POLI: I Went To A Town Hall Meeting In Texas, page 2

Originally posted by Tentickles
reply to post by mental modulator

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You took my words and twisted them wrongly.

I was attempting to do what I do -

I'm sorry if it offended you on a personal level...

reply to post by DevilJin

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See my Post from the last page.

Looks to me like a bunch of hooey...and possibly designed by the Insurance Industry, or Pharma, or whoever wants the status quo to remain the same...because they're GREEDY.

Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by DevilJin

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See my Post from the last page.

whoever wants the status quo to remain the same...because they're GREEDY.

WHAT???

The Insurance companies are the ones who will benefit by socializings, THEY MAKE MORE MONEY WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FORCES THEM TO CHARGE LESS AND CONTINUE COVERAGE ON TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS, think about it!



[edit on 24-8-2009 by mental modulator]

Originally posted by Tentickles
reply to post by warrenb

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It is a horrible graph isnt it?

Makes me want to slap the people who came up with it.

Hrmm... Wasn't it a Republican who came up with the graph?


Yeah, I agree with you.

reply to post by weedwhacker

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Question for you.

Who wrote the Bill?

It wasn't the Congress. It wasn't the White House.

How come it needs to be all legal language that leaves everything open ended?

reply to post by HunkaHunka

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And HH, here is a question for you.

Go to this page, and tell me how you plan to pay for it.

www.usdebtclock.org...

Are you going to write a check for what you owe first?
I do not want to carry your debt. Please pay off what you as a citizen owe before you spend any more.

Right now, each citizen, yes man, women, and child owes the following.
$38,233 of Fed. Debt
$191,833 Unfunded Debt
$230,066 Total per citizen


Until such day, you really have nothing to back up all this crap.

reply to post by Parallex

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Well said, Para. I'm glad that the republicans are making noise. But they didn't START, until people started to read the bill.

Now don't get me wrong, compared to me, Hannity is a liberal, but I have a hard time trusting ANYONE in DC right now.

The republicans keep hoping that we have a short memory as well.

Good post, OP. It is nice to get an inside peek, would like to see a democrat townhall meeting as well. Just to compare.

Originally posted by j2000
reply to post by HunkaHunka

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And HH, here is a question for you.

Go to this page, and tell me how you plan to pay for it.

www.usdebtclock.org...

Are you going to write a check for what you owe first?
I do not want to carry your debt. Please pay off what you as a citizen owe before you spend any more.

How much did you pay in taxes last year?

Right now, each citizen, yes man, women, and child owes the following.
$38,233 of Fed. Debt

Oh look at that, I paid almost twice this last year in federal taxes alone... How much did you pay?

$191,833 Unfunded Debt
$230,066 Total per citizen


Until such day, you really have nothing to back up all this crap.

Yes I do.. the fact that I shoulder more burden the backwoods conservatives who ain't got nuthin but still rail about shouldering the debt of others.

I, for one, am somewhat disappointed with the absence of objectivity and lack of research that went in to this “report.” The chart was “produced” by Kevin Brady-R who is in staunch opposition to the reform bill. That WAS NOT explained in the “story.” The chart is his interpretation of the Healthcare plan and is intentionally complicated, complex, perplexing and misleading.

But these charts--and, more important, the Republicans who use them as propaganda--tend to ignore one inconvenient fact: American health care is already complex. Ridiculously complex. Thanks to decades of haphazard, disorganized growth, it's evolved into a mind-numbing web of institutions, agencies, businesses, and individual actors. And while that may be self-evident to anybody who's ever had to deal with, say, a billing dispute between an insurer and hospital, it's easy to lose sight of that when the discussion is all about what reform might do--rather than what health care would be like without it.

crooksandliars.com...

Bottom line Obama didn't INVENT the system, rather this is what it has EVOLVED into thanks to BOTH parties and a history of bureaucracy.

More background on GOP use of charts to defeat Healthcare reform, a tried and true GOP ploy:

Remember that in 1994, on the Senate floor, Republicans unveiled a flow chart they created, which derided the White House's health-care plan. The chart played a role, certainly, in derailing health reform then.

mediamatters.org...

It seems that Kevin Brady (whose name is the source of chart) knows something about pork. He has over $6 million of solo 'earmarks / pork' himself amidst other legislation. I'd say he knows how to play this game better than most of us do and this is yet ANOTHER case of pot calling kettle black.

www.legistorm.com...


[edit on 24-8-2009 by kinda kurious]

reply to post by kinda kurious

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This "report" is a look at this one town hall meeting. I state quite clearly that I went for the atmosphere and feeling of the audience.

Not the political views of the Congressman.

Originally posted by Tentickles
reply to post by kinda kurious

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This "report" is a look at this one town hall meeting. I state quite clearly that I went for the atmosphere and feeling of the audience. Not the political views of the Congressman.

Oh sorry, I must have misread this part:

Originally posted by Tentickles
Following the roar of agreement that health care is not for the Federal Government, the Congressman stated that now is not the time for health care reform...I left feeling rather good about my representative in the House. I agreed with his position on almost all his bullet points and so did the crowd.

That's apolitical?

reply to post by weedwhacker

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Guess weedwhaker was lost somewhere in the fields and didn't find out that Obama was caught red handed doing deals with BIG PHARMA...

www.huffingtonpost.com...

The above comes FROM A LEFT WING WEBSITE....

Not to mention that weedwhacker was probably lost in the fields at the same time that interviews of Obama himself showed that he doesn't give a crap about elder Americans, and he wants the GOVERNMENT to have control over what treatments, surgeries Americans should have, IF they are economically viable, if they are NOT elder Americans, and if they bow down to the party line like weedwhacker and a few others keep doing.

The Obama administration want to make healthcare HARDER, and WORSE, and not better, so part of their job is to make it confusing for Americans. But of course, there will be some people that will deny this as they keep denying the fact that OBAMA himself has stated in interviews exactly what he, and his administration want, and how he doesn't give a HOOT about Elder Americans, or ANY other Americans...

We got videos of the man telling people like weedwhacker that everything which we have been saying about healthcare reform is true, yet people like weedwhacker still deny it EVEN THOUGH IT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF THE HORSE ITSELF....

We have even threads which state what is in the bill, such as this
Link and still those who keep wanting to bow to the Messiah, President Obama, want to deny it.

These people are in a state of shock, and they will deny the truth no matter how many times they see it.

We even have videos of President Obama promises about healthcare "before", and "after", and from none other than the Huff once again.

www.huffingtonpost.com...

But of course pepople like weedwhacker will continue to deny this, he will dismiss it, even if Obama, the Messiah himself says it right in front of weedwhacker's face.

Compare a flow-chart of the CURRENT system against the flow-chart
that shows what healthcare reform will bring. Both are at this page:
swampland.blogs.time.com...
-CWM

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