Posted on 01/23/2007 4:45:40 PM PST by STARWISE
Edited on 01/23/2007 6:37:01 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
He would be the only one on my yes list right now.
Just curious, are you only interested in President Bush's domestic agenda? Where is your interest in his foreign policy?
Just a little suggestion.... you might want to update your freeper homepage. You almost sound like a Bushbot on yours.
Yes, way back when, I thought Bush was going to be a good President. I don't think so anymore. He's let the conservative part of our party down. As to his foreign policy, his battle against terrorism to keep it overseas is good. His leaving our borders wide open on both sides of our country contradicts this fight against terrorism. He is not letting (like Johnson did) our troops fight full-blown. He has shortchanged them on troops, and has them fighting a PC war where too often our own troops are put to blame for shooting/killing Iraqi's in the heat of battle, rather than putting the onus on those they fight. I just learned via Fox TV and other channels, that there are 7 steps are soldiers have to consider before pulling the trigger. Is that anyway to win a war? He is so invested in establishing democracy in Middle Eastern countries, that he immediately throws the concept into their lap and lets them make decisions (or allows them to not make decisions) rather than putting our U.S. foot down and forcing them to make the right moves so that democracy even has a chance to make a foothold. And our enemies know how to use democracy in order to destroy it. We enforced gov't on both Germany and Japan after WWII. None of this, ok, now you've got democracy, you tribal country, run with it. It's like Bush half gets it, and half doesn't. So, I half admire him on foreign policy, and half don't. There, now you know my analysis of his foreign policy.
You're old enough to remember when most companies did NOT give any health care benefits. Nobody was "dying" back then; they bought their own health insurance and the poor have always been treated for free.
Since when has braces and very expensive eyeglass frames been considered to be necessities?
And yes, the president DID also mention health accounts!
WHY are you making this about me? WHY are you trying to count my money? I was talking in general, but nooooooooooooo, that wasn't something you wanted to even consider! LOL
So, just How MUCH or LITTLE did YOU make, before you retired? How MUCH or how LITTLE, are you getting now? And just HOW MUCH health insurance are you getting for nothing or very little........that you don't want to give up? :^)
No, I don't expect you to answer that lasts bit; it was just a retaliatory poke in the eye, to an old fashioned, often stereotyped kind of person, who appeared in lots of 1930s movies. :-)
Oh yes, and for crying out loud.......learn how to make paragraphs! Your post was just about unreadable; not that it was worth the bother to read. LOL
"I've been on FreeRepublic since before you even"
Actually, you weren't, unless you did like I did, and lurked for a long time before signing up, which is what I did, but it's really all immaterial at this point.
Learn how to read with comprehension....LOL
Then you are voting for the Democrat candidate. Period.
Best Pelosi-twitching comment of the night on the live thread.
Employers could offer a wage instead of health ins benefit then the enployee could run the premium through a 125 plan to avoid taxes, (in the case of the plan costing more than 7500/15000 per year).
Nothing would change.
Well what might change is the employee would take more ownership of heath care costs, and that might not be a bad thing.
The odd thing is, the costs are out of line with the actual costs.
Half of what we get in health care we could get from half-trained monkeys, but the health "profession" tightly controls the availability of doctors, and artificially drives up the cost of entry which forces large debt on the profession which must then be recovered with huge fees. Then there's hundreds of thousands in malpractice insurance.
Then there is the employer insurance companies, that through sheer size force doctors to offer cheap rates to their people, which drives up costs for the uninsured.
I had thosands of dollars of "medical care" this past summer, but mostly it was just human beings, like me, poking and prodding me. Almost NOTHING was a consumable item. The overhead and waste costs are rediculous.
"What is the point? So, tell me.....do you support Pelosi? Kerry? Edwards? The Dims? If so, state the reason why, please. You don't like the President, like I said before....we ALL know that. So, tell us, who do you like? Who do you support? Obama? Hillary? Who?"
You just react to my comments rather than read them, don't you. I'm to the right of Bush, he is verging on being a RINO too often, ok? A Rockefeller Republican, just like his dad. You aren't conservative enough, because you think Bush is one when he's not, and hasn't been, right along.
I will disagree with you on shortchanging the troops. I believe he was going on the advice of his generals. Did you notice the generals changed and so did the advice? It is different than WWII, like it or not. We completely destroyed those countries and we had to rebuild them from the ground up. We are trying not to do that again.
Please do not compare him to LBJ and Viet Nam again. That is insulting to the troops.
Do you two have any idea how childish and petty you sound? It reminds me of GRADE school. If you're so intent on behaving like 6 year olds, can't you find someplace else to do it?
No.
Assuming we've set the tax rates "appropriately" whatever that means, so that every citizen is properly taxed in a fair and equitable way, and all government is properly funded.
Now, let's say we want government-run health care. So government defines what should be provided in health care, and offers people tax deductions if they buy the government-preferred care. Of course, that means some people are now paying less than their "fair" tax. And we have to raise taxes on everybody to make up for the lost revenue.
So now government is dictating health care, and taxing everybody in order to pay for the health care of people who use the government-approved system.
Hey, it's socialized care, and it's almost exactly what happens today with the deductions for employer-sponsored health care.
You can't just cut more people's taxes. The government is not running a surplus. If you are arguing that the tax deduction for health care is a better government expenditure than something else, and that we should therefore cut OTHER spending instead of the tax deduction, I will be happy to hear what should be cut, and maybe you WOULD find something better.
But the argument that government should spend MORE of my tax dollars to bribe people into certain expenditures is not my idea of good fiscal conservatism, or good policy.
Good point. But how could that be done? The NEA is the chief supporter of Dems across the country. The Dems will NEVER allow a public school system without a union in control of it. And now, they are in power. So there you go.
Enjoy being miserable and bitter. It seems to suit you.
Actually, like Ann Coulter, I'm actually quite content with my life, thank you. I'm retired, have enough to eat, roof over my head, earned it all by working my tail off, like to go to parties, read, take courses, have done Pub politics most of my life (actively), and think it might just possibly be you with the problem. And I have no doubt as to the sense I am making amongst some who have none.
He did speak about stopping the frivolous and out of control lawsuits that are damaging our health care in this nation (tort reform).
Yes, I heard it the second time I listened to his speech. Missed it the first time, as I stated elsewhere on this thread.
"Wow!! Pelosi is standing up before Cheney on a lot of these points."
I was in a patients room during one of her bizarre looking jump ups. Its like she was waiting for a cue. You could actually see her trying to figure out which word signalled a leap to her feet.
So, do you collect social security and medicare?
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