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  • Republicans created close to zero jobs on Bush's watch (Worst since World War II). What was gained was hemmoraghed out during the bush crash. They took a Clinton surplus and turned it into a record deficit, kept it off the books then want to blame Obama for THEIR $12 Trillion debt. America is not drinking the Kool Aid Mr. CONservative.

  • THE GOP THE PARTY OF  NO NO NO HELL NO

  • Democrats:

    - Less Private Sector Jobs than when Bush left office

    - Doubled the deficit

    - Cap & Trade

    - Card Check

  • The Democratic platform is still full of moral and worthy causes; however, some of the Democratic politicians are falling short- Obama being one of them.

    Obama's approval rating is down....however, it's not all because he's too liberal. It's partly because he's not liberal enough. But...I still think he'll outsmart everyone again and get the agenda he ran on pushed through.

  • And if you want to talk about propaganda, you might as well througn that 47 million number around that INCLUDES illegal aliens as well as those that opt out of paying for insurance.

    So now you are actually MAKING those people pay higher wages for a choice they did not want to make!!

    Ooops... that the sound of your head banging against the wall trying to face the facts?!?

  • Um... it was "broke" during the time the Democrats controlled congress.

    Facts are stubborn things.

  • We all know what a "prime directive" is to a Republican. . . line your own pockets, and to hell with anyone else.

  • Funny, as statistics prove that the Democrat party actually is now the party of wealth. What makes you believe that Democrats do not act in the very same fashion? Are you kidding me? Guess what candidate got multitudes more campaign money than any other candidate in the history of US elections last year? Hint: It wasn't McCain. Ask Nancy Pelosi how much she enjoys her "5-25 million dollar" Winery in Napa Valley.

  • You sir, are simply a leftist idealogue. Take off the blinders. Both parties are corrupt.

  • George Bush blamed the Democrats throughout his 8 years, though he inherited a budget surplus, a smaller government, the lowest unemployment figures in 30 years, and a deficit on the fast track to 0. Bush managed to squander it in to terms, with two wars, a tax increase, and the largest gifts to the wealthy at the expense of a bygone middle class.

    Now you vilify President Obama for not fixing Bush's damage in less than 8 months in office.

    What the hell is wrong with you Bush apologists?

  • Lol, there was no "budget surplus". Clinton raided the social security funds to create it.

    By the way, it took bipartsian support to screw over this country. It's a two party issue.

  • The dems are running out of time on the "Bush's fault" excuse. Sure would like to see how much larger the debt increases when health care reform is enacted.

  • Now that Bush is no longer in office, who will you blame when you "break it"? I voted Ron Paul. The rest were fools.

  • Anyone with a 5th grade education would actually believe this.

  • Anyone with a 3rd grade or less would not.

  • Christian1600, I'm not so sure. Maybe 3rd grade. Even 5th graders know that this is just plain lies.

  • unfortunately, even college professors drink this Kool-Aid - so much for a correlation between education and common sense, haha

  • FIX IT..... Yeah right your solution to filing the economy: let's quadruple the deficit in four months, spend millions of dollars to create each b.s. temporary job, let's raise the unemployment rate to 10%, let's raise taxes on small business, let's try a government takeover of GM! PLAYING POLITICS: the only ones playing politics are filthy, corrupt power-hungry Democrats, lying about the GOP and ignoring their alternative plans so that Dems. can pay back the vile groups that got them there!

  • maybe we should use the republican plan of doing nothing.

  • Maybe you should research a little to learn about the numeros Republican alternative bills, proposals, amendments and solutions to every piece of disastrous Democrat legislation. Believe me I agree with you, we would have been much better off if Democrats had done nothing as opposed to their inept and destructive policies!

  • riiiiiight. I am sure they were as great as the budget plan with no numbers in it? Do you have links to such genius plans? Because you could do some research and find out about the numerous philosophies of logic witch the RNC has no comprehension of.

  • That was the b.s. talking point of the corrupt liberal media spewing their usual lies about the GOP. The first plan was an outline of their budget; the complete budget plan with NUMBERS was released the following week. I'll give you their website on your channel. Too bad that idiotic Democrat' budget had numbers that turned out to be nothing but b.s.!

