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Ted Cruz’s Obamacare Substitute: He Cares, Really!
The Daily Beast ^ | March 5, 2015 | Dean Obeidallah, Lawyer & Arab-American comedian

Posted on 03/05/2015 11:29:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 03/05/2015 11:29:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Dean Obeidallah, Lawyer & Arab-American comedian

Ok, I'm just lol.

2 posted on 03/05/2015 11:32:16 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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How has stupidity this dense not collapsed into a black hole? (Excuse me ... light-challenged hole.)

This is the same Cruz who has shown little compassion for those in poverty. He has even been a leader in the fight to prevent an increase in the federal minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage means fewer jobs - that's "compassion"?

It’s a little hard to take his 26-page bill seriously when it is intended to replace the nearly 1,000-page Obamacare law.

It's more than a little hard to take seriously someone who measures legislation by the pound.

3 posted on 03/05/2015 11:36:19 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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FTA: It’s a little hard to take his 26-page bill seriously when it is intended to replace the nearly 1,000-page Obamacare law.

Only a liberal idiot would think that unnecessary complexity and bureaucracy makes a law better.....what a disgusting piece of human debris this Dean Obadiah is....

4 posted on 03/05/2015 11:37:14 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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“The Texas right-wing firebrand (by way of Calgary, Canada) unveiled his alternative to Obamacare on Tuesday.”

How come we never hear about Obama, the IslamoMarxist radical (by way of Kenya and Indonesia)......


5 posted on 03/05/2015 11:39:30 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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[[You see, Cruz is apparently deeply concerned about the 7.5 million Americans in 36 states who might lose federal government subsidies]]

Does he care about disabled people who have steadily lost coverage of critical medical devices and supplies over the last 6 years while ILLEGAL ALIENS were granted coverage? More and m ore disabled people, seniors, and veterans are LOSING things that were once covered before dear leader took office- and they have to sit there and watch as ILLEGAL ALINS are granted more and m ore ‘rights’ and medical coverage? Are you kidding me? Does ANOYNE in congress give a crap about our LEGAL citizens who are losing coverage for critical medical needs? Answer me that Mr. Cruz!


6 posted on 03/05/2015 11:40:37 AM PST by Bob434
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To: EQAndyBuzz

...good question....(but of course, you know the answer....)


7 posted on 03/05/2015 11:42:29 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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** WARNING **

You PRICK a blown up wild eyed moonbat.... AND...
you will get all manner of nasty words exploding all over you..

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8 posted on 03/05/2015 11:46:04 AM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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Trying to catch a zot? Answer me that, Bob434?


9 posted on 03/05/2015 11:51:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Well .. DEAN is lying big time ..!!!

TED CRUZ IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN .. SO STOP LYING ABOUT IT.

Dean: Because you’re so ignorant .. let me inform you. When a child is born to a mother who is an American Citizen, THE CHILD AUTOMATICALLY BECOMES AN AMERICAN CITIZEN .. OKAY ..?? And, because his mother was living in Canada at the time, he was also afforded Canadian Citizenship .. WHICH HE HAS RENOUNCED.

So, if you’re going to print something about Ted Cruz .. you better get it right next time.


10 posted on 03/05/2015 11:56:06 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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[[Trying to catch a zot?]]

what the hell are you talking about? I asked does anyone in congress care? Really care? That wil l get me a zot? Really? and why would that be?


11 posted on 03/05/2015 11:59:25 AM PST by Bob434
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and just for the record- I emailed every GOP candidate in the last election and asked them essentially the same thing- asking where they were to protect our most vulnerable LEGAL citizens, and not one friggin senator responded- not even a canned response- so I sent the same emails several times over the course of a couple of months and got no reply-

IF being concerned about our countries’ most vulnerable citizens is enough to get me zotted here, as you seem ot be suggesting it might (Why? Because I asked the question of Ted indirectly? ), then there’s something seriously wrong with this site!


12 posted on 03/05/2015 12:03:08 PM PST by Bob434
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One of the greatest weaknesses of Alinskyism is its inherent absense of substance.


13 posted on 03/05/2015 12:05:21 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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Seems to me that no one particularly cared when about 5million people received notice that their individual policies were canceled when Ocare first reared its ugly head


14 posted on 03/05/2015 12:07:57 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (Congrats to Gov. Walker on his Three-peat! Love my Gov!!!)
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Cruz’s plan wouldn’t do anything much to help those who lose Obamacare subsidies, and I’m not sure it’s meant to. The government has to get out of the business of paying for everything everyone wants. If not now then when? If we don’t tackle new entitlements then how will we ever deal with well established ones? Cruz knows that.


15 posted on 03/05/2015 12:12:22 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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It’s a GREAT plan!


16 posted on 03/05/2015 12:13:18 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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It’s a little hard to take his 26-page bill seriously when it is intended to replace the nearly 1,000-page Obamacare law.

Only in the addled mind of a leftist could this be considered a bad thing. Next thing you know, members will be able to actually read bills before they vote on them.

17 posted on 03/05/2015 12:17:28 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: Bob434

You impugned Ted Cruz, not some nameless congressman,


18 posted on 03/05/2015 12:17:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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I call shenanigans. Every time I contact Senator Cruz’s office I get a response within one business day.


19 posted on 03/05/2015 12:19:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Future generations, living under the "rule" of such charlatans as those who foisted the "progressive" myth of "affordable health care" on a once-free nation, will wonder how current generations tolerated such doublespeak and deception by elected representatives in their government, as they systematically destroyed individual freedom in exchange for the dubious "opportunity" of being ruled by a petty tyrant and his loyalists.

Then-future President Ronald Reagan, when only a Hollywood actor, summarized the scene played out by this Administration and its Democrat Party Congressmen and Senators in their imposition of what they euphemistically called the Affordable Care Act.

Every American citizen, looking back on that Trojan Horse for socialism, should listen to Reagan's foresight and warnings in a 1961 speech: HERE.

Freedom of individual enterprise, the great principle which brought America from axes and hoes in the wilderness to space travel and from near-starving colonists to becoming the breadbasket of the world, has been under attack by men and women committed to a belief that they were "progressive" in turning the founding ideas upside down.

Such "progressive" regressives pretend to be intellectuals when, in fact, they are imperfect human beings like every other citizen, arrogantly assuming rights never delegated to them by either the Creator nor their fellow citizens.

Winston Churchill (that one whose bust no longer is welcome in the Obama White House) is quoted in William Simon's 1978 "A Time for Truth," as follows:

"I do not believe in the power of the state to plan and enforce. No matter how numerous the committees they set up or the ever-growing hordes of officials that they employ or the severity of the punishments that they inflict or threaten, they can't approach the high level of internal economic production achieved under free enterprise.

"Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite processes of good housekeeping and personal ingenuity, these constitute the life of a free society. It is this vital creative impulse that I deeply fear the doctrines and policies of the socialist government have destroyed.

"Nothing that they can plan and order and rush around enforcing will take its place. They have broken the mainspring, and until we get a new one, the watch will not go. Set the people free - get out of the way and let them make the best of themselves.

"I am sure that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing scarcity instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance has only to be prolonged to kill this British island stone dead."


20 posted on 03/05/2015 12:21:20 PM PST by loveliberty2
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