Hatch: Health Care Reform Threatens America's Two-Party System
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fuck they two party system! it should be a 10 party system so maybe we would have some better candidates to choose from
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Translated to English: if the Dems manage to give the American people what they want (60% favor a public option) then Americans will be very happy and vote for Democrats b/c they got what they wanted, and as a republican, that makes me very sad deep in my heart, so I will call everyone who disagrees with me a socialist, even though I'm using the word incorrectly. Sigh. Whimper. Democracy is so unfair when you lose!
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Hatch needs to stop taking his taxpayer government health care
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Health Care Reform threatens the 2 party system when 1 party is so dedicated to screwing the president for political gain regardless of the consequences to the country, that they implode in a huge negative hate ball and collapse into a singularity. They will wind up representing those 13 percent of New Jersey republicans who think Obama's the antichrist, and that's how you lose the 2 party system in America...when 1 party destroys itself.
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epic fail. too fucking stupid and wrong to point out the probems w/ Hatch.
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Unhinged. The biggest threat to the two-party system is the utter dependence of the Republican Party on its corporate masters. It's killing it.
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neither one had the foresight to veto bills that were laden with special interests and other bullshit that didn't support the people but the corporate monarchy. I see excuses for the dems from you but not an objective assesment of what is going on. you stick to dem talking points foolishly. do some research, I'm not feeding you shit, I'm trying to keep you educated. There are inherant drawbacks you could work to mitigate now, or wait till you feel like Massachusets later and blame "Bush"
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you misunderstand me, I'm not saying dems and wrong repubs are right, I'm saying universal health care is not an end to issues of inequality, since we still have many in our universal system that is touted the world over. I'm saying this isn't and end, its just a new path with brand new challenges you didn't have before, and as such you need to prepare, but yanks are too foolish to think that far ahead. after all, both Bush and Obama passed insanely large stimulus bills both of which are corrupt
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what I am saying is not that universal health care is bad, but that it doesn't do a good enough job as is. at least here in Canada. so as I said UHC is not a solution to shitty health care, if anything more people are exposed to shit health care through it, what we need is to find a new way, or a new structure, but something new to fix this shithole we are forced to deal with.
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you said that but I don't see arguing as a conservative to be a position devoid of substance. You want substance, ok, our wait times for varying specialists here is so long, my friend has been waiting since April to see a specialist for her daughter so she can have a proper diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, so she can BEGIN treatment. to survive to 30 with CF one needs immediate attention and drug therapy. My friends daughter has lost years on her life because of Ontario's lack of health care
So what Hatch is saying is that real healthcare reform would be so popular that it is in the Dems' interest to pass it. Alright then.
This is like when Repubs say that the problem with a strong public option is that it might threaten the existence of private insurers. I say, good, let's do it.
SubmarinerAndroid 2 years ago 8
Hatch says that 40% (soon 50%) don't pay taxes at all. Whatever. Is he complaining that poor people aren't paying enough taxes? Because that's what it sounds like. It sounds like this so-called conservative is advocating raising taxes on the poor.
If the 2 party system is going down, good riddance. It's not as if either party is much good. The dems too often are pussies & the over-reaching GOP is destroying itself from the inside out. Neither party deserves a lock on the American people.
dafttool 2 years ago 6