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Republicans Lay Out Agenda: Repeal ObamaCare, Authorize Keystone, Save The Children
It would appear the blood-red pen of veto will be running dry by the time the President's term is up based on Mitch McConnell and John Boehner's WSJ op-ed explaining "now we can get Congress going." As they begin, "Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate. We are humbled by this opportunity to help struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated..."
Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate. We are humbled by this opportunity to help struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated by an increasing lack of opportunity, the stagnation of wages, and a government that seems incapable of performing even basic tasks.
Looking ahead to the next Congress, we will honor the voters’ trust by focusing, first, on jobs and the economy. Among other things, that means a renewed effort to debate and vote on the many bills that passed the Republican-led House in recent years with bipartisan support, but were never even brought to a vote by the Democratic Senate majority. It also means renewing our commitment to repeal ObamaCare, which is hurting the job market along with Americans’ health care.
For years, the House did its job and produced a steady stream of bills that would remove barriers to job creation and lower energy costs for families. Many passed with bipartisan support—only to gather dust in a Democratic-controlled Senate that kept them from ever reaching the president’s desk. Senate Republicans also offered legislation that was denied consideration despite bipartisan support and benefits for American families and jobs.
These bills provide an obvious and potentially bipartisan starting point for the new Congress—and, for President Obama , a chance to begin the final years of his presidency by taking some steps toward a stronger economy.
We’ll also consider legislation to help protect and expand America’s emerging energy boom and to support innovative charter schools around the country.These bills include measures authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will mean lower energy costs for families and more jobs for American workers; the Hire More Heroes Act, legislation encouraging employers to hire more of our nation’s veterans; and a proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment, removing an arbitrary and destructive government barrier to more hours and better pay created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Enacting such measures early in the new session will signal that the logjam in Washington has been broken, and help to establish a foundation of certainty and stability that both parties can build upon.
At a time of growing anxiety for the American people, with household incomes stubbornly flat and the nation facing rising threats on multiple fronts, this is vital work.
Will these bills single-handedly turn around the economy? No. But taking up bipartisan bills aimed at helping the economy that have already passed the House is a sensible and obvious first step.
More good ideas aimed at helping the American middle class will follow. And as we work to persuade others of their merit, we won’t repeat the mistakes made when a different majority ran Congress in the first years of Barack Obama’s presidency, attempting to reshape large chunks of the nation’s economy with massive bills that few Americans have read and fewer understand.
Instead, we will restore an era in which committees in both the House and Senate conduct meaningful oversight of federal agencies and develop and debate legislation; and where members of the minority party in both chambers are given the opportunity to participate in the process of governing.
We will oversee a legislature in which “bigger” isn’t automatically equated with “better” when it comes to writing and passing bills.
Our priorities in the 114th Congress will be your priorities. That means addressing head-on many of the most pressing challenges facing the country, including:
The insanely complex tax code that is driving American jobs overseas;
Health costs that continue to rise under a hopelessly flawed law that Americans have never supported;
A savage global terrorist threat that seeks to wage war on every American;
An education system that denies choice to parents and denies a good education to too many children;
Excessive regulations and frivolous lawsuits that are driving up costs for families and preventing the economy from growing;
An antiquated government bureaucracy ill-equipped to serve a citizenry facing 21st-century challenges, from disease control to caring for veterans;
A national debt that has Americans stealing from their children and grandchildren, robbing them of benefits that they will never see and leaving them with burdens that will be nearly impossible to repay.
January will bring the opportunity to begin anew. Republicans will return the focus to the issues at the top of your priority list. Your concerns will be our concerns. That’s our pledge.
The skeptics say nothing will be accomplished in the next two years. As elected servants of the people, we will make it our job to prove the skeptics wrong.
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Good luck with that!
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Electoral Monarchy
We are officially Fucked.
Again.
Translation:
We're cutting taxes on the super rich, we're going to war, your health coverage is over, good look in school if you're poor.
What about audit the Fed?
They only said that to get your vote.
Did you fall for it?
It's about time 'merica refreshed their comedy lineup at the congress, we got some real AAA crazy ass crackers back in this go. I, along with the rest of the world, look forward to their speeches on everything women + science related. And whatever else they happen to throw in for kicks I guess. You have not yet scrapped the bottom yet 'merica! Keeeeep goinnnnng!!