  • riiight it was BS. Thats why even prominent GOP leaders were calling their budget a joke. So where is the rest of your economic plans? Besides your budget that sucked do you have anything else to defend? Where are all these ideas you were talking about? Where? It's easy to say you have something when you don't show it or prove it. If you had a dollar for every RNC productive idea you still couldn't eat at McDonalds. If I had a dollar for every stupid idea from the RNC I would be RICH!!!

  • rationalnow:

    Hey, I think that they might have forgotten that the slide into the abyss after the Dem's took the house and senate.

  • Bush was handed a surplus in 2000. Just before he left, he had to bail out the banks. What a slide in 8 years - never before in US history.

  • Hey Democrat hypocrites you have conveniently left out that the economy didn't get screwed up until you incompetent assholes took over Congress in 2007 and ran it into the ground with your insane lending practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and your lack of a coherent energy policy caused $4.00 a gallon gasoline prices! Of course Republicans aren't supporting this socialist b.s.! STOP LYING your insane policies have made the economy worse and has blown up the deficit. This shit is YOURS!

  • don't let our nutless monkey in chief "change" us into commies ill go militant if they do.

  • the DNC is so pathetic

  • More lies

    What an Obarrassment!

  • are you serious? I hope people aren't that stupid.

  • some are I'm afraid.

    ):

  • holy cow all these problems are the republican's fault. yeah,they passed a 787 bill creating jobs and are well on their way to fixing our economy, unemployment, and the health care system,oh wait, those were the democomies.

  • usually the dems are wrong so when in doubt blame the liberals.

  • IF the dems were always wrong, then there wouldn't be any sort of economic down turn whenever a Republicunt President is in office.

  • The Dems won't know the truth if it bit the on the ass

  • Wait, I thought we were supposed to ignore the fact that spending almost a trillion dollars actually made things worse! Then it they said things are only worse than they promised to keep it from becoming, because they haven't spent all the money yet, and now they say it's time for another trillion already? How dumb do the dem's think we are? Oh wait, they saw the last election results.......

  • Republicans consider what Bush/Cheney did to the economy the greatest thing ever. Republicans are evil, racist, corrupt mental-midgets and they have to be stopped at all cost. Keep up the good work DNC.

    America's only real enemies are Republicans.

  • This is ad is so on the mark. Republicans won't stop until they get more Bush/Cheney policies and more uninsured Americans. Republicans nearly destroyed America, nearly sold America to red China and all they can do now is say "We hate Mexicans!" and "We hate black folk!"

    America's only real enemies are Republicans.

  • What a joke.  Bunch of finger-pointing brats.

  • A little, I cant say all democrats are responsible, they wouldn't be able to do it if all Republicans stood up against all the democrats in the committees. All the democrats were line item rejection of regulation. Had there been ALL republicans ( and not just most) that pushed for regulation, this wouldn't have happened.

    But I'm pissed that Democrats, and those that blindly follow, now blame others and ignore plain and simle FACTS of what they did.

  • C'mon - even the most die-hard Phlegm 'n Crap partisan can see that the "Recovery Act" - more aptly named Shamulus - has failed miserably. So, let's blame the people who tried to stop this fiasco!

  • Am I the only one who thinks the narrarator sounds like GLENN BECK?

    That does not bode well for these types of ads.

  • Well It's about time the DNC started calling these guys out! These guys act like they have any credibility left. Nice ad though.

  • Who controls the House, the Senate an the White House....

    I've got two words..."Cry Babies"

  • I'll tell em' to stop playing politics with our economy if you tell DEMs stop playing poker with my money!

  • This Video should be: People of America! Tell your representatives , both Dem and Repub, to get their act TOGETHER (Key word there) and stop playing politics with OUR nations economy and OUR tax dollars. YOU WORK FOR THE PEOPLE REMEMBER! Oh and by the way "Leaders" (thats an undeserving term) , Your doing it wrong!

