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  • Alan Grayson lost his seat because FACT: According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, ONLY 25% of Americans for the year 2008, were College grads! Now we know why Grayson lost.!

  • @Slayerfan84 we dont want a place where everyone is a college grad. soon mcdonalds will require a degree.

  • If bill goes forward ur lookin at 40mil illegals soon on your dime,...52 million citizens high risk-on your dime, and 60 million more citizens "bumped" into welfare & free Health Care again on your dime due to bad econ & job loss.

    ""Public Option"" is Retarded speak for "MANDATE", as there is NO OPTION in MANDATE!!!

    A 2300 Pg BILL of Fines Taxes, Fees, Intrusion, that STEALS $500 Billion from Seniors, Taxes-$7k/person/household in cadillac HC plans, AND forces teens to pay for the old is NG!

  • You call me "fear-monger", "republican" (I associate with no party), and a KKK sympathizer, all because I disagree with the contents of the bill - yet you claim to be against name-calling in debates. Blatant hypocrisy if you ask me.

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  • from your profile: "You can leave any comment you want; disagree with me, prove me wrong, that's cool but when it comes to namecalling, that's where I draw the line."

    Hypocrite. :)

  • It's almost pathetic how much of a tool you are. Have you ever once thought for yourself? Look up "ad hominem", get your head out of your ass, then get back to me.

  • New Rasmussen Report (11/11/09):

    74% of voters rate the quality of care they now receive as good or excellent

    53% of voters believe Healthcare Reform will have the opposite effect

    50% of voters oppose the bill in its current form

    28% of voters are currently willing to pay higher taxes

    25% of voters strongly favor the reform effort

    Don't skew the numbers, Grayson. It's clear the majority of Americans do NOT want PelosiCare's welfare state.

    Source: WSJ and Rasmussen

  • rasmussen skews numbers all the time... know why rasmussen doesnt poll "americans"... but only what they consider "likely voters"? Because they lump democrats into the unlikely voters category... and thus it helps them to achieve their bias agenda. They also tend to load their poll questions.

    Polls that actually ask americans what they think of the healthcare bill show that 65% of americans are in favor.

  • 37% of Rasmussen likely voters identify themselves as Democrats, as opposed to 32% Republican and 31% not affiliated. The sample is approximately 45,000 people.

    Don't make up things to attempt to validated your -skewed- point of view. :)

  • let me just ask you this.... why do they always make the distinction of "likely voters" why do they never just say "of people polled"?

    If they just reported the answers they were given, as they were given... the poll would be much more democratic. Why else would a polling agency purposely exclude a good portion of their data?

  • Their entire sample is made up of likely voters. Why would they robocall unlikely voters, as they do not excercise their rights and therefore have no influence on policy?

  • depends... if you are a senator that cares more about reelection than what people want... go with likely voters. If you are a new senator that only cares about serving the people... then go with what the people want.

  • If by "people" you mean the Americans who think the government is obligated to hand them everything in life.

  • "Fuck you, I've got mine."

  • Because if you're against socialized healthcare, you're againt healthcare reform, am i right!?!

  • tort reform is not comprehensive reform fyi sorry...

  • tort reform is not the only kind of reform fyi sorry...

  • Which, I understand, is still lower than they were under Reagan? Is this correct?

  • soccerperson, any conversation about cost without including these liabilities is deeply intellectually dishonest.

  • i am referring to the 1.2 trillion dollar price tag on the reform. you dont sound like you know the facts if you believe that it simply magically creates a public option that will not cost any money to the government. if this were the case do you honestly think that anyone would oppose it??

  • Why don't we take some of the trillions we hand to defense contractors to blow up and rebuild buildings in the middle east (and arm the warlords and black bag people we don't like), some of the billions we pay in interest to the Federal Reserve, some of the billions made through fraud and insider trading on wall street, and a little bit from the corporate interests that make a profit by denying people treatments? That might put a dent in the cost...

