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OBAMA THE WARMONGER.. YOURE SUPPORTERS ARE DWINDLING.. AND WITH GOOD REASON. YOU HAVE CONTINUED WHAT GEORGE BUSH STARTED AND PUSHED THIS COUNTRY FURTHER OUT ONTO A PRECIPICE. GOOD JOB MR. PRESIDENT. YOU WILL GO DOWN AS THE MOST FOOLISH PRESIDENT IN HISTORY. SO I HEAR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE SUING YOU FOR YOUR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR THE CONSTITUTION IN YOUR BOMBING OF LIBYA. I SAY GOOD. I HOPE THEY NAIL YOU
yoo guys, theres a video floating around youtube that shows Obama hitting his wife, wtf? i'm not sure if its legit or not, but it looks pretty real. :/ , my opinion on him has changed alot
I'm tired of seeing children get groped and porno-scanned at airports.End the TSA. I don't want armed bullies telling me whether or not peaceful citizens can smoke marijuana. End prohibition. I don't want armed men telling women (and men) what they can and can't do with their personal sex lives when they're not hurting anyone. Legalize prostitution. Let's get rid of the PATRIOT Act and take our civil liberties back! Ron Paul 2012!!
Obama, how come you wont show the pictures? Because you told us exactly what they look like = ME SEEING THE PICTURE IN MY HEAD, so show them you fraud. Google Bradley Manning, Google the bilderberg group, do more research then CNN. Research Habeas Corpus (we command) you have the body in any bounty Dead Or Alive. Lets explore facts people
thats what i say on most of all
Ron paul 2012, Google: Bradley Manning a true Patriot to what is really going on. Explore more than a media headline.
@sleepeaze it's cute how you think that 14 trillion dollars of debt came from the Obama administration. I bet cutting taxes then starting 2 wars would probably have a little something to do with it.
have any politican really change the US the way people want? Why? Because there are just too many problem to fix and they end up have NO TIME to finish their goal. The US citizen is being unfair too all of the president. They ask for too much and give him no time. They should stop complaining and think about being in his situation before moaning!
GOP Guts Regulation Requiring Adequate Rest For Pilots,Anti-EPA House Votes To Let Agribusiness Dump Pesticides In Our Water,Bar-Owning GOP Montana State Representative Says Stricter DUI Laws Are ‘Destroying A Way Of Life’ ,In 2010, CEO Pay Went Up 27% While Worker Pay Went Up 2% ,The War On Child Labor Laws: Maine Republicans Want Longer Hours, Lower Pay For Kids . REPUBLICONS ARE DESTROYING AMERICA!
how many times we heard change? This isn't the campaign anymore obama. No one likes you anymore. You and Bush have fucked up america big time. Hell, all politicians have.
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A monopoly may also form when a company has a copyright or patent that prevents others from entering the market. Pfizer, for instance, had a patent on Viagra.
@Athruebelief Hey, stupid, who grants "patents"? THAT is a Govt GRANTED PATENT! So, you want Govt to control monopolies, when Govt is CREATING them? But, we have a slight problem, in that PATENTS are mentioned in Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution, where ALL Federal Powers are listed. However, I personally think patents is a subject to debate, but it most certainly is Constitutional.
you Marxists know nothing about market you communists the only thing you know it's to steal money from the tax payer and be the appeasers to the Islamic- fascists it's the only thing you very well know how to do it leches!!
Thought the newly elected tea party was making jobs their top priority. OOPS SOME CONSERVATIVES GOT TAKEN FOR A RIDE AGAIN! THANKS CONSERVATIVES WHO VOTED FOR THE TEA PARTY FOR TAKING US DOWN WITH YOU!
@MrMalprac By all means, if you want someone to support not subsidizing, I`m with you. I suggest we read Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, and have the Federal Govt obey it. Then Social Security, MediCare, MediCaid, Food Stamps, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Fannie, Freddie, and at LEAST 70% of Federal Spending would disappear. Fine with me.
@MrMalprac Having the Federal Government force me to buy insurance, packaged around THEIR ideas of what it must include, isnt "personal responsibility". I do NOT want folks who havent already bought insurance, coming on with their arteries already full of sludge, and expecting me, and my fellow policyholders picking up the bill. I dont want some lazy-ass punk on mommies policy, until he is 26 years old, nor pay unlimited liability for an AIDS patient. I want exclusions, keep costs low.
@MrMalprac Sure, the difference between us is this, I base my beliefs on a principle of personal responsibility, and Liberty. Meaning, I take care of myself, and my own, and ask nothing of YOU, or others. You base yours on what you can get, from others. I dont live on my knees, like a fucking beggar. "Obama, help me! My Doctor CHARGES me to see him! How awful!" I`m 59, my wife and I have an Anthem Blue Cross $3500 deductible, HSA plan, at only $300/mo, now in Ca.
@luvcheney1 You wrote; "You base yours on what you can get, from others. I dont live on my knees, like a fucking beggar. "Obama, help me! My Doctor CHARGES me to see him! How awful!" WELL GUESS WHAT! This has nothing to do with that. I know that is what your told to say to deflect the real issues,and to brainwash others to distance them from people who don't agree with you. IT'S NOTHING NEW AND THIS ISN'T OUR FIRST RODEO! This has nothing to do with not paying,it's quite the opposite.
@luvcheney1 Ironically thousands of middle class,and afluent american retirees are living out their lives in places with cheaper health costs like latin,and south america (costa rica,and panama being the favorites). Panama gives retirees a 20-50% discount on things from bus fares,movies,medical bills,concerts,and more. YOU CALL US BEGGARS BUT OMIT YOUR PALS WHO MOVED TO CANADA, COSTA RICA, PANAMA,AND THE NETHERLANDS! YOUR HYPOCRITICAL FOR THE MOST PART!
@Athruebelief I see nothing wrong with a person going abroad to pay less. Thats reasonable, and is also being responsible for ones self, it doesnt bother anyone. That is NOT being a beggar! Like YOU! Our prices are high here, because NOBODY gives a shit. NOBODY pays a bill! Govt, Fed and State was 50% of healthcare BEFORE ObamaCare, there is NO FREE MARKET. Govt pays too little, Private ins pays too much, making up for the Govt underpays, and the rest FUCK the Emergency rooms, who CANT REFUSE.
@luvcheney1 You must be living in a double wide to call anyone who disagrees with your point of view a beggar! Private insurance is pro-obamacare,and that is fact. Sounds like you like the current system where the doctors get screwed by short-falls,and close shop.
@Athruebelief You are NOT a beggar? Good! Then YOU do as you please with your doctors, and insurance, and I will do the same. You be FREE, and me too. Glad we now agree. Sorry, I had the mistaken beleief you were going to want to force me to do something I dont want to.
@Athruebelief The Doctors who are getting screwed, are getting UNDERPAID by the Govt insurance Programs. I am glad you object, as I do. Private insurance corps, and therefore their customers, are paying their own bills, PLUS overpaying to make up for the Govt underpaying. Some Doctors just REFUSE MediCaid & MediCare. I am SO GLAD you now hate Govt insurance, as I do, for causing Doctors to close up shop.
@luvcheney1 Screwing people who want to be covered,and pay their medical bills really goes against all you state. That makes you a hypocrite. You really think the poor are the only one's without health insurance? I GUESS YOU NEVER HEARD OF PRE-EXISITING CONDITIONS! MAYBE WHEN ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS GETS DENIED AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE THEN YOU WILL GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ARSE!
@Athruebelief I have preexisting conditions. Lets see, I had back surgery ( removed a disc, screwed the vertebrae together) , high blood pressure, diabetes, I`m fat, high cholesterol, hernias, but hey, I`m not complaining. Oh, and guess what? My insurance co paid out $140,000 last 2 years on me, and my wife and I together pay only $300 mo! Its a CONTRACT Stupid! They cant cancel me, if I pay my fucking bills on time! The trick is BUY INSURANCE FIRST, not after you get fucked up, stupid.
@luvcheney1 1st off if you don't love yourself enough to take care of yourself,you can never truly love another,so your lack of compassion for your fellow americans is very evident. 2nd I'm so sure (SARCASM) that's exactly the reason the majority of americans are guilty of....paying their bills. 3rd YOUR NOT ONE OF THE TOP 2% SO QUIT PRETENDING YOU FRAUD!
@luvcheney1 4th YOU SHOULD BE MAD WITH YOUR PARTY FOR NOT LOOKING AFTER YOUR INTERESTS (SINCE CORPORATE WELFARE IS MORE IMPORTANT TO THEM THAN YOU) AND NOT ME OR OTHERS!
@Athruebelief Perhaps it never occurred to you, but ALL costs of ALL businesses are paid for by their customers. So, if you want higher taxes on Corporations, YOU pay! Want higher costs to Health insurers, by taking pre-existing conditions? YOU PAY! Want higher wages to the workers?? You pay! Hey stupid, I dont like paying, so looking out for the "Corporate welfare" is EXACTLY what I want! I NEVER said I was in the Top 2%. But, I want the MOST PRODUCTIVE people allowed to prosper, stupid.
@Athruebelief Catholic schools get far better results, at far lower cost per child. Just a fact. We have a union, Govt monopoly in K-12 schooling nearly, and it needs to end. "For the Kids", means "for unions", to Onama, and garbage like you. The private sector worker is waking up! They are being taxed to death, to support Govt workers. The States are collapsing financially, and the avg Joe doesnt see why HE has to suffer, to pay a union slob`s pension!
