Obamacare Explained in One Sentence

I know. I read all of it. That was the very same article I was quoting from earlier......and mentioned it in my post.

Another couple of paragraphs from an article in the "Atlantic Wire":

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Cutnstuf wrote:I thing you guys know exactly what I mean. It was penned by the right as a slur. Let's not play dumb.

I'm not playing dumb and I've never voted for a GOP candidate. Never ever.

Obama is a pathological liar (ie. Pseudologia fantastica).

He tells the country on national TV that the US government does not spy on its citizens (on several occasions during the last 2 to 3 weeks). Then last Friday he tries to calm those who know he is lying (which is most everybody but the dumb faithful) by telling everyone (ie. lying) that he is going to reform the NSA surveillance program to not spy on Americans and promised to create a panel of independent experts to investigate the spying allegations. On Monday he appointed none other than James Clapper (yep, the same director of national intelligence who admitted to lying to congress about the NSA spying) to head the group of "independent" experts.

"I would be concerned too, if I weren't inside the government"
-- Obama, on NSA spying.

Anyway .... YOU know exactly what I mean ... Obama degrades this country with his nonstop lying.

To those who honestly believe that conservatives are on the wrong side of the debate (apparently, regardless of the issue), I accept that there is little I can say to change your opinion, which is fine. But you owe it to yourself to watch this very brief video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YQ8560E1w.

rd1978 wrote:To those who honestly believe that conservatives are on the wrong side of the debate (apparently, regardless of the issue), I accept that there is little I can say to change your opinion, which is fine. But you owe it to yourself to watch this very brief video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YQ8560E1w.

You owe it to yourself to not waste your time with that nonsensical racial propaganda video.

The GOP of Lincoln and Eisenhower is dead and gone, the GOP lost its way into fraud and corruption over 40 years ago.

rd1978 wrote:To those who honestly believe that conservatives are on the wrong side of the debate (apparently, regardless of the issue), I accept that there is little I can say to change your opinion, which is fine. But you owe it to yourself to watch this very brief video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YQ8560E1w.

You're living in the past, I'm afaraid. Yes, at one point in time much of what he said was true. But this is no longer THAT Republican party. Thats long gone and has been replaced by extreme radical thinking that is owned and run by corporate interests who wish to eradicate the middle class. I wish we had that Republican party back right now. Maybe we could get things done to benefit all our citizens and put our country back on its feet.

rd1978 wrote:To those who honestly believe that conservatives are on the wrong side of the debate (apparently, regardless of the issue), I accept that there is little I can say to change your opinion, which is fine. But you owe it to yourself to watch this very brief video:

Unfortunately, I can't (easily) watch videos on a dial-up connection, but I found the complete speech on a website:

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Elbert Guillory: Why I Chose To Become A Republican

Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory (R-Opelousas) explains why he recently switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. He discusses the history of the Republican Party, founded as an Abolitionist Movement in 1854. Guillory talks about how the welfare state is only a mechanism for politicians to control the black community.

Hello, my name is Elbert Lee Guillory, and I’m the senator for the twenty-fourth district right here in beautiful Louisiana. Recently I made what many are referring to as a ‘bold decision’ to switch my party affiliation to the Republican Party. I wanted to take a moment to explain why I became a Republican, and also to explain why I don’t think it was a bold decision at all. It is the right decision — not only for me — but for all my brothers and sisters in the black community.

You see, in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s been forgotten that the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the Republicans in Congress who authored the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments giving former slaves citizenship, voting rights, and due process of law.

The Democrats on the other hand were the Party of Jim Crow. It was Democrats who defended the rights of slave owners. It was the Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, but it was Democrats in the Senate who filibustered the bill.

You see, at the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing — control. And they disguise this control as charity. Programs such as welfare, food stamps, these programs aren’t designed to lift black Americans out of poverty, they were always intended as a mechanism for politicians to control black the black community.

The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the the government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more important, this idea is a failure. Our communities are just as poor as they’ve always been. Our schools continue to fail children. Our prisons are filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers. Our self-initiative and our self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange for allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on them.

Sometimes I wonder if the word freedom is tossed around so frequently in our society that it has become a cliché.

The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And it’s the idea that the emails and phone records of Americans should remain free from government search and seizure. It’s the idea that parents must be the decision makers in regards to their children's education — not some government bureaucrat.

But most importantly, it is the idea that the individual must be free to pursue his or her own happiness free from government dependence and free from government control. Because to be truly free is to be reliant on no one other than the author of our destiny. These are the ideas at the core of the Republican Party, and it is why I am a Republican.

So my brothers and sisters of the American community, please join with me today in abandoning the government plantation and the Party of disappointment. So that we may all echo the words of one Republican leader who famously said, ‘free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last.’


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We are in the year 2013. THAT Republican party is no more. It was bought, sold, and delivered to the doorstep of the Radical right.

...but thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, the 2010 health reform law) things are about to get better:

In less than fifty days — starting October 1, 2013 — more affordable health coverage options will become available for millions of women and families! On October 1, new health insurance marketplaces will open for business, allowing individuals and employers to comparison shop for coverage that fits their health needs and their budget. And in many states, many low-income individuals will, for the first time, become eligible for healthcare under the Medicaid program.


YES!! I feel blessed that I can afford the best health care coverage money can buy. On October 1, 2013 people that simply could not afford health care coverage for themselves or their families will finally be able to purchase affordable health care insurance. YES!!

ChicagoGranny wrote:

Obviously the intent is to make a comparison between the USPS and UPS and Fedex, clearly implying the greater efficiency and profitability of the latter two.

So, what is the minimum revenue per delivery stop for UPS and Fedex? It's something on the order of $5 to $10 per stop. And for USPS, about 15 to 20 cents. It would have to be a seriously incompetent management to not be profitable when the revenue per delivery stop is 50 times greater. And if USPS is so inefficient and inept why do both UPS and Fedex contract with it for the last mile delivery segment? Obviously because USPS can do it more cheaply!!!

Did you notice the third good looking box is government owned and managed? It's a book drop for the local library!

It's not a matter of GOP vs DEM .... it's a matter of Stupidity vs Ignorance

http://thenewsdoctors.com/obama-zombies ... fanticide/

[quote]Did you notice the third good looking box is government owned and managed? It's a book drop for the local library![quote]

It looks rather dull and unimaginative compared to the two on the right.

DreamStalker wrote:It's not a matter of GOP vs DEM .... it's a matter of Stupidity vs Ignorance

http://thenewsdoctors.com/obama-zombies ... fanticide/

From that page:

We live in a culture that has no interest in fostering critical thinking — no independent thinking.

How sadly true. IMO, Americans as a whole have been for many decades, if not always, intellectually lazy. To be otherwise means one may have to change one's opinion once in awhile, or at the very least acknowledge the validity of a differing viewpoint.