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  • So all in favor of DUMBOCARE must believe that everything the government does is perfect!!! LIKE? (MOTOR VECHICLES) (IRS) (POST OFFICE) (POLICE DEPARTMENTS) (CONGRESS) (SENATE) (WHITEHOUSE) (THE BAILOUT OF AIG AND OFF SHORE BANKS) (KILLING OUR AUTO INDUSTRY) (TAXING EVERYTING THERE IS) (PRISONS) (CAREER POLOTICIANS) (REWRITING THE CONSTUTITION AND BILL OF RIGHTS) to name a few. So tell me by example what does this government do so perfectly that you want to trust them with your LIFE ????
  • I agree with your position that an increased bureaucracy is not the way to improve our country. I also agree that universal healthcare aka healthcare "reform" is not achievable or favorable in its current form. It goes against every grain of the Constitution. However, there is no reason to call the President "Dumbo". That is disrespectful. State your argument and move along.

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  • Just as the IRS doles out there justice as they see fit, ruining many family's and business in America. So shall be ODUMBOCARE!! It too will be doled out as they see fit. They cut the current funding in this new DUMBOCARE by 50 BILLION DOLLARS over 10 years!!! And they want everyone in the system. So as a percentage 70% MORE ppl in the system where DUMBO has removed it's funding!! And you lame ass brain washed idiots think you will be covered??? OMG wake the hell up!!!

  • You ODUMBO Whitehouse Staff that he makes monitor this web site and fill it as much as you can with ODUMBO praise is so obvious! You really need to understand that you are not in his plans! You think by doing his bidding you are safe from his tyranny? What a bunch of brainwashed lap dogs. You are selling out your country, the same country your grandfathers died for.. Wake the Hell up!!!

    Barry Soetoro a.k.a. ODUMBO= One Huge CON MAN!

  • I have my own disagreements with the President, but overall he's been an outstanding President and leader. He has always acted with class and respect, two words you won't find in any Republican dictionary. Republicans simply have NO ideas, hence why they say NO to everything Obama wants to do: they only know if Obama is for it, they are against it, how simple minded can they be?

  • @Extreme Hahahahaha. You really believe that don't you? The liberal mind is a wonder to behold, indeed.

  • @Extreme How about this as an example of what Dear Leader has managed to do:

    A study done by the Investigative Reporting Workshop found that 79 percent of the $2 billion in clean-energy grants allocated since Sept. 1, 2009, has gone to foreign wind companies.

  • @Extreme Here's another one for you:

    You'd think the Obama administration is busy enough controlling the banks, insurance companies and automakers, but thanks to whistleblowers at the Dept of the Interior, we now learn they're planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West.

  • A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job- creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development. Worse, this land grab would dry up tax revenue that's essential for funding schools, firehouses and community centers.

    Way to concentrate on job CREATION!

  • Really? you accuse repubolicans of revising history, after liberals changed enough in the history books to blame America for everything? You call us warmongers, too, don't you? FDR didn't get us out of the great depression, WWII did.

  • There is no 'revisionist history' about it, its a proven fact that The Great Depression was not solved by FDRS -socialist - progressive- movement, rather it was WW2 that solved it, when Government had no choice but get out of the Way of Business so they could put America Back to work to win the War. Thats what got us out of the Great Depression.

  • @MrLetfreedomring the government didn't step out of the way during WW2 ...!!

    they actually stepped in! for example by "telling" (oh yeah, they made them .... ) US automakers to change from building "cars", to building "tanks"! and there were other thing where the gov. had to step in!

    Peace

  • What? can't you name even one? Tell me, what exactly has he done? go on, tell me something. You can't, can you? You can't name even one thing he's done, that's why you call me stupid. That's what you pussy liberals do. Call those who question your great leader names. Put up, or shut up. name something good that he's done, or back off. You sound like a jackass. If you blindly follow, you will be lead off a cliff.

  • Yea, but we lost the gold medal game, unfortunately. It was a greqat game, though, and I congratulate Canada on their victory. It was well earned.

  • go up to your URL bar, put a Q between the words you and tube and then press enter or click go.