@luvcheney1 YOUR A MORON! THE MARKET IS THE PEOPLE! PAYING THEM LESS DOESN'T GET YOU MORE BUSINESS! BUISNESS NEEDS THE MARKET NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
@Athruebelief The "market" is the interaction between buyers and sellers, employers and employees. Supply and demand sets wages. The minimum wage, for example, is pushing a wage above market rates, by Govt law. Young people have the highest rates of unemployment, because they also have the highest participation in minimum wage jobs. Great! Support higher minimum wages! Fuck those kids, they dont need jobs anyway, they can steal hubcaps!
@luvcheney1 Defintion of "THE MARKET"=the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
WHERE IS THE COMPETITION? DRIVEN OUT BY THE BIG CORPORATIONS THANKS TO LAX DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS AND REPUBLICANS WHO NEVER CARED!
@luvcheney1 Monsanto has been sued by competitors for anti-trust and monopolistic practices. They hold between 70% and 100% of the commercial seed market.
I'D SAY THAT QUALIFIES AS A MONOPOLY! WELL I KNOW IT DOES!
@Athruebelief If they dont hold 100% of the fucking market, then they arent a fucking monopoly, stupid. "Mono" means ONE, asshole. Furthermore, nobody has to buy their products, they do so for a REASON. Monsanto increases PRODUCTION, which means MORE PROFIT for farmers, THAT is the OBJECT. "Morningstar" analysts state their market share as 75%, chief rival Dupont. NO MONOPOLY, liar!
@luvcheney1 Wrong again!In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos / μονος (alone or single) + polein / πωλειν (to sell)) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it ...
KEY WORDS MORON .......SUFFCIENT CONTROL NOT SOLE CONTROL! TRY AGAIN!
@luvcheney1 Google also has a lock on the growing smartphone market. The company owns nearly 96% of the mobile search market. Google doesn't dominate the search market, the company owns it.
@luvcheney1 Google has over 65% of the search market. Its closest competitors own just 17% of the market. If you combined Microsoft and Yahoo, they would still control just 34% of the search market. Google's global market share is often overlooked. According to Fortune magazine, Google owns over 90% of the market in non-mobile search worldwide. Yahoo and Bing combined barely make up over 1%.
@Athruebelief Monopoly comes from the root, "mono", meaning one. Google most certainly has competitors. Read your own fucking numbers. The fact someone has a lot of market share doesnt mean MONOPOLY, or "one". It just means PEOPLE LIKE THEM, asshole.
@luvcheney1 You can play these games giving one meaning to a word or a one sided view,but facts are facts,and you lack many of them! MOST PEOPLE LIKE VARIETY AND MOST HAVE NO CHOICE SO DON'T FEED US MORE B.S. THIS ISN'T MY FIRST RODEO SVEN!
@Athruebelief Most people "liking variety" doesnt have anything to do with ANYTHING! Who has the responsibility to meet YOUR "likes"? Who has the responsibility to provide YOU with "VARIETY"? NOBODY, thats who. There are NO fucking legal barriers to the entry of competitors in the "mobile search" market. Google dominates, because people like it. BTW, in 2008, Google had 61% of the mobile search, so what do you propose to do, stupid? Since its now 96%, STOP folks from having what they want?
@luvcheney1 This had nothing to do with people's likes,and dislikes. HOW DARE YOU ASSUME! THERE WAS A POINT THAT WAS MADE AND I DID JUST THAT! THANKS FOR TWISTING THIS INTO YOUR PERCEIVED PERCEPTION OF THE WHOLE POINT OF THE TOPIC! NICE TO KNOW THAT RADICAL CONSERVATIVES LIKE YOURSELF PUT WORDS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MOUTHS!
@Athruebelief Look dummy, the point is that companies get big for 2 reasons. 1) The govt PROTECTS them into a monopoly, like AT&T was, or Airline routes were, or most utility companies are. OR 2) People like the product/ service, and the company grows. This assumes LAW prevails in the country, extortion, killing, burning competitors doesnt occur. Govt created, regulated into existence monopolies are called "coercive monopolies. They suck, are govts FAULT. Customer created monopolies are good.
@luvcheney1 Incomes for 90% of Americans have been stuck in neutral, and it's not just because of the Great Recession. Middle-class incomes have been stagnant for at least a generation, while the wealthiest tier has surged ahead at lighting speed.
@luvcheney1 In 1988, the income of an average American taxpayer was $33,400, adjusted for inflation. Fast forward 20 years, and not much had changed: The average income was still just $33,000 in 2008, according to IRS data.
@luvcheney1 LET ME TELL YOU A FACT! I AM ONE OF THE MOST PREMIUM COMPANIES IN MY TYPE OF BUSINESS AND GUESS WHAT? PEOPLE ARE HAPPY TO PAY A SMALL FORTUNE TO ME,BECAUSE THEIR GETTING QUALITY NOT LOW GRADE! MY SECRET? THEY SELL ME NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
By Alyson Klein on February 12, 2011 2:05 PM House Republican leaders put out a bill last night that would slice and dice education funding far below current levels and far below what President Barack Obama wanted in his never-enacted fiscal year 2011 budget request.
The measure, which would continue federal funding for rest of the fiscal year, takes aim at some programs that were previously considered untouchable, including special education spending and Pell Grants to help low-and-moderate income students pay for college. Overall it would cut $4.9 billion from the U.S. Department of Education's fiscal year 2010 budget of $63.7 billion.
"This absolutely would be the largest cuts ever in history for education programs," said Joel Packer, a principal with the Raben Group in Washington, who works with the Committee for Education Funding, a coalition that advocates for increasing education spending.
U.S. students' average scores in international comparisons have often been below the average of developed countries. In the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment 2003, 15 year olds ranked 24th of 38 in mathematics, 19th of 38 in science, 12th of 38 in reading, and 26th of 38 in problem solving. In the 2006 assessment, the U.S. ranked 35th out of 57 in mathematics and 29th out of 57 in science.
A 2000s study by Jon Miller of Michigan State University concluded that "A slightly higher proportion of American adults qualify as scientifically literate than European or Japanese adults".
The country has a reading literacy rate at 99% of the population over age 15, while ranking below average in science and mathematics understanding compared to other developed countries. In 2008, there was a 77% graduation rate from high school, below that of most developed countries.
In 2007, Americans stood second only to Canada in the percentage of 35 to 64 year olds holding at least two-year degrees. Among 25 to 34 year olds, the country stands tenth. The nation stands 15 out of 29 rated nations for college completion rates, slightly above Mexico and Turkey. According to government data, one-tenth of students are enrolled in private schools. Approximately 85% of students enter the public schools.
@kimlene05 The US federal government is guilty of making huge corporate welfare handouts. Taxpayers are forced to pay for ridiculous things, including handouts to Enron, General Motors and AT&T. WE THE PEOPLE WANT OUR TAX MONEY BACK YOU DIRTY THIEF AND BEGGAR!
KIMLENE05 I heard you got busted trolling on craigslist claiming you were a lobbyist to pick up chicks. WHAT IS IT WITH THE RIGHT WING AND THE ADDICTION TO CRAIGSLIST?
@MrMalprac Congress authorized the war in Iraq, thats a fact. Remember Bill Clinton?
Wednesday, December 16, 1998
CLINTON: Good evening.
Earlier today, I ordered America’s armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors." You sir, are a fucking liar, or an idiot.
By Tanya Somanader on Feb 9th, 2011 at 4:45 pm THINKPROGRESS
After Voting To Repeal Health Care, GOP Members Without Coverage Fear Cost To Family Members
House Republicans have pledged to repeal and/or defund the health care law. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) even adopted the effort as her sole “motivation in life.” But, for at least 16 GOP lawmakers, the reality of the party’s position is coming home to roost.
These Republicans, “many of whom were swept into office fueled by tea party anger over the health care law,” are now facing the same expensive, unforgiving health insurance market as middle-class Americans the GOP wantonly abandoned: “I have a niece who has pre-existing conditions, and I worry about her if she was ever to lose her job,” said Florida Rep. Richard Nugent, one of the freshman lawmakers who declined federal health insurance benefits.
@Athruebelief Bill Gates didnt graduate either. Most politicians are lawyers. Lawyers take money from those who have it, and give it to others, taking a cut. This is exactly what Libs do. Perhaps we need more politicians who are not lawyers, who actually know how to MAKE money, not redistribute it.
@luvcheney1 So your telling me, people who have been physically or financially abused; that use a lawyer to fight for them are wrong? Your telling me that they stole from the people who have wronged them?
@Athruebelief Lawsuit awards are about double to quadruple in the US, compared to the other Industrialized nations. This is just another increased cost, for US business. Just one more reason to leave the US. Just one more reason HealthCare costs too much, fucking over the little guy. ALL corp costs are paid by customers.
@luvcheney1 The difference between the democrats in this country,and republicans today. Democrats="ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. " Republicans="ask what your country can do for you; not what you can do for your country. " WITH REPUBLICANS TODAY IT'S ALWAYS ME ME ME ME ME!
@Athruebelief Is that so? All we want is for YOU to do as you please. Leave us alone. Feel free to buy health insurance, or dont. Feel free to pay your doctor with a check, or dont. Go to a Doctor, or dont. Choose a Chiropractor, holistic medicine, or a fucking witch doctor. Just let me pay my bills my way, and you pay your bills your way. Trouble is, you dont WANT me left alone, YOU want me to pay OTHER PEOPLES BILLS. So, fuck off lying lunatic!