Lemme guess, you didn't vote either?
Vote for what? The left hand that just keeps punching you in the eye or the right hand that grabs you by the nuts and doesn't let go?
The Republican "agenda" is all relatively meaningless fluff.
The Republicans & Democrats are identical on the three most critical issues our country faces:
1.) Monetary policy (especially who controls the issuance of currency)
2.) foreign policy (endless wars for Israel) and
3.) Immigration policy (open borders and no effective deterrence)
As long as the usurers continue to dictate our monetary policy, nothing substantive will change. Bought puppet will follow corrupt puppet ad infinitum.
Fuck Obozocare. As corrupt piece of legislation as zero and pelosi put together.
"Mother should I trust the government ?"
-PinkFloyd , 1979
meet the new boss, same as the old boss ...
At least both parties agree they don't like to be spied on. The rest of us they could give a shit about. When they care about me being spied on, i'll vote again, otherwise they don't represent me.
that's the funny thing about congress, they seem to make themselves the exception to a bunch of their rules
< "I'm glad that Republicans control Congress again! Now the nation can begin to heal from the Left's Socialist agenda"
< "I am saddened that Obama's flawed but basically decent domestic/international agenda has been truncated by the heartless Republican's midterm victories"
Any takers?
There are only 2 reasons why the electorate want Republicans back in...
1. To repeal Obamacare
2. To not impose gun control
The rest of the GOP platform is total garbage.
No, there is only one reason. People are mad as hell at Obola the joke.
yea, and the People are crying for change and the renewal of the American Dream....and so it is with a hopeful heart that the Nation turns to....Mitch McConnell
That is just twisted.
What part of the rich are richer now than the richest assholes in the history of the world didn't you get during the last 6 years? What more can they ask for? A return to legal slavery?
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”
-Prof. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope
Meet the new boss; same as the old boss...let the bullshit begin anew.
"As long as the usurers continue to dictate our monetary policy, nothing substantive will change."
True enough, but it's still fun to watch OB1 squirm.
James cole voted for the nigger- he just won't admit it.
Because Obama!
He bailed and lives in Switzerland, loves Obama and has some weird thing about me owning a gun without the state knowing about it.
Where you been? Your one of the elders and betters..
Oh, ya know, fighting, scratching, trying to even out my scars ;-)
Debtonation...shed FED.
Well get that shit sorted out and stick around..
Blah Blah Blah
Any idiot that gives these lying, treasonous worms a second of their attention or goes out and votes is a moron.
How many times can you get the football pulled away, with you crashing to the ground with an "Arrrrrrgh!", making a fool of yourself, before you've had enough?
Had my fill long ago.
...good look in school...
Spell checker doesn't catch such malapropisms. Funny tho...
The Republicans are gonna FIX everything! BWAWHAHAHAHAH!
They were so humbled last time they brought in the Patriot Act and oversaw the destruction of the twin towers.
For fucks sake don't you yanks get sick of this shit.
What date did Cheney set for the nuclear strike on the US again?
No fucking shit. They had complete control of both houses plus the presidency. What did good did thy do? None. This shit is infuriating. Can't people remember how this went last time? The attention span of people in this country is appalling. The Fed will and govt will continue robbing us blind. The constitution will continue to get trampled , the bill of rights willl erode even further, and the endless wars and intervention will continue as planned. How do I know this, you may ask?BECAUSE THATS WHAT HAPPENED A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO. nothing is different this time. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The difference this time is that the GOP have Barry as the enemy and not some concocted boogieman... Barry is going to have Congress up his ass for the next two years... This should to be fun to watch...
"fun" is not the first adjective that comes to mind when I try to describe the sorry ass state of my country
Barry. Up the ass. Fun.
I see where you're going with this...
It appears that this election cycle was more of a referendum against Obama than a genuine support of the GOP. The Repubs gained control of Congress way back in '94 and promised a "contract with America", complete with Newt Gingrich even carrying a copy of the Constitution in his pocket at all times.
The magic lasted less than two years, and they squandered their opportunity by quickly abandoning their promise. Same thing in 2004, when Bush Jr. (whom I voted for both times) squandered his second term and changed his colors, bringing us Medicare expansion, TARP, etc. Disappointing...same as it ever was.
