HappyG wrote:
"If ignorance is bliss, I really wish I were a Democrat."
They are not only ignorant, but selfish. Besides, if ignorance also is dangerous. The democrats should be mindful of what they wish for; they might get it! Everything the democrats have done to usurp the Constitution will come back and bite all of us in the butt, including them. But, like you said, Tom, they are ignorant.
They are not only ignorant, but selfish. Besides, if ignorance also is dangerous. The democrats should be mindful of what they wish for; they might get it! Everything the democrats have done to usurp the Constitution will come back and bite all of us in the butt, including them. But, like you said, Tom, they are ignorant.
Using 
Internet Explorer 7.0 on 
Windows XP
10 August 2009 12:37:19
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP10 August 2009 12:37:19
putnamreader wrote:
How do you feel about the Patriot Act? 
Using Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows Vista
10 August 2009 14:08:14
Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows Vista10 August 2009 14:08:14
HappyG wrote:
Lots of bad things are in the Patriot Act. To top an already bureaucratic boondoggle, Obama's admistration put more things into it. They need to protect us from foreign entities, not each other...and themselves. 
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP
10 August 2009 15:24:39
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP10 August 2009 15:24:39
JT wrote:
G,
Everything the republicans have done to usurp the Constitution
has already been biting us in the butt for years.
Everything the republicans have done to usurp the Constitution
has already been biting us in the butt for years.
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista
11 August 2009 00:18:09
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista11 August 2009 00:18:09
HappyG wrote:
The republicans aren't in charge now. What Obama is doing is very unlike what the republicans have done. He is totally destroying the Constitution, and America, so that he can rebuild it his way. He is destroying the economy, by spending more money in his first four months than all the combined administrations in America's history. His cash for clunkers is a failure, so he is putting more money into it. And, if he can't get a small program right, how is he going to take care of trillions of dollars in Health Care?
We have seen lie after lie after lie from that man, and never an apology, unless it to some foreign country. And, he intends to make it worse, by pushing his Cap and Trade Bill, which will be the final nail in the coffin, if it should pass. Nothing Obama has done is American, at least, not as the America we have known for over 200 years. It's pure socialism/Marxism that guides the president.
We have seen lie after lie after lie from that man, and never an apology, unless it to some foreign country. And, he intends to make it worse, by pushing his Cap and Trade Bill, which will be the final nail in the coffin, if it should pass. Nothing Obama has done is American, at least, not as the America we have known for over 200 years. It's pure socialism/Marxism that guides the president.
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP
11 August 2009 11:04:38
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP11 August 2009 11:04:38
JT wrote:
If the Health Care bill passes, that will be the final nail in the coffin.
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista
11 August 2009 22:09:41
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista11 August 2009 22:09:41
HappyG wrote:
JT, I think the goal is to put the final nail in the coffin. Obama and his comrades want nothing more than to recreate America in their vision. Just imagine the power they envision for themselves! Unless we keep after them, their new America will come to pass. They are taking a big gamble, and winner takes all...according to them...
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP
12 August 2009 12:05:08
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP12 August 2009 12:05:08
HappyG wrote:
Sheila Jackson-Lee on cell phone while constituent asks questions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf1FM69GcCY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf1FM69GcCY&feature=player_embedded
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP
12 August 2009 12:30:19
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP12 August 2009 12:30:19
HappyG wrote:
From http://wwwcollinsreport.net/
The Collins Report
The real questions pollsters have to ask about Obamacare to get America’s real opinion
08/12/2009
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
On the issue of Obamacare someone should ask likely voters, not vague questions about a bill few people know about, but direct pointed questions about specific provisions of the House version which has passed committee. If 53% don’t like it now, 80% won’t want it once some light is shined on Obama’s lies.
Perhaps the questions are not phrased properly.
These questions should be asked. These items you might not heard of are in the bill, do you approve or disapprove of each?
Page 29 clearly states healthcare will be rationed. This is to make sure some of your coverage dollars are taken from you and given to those who have not contributed to our country ( in some case not a single thing)?
P 22, Government being empowered to audit all self insured people?
P 30, A government committee deciding what treatments/benefits you get even if it means guiding you to a self inflicted death
P50, Providing free healthcare for illegal aliens while we will be fined for not having coverage?
P58, Government access to all of your financial records so it can take what it thinks you owe for free healthcare directly with or without your permission?