  • What good work? what, exactly has he accomplished?

  • I[m sorry, but there are already laws preventing discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. Like gun control, we don't need new laws, we need enforcement of the laws already in exisrtance. Like the imigration laws.If the Government was so caring abot those with existing condidions, why not just put them on medicare or medicaide? Those programs already exist, and don't need more government control and beurocracy.

  • And as for you people like you need to shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you're talking about and after reading your textbook of comments I see you are clearly brainwashed and living in the god damn 50's. What you said about FDR made me laugh out loud. He took office after the Depression hit...in 1929. He took office in 1932. He repaired the economy and created bank laws to prevent it from ever happening again. He was elected FOUR times and is regarded as one of the best. Dumbass

  • @Trey But he manged to drag out the Depression recovery by a few extra years due to his policies. Some of you think FDR was one of the best, some of us don't.

  • well for one, putting them on medicare and medicaid means we wouldn't get payments from them

  • Private insurance companies can't, by law, deny coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition. The Government, however, through medicare and medicaide, are allowed to do it all the time. Soooooo, what makes anyone think this new government program will be any different?

  • Pussy. Get off you dead ass and on your dying feet and go get a job and pay for your own healthcare, just like I do.

  • Yeah, FDR was a moron, too. His "social engineering" turned a recession into the Great Depression. Of course, the "dust bowl" didn't help matters at all, But without the intervention of the government in the way they did it, that recession would have only lasted about 3 years, not 13.

  • Why? What's in it for you? There's nothing in it for me except more debt that I don't want.

  • Not to mention the greenhouse gasses emitted by the jet he was in.  I thought this president was "environmentally conscious".

  • Just how does government control translate into me having more control over something? I was always taught that the person who is in control is the one that has control. How does government copntrol, then, translate into me having control?

  • Hope and Change in Reverse: Only 25% Say Country Heading in Right Direction...

    Obama hosted ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

  • + for health reform

  • Congress passed nearly 97% of the Bills that were brought to the Floors in 2009 - and you couldn't get your Health Care Bill passed. Now, you are calling for a simple majority to pass Health Care? This is laughable!! Repubs could have stayed home and the outcome would have been the same. Dems need to quit blaming everyone else for their failures and look in the mirror. Lastly, why isn't the Doc Fix in the HC Bill and not in the Jobs Bill? What a slimy way not to get the CBO to score the HC Rill.

  • the guy's just reading the teleprompter LOL

  • Just how many are on the whitehouse pay role here in the comment cection??? I would say about 50% of you work for O'DUMBO... You can't be that brainwashed. You sell you sole and country out just as O'DUMBO did. What a bunch of lame asses..... Get out of my Country!!

  • 2xtream = I think it could be as high as 80 percent! The best part is to see the "posts" counts & realize the Obama puppeters removed almost half or more of them! Now in the Senate the DIMS are trying to force the ONE REPUBLICAN (who wants them to finance the extended unemployment & Medicare payments WITH ACTUAL MONEY FROM SOMEWHERE) into voting for "funding" without any funds! You should hear the DIMS egoically pontificating out nonesense & lies and insisting THEY KNOW BEST! = "money be damned"

  • I'm not on the payroll. You'd be better served throwing out random conspiracy theories on some other "internets" The white house is very busy with the business of government. YouTube ranks very low on the priority list, just below Iran, North Korea, and Russia I'm sure.

  • @bigbrother: It may rank low for the whitehouse but for O'DUMBO he is a compulsive narcissists. I guarantee O'DUMBO reads the post just as he reads twitter. My comments are to let him know that the majority of Americans do not want his nocare called O'bamacare... Mark my word by this summer 2010 America will be in financial trouble the likes of 3rd world counties. Wait and see. O'DUMBO is out to ruin America.. We see what he is doing. The majority have been woken up thx to ODUMBO :)

  • ODUMBO saved an economy that was on the verge of collapse and created many new jobs. And send me a message in the Summer of 2010, i'd love to read it.

