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Gen. Colin Powell calls for universal health
care in the U.S.
Puget Sound Business Journal ^
| December 6, 2013
| Valerie Bauman
Posted on 12/07/2013 7:15:36 PM PST by pluvmantelo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
But don't you teabaggers dare call him a Communist. That would be a promotion.
To: pluvmantelo
I actually don't disagree with Colin's original thesis (I admit I only read the headline).
HOWEVER:
We should be providing universal health care WITHOUT destroying the current system, which is what Obamacare does. I would have simply made Medicaid available to all, without age restrictions, but heavily income-verifying for qualification.
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posted on
12/08/2013 2:17:41 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: pluvmantelo
I just read the article. He, too, would destroy the system, with Single Payer (read: Communism) in a way similar to what has destroyed, for example, Great Britain's level of care.
Powell, you are the enemy. You are a communist.
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posted on
12/08/2013 2:19:27 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: LegendHasIt
another thing that irks the heck out of me... When people call Bill OReiley a Conservative, when what he really is is a poseur-populist with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, just like 0bama.
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O’Reilly is an Independent; not a Conservative. Like Hannity is a Conservative; not a Republican.
It irks me when people say O’Reilly represents Conservatives!
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posted on
12/08/2013 2:23:19 AM PST
by
octex
To: Windflier
You just said a few posts back that you're about to leave America and move to a "saner" country. Which is it? You gonna run, or stay and fight?
Both. You stay here you wont be fighting at all. You'll just be a poor stick so outgunned and sickly that you'll die before you even stand to firing position.
Set up base abroad and then return to snuff leftist kind from the gene pool forever.
To: octex
To: pluvmantelo
I call for the affirmative action, racist general to be hung for treason.
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posted on
12/08/2013 4:39:46 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
To: jsanders2001
obama half black... powell half black=answer.
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posted on
12/08/2013 4:40:53 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
To: pluvmantelo
To: pluvmantelo
When will this guy just go away?
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posted on
12/08/2013 4:55:46 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: stevio
Christy had that support for a time on FR, too.
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posted on
12/08/2013 4:56:29 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: pluvmantelo
I never trusted him. As a general he was a bureaucrat.
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posted on
12/08/2013 4:57:39 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: pluvmantelo
Republicans are in fact, Democrats, defacto if not dejure. The Republican Party is a division of the Democrat Party responsibal for an image of “opposition” in order to maintain a facade of “democracy.”
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posted on
12/08/2013 4:59:38 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: pluvmantelo
Powell’s not a Republican.
I doubt he ever was...
To: Wanderer99
You stay here you wont be fighting at all. You'll just be a poor stick so outgunned and sickly that you'll die before you even stand to firing position. Well, that's entirely incorrect, but don't let that stop you from bravely running away.
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posted on
12/08/2013 7:44:37 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
How is it incorrect?
State your case
To: Wanderer99
How is it incorrect? State your case There are an estimated 100,000,000 armed U.S. citizens, who possess an estimated 300,000,000 firearms. Millions of them are also hunters, which in wartime we call snipers or marksmen.
Even if only one in ten of those Americans chose to stand and face an armed aggressor (foreign or domestic), they'd still number 10,000,000 strong. That's almost ten times the size of the combined armed military personnel of the United States.
During the Iraq war, it's believed that there were never more than fifteen thousand 'insurgents' in country, but they held our entire military at bay for nearly ten years, despite the fact that they were heavily out-gunned by a technologically superior force.
Now I ask you. What do you think would happen if those same forces attempted to subjugate tens of millions of armed Americans through military force? People who are standing and fighting on the soil of their families and forefathers?
I'll tell you what would happen. They'd be crushed.
Factor in the number of desertions, defections, and refusals to fire on their own countrymen by members of the armed forces, and the picture grows even darker for any such misadventure.
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posted on
12/08/2013 10:14:59 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: pluvmantelo
I take it you’ve moved beyond Rubio and Walker now, as well?
To: 9YearLurker
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posted on
12/09/2013 10:14:08 AM PST
by
pluvmantelo
(Obamism=Chavism)
To: Windflier
There are an estimated 100,000,000 armed U.S. citizens, who possess an estimated 300,000,000 firearms. Millions of them are also hunters, which in wartime we call snipers or marksmen. Even if only one in ten of those Americans chose to stand and face an armed aggressor (foreign or domestic), they'd still number 10,000,000 strong. That's almost ten times the size of the combined armed military personnel of the United States. During the Iraq war, it's believed that there were never more than fifteen thousand 'insurgents' in country, but they held our entire military at bay for nearly ten years, despite the fact that they were heavily out-gunned by a technologically superior force. Now I ask you. What do you think would happen if those same forces attempted to subjugate tens of millions of armed Americans through military force? People who are standing and fighting on the soil of their families and forefathers? I'll tell you what would happen. They'd be crushed. Factor in the number of desertions, defections, and refusals to fire on their own countrymen by members of the armed forces, and the picture grows even darker for any such misadventure.
and what are you going to do when they exhaust your bank account and then bring up false charges to toss you into the slammer? Leftists are to be attacked or depleted BEFORE they formulate a plan against you, not during.
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