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Republicans Must Fix Obamacare, Not Destroy it: Ben Stein
Yahoo!Finance ^ | 10/21/2013 10:35AM | Ben Stein

Posted on 10/21/2013 9:54:19 AM PDT by sr4402

Title is bad: "Republicans Must Fix Obamacare, Not Destroy it: Ben Stein"

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KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; benstein; obamacare; rinos; zerocare
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To: sr4402
I hear this tired mantra all the time.

Why? The Republic endured over two centuries without Obamacare. Why is it suddenly inperative that it succeed? I know the answer, of course: Saving Face. Saving Face for the First Black President.

Eff him and his face. Pull the plug.

21 posted on 10/21/2013 10:10:39 AM PDT by jboot (Ask me again after the revolution.)
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To: Parmy

ben stein is some weird sort of evolutionary glitch.


22 posted on 10/21/2013 10:10:45 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: sr4402

Fine Ben,I have an idea,Instead of going to a billion dollar web site,why not have Americans who want health insurance,get on the phone and call one of the insurance companies and get a policy.This will not only save trillions,Obama will have more time to play golf,and the 85% of the American people who like their health insurance and their doctor can keep it.What do you think of what I consider a terrific idea


23 posted on 10/21/2013 10:16:48 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: sr4402

I live Cavuto but Ben Stein has always taken Dem positions like this.

He was on FNC crying for a stimulus to be passed early 2009.


24 posted on 10/21/2013 10:17:36 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: sr4402

25 posted on 10/21/2013 10:18:10 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: sr4402

Ben is a better comedian and media personality than he is a person who understands the moral and economic damage of socialist programs. Socialism is based on the dangerous idea that we each must live at the expense of everyone else and that we will be better off collectively when we permit this to take place. It is a system whose foundation stones are lies, coveting and theft. It can only be conducted via coercion and at the extreme it brings death to anyone who declines to participate and even to its supporters.


26 posted on 10/21/2013 10:20:25 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: sr4402

Well, corruptocrats make BILLIONS off of products that save people from horrible legislation!!


27 posted on 10/21/2013 10:23:44 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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28 posted on 10/21/2013 10:24:37 AM PDT by caww
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To: sr4402

You fix it by destroying it. Free markets require creative DESTRUCTION.


29 posted on 10/21/2013 10:27:44 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: sr4402; All

While I respect Ben Stein, he evidently doesn’t understand that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes. (Or he may be a phony conservative like many other celebrity “conservatives.”.)

The only way to fix Obamacare is if the states were to ratify an amendment to the Constituton granting Congress the speciific power to tax and spend for public healthcare purposes.


30 posted on 10/21/2013 10:37:52 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Is Obamacare in the constitution? I am so sick of this crap that whatever law comes down the pike, we are just supposed to accept it and move on. We have every right to try as hard as possible to get rid of this garbage while we still can.I don’t recall affordable health care as being mandated by our constitution. If a law is crap, get rid of the law.


31 posted on 10/21/2013 10:44:00 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: sr4402
So Mr. Stein, you want to reorganize socialism a little differently?

I want to KILL it! Pull it up by the roots and feed it to the evil thieves of liberty who want to burden my children and grandchildren with weight of the parasite class.

32 posted on 10/21/2013 10:47:46 AM PDT by DWar ("The ultimate destination of Political Correctness is totalitarianism.")
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To: andy58-in-nh
just subsidies for people who can’t afford insurance.

That's the problem. give an inch and they take a mile. You get more of whatever you subsidize. And so on. government charity corrupts a nation.

33 posted on 10/21/2013 10:59:52 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: sr4402

RINOs will now be coming out of the woodwork to ...

Make socialism work!


34 posted on 10/21/2013 11:06:33 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: pastorbillrandles

“there is still time to do so”

There will always be time to do so. I am so tired of those who think there is a point where we can’t repeal or change something.

They have destroyed the institution of marriage after thousands of years, they are repealing the second amendment after 200+ years. The left never ever throws up its hands and says “Well, we can’t change that law no matter how much we would like to”

It is pathetic and repulsive to see people imply that we have to surrender an issue at some point. It’s a loser mentality.


35 posted on 10/21/2013 11:10:15 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: andy58-in-nh

Ben is liberal on a lot of issues


36 posted on 10/21/2013 11:11:08 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

and it’s yielding to the devil when he brags in your face. when the devil is a pip squeak before God. but it’s up to us whether to buy his sulfurous baloney.


37 posted on 10/21/2013 11:11:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

bump


38 posted on 10/21/2013 11:18:29 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: sr4402

Congress must “fix it”, hmm? With what, a magic “fix it” spell? I don’t think Ben is tracking this thing through the usual political arc, but believe me the Dems are. What they want most at the moment is to share the blame. Fixing anything isn’t really high on the agenda.


39 posted on 10/21/2013 11:27:04 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: sr4402

Republicans would be well served by running silently for a while.


40 posted on 10/21/2013 11:28:33 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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