@luvcheney1 There is always a flip side to the coin. YOU REALLY THINK I LIKE THE WAY MY TAXES ARE SPENT TO HIRE DICTATORS,SCUM,UNWARRENTED WARS, MONOPOLIZING COMPANIES KEEPING THE COMPETITION DOWN,DESTROYING MY COUNTRY AS WELL AS THE PLANET IS OK? YOUR REALLY HYPOCRITICAL DON'T YA THINK?
@Athruebelief I agree, everyone has a beef. If a guy making $50K yr paid 10% income tax, and a guy making $500K ( ten times as much) paid the same 10% income tax, the rich guy would be paying 10 times more. That seems fair. But, that isnt enough for YOU! You want the rich guy paying a 39.6% rate, or 39.6 times more, on 10 times more income. The point isnt we all bitch about how its spent, the issue is most of the country doesnt pull its weight at all.
Every single House Republican voted to repeal the health care law last month.
“I can simply, honestly say that this is going to impact my wife and I to a fairly serious degree, like it would any average American out there,” said first-time Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois.
Walsh’s wife has a pre-existing condition and will need a procedure in the coming months, but because he declined federal benefits, they’re paying for it out of pocket. Meanwhile, Walsh is contributing to a health savings account to cover his expenses.
“It’s a cost we will feel, a cost I will have to pick up. I won’t turn down benefits because I have something to fall back on or because I’m independently wealthy,” he said.
But while recognizing that “there are 14 some million Americans and growing who are out there in the individual market who have a much tougher battle” than him, Walsh voted with every GOP House member to repeal the law that helps. And while they willingly deny millions of Americans, none see any reason to deny their staffs the taxpayer-funded benefit.
GOP lawmakers have struggled to explain why they deserve government-subsidized health care while ordinary Americans don’t.
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) said he accepted federal health care because he was “actually lowering” premiums for older lawmakers. When asked whether he’d turn down taxpayer benefits, Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) actually said, “I don’t know. Am I a federal employee?” And Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) offered a more blunt — and revealing — response: “What am I not supposed to have health care?…God forbid I get into an accident and can’t afford the operation. That can happen to anyone.”
The tea party newbies decided to cancel their government health care plans,and decided to sign up for private health care insurance for them,and their family.IRONICALLY THE NEWLY ELECTED TEA PARTY MEMBERS HATE THE PRIVATE HEALTH CARE POLICIES BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE AND HAVE PRE-EXISITING CONDITION ROADBLOCKS TO COVER THEIR SICK KIDS! HA! HA! WELCOME TO MY WORLD TEA PARTY MORONS!
Lack of insurance and access to primary care leads to repeated ED visits and sicker patients. When patients with health problems cannot get timely and regular primary care, they tend to come to the ED as their problems flare or they get sicker. . More than one physician gave as an illustration of this problem as uninsured patients seek repeat treatment for infections that after several cosly Ed visits wind up with the more risky and costly surgery w/ infection that could have been avoided .
Prosperity that was supposed to ‘trickle down’ has instead flowed straight uphill. Between 1990 and 2000, the average CEO pay went up by 571% and corporate profits grew by 93% while worker pay barely stayed ahead of inflation.
@Athruebelief Profit influenced by inflation, higher prices, you dont mention THAT. P/E ratio of S&P500 is only 4.2%, just 70% of normal. The US is not producing out of the Govt/ union monopoly schools, a workforce capable of filling Doctor, nurse, software, math and science tech jobs, because we lag behind Asia. The high pay jobs go begging, as manufacturing is something any dope can do, here, or Shanghai. CEO pay is set by market forces, as is avg worker pay. Too few MBA`s, too many dopes.
@Athruebelief The Public School K-12 unions. You know, the school system paying far more than anywhere in the world, for the worst fucking results. "Support Education", means "private sector workers pay for benefits and retirement of unionized teachers, far in excess of your own".
@Athruebelief Before Obama became President, the Blacks of DC got vouchers, could choose the schools their kids went to. Union President Obama stopped that immediately, unionized teachers do NOT like parents having choice where to send their kids, nor does Obama. They might choose a school that is better, without unions. Of course, after this decision, Obama chose to send HIS kids to a private school. His kids deserve it, but poor Blacks do Not deserve THAT CHOICE, in Obama`s mind.
Corporations Post Record Profits As Republicans Call For Eliminating The ‘Insidious’ Corporate Income Tax
Last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) – a man ThinkProgress readers are familiar with – took to the House floor to bemoan the “insidious” tax on corporations. “We can compete with anybody,” Gohmert declared, “if you take off that insidious tax” on business. Watch it:
@Athruebelief The average US corp tax rate is 39% ( Fed and State). The average of 31 OECD ( the important ones) nations is 24%. ( Canada is 16.5%). Only a stupid fuck pays 15% more!! IF corps leave the US, earn profit abroad, and keep it abroad, they pay overseas, and owe here zero. That is how Google, GE does it. GE is also getting "green" subsidies as well. IF you want more taxes paid to US Govt, it plainly is pathetically stupid to think corps will stay here, where their profits are seized.
@luvcheney1 The corporate tax rate may be high,but the tax loopholes are in abundance,and as a result us corporations pay less in corporate taxes than the rest of the developed nations in the world. So sugarcoating the facts won't gain you support! MOST PAY NEXT TO NOTHING OR NOTHING AT ALL! SO PLEASE TRY AGAIN!
@Athruebelief Ignorant Liar. "SOI tax stats corp" ( IRS) shows that the LARGEST credit to corps is the "foreign tax credit" 85% of ALL loopholes. Example: US overseas corp pays 24% corp inc tax to Barfistan govt. If US Corp bring profit BACK to US, it owes Fed tax of 35%, but deducts the 24% paid abroad, leaving 11% due Fed Govt, plus State tax too. You THINK US CORP can pay 24% abroad, PLUS the 39% HERE TOO? INSANITY! Thats why profits are LEFT OUTSIDE the US. They dont pay here, they LEAVE!!
@Athruebelief Gee, ran out of facts pretty fucking quick, eh Lib?? Guess outsourcing of jobs, loss of Govt revenue to waste, excess supplies of labor with fewer jobs collapsing market wages is no concern of yours, huh? Good luck, Obama is YOUR MAN! Run even MORE businesses out of the country. That will show THEM!
@luvcheney1 What government revenue? A New York Times analysis this week of the 500 companies in Standard & Poor's stock index found that 115 paid less than 20 % in corporate taxes and 34 paid less than 10%over the past 5 years.The cruise line Carnival paid 1.1 percent of its cumulative $11.3 billion in profits. Other examples in the Times' analysis includes Boeing,which paid a total tax rate of 4.5%; Southwest Airlines, 6.3 %; Yahoo, 7%; Prudential Financial, 7.6%; and General Electric, 14.3%.
@Athruebelief If 115 paid less than 20%, then 385 paid MORE than 20%. If 34 paid LESS than 10%, 466 paid MORE than 10%! Foreign Tax Credit is 85% off all TAX CREDITS. US Corps have subsidiaries OUTSIDE the US, and if profit left OUT of US, Owe nothing to US. If they bring $ back, they owe the difference, between tax paid abroad, and US Rate. So what? Financial corps pay little, when offsetting past year losses, STUPID.
@Athruebelief If you go to "SOI Tax Stats- Corp", and study income statement-like IRS report, you can add the foreign tax credit BACK on taxes, and come to a 34% tax rate. That is for Biggest Corps, those with over $2.5 billion in assets. That means, corps dont pay 35% rate, because they dont OWE it. US Govt has no way to asses taxes on money earned abroad, left abroad. If our corps pay 39% here, how do they compete with countries at 24%? Or 16.5%, like canada?
@luvcheney1 Middle class spending is the growth engine in a free market economy, and when taxes rob the middle class in favor of the rich, the economy shuts down. Huge fortunes also produce political power that is hard to control. That’s why all modern democracies use their tax laws to prevent excessive concentration of wealth. And that’s why we need a fair taxes campaign in America.
@luvcheney1 Corporations have been profiting in Washington, too. In 1965, individual taxpayers paid 66% of all US income taxes, and corporations paid about a third. But by 2000, the corporate share had dropped to 18%, just about half what it used to be.
@Athruebelief Of course! We have the highest statutory tax rate in the industrialized world!! Our corps Leave the US because of it. They now pay corp income taxes to OTHER GOVTS, stupid! OECD nations have lifted their percentage corp tax revenues, because they have been cutting TAXES on CORPS! Sorry, its not my fault you didnt get the memo. US corporations leave the US to make money for STOCKHOLDERS, not the Fed Govt!! They vote, with their FEET, and GO! Retarded folks like you, sent them away.
@Athruebelief US Govt, and voter IGNORANCE sent them away. In the 31 OECD nations, Voter, and Govt intelligence has been ATTRACTING AMERICAN corps, and gaining ever larger corp income tax, with lower and lower tax rates. You dont really want workers here WORKING, do ya? More Nanny State vegetables means more votes for Dems, doesnt it?
@luvcheney1 You are an absolute moron who chooses to hear only what you want to hear or in my case read only what you want to read. I would like to see the corporate tax rate lower,but there needs to be accountability,and the middle class should now longer carry the burden of paying the taxes for the wealthy.
