point of the Affordable Care Act is to ...Beak,<br /><br />The point of the Affordable Care Act is to provide medical insurance to those lacking it.<br /><br />Do you lack coverage?<br />Then why would you have to "go on Obamacare".<br /><br />Now we know from your own writings on your blog that you spend most of your time training the people who are going to do more advance functions. For that you're well paid with medical and a pension. Why are you squawking?Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-69010489078686232402013-10-01T13:03:56.508-07:002013-10-01T13:03:56.508-07:00Government shutdown? Good ! I say turn off all the...Government shutdown? Good ! I say turn off all the lights and lock up every door. Then throw the keys in a box and leave them for 6 months. This bloated pig needs to lose some weight and maybe a 6 month fast will start the process. Obama is such a double talker bragging about " decreasing the growing deficit " as though he is really saying he is trying to lower the national debt. What a joke. As though spending only 4 trillion dollars we don't have is better than spending 5 trillion we still don't have. Wtf? Or, " you wouldn't not pay your mortgage" so " it would be irresponsible for us not to raise the debt ceiling to pay our debts" . Wtf? We also would not let our credit cards be used unchecked by somebody for a whole year and then just expect to get a new loan to cover the final amount at the end of the year. Duh ! rphuga89https://www.blogger.com/profile/06734511146243851724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-71697764101778585852013-10-01T13:01:43.559-07:002013-10-01T13:01:43.559-07:00Mexico's The News wrote in an editorial.
In t... Mexico's The News wrote in an editorial.<br /><br />In the United States, however, government shutdowns - or the threat thereof - have become an accepted negotiating tactic, thanks to the quirks of the American federal system, which allows different branches of government to be controlled by different parties. It was a structure devised by the nation's founders to encourage compromise and deliberation, but lately has had just the opposite effect. <br /><br />------<br />Wow, the Mexican press understands our Constitution better than the tea Party. Whodathunkit.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-14008406891605256262013-10-01T06:38:53.212-07:002013-10-01T06:38:53.212-07:00beakerkin; SO TRUE...well said.beakerkin; SO TRUE...well said.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-353174850433148072013-10-01T06:34:49.155-07:002013-10-01T06:34:49.155-07:00Obama got what he wanted
Shut the government down ...Obama got what he wanted<br />Shut the government down and get his MSM's to blame Republicans.<br />He then went on TV and said he will not negotiate with the Republicans.<br />What a leader he is.skudrunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07610092853412481236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-31056799295039605242013-10-01T06:02:17.531-07:002013-10-01T06:02:17.531-07:00The republicans tried 3x in good faith to negotiat...The republicans tried 3x in good faith to negotiate. each offer was repudiated with a non- negotiable counter. i think that anyone in America who hasn't noticed where the hubris lies isn't worth listening to.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-37030380372099744712013-10-01T04:18:38.024-07:002013-10-01T04:18:38.024-07:00Nope. We won't negotiate with these two faced ...Nope. We won't negotiate with these two faced socialists. Hats off to the Teabaggers.Good job republicans!<br /><br />Your Dear Leader will prostrate himself to talk to every dirty dictator on this planet, but won't talk to Republicans to keep the government functioning and you blame Republicans? That sounds kind of ignorant to me. But I’m not at all surprised. TeaBagger https://www.blogger.com/profile/16132071136150322635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-66426920962888083952013-10-01T01:31:43.226-07:002013-10-01T01:31:43.226-07:00Duncy
Let Obama lead by example.
Every Federal w...Duncy<br /><br />Let Obama lead by example.<br /><br />Every Federal worker, every state worker and every local worker goes on Obama care now. If he did that I guarantee Democrats loose every single election for a long time.<br /><br />Lois Lerner is the face of this farce. Do you want political goons<br />controlling your health care?<br /><br />Still if Lerner is free to abuse political foes what is to prevent a <br />future GOP administration from deporting you to North Korea. The government serves and is answerable<br />to the people not the other way around.beakerkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-32114590148827008542013-09-30T21:02:51.165-07:002013-09-30T21:02:51.165-07:00Kid?