Then the GOP paraded McCain in '08, and Romney in '12, both RINOs who were a waste of time and didn't even come close to espousing conservative values. What an embarrassment. No wonder Obummer won.
Now the Repubs will be taking over the Hill again in January. Boy, I sure hope they don't pull a repeat and piss away the chance to undo some of the damage done by the Unholy Trinity (Obama/Pelosi/Reid). If all we get is lip service and then another fake Republocrat again for the '16 Presidential race, that will be the last straw and I'll leave the GOP forever and become an Independent.
+1 Hacked Economy
Excellent comment!
The fact that Hacked expected actual representation by the red dick instead of a good ass-fucking indicates that s/he still has a bit to learn about how American parties work.
Hint: You can vote for the color of the condom, but the dick in your ass stays the same.
Actually, Citxmech, I've memorized the Declaration of Independence, taught Colonial/Founding History and Economics classes on a college campus, and am a Constitutional scholar. I even have framed copies of multiple Organic Law documents (DOA, Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc) framed and hanging above my desk at home. I'm acutely aware of the political system and how it's far-removed and perverted from the original intentions of the Founders.
I've probably forgotten more about how American parties work than you yourself have ever learned. So if you're truly interested in having any meaningful impact on the world around you, grow up and do something productive. The world already has enough 20-year-olds who think that dropping an ocassional forum comment in between Call of Duty games is a valid contribution to the betterment of society.
It IS interesting, though, how you seem particularly enamored with the thought of a "good ass-f**king".
Actually, It's more that I'm amazed that you don't realize that you're getting fucked.
So when I decide to grow-up and do something "productive," what did you have in mind - tilt at windmills?
Most of us are well aware of what's going on. We even realize we can't change the flow of the river, but if a person takes action that at least makes ripples, it's better than nothing. And certainly better than standing neck-deep in the water and just complaining about it like you do.
In five minutes I'll be signed off and will have forgotten all about you and this conversation, so please feel free to ignore me. But if you wake up tomorrow and are still the do-nothing loudmouth you were today, then you've made no progress and will be dismissed by everyone. It's your choice. If you're not helping to improve things, then you're just in the way. Like a pothole.
Wow - you're a presumptious peice of work:
". . .grow up and do something productive." "The world already has enough 20-year-olds who think that dropping an ocassional forum comment in between Call of Duty games is a valid contribution to the betterment of society." ". . . better than standing neck-deep in the water and just complaining about it like you do."
You've got me all figured out - Of course you're incorrect on all points - but I suppose you're used to giving yoursefl credit where none is due.
I would be OK if they just took the next two years reading the full text of Obamacare.
They can broadcast it on CNN.
No new legislation until the entire bill is read out loud in Congress.
That should keep them all busy.
There really should be a timeout for that monster.
Ah yes, I remember the, Contract on America. Since then they saw the problem was promising anything. Just hammer on the bad of the other party at every breath which leaves no time for having to defend themselves.
I take a drink every time I hear a politician redirect when they do not want to answer a question. "Well, let me tell you what the Real question is..."
How funny...I was thinking the same thing. I would LOVE to see a TV interviewer look a politician in the eye and say with a dead-pan face, "Actually, Congressman, the real question was the one I originally asked before you gave us all the smoke and mirrors. So back to my question..."
The Contract with America promised House votes on, I believe 10 bills if the GOP became the majority party. The Senate GOP did not sign on to it. Aside from breaking up a few of the points into multiple bills which then got voted on anyway, it actually happened post election within the timeframe that they promised. The problem was the Senate then sat on many of the bills which then died. Others were vetoed by President Clinton and one, establishing a presidential line item veto, was declared unconstitutional.
So youre problem is that they actually fulfilled the contract or that the other parts of the government didn't go along with the House or you just never read up on what actually happened?
So I am wrong how? They couldn't even get their own side to participate. I don't care about details that make zero difference. Plans are great until the first shot is fired.
A recent survey showed that only 40% of voters even know which party controlls the House or the Senate.
The sad truth is that Americans are too dumb and delusional for democracy to even remotely work.
Or maybe the confusion and apathy extends from the fact that other than rhetoric, there's no fucking difference.
Or maybe the politicians know that most of the people out there are not serious voters, but either (1) low-information sheeple or (2) cynical do-nothings who spout empty comments on forum boards.