  • WATCH...RING OF POWER...PARTS 1-29

  • I Love You Mr,President AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

  • COMBO BREAKER GO ANAL

  • Socialism is when the government own all the factors of production and distribution in society. It's socialism when the government intervenes to prevent an economic collapse. Republicans intervened with the banks. Bush wanted to give banks the whole amount with no strings attached. Bush didn't get a dime of taxpayer money back...Obama did.

  • @stanjz

    But they were loans not grants(I would think),even Gm is starting to pay back their loan.But people are still losing their homes and thats toxic assets which may never be paid back because of damage to the homes from intruders

    But banks can still sue the former homeowner from the difference of what they got for it and what the owner still owed before losing it.

  • President BARRY OBAMA: please DO NOT IMPLEMENT a risky social program at a time when our federal government is at the abyss of financial collapse!

  • I have H U G E respect for the man.

    Wise words

    well said.

  • Look up British soldiers pretending to be Al-Queda and you will see the Monarchy and the Jews want us to hate Muslims. Why do you think this is? Just watch ( the 3 wars of Albert Pike ) you will see this was all written so long ago. Watch the video on my page and I assure you that its a part of history you probably didnt know. Like how Hitler threw all the Jews out of government in Germany, could it be Jews controlled Germany too back then doing the same shit they do here now?

  • 2minutes in and I can say I am glad Obama is our President. Someone needed to say this.

    Listen close. IF WE WANT TO COMPETE ON THE GLOBAL PLAYING FIELD WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER. Anybody who has ever watched or played any sport knows this well.

  • The Canadians took the overall most gold medals? that is fucking amazing. How did we manage to fuck that up United States?

  • Clearly we can't do everything the best. Up to and including Health Care Coverage.

  • thanks brainiac, how would you provide coverage to three hundred million people including aliens. You cant and the reason we need reform is because for so many years, people just walk in and are looked at in hospitals no matter what. It cannot be done, you can tighten up certain aspects of healthcare but it cannot be perfect by any means.

  • A lot of people are getting their terms mixed up in this debate; it's a Public OPTION, meaning that it is OPTIONAL. If it were a public MANDATE on the other hand, then it would be MANDATORY.

    Do you all see the similarities there? :)

  • It was Melanie's idea. See supply is unlimited daught caum

  • well technically this must be a "mandate" then, Obama has clearly proposed with the idea of a fee/fine if coverage is not purchased within a matter of years.

  • We(Canadians) want all of you American's that hockey is our sport, and to not even both trying. [:

    That is all.

    Peace!

  • not really u fool, everything is Americas. You guys ride our dicks.

  • We want Single Payer. Now!

  • Oh boy more fuel for the fire everyone wants to burn in order to bring down Obama. "He used the Olympics to push his political bullshit the Olympics are about uniting the world through sports and this asshole just talks about his health care plan Oh my God what a douchebag he's ruining the country that's already at the brink of total destruction he's been in office a year and he the worst president ever what a cocksucker I hate that guy and so do you."

  • you say "so do you" like your pea brain can speak on behalf of your or two people let alone the world.

  • It was a joke you little bitch if you can't handle it go somewhere else on the internet and complain about it.

  • damn Im sorry for making fun. I see you have a temper but its nothing like mine you dumb little fuck, i can tell your a whore by ur username kid.

  • And I can tell you're an idiot by that response. Making a judgment about someone you've never met and never will based on their username on YouTube. You're about as smart as these retards writing pages of comments and arguing about pointless bullshit. Or was that just an insult? Either way it was stupid. Go look up Trey Parker you can learn a thing or two...and I'd love to be his bitch. K Bye!

  • I will not look that name up, if it was important I would know who he was already but I dont.. I just know you created a youtube account in his honor because you like dick. That my friend is not pointless, Im trying to help you understand a sickness.

  • Is that why "he" just blocked my comment? I simply said "I am studying medicine and this health care bill is a nightmare." It will end up hurting our already broken health care and not helping it.

  • Barack Obama is the last and worst evil tyrant this world will ever see....the death!

    Martial law will be declared in 2010, holocaust will proceed.....a desolation!

  • evil will always live on

  • You'll see otherwise when Lord Jesus judges all after his 1000 year reign on this earth,.......which by the way, starts in just a few years.

