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Comment on Must Read Dailykos Dairy by Melvin Quintana

Melvin Quintana — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:19:43 +0000

If only I had a greenback for each time I came here! Amazing writing!

Comment on Religion and Politics by euandus2

euandus2 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:14:29 +0000

Conservative Republicans are proposing a 10-point checklist gauging proper adherence to core principles of the party. This approach reminds me of Moody’s Fundamentals of Christianity, which began the fundamentalist movement. For more, I recommend http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/the-fundamentals-of-the-gop/

Comment on Teabagger Pledge by steve

steve — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:14:32 +0000

You might have had some good points there until you missed the entire point by saying these are ‘government funded’ programs. The government doesn’t fund anything. The government is funded by tax-payers; the local things here; fire, police, sidewalks, emergency services etc. are locally tax-payer funded. I have to type slowly so as to hopefully get an important point across … WE the taxpayer fund everything. However we tend to get a bit chapped when the tax-payer funded government provide things the majority of tax-payers don’t want, increasing debt, deficit, and a host of other things those on the left seem to cherish.

Comment on Teabagger Pledge by hoboduke

hoboduke — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:48:12 +0000

Sign me up! Great job and added some ideas I never considered in the hobo jungle. It was a little parched visiting California, since the environmental wacko’s shut off water so we watch productive farm land turn into a dust bowl. The farmers and all their employees are on handouts and rely on the government aid, since the government shut off their water.

Comment on About by The Editorial Board

The Editorial Board — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:58:19 +0000

The “Secret Republican Meeting” from YouTube is hilarious. We are also fans of Thom Hartmann.
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Comment on The Health Insurance Game! by Roy Washburn

Roy Washburn — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:32:40 +0000

The Health Care Reform Fiasco
Most agree that health care reform in America is needed; but let’s limit fixing to the things that need fixing. Under the disingenuous guise that it won’t cost much if any more, the current proposals are an ambiguous set of guidelines, not unlike the way the income tax laws are written. No one can really understand what is written, so an expensive bureaucracy would be created to interpret, write and manage the new health care code, as the IRS has done with the income tax laws. If enacted, such a boondoggle would never be revoked; it would only grow with time, becoming ever more expensive and restrictive to individual liberty and freedom of choice. Politicians listen! The majorityof tax payers in America don’t want or need this or anything similar!
Here are the general steps to achieve the true health care reform that has long been needed in United States, scrap all that Congress has written so far and do the following in order of importance:
1. Enact genuine tort reform to drastically limit liability exposure for doctors and institutions.
2. Fix all the many huge problems currently facing Medicare and Social Security. Scrap “Medicare Plan D.”
3. Encourage the formation of a nation-wide, non-profit, agency or coop for bulk procurement of prescription drugs and health insurance plans to keep the price down. Engage the FDA to approve more generic drugs for more competition with brand named drugs for prescription drug cost reduction.
4. Write federal standards and regulations to govern private health insurance plans and coops requiring that each provide the same coverage through a number of different levels from bare bones to high end coverage. This would enable needed competition between insurance companies and allows citizens freedom of choice to buy what is needed and wanted at lower costs. These standards and regulations should be imposed equally on each state through the State Insurance Commissioners, who then become the enforcement authorities. The Federal Government should regulate, but State authorities should enforce.
5. The Federal Government should underwrite noncompetitive medical insurance of last resort or broaden Medicare to cover catastrophic medical needs for citizens only, but not illegal aliens. Such an entity should be designed only to fill a gap not currently filled by insurance companies.
6. Test big changes before writing them into law; in stark contrast to the current ramrod approach to enact huge, expensive, untried and irreversible changes.
7. Do not allow passage of a watered down version of the current proposals that contain any “Trojan Horses” that could allow bureaucrats to unleash government control upon us later. Government involvement must always be limited to regulation only. Regulation is a legitimate government responsibility under the Constitution.
Such an approach does not pretend to be all inclusive or the only way, but it at least shows a valid and workable way for achieving genuine health care reform.
Roy Washburn

Comment on “A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican” by Lew

Lew — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:02:52 +0000

That’s the way I see it!

Comment on by Keith Martin

Keith Martin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:54:37 +0000

Surely it is time the Amercan people realise that the Insurance companies are screwing them.What kind of a world are we living in where profit is made out someones misfortune?

Comment on Bill Maher on Countdown by The Center Square

The Center Square — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:09:39 +0000

I agree. The great threat to Obama’s legacy, and to the direction our country goes, is the partisan, inffective, stupid Democratic leadership in Congress. He needs to stomps on those losers.

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Comment on New Rules by fkdupdad

fkdupdad — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:55:50 +0000

That is funny.

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