Opinion: SMART REMARKS: It's a bad bill. Pass it.

Dec 18, 2009 17:15

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SMART REMARKS: It's a bad bill. Pass it.

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QUOTE (Tommy Boy @ Dec 20 2009, 11:58 AM)

Thanks! Your right and I think the Republicans should go as well, bring this country back to what it was.

lol..

so once again...

when this stuff first happened..

under the gop run...congress and white house...

conservatvies were nowhere to be found..

but now...that the dems...have come up with a deficit-neutral bill and will use 60-votes..

now...

the outrage peaks..

and that is why no one trusts conservatives...
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mnepats52

QUOTE (Tommy Boy @ Dec 20 2009, 11:58 AM)

thanks for letting us know that both corrupt parties need to be replaced, good job.

and here is another example of the right's feckless tack on accountability...

as i posted on another thread...

conservatives first claim the left is corrupt..

let's use hc reform...

but when these "conservatives" are informed that the the gop did worse..

they spent without concern for deficits with the 2003 medicare part d prescription drug plan...

the gop didn't need any supermajority to jam their socialistic will down the throats of americans...

but conservatives still won't admit that the gop is corrupt..

unless its stated that...

both are corrupt..

so much for personal responsibility...
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mnepats52

QUOTE (Tommy Boy @ Dec 19 2009, 11:12 PM)

Its a terrible, humiliating bill that is utterly unconstitutional.

Sort of like Bush's foreign incursions, eh?
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wcdevins

QUOTE (Tommy Boy @ Dec 20 2009, 02:27 PM)

True, true, the more dependent we are the better. Let's change our major document to Declaration of Government Dependence since that what it really means. What a joke, we have no backbone and the rest of the world knows it, even Russia is amazed on the speed into Marxism we are falling. !profanity!-ants.

The more dependent we are, the less questions we ask. Complicated bills with thousands of pages ensure that the transparency many of us desire will never occur.

The majority of Americans are fixated on celebrity gossip and American Idol. Too many choose not to read the news because "it's depressing". Those who are informed are a minority these days.

I do think healthcare needs reformed because it is quickly becoming so overpriced that regular people and small businesses cannot afford it and we have 30 million who are uninsured. There are many things that need to be reformed and none of it should be done half-a**ed and/or because someone has a timeline to keep.
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ephrata_chick

One of the issues that comes up is that more seniors are now expected to sign up for Medicare Part D, which will drive up costs. The original program, with the doughnut hole, turned out to be less expensive because it was confusing and difficult for some seniors to know if they should sign up. Too bad the drug pricing won't be bid out like it should have been, although states could still do that.
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