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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 01:34 PM
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34. But it doesn't do SHIT for me.
So this is just another welfare project where I have to pay for other people but can't take advantage of the program myself.

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  -"we're about to pass a $900 billion bill to help low-income Americans afford health-care coverage" Clio the Leo  Dec-22-09 11:18 AM   #0 
  - The Most Important And Significant Part Of This Legislation Will Be The Implementation Of The SYSTEM  Beetwasher   Dec-22-09 11:21 AM   #1 
  - They got their orders..  Cha   Dec-23-09 12:25 AM   #38 
     - characterizing opposition to this bill as "marching with the  paulk   Dec-23-09 11:01 AM   #43 
  - If they had used an increase on income taxes instead of mandates  DJ13   Dec-22-09 11:23 AM   #2 
  - The difference between a tax increase and a mandate is not as large as everyone lets on.  phleshdef   Dec-22-09 11:34 AM   #9 
     - Bullshit.  RaleighNCDUer   Dec-22-09 11:41 AM   #12 
     - "buying private pools for health insurance execs", BS, the bill requires 85% of intake for CARE.  phleshdef   Dec-22-09 11:50 AM   #18 
        - And how, pray tell, is that 85% benchmark going to be monitored  RaleighNCDUer   Dec-22-09 12:00 PM   #21 
           - The claim that there are no controls, regulation or oversight exposes your ignorance of the bill.  phleshdef   Dec-22-09 12:09 PM   #28 
              - They already have gotten around it.  Milo_Bloom   Dec-23-09 11:17 AM   #45 
     - Taxes are income based  DJ13   Dec-22-09 12:05 PM   #24 
  - You mean that the government will now take even more money and give it to the corps  T Wolf   Dec-22-09 11:24 AM   #3 
  - Classic progressive values  NJmaverick   Dec-22-09 11:24 AM   #4 
  - Is this intended as irony?  freddie mertz   Dec-22-09 11:26 AM   #5 
     - There is precious little that can be called REMOTELY progressive in this bill,  Vincardog   Dec-22-09 11:29 AM   #6 
     - You must not be a progressive if you can't identify them. (nt)  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Dec-22-09 11:46 AM   #15 
        - Please list the top ten "progressive" elements of this bill that cannot be subverted by the  Vincardog   Dec-22-09 11:50 AM   #17 
           - Those lists are all around you.  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Dec-22-09 11:52 AM   #19 
              - You can't defend your position with more than 6 words? Really lazy  Vincardog   Dec-22-09 12:03 PM   #22 
                 - I'm lazy, but there are lists both for and against all around you and you refuse to read them.  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Dec-22-09 12:04 PM   #23 
                    - OK so you can NOT list 10 progressive things in the senate bill.  Vincardog   Dec-22-09 12:09 PM   #29 
                       - Ok, so you're utterly incapable of reading. (nt)  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Dec-22-09 12:20 PM   #32 
     - More like a reminder to those who have forgotten  NJmaverick   Dec-22-09 11:30 AM   #7 
        - Forgotten what?  freddie mertz   Dec-22-09 11:33 AM   #8 
           - That it's about helping people  NJmaverick   Dec-22-09 11:34 AM   #10 
              - Helping corporations to people's money.  freddie mertz   Dec-22-09 11:37 AM   #11 
                 - So you claim  NJmaverick   Dec-22-09 11:43 AM   #13 
                 - Who do you work for?  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Dec-22-09 11:47 AM   #16 
                    - None of your business.  freddie mertz   Dec-22-09 11:56 AM   #20 
                       - I'd just like to know which corporation you're helping shovel money into.  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Dec-22-09 12:05 PM   #25 
                          - WTF are you talking about?  freddie mertz   Dec-22-09 12:15 PM   #31 
  - The more I learn the less I know. There are  asjr   Dec-22-09 11:45 AM   #14 
  - One Simple Question -- Instead of funneling all those "subsidies" into Private Corporations....  Armstead   Dec-22-09 12:07 PM   #26 
  - Sen. Bernie Sanders said it would be the biggest expansion of primary care in this country's history  ClarkUSA   Dec-22-09 12:08 PM   #27 
  - he said they'll achieve the public option in the future  DJ13   Dec-22-09 12:14 PM   #30 
  - Well that's the biggest crock of baloney I've heard yet. Next year's Christmas children!! Believe us  MichiganVote   Dec-22-09 12:22 PM   #33 
  - Sanders and Leahy also said:  golddigger   Dec-22-09 02:31 PM   #36 
  - But it doesn't do SHIT for me.  gorfle   Dec-22-09 01:34 PM   #34 
  - Taxes going to corporations  dpbrown   Dec-22-09 02:05 PM   #35 
  - Worthless shitty coverage that only "covers" 60-70% of actual COSTS  eridani   Dec-23-09 12:12 AM   #37 
  - And your basis for those numbers?  Jeff In Milwaukee   Dec-23-09 10:58 AM   #42 
     - It's in the bills  eridani   Dec-24-09 04:51 AM   #46 
  - Klein...was on Maddow's show last night...  Tippy   Dec-23-09 10:22 AM   #39 
  - What about the middle class?  mcablue   Dec-23-09 10:23 AM   #40 
  - If our rulers continue to gut the middle class, their propaganda and disinformation  ShortnFiery   Dec-23-09 10:28 AM   #41 
  - what I don't understand - if we, the taxpayers, are going to  paulk   Dec-23-09 11:07 AM   #44 
     - ding! ding! ding! ding! A Winner!  Phoebe Loosinhouse   Dec-24-09 07:30 AM   #47 
     - it's been fascinating, in a way, to watch this trainwreck  paulk   Dec-24-09 10:55 AM   #48 
 

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