Posted on 10/30/2009 2:06:23 AM PDT by markomalley
The House Democratic healthcare reform bill is going to "ream" the American people, according to Energy and Commerce ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas.)
House GOP leaders were quick to march an entire hardcopy of the Democrats' nearly 2,000 page healthcare bill before TV cameras to denounce the measure for raising taxes, creating mandates and cutting medicare.
"Nineteen hundred and ninety pages, that¹s about four reams of paper, I can say that the people who are getting reamed are the American people," Barton said at a press conference surrounded by fellow top-ranking House Republicans.
Remember the screams of anguish when the lying dems accused the Republicans of cutting medicare when all they wanted to do was reduce the annual increase. Now we have a 500 billion dollar cut in medicare and all I hear is a squeak of protest.
Bravo - he’s right!
Remember Kanjorski (D) Pa. made that claim in a televised speech?
That was the start of all our financial woes, yet I've never heard it mentioned again.
McCain was leading in the polls,put his campaign on hold and rushed to Washington and the rest is history.
I have found that one episode and the lack of explanation or discussion about it very puzzling.
Did it happen? Was Kanjorski lying? Does anyone else find this strange, or is it just me?
So they're collecting $1000 per year and I already gave them thousands of dollars when I worked while at the same time, I paid for private insurance.
” I can say that the people who are getting reamed are the American people”
I think a statesman should be an eloquent speaker. They don’t do anything else, do they?
This is gutter language.
I suspect he used "ream" as a play on words to the reams of paper it takes to print the bill. Didn't offend me!
“This is gutter language.”
Unfortunately that’s about all that most sheeple can comprehend.
Sometimes you frankly have to call an action, exactly what it is.............no matter how distasteful, the term.
I would have not used “gutter language”. I would have said the American people are going to be forced to bend over and take it.
Explain a little more. It doesn’t sound like you are talking about medicare part B which is also a paymenI deducted from my SS as well as paying for Tricare prime for my wife. Can’t remember if I actually pay for Tricare for life for me.
McCain was leading in the polls,put his campaign on hold and rushed to Washington and the rest is history.
Was royally reamed by the Obama campaign for doing so and voted for the first bailout while absent from the campaign IIRC.
and yes now that I think about it, it does cause one to pause. Just as Senator Schumers’s letter that caused the first bank collapse. So many question, so few answers, and the whiff of evil in the whole scenario.
The $96 is Medicare Part B...I also buy MVP, a supplement...an HMO...one of the Advantage plans.
one of the Advantage plans.
conveniently scheduled to die on the vine to use dem speak.
I just have to wonder about all this, and consider the ways out if this travesty passes. It doesn’t look good, smell good, or pass constitutional muster, so a good team of lawyers and a law suit all the way to the supreme court seems like a start, and if that fails, then things are going to get really nasty, because the “American” people and I use the word American very specifically, are not going to sit back and allow this to be put into place at the expense of the finest medical system in the world, the entire Insurance industry, Hospitals, doctors, nurses, medical schools, suppliers, the elderly, of which you and I could be classified as members, etc etc.
We're going to get fu*ked would be much more accurate.
OK Mr. Barton. You've told us something we already know. What are you going to do about it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2184661/posts?q=1&;page=51
If this was a planned attack on our economy why hasn’t President Bush or someone that knows the truth of what happened, not come out and told the American people the truth?
This just bugs me to no end. Sorry, not meaning to bug you, I’ll stop now.)
Bull! Sometimes it takes that kind of language to make your point.
“Bull! Sometimes it takes that kind of language to make your point.”
Yes, if one doesn’t have an adequate vocabulary.
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