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ziper1221
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this morning I heard on NPR about this guy with Haemophilia, they came out with a drug that would have him clot in hours instead of days, and he maxed out his coverage cap in 2 years. He's changed insurers 5 times since then. Obama is passing a bill to get rid of the cap.
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Angelfish
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hmm, I have to pay around E110,- per month for health insurance. Which is pretty much. Next year it will be E120 each month. But coverage is generally quite good.
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RTyp06
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Taxes went up under Reagan. The defict soared under Reagan. Regan got hired by pandering to the religious right. Remember the "moral majority"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority
For Bush it was the Christian Coalition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Coalition_of_America
The Tea Party is is pretty much the same thing with Glenn Beck, Rush, and Sarah Palin leading the cause. We're not seeing anything new here other than a slight downplay of the religious component. They pander to the religious right and are backed by corporate billionaires. The Tea Party are mainly scared, devoutly religious white folks that see Obama as a black muslim.
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RTyp06
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Nice. I watched the rally on Comedy Central. I read an estimated ~200k people showed up.
Recently I picked up "Earth (the book) A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race" put out by Jon Stewart and the Daily Shiow team. It's witty and hilarious.
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RTyp06
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The historical Boston Tea Party was about taxtation without representation. We had no say in it. This is what alot of tea party people don't seem to understand is that we do have representation. If you don't like a tax rate then you vote for the politican that will change it. In essence that is what the Teabaggers are doing except they are snaking their right-wing extremes in the back door. They want to privatize S.S., repeal the new health care laws that protect citizens and heads off rising medical costs, overturn our abortion laws, abolish the minimum wage, destroy collective bargaining and unions period, crack down on illegal immigration ..to name a few.
Our federal government almost shut down because of these guys. Why? Because they didn't want to fund the planned parenthood program that they claim spends tax money on abortion. Problem is that it is illegal to pay for abortions with tax money and planned parenthood is an important part of American women's health.
One core tennant of the tea party is small, fiscally responsible government. Who can't agree with that? You'd have to be barking mad to not think that isn't a good idea. Problem is where do we cut? How are we going to tackle our mounting debt? So the conservatives in this country go after the social programs. Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, planned parenthood etc; programs that benifit the very poor in our country and account for a very small percentage of our tax revenue.
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Death 999
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Yeah, about that. Planned Parenthood? Yes, tiny. Welfare? Substantially larger, but still tiny.
Medicaid? Er, getting noticeable there. Medicare? EFFING HUGE.
What really gets to me is the focus on the tiny at the expense of the big. Bob wants to have a conversation about medicare and medicaid? Let's have that. Bob wants to destroy Planned Parenthood on the pretext of budget cutting? Bob is probably not being honest about his motives, there.
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RTyp06
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Yes, excuse me. I meant that they are picking on small parts of those programs. Parts that make up very little of the entire entitlment.
With S.S. they want to put that money on the stock market. S.S. would be fine if the politicians would keep their fingers out of it. Yes that means you democrats and republicans.
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ziper1221
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Quite funny about the difference between military funding and education.
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The U.S. needs to cut its military spending and stop cutting taxes for the rich. That wouldn't just magically solve all its problems, but it would surely help. Unfortunately, American politicians are just too greedy for that.
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That's because American politicians are practically unilaterally the rich that they're approving tax cuts for.
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