@Athruebelief Corporate income taxes, and individual income taxes are 2 distinct, different subjects. Any DOPE knows that individual income taxes are progressive in nature, and the more you earn, the higher percentage rate you pay!! Are you frustrated, changing the subject to run? If your income tax is at the "median" income, the 50% of those below you, only pay 3% of all income taxes! The 50% above you pay 97%. You are again, full of shit.
@luvcheney1 In this country we don't let people die at the doors of the emergency room because they may not have enough money. I do hope it always stays that way.
@luvcheney1 The do get compensation the prices are increased on those of us who do pay and we pick up the tabs that is why I would rather subsidize ins. than have to pay for the most expensive form of medical care often which could be avoided thru a much less expensive office call before problems become so serious.
@barsense Liar. Scores and scores of emergency rooms have closed in Ca. That means longer waits, longer ambulance rides, ability to treat fewer emergency cases. DEATH, PAIN, DESTRUCTION. If they were getting compensated, making enough to be worth staying open, they would.stay open. Who closes profitable businesses, STUPID?
@rbs651 I injured my back 2 years ago, and amuse myself by picking fights. I could bitch all day about the $18K out of pocket I spent on deductibles the last 2 yrs, paying for my own insurance plan, but then I`m not a fucking commie. I hired the best surgeon in Los Angeles, and that Chink has me feeling a lot better. So, if you need someone to slice your back wide open, pull some shit out, and put some metal back in, I know a guy. Blue Cross paid $140,000 total, so I guess I got even, eh?
I simply don't understand the mentally ill liberals and their 'entitlement' mentality. If they spent as much time working as they do begging and complaining, they'd be well off!
I had Blue Cross for a long time. I liked them! I'm sure Amoronsbelief and Nosense will come up with some excuse as to why they are 'evil'! HA!
@rbs651 The "Individual Mandate," which Republicans call "socialism" and "unconstitutional" was proposed by Republicans in the 1990's. Bob Dole (the leader of the Republican party at the time) proposed something very similar to ObamaCare. LOL , it is only socialism are unconstitutional when democrats propose it. You people are toooo funny.
Did my post say 'democrat' or 'republican'? No. It said mentally ill liberal. Again, I am not a republican. I won't be one again until they get back on track. With the election of Great Americans like Ltc. West, they appear to be on track again. Perhaps my money and I will return to the GOP.
@rbs651 LOL, they may need some more of your money to hire some more lobbyists for their congressional staffs to write their legislation for them so they can get set some more regs on us to make sure the money keeps flowing to the top. Yes, you need to give them some money before they take it. Go for it man, you might not want to wait to long .
@rbs651 LOL, they may need some more of your money to hire some more lobbyists for their congressional staffs to write their legislation for them so they can get set some more regs on us to make sure the money keeps flowing to the top. Yes, you need to give them some money before they take it. Go for it man, you might not want to wait to long .
@luvcheney1 Wouldn't it be so easy if everyone earned enough to pay 18 k out of pocket but then if they did employers would not be able to pay that much themselves and have anything left to live on for a large majority of them.
@barsense Most I ever earned annually myself was $39,000 about 5 years ago. My wife and I together work 60 hour weeks now, in our little business, making that now, between the 2 of us. I sacrificed, saved, paid off my home about 15 years ago, and put Austrian Coronas, Kruggerrands, and Gold Eagles away, in safe deposit boxes, a few at a time, over decades. I have my insurance, pay it, and have money because I sacrificed. I dont beg a piece of shit for HealthCare. I hired the FINEST DOC!
@luvcheney1 Sounds like you have a good spouse it does help to have 2 working . Sounds like you were not one of the unlucky ones that has to start over after some tragedy either like Katrinrina, a serious accident, illness, or many things that so many do have to deal with. I am glad .
@barsense You stated "we" are a country that doesnt turn away people from the emergency room who cant pay. LIAR. Emergency rooms all over have been closed down because Govt requiring to serve those who will NOT pay causes LOSSES. So, YOUR policy means SHORTAGES of help, Death, Pain, Disability. How Moral! There is NO free lunch. Hundreds of Unions, corporations given permission to ignore ObamaCare, because of COSTS.
@luvcheney1 There are still emergency rooms available , not that many have closed down and some have opened up to replace the ones that close down, increases in numbers of uninsured is more the problem than anything else and that is something that needs to be fixed.
@barsense Sure, there are rooms open, but many have closed, and emergency room services are declining, because of idiots who think making folks work for FREE is MORAL. You know they are closing, you lying sack of shit.
@luvcheney1 This is a public forum for people of all ages and all over the world , it is people like you that are not willing to discuss civilly and decently that cause parents who do not want their children exposed to have to exercise parental controls. Out of respect for those parents I would ask you to please consider keeping your responses reasonably decent without the insults and unpleasnt language and false accusations. Thank you.
@luvcheney1 And I believe like I have mentioned before the problem is the large increases in uninsured that is overloading emergency rooms and getting insurance to more people especially since I do beleive the majority of them ARE WORKING people will benefit all of us. Most people on welfare, non -workers have had access to heatlhcare for many years now thru medicaid and many state programs, it is the low paid workers and low profit margin small biz owners that are in need of healthcare.
@barsense 1) The first Amendment doesnt prohibit uncivil comments, nor cursing 2) Certainly, a HealthCare expert, such as yourself, knows that Govt MediAid patients demand far more emergency room visits that those with Private Insurance. This is because the Govt wont pay market rates, so Doctors, providers refuse them. Those who DO provide, are in short supply, and waits are so long, they go to emergency rooms. Govt forces E Rooms to see those who dont pay, wont pay MediCaid. Govt caused crisis
@luvcheney1 You are right manners and respect for children and parents that don't want children exposed is the only influence agaisnt uncivil comments because it is certainly not against the law. freedom of speech allows it and leaves it up to the people to make the choice of whether or not to give good examples.
@luvcheney1 i don't know about your area but people with medicaid in my area use regular doctor offices for their medical care and it is the uninsured many hardworking people that work for employers that can not afford to offer healthcare and that are so low paid they can't afford it that fill the emergency rooms in my area. Hospitals in my area are not friendly to illegals so they usually frequent the free clinic .which is more lenient.
@barsense MediCaid sets its own rates to pay Doctors. This rate is below market, and, in a free society, many Doctors have chosen, and are choosing to not serve MediCaid patients, because they want to be paid market rates. This means, all over the US, there are some Doctors refusing, and the ones that do accept MUST hurry the patients through, and have long waits. Because of this, appointments may take weeks for a MediCare Doctor to be seen, so patients are forced into Emergency rooms. Dummy.
@luvcheney1 Your insult in unwarranted , I have never been on medicare or medicaid so I have no personal experience but I do know who fills up the emergency rooms in our local hospitals and it is NOT medicare or medicaid patients they do go thru regular doctor visits.
@barsense I have never been on Govt aid either, but I read. Percentage of privately insured persons using emergency rooms is 15.5%, but the percentage of MediCare/ MediCaid people using emergency rooms is 38.5%. Govt insured folks have far fewer Doctors to choose from, because Govt wont pay fair prices, so their waits for an appointment are so long, they go to emergency room instead, sometimes. Obamacare adds to MediCaid rolls, with no provision for more facilities, or payment!! Ouch!
@luvcheney1 Was that a broad % for across this country and was it a reliable original source or a biased anti- reform source ? Because it is just exactly the Opposite in my area, people that have medicaid have no need to use emergency service and hospitals discourage them from doing so unless it truly is an emergency.
@luvcheney1 i don't know about your area but people with medicaid in my area use regular doctor offices for their medical care and it is the uninsured many hardworking people that work for employers that can not afford to offer healthcare and that are so low paid they can't afford it that fill the emergency rooms in my area. Hospitals in my area are not friendly to illegals so they usually frequent the free clinic .which is more lenient.
@barsense The fact that the Govt health insurance programs do not pay market rates, is something you have not been considering. More and more Doctors choose not to take these patients. The doctors that DO, bill private insurance extra, to balance out the loss on Govt ins. They also must see more patients in a day. This results in longer appt times, waits to see a Dr, for Govt insured folks, and poor quality, as visit times are shorter. so more folks go to emergency rooms, as appts are scarce.
@barsense Preceding post doesnt mean thats the ONLY cause of emergency rooms closing. Being forced to take patients who wont pay is a cause as well. Libs say these problems are the reason Govt needs to take over insurance. But both problems are Govt caused! Forcing hospitals to work for nothing, and govt insurance refusing to pay market rates! You say morality demands treating those who wont pay. Closed emergency rooms treat NOBODY. Problem isnt solved by these actions.
@luvcheney1 While emergency and trauma physicians are expected to see all patients who come to the emergency department, it has become increasingly difficult to find specialists to see patients. The shortage of on-call specialists is thought to be related to decreased reimbursement due to the high number of uninsured patients while at the same time assuming additional liability by treating patients with potentially risky procedures with whom the physician has no prior relationship. IOM 2009
@luvcheney1 The IOM also calls for a regionalized system with a single federal agency to lead emergency and trauma care. With regionalization of systems EMS, EDs, and hospitals can communicate and coordinate activities and ensure that patients can be routed to hospitals with appropriate resources.
@luvcheney1 Hospitals are treating more charity cases in their emergency rooms. And businesses are facing dramatically higher costs to provide insurance to their employees, as hospitals charge paying patients more to try to cover their losses. 'Hospitals are losing millions of dollars treating uninsured patients in the emergency room,' said Kevin Bloye, a spokesman for the Georgia Hospital Association.
