Posted on 09/12/2010 5:09:23 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
But that is exactly the point. Take Obamacare, which will force companies to send job overseas due to high employee medical costs. Obamacare is a job killer. Employers didn't ask for Obamacare, it was forced on them.
Corporations, hedge funds and lobbyists got what they bribed the politicos to get. They paid millions in campaign contributions !
Middle class tax payers cannot compete with corporations. Even wealthy Saudis have more of a voice here that the voters. (Remember the Saudis got a free pass from GWB and were allowed to flee the U.S. after 9-11 __ ?)
Who were these wealthy criminals who bribed our politicians ___ ? George Soros for one. .
You have blinders on, just like a work horse.
...the only fair tax is the tax that taxes you and not me.
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Sounds good to me!
One more phrase that the dems use all the time is “special interests” meaning eeevil corporations, etc.
Our side have to start saying “special interests” to identify Teachers Unions, SEIU, GM workers, Government workers, AARP, ABA, AMA, etc.
They are Very Special Interests of Obama and Co.
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Sorry I am so late in replying. I was at a Scottish Games and Festival today, hearing the pipes and watching sheep dog trials. A wonderful break from politics! (Although I had visions of massed pipes leading the hordes of us common folk armed with pitchforks and torches as we marched on Washington!)
maica, she is right. And I even figured out what they did. Look at how those girls and Michelle were dressed during the campaign. Tailored suits and pretty dresses. Michelle wore her lovely wigs and the girls pretty much had straightened hair. (Go back and look at the campaign photos.)
Now, the girls are constantly in bizarre teen clothes and the older one went almost a whole year wearing dreadlocks and Michelle’s fashions are loud and vulgar. How to explain this?
Part of the con was that they presented themselves as Cliff and Claire Huxtable, the couple portrayed on the Bill Cosby show back in the 90’s. Malia and Sasha were Rudi and Vanessa.
It was a very calculated thing. That show was highly popular back then, and is still in syndication on many local channels. Through the whole campaign they gave many visual clues that they were just good old Cliff and Claire, hard-working black professionals who had solid middle class values.
So almost every American who was a regular watcher of that show got the message being telegraphed, even though they didn’t come right out and say it. I think this probably accounts for a great many of the votes from those under 40, and also explains the crossover vote from dim bulb Republicans.
Thanks for your post ToomeyDoc.
Thanks Mojo114 for the ping.
I think the Heritage Foundation is a good source for charts comparing the Obama economic plan vrs various GOP alternatives
You are right: the Huxtables were what most Americans saw on their TVs. If they did not access Fox News or conservative talk radio, they had no idea of BHO’s radical roots and outlook on America’s “oppressive” history.
Now their cover is being blown more and more every day.
Pampered and privileged BHO’s resentment is based on his emotional connection to his father and other male figures in his early life. Michelle’s resentment is just classic (could I say “color”) envy, even though she was raised in comfortable conditions, and went to Princeton.
BTW, whoever is advising her on wardrobe matters, has convinced her that UG-GLY clothing is in her best interest. I do not understand what she actually sees when she looks in a mirror. Why does she believe her dressers?
when I called Amanpour a fellow muslim, hope you know what I meant - it was relative to her show “guest(s)”. I myself am a Presbyterian :-))
” Americans have short memories, Our elected leaders are elitists who only want more goodies for themselves. In short, unless we throw out all the Obamamaniacs and RINOS in Congress this November — Our nation is doomed . . . The countdown begins right now. “
And if we don’t get rid of Boner and McConnell, I say nothing will change.
I couldn’t find it, but I will try to include a source in all future postings of images.I never gave it a thought until now.
Me either.
“Who gets paid for what and how close are the billings to actual costs? If all doctors are forced to use this billing code to bill Medicare for their services rendered to medicare patients is this the reason why some doctors refuse to even take medicare patients?”
I don’t pretend to know all about this, but here’s what I do know and remember from when I did medical billing (for all different providers - mental health, general practitioners, durable medical suppliers, chiropractors, etc.) for all types of insurance carriers including medicare/medicaid -
EVERYTHING, what gets reimbursed or does NOT, depends on coding - both diagnoses and procedures. I had to purchase two books (which got updated/changed yearly, not for free!!), CPT (for procedure codes) and ICD-9 (diagnostic codes). These first two basic softcover books cost around $150 if I recall, and that was 18 years ago! I also seem to recall I had to purchase them through the AMA, or arm of it.
More and more docs are turning down medicare patients due to financial reasons. Not only does medicare deny more and more claims (thanks to obama/congress funding cuts), but it reimburses a fraction of what the private carriers do, to the docs.
Any health care providers out there (non-AMA, preferrably) please fill in the blanks for us, and whether the situation has changed much.
I am supposed to apply for medicare in a matter of days. I am wondering if I should just keep my private insurance?
Worldcom, Enron and Tyco were all buying influence before they crashed. BP is another example of a company that is actively donating to Democrats to gain favor.
Maybe the blame game is misplaced. In each of the above cases, they were buying Democrat congressman’s support.
Rep. Henry Waxman complained that GWB would help his friend in bailing out Enron. When it was clear GW was not going to do this Waxman then complained that GWB was failing American companies. Bush couldn’t win with either scenario but our country won by not bailing them out. So, what does 0 do? He bails out all his supporters and donors. Typical.
“I am supposed to apply for medicare in a matter of days. I am wondering if I should just keep my private insurance?”
Sorry this took so long to reply. Well, not sure why you posed the question. By all means, you definitely need to have a supplemental policy to the medicare - and I don’t recommend Medicare Advantage in light of the funding cuts, or anything through AARP, just because of their Obama support and they don’t offer the best deals anyway. I believe my parents’ is through American Republic (they’re in MO, don’t know if you have it where you live) but just shop prices/plans.
Thanks, will do, I guess we won’t have a big enough majority to put any of the good things in medicare advantage back?
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