  • I dont understand what your point, Jesus returning will be bad for those who are doing these things? if im not mistaking.. which is true but people are thumbing down lol guess they are dumb.

  • Jesus return will be bad for Barack Obama, the Pope, and many leaders and people who make up the Beast government.

  • Tells you something about Dems and unions and entitlements:

    Of the 10 states in the worst financial condition, eight are among a total of 23 defined by Gallup as "solidly Democratic," meaning the Democrats enjoy an advantage of 10 percentage points or greater in party affiliation. "Why do Democratic states appear to be struggling more than Republican ones? It comes down to stronger unions and a larger appetite for public programs"

  • I could suggest an answer to that, perhaps it is because greedy republicans have all fled in fear from people with social consciences and decent moral and value systems.

  • laughing my ass off, no democratic states do worse because its like two completely different bloodlines literately. You have dems, the softys that want peace with equality but you have the republicans that are greedy and willing to bring war to build personal fortune. Its weird, the big picture is just crazy really from Israel to all the secrets.

  • why do you have to be so rude. i understand you suck and your life sucks but no need to be so rude and call yourself conservative as to feel good about yourself. no need to hate people just because they are smarter than you are or just because they look different.

  • @Jak Who in the world are you talking to?

  • Hey Obama how about restoring the 4th ammendment to the Constitution after all you voted in favor of abollishing it?

  • No he didn't.

  • beaner, go back to mejico

  • don't have to mexico is here!

  • As a Ugandan living in Finland; one of the best countries to live in, with universal health care for everyone....i believe America to can do it to. With soaring rates of unemployment, child poverty, under privileged & deprived communities these people also deserve a right to live a life of dignity. With a clean health care system everyone can be given that right! OBAMA we got u at heart and will have u in ur prayers. You care deeply about humanity&thats a quality only bestowed upon messiahs.

  • Hey Ugandan are you going to help the Kenyan pay for it?

  • The problem is that we have dim wits listening to Limpbaugh, Faux News, screaming it will be the END OF THE WORLD!! if the citizens of this country get health care. Third world countries save millions by offering preventative care to their people how come we can spend millions on wars supported by these same idiots but no health care for our own?

  • @ultraviolet0000 actually fox news owned by Murdock was purposely set up to catch all the dim wits who they knew would not go along with their plans. They will tell you who to vote for once again through fox news. The CA Jewish Times reported that Murdock is more pro Jew than the Jews themselves. Dont believe me watch (The Zionist Matrix of Power in America)

  • thats strong, Messiah?

  • Who is saying what he cares matters though? he is not the one calling shots, sorry to break your heart over in Finland.

  • This Man is a Actor. Not a Leader!!

  • Great theatrical event at the so-called health care summit. Very bi-partisin (tongue in cheek). Farce is more like it. Whats wrong with doing HC reform in a true bipartisin way & trash the 2700 page piece of crap that was put together. BO keeps pushing the urgent arguement when the facts are this plan wouldn't take effect for a few years. Why the rush? Can you spell CONTROL? BO will make Carter look like a hero when his one term is up. And that's not saying much.

  • That's bi-partisanship for ya. How's that workin' out for ya? Yeah, let's go bi-partisan, my ideas we'll take, yours, the ones that you passed in the house and the senate, we can just throw those out. Then once you have nothing, and my ideas are the only ones on the table, then we'll have some real bi-partisanship. Good show Republicans. You make yourselves look very very bad. How very "you" of you!

  • I totally agree Mad Flea. But if your poor you still pay Sales Tax if you buy something. Rich people have accountant lawyers who keep track of all their business expenses so they can deduct them at the end of the year. Ever notice they tell how much some rich guy pays in taxes but they never mention how big his refund check was after he filed his taxes. And then if he has an off shore account he doesn't pay anything. A lot of Corporations are doing it with Republican protection. No oversight.

  • Obama for the WIn! Love him so much!!!!

  • @Jak Great! You like him - he's all yours.

  • mcv47 why do you have to be so rude. I understand that your life sucks but no need to be so angry and call yourself conservative and hate recent immigrants who followed the past probably your recent ancestors followed. and no need to hate or be scared of people who are smarter than you are or hate them just because they look different...