  • wait.... the "recovery act" was PASSED. It is recognized by pretty much everyone that it isn't working.

    Shouldn't these Republicans be praised for opposing it?

  • Watch out ladies, loboguara1's on a role. Another republican stain in David Vitter's diaper! So, are you the product of intelligent design, a "Birther" and a sociopath?

  • Super fail. See congressional voting records are public. Lets just go there and take a look and see who sponsored, and voted for the policies that you say "broke it". Shall we?

  • Fail.

  • EPIC Fail.

  • The Bush Tax Cuts of 2001 and 2003 were supposed to get the economy rolling. What happened? Could it be that tax cuts for wealthy people do not benefit the economy?

  • The "Wealthy" are often small business owners, and the big money is gross income they put right back into the business. They often have a takehome pay less than their own employees.

    And when was the last time a poor person gave you a job? If you destroy all the "rich", or make them flee the country...who will you work for, who will invest in anything?

    It's like proudly smashing a bridge you're standing on, stupid liberals. YOU will fall too.

  • true

  • No because they tend to...the economy sank for reasons unrelated to tax rates.. It was more of a monetary policy thing..

  • They actually worked. The problem is that congress continues to spend money that it does not have.

  • Pwnage! And Mitch McCornhole is the most bitter closet homo on the planet.. All the Republican party cares about is white people, power and money. They'll sell their own mothers if necessary to maintain their entropic fantasia of Jebusland (where he forgives you for all of your sordid sexual endeavors). Where education consists of fairy tales about a 6000 year old planet and supernatural fiction becomes the new "truth" while facts wither and die.

  • Facts like global warm...uh.."climate change", right?

  • Janeane Garofalo is that you?

    I knew it wouldn't be long before the race card was played, Get whitey - It's whiteys fault.

  • Barak Obama inherited a bad economy CREATED BY DEMOCRATS, and turned it into a worldwide collapse! By constantly harping "crisis, crisis, CRISIS", he personally destroyed confidence in the economy and eliminated any chance of a quick recovery. THAT WAS HIS PLAN FROM THE START! We don't have time to debate this "stimulus package", we don't even have time to read it! He lives by the motto "never let a good crisis go to waste". If there isn't a crisis, he'll create one! Then another, and another...

  • Uh, voice? Bush-Cheney: 2000-2008. Maybe you missed that?

  • Who broke the economy?!!! Clinton and the democratic congress FORCED banks to extend credit to people who couldn't repay the loans. Democrats blocked every effort by republicans to oversee and regulate those loans. Democrats BRAGGED about all of this until the shit hit the fan. Now they are LYING about it; and blaming everyone but themselves for the collapse that the republicans warned us about! Bush should never have approved TARP, but Obama has made a bad situation into a worldwide crisis!

  • You're completely misinformed, and judging by the content, you gotten your information from the propaganda network FOX or from the BIGGEST BSer in the history of political commentary, rush retard!

  • The MAIN problem were the default mortgage swaps that allowed investment firms to "act" like banks and were allowed the same legal leverages as banks. This was allowed to happen by removing a regulatory policy that separated the two back in 2002 by none other than the cheney/bush administration and spearheaded by a republican senator from Texas.

  • Sidneyhop you are so out to lunch. or it was a government sponsored enterprise being able to take on subprime loans by selling their bonds back to the government at a lower interest rate then the private sector , allowing private lenders to abrogate risk by shifting poorly performing loans to this government enterprise, the collapse happened in the subprime sector of the mortgage industry, the most heavily regulated sector of that market. But oh yeah De-regulation.. moron....I don't get fox btw

  • Actually the shifting of "toxic assets" back to the government happened AFTER the collapse of the economy, and was implemented by the cheney/bush administration under the FIRST 700 billion bailout.

    Try and keep up moron.

    Phil Gramm, a republican senator from Texas was instrumental in pushing policy that deregulated the financial industry back in 2000 and 2002 resulting in the economic collapse we have today.

    ANY argument stating Clinton or Obama are at fault is simply a bald face LIE.

