C-Span 2 - Reading of Bernie Sanders Single Payer Amendment (sample)

I feel sorry for the clerk who has to read 700 pages of this stuff out loud.

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[MrRoboto81]

Bernie Sanders is my new hero.

[MrRoboto81]

Not really - it's a tax on the upper 1% in terms of the income tax bracket. It's still a lower tax on the wealthy than it was 50 years ago when it was over 90 percent.

[likingpurple]

@MrRoboto81 What a wonderful world it would be if all politicians had a heart and no greed. God Bless Bernie Sanders.

[MrOphachew]

Man ole Sanders is on c-span2 now babbling about the anti-bailout bill. But he didn't mention fanny mae once?

[whodhellknew]

His disruptiveness will have no real effect, yet cost the taxpayers simply by using up the Senate's time.

And as we all know, the Senate's time is not free.

[whodhellknew]

Because paying the Senate and their staff to read out passages that aren't listened to and don't need to be read out (since those who need to know could read the text) is such a good use of public funds.

What difference does it make, spending money on symbolic and ineffective actions?

[squeezybox]

Because laissez-faire has been such a succesful approach to government in the past?

[Prod1Kh]

@bigstack14 You don't actually know who forced this action or why, do you?

[Prod1Kh]

I feel sorry for the Independent Senator from Vermont who had to deal with a partisan, hard-right wanker from Oklahoma for whom Opposition isn't a label, it's a calling.

[nnjhansen]

Yes, I believe federal regulations serve only to limit competition and allow corporations a defense against lawsuits, they do NOTHING to make you or me any safer.

Airlines maintain safety standards, not because some government bureaucrat may come and inspect and possibly fine them but because it is in their best interest to do so. People do not fly airlines whose plane fall from the sky and they do sue companies who fail to follow proper safety procedures when there is an accident.

[funkyflights]

OH REALLY ? so your gonna sit up in here and tell me no federal regulations on big corporations is a good thing ? YOU DO realize business is to make profit DON'T YOU ? So when you DO nothing to regulate airlines or insurance companies guess what happens.... THEY CUT CORNERS TO MAKE MAXIMUM PROFIT..... that means NOT every plane will crash but you better believe MORE will be crashing.... SO answer my question would you feel safe flying with NO FEDERAL regulations on maintenance ?

[nnjhansen]

Our founding fathers did NOT expect the central government to legislate on any matter other than those expressly enumerated in the Constitution.

I know that 'giant' health care corporations have not killed this country. If anything is going to do so it is more government involvement.

How long do you believe a private airline whose planes regularly crashed would stay in business? Your belief that government regulations make you safe is just naive.