I'm just tired of the R's and D's blaming each other and not doing one productive thing in their entire tenures.
well said, Kyle and I couldn't agree more. I think most reasonable people are weary of fighting and are ready for anything that makes sense.....I know I am
Well you're still a liberal so you're not out of the woods yet. It's not only downright ugly, it's an embarrassment really. I would hate to see what is aired in other countries after they edit and use if for anti-American propaganda.
not doing the things they call productive i probably good. I love an environment where things like Medicare Part D, Obamacare, and No Child Left Behind can't happen because of partisan bickering. If we'd had constant gridlock for the last 13 years the budget would still be balanced.
I prefer Lib-tard if you don't mind; it's so much more endearing. It's also my second favorite name that LSUPride123 ever called me behind 'douche nozzle.' Your spot on about our image around the world. Over the past two administrations we've not done such a good job of letting our politics end at the waters edge. Dems were bad about it while GWB was prez and likewise now for Barry. To me that makes us look bad and feeds the anti-americanism.
I am normally a contrarian, wish I was not. i would like for Obamacare to work. I don't think it will. Making people have insurance is a good thing. It keeps me for paying their bill when I go into ER at 2:00 am Sunday morning with kidney stone, and it is full of low lifes, whom I am 99% sure have zip for insurance. Well, friends, the insureds pay their bill, and that would be me. Destroying small business employment is a bad thing. The law of unintended consequences. A software company owner recently told me, 'Jim, there are no businesses being created with employees, there are owners and contractors." Well all those contractors are going to end up at the public trough, driving costs so much higher than ever imagined. Plus there are 1,000's of technical issues remaining. Like Compliance tracking and the means to get money by fining whoever is supposed to be fined for non-compliance. A budroe in the biz tells me the IRS needs $8 billion (unfunded) in software to do what they are supposed to. It is going to be a massive train wreck, but I wish it would work. It is tough to stomach that so much and so many have been "exempted." Why not everyone if it is not ready for prime time, and I feel confident it is not. If the Republicans were even slighty smart, and they prove time and time again they are not, they should be screaming, "Bring it on." And then sit back and say, "We told you so." The sooner it starts, I am saying, the sooner it dies. The only real question is that will the wreck reach catastrophic proportions in time to ensure the Republicans take total control of gubment in 2016. I pray to God not, but .......
I think you mean entitlements, not welfare. Of course it is kind of hard to understand a social security check as an entitlement, when one pays into SS for up to 50 years.
Even if thr IRS could find the ones "cheating" on the mandate, they have no basis to pursue collection of the fine/tax. The bill forbids them garnishing wages, adding P&I, and all the other collections measures they have at their disposal. Want a real solution to skyrocketing healthcare costs. Get rid of the twenty dollar co-pay. If folks had topay 125 dollars to see the doc they would stop going everytime they get a runny nose. That would free up some valuable resources.
It is an entitlement because it is an expenditure the government is required by law to make. Nothing more. Wellfare is discretionary spending because the government could stop cuting those checks anytime they wish.