  • Wouldn't the insurance industry still oppose it? And pharma? Wait, who opposes it now...?

  • Republicans have killed thousands of Americans with their stunts and delay theatrics over the last 8 months. Enough is enough. The American people have spoken and they want health care reform with a strong public option. No more Republican nonsense in the US Senate. Call your Senator and tell him you want health care reform passed in the Senate through the reconciliation process.

    To Hell with Snowe, Lieberman, and Bauchus.

    57 Democrats will vote for health care reform

    DEMAND A VOTE NOW!

  • Either you have empathy or you don't.  That's it!

  • This is one tough and thoughtful leader. Thank you, Rep. Grayson! You are a priceless asset to America.

  • drudgereport. google it

  • and,the point is they are saying this is not a govt takeover,but that is indeed the plan as described by frank.

  • my point about frank is this year when he said that to a constituienyt about the govt option.

  • when did i say anything about clinton? i think you are responding to the wrong post.

  • The people he is speaking to genuinely don't give a damn about us who voted for them. They are completely and wholly owned by their corporate donors, the same ones that got "bailed out" on our dime after killing their companies with greed, and the same ones that want you to be forced to by private insurance, and still pay huge deductibles so high you will still go bankrupt.

    Let's get these corporations and sell-out Congressmen and Senators of our backs the next election.

  • see my response to kaysandess

  • establishment,meaning there shall be no law passed saying this church is the official church of the usa.

  • before i get out of here. I think everone on youtube are smart people. It's just that dam Q? Look nobody is any better then anyone else. we just need to do what we are doing . And that is talking.

  • actually my religion aside talking pure biology in the first tri-mester the child is developed a brain wave and heartbeat.

  • Universal health care will hurt the profits of corporations that provide unhealthy products to our economy by giving the taxpayer a personal incentive to influence the purchases and habits of people that perpetually act in unhealthy ways....

    To put it plainly... our culture will change from one where people don't seem to give a fuck about people that they don't know.....to one where they do....

  • GW Bush started two wars, drained the economy and spied on public without the consent of others. So why does Obama have problem of passing a National Health care that is supposed to help the American people. Is Obama playing sweet and obedient black president? Because we do not need sweet and obedient, we need someone who has the balls to pass laws. Speaking of' the American people', that is what Republicans keep repeating as if they give a shit about the public.

  • @Antigodboy left wing and right wing belong to same eagle. bush is bad cop, obama is good cop. healthcare is a distraction.

  • So let me get this straight...god gave me the right to have insurance companies overcharge my rates and then turn around and refuse to pay for my treatment?

  • God gave you a brain. So I say as people we did it to are self. Aways looking to the Gov. for help. Ask the Q? and seek the truth.

  • Meatballism im telling you

  • lol all you people arguing make me sick.

  • fuck 'these' people how bout fixing the education system

  • Yes.( Establishment) at that time.

  • JO45YOU. I'm sure you mean well...but you're just not informed. You should just quit trying to argue that which you do not understand.

  • The rights we as people in the U.S. have. Was given to us by GOD. The father's believed that. And the Establishment at the time also believed.

  • That's incredibly presumtuous

  • we hold these truths to be self evident. we are endowed by our creator? what does that mean?

  • The right to LIFE, LIBERTY AND PERSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

    SO AS A RELIGIOUS PERSON WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE BLEEDING TO DEATH IN THE STREET DO YOU DRIVE ON BY CAUSE IT WOULD COST TO MUCH IN GAS. IF NOT YOU SUPPORT HEALTH CARE REFORM IF YOU DO DRIVE ON BY WELL IT'S AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND I HOPE YOU LOSE YOUR INSURANCE AND WE'LL HEAR WHAT SONG YOU'RE SINGING THEN

  • You are your bother's keeper. and I think this bill is bull.

  • What a pedantic douchebag.

  • To texytam: Q. did the father's of the U.S.A. Keep Religion out of Politics?

  • Are you kidding me!? Dude...you need some history lessons man!

  • yah right.

