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A Dose of Reality
Republicans had control of the house, senate and presidency from 02'-06'. During those years the party conducted two unfunded wars while cutting taxes at the same time. In the history of the United States there has never been another time when this country conducted a war (let alone two) and cut taxes at the same time. And since these wars were conducted on credit, future generations would be forced to pay one way or the other.
The cost of those wars, beyond the loss of lives, is well into the hundreds of BILLIONS. And now that same party that had total control of the government through those years is now trying to take back complete power on the promise of fiscal responsibility. Many (not all) of those same politicians who were in congress during those years are still there today and can be seen on tv talking about debt and responsibility-with straight faces. The democrats were voted back into power and promptly squandered away the opportunity to lead. They greatly added to the debt without convincing the voters that any of the spending worked. So they changed nothing; in fact it was business as usual in Washington. Now the population is clamoring for change again and that means changing back to the party that failed us before the current party failed us. This cycle has gone on for decades. And while the sheeple continue to defend "their" party in a game of which is bad verses worse, America continues to slip away from the average American. Here are two prescient quotes from a long time ago by a Republican who had a pretty good idea about how to run this country; "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war". "The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us." http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DLxa1TiYR5...-Biography.jpg |
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The real scary thing about the budget issue is that the baby boomer entitlement explosion has only just begun. Over the next 10-15 years the entire baby boomer generation will enter retirement. We should have been anticipating that explosion is costs but politicians mostly ignored it. Democratic leadership under the progressive wing of the party have literally refused to acknowledge the problem. |
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The Wars are unfunded, in the same way entitlements are unfunded. Everything is unfunded....we don't have a budget, just a string of continuing resolutions and piling up Governemnt Debt. 4 years in, no budget, alot more debt, alot more "unfunded" everything. As for future generations paying for now, welcome to every Govt. program we have, from Wars to Entitlements. It's odd you only care about the Wars, not the Entitlements, but thats liberal progressives for ya I guess. Obama won for exactly two reasons: 1. He wasn't Bush or Clinton. 2. He was Black. I'll give hima third reason too, "Hope and Change", while empty meaningless phrases (just like "fairness" now), were quite the winner and resonated with uninformed voters. The fact that we got no change at all, and very little hope, is irrelevant, the youth vote ate it up. Obama, the least qualified President in the modern era, was a winner because Bush was viewed as such a loser. And apart from healthcare, he's been almost a clone of Bush's mishandling, economic failings, and (suprisingly) many policy positions as well. Obama, also perhaps suprisingly, has consistently out-fund raised the (R), including from corporate donors. The idea that we shouldn't put an (R) in office because "they got us into this mess" is also empty propaganda. Both parties got us into this mess, in a myriad of ways and policies and social-engineering programs and on and on and on. It's a shell game. (R) or (D), the pieces change, the way Government works remains the same. The was no change. There is no hope. |
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I'm all for a third party, but for God's sakes, not THAT one. |
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Sanders' lifetime legislative score from the AFL-CIO is 100%. As of 2006, he has a grade of "C-" from the National Rifle Association (NRA). Sanders voted against the Brady Bill and in favor of an NRA-supported bill to restrict lawsuits against gun manufacturers in 2005.[18] Sanders voted to abolish the so-called "marriage penalty" for income taxes and also voted for a bill that sought to ban human cloning. Sanders has endorsed every Democratic nominee for president of the United States since 1992. Sanders is a co-founder of the House Progressive Caucus and chaired the grouping of mostly liberal Democrats for its first eight years. Sanders voted against the resolutions authorizing the use of force against Iraq in 1991 and 2002 and opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But he later joined almost all of his colleagues in voting for a non-binding resolution expressing support for U.S. troops at the outset of the invasion, although he gave a floor speech criticizing the partisan nature of the resolution and the Bush administration's actions in the run-up to the war. On April 7, 2006, in regard to the investigation of the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity, Sanders said, "The revelation that the president authorized the release of classified information in order to discredit an Iraq war critic should tell every member of Congress that the time is now for a serious investigation of how we got into the war in Iraq and why Congress can no longer act as a rubber stamp for the president."