  • Ha oh wow you do know next to nothing..I am talking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buying up sub prime mortgages legitimizing the market.. haha you have no clue about fiance you thought I was talking about TARP!..Just wow HEY EVERYONE SIDNEYHOP THINKS THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T BUT SUP PRIME CRAP UNTIL TARP!!!

    seriously stop being an idoit..and enplane how deregulation caused the bailout. you can pm me.

  • umm..wow. Youre really more of an idiot than I originally thought.

    I wont bother explaining it to someone who has the IQ of my dog so just look up phil gramm. Youll find the actual culprits to the majority of your rants dickwad.

  • translation you can't explain it. You didn't even understand what I wrote.. if you did explain how F/F did not abrogate risk away from private financial institutions or why it wasn't important..

    All you know how to yell is Dr-regulation because you think it makes you sound business savvy and knowledgeable about financial institutions who's power you want like minded political friends to take.

  • EVERYTHING Ive said is FACT and for you to suggest the contrary proves youre an ignorant blowhard, and pretty much just as asshole.

    We're not debating whether the govt had anything to do with facilitating the banks to become as over leveraged as they were fuckstick. This is common knowledge. Refuckwads like yourself pushed for this to happen, and now this is the result.

    Youre just more regurgitated, one sided BULLSHIT picked up from the latest limbaugh broadcast.

  • What fact have your brought forward..that de-regulation occurred. It is your assertion that it is responsible for the economic collapse. The de-regulation in isolation would not have caused the collapse. It just would not have happened..

    Also I am Canadian I don't get fox news or listen to rush Limbaugh..

    Our banking sector is okay..and it didn't contain lots of the regulations that you assert once removed caused the crash..

    Shocking I know...

  • would you hold a mortgage you were forced to give to someone at 0% down & couldn't pay it back? at a rate that reset higher (arms). this was the only way these banks could dump loans they were forced to take & knew they would be defaulted on. Don't blame the banks, blame the ones that forced the banks to take the loans

  • The cheney/bush regime did indeed CAUSE this financial catastrophe were ALL suffering for and to point fingers at the democrats is simply stupid. Youre obviously in serious denial, but youre also very offensive in allowing the repubs to deflect any accountability!

  • Every Democrat dream ends up with a parking lot of crackpipes, needles and shell casings, empty funds, and raised taxes. The housing projects they brought about turned into warzones, though they were warned they would. So they tried Section 8, turning formerly nice neighborhoods into warzones. Then they tried extending credit to people who wouldn't pay it back, so they could "own their own home".

    It's like one long history of fail, and they never get it. Ever.

  • Both Vittar of La & Burr of NC need to be defeated in 2010!

    They have both taken bribes ... I mean big contributions .. from the Insurance Companies.

  • ummmm.....the dems control congress and the white house.....they have a filabuster proof lead in the senate and an overwhelming majority in the house....they can pass whatever legislation they want....if they so believe in what they are saying to be true and right for this country, then pass the bills! then take credit it works or take the heat for any failures. this ad is irrelevant and makes no sense. it only plays to those who have no clue on how congress works.

  • They have passed the bills, moron.

  • Tax cuts for the wealthy, That was not paid for, two wars, that was not paid for, and a medicare prescription plan that was not paid for. Now who broke it. That's what I thought. Republicans are a worthless piece of shit in my book. Healthcare for the poor is horrible, I see it everyday at the public hospital I work for.  Oh and my employer based healthcare that the GOP keeps branging about, well every year the premiums and co pays go up the only thing is this year no raises.

  • Maybe the premiums would not go up if the Federal government actual paid for the care given to Medicare patients.

  • Democrats love to lie and point fingers at Republicans. No one is buy this anymore. Unemployment is up and going higher. President OBama said this would fix things and it has made them worse. CBO told them this before the bill was passed.

  • HAHAHA, thats a great one! The Dems like to lie and point fingers, thats a joke right?!?!

    The ENTIRE republican party is built on LIES! Who in the fuck do you think youre kidding! The ONLY thing republicans DO is point fingers and LIE!..oh and say NO to any attempt at fixing the mess they created!