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farmculture024 9 months ago
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jcott15 10 months ago
Obama is the most incompetent president ever. America is now $14 trillion dollar in debt.
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@sleepeaze it's cute how you think that 14 trillion dollars of debt came from the Obama administration. I bet cutting taxes then starting 2 wars would probably have a little something to do with it.
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have any politican really change the US the way people want? Why? Because there are just too many problem to fix and they end up have NO TIME to finish their goal. The US citizen is being unfair too all of the president. They ask for too much and give him no time. They should stop complaining and think about being in his situation before moaning!
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Athruebelief 11 months ago
how many times we heard change? This isn't the campaign anymore obama. No one likes you anymore. You and Bush have fucked up america big time. Hell, all politicians have.
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gregjalbert 1 year ago
A monopoly may also form when a company has a copyright or patent that prevents others from entering the market. Pfizer, for instance, had a patent on Viagra.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Hey, stupid, who grants "patents"? THAT is a Govt GRANTED PATENT! So, you want Govt to control monopolies, when Govt is CREATING them? But, we have a slight problem, in that PATENTS are mentioned in Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution, where ALL Federal Powers are listed. However, I personally think patents is a subject to debate, but it most certainly is Constitutional.
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SIOMER 1 year ago
you Marxists know nothing about market you communists the only thing you know it's to steal money from the tax payer and be the appeasers to the Islamic- fascists it's the only thing you very well know how to do it leches!!
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Thought the newly elected tea party was making jobs their top priority. OOPS SOME CONSERVATIVES GOT TAKEN FOR A RIDE AGAIN! THANKS CONSERVATIVES WHO VOTED FOR THE TEA PARTY FOR TAKING US DOWN WITH YOU!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@MrMalprac By all means, if you want someone to support not subsidizing, I`m with you. I suggest we read Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, and have the Federal Govt obey it. Then Social Security, MediCare, MediCaid, Food Stamps, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Fannie, Freddie, and at LEAST 70% of Federal Spending would disappear. Fine with me.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@MrMalprac Having the Federal Government force me to buy insurance, packaged around THEIR ideas of what it must include, isnt "personal responsibility". I do NOT want folks who havent already bought insurance, coming on with their arteries already full of sludge, and expecting me, and my fellow policyholders picking up the bill. I dont want some lazy-ass punk on mommies policy, until he is 26 years old, nor pay unlimited liability for an AIDS patient. I want exclusions, keep costs low.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@MrMalprac Sure, the difference between us is this, I base my beliefs on a principle of personal responsibility, and Liberty. Meaning, I take care of myself, and my own, and ask nothing of YOU, or others. You base yours on what you can get, from others. I dont live on my knees, like a fucking beggar. "Obama, help me! My Doctor CHARGES me to see him! How awful!" I`m 59, my wife and I have an Anthem Blue Cross $3500 deductible, HSA plan, at only $300/mo, now in Ca.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 You wrote; "You base yours on what you can get, from others. I dont live on my knees, like a fucking beggar. "Obama, help me! My Doctor CHARGES me to see him! How awful!" WELL GUESS WHAT! This has nothing to do with that. I know that is what your told to say to deflect the real issues,and to brainwash others to distance them from people who don't agree with you. IT'S NOTHING NEW AND THIS ISN'T OUR FIRST RODEO! This has nothing to do with not paying,it's quite the opposite.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Ironically thousands of middle class,and afluent american retirees are living out their lives in places with cheaper health costs like latin,and south america (costa rica,and panama being the favorites). Panama gives retirees a 20-50% discount on things from bus fares,movies,medical bills,concerts,and more. YOU CALL US BEGGARS BUT OMIT YOUR PALS WHO MOVED TO CANADA, COSTA RICA, PANAMA,AND THE NETHERLANDS! YOUR HYPOCRITICAL FOR THE MOST PART!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief I see nothing wrong with a person going abroad to pay less. Thats reasonable, and is also being responsible for ones self, it doesnt bother anyone. That is NOT being a beggar! Like YOU! Our prices are high here, because NOBODY gives a shit. NOBODY pays a bill! Govt, Fed and State was 50% of healthcare BEFORE ObamaCare, there is NO FREE MARKET. Govt pays too little, Private ins pays too much, making up for the Govt underpays, and the rest FUCK the Emergency rooms, who CANT REFUSE.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 You must be living in a double wide to call anyone who disagrees with your point of view a beggar! Private insurance is pro-obamacare,and that is fact. Sounds like you like the current system where the doctors get screwed by short-falls,and close shop.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief You are NOT a beggar? Good! Then YOU do as you please with your doctors, and insurance, and I will do the same. You be FREE, and me too. Glad we now agree. Sorry, I had the mistaken beleief you were going to want to force me to do something I dont want to.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@Athruebelief The Doctors who are getting screwed, are getting UNDERPAID by the Govt insurance Programs. I am glad you object, as I do. Private insurance corps, and therefore their customers, are paying their own bills, PLUS overpaying to make up for the Govt underpaying. Some Doctors just REFUSE MediCaid & MediCare. I am SO GLAD you now hate Govt insurance, as I do, for causing Doctors to close up shop.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Screwing people who want to be covered,and pay their medical bills really goes against all you state. That makes you a hypocrite. You really think the poor are the only one's without health insurance? I GUESS YOU NEVER HEARD OF PRE-EXISITING CONDITIONS! MAYBE WHEN ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS GETS DENIED AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE THEN YOU WILL GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ARSE!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief I have preexisting conditions. Lets see, I had back surgery ( removed a disc, screwed the vertebrae together) , high blood pressure, diabetes, I`m fat, high cholesterol, hernias, but hey, I`m not complaining. Oh, and guess what? My insurance co paid out $140,000 last 2 years on me, and my wife and I together pay only $300 mo! Its a CONTRACT Stupid! They cant cancel me, if I pay my fucking bills on time! The trick is BUY INSURANCE FIRST, not after you get fucked up, stupid.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 1st off if you don't love yourself enough to take care of yourself,you can never truly love another,so your lack of compassion for your fellow americans is very evident. 2nd I'm so sure (SARCASM) that's exactly the reason the majority of americans are guilty of....paying their bills. 3rd YOUR NOT ONE OF THE TOP 2% SO QUIT PRETENDING YOU FRAUD!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 4th YOU SHOULD BE MAD WITH YOUR PARTY FOR NOT LOOKING AFTER YOUR INTERESTS (SINCE CORPORATE WELFARE IS MORE IMPORTANT TO THEM THAN YOU) AND NOT ME OR OTHERS!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Perhaps it never occurred to you, but ALL costs of ALL businesses are paid for by their customers. So, if you want higher taxes on Corporations, YOU pay! Want higher costs to Health insurers, by taking pre-existing conditions? YOU PAY! Want higher wages to the workers?? You pay! Hey stupid, I dont like paying, so looking out for the "Corporate welfare" is EXACTLY what I want! I NEVER said I was in the Top 2%. But, I want the MOST PRODUCTIVE people allowed to prosper, stupid.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 NO YOU DON'T! CUTTING TEACHERS SALARIES DOESN'T GET YOU SMART MINDS! YOU WERE ONE OF THE CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND OBVIOUSLY!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Catholic schools get far better results, at far lower cost per child. Just a fact. We have a union, Govt monopoly in K-12 schooling nearly, and it needs to end. "For the Kids", means "for unions", to Onama, and garbage like you. The private sector worker is waking up! They are being taxed to death, to support Govt workers. The States are collapsing financially, and the avg Joe doesnt see why HE has to suffer, to pay a union slob`s pension!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Note as well, how you changed subject?? Loser!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 YOUR A MORON! THE MARKET IS THE PEOPLE! PAYING THEM LESS DOESN'T GET YOU MORE BUSINESS! BUISNESS NEEDS THE MARKET NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief The "market" is the interaction between buyers and sellers, employers and employees. Supply and demand sets wages. The minimum wage, for example, is pushing a wage above market rates, by Govt law. Young people have the highest rates of unemployment, because they also have the highest participation in minimum wage jobs. Great! Support higher minimum wages! Fuck those kids, they dont need jobs anyway, they can steal hubcaps!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Defintion of "THE MARKET"=the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
WHERE IS THE COMPETITION? DRIVEN OUT BY THE BIG CORPORATIONS THANKS TO LAX DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS AND REPUBLICANS WHO NEVER CARED!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Give ONE example of where competition doesnt exist.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Monsanto has been sued by competitors for anti-trust and monopolistic practices. They hold between 70% and 100% of the commercial seed market.
I'D SAY THAT QUALIFIES AS A MONOPOLY! WELL I KNOW IT DOES!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief If they dont hold 100% of the fucking market, then they arent a fucking monopoly, stupid. "Mono" means ONE, asshole. Furthermore, nobody has to buy their products, they do so for a REASON. Monsanto increases PRODUCTION, which means MORE PROFIT for farmers, THAT is the OBJECT. "Morningstar" analysts state their market share as 75%, chief rival Dupont. NO MONOPOLY, liar!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Wrong again!In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos / μονος (alone or single) + polein / πωλειν (to sell)) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it ...
