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Governor Schwarzenegger Should Go to Nashville
American Thinker ^ | January.17,2007 | Patrick Poole

Posted on 01/17/2007 3:45:30 PM PST by Reagan Man

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1 posted on 01/17/2007 3:45:31 PM PST by Reagan Man
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To: Reagan Man

Fantastic. I've been pointing out the disaster that TennCare is for a while now. I'm glad to see someone finally give it some ink.


2 posted on 01/17/2007 3:52:20 PM PST by Radio_Silence
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To: Reagan Man
This is an excellent post. Really details the TennCare disaster.
3 posted on 01/17/2007 4:00:22 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: Radio_Silence

Tenncare...geez. I wish the beast would just die at this point.

It was a royal disaster. No accountability built into the system at all. You had patients on 20+ meds demanding that they be paid for or they'd sue (with the help of special interest groups).

Just complete and absolute garbage.


4 posted on 01/17/2007 4:02:55 PM PST by CheyennePress
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To: Radio_Silence

Now get him to cover CoverTN.


5 posted on 01/17/2007 4:13:00 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Reagan Man

bump


6 posted on 01/17/2007 4:16:25 PM PST by lowbridge ("I wonder if he's in touch with the critics out there, like Matt Damon, the actor" -Chris Matthews)
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To: Reagan Man
Yes, I remember those times. (And it wasn't just one year, either. In fact, it seemed like the state income tax was never going to go away until it was finally enacted, over the objections of most Tennesseans.)

How ironic it is that a Republican governor (Sundquist), who campaigned on a pledge never to consider an income tax, spent much of his second term doing just that; whereas his successor, a Democrat (Bredesen) has drastically cut TennCare, in line with his campaign promises.

I do not find it easy to praise a Democrat while condemning his Republican successor; but in this case, both reactions are well deserved.

7 posted on 01/17/2007 4:27:30 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: CheyennePress
The reason that Tenn. got this 'wonderful' deal was that Ned Ray McWherter was Al's cousin and needed a legacy.
8 posted on 01/17/2007 4:27:36 PM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: lowbridge

Arnie is a Fool.


9 posted on 01/17/2007 4:27:40 PM PST by jocko12
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To: Reagan Man

tenncare


10 posted on 01/17/2007 4:33:30 PM PST by ocr1
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To: Reagan Man
From the article:
At 7:30am, at the instigation of the talk radio hosts, cars, trucks, and virtually every other type of motor vehicle you could imagine began circling the state capitol blaring their horns. Thousands of angry citizens swarmed into downtown Nashville and traffic all around town came to a virtual standstill...

By late afternoon, the legislature had abandoned the income tax proposal entirely, closed the state budget gaps with temporary measures, and ended the legislative session for the year while they could still get out of town with their lives. Car horns continued to blare well into the night.The Nashville radio stations were indeed instrumental in rallying patriots to protest in the capital.

To bad Dennis and the Donks want to shut them down.
11 posted on 01/17/2007 4:40:08 PM PST by upchuck (The American coup de grĂ¢ce is well under way. Thus far, the Donks haven't had to fire a shot.)
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To: Reagan Man

Trust me, I'm not trying to defend this kind of program at all. I'm just curious. Did the TennCare program require employers to cover their employees? According to this article, employers dropped at-risk workers. Under Rendell's plan, the employer (those w/ more than 50 employees) would be required to cover their workers - under 50, you can get help from this program. So, short of laying off the employee, is there a way the employer can legally drop an at-risk worker and still keep him on?

I'm just trying to figure out what the libs are going to say when someone poses the TennCare example to them.


12 posted on 01/17/2007 5:23:02 PM PST by libertarianPA (http://www.amarxica.com)
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To: Reagan Man

It would be interesting to hear him a-sangin' thuh country blues. ...wimmin', whiskey and all of that.


13 posted on 01/17/2007 7:03:48 PM PST by familyop
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To: Reagan Man

Great post. bkmark.


14 posted on 01/17/2007 8:35:17 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: AmericanExceptionalist; calcowgirl; Carry_Okie; ElkGroveDan; NormsRevenge
"I do not find it easy to praise a Democrat while condemning his Republican successor; but in this case, both reactions are well deserved."

Like you, I've done it with a heavy heart in CA! Gray Davis vetoed a stupid Sierra-Nevada CONservancy twice! Arnold "El Stupido" Schwartzenfrauder couldn't wait to sign the danged legislation to tie up 1/5th of CA in something worse that the CA coastal commission!!!

Yet we've had this continual chorus of Schwartzenegger Swooners on FR keeping up a constant din of undying, slavish support for this kind of crappola. Now we've got his proposal for something worse than TENN-CARE right here in the formerly "Golden State" that used to be a red state!!!

I really like your screen name, by the way!!!

15 posted on 01/17/2007 8:59:04 PM PST by SierraWasp (There is no one else in the hollow "center" except CA's celebrity collectivist compellinator!!!)
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To: Reagan Man
TennCare was a boondoggle. It cured Tennesseans of any illusion government-run health care would provide universal insurance and save the taxpayers money. Perhaps California needs to go down the same path to disspell the illusion universal health care is truly affordable as well as cost-conscious.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

16 posted on 01/17/2007 9:37:21 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: AmericanExceptionalist
Phil Bredesen carried EVERY county in the state. That's the path Democrats should take. Cut spending!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

17 posted on 01/17/2007 9:39:47 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Reagan Man

"In July 2005 Sundquist was named head of a national panel on improving Medicaid."

LOL! From Wiekepedia...


18 posted on 01/17/2007 9:47:43 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: Reagan Man; Abram; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; Americanwolf; ...
"At 7:30am, at the instigation of the talk radio hosts, cars, trucks, and virtually every other type of motor vehicle you could imagine began circling the state capitol blaring their horns. Thousands of angry citizens swarmed into downtown Nashville and traffic all around town came to a virtual standstill. By noon that day, with the deafening sound of car horns continuing to blare non-stop (in fact, I lost part of my hearing that fateful day), legislators supporting the income tax called in the State Troopers to bar the doors of the state capitol."
"By late afternoon, the legislature had abandoned the income tax proposal entirely, closed the state budget gaps with temporary measures, and ended the legislative session for the year while they could still get out of town with their lives."





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19 posted on 01/17/2007 11:39:47 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: traviskicks

More on the 'tennessee tax revolt'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20024

lol, never heard of this before...



20 posted on 01/17/2007 11:48:26 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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