  • mcv47 why do you have to be so rude. i understand you suck and your life sucks but no need to be so rude and call yourself conservative as to feel good about yourself. no need to hate people just because they are smarter than you are or just because they look different.

  • you stupid unemployed fuck

  • gjtek2003 lol

  • TheMadFlea...It's douche bag. They don't like it if you mispell words in your comments. Just thought I would help. A douche bag was also called a hot water bottle at one time. Then you could fill it with warm water, stick the knozzle up your ass and hold it as long as you could until you squirted out another Republican. Douche Bags are useful.

  • @harley Oh, come on. You can do better than this lame attempt at humor. What a little potty mouth you are.

  • xnfxdnfxn oxoxoxox...Is that a Ruskie name? You better watch about posting comments here. They will brand you a Commie Socialist Facist or some other ist. They don't understand anything but their need to hate their neighbor as themselves.  We don't measure in meters. We do the 100 yard dash, or the 50 yard dash. And we play real football, not kick the ball down the field stuff. And no one can play basketball like we do. Our kids can't spell but they can dribble. Ain't life grand?

  • There are more unions than just the SEIU. If your neighbor does the same job and earns the same money the only reason is because the Company doesn't want the workers to organize into a Democratically Elected Free Trade Union. So the neighbor is benefitting from your dues without contributing. That means he is a scab and a coward! Nothing worse than a scab. If you pick a scab it will bleed. And quality will suffer unless you beat the crap out of the workers with threats and intimidation.

  • Is that why barry and the SEIU want to stamp out secret ballots and force card check so that union thugs can intimidate and threaten non-union workers? Did you make over $220,000 any year you worked like the head of SEIU did last year?

  • What a dushe bag!

  • hes congratulating the americans on the winter olympic performance? the winter olympics are a joke. if you look at the winter olympic videos a decade ago, the winter olympics werent a joke.......why cant americans win in a real sport like weightlifting or the 100 meter dash or something like that? congratulating them on the winter olympic performance is pathetic and an insult to american athleticism

  • @xnf Nothing wrong with congratulating athletes that have worked hard to win a place on the team. The two sports you mentioned are summer events so, what's your point?

  • @mcv47

    that summer olympics are better an winter olympics are a joke.....don take me too seriously though, i just dont like winter sports is all

  • I prefer the summer ones myself. :)

  • I've got an idea, why don't we "Americans" put Barry Bonds and Mark Macgwire in the weightlifting competition, and we can put George W.M.D. Bush and Dick Cheney in the DOWNHILL SLALOM, and we'll kick total ass all over the place. The cheaters will win gold in all kinds of awesome events!

  • mcv47, I served in Vietnam, my younger brother died, my namesake Grandson is serving now and so is his wife. Did you serve? Unions gave up pay increases in order to have health insurance. The CEO has the best health insurance the COMPANY can provide. Doesn't cost him/her a dime. Just like Congress. I have Medicare, I paid taxes on UNION wages to qualify when I turned 65. Repubs trained me to toss out insults and some time profanity. Greed sent the jobs overseas with Tax Breaks for Rich.

  • Of course the rich deserve tax breaks. I'm poor and I dont pay taxes so why the hell do I need a tax a break.

  • If you think you don't pay taxes you're not paying attention, sales, use, toll, property, Motor Vehicle, utility, Social security and Medicare, gas, fuel, gift, death and cigarette taxes and those are just some of the ways Americans rich and especially poor are taxed. There is a reason Republicans are very careful when they say 50% of Americans pay NO income tax because they know Americans pay more then income taxes but they don't want you to think about it for yourself.

  • Well actually youre wrong; I get money for being poor. Food stamps probably pays about $400-500 a month and get another $3000-4000+ back in taxes that I dont pay into and that levels out my federal and state income tax but all the benefits i get make my tax burden way less that 0 dollars. I dont pay a lot of the tax you listed. Dont tell me I am not paying attention I know very well the problems I face every day.

