Barack Obama, our next President

carol wrote:

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You're not serious. You think losing your dignity and self-respect - NOT by any fault of your own but by manipulating what is clearly a broken system without any fear of being caught - is a way to live?

You're twisting again Carol.......Where do you get that from? The issue was personal responsiblity. As in eating donuts when you're fifteen lbs. overweight and diabetic all the while telling others they should be responsible. As you complain about the less fortunate and their unhealthy lifestyles and insurance costs.

You said "expecting others to pay for your lack of judgment and mistake". Sounds hypocritical as you stuff your face with donuts, and screw the diabetes. Seems to me that is a lack of judgement on your part. Whether you're fortunate enough to have health insurance or not it isn't responsible behavior. Coming from one who feels the uninsured should be allowed to suffer due to their lack of personal responsibility, "poor judgement and mistakes" it sounds hypocritical.

It's a good thing you have healthcare. You can eat all those donuts with a clean conscience.

dem wrote:

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Your wife?

this is the extent of dem's communication and reasoning skills.

Baba Yaga wrote:

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Your (obvious) sarcasm is duly noted. I've never seen so much meanness and hatred for fellow Americans than is evident on Topix. It's very disheartening.

I actually left my sarcasm out of that post. You should see us out in the real world.

flack wrote:

At least when someone defaults on their mortgage the bank still has the house to resell. What do the banks do on a student loan default? Take the students brain? If the student partied and didn't learn anything?

Thanks to the 2005 ammendment to the bankruptcy act, student loans cannot be eliminated.

But, Da Donald and corporations can go bankrupt for billions and wipe debts clean and move on as if nothing happened.
You revere Da Donald as a smart businessman! He's a thief! Tell me, how does a casino go bankrupt? Republitards are so stupid.

Keep championing the 1%; you're an anti American fascist.

yepperz wrote:

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You're twisting again Carol.......Where do you get that from? The issue was personal responsiblity. As in eating donuts when you're fifteen lbs. overweight and diabetic all the while telling others they should be responsible. As you complain about the less fortunate and their unhealthy lifestyles and insurance costs.
You said "expecting others to pay for your lack of judgment and mistake". Sounds hypocritical as you stuff your face with donuts, and screw the diabetes. Seems to me that is a lack of judgement on your part. Whether you're fortunate enough to have health insurance or not it isn't responsible behavior. Coming from one who feels the uninsured should be allowed to suffer due to their lack of personal responsibility, "poor judgement and mistakes" it sounds hypocritical.
It's a good thing you have healthcare. You can eat all those donuts with a clean conscience.

Oh come on Yepperz; stop picking on Carol. After all, she's white and republican and is entitled to do whatever she wants.
That personal responsibility stuff is for the "others"

Jean wrote:

<quoted text>Mean spirited and hurtful are republicans like Carol who scream " let them die" to the uninsured . And then have the audacity to lecture others on personal responsibility as they lack even the most basic personal responsibilty themselves.

When and to whom did Carol say that to? And who are you to claim you know about anyone here and their habits?

Every post I've seen from you reeks of hatred and ill will toward your countrymen. THAT is the epitome of irresponsibility. Shame on you and people like you.

Baba Yaga wrote:

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Your (obvious) sarcasm is duly noted. I've never seen so much meanness and hatred for fellow Americans than is evident on Topix. It's very disheartening.

So you don't watch fox , follow the republican party or listen to gasbag radio?.

carol wrote:

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Didn't say we don't have the best medical care in the world...just a heck of a lot of room for improvement in physician apathy - which stems from the constant threat of being frivolously sued for malpractice, their hands being tied by the same HMOs who decide what they can and can't do as far as treating their patients but who also provide the fees for their services regardless of what they do or don't do - and taking a simple common sense approach to cutting the costs of exorbitant medical care and how to pay for it. This kind of common sense health care reform would go a long way in eliminating what has become an even greater underlying problem of physician apathy.

Thank you for the lesson on physician apathy. So your suggestion is Reform physician apathy, use a common sense approach by cutting costs. What have I ignored?

Baba Yaga wrote:

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Your (obvious) sarcasm is duly noted. I've never seen so much meanness and hatred for fellow Americans than is evident on Topix. It's very disheartening.

I totally agree with you, these rightwingers are the most hateful vile beasts I have ever encountered.

Realtime wrote:

Florida DMV offers dozens of different specialty auto tags, many remember the Challenger tag that produced millions of dollars for the families of fallen astronauts.
There are manatee tags, turtle, golf__you name it, all sponsored by charitable groups that by law must distribute a percentage of the money raised to the "cause."
A few of these tags were controversial, a pro life tag for instance and one that says In God We Trust.
Well Well Well, guess which charity has been busted for glomming all the money rather than passing it along to the "cause." Hah, you betcha__In God We Trust.

Stealing in the name of the Lord!
Que Sorpresa!

TheIndependentMajority wrote:

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Too much truth to swallow in it for you?
A lot of people can't handle the facts.

When you lead off with "Saddam Hussein was a WMD threat and a terror threat to the United States and its allies." I see that you eat BS on a daily basis.

Baba Yaga wrote:

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When and to whom did Carol say that to? And who are you to claim you know about anyone here and their habits?
Every post I've seen from you reeks of hatred and ill will toward your countrymen. THAT is the epitome of irresponsibility. Shame on you and people like you.

HA! what a joke, go read your fellow rightwingers white supremacist racist bile and get back to us. Oh please.

yepperz wrote:

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You're twisting again Carol.......Where do you get that from? The issue was personal responsiblity. As in eating donuts when you're fifteen lbs. overweight and diabetic all the while telling others they should be responsible. As you complain about the less fortunate and their unhealthy lifestyles and insurance costs.
You said "expecting others to pay for your lack of judgment and mistake". Sounds hypocritical as you stuff your face with donuts, and screw the diabetes. Seems to me that is a lack of judgement on your part. Whether you're fortunate enough to have health insurance or not it isn't responsible behavior. Coming from one who feels the uninsured should be allowed to suffer due to their lack of personal responsibility, "poor judgement and mistakes" it sounds hypocritical.
It's a good thing you have healthcare. You can eat all those donuts with a clean conscience.

I suppose all of you hurling the insults at Carol are in perfect health, at your perfect weight, and ready to adorn the cover of a magazine?

The hypocrisy here is stifling.

Isn't anonymity wonderful?

Baba Yaga wrote:

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When and to whom did Carol say that to? And who are you to claim you know about anyone here and their habits?
Every post I've seen from you reeks of hatred and ill will toward your countrymen. THAT is the epitome of irresponsibility. Shame on you and people like you.

None of us in this country needs lectures from REPUBLICANS on honor, truth, honesty, decency and responsibility. You're a band of hateful, greedy, racist hypocrite lying frauds.
You just show what a biased, blind fraud you are....just like the rest of you hypocrite righties.
Unlike Carol and your ugly rightwing cult...I address matters that Carol has openly discussed in the forum to evetyone..everyday. No lies, no exaggeration, no distortion necessary..her own lying, hypocritical words are enough to show what Carol is.
Let them die. That says it all .

carol wrote:

There are many excellent physicians who do nothing short of miraculous work in their respective specialities.
But there are also many physicians who have to deal with the every day mundane routine of making knee jerk, "robotic" medical decisions, who too often treat the symