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]
Well, we need to eat as well, but government doesn't offer tax deductions for the cost of my big mac.
Anyway, almost ANYBODY could be kept alive for years longer than they will otherwise live. All it would take is to spend about a million dollars on end-of-life care. Hire special counselors, a live-in nurse, give them all the latest drugs, and people can live longer.
Fact is, we all die sometime, and for many your time of death will be based on how much money you make. Hey, it might not be "fair", but there isn't a fair system, and at least this system has rules that are understood.
Government's job is NOT to make sure I get appropriate health care, even if it means I will die. Government has a limited number of assigned tasks, and should focus on those tasks.
Folks died "relatively young"? In the 1950s? How young is "relatively young"........70? Or are you talking about people dying from illnesses that they can now be saved from, due to great strides in the medical profession, which has absolutely NOTHING whatsoever to do with health insurance?
Exactly so! :-)
If you are in a zero tax bracket, the tax deduction has no value.
That is true. They get their health insurance free through Medicaid or Medicare, don't they. And we pay for it.
I'm not trying to be flip, but I think about a dozen of my posts were variations on a theme I'm working on about this plan. Probably the easiest thing would be to click on my name to go to my home page, and then click on "in forum", and look at my posts from the past couple of hourse, they are all in this forum.
I apologize for not being able to go back and reference them, but it's late and I'm just finishing up making sure I've answered those who posted back to me before going to bed.
I agree. Thank you, nopardons. :)
does your employer pay more than 7500/yr (single) for your health ins.?
If so that is a unusually good health ins plan.
I have no idea as there was never a need to check on it until now that Bush has proposed his plan. But even if it were over 7500/yr, and an unusually good one, does that then make it a target for the IRS and our gov't to come and tax it? Any pot of gold will do? It's just so anti-conservative in philosophy. It's what the Dems do, tax anything in sight. In my state (IL) our Dem Governor (Blagojevich) has been ripping off our pension plans (state). He sees this big cache of money as the perfect pot to dip into to finance his free health insurance for all children of Illinois plan. Do you see a theme here? Similarities?
You say you are retired. Are you one of those that get your health-care "free" through Medicare?
What if the 20,000 additional troops doesn't work, because the correct thing is 100,000? Does failing at 20,000 mean we are forbidden to put 100,000 in and fix it? Do we have to fail just because he's used up his "tries"?
This isn't a football game where there is 60 minutes and the game is over. This is a real life war where, if what we try this week doesn't work, we actually have to figure out what to do next week.
And for the forseeable future, whatever we choose will be better than the alternative of "pull out the troops and turn Iraq and it's oil over to Al Qaeda". Even if it's costing us a thousand troops a year, that's a fair price to pay for NOT having Saddam or Iraq giving WMD to our enemies, or having their oil revenue paying for suicide bombers in Israel.
What on earth is FR coming to, when someone is trashed for the TIME they post a reply? Good grief!
I am curious how you got all of this information and so quickly formed a negative opinion. Granted I've been busy with school work this week, but I have heard virtually nothing until today.
Because I have been watching one talking head program after another, on a variety of channels, all day long today, talking about his speech and his new policy initiatives, with the breakdown of them, and those channels include Fox, PMSNBC, and CNN. So the info was from a variety of sources and broken down by a variety of people. So I've got a pretty good idea now of what's going down here. And I don't like what I've heard. That along with reading articles on the web about this.
Would you just ask my questions? Not a hard concept, ya know. I'm not conservative enough? Okay...tell me who? Who do YOU support? What conservative? You are as bad as the Dims, no ideas, no agenda, just rabble rousing......
I happen to know, for an absolute fact, that it was the unions, right after WW II, that FORCED the health care stuff! Did nonunion companies follow suit, later, yes, they did; but, it wasn't their own thought.
Pelosi is a whore monger!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Bush isn't good on immigration, although he is doing exactly what he said he would do during his campaign.
But he doesn't support amnesty, or at least he would prefer a program that is NOT amnesty -- I fear he will go along with amnesty if that's what the democrats send up.
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This is a pet peave of mine. I'm sure that the Free Market business interestS that are whispering in his ear are saying, "we love the cheap labor." THAT'S GOOD.
But I sincerely hope he doesn't believe that if he gives every Latino illegal amnesty and voting priveleges that they will remember it was the Republicans who gave them their freedom. Once Jose and Maria realize that they can vote themselves some rewards from the public treasury to pay for Jose Jr. and their ________ (fill in the blank), THEY WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT DOWN THE LINE.
THAT'S BAD.
"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"
Then stop reading and responding to my comments. It would be a relief. One less non-thinker to have to deal with. Oh, LOL.
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