P65, Taxpayer funded so called “Cadillac” healthcare for union members, ACORN members and their families?
P241, Regardless of specialty all doctors will be paid the same?
P354,268, Rationing of healthcare for all including Special needs children and adults and rationing of power chairs?
P472, provides funding for groups like ACORN?
While the numbers against the plan are beginning to grow no poll has shown even 56% against this assault on our liberties. It seems likely that figure rise dramatically with the right questions.
So let’s ask these questions and see what the real level of resistance to Obamacare is.
The full list of these dangers to our freedoms can be down loaded from the Collins Report.
Get the facts and get back in their faces with the truth, something these people can’t handle. Plan on fighting, or plan being a slave: The choice is yours.
Comments on this or any other Collins Report essay can be sent to kcoachc “at” gmail.com
The Collins Report
The real questions pollsters have to ask about Obamacare to get America’s real opinion
08/12/2009
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
On the issue of Obamacare someone should ask likely voters, not vague questions about a bill few people know about, but direct pointed questions about specific provisions of the House version which has passed committee. If 53% don’t like it now, 80% won’t want it once some light is shined on Obama’s lies.
Perhaps the questions are not phrased properly.
These questions should be asked. These items you might not heard of are in the bill, do you approve or disapprove of each?
Page 29 clearly states healthcare will be rationed. This is to make sure some of your coverage dollars are taken from you and given to those who have not contributed to our country ( in some case not a single thing)?
P 22, Government being empowered to audit all self insured people?
P 30, A government committee deciding what treatments/benefits you get even if it means guiding you to a self inflicted death
P50, Providing free healthcare for illegal aliens while we will be fined for not having coverage?
P58, Government access to all of your financial records so it can take what it thinks you owe for free healthcare directly with or without your permission?
P65, Taxpayer funded so called “Cadillac” healthcare for union members, ACORN members and their families?
P241, Regardless of specialty all doctors will be paid the same?
P354,268, Rationing of healthcare for all including Special needs children and adults and rationing of power chairs?
P472, provides funding for groups like ACORN?
While the numbers against the plan are beginning to grow no poll has shown even 56% against this assault on our liberties. It seems likely that figure rise dramatically with the right questions.
So let’s ask these questions and see what the real level of resistance to Obamacare is.
The full list of these dangers to our freedoms can be down loaded from the Collins Report.
Get the facts and get back in their faces with the truth, something these people can’t handle. Plan on fighting, or plan being a slave: The choice is yours.
Comments on this or any other Collins Report essay can be sent to kcoachc “at” gmail.com
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP
12 August 2009 17:14:20
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP12 August 2009 17:14:20
HappyG wrote:
I saw that, Susan. Free Republic had a lot of interesting photos. ACORN is a big disrupter, and we need to take their money away from them. They are evil!
Using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP
14 August 2009 08:44:53
Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP14 August 2009 08:44:53
![[Valid RSS]](http://www.lucente.org/images/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
Reality bites ... Democrats
If ignorance is bliss, I really wish I were a Democrat.
Congressional Democrats, in their effort to put forth President Barack Obama's pie-in-the-sky socialist agenda, continue to run into that brick wall called reality.
The latest collision comes from Douglas W. Elmendorf, director the Congressional Budget Office. In a letter sent Friday to Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga., the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Health in the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Elmendorf deflated the Democratic pipe dream of saving money on health care in the long-term by pushing preventative medicine.
The Democrats' claim is that spending money now on preventative care will result in a long-term cost savings. After all, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. However, as Elmendorf points out, that is simply not true.
"Although different types of preventive care have different effects on spending, the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall," Elmendorf wrote. "That result may seem counterintuitive.
"For example, many observers point to cases in which a simple medical test, if given early enough, can reveal a condition that is treatable at a fraction of the cost of treating that same illness after it has progressed. In such cases, an ounce of prevention improves health and reduces spending - for that individual," Elmendorf wrote. "But when analyzing the effects of preventive care on total spending for health care, it is important to recognize that doctors do not know beforehand which patients are going to develop costly illnesses. To avert one case of acute illness, it is usually necessary to provide preventive care to many patients, most of whom would not have suffered that illness anyway. ... Researchers who have examined the effects of preventive care generally find that the added costs of widespread use of preventive services tend to exceed the savings from averted illness."
I suspect, however, based on experience, reality will not alter the Democratic plans to expand the nanny state and make Americans even more dependent on their largesse.
category | Health Care
author | Lucente