KEY WORDS MORON .......SUFFCIENT CONTROL NOT SOLE CONTROL! TRY AGAIN!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Google also has a lock on the growing smartphone market. The company owns nearly 96% of the mobile search market. Google doesn't dominate the search market, the company owns it.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Google has over 65% of the search market. Its closest competitors own just 17% of the market. If you combined Microsoft and Yahoo, they would still control just 34% of the search market. Google's global market share is often overlooked. According to Fortune magazine, Google owns over 90% of the market in non-mobile search worldwide. Yahoo and Bing combined barely make up over 1%.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Monopoly comes from the root, "mono", meaning one. Google most certainly has competitors. Read your own fucking numbers. The fact someone has a lot of market share doesnt mean MONOPOLY, or "one". It just means PEOPLE LIKE THEM, asshole.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 You can play these games giving one meaning to a word or a one sided view,but facts are facts,and you lack many of them! MOST PEOPLE LIKE VARIETY AND MOST HAVE NO CHOICE SO DON'T FEED US MORE B.S. THIS ISN'T MY FIRST RODEO SVEN!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Most people "liking variety" doesnt have anything to do with ANYTHING! Who has the responsibility to meet YOUR "likes"? Who has the responsibility to provide YOU with "VARIETY"? NOBODY, thats who. There are NO fucking legal barriers to the entry of competitors in the "mobile search" market. Google dominates, because people like it. BTW, in 2008, Google had 61% of the mobile search, so what do you propose to do, stupid? Since its now 96%, STOP folks from having what they want?
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 This had nothing to do with people's likes,and dislikes. HOW DARE YOU ASSUME! THERE WAS A POINT THAT WAS MADE AND I DID JUST THAT! THANKS FOR TWISTING THIS INTO YOUR PERCEIVED PERCEPTION OF THE WHOLE POINT OF THE TOPIC! NICE TO KNOW THAT RADICAL CONSERVATIVES LIKE YOURSELF PUT WORDS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MOUTHS!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Look dummy, the point is that companies get big for 2 reasons. 1) The govt PROTECTS them into a monopoly, like AT&T was, or Airline routes were, or most utility companies are. OR 2) People like the product/ service, and the company grows. This assumes LAW prevails in the country, extortion, killing, burning competitors doesnt occur. Govt created, regulated into existence monopolies are called "coercive monopolies. They suck, are govts FAULT. Customer created monopolies are good.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 I give you two examples of where there is little competition. TRY AGAIN!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Incomes for 90% of Americans have been stuck in neutral, and it's not just because of the Great Recession. Middle-class incomes have been stagnant for at least a generation, while the wealthiest tier has surged ahead at lighting speed.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 In 1988, the income of an average American taxpayer was $33,400, adjusted for inflation. Fast forward 20 years, and not much had changed: The average income was still just $33,000 in 2008, according to IRS data.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 LET ME TELL YOU A FACT! I AM ONE OF THE MOST PREMIUM COMPANIES IN MY TYPE OF BUSINESS AND GUESS WHAT? PEOPLE ARE HAPPY TO PAY A SMALL FORTUNE TO ME,BECAUSE THEIR GETTING QUALITY NOT LOW GRADE! MY SECRET? THEY SELL ME NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
House GOP Looks to Slash Education Spending
By Alyson Klein on February 12, 2011 2:05 PM House Republican leaders put out a bill last night that would slice and dice education funding far below current levels and far below what President Barack Obama wanted in his never-enacted fiscal year 2011 budget request.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
The measure, which would continue federal funding for rest of the fiscal year, takes aim at some programs that were previously considered untouchable, including special education spending and Pell Grants to help low-and-moderate income students pay for college. Overall it would cut $4.9 billion from the U.S. Department of Education's fiscal year 2010 budget of $63.7 billion.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
"This absolutely would be the largest cuts ever in history for education programs," said Joel Packer, a principal with the Raben Group in Washington, who works with the Committee for Education Funding, a coalition that advocates for increasing education spending.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
U.S. students' average scores in international comparisons have often been below the average of developed countries. In the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment 2003, 15 year olds ranked 24th of 38 in mathematics, 19th of 38 in science, 12th of 38 in reading, and 26th of 38 in problem solving. In the 2006 assessment, the U.S. ranked 35th out of 57 in mathematics and 29th out of 57 in science.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
A 2000s study by Jon Miller of Michigan State University concluded that "A slightly higher proportion of American adults qualify as scientifically literate than European or Japanese adults".
Athruebelief 1 year ago
The country has a reading literacy rate at 99% of the population over age 15, while ranking below average in science and mathematics understanding compared to other developed countries. In 2008, there was a 77% graduation rate from high school, below that of most developed countries.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
In 2007, Americans stood second only to Canada in the percentage of 35 to 64 year olds holding at least two-year degrees. Among 25 to 34 year olds, the country stands tenth. The nation stands 15 out of 29 rated nations for college completion rates, slightly above Mexico and Turkey. According to government data, one-tenth of students are enrolled in private schools. Approximately 85% of students enter the public schools.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
Psychology 101:KIMLENE05 people who brag about wealth really don't have that much or have a self-inflated value of personal wealth.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
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Athruebelief 1 year ago
KIMLENE05 WE THE PEOPLE TIRE OF YOUR AD NAUSEAM PROPAGANDA! WORK ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY THAN HIRING OTHERS YOU LAZY BASTARD!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@kimlene05 The US federal government is guilty of making huge corporate welfare handouts. Taxpayers are forced to pay for ridiculous things, including handouts to Enron, General Motors and AT&T. WE THE PEOPLE WANT OUR TAX MONEY BACK YOU DIRTY THIEF AND BEGGAR!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
KIMLENE05 I heard you got busted trolling on craigslist claiming you were a lobbyist to pick up chicks. WHAT IS IT WITH THE RIGHT WING AND THE ADDICTION TO CRAIGSLIST?
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@MrMalprac Congress authorized the war in Iraq, thats a fact. Remember Bill Clinton?
Wednesday, December 16, 1998
CLINTON: Good evening.
Earlier today, I ordered America’s armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors." You sir, are a fucking liar, or an idiot.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
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Athruebelief 1 year ago
By Tanya Somanader on Feb 9th, 2011 at 4:45 pm THINKPROGRESS
After Voting To Repeal Health Care, GOP Members Without Coverage Fear Cost To Family Members
House Republicans have pledged to repeal and/or defund the health care law. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) even adopted the effort as her sole “motivation in life.” But, for at least 16 GOP lawmakers, the reality of the party’s position is coming home to roost.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
These Republicans, “many of whom were swept into office fueled by tea party anger over the health care law,” are now facing the same expensive, unforgiving health insurance market as middle-class Americans the GOP wantonly abandoned: “I have a niece who has pre-existing conditions, and I worry about her if she was ever to lose her job,” said Florida Rep. Richard Nugent, one of the freshman lawmakers who declined federal health insurance benefits.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief We all know, many Republicans are phonies, and almost as stupid as the Lib Democrats. So?
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 It's republicans for the most part who are dumber than democrats. Take Jan Brewer- she doesn't have a college degree!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Bill Gates didnt graduate either. Most politicians are lawyers. Lawyers take money from those who have it, and give it to others, taking a cut. This is exactly what Libs do. Perhaps we need more politicians who are not lawyers, who actually know how to MAKE money, not redistribute it.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 So your telling me, people who have been physically or financially abused; that use a lawyer to fight for them are wrong? Your telling me that they stole from the people who have wronged them?
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Lawsuit awards are about double to quadruple in the US, compared to the other Industrialized nations. This is just another increased cost, for US business. Just one more reason to leave the US. Just one more reason HealthCare costs too much, fucking over the little guy. ALL corp costs are paid by customers.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 The difference between the democrats in this country,and republicans today. Democrats="ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. " Republicans="ask what your country can do for you; not what you can do for your country. " WITH REPUBLICANS TODAY IT'S ALWAYS ME ME ME ME ME!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Is that so? All we want is for YOU to do as you please. Leave us alone. Feel free to buy health insurance, or dont. Feel free to pay your doctor with a check, or dont. Go to a Doctor, or dont. Choose a Chiropractor, holistic medicine, or a fucking witch doctor. Just let me pay my bills my way, and you pay your bills your way. Trouble is, you dont WANT me left alone, YOU want me to pay OTHER PEOPLES BILLS. So, fuck off lying lunatic!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 There is always a flip side to the coin. YOU REALLY THINK I LIKE THE WAY MY TAXES ARE SPENT TO HIRE DICTATORS,SCUM,UNWARRENTED WARS, MONOPOLIZING COMPANIES KEEPING THE COMPETITION DOWN,DESTROYING MY COUNTRY AS WELL AS THE PLANET IS OK? YOUR REALLY HYPOCRITICAL DON'T YA THINK?
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief I agree, everyone has a beef. If a guy making $50K yr paid 10% income tax, and a guy making $500K ( ten times as much) paid the same 10% income tax, the rich guy would be paying 10 times more. That seems fair. But, that isnt enough for YOU! You want the rich guy paying a 39.6% rate, or 39.6 times more, on 10 times more income. The point isnt we all bitch about how its spent, the issue is most of the country doesnt pull its weight at all.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
Every single House Republican voted to repeal the health care law last month.
“I can simply, honestly say that this is going to impact my wife and I to a fairly serious degree, like it would any average American out there,” said first-time Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
Walsh’s wife has a pre-existing condition and will need a procedure in the coming months, but because he declined federal benefits, they’re paying for it out of pocket. Meanwhile, Walsh is contributing to a health savings account to cover his expenses.
“It’s a cost we will feel, a cost I will have to pick up. I won’t turn down benefits because I have something to fall back on or because I’m independently wealthy,” he said.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
But while recognizing that “there are 14 some million Americans and growing who are out there in the individual market who have a much tougher battle” than him, Walsh voted with every GOP House member to repeal the law that helps. And while they willingly deny millions of Americans, none see any reason to deny their staffs the taxpayer-funded benefit.