  • Just so everyone knows if food stamps and tax credits came to a vote I would vote against them I dont need them but they do help. Its just stealing money from hard working Americans. There are hundreds of ways to get food if you are hungry in the USA if anyone says they are starving they are either lazy or lying. at least for those making less than $36000

  • Sorry you feel like you deserve to steal money from hard working Americans money you yourself say you don't actually need. There are people who do need food stamps and do deserve tax credits and are working poor.

  • People are only poor because they choose to be. I could have stayed poor, but I decided I liked the perks that come along with having money. I decided to get rich and went looking for a way to achieve my goals. Poor, like getting pregnant, is a decision, not a permenant state you have to stay in.

  • You get money because your poor only since deciding to be lazy on the couch.

  • You guys are idiots! You twisted my words and have no clue what i live with.

    Yes, I work and take any work i can get. I am also looking for more work. Its very hard with no work avalible. I dont own a couch. I'm just telling you the truth. if your to blind to see that then there is no point in talking to you

  • There's ALWAYS work available. Always.

    I moved back to michigan from texas when my dads health started failing him. People complain about looking for a job for months and not finding anything. I got a job in 27 days. That's a long time to have to look, but I got hired. I don't give up, and I'm not too proud to clean toilets to make ends meet. If your pride keeps you from taking a job because it's "beneath your dignity", or it "just doesn't pay as much as your last job", then give up.

  • You're proposal is not what is right for Health care Mr. President. I am studying medicine and your proposal will not help, but it will indeed hurt our health care. STOP BEING ARROGANT and START LISTENING TO US!

  • I appreciate the talk Mr President! Like the Olympic athletes as you've said, who persevere and triumph even under the most difficult circumstances we will be able to overcome this dragging economy and hopefully pass a healthcare bill that will benefit everyone. No one should be denied care or have to pay something they can't afford because the insurance companies want to make as much money as possible. It's not right.

  • @Say Are you aware that if you took all the profits from all the insurance companies, it would pay health care costs for 2 days?

  • 1,057 days left stuck with this guy, yay...

  • right back at you, you socialist bastard

  • Its fun living in a socialist regime.

    The government take all my money in what they call taxes :D

    And they invent new things to tax us on all the time :D

    And if i get sick i get free healthcare... After ive waited in line for a couple of years of course.

  • Atleast he's doing a good job.

  • @Say Good job at what exactly?

  • Hmm..let's see, actually trying to get people back to work. Do you know how hard the presidents job is? I hate people who blame him for trying to fix everything at once and then when he can't meet up to it because it's too much work everyone blames him. He's trying his best. I'd like to see you do his job for a day.

  • @Say Yes, indeed I think I can appreciate the fact that it's a hard job. There is nothing in Obama's background that prepared him for the presidency. He was a law school lecturer, a community organizer, a senator who spent most of his senatorial days campaigning. He ran a good campaign but he like the dog that finally caught up to the car he was chasing - he doesn't know what to do not that he's got it.

  • Well who would you rather have as president and what would you plan to have done to fix this healthcare issue?

  • @Say My first was to say that anyone would be better but, trying to be honest, I would have to think about it. I voted for McCain, not because he was my first choice but because I knew he was better than Obama. Health care - allow insurance companies to do business like auto ins companies do. Don't tie it to a job, companies can sell nationwide, people chose the coverage they are willing to pay for.

  • Mccain was too old for the position even though he was experienced, I wouldn't give him much merit. We didn't need another Bush in office if you want to get down to the core matter. He believed in a lot of the things Bush did. About the Health Care most privately own health care companies deny coverage for those with preexisting conditions or other problems, which doesn't seem fair. Don't like it? Change companies. Well you may be construed to one company because you can't afford anything else.

  • @Say Health ins should be sold the same as auto and people could decide what they wanted to be covered for. I don't want to be covered for hair transplants, maternity care, sex change operations, acupuncture (all of which in some states are mandated). With my car, I can pay extra a month if I want to be reimbursed for a rental should I need one. Since I have two vehicles available, why should I have to get the rental coverage?

  • About 80% of the people with ins are happy or very happy with their coverage. Why should the whole system get revamped for 20%?