  • There was no stimulus to the economy. CBO said so. It was nothing but a big pay off to the public employee and teacher unions.

    Were there no Democrats in Congress the last eight years? No money spend in Democrat states and districts?

  • Let's see. $787B divided by the population (300MM), means about $2,600 for every person in the US.

    Population of Ohio about 11.5MM.

    Gee, It only cost Ohioans about $3 billion for the measily number of projects and jobs it's getting from the so-called stimulus bill.

  • Fix the lawsuit problem and you fix health care. Limit lawsuits on doctors that cost them so much in malpractice in malpractice insurance every year. Why give lawyers millions of dollars to sue doctors? Thats the real solution. Yes, there are reasons for some lawsuits but its out of control with laywers making billions a year suing for things that should have never even gone to court.

    But of course Obama is a lawyer and is in the pockets of other lawyers.

  • I think people who blame Obama for the recession are historical revisionists.

    Or just dumbasses, which is possible, since this is USA we are talking about.

  • I blame the democrats that have been in congress the last 8 years.

  • Democrats in USA have been in power for 3 years, do your math, American.

  • Democrats have had the majority in congress since 2003. Whats "in power" mean to you??

    "do your math, American" lol.

    Eat your scones with your bad teeth euro boy. Enjoy waiting 4 years for cancer treatment while youre at it.

  • The democrats have held the majority in congress since Nov. 2006. Before then it was ALL about the republicans.

    Im guessing youre republican by how informed you are.

  • Who didn't want to regulate Fannie and Freddie (the principle cause of the 2008 economic collapse)? *cough*democrats*cough*

    You don't give out home loans to people that can't even afford car payments.

    Dumbass, indeed.

  • As A rather Liberal Democrat, I smell Bullshit.

    a 30 second ad doesn't near explain how the immensely complex, massive, recession occurred. Surely it is ALL THE REPUBLICANS FAULT. oh, c'mon. No Dems had their hand in this? pff.

    Jesus... The finger pointing BOTH parties do is goddamn grade school.

    Maybe try, WORKING ON FIXING IT !AND! LEARNING A LESSON, rather than bitching and pointing. "Our ship is sinking!" "Who did it?!" "WHO CARES JUST FIX THE DAMN THING!!!" JESUS!

  • Except raising taxes and killing small businesses, which they are doing now, is definitely not going to fix it.

  • GOP. . . the party of NO.

  • NO more taxes, NO uncontrolled spending, NO more illegals, NO more nanny state.

    I don't have a problem with that. They're needed to counter the radical insanity of the Pelosli-led liberals who want to change everything about America. You need an adult to say NO sometimes.

    Also, I see a busload of ACORNS has shown up to thumbs-down anyone pointing out the video is all lies.

  • The GOP screwed things so bad that the American people has lost faith in the party.

    Palin is the best they can offer.

    You fail Mr. No.

  • Be more specific.

    Who didn't want to regulate Fannie and Freddie?

    Avoid the generalities.

  • Democrats failing to see the need for regulation of fanny & freddy

    watch?v=Yga7TlsA-1A

    Fanny thanking the democrats & the emperor for the part they played in making them rich

    watch?v=iBHD4357Zmk

  • Wow. Does the DNC not realize that the Fannie & Freddie fiasco is the reason why the economy collapsed in 2008?

    And it was the democrat party that stymied regulation (proposed by Bush) of those two institutions. Barney Frank thinks that "universal housing" is written in the Constitution. America is in trouble.

    (Shhhhh, just blame Bush!)

  • They know. But liberals lie just as easily as breathing.

  • THE DEMOCRATS were the ones that did not want to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac,, look at the 2004 2005 and 1006 reviews with all the democrats DEFENDING Freddie and Fannie !!!

    Ironically in 2003 Bush wanted to regulate Fannie and Freddie.. in 2005 Kathrine Dole in the banking comittee.. Supported by MCcain wanted to regulate them..

    Democrats defeated all bills in comittees before it reached floor.

    And they DARE BLAME REPUBLICANS...

    They are retarded for thinking we will fall for this!