GOP lawmakers have struggled to explain why they deserve government-subsidized health care while ordinary Americans don’t.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) said he accepted federal health care because he was “actually lowering” premiums for older lawmakers. When asked whether he’d turn down taxpayer benefits, Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) actually said, “I don’t know. Am I a federal employee?” And Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) offered a more blunt — and revealing — response: “What am I not supposed to have health care?…God forbid I get into an accident and can’t afford the operation. That can happen to anyone.”
Athruebelief 1 year ago
The tea party newbies decided to cancel their government health care plans,and decided to sign up for private health care insurance for them,and their family.IRONICALLY THE NEWLY ELECTED TEA PARTY MEMBERS HATE THE PRIVATE HEALTH CARE POLICIES BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE AND HAVE PRE-EXISITING CONDITION ROADBLOCKS TO COVER THEIR SICK KIDS! HA! HA! WELCOME TO MY WORLD TEA PARTY MORONS!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
Lack of insurance and access to primary care leads to repeated ED visits and sicker patients. When patients with health problems cannot get timely and regular primary care, they tend to come to the ED as their problems flare or they get sicker. . More than one physician gave as an illustration of this problem as uninsured patients seek repeat treatment for infections that after several cosly Ed visits wind up with the more risky and costly surgery w/ infection that could have been avoided .
barsense 1 year ago
Prosperity that was supposed to ‘trickle down’ has instead flowed straight uphill. Between 1990 and 2000, the average CEO pay went up by 571% and corporate profits grew by 93% while worker pay barely stayed ahead of inflation.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Profit influenced by inflation, higher prices, you dont mention THAT. P/E ratio of S&P500 is only 4.2%, just 70% of normal. The US is not producing out of the Govt/ union monopoly schools, a workforce capable of filling Doctor, nurse, software, math and science tech jobs, because we lag behind Asia. The high pay jobs go begging, as manufacturing is something any dope can do, here, or Shanghai. CEO pay is set by market forces, as is avg worker pay. Too few MBA`s, too many dopes.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 UNION MONOPOLY? YOUR FUNNY! WHAT UNIONS?
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief The Public School K-12 unions. You know, the school system paying far more than anywhere in the world, for the worst fucking results. "Support Education", means "private sector workers pay for benefits and retirement of unionized teachers, far in excess of your own".
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Before Obama became President, the Blacks of DC got vouchers, could choose the schools their kids went to. Union President Obama stopped that immediately, unionized teachers do NOT like parents having choice where to send their kids, nor does Obama. They might choose a school that is better, without unions. Of course, after this decision, Obama chose to send HIS kids to a private school. His kids deserve it, but poor Blacks do Not deserve THAT CHOICE, in Obama`s mind.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
THINKPROGRESS
By Scott Keyes on Nov 23rd, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Corporations Post Record Profits As Republicans Call For Eliminating The ‘Insidious’ Corporate Income Tax
Last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) – a man ThinkProgress readers are familiar with – took to the House floor to bemoan the “insidious” tax on corporations. “We can compete with anybody,” Gohmert declared, “if you take off that insidious tax” on business. Watch it:
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief The average US corp tax rate is 39% ( Fed and State). The average of 31 OECD ( the important ones) nations is 24%. ( Canada is 16.5%). Only a stupid fuck pays 15% more!! IF corps leave the US, earn profit abroad, and keep it abroad, they pay overseas, and owe here zero. That is how Google, GE does it. GE is also getting "green" subsidies as well. IF you want more taxes paid to US Govt, it plainly is pathetically stupid to think corps will stay here, where their profits are seized.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 The corporate tax rate may be high,but the tax loopholes are in abundance,and as a result us corporations pay less in corporate taxes than the rest of the developed nations in the world. So sugarcoating the facts won't gain you support! MOST PAY NEXT TO NOTHING OR NOTHING AT ALL! SO PLEASE TRY AGAIN!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Ignorant Liar. "SOI tax stats corp" ( IRS) shows that the LARGEST credit to corps is the "foreign tax credit" 85% of ALL loopholes. Example: US overseas corp pays 24% corp inc tax to Barfistan govt. If US Corp bring profit BACK to US, it owes Fed tax of 35%, but deducts the 24% paid abroad, leaving 11% due Fed Govt, plus State tax too. You THINK US CORP can pay 24% abroad, PLUS the 39% HERE TOO? INSANITY! Thats why profits are LEFT OUTSIDE the US. They dont pay here, they LEAVE!!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 "WE THE PEOPLE" TIRE OF THE CORPORATE OLIGARCHY !
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Gee, ran out of facts pretty fucking quick, eh Lib?? Guess outsourcing of jobs, loss of Govt revenue to waste, excess supplies of labor with fewer jobs collapsing market wages is no concern of yours, huh? Good luck, Obama is YOUR MAN! Run even MORE businesses out of the country. That will show THEM!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 What government revenue? A New York Times analysis this week of the 500 companies in Standard & Poor's stock index found that 115 paid less than 20 % in corporate taxes and 34 paid less than 10%over the past 5 years.The cruise line Carnival paid 1.1 percent of its cumulative $11.3 billion in profits. Other examples in the Times' analysis includes Boeing,which paid a total tax rate of 4.5%; Southwest Airlines, 6.3 %; Yahoo, 7%; Prudential Financial, 7.6%; and General Electric, 14.3%.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief If 115 paid less than 20%, then 385 paid MORE than 20%. If 34 paid LESS than 10%, 466 paid MORE than 10%! Foreign Tax Credit is 85% off all TAX CREDITS. US Corps have subsidiaries OUTSIDE the US, and if profit left OUT of US, Owe nothing to US. If they bring $ back, they owe the difference, between tax paid abroad, and US Rate. So what? Financial corps pay little, when offsetting past year losses, STUPID.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@Athruebelief If you go to "SOI Tax Stats- Corp", and study income statement-like IRS report, you can add the foreign tax credit BACK on taxes, and come to a 34% tax rate. That is for Biggest Corps, those with over $2.5 billion in assets. That means, corps dont pay 35% rate, because they dont OWE it. US Govt has no way to asses taxes on money earned abroad, left abroad. If our corps pay 39% here, how do they compete with countries at 24%? Or 16.5%, like canada?
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Middle class spending is the growth engine in a free market economy, and when taxes rob the middle class in favor of the rich, the economy shuts down. Huge fortunes also produce political power that is hard to control. That’s why all modern democracies use their tax laws to prevent excessive concentration of wealth. And that’s why we need a fair taxes campaign in America.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Corporations have been profiting in Washington, too. In 1965, individual taxpayers paid 66% of all US income taxes, and corporations paid about a third. But by 2000, the corporate share had dropped to 18%, just about half what it used to be.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Of course! We have the highest statutory tax rate in the industrialized world!! Our corps Leave the US because of it. They now pay corp income taxes to OTHER GOVTS, stupid! OECD nations have lifted their percentage corp tax revenues, because they have been cutting TAXES on CORPS! Sorry, its not my fault you didnt get the memo. US corporations leave the US to make money for STOCKHOLDERS, not the Fed Govt!! They vote, with their FEET, and GO! Retarded folks like you, sent them away.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 NO CORPORATE GREED SENT THEM AWAY AND NOTHING MORE!
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief US Govt, and voter IGNORANCE sent them away. In the 31 OECD nations, Voter, and Govt intelligence has been ATTRACTING AMERICAN corps, and gaining ever larger corp income tax, with lower and lower tax rates. You dont really want workers here WORKING, do ya? More Nanny State vegetables means more votes for Dems, doesnt it?
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 You are an absolute moron who chooses to hear only what you want to hear or in my case read only what you want to read. I would like to see the corporate tax rate lower,but there needs to be accountability,and the middle class should now longer carry the burden of paying the taxes for the wealthy.
Athruebelief 1 year ago
@Athruebelief Corporate income taxes, and individual income taxes are 2 distinct, different subjects. Any DOPE knows that individual income taxes are progressive in nature, and the more you earn, the higher percentage rate you pay!! Are you frustrated, changing the subject to run? If your income tax is at the "median" income, the 50% of those below you, only pay 3% of all income taxes! The 50% above you pay 97%. You are again, full of shit.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 In this country we don't let people die at the doors of the emergency room because they may not have enough money. I do hope it always stays that way.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense Explain exactly WHY hospitals, emergency room physicians, nurses, and investors ought to expect NO compensation for their efforts.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 The do get compensation the prices are increased on those of us who do pay and we pick up the tabs that is why I would rather subsidize ins. than have to pay for the most expensive form of medical care often which could be avoided thru a much less expensive office call before problems become so serious.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense Liar. Scores and scores of emergency rooms have closed in Ca. That means longer waits, longer ambulance rides, ability to treat fewer emergency cases. DEATH, PAIN, DESTRUCTION. If they were getting compensated, making enough to be worth staying open, they would.stay open. Who closes profitable businesses, STUPID?
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1
You're attempting to educate the mentally ill. These clowns are genetic defects. You do deserve recognition for your effort!
rbs651 1 year ago
@rbs651 I injured my back 2 years ago, and amuse myself by picking fights. I could bitch all day about the $18K out of pocket I spent on deductibles the last 2 yrs, paying for my own insurance plan, but then I`m not a fucking commie. I hired the best surgeon in Los Angeles, and that Chink has me feeling a lot better. So, if you need someone to slice your back wide open, pull some shit out, and put some metal back in, I know a guy. Blue Cross paid $140,000 total, so I guess I got even, eh?
