Posted on 11/07/2018 12:46:45 AM PST by US Navy Vet
In a word..."mixed". There was alot of US House "dead" GOPe Wood cleared out last night chief among it was "Speaker" Ryan and his ilk. Let face it the loss of the House really SUX, BUT we HAVE to get to work NOW on the 2020 Election! Get REALLY good solid candidates recruited NOW. The Dems WILL overplay their hands(they ALWAYS do) and they WILL be dumped in 2020! Silver lining, WE OWN the Senate!
True. But your comment made me think of “tear down this wall.”
You’re right about all of those things. One thing you omitted was the impact on the lives of voters’ children and grandchildren. But I guess your facts cover that, too. If they don’t care for them, then they don’t care for their kids.
I don’t even have children, but I’m always asking what kind of America my nieces, nephews, and their kids will grow up in. It’s terrifying — but much less since Trump’s election.
We need to use the tactics THEY used to take BACK the educational system and churches THEY seized in the past 50 years or so.
I do have 2 children and am in my 30s, but that’s my concern is down the road. I am very for small business, and a lot of people don’t get that much of politics isn’t for small business, and would gladly maintain advantages for corporations over smaller businesses in terms of expenses, startup, etc.
Good God now we have to put up with self-important rambling harridan again. I feel encouraged though . Nutty Nancy will, if I’m correct be 80 this year or next and she’s has episodes here and there with rambling, near incoherent speech and what appears to be petit mal seizures. I hope the old hag has a stroke.
True.
Thank you, and bless you too!
I have watched Dr.Ted Noel on YouTube discuss Nasty Pelousy’s medical problems. He has many videos about Hillary’s Parkinson’s disease. He really explains all Hilda’s weird behavior. Also has a video about Pelousy. He’s good. I found his videos recently.
You know what? “Modern Day Pharaoh” would be a great title for a book about how Nero/Zero and company tried to destroy our country—from individual’s accounts.
Except you need 2/3rds of the Senate no? I once would have agreed, but Kavanaugh seems to have united the White House with the Senate.
I don’t know. Maybe people’s feelings are more important to Americans than the economy now. Trump was so mean to those MS 13 drug packing migrant caravans. If this was a referendum on Trump this was not a good day.
It astounds me that Americans don’t seem to care about the massive influx of Mexicans into America.
Don’t get me wrong I like the guy, just not enough Virginians do.
Don’t get me wrong I like the guy, just not enough Virginians do.
1. Americans can't afford the standard of health care they've come to expect as their God-given right -- no matter how it is delivered and financed.
2. As a result of this, "health care" in the U.S. has become nothing more than a multi-trillion dollar game built around deluding Americans that they have a God-given right to force other people to pay their medical bills.
“My take on health care is probably different than most because it is rooted in two basic points:
1. Americans can’t afford the standard of health care they’ve come to expect as their God-given right — no matter how it is delivered and financed.
2. As a result of this, “health care” in the U.S. has become nothing more than a multi-trillion dollar game built around deluding Americans that they have a God-given right to force other people to pay their medical bills.”
Even if the points you made are true, Congress is not off the hook for a mess it made through legislation. The current situation is untenable, particularly for individuals trying to buy real insurance against a catastrophic event, not simply a plan to pay routine health care costs. I and millions of other Americans would gladly self insure if we could purchase the catastrophic policies the market used to provide, and which were available from multiple competing firms. Today, I am forced to buy a plan mandated by the government, which provides services I don’t need or want and is astronomical in cost.
My point is Congress doing nothing does not get marketplace functioning again. I can buy catastrophic insurance again fire, wind, hail, earthquake and other damage for my home while I take care of route maintenance myself. Why can’t I buy catastrophic medical care coverage and cover the routine costs myself?
I agree many have an entitlement mentality. Punishing those of us who pay our own way with excessive costs, which merely represent an additional tax because those extraordinary premiums are in effect at subsidy for others is another theft of private property by the edict of bureaucrats.
Prior to Obamacare, the cost of private catastrophic policies for those of us who are self employed was high but manageable. Today I pay six times the pre Obamacare price for an Obamacare bronze policy which provides maternity and pediatric dentistry benefits a 60+ year old male or female does not need. The irony is the high deductible on this Obamacare policy is approximately the amount of the deductible on my old pre Obamacare policy. In the pre Obamacare days there were 7 companies competing for my business in this state. Today there is only one private policy insurance provider who has what is in effect a government sanctioned monopoly. Yes, the provider gives generously to the campaign funds of politicians including my GOP representative in Congress and my two GOP Senators.
Unless there is relief soon from this extraordinary and punitive stealth transfer payment disguised as an insurance premium, many self employed who pay their own way will give in and join the chorus demanding single payer government healthcare.
I’m anticipating Nancy Pelosi will put Trump and McConnell in a vise by passing a healthcare bill in 2019. By campaigning on the issue in 2018, she’s already put them on notice.
Are you insane? You think McConnell will allow that?
“Reagan wasn’t confronting communists.”
Yeah he was. They were howling for a nuclear freeze with Russia. They were pulling for the communists to win in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Keep in mind that Pelosi explicitly rejected a single-payer system back in 2009. She is owned by the insurance industry, which is why the ACA was built on a model of mandating insurance coverage.
My prediction is that Congress WILL pass a new health care bill in 2019 ... but it will be nothing more than a massive payment of cash subsidies to insurance companies in exchange for a promise to (1) sign up new high-risk customers, and (2) reduce premiums. That's exactly how a fascist system like ours works.
P.S. — I’m meeting more and more people these days who realize that their best approach to managing health care costs is to: (1) ditch their insurance completely, and (2) take the money they would have paid in monthly premiums and annual deductibles and put it in a savings account. Within a few short years they’ll have enough money to pay cash for at least 95% of the most expensive medical treatments available to Americans today.
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