  • That's a good response. Keep your religous crap out of it. Do you understand what the word separation means? Look it up.

  • where does it say separation in the constitution?

  • He said the 'Fathers'...not the constitution. Last I knew..Thomas Jefferson was one of those. Learn about him a little bit more. 1802 Letter to Danbury Baptists! "Wall of separation". Quoted by the Supreme Court in 1878. Google this shit man! Become informed or shut the HELL UP!

  • the wall of separation was to insure that unlike england which had a national church,that we did not have one here in america. thus the establishment clause in the first amendment. it wasn't meant to try to shut out religios speech or thought in the public square. glad to deliver this teaching moment to you.

  • Sorry, but I can't dumb myself down enough to respond to you any longer.

  • after being slapped down with the facts i don't blame you.

  • jo45you. no they did not. but libs would say otherwise.

  • That what you say.

  • It's nice that you say i'm my brothers keeper but morality is only part of the reason i support the bill. The public option is the reason i want the bill. A government run insurance agency which will keep the cost down on private insurance. Government insurance that just barely makes a profit.

  • CHECK OUT JAWAUN ARCHIE

  • ok so we willpass healthcare and the country wil be great untill we realize hey oh wait we dont even have any monet we are like 15 trillion in debt oh shoot we are going to have to actually be fiscally responsible and we cant give shit away to everyone.

  • This guy is a lunatic..........pure and simple

  • 9/11 2001 is an inside job pass it on dont let these fucking assholes get away with it.

    Health insurance is just as big as scam on the people that 9/11 is....

  • you are pretty stupid

  • Fuck you slave... Speak when your spoken to slave to the private banks of the IRS you pay taxes too and they setart illegal wars...

    YOU WORTHLESS FUCKING SLAVE!

    FUCK YOU VIKRAM301 FUCK YOU! BITCH

  • wow, for such a "spiritual" person, you are very angry and vulgar.

  • oh you dont know the half of it....

    When it comes to exploiting our people for what nothing this is what you get...

    Look up my cancer treatments think of how I feel.

  • And we are all going to die anyway. Someday.

  • isnt it the LIBERALS that wanted to KILL terry Schiavo?? Isnt it the LIBERALS who kill millions of us citizen babies in thier abortion camps in the northern slum cities??

    Oh yes, what HYPOCRITE this clown is

  • No compassionrepublican, Terry Schiavo had already been brain dead for many years and were in favor of supporting the court's decision.

    I hate to break it to you, but the highest rates of abortion are in Red States.

  • Isn't it the conservatives that feel the need to impose their values on everyone else. I guess you didn't follow the Schiavo case very closely. She was on life support numb-nut...quit being an idiot, it doesn't help YOUR cause. Do some research...besides fox news.

  • I did a lot of research. And this bill is not the way to go at all.

  • fair enough...but my comment was more in response to a misguided understanding of a court ruling.

  • dont make fun of downs kids please. Youre not helping the cause :-)

  • jhamm999; yes people die, but the point is that there are so many out there who are dieing needlessly. you think we don't need to worry about them because of your mother, I don't think so.

  • you miss my point entirely. insurance is not some kind of shield that guards you against dying. nor is the lack of it going to kill you.

  • You can die from a small cut on your finger if you don't treat it correctly. The study confirms that many thousands of deaths can be prevented with proper treatment. Are you against that?

  • we have a federal law that says even if you don't have ins. you have to be treated. so it's not a matter of getting care. if people feel inhibited in seeing a doctor you can;t blame it on anyone.

  • only in emergencies situations, which for many diseases, namely the two biggest heart disease and cancer... is too late

  • Righto ristoril. In case you haven't noticed jhamm999 bases every one of his decisions on what pastor tells him sunday morning. He, like most repugnicans/wingnuts, completely lack the ability to examine a situation, analyze the various solutions, and through education and critical thinking choose the best decision.

    "Pastor said so Pastor said so! "

  • no it is the law i stated idiot. learn to read okay?