Did you even vote, Citxmech? If yes, then you're a hypocrite by denouncing the very system you participated in. If no, then you have no skin in the game and therefore no weight to your words. So which is it?
Nice false dilemma.
If you must know - I do vote. Mostly to have my say on local issues. Though I also place votes in primaries as a statement and generally vote in protest for third party candidates in the bigger elections. I also attend local planning commission and council meetings and testify at hearings regularly. Having said that, I have no illusions that national elections are anything but a Three-Card Monty game.
So how am I a hypocrite again?
Dude...NOTHING left to fix because the Black Jesus who walks on water and such...and makes ignorant females faint while reading a teleprompter...has already FIXED EVERYTHING, right? BWAWHAHHAAHHAHAAAA!
Fucking moron!
I don't know if including </sarc> tag would have helped? IOW -- my actual opinion is we're well past the point of being 'fixed' by any of these douchbags.
I had some deep fried, greasy chicken today with cole slaw and mashed taters with some cancer-causing, RNA-fragmenting caramel, diabetes-causing fructose coca cola loaded with caffeine.
Who am I to disobey the Queen.
Put that shit on a waffle and call it a meal!
Or even better, a donut!
"the Queen"... you are referring to which one , POTUS or Flotus ?
word of the day malapropisms
is that like 'ED' or something?
Everybody wave at the Democrat.
Everybody wave at collapse. I'm glad you think Mitch McConnell will fix things. I haven't voted for any of these fools.
I hate Mitch McConnell.
Thanks for being a R vs D dumbass.
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Seriously dude, you can't repeat all the Detard talking points and then attempt to tell us you didn't vote. Are you LTER's alter ego?
Detard? that's new. No, I didn't vote. I didn't give the charade my tacit approval. If dems had won, I'd acknowledge it was time for free Obamaphones and Mexican visas. Since the reds won, it's time for more corporate giveaways and bible thumping idiocy. Believe what you want, don't project your nonsense on me.
I seem to remember more corporate giveaways than ever happening under Democrat rule. Have you heard of QE?
All I still hear is Detard talking points.
Bush started the giveaways and Obama continued them. You're just dying to paint me blue, sucks to be you, on here a couple of months and trying make a name, or something..
Oh look, another one!
you misfired.
Are you cognitively-challenged?
No - he's a New Yorker. Everybody up that way rides the short bus to school.
classic ZH debate: "I hate both sides!" "No, BOTH sides sold us out libtard motherfucker!" "REDNECK!!!" "Commie scum!!!"
Hardly a debate. The cocksucker just can't admit that he can only repeat Detard talking points. Scroll down and you'll see him beg for single-payer.
I think that type of discourse has no place on this website.
Fuck me, right?
I think the "Democrat" was trying to illustrate that this was not a victory for anyone... duplicitous, imperial business will continue as usual. The welfare state will be drawn back in direct proportion to the amount the warfare state will be expanded. So tell me, since we all know 9/11 was an inside job, yellowcake was hella-fake, and the moose-lims hate us cuz were over there in their land... is welfare a greater sin than warfare? Or is it the other way around?
Warfare is the greater, IMO.
Hmm... so which party do the shaved faced, straight laced, crew cutted flag wavers belong to?
The psychopathic, zionist, neocon, republican party.
Are you trying to catch me supporting red team or something? Gonna be impossible bro.
I'm just calling a spade a spade. Apparently I can't do that without being on the other team?
Did you see me list off a dozen talking points from one of the teams and then claim to not be a member?
... something about a log cabin ...
I thought they hated us for our freedoms.
Freedumb baby! All the way!
Thats what the TeeVee tells us nightly. It is bullshit thru and thru.
you hate mitch cos he puts his seed in other men folks.
you hates him cos he israel strong
you hates him cos he gets rent boy laid every nights.
you hate him cos he gets to pick syriana or ukrainia kids for water sports fun.
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mitch will gives us liberty lovers a real hot bomb bomb iran war
yes sir
bibi netanyahoo just loves lover boy mitch
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-mcconnell-suggests-use-of-force-in-iran/
Really? What did Harry ever do?
Crickets.....
Sure sounds good. I even read what 'Pinky' McConnell and 'Da Boner' wrote before posting. Now, how to keep the entire country in a drug induced trance so when it doesn't happen they can still ride around in their private government jets... Say, what's that White Monkey doing on Mitch's wife's shoulder?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss....
