Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Opinion

Obama's Class War: Wall Street Bailouts Killed Healthcare Reform

Posted June 19, 2009

Reader Comments

health

Were already paying for the poor and illegals. Trying to pretend other wise while stating rationing and denied care are on the horizon is a joke as it happens A LOT here already.You do realize that guy on the other end of the phone that denies your cancer treatment today is a bureaucrat right?

Health care

If you think just throwing 8 million people on medicare is the silver bullet you have no ideal whats really going on in thew health industry.

Im extremely disturbed that republicans and democrats say that health care reform is too expensive. Especially if what the writer says is true about the bank bailouts cost 30 times more then any health care reform bill on the table. What good did it do? Banks that weren't dumb and didn't expect to be bailed out over stupid moves would have risen and taken those spots of the fat banks. It floors me that for so many in congress who live breath capitalism jumped on board the bank bailouts yet scream bloody murder when we actually try to spend money on the you know tax payers?

Class warfare

The only class warfare I have seen was the support of UAW over bond holder of auto bankruptcy. And that is traditional support of unions by democratics. Since UAW is getting smaller all the time I don't see this as a plus. If anything it is a negative. It is too late to save most unions that are in manufacturing.

OBAMA'S CLEAR VALUES

WHILE I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT SOME PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA ARE ATTEMPTING TO HOLD PRESIDENT OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS WORDS, ACTIONS AND POLICIES THEY ARE THE VOCAL MINORITY. THE MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE SO IN LOVE WITH OUR PRESIDENT THAT HE CAN DO NO WRONG NOR ARE THEY WILLING TO QUESTION HIS MOTIVES. THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT WHICH INCLUDES THE "PRESS" IN THIS COUNTRY ARE THE SO CALLED "WATCHDOGS" OF OUR POLITICAL PARTIES. IT APPEARS THAT THESE "LAPDOGS" ARE CONTENT TO FEED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WHATEVER SCRAPS THEY FEEL LIKE WE'RE ENTITLED TO HEAR. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM? WE CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN POWERFUL PEOPLE RUN OUT OF CONTROL, JUST LOOK AT NORTH KOREA AND IRAN.

Mitt Rommney is anti-american

Mitt Rommney is a job exporter. He should be kicked out of the country!

Health Care

Just put the people who really cannot get health insurance on Medicare, about 8 million. Not the 45 million that is put forth by the media. Problem solved, could have been solved 20 years ago but the Democrats want to control everybody.

Cut out the middle man

The Federal Reserve is the wrong department to provide economic oversight and regulation. It lacks transparency, reporting and accountability. Make Goldman Sachs the regulatory body. They have been doing the job all along and are required to provide quarterly reports of their activities. Larry Summers, Henry Paulsen, Timothy Geithner and the rest of the Council of Economic Advisors can continue their bonuses and fees.

Republican hypocrisy at its finest

It's hilarious to read a Republican operative, who toiled for those champions of the proletariat Ronald Reagan and Geo W Bush, call Obama a friend of the rich and enemy of the teeming masses. Give me a break. Was he laughing while he wrote this nonsense? Or has he totally lost all sense of reality? More likely, this is part of the Frank Luntz plan to "say anything" to stop health care reform. Sure, they care about the Americans with no or bad insurance. But history tells us they care a lot more about their funders in the insurance and pharma industry. Shameless!

Vote for Mitt Romney 2012 because of economic – ideological superiorty

• In 2012 we must vote for Governor Mitt Romney to become our President starting on January 20, 2013 , First Governor Mitt Romney is economically smarter than Barack Obama. Secondly Governor Mitt Romney is of the superior right wing philosophy in that he pro God and Christianity, pro life, pro marriage; pro guns-second amendment, pro low taxes, pro low government spending; pro small government, pro unintrusive government, pro traditional and Judeo Christian values; pro Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, pro Christians schools and private education , pro private and free enterprise; pro military spending, anti arms agreements with Russia, pro creation; pro nuclear, pro conservative supreme court judges, pro American sovereignty; pro capitalism, anti communist, anti socialist; conservative on immigration, and pro constitution. Barack Obama is of the inferior liberal and left wing ideology in that he is against every thing that Governor Mitt Romney is for and he is for every thing that Governor Mitt Romney is against

John Warren

Healthcare

Let the uninsured go to doctors.

Let the doctors send these bills to the IRS.

Let the IRS give the doctors, say, a 30% tax credit.

Any excess tax credits can be used to buy medical equipment.

Non-Profits can do the same.

RESULT:

GOVERNMENT STAYS arms lenght OUT OF HEALTH CARE!

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