[19] Sanders supports universal health care and opposes what he terms "unfettered" free trade,[20] which he argues deprives American workers of their jobs while exploiting foreign workers in sweatshop factories. In June 2005, Sanders proposed an amendment to limit provisions that allow the government to obtain individuals' library and book-buying records. The amendment passed the House by a bipartisan majority but was removed on November 4 that year by House-Senate negotiators and never became law.[21] Sanders followed this vote on November 5, 2005, by voting against the Online Freedom of Speech Act, which would have exempted the Internet from the restrictions of the McCain-Feingold Bill. In March 2006, after a series of resolutions calling for him to bring articles of impeachment against the president passed in various towns in Vermont, Sanders stated it would be impractical to impeach George W. Bush, given the "reality that the Republicans control the House and the Senate." Still, Sanders made no secret of his opposition to the Bush Administration, which he regularly attacked for cuts in social programs he supports.[22][23][24] Sanders is a critic of Alan Greenspan. In June 2003, during a question-and-answer discussion with the then-Federal Reserve chairman, Sanders told Greenspan that he was concerned that Greenspan was "way out of touch" and "that you see your major function in your position as the need to represent the wealthy and large corporations."[25] Sanders said in 1998 that investment banks and commercial banks should remain as separate entities.[26] Republicans have attacked Sanders as "an ineffective extremist" for successfully sponsoring only one law and fifteen amendments in his eight terms in the House.[27][28] Sanders responded by saying that he had gotten "the most floor amendments of any member of the House since 1996 [passed]."[29] Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean has stated that "Bernie Sanders votes with the Democrats 98 percent of the time."[30] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders |
How hilarious is a thread titled "A Dose of Reality" that turned into a conversation about Bernie Sanders?
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And who would that be? A straw man right out of the Bernie Sanders playbook... do you have any concept of what you make yourself look like here? |
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do any of us really? We use anonymous names on a football website to talk politics. Any idea what your avatar picture makes you look like? You can disagree, or agree, with my politics and that is fine either way. However since you know almost nothing factual about me it would be rather silly to ask if I cared how I am being perceived by you. |
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Maybe I should ask you about my prostate problems Doc.:D |
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Try to remember Ken, we don't all know each others personal bios in any great detail. I know (from what you've said) that you're a Proff and an MD, beyond that, either you hadn't mentioned specifics, or I simply didn't recall them. So, about the prostate.....:( |
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I don't need the plan fully implemented to know this will happen. Economics tells me so. The cost controls proposed through Obamacare will force primary care doctors to ration their time. When Primary Care Physicians know that they need to see 10 patients an hour to turn a profit you can believe they will do so. Next even before full implementation premiums have been exploding. My insurance plan has gone by the max that NYS allows for the past two years and I just got a letter that we are going up another 15.5% in 2013. We went from paying $17,000 per family in 2009 to $27,000 in 2013. For my small business that is real and painful. So essentially under Obamacare I am paying much more for my insurance (just wait until the mandate to accept pre-existing kicks in, rates will jump more as Insurance companies make up for all the people that choose to free ride the system and jump on a plan after they get sick) while receiving a lower quality of care. Not to mention all the new additional taxes set to hit us in 2014. None of which is beneficial to me, my business or our employees. We get the shaft as do the majority of Americans that currently buy insurance. To sum up Obamacare: Massively higher insurance premiums, new taxes to pay, new deficits to pay for and lower quality of care. I have no doubt that Obamacare is helpful to the 5-10% of folks that are going to get the free insurance but for the rest of us, 300Million plus Americans are getting the shaft so that a small percentage can free ride the system. The Progressives cleverly threw some freebies in to try and fool people in to thinking that this plan helps them. Women get free birth control. Great. They save $10 a month while spending thousands more in higher premiums and taxes. A classic sucker ploy designed to fool the masses. I'm not buying it. |
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To sum up the Rights response to health care crisis: Repeal Obamacare but sorry we dont have an alternative plan that makes any sense (tort reform does not reduce costs as study after study has show- see Texas and selling health insurance across state lines will only increase the # of substandard policies as it will be impossible to maintain any minimal standards). The Real Solution: A true Public option/Medicare for all paid by tax dollars to provide basic health coverage for all that makes medical sense. |
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