  • What law? jhamm999?

  • you really don't know? i really thought you informed

  • no if you go to a hospital with a heart condition you have to be treated.

  • If you go the ER with chest pains and you're diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and blocking cardiac arteries you better either have some sort of good insurance, or you better get your affairs in order. They don't do cardiac bypass in the ER and they are under no obligation to give you that surgery for nothing.

  • they would refer you to a cardiologist then. but they would not just kick you out.

  • im sure your mom would not want other sick and dying people to get free healthcare too. afterall, the weak should just die from the "disease" they contract. of course, we dont want any intellectual and dishonest publicity whores coming around and helping us--screw it! let everybody who has a disease just die slowly, and we won' t have to worry about it. that way, your mom can rest in peace :)

  • yeah my 84 year old mom who raised 8 kids think people should help themselves. also your lucky you didn't say that disrespectful shit about my mom to my face tough guy. otherwise you would be in need of some medical help you prick.

  • You people are so caring about babies being born or not but we still allow very poor, criminals, or mentally ill to have kids.

    That is the worse child abuse.

  • Define what is wrong with being poor? (other than not having the necessities of life).

    Mentally ill people do not necessarily have mentally ill offspring.

    The majority of locked up criminals today are drug sales related (or economic crime) - someone trying to earn a living by selling what the public is buying. So we lock them up and we pay for their upkeep, maintenance and health care.

  • Nothings wrong with being poor but a lot is wrong with bringing children into the same condition.

    Mentally ill people have no business RAISING children.

    What's wrong with your brain? You saying it's ok to sell drugs as long as there are buyers for it? If you have kids you will NOT think that way.

  • the majority miscarriages happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy too. Surgery for miscarriage is a short procedure to empty a womb...During the procedure, your surgeon will pass a soft plastic tube through your cervix into your womb. The pregnancy material is removed by suction which in the US cost you money to do if it natural or otherwise

  • way to dehumanize a child there. pregnancy material. wtf?

  • Hey jhamm999, You're ranting and raving here about abortion, yet you have a wholesale objection to health care reform.

    Maybe you can clear something up for me. I've never been able to figure out why backwards, uneducated, ignorant conservatards like you only care about people BEFORE they're born?

  • again you read me wrong. i support healthcare reform,just not one that includes a govt takeover. reform it thru the private sector. also explain this to me. obama,pelosi and the bunch say the govt option will be self sufficient thru premiums p-aid from people who want to join. if that is the case then why is it going to cost 1 trillion dollars?.btw we care for both the woman and the unborn. that's why there are crisis pregnancy centers.

  • You're so full of shit. There has been no, and is no, realistic way to reform health care through the private sector. It's just a GOP talking point. As such, you're against any sort of meaningful health reform.

    You still didn't answer my question: why are you against measures that will provide basic, affordable healthcare to every U.S. citizen?

  • how do you know if it has never been tried? we can make a law that allows people to buy ins. across state lines. i did answer your question,just not in the way wanted me to. of course if you love govt run healthcare there is a country just 90 miles south of florida you can go to.

  • "e can make a law that allows people to buy ins. across state lines."

    Another GOP talking point that solves nothing. The largest insurance companies already operate in nearly every state, but are forced by state law to abide by their requirements. Are you really in favor of taking power away from the States and giving it to the fed. gov? Hmm?

    You bozo, health care reform is not a gov. takeover of health.

    I haven't seen you in a few weeks, and I gotta say you're not any better informed.

  • explain then barney frank saying to a constitutient that a public option is a backdoor way to a single payer. btw it is not about taking power away from a state. if you could get the same coverage for less money from another state why not?

  • I don"t know jhamm999. See I love the U.S.A. there just something about this bill that makes me think It's no good. It's not right???????????????????

  • you're right it is not.

  • dude even tho Im not a U.S. citizen I'm all for the the health reform...a little vid to show you how we run our heath system in the UK... watch?v=BbAWNnGSVCw

  • govt takeover

  • watch this vid.... watch?v=BbAWNnGSVCw

    its how we run our heath system in the UK & then me know what you think...