Fixed it for you!
All spending bills originate in the House...and you can't veto a budget.
How is any of that bad for the economy?
Administration just issued its first spending request. 8 billion for Ebola. "Welcome to Washington DC."
Just remember...the Vietnam War ended when the Democratic Majorities cut off all funding for the war. Of course good luck trying to do that to a domestic program. Ebola is an interesting hybrid of course...
No, the Vietnam War ended when Nixon unleashed SAC's B-52s on North Vietnam, bombing them around the clock. They couldn't get back to Paris fast enough.
They did such a good job holding up their end of the agreement too!
Jerusalem next? You can just feel it can't you? Israel is like the biggest "phuck you" in history. I use to think I knew exactly who's side I was on. Now I feel like I know exactly who's side I am on.
Pardon me for not spelling it out.
Thats it BKbroiler, I will lose my 6,000 dollar deductible I am shocked and saddened by the loss of bamster..
It lucks like you din't like school.
Nothing short of hyperinflation or default can fix the deficit at this point and the politicians don't want either ... so they'll keep the status quo and kick the can, they are depending on Obama to veto anything big.
It will be interesting to see what they will do when the Republicans get the presidency ... my guess is that they will stop talking about the deficit very very soon.
Translation:
We're cutting taxes on the super rich, we're going to war, your health coverage is over, good look in school if you're poor.
Well, the super rich don't pay taxes (They write the laws, remember?), The US is going to war no matter what (the Zionist douchebag controllers must have their blood ... as long as it's goy doing the fighting, of course), and now (since I'm self-insured) I might be able to afford healthcare .... as opposed to Obombercare's $6K deductable and $20K in premiums enforced via threats of violence. School was no more affordable under Obomber than anyone else - as a matter of fact, it's become dramatically more expensive during his squatting in the WH - and it looks like it's going to stay that way until people start figuring out there aren't any jobs for graduates....
Honestly, If the "Republicans" do anything positive, I'll be shocked. One thing that would be a breath of fresh air is if they impeached the Halfrican (that's not racist - Christopher Dorner taught me that word).... but then that would leave the drunk frat boy in charge ... shudder....
You must have missed that particular language class in HS or college, as your translation is simply awful. The passage could be translated in one of two ways:
(1) We have seen the light and will actually oppose the Progressivist/Statist uber-tax schemes, Sunni takeover foreign policy, totalitarian "health coverage" scheme, and no-choice education scheme, and do everything within our CONSTITUTIONAL power to break the Progressivist/Statist tyranny by not only cutting taxes, but by also going to a fair/flat tax of no more than 10% that EVERY WORKING AMERICAN will pay, with no deductions or exemptions or credits, by instituting a foreign policy that promotes AMERICAN interests ONLY, and not those of Islamists or Socialists or Fascists, by destroying "Obamacare" and bringing free enterprise to the health care marketplace, and by getting the federal government OUT of education altogether.
Or, and admittedly the translation accepted by most people:
(2) We will "oppose" the Porgressivist/Statist agenda only insofar as we can use it politically to cement power for each of us and other Establishment Republicans, and if we happen to do some small good along the way to lessen the tax burden, slow the Islamists, eliminate the worst abuses of the Socialist "Obamacare" scheme, and remove a small part of government's current role in education, well that is just icing on our cake (but KNOW that WE come first).
Regardless, your translation fails because it ASSUMES, for whatever bizarre reasons, that somehow Obama's regime does not represent the largest increase in the wealth of the wealthy in history, that we are not at war (fighting, whenever possible, for Sunni Islamists), that "Obamacare" provides healthcare coverage of tolerable quality, and that somehow the poor benefit from a Federally-run education system in which 50% of the poor drop out before graduating high school. In other words, your translation ACCEPTS the status quo as THE GOOD, which causes your translation to fail from the "git-go."
Joke's on you if you thought dropping some paper in a box every 2 years was going to change anything.
Yeah, I'm saving (on average) $2,500 a year on health insurance.
Aren't you? ;-)
Apparently BKbroiler is.
What is health insurance?
I pay the same amount I did before. The current and previous systems are ridiculous in that insurance companies are not necessary, it's all a scam. In any other decent country it's included in the tax raping.