  • How many of the 80% had a expensive medical issue?

    I'm sure it is a lot less than the 20%.

  • The whole requiring health insurance thing is stupid, I think however as the government like other foreign governments we should already be provided with healthcare. The government should pay for any necessary medical expenses, anything not necessary such as cosmetic surgery or whatever would be paid for by the consumer. XD

  • The problem is that if health care is not required, then the system breaks down. The reason car insurance works so well is because you are required to have it if you drive. However, if people don't have health insurance, the hospitals can't allow them to "not drive" by not admitting them-they let them in either way. Then many people with insurance over time pay that persons cost.

  • Also, if it wasn't required but you couldn't discriminate based on preex. conditions, then some people could try to only buy insurance when they get sick, and then the price would literally skyrocket.

  • No, most insurance policies require a type of contract that covers you for x number of months and if you switch or drop the policy before the contract expires then they penalize you heavily for it, that alone would keep people from doing that, otherwise they'd do it right now.

  • That is what Obama is trying to do with the marketplace thing he is talking about, so you or anyone else can go to this marketplace and choose the coverage they want from whomever they want

  • Very transparent isn't he? Last President we had that took this much time telling us what was going on was FDR. I like the way he keeps his cool. He may be a one term President, but if he is, we will be the ones to pay. Especially is some empty skirt like Palin gets in. Or a loser like Gingrich who pulled up his pants and went home once already. Both are quitters.

  • I really like that the president is using youtube to reach those who are not glued to cnn or foxnews. well done!

  • Me too.

  • nomosocialist, do they ever let you out of the looney bin? Obviously, you never drive down any e-way in the USA. All over this country there are signs that read, Funds Provided by the AR&R Act. People are working on bridges, roads, and right of ways. Being paid with your tax dollars at work. And Republican and Democratic Governors all over the country have talked about the number of jobs saved by President Obama's action. The Party of No! never helped. They aren't helping now.

  • BS Unemployment has INCREASED under barry and the stimulus! If you are creating and "saving" (LOL) jobs it would decrease! A net loss is a net loss and barry PROMISED that these jobs he was going to create would keep unemployment under 8%!

  • First, Obama already explained that the steady increase of unemployment in the last few months is because of skyrocketing healthcare costs, and fixing this alone would not only prevent any more loss of jobs, but would allow businesses to open their doors to more jobs. Fixing the health care problem will solve a whole lot of problems at once.

  • That is a load of Leftist crap! Growing government does NOT fix the economy! The economy sucks mostly because of the mortgage crisis that the Left created by using the Community Reinvestment Act to force lenders to give motgages to people who couldn't afford them! Didn't your messiah promise that unemployment wouldn't go above 8% if the stimulus was passed? You need to stop listening to Leftist LIES!

  • @nomosocialists

    The community investment act has nothing to do with bankers issuing risky sub prime loans,That was the banks decision to issue those.

  • Wrong again Leftist puppet! People like ACORN and barry and the feds FORCED banks to lend to uncreditworthy individuals. The greed of the banks came into play after that had started!

  • More bogus GOP talking points. The CRA forced banks to OFFER loans in the same areas they took deposits, but only to qualified borrowers with good credit ratings (see Sections 802 and 804 of the CRA).

    The CRA was passed in 1977, but the housing bubble, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and the Mortgage fraud bubble were all confined to 2004-2006.

    Only 15% of the sub-prime mortgages were given by banks falling under CRA regulation. The other 85% by mortgage companies not under CRA regulation

  • @TrollBuster9090

    Which means banks did what they want to grow the bubble with subprime loans,because they were greedy..

  • It was expanded under Clintion and then again under Bush being pushed by Bawney Fwank! It was that revision that started lenders, specifically Nationwide, to gretaly expand their loans to under and unqualified borrowers. while it was not the only cause, it put in place the mechanism for the creation of the sub-prime lending and related derivitives issue. Greed of course, is the main culprit in all financial scandals!

  • @nomosocialists

    No one was forced to give a loan to a residentally challenged person on the street to buy a house.