  • well lets look at the other side of the coin.The child is born, the parents can't afford heath insurance, the child gets sick, they don't go to the hospital, child dies, so before its born " we gota protect the most defenseless and helpless" but when the child is born "you on you f**kin own kiddo if we can't profit from your birth" but "if you manage to live to military age we can send you somewere to profit from you death. dehumanizing is'nt?

  • a perfect example of pretzel logic.

  • excalty!! a conservative republicans way of thinking which is happing right now in the U.S. tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock! another child has die in the U.S. because the parents can not afford heath insurance... pro-life = free health care to all U.S. citzens

  • Chris Matthews dubbed Alan Grayson "Captain Cojones"!

    I live in New York and will be sending money for his 2010 campaign.

  • You said it sir, you said it. Bravo.

  • Thank you Representative Grayson for fighting the good fight.

  • Well I don't believe in god, (at least not in the organized religion sense) but I do get your point and it is a great point! Keep up the good work.

  • We must protect the unborn but leave them to fend for themselves once they are born, I get where you are coming from Jhamm999.

  • why would you aoutomatically think the mom would desert the child?

  • why do you think that's what I'm talking about?

    The debate is on Health Care Reform. My point was that you fight to prevent abortion but you don't fight to offer that child affordable and adequate health care when it is born. Nowhere did I mention a mother or a father abandoning their child. Also abortion is a choice by the woman carrying the fetus not government trying to kill unborn babies. You seem really good at missing the point.

  • then why the canard about defending for themselves?. isn't it the parents responsibility to care for them? the govt has no place to fund abortions was my point.

  • drama queen.

  • to Jhamm999

    He doesn't comment on his district because he is TRYING to pass health care reform as opposed to the people he named who are trying to prevent health care reform.

  • Look there no point trying to explain yourself to Jhamm999... heres why, "lives of the unborn" that just doesnt make sense, kinda like "the lives of the undead" ya see were I coming from...

  • yeah you don;t really care about the most defenseless and helpless in society. i see where ya coming from

  • what I enjoy about this statement is it has nothing to do with the video or the subject at hand which is health care reform...not abortion.

  • Really, would you like to link that? So we can see for ourselves.

  • here you go.

    line 17 page 110 section 222 under abortions for which public funding is allowed.

    also-line 16 page 96 section 213. under ins.ratings rules.

  • Abortion is legal, and I'd rather a woman that has decided to get one be safe and have it paid for so she can get it safely done as opposed to not being able to afford and going to a non-professional only to possibly get an infection and die. We can't prevent these women from making what is rightfully their choice but we can make sure they make their decisions in a safe environment and have proper resources to protect them from infection.

  • jhammm999 - hahahahahahahahahah. provide the evidence, or should i ask "who told you that, satan???"

  • see my response to sweetwater88.

  • the most defenseless and helpless in society are the people without health insurance...

  • i wonder how many people died in graysons district?. or does he even care? i know he doesn't care about the lives of the unborn.

  • Do you care about chicken that havent hatched yet?

  • considering that the child in the womb has a heartbeat and brainwaves in the first ten weeks doesn't mean anything to you?

  • well lets consider the natural way a woman has an abortion. A miscarriage is a pregnancy that ends before 24 weeks, which is before most developing babies are able to survive outside of the womb. why do we not care about them given that they too have a heartbeat and brainwaves ?

  • you really do not know the difference between a miscarriage and a abortion? sad.

  • Thank you Congressman Grayson. The bill is horrible. Please talk about it.

  • He didn't call anyone a whore today ?

  • What a bamf that guy is, right?

  • @Investrite1 Apparently no one deserved to be called a whore today. That doesn't detract from the fact that Linda Whatsername is a corporate whore.

  • No one except your Mama , too bad she couldn't afford that abortion huh ?