Calling for single-payer, how very Democratic!
jesus you're a troll. No, i think that we're the only people stupid enough to pay taxes and not get health care for it. I pay 40% of my income in taxes. Instead of it buying bombs and foreign aid, I'd like free health insurance. Call me crazy.
"Free"
LMAO
"Free Gas"
BKb is tribe.
totally agree too...
why not have our taxes on free health insurance instead of bombs etc...
"Free" health insurance...lol.
Well why stop there? Why not free car insurance and free home owners insurance? In fact, why not have .gov tax us at 100% and get everything completely freeeeee!
Because having .gov extort every last nickel from us = free, right?
I think that we all know single payer/nationalized health isn't free.
Why not include car insurance, homeowner's etc.? Because owning a car or house are optional. Being a citizen requires having a body AFAIK, not optional just like death and taxes.
"Free"?!?!
"Health care"?!?!
The Euro system of health care is a disaster. Both the metrics and anecdotal evidence are clear--the taxpayer pays considerably more and gets back considerably less. Why? BECAUSE THEY--AND YOU--ARE LOOKING TO BIG GOVERNMENT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS IT IS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING!
SHUT UP, PLEASE.
I don't care for free health insurance because there is no such thing but I do care about being charged $4500 for CT scan that is only worth $300. The CT scan did not detect the root source of some abdominal pains that are rooted in the stress of living in such of fucking corrupt country and working in a job with mega hours, high stress and danger trying to keep transportation systems safe for people from death and destruction.
>> how very Democratic!
We get your point, douche. Why not give it a rest?
I figured you were one of his upvoters.
Care to tell us where you disagree with BKbroiler? Or the Democrats?
Red - blue, red - blue... either you are stuck in the matrix or you are a deliberate disinfo agent.
Only in Amerka, will the Gov mandate medical Insurance from a private corp. How/why would you people even dream of following along with that kind of Facism, everyone who signed up for that is brain dead.
Dont forget most of congress bought shares in these companies just days before they passed the law, that no one read (3000 pages).
How do you spell fool!
Everythings frrrreeeeeeee!...weeeeee! ;-)
The progs in MN have found the magic money tree, so sorry you don't have one...
My deductibles doubled and two of my doctors have yet to accept this insurance. I'm not sure if the hospital near me will accept it yet and even if they do, the ER docs they contract with may not accept it.
I am one of those folks who worked hard to stay healthy b/c I paid for my own health insurance out of my not-so-deep pocket. I was forced off that policy by Barry. Obamacare provides zero incentive for people to stay healthy. I'm very glad the Dems took a drubbing today even if their replacements are just as bad it still sends a message the current leadership stinks.
Shhh. You're gonna scare some folks.
well said. The only people this program "cares" for is the criminals.
Tell Barry to fuck off.
No but I just saved $100 on the last escort that visited, economies down ya know, even hookers are giving a discount!
By not having any? Me too.
My point of course was, elections do matter, if they didn't matter, I wouldn't be paying 85% more for less coverage with higher deductibles in the span of six years if elections didn't matter.
I get that, but obamacare isn't going anywhere, sorry to say. They can vote to repeal it until they are blue in the face, Obama won't sign it. And it's like every other fucking govt program: once it is created , it only grows in size. Then, once billary is safely enshrined in the White House for 8 fucking years, it will be over a decade old and too many people will be getting "helped" by it to repeal at that point. Just like SS and Medicare. Can't afford them, but they will stay and eat us alive(I'm 29, I expect to pay for it but never benefit from it). And, any kind of economic downturn that seems pretty much inevitable at this point(the markets can only ignore reality for so long) will be blamed on republicans for 'deregulation', even though we all know all these people on both parties are firmly in wall streets corner. This could wind up giving one chamber back to dems and the WH to them as well in 2 years, so they can just reinstate something similar even if republicans manage to get rid of it. Then, they can all just keep fighting about obamacare and gay marriage as the country burns down around them. Sorry , turned into a way longer post than I intended when I started talking.....
I think the GOP has some real deep strategizing to plan through, if they want to act appropriately to keep Cankles out of the WH in '16. Tread lightly for the next two years, gents...tread lightly.
What's the point in gaining power? The situation is FUBAR, all getting the presidency would do to them is give them a turn in taking all the blame.
my Canaidan health insurance costs me $640/yr!
Come on, tell me you yanks feel like your butt hole is sore!