  • Phil Gramm, a republican senator from Texas was instrumental in pushing policy that deregulated the financial industry back in 2000 and 2002 resulting in the economic collapse we have today.

    ANY argument stating Clinton or Obama are at fault is simply a bald face LIE.

  • Clinton IS NOT A BALD FACED LIE...

    And Obama.. simply too much a newbie to be around in 2004-2006 when democrats were literally screaming that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should not be regulated!!

    2003 is when Bush tried to push a bill through to regulate it... Kathrine Dole and McCain tried to push a bill the democrats SQUASHED in the banking committee..

    2000 was NOT when the problem started but nice try retard!

  • Keep spinning retard, keep spinning!

    You realize the more people like you that deflect all accountability and responsibility by the republican party the less ANYONE takes the republican party seriously!

    Youre truly just hurting your own party's efforts by being so irresponsibly stupid!

    Funny when the repubs have control, its still the dems fault. When the dems have control, again its the dems fault. Im guessing when Obama finishes cleaning up the REP mess, youll still find an OBTUSE angle!

  • Look at bill S.190 and the RPUBLICANs that supported it.

    Look who was on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 2004-2006.

    Try to spin that you mental midget. Oh what you are disappointed that not everything John Stewart says is true?

    Grow up ya retard and read not just watch TV!

    Why are democrats so fucking mentally retarded? Do they give you stupid pills?

  • Face up to facts, Democrats and those that supported them and filled their backpockets with buckets of cash... were Fannie Mae and Acorn.. and look who they supported and who supported them the most.... OBAMA!!!

    Go youtube it: Fannie Mae 2004 or 2005 or 2006

  • Yeah! They also filled their backpockets thanks to Halliburton, AirScan, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Chevron-Texaco, GM Defense, Shell, BP, etc, etc, etc... oh wait! Are you talking about the Democrats? Yeah, it's all Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac's fault! The two wars the US has been fighting since 2003 and 1 trillion dollars in tax cuts had nothing to do with it. It's also the illegal immigrants fault since they forced people to get into huge debts though massive borrowing.

  • All lies. All LIES. All of it. Democrats have had the majority since 2006. Barney Frank and Chuck Schumer should be in PRISON over the housing debacle, THEY countered every attempt to look closer at Fannie and Freddie shenanigans!

    QUIT BLAMING OTHER PEOPLE. Nobody believes it, the only voters you have left are illegals, welfare sponges and others who will always vote to help themselves to more free stuff!

  • Why not follow after the President's example and actually take responsibility for the economy whether you caused it or not and FIX IT!

    When Mr. Obama makes a mistake, he admits it and tries to correct. When he has to repair what others have done (Biden/Clinton) he takes the high road. It's good to see there's at least one adult in the Democratic party. (two... his wife)

  • Funny thing is that at least 80% of you ninny liberals posting here have health insurance, and the rest either don't need it or are too lazy to work for it. Yes. 80% of us have health insurance. Do you see Americans going to other countries for health care? No. More Obama bullshit saying how fucked up our country is. What a great leader.

  • I have healthcare, but I pay a ridiculous amount of money for it.

  • Wait till you find out just how much it costs when it's free.

  • It's not going to be free. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention. If you enjoy making insurance companies rich, that's your perogative. I'm sick of it.

  • The problem with you is that you are fully willing to make a 300$ a month car payment and a 2000$ a month house payment but you are not willing to pay for your own health care??

    People in this country have become slobbering babies and want the government to do everything for them. It's pathetic. What's next after you get your "free" health care? You going to want "free" housing? Whats the difference?

  • You forgot the cost of monthly cell phone plans-- almost could buy health insurance just on this one item.

  • Exactly. I love all the people that whine that their health care is soooo expensive when they are driving around in Audis with iPhones. It's really amusing.

  • Or Internet service

  • You're kidding right? Where did I say I wanted free health care. I just don't want to give insurance companies $500/month for it - which is way more than it's worth. Having a government sponsored competition for it will bring the price down.

    Learn how to read.