  • @Investrite1 - is a typical wingnut sack of shit who in unable to actually debate issues and instead relies upon tossing juvenile ad hominem around.

  • Why are liberals so angry ?

  • @Investrite1 Why can't wingnuts actually debate issues?

  • Good men always feel rage when beholding the acts of the wicked.

    Any more asinine questions you need the answer verbally pimp slapped into your micro mind?

  • ROCK-ON ALAN!!!

  • It was great until he brought religion into it.

    Magical Sky Daddy isn't real.

    BRACE FOR THUMBS DOWN

  • Not going to thumb you down but bringing religion into it is actually a good tactic considering everyone in congress happens to be religious.

  • or they just claim to be in order to avoid the wrath of the far too paid attention to religious commandos. And when they do this in order to avoid confrontation with these bullies, they use this acquiescence as proof that what they 'claim' is the living proof.

    Hey, ya gotta admit, witch doctors have had tens of thousands of years of practice, they know just how to keep the tribe buying into their bull shit......it IS a sweet job after all.

  • he brought religion into it because most of congress are religious...therefor they will be sinning in the eyes of "god", if they dont pass this bill

  • Of course he may actually...you know, believe in God... in his case, he's Jewish.

  • Grayson 2016 !

  • This man should run for President in 2016.

  • You would think he would be going apeshit about abortion...

  • Why are men who never want to support anyone so concerned about abortion? I really don't get it? You don't want the government in your health care business - why the fuck don't you just stay out of others?

  • Well for one, Murder has been wrong since Cain killed Abel.

    And secondly, all these babies who did have lives, we are failing to save...as in the title of this video.

  • @colossus48 Did you support the War of Bush Co. Greed in Iraq?

  • For different reasons than WMD.

    Google "Saddam's Crimes Against Humanity" - click the FDD link - Watch the 4 videos listed if you can stomach it

  • @colossus48 - bullshit. If Bush would have invaded for humanitarian he should have just said so. Here's why he told a different lie: humanitarian reasons would have only worked with liberals, because most conservatives don't give a rat's ass about humanitarian missions. Well, unless it's for white people and then it's okay.

    The second reason your wrong can be reduced to one word: Darfur.

  • I didn't say why they went in there. I said why I supported the war in Iraq. Tyranny was removed, now it is up to the people to make for themselves, which they are doing, the kind of government they would like.

    You just want to talk bad about Bush for something...

    I answered your question and you took my answer and ran in whatever kind of direction that you wanted...that is kind of nutty behavior.

  • @colossus48 Did you know that the Bush War has resulted in the deaths of approx. 1/2 million Iraqis? Saddam didn't come anywhere close to those numbers. I thought humanitarian missions were intended to help people, not kill them. I guess that's why I don't understand "conservatives".

    Since you're on the humanitarian kick: What about Darfur? Why didn't we send troops there? Could it be because there isn't an oil there?

  • It is about tyranny and freedom from oppression, not body counts, but since you brought it up, Saddam killed over 200,000 at one time, and many others whenever he wanted. That 200,000 number is 2/5ths of 1/2 million, but that isn't the point, tyranny is.

    We haven't sent troops to Darfur, because we are already spread very thin! Not that we would but that is a good reason. Anything else you want to blame on Bush, or assume about me?

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  • Did colossus48 type "Tyranny was removed"? Am I reading that right... I thought bush invaded Iraq base on them having weapon of mass destruction yano, the ones that...well...were never found!!

  • @djpitchperfect You read it right. When I asked him if he supported the Boosh War for Cronie Enrichment he answered with his nonsense about it being a humanitarian measure.

  • hahaha.... yeh thought colossus48 was just another victim that dosn't have a clue...humanitarian measures? yup went to iraq to spread love & peace I wonder did they take there rainbow flags too?

  • Tyranny was removed" Am I reading that right? I thought bush invaded Iraq base on them having "weapon of mass destruction".. yano..the ones that...well...were never found!! if you want a reminder type weapon of mass destruction & click search above.