As a Canuck I call BULLSHIT on that...$640..you delusional
Yep, thats just the fee on top of the hidden fees. However, total cost of health care to the government is less per capita in Canada than it is in the US. That's a bit of a mind fuck, that is.
Oooh! Awesome!.... Now, do tell - how much is your income tax?
funny my canadian friends come to the USA for their medical care as you are getting your money's worth.
I think that is the point.
We will all pay more for better than bottom tier health care. The difference is we will pay top dollar for minimum care and then have to pay again for anything above minimal care....
Good for you. Your cost is low partly because you don't have our insane government who has been distorting your medical market for 50 years. And you get to sell your oil and resources to the rest of the world, like Norway (the Sauidis of Scandanavia), to subsidize all your programs while our Polys brag about putting our resources in giant "LockBoxes" for mythical warming because our civil servants decided we don't even need to live in reality, we can print our way to utopia.
btw I opted out of Obamacare and am exempt under my health insurance costs about the same as yours but also pays 100% after I meet my deductable, no limit, and I owe any co-pays or percentages.
Incomprehensible run-on sentences are the bane of ZH. Maybe you should take an English writing class and then try again.
I give it about a month for the Republicrat kool-aid to wear off...
It will take less than that if they start getting womb bossy and homophobic.
Here I sit at my computer completely nude with my breasts all exposed, hoping the NSA are watching so they can document the moment that the people declared a war on politics. Politics has caused every war in history. It has killed and mamed BILLIONS; has corrupted every facet of human existance; has set civilization back so far that humans have barely left the stone age instead of expanding the space age. Do you want proof of how people can advance themselves, then just look at the the US. It rose from a tiny backwater nation to leading the world in science, culture and economics. Look what the US has become since we allowed the government to tell us what to do. Let's declare war on politics; get rid of the parasites; and advance the human race.
"Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate"
"Now, we'll take our 8 year turn at f*cking things up"
Exactly. Spot on! The Globalist Policy "All Done By Design, All Done By Agenda" of the following will continue:
War Crime Torture.
Criminal NDAA.
Criminal Patriot Act.
Criminal NSA Illegal Sping of Americans.
Criminal arming, funding & training of AL CIA duh.
Criminal CIA destabilization campaigns of Soverign Nations.
Criminal Drone Assassinations / Murder of innocents Worldwide.
Criminal QE & Economic Terrorism.
Criminal CIA drug running & money laundering through the Tax payer bailed out Criminal TBTFBanksters.
Criminal False Flag Campaigns.
Meet the new Totalitarian Authoritarian Fascist Militarized Police State Boss. Same as the old Boss.
Points should be higher. U should have been read here. ZH should consider this post,
Awwww, did ya have to pee in the punch bowl?
Damn Americans
Oh no. we are not over spending.
Federal .gov ...
No, I'm not kidding they are great.
$69 Billion in cost inflation is nothing in Fiat language.
But JAMA says 90,000 in medical mistakes (death)per year in US system, the most expensive system in the world or nearly since they claim the best world system.
- Looks like we pay over $1 Trillion for basic SUSTAINMENT.
Total—Department of Health and Human Services Outlays 2014 = $1.032 Trillion
Total—Department of Health and Human Services Outlays 2013 = $980.9 Billion
Total—Department of Health and Human Services Outlays 2000 = $405.5 Billion
Total—Department of Health and Human Services Outlays 1998 = $372.4 Billion
Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 2014 = $1.187 Trillion
Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 2013 = $1.118 Trillion
Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 2000 = $413.12 Billion
Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 1998 = $379.95 Billion
Somewhere in there is my hundred bucks.
How about reeling in the massive spy complex the US has constructed to spy on it's citizens which is milking them dry?
How about clamping down on CIA interference in sovereign nations which is stoking expensive wars for the US Taxpayer, to say nothing of killing innocent people.
How about stopping the droning of folks in countries we haven't declared war on.
These idiots have completely missed the message voters were sending when they start in with the terrorist bullshit.
They didn't miss shit...
Ever hear of: InOnIt?
"Things are going to get worse before they get a lot worse."
-Lilly Tomlin.
"It was the worst of times
Yet it somehow got worse"
-TeamDepends
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-31/story-changes-ebola-now-aerosta...
"No matter how cynical you get, you can't keep up." -- Lily Tomlin
Another great quote of hers.