  • First, I'm a moderate, which is a philosophy you never indulge in. Second, typing words in all caps does not signify credibility. Third, He is not my messiah, but I support his policies. Fourthly I don't listen to extremists, I research the issues independantly and make my own mind up about them. And finally the CRA was highly regulated until 2005 when the Bush Administration dropped regulations that thus allowed institutions to lend without any oversite, which caused the mortgage crisis.

  • And who pushed the changes in the CRA? Bawney Fwank your Leftist Massachusetts darling and barry himself with the help of ACORN! Read complete info mr. moderate and then make a decision! Secondly, a moderate is just someone afraid to admit they are a liberal! Thirdly giving health care to a government which has FAILED (there are those caps again) at every large social program it has attempted is not moderate it is just dumb!

  • Firstly, I am not from Massachusetts. Second, I just said that it was the Bush Administration that pushed for deregulation changes in the CRA. Healthcare for the nth time will not be given to the government. Yes, theY will have a public option (note the keyword is option), but private insurances will still be available to anyone who wants it.

  • barry wants Single Payer! He has said this several times and this current crap is just the foot in the door! They will not be happy until they have control.

  • @harley Yep, lots of cool signs. How much did each one cost? I have seen plenty of signs but no work going on and what happens after the work is done? Back to unemployment. How do you determine a saved job?

  • buisyman, you need to turn off the liars at Fox News. Do you really believe that an Insurance Company that pays it's CEO $57,000.00 an hour only makes 2-4% profit? In which month or on what day? My wife and I are both on Medicare. And since I work part time I am still paying Medicare taxes. And I pay my Medicare premiums every month. But you think it is alright for Wal-mart to pay their workers so little they qualify for Medicaid and Food Stamps? Where is the logic in that equation?

  • @harley Just which insurance CEO is making 57 thou an hour?

  • Harley, you are a joke, Have you ever looked at average salaries of Walmart employees compared to other retailers such as Target or Steinmart. Walmart pays their employees 23% hire than the others. Maybe you should get your facts straight before you quote inaccuracies you stupid lazy liberal. Go fuck yourself

  • ACORN-SHMACORN. Who gives a rats ass. They helped poor people. You make such a big Dumb Ass deal about a couple employees answering some Dumb Ass questions. Why don't you concentrate on Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff since they ripped of the American Indians.  You make it very obvious, MS Dumbass, that you are a brainwashed Fox Entertainment, NewsMax whore. Why don't you pull your head out of your ass and see the folks around you that are hurting because of 30 years of neo-con stupidity?

  • @harley Hahahah! Getting to the point where you are tossing out the insults? What's next, more profanity?

  • Yea, keep re-writing history, buisyman. Reagan read what other people told him to read. He had dementia which became full blown Alzheimers. By the time he left office he couldn't tell if he was married to Nancy or Frank Sinatra was. He turned this nation from a Creditor to a Debtor nation. He increased the National Debt by 189% in 8 years spending more money than all the previous Presidents combined. Including two World Wars. Keep up the re-write, someday it will come down on your head.

  • Yea, Palin knows how to hunt from helicopters, field dress a moose, and attack Iran. Won't be her son that does any fighting and dying though. The spokesperson for children for Downs Syndrome and called her son retarded. If Palin is anything she is a typical hypocrit Republican. The Republicans have never done anything for the Working Middle Class of this nation. That is why they and their dumbass followers hate Unions. But We the People will overcome their stupidity.

  • @harley She has already had one son that served - have you? Most of us aren't dumb enough to be in a union. They have outlived their usefulness and have managed to drive industry overseas. That's a real achievement.

  • Yes because how dare the American people want high wages and strong job security, when it is so much easier for the big corps to go to india or china and basically get free slave labor.

  • @MasterStudios1

    Thats the republican philosphy, use overseas slaves.They can use black people anymore.

  • hi tabby,

    search "HEALTH CARE LOBBY HAS INVESTED HEAVILY IN THOSE WHO WILL ATTEND REFORM SUMMIT"

  • @mkedean1

    The insurance companies or the doctors,nurses and hospitals?Which group?We have excellent health care from most hospitals and doctors,but a horrible way to pay for it,when 40% goes for profits.