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1
I simply don't understand the mentally ill liberals and their 'entitlement' mentality. If they spent as much time working as they do begging and complaining, they'd be well off!
I had Blue Cross for a long time. I liked them! I'm sure Amoronsbelief and Nosense will come up with some excuse as to why they are 'evil'! HA!
rbs651 1 year ago
@rbs651 The "Individual Mandate," which Republicans call "socialism" and "unconstitutional" was proposed by Republicans in the 1990's. Bob Dole (the leader of the Republican party at the time) proposed something very similar to ObamaCare. LOL , it is only socialism are unconstitutional when democrats propose it. You people are toooo funny.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense
Did my post say 'democrat' or 'republican'? No. It said mentally ill liberal. Again, I am not a republican. I won't be one again until they get back on track. With the election of Great Americans like Ltc. West, they appear to be on track again. Perhaps my money and I will return to the GOP.
rbs651 1 year ago
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barsense 1 year ago
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barsense 1 year ago
@rbs651 LOL, they may need some more of your money to hire some more lobbyists for their congressional staffs to write their legislation for them so they can get set some more regs on us to make sure the money keeps flowing to the top. Yes, you need to give them some money before they take it. Go for it man, you might not want to wait to long .
barsense 1 year ago
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@rbs651 LOL, they may need some more of your money to hire some more lobbyists for their congressional staffs to write their legislation for them so they can get set some more regs on us to make sure the money keeps flowing to the top. Yes, you need to give them some money before they take it. Go for it man, you might not want to wait to long .
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Wouldn't it be so easy if everyone earned enough to pay 18 k out of pocket but then if they did employers would not be able to pay that much themselves and have anything left to live on for a large majority of them.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense Most I ever earned annually myself was $39,000 about 5 years ago. My wife and I together work 60 hour weeks now, in our little business, making that now, between the 2 of us. I sacrificed, saved, paid off my home about 15 years ago, and put Austrian Coronas, Kruggerrands, and Gold Eagles away, in safe deposit boxes, a few at a time, over decades. I have my insurance, pay it, and have money because I sacrificed. I dont beg a piece of shit for HealthCare. I hired the FINEST DOC!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Sounds like you have a good spouse it does help to have 2 working . Sounds like you were not one of the unlucky ones that has to start over after some tragedy either like Katrinrina, a serious accident, illness, or many things that so many do have to deal with. I am glad .
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense You stated "we" are a country that doesnt turn away people from the emergency room who cant pay. LIAR. Emergency rooms all over have been closed down because Govt requiring to serve those who will NOT pay causes LOSSES. So, YOUR policy means SHORTAGES of help, Death, Pain, Disability. How Moral! There is NO free lunch. Hundreds of Unions, corporations given permission to ignore ObamaCare, because of COSTS.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 There are still emergency rooms available , not that many have closed down and some have opened up to replace the ones that close down, increases in numbers of uninsured is more the problem than anything else and that is something that needs to be fixed.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense Sure, there are rooms open, but many have closed, and emergency room services are declining, because of idiots who think making folks work for FREE is MORAL. You know they are closing, you lying sack of shit.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 This is a public forum for people of all ages and all over the world , it is people like you that are not willing to discuss civilly and decently that cause parents who do not want their children exposed to have to exercise parental controls. Out of respect for those parents I would ask you to please consider keeping your responses reasonably decent without the insults and unpleasnt language and false accusations. Thank you.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 And I believe like I have mentioned before the problem is the large increases in uninsured that is overloading emergency rooms and getting insurance to more people especially since I do beleive the majority of them ARE WORKING people will benefit all of us. Most people on welfare, non -workers have had access to heatlhcare for many years now thru medicaid and many state programs, it is the low paid workers and low profit margin small biz owners that are in need of healthcare.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense 1) The first Amendment doesnt prohibit uncivil comments, nor cursing 2) Certainly, a HealthCare expert, such as yourself, knows that Govt MediAid patients demand far more emergency room visits that those with Private Insurance. This is because the Govt wont pay market rates, so Doctors, providers refuse them. Those who DO provide, are in short supply, and waits are so long, they go to emergency rooms. Govt forces E Rooms to see those who dont pay, wont pay MediCaid. Govt caused crisis
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 You are right manners and respect for children and parents that don't want children exposed is the only influence agaisnt uncivil comments because it is certainly not against the law. freedom of speech allows it and leaves it up to the people to make the choice of whether or not to give good examples.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 i don't know about your area but people with medicaid in my area use regular doctor offices for their medical care and it is the uninsured many hardworking people that work for employers that can not afford to offer healthcare and that are so low paid they can't afford it that fill the emergency rooms in my area. Hospitals in my area are not friendly to illegals so they usually frequent the free clinic .which is more lenient.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense MediCaid sets its own rates to pay Doctors. This rate is below market, and, in a free society, many Doctors have chosen, and are choosing to not serve MediCaid patients, because they want to be paid market rates. This means, all over the US, there are some Doctors refusing, and the ones that do accept MUST hurry the patients through, and have long waits. Because of this, appointments may take weeks for a MediCare Doctor to be seen, so patients are forced into Emergency rooms. Dummy.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Your insult in unwarranted , I have never been on medicare or medicaid so I have no personal experience but I do know who fills up the emergency rooms in our local hospitals and it is NOT medicare or medicaid patients they do go thru regular doctor visits.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense I have never been on Govt aid either, but I read. Percentage of privately insured persons using emergency rooms is 15.5%, but the percentage of MediCare/ MediCaid people using emergency rooms is 38.5%. Govt insured folks have far fewer Doctors to choose from, because Govt wont pay fair prices, so their waits for an appointment are so long, they go to emergency room instead, sometimes. Obamacare adds to MediCaid rolls, with no provision for more facilities, or payment!! Ouch!
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Was that a broad % for across this country and was it a reliable original source or a biased anti- reform source ? Because it is just exactly the Opposite in my area, people that have medicaid have no need to use emergency service and hospitals discourage them from doing so unless it truly is an emergency.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 i don't know about your area but people with medicaid in my area use regular doctor offices for their medical care and it is the uninsured many hardworking people that work for employers that can not afford to offer healthcare and that are so low paid they can't afford it that fill the emergency rooms in my area. Hospitals in my area are not friendly to illegals so they usually frequent the free clinic .which is more lenient.
barsense 1 year ago
@barsense The fact that the Govt health insurance programs do not pay market rates, is something you have not been considering. More and more Doctors choose not to take these patients. The doctors that DO, bill private insurance extra, to balance out the loss on Govt ins. They also must see more patients in a day. This results in longer appt times, waits to see a Dr, for Govt insured folks, and poor quality, as visit times are shorter. so more folks go to emergency rooms, as appts are scarce.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@barsense Preceding post doesnt mean thats the ONLY cause of emergency rooms closing. Being forced to take patients who wont pay is a cause as well. Libs say these problems are the reason Govt needs to take over insurance. But both problems are Govt caused! Forcing hospitals to work for nothing, and govt insurance refusing to pay market rates! You say morality demands treating those who wont pay. Closed emergency rooms treat NOBODY. Problem isnt solved by these actions.
luvcheney1 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 While emergency and trauma physicians are expected to see all patients who come to the emergency department, it has become increasingly difficult to find specialists to see patients. The shortage of on-call specialists is thought to be related to decreased reimbursement due to the high number of uninsured patients while at the same time assuming additional liability by treating patients with potentially risky procedures with whom the physician has no prior relationship. IOM 2009
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 The IOM also calls for a regionalized system with a single federal agency to lead emergency and trauma care. With regionalization of systems EMS, EDs, and hospitals can communicate and coordinate activities and ensure that patients can be routed to hospitals with appropriate resources.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Hospitals are treating more charity cases in their emergency rooms. And businesses are facing dramatically higher costs to provide insurance to their employees, as hospitals charge paying patients more to try to cover their losses. 'Hospitals are losing millions of dollars treating uninsured patients in the emergency room,' said Kevin Bloye, a spokesman for the Georgia Hospital Association.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Many observe a new “recession” population in their EDs. ED physicians and nurses report seeing
more people who previously had health insurance but lost their jobs in the recession and became
uninsured as a result. In addition, they perceive an increase in insured patients who seek primary care
in the ED because they cannot afford to pay deductibles and cost-sharing at their doctor’s office.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 ED doctors across the board cited sharp inadequacies in access to primary care in
their communities, particularly (though not only) for the uninsured. They said that uninsured patients
must come to the ED when they have the kinds of complaints – a sore throat, hives, a sprained ankle,
etc. – for which insured patients go to their primary care doctors.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 Uninsured adults who have run out
of their medicines also come to the ED to get a refill when they have no other access to physician care.
Often, they have gone weeks without their medicine by the time they come. Since few ED physicians
will prescribe more than a month’s worth of medicine for an ongoing condition, this situation is likely
to be repeated a month later.
barsense 1 year ago
@luvcheney1 EDs see more insured patients who come because they cannot obtain timely or affordable primary
care in the community. Insured patients sometimes seek primary care in the ED because they face
unacceptably long waits for appointments with private physicians or primary care practices are full.
The lack of after-hours appointment times is a problem for many who are working, especially in this
economy.
barsense 1 year ago