  • Government sponsored competition will give you only one option, the government sponsored option. Why? BECAUSE THEY CAN PRINT MONEY. You are really an economic nitwit. If you want cheaper healthcare get some tort reform laws.... that's the solution. You just want "cheap" any way you can get it and don't care how it happens as long as you can still afford all your other luxuries and have someone else pay for your healthcare.

  • Ha, LOL - thanks for the chuckle "nitwit". Hahahaha

  • Then I suppose you oppose government-sponsored libraries because they will put book stores out of business.

  • Libraries actually are quite a waste of money really. If you want a book, fucking buy it. If you want internet pay for it.

  • OK let's go with this..... how many recent best sellers do they carry? enough for everyone to get a copy & keep to read at their leisure? some people don't want to wait for months to read the book. kinda like Canadian health care, since they're health care is rationed they would rather come to the states & pay rather than wait for months on a list.

  • Youre a complete IDIOT!

    Were you jumping up and down for joy at the pump when gas was $4 a gallon? Were you smug with glee to learn that income for the middle class over the past 8 yrs has actually gone DOWN while the cost of living has skyrocketed? Healthcare has TRIPLED over the past 15 yrs and youre opposed to reforming it?!? Are you really that dumb! No, wait, youre a republican, thats WHY!

    Either youre getting paid spin this BS or you really shouldnt be talking cause its just sad!

  • You asked the questions

    so lets ask NOW

    OIL demand is lowest its been in YEARS and around $60 a gallon and not 120.. and we have all our refineries up ( no Katrina) so why are we still paying $3?!? (DEMOCRATS)

    Why is Medical care so high? Medical insurance so high because of Liability lawsuits DEMOCRATS dont want to limit.

    Medicare and Medicaid locked to pharmaceutical companies lobbying Democrats to push for a national healthcare.

    Maybe you shouldnt be so retarded and look up the facts!

  • Democrats, democrats, democrats, denial, denial denial Your stupidity is a disservice to your party.

    Bush (family oil juggernaut for generations) saw the largest increase in the price of oil EVER! (not a coincidence, just CORRUPTION) and you still twist it to SOMEHOW pin it on the dems. PATHETIC!

    Once consumers get used to paying a certain amount, the OIL COs will NEVER recede their prices to what they were (thanks bush, champion for the ppl) You buy gas cause you HAVE to, and they KNOW IT!

  • Healthcare is so high because of the Dems? How does that work when repugnantcans had control 6 of the last 8 yrs!?!?

    It doesnt work, and youre an idiot!

    You think if a bill was passed limiting lawsuits against ins giants, premiums would go down!? Dream on! Youre overpriced premiums would just pay for even WORSE care cause they know theres nothing you could do about it!!

    TIP: follow the money, youll usually find a repub up some corps ass! Repubs dont want to reg ins cause their getting paid!!!

  • Sidney is anything you say in this reality or do you just get information from TV and the Onion?

    the whole thing was based on Fannie Mae being unregulated, buying up sub prime mortgages and being allowed to go WAAAY below any liquidity standards that banks are held to!!

    nothing to do with Oil ya knucklhead. But while we are on that. Oil was about 4 bucks when it was 130 a barrel. Now its $3 when at 60, lowest in demand, and all refineries up ( no Katrina).

    Doh = Democriminals.

  • the last of the regulations from the depression of the 30's that separated investment firms from banks were removed by REPUBLICAN senator Phil Gramm in 2002.

    The 'merging' of these two entities enabled default mortgage swaps and 'insurance policies' to be taken out on these HIGHLY over leveraged loans which ultimately caused the collapse.

    The REPUBLICANs deregulation CAUSED the collapse! It doesnt take a genius to understand how it works, but you most certainly are not that!

  • And who bought up all those loans and mortgages and who SETS the rates?

    FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC DUMBASS!

    They insurance swaps dont matter if they are bogus loans (with no standards) to begin with!

    And the democrats were defending regulating Fannie and Freddie!

    You seriously need to get back into school because I doubt you can count yet alone add up your IQ score... in the single digits apparently!

  • The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act allowed for MORE COMMERCE, loans, and growth of the economy.

