Posted on 12/24/2009 4:29:05 AM PST by This_far
Unfortunately, that is what some business and local government interests want. They love the pork!
What is your sense of how the people of MT will react to the socialist health care bill? Anything in your local papers about it?
Everything the Senator said was an outright lie or a misrepresentation of the matter.
Insurance is high because of government mandates as to what they must cover. Eliminating pre-existing conditions won’t make it any cheaper. Even at that most people are not unhappy with their insurance companies. The Democrats just declare they are and that is accepted as truth.
Medicare is broken simply because it exists. It was ripe for fraud and abuse from the beginning. It is a typical government program. It costs too much, provides too little, and pays out to the providers too little. It is way too expensive for the taxpayers.
So, they are going to enroll everyone else into a similar program. How smart is that? If you are an average American it is not very smart. If you are a Communist it is very smart.
As always they either declare a problem to exist or create one which MUST be solved. Then their solution creates additional problems (”unintended consequences”) which require more money and more government intervention. This is continued through many iterations until the government controls everything, solving problems they created.
Remember, government employee labor unions give almost all their political contributions to Democrats. The larger the government the more government employees. The more employees the more money for Democrats.
So true.
Small business laid off employees or cut their hours due to increase in minimum wage.
Now this ‘bill’ will force them to either pay a fine (that helps who/how?) or cut employees further.
Swell, just f’n swell.
In the words of Capt’n Binghamton, I could scream, just scream. (and I do)
No, not personaly. Just sent him a sharply worded email.
Oh. Well, if it helps, there were protesters at his office in Butte. There was a local TV news report about it, but no link or story about it on their web site.
Nothing in the local paper.
Emails to the station about the report have gone unanswered.
He is just paying off some of his political debts.
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