why that was nice

[David19 10+ year member]

****, thats my town

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Jesus...

 

[Stephen_c 10+ year member]

****, thats my town

close enough to me lol:crying:

 

[power-fanatic07 5,000+ posts]

i just ate a deluxe from mcd's //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

i just ate a deluxe from mcd's //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

you gonna die mang

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I wish someone would post the Kennedy-Dodd Bill, or atleast find it so we can see whether we should be protesting or not. I don't see how any rational person can be "for" or "against" a bill that has yet to be finalized.

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

you gonna die mang

ubored?

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Are you saying we should provide some amount of basic health care for everyone, citizen or not? I guess it would be cheaper than treating everyone without insurance in the ER.

I am not certain that in a world where both were free, people would chose to go to their PCP over the emergency room.

 

[its_ray_ray 10+ year member]

num num num.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

ubored?

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif yesboredlolumad?

 

[NJTStang11 10+ year member]

Agreed about the townhall protestors being completely misinformed.

I worked for a Congressman for the past year before beginning law school. The previous two town hall meetings seemed to become health care meetings as it was the only issue discussed by the constituents. Talk about being misinformed. People were making claims that were never true, arguing against issues that had not been raised, comparing it to other government programs that are like apples and oranges. Then, when asked how the elderly felt about Medicare, over 90% of the room loved their coverage, yet some of these people were the ones arguing government cant do anything right.

The funniest scene occured at the last one where a group of about 20 protestors gathered outside our town hall meeting to picket. This group of protestors were so misinformed that they were protesting for the same thing the Congressman had already stated that he supported. They didn't even take the time to research the Congressman's views on the subject.

 

[David19 10+ year member]

we should make this a fat fastfood nom nom nom thread

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Agreed about the townhall protestors being completely misinformed.
I worked for a Congressman for the past year before beginning law school. The previous two town hall meetings seemed to become health care meetings as it was the only issue discussed by the constituents. Talk about being misinformed. People were making claims that were never true, arguing against issues that had not been raised, comparing it to other government programs that are like apples and oranges. Then, when asked how the elderly felt about Medicare, over 90% of the room loved their coverage, yet some of these people were the ones arguing government cant do anything right.

The funniest scene occured at the last one where a group of about 20 protestors gathered outside our town hall meeting to picket. This group of protestors were so misinformed that they were protesting for the same thing the Congressman had already stated that he supported. They didn't even take the time to research the Congressman's views on the subject.

You have to understand that when details of a program are not clear there is going to be a lot of misinformation. I have looked at the site faulkton posted that is supposed to clarify a lot of things. It doesn't clairfy very much. Everytime I read, even from the NYT, I see, "this or that is not off the table". That is fine, but you can easily see how people are scared when the left hasn't had a solid, unified, clear position and the right is saying this program is going to require killing off the elderly.

One thing I wanted to know was whether or not federal employees would have to go to the government plan. CUrrently, we buy healthcare like anyone else.

 

[C3 Customs 10+ year member]

Bureaucrats firing a doctor because he spoke the truth and tried to warn fatties and potential fatties.

x2

They fired him not because of his rant but because he was affecting there cash flow...money talks/ bs walks...

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Agreed about the townhall protestors being completely misinformed.
I worked for a Congressman for the past year before beginning law school. The previous two town hall meetings seemed to become health care meetings as it was the only issue discussed by the constituents. Talk about being misinformed. People were making claims that were never true, arguing against issues that had not been raised, comparing it to other government programs that are like apples and oranges. Then, when asked how the elderly felt about Medicare, over 90% of the room loved their coverage, yet some of these people were the ones arguing government cant do anything right.

The funniest scene occured at the last one where a group of about 20 protestors gathered outside our town hall meeting to picket. This group of protestors were so misinformed that they were protesting for the same thing the Congressman had already stated that he supported. They didn't even take the time to research the Congressman's views on the subject.

Its been proven that many times our govt employed representatives who VOTE on these bills dont even read them. Its become common practice to issue a lengthy bill for review one minute before midnight, the night before the vote, giving congress zero chance to thoroughly review the bill. Is this any better or worse than misinformed citizens protesting what they THINK the bill consists of? How about the senator or congressman who goes on CNN or Fox News to argue for or against a bill, that they know next to nothing about?

This is what our govt has become. This is how it operates. On ignorance. Is that the fault of the citizens? If ignorance of legislation is so rampant and such a big problem these days, why does our govt not work towards opening avenues of education for this legislation? Because they deal in ignorance, its their stock in trade.