    They still had to abide by many standards as they were still banks.

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not regulated and backed the banks, bought up the loans and securities, and BECAUSE OF DEMOCRATS - that did not want to hold them to the same standards - the market fell and thus... (for retarded like you) - is why they called it a liquidity crisis!

    Good gawd, do you nod yes or no at a drive through too?!

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  • It will cause them to cut services or go under, they wont be able to compete with a subsidized government plan. once the government plan is the last one standing you will see the true cost & control of Free health care

  • USA gov't is trying to pass healthcare reform with no public option.

    Your country is owned by insurance companies!

  • no. your country is owned by power hungry politicians with agendas for more control over everything you do. WAKE UP.

  • Which insurance companies?

    If it is indeed owned, how much is our country "worth"? Do you count the trillion dollar deficits?

  • Just saying, your country is controlled by finance capital.

  • as opposed to what? what would you like our country controlled by? money makes the world go around thats just the reality of life. get used to it.

  • not in this lifetime

  • I'm not for any government controlled health care system, BUT.... Why would Obama want to Continue to use a health care system that is based on health care Insurance & force Americans to participate in it? He's forcing us to Buy health Insurance & for those who can't afford it, He's forcing the rest of us to buy it for them. Now who's Protecting the health insurance companies?

  • I lived in UK and got free healthcare. I didn't pay a dime.

  • so, it must have been free then eh? who payed that dime do you think? did you have a job? where did your tax money go? how about you use your tax money to pay people's mortgages while you're at it.

  • Are you asking me or what? I just told you, I lived in UK for a little bit and got free healthcare. Did not pay a dime for it.

  • so you just magically got health care. awesome. how naive of you.

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  • I told you I lived in UK and didn't pay a dime for the healthcare I received.

    I know things are different in USA where getting earwax removed can cost $300.

    But don't blame me, blame your system. And then act to change it.

  • LLORT3

    How's them taxes workin' out for you? oops I'm sorry maybe I should be asking one of your other countryman because if your bragging about this your not paying them

  • i pay less taxes under obama.

  • Your forgetting that inflation is a tax & he ain't done yet.

  • i don't care, obama can't be any worse than the other finance capitalists like him

  • Troll B gone, this discussion is for grown ups

  • i don't care, i don't pay taxes in USA :)

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  • nah, i don't listen to talk radio so i'm not scared of life.

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  • ah well i don't listen to talk radio so i don't know what of my liberties are being taken away.

    i just wish USA was more focused on public service and less on politics. each side tries to scare its supporters into mistrusting the other side

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  • oh i agree, i think socialism is a good fit for me and my vision of USA

  • I think you need to become a HealthCare PROVIDER.

    And then you can use you new found business skill to provide services and keep promises that other companies made.... you can do this with no money, right LLORT?

  • i don't like using the term business with healthcare

    they should be not for profit, like the V.A.

  • O, I C... you think people ought to bust there butts for 8 to 12 years, become a Doctor when not many can, then turn around and provide a service at cost???

    Why r u confused about True Americans being opposed to the Socialist Marxist platform you believe in?

    Its America, u can't build it it on one principal and sustain it on another.

  • I think you make good points. However, I think the culture of greed in USA needs to change.

    I think that from here forward, public servants, which include doctors, should reject simply working to get paid and instead focus on serving their fellow troops.

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  • I've heard that whole "move to another country" argument made when it was in vogue back in 2003 and 2004 when I was opposed to certain policies of USA that the government was pushing (torture, sending our troops overseas for unjust reasons, etc) but I don't think it is an appropriate kind of argument to make.

  • I wouldn't tell you to move to another country based on your support for certain policies, so I just ask that you extend the same respect to me.

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  • Ah. I don't really believe in a sliding scale, I believe all things have equal value, like freedom, liberty and universal healthcare.

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  • Hey, the insults are inappropriate.

  • Don't bother replying to me if you are just going to insult me.

    I have veterans to help.

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  • You have to be very low on empathy if you cannot see that you have insulted me.

    Go away.

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  • It's the do-nothing leaders in your joke of a party that got us in a recession.