BRAVO! They SHOULD have compare/contraste...Kid?<br /><br /><br />BRAVO! They SHOULD have compare/contrasted Obamacare with good insurance. And SOMEHOW got out the truth about what they wanted to do.<br /><br />Tonight on CNN there was Pelosi and her minions saying they'd tried to negotiate when they had NOT.<br /><br />unreal<br /><br />well, our government is shut down. So those who work at museums and national parks have a vacation. <br />I'm not sure our country will make it.<br /><br />:-)Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-75851459006052158402013-09-30T20:21:47.849-07:002013-09-30T20:21:47.849-07:00Well, I'm not "There" so there is th...Well, I'm not "There" so there is that. But I'd like to think my main strategy would be to oppose them every way possible. Taking out adds that talk about the evils of obamacare. Not that expensive compared to election campaigns and My interest would be America. If America saw that, I'd think the election would take care of itself so if I din't have election funds in 2014, I'd rest my laurels on the work I did for America. So, Oppose, Oppose, Oppose.<br /><br />Not this milquetoast tactic of trying to please everyone and pleasing no one in the process.<br /><br />We have socialists in control. If there is an opposing party it should be 100% capitalism. It is what made America what it is. Not perfect but better then everyone else.<br />Delete the word - bipartisan.<br />Delete the phrase -reach across the aisle.<br />Let the voters pick one or the other.<br />If they still pick socialism, then Boehner and everyone else should get out of the way.<br />Take out a weeekly full page add in the WSJ that says, America, you've selected your leadership. We won't stand in its way. If in 4 years you are unsatisfied, Let us know at the polls.<br /><br />Fill that in with all the usual suspects extolling the virtues of Capitalism, and shining a light on the evil of socialism. Put some youtubes together walkikng through France metro areas that show the vast majority of people living in 700 sq ft apartments like rats while the government live like kings. etc.<br /><br />Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-18979268765523924142013-09-30T20:10:03.486-07:002013-09-30T20:10:03.486-07:00Kid, do you think they should have folded for Obam...Kid, do you think they should have folded for Obama care?<br />How would you have handled it if you were Boehner (God forbid!!) :-)Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-47127410125958310622013-09-30T20:03:32.289-07:002013-09-30T20:03:32.289-07:00IMP, No question. Compromise for the democrats mea...IMP, No question. Compromise for the democrats means getting the other party (repubs) to do what they want them to do AND making them look like A* in the process AND criticizing them AND blaming them afterwards.<br /><br />The repubs are dead to me, for more reasons that this, but this would be enough.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-5897432344197615602013-09-30T19:59:17.082-07:002013-09-30T19:59:17.082-07:00Kid...you mean this?
Of course, we are all at th...Kid...you mean this?<br /><br /><br />Of course, we are all at this point very well acquainted with the Obama administration’s definition of “negotiation,” which can be most succinctly summed up by “the other interested party not doing exactly what we want and letting us get away scot-free with everything,”impertinentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-28398252767652084252013-09-30T19:48:46.786-07:002013-09-30T19:48:46.786-07:00Kid, Imp's right....you are RIGHT ON.
Obama&#...Kid, Imp's right....you are RIGHT ON.<br /><br />Obama's very thin skinned and I think everybody around him just feeds into that.......or none of them has the experience and dignity to do what you say...<br />plus, it's hard to point to successes when there are few. <br />That's why he's hanging on to this healthcare fiasco; it is, as he said, his crowning achievement of his first term.<br />And we're going to pay for it with money and our health. <br /><br />what a freakin' NIGHTMARE><br /><br />he's angry, he's demanding his way or the high way, he's name -calling, etc.<br />I'll NEVER FORGET the first time he insulted the crew at FOX NEWS; I remember thinking "Man, a PRESIDENT said THAT? That's baby talk, insulting people.." <br />I honestly couldn't BELIEVE it.<br /><br />but...he's done it again and again.<br /><br />He KNOWS very well that he has most of the media and the poor and the lazy on his side and he knows goodies speak to them...and he knows the truth isn't being found out because the media won't say it.<br />Then we have Roger Ailes hiring that stupid Howie Kurtz and replacing the show that HONESTLY approached the media and its coverage of our news and now has Kurtz and others talking about the media from the lib point of view. WHat the hell is wrong with Ailes?Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-75301720661270601872013-09-30T19:44:14.113-07:002013-09-30T19:44:14.113-07:00Thanks Imp.Thanks Imp.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-5828463002535048712013-09-30T19:32:30.165-07:002013-09-30T19:32:30.165-07:00Good Points Kid.
No one says it like you do bud.Good Points Kid.<br /><br />No one says it like you do bud.Impertinentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-64602744216776283872013-09-30T18:08:32.838-07:002013-09-30T18:08:32.838-07:00As far as oBAMa, the democrats and their libtard f...As far as oBAMa, the democrats and their libtard followers pointing their finger at anything and everything other them themselves as being the problem; You realize this is what incompetent imbeciles do. Right?<br /><br />Anyone who has worked in a business environment in their life, especially those who have been in contact with middle managers know exactly what incompetence looks and acts like.<br /><br />Right?<br /><br />Successful people and groups don't bother with the low class activity of slamming their critics. They point to their Successes as evidence of their correct strategies.<br />Why does oBAMa and crew not do this? it can only be because they have no successful strategies to point to. <br /><br />Except for oBAMa saying OK after 3 or more months of election projection polling on the effects of a successful or unsuccessful mission for the SEALs to take out that POS osama. That's about the only thing the democrats have allowed others to do for America.<br /><br />It's pretty clear and simple isn't it to people who have the benefit of life and working experience? No offense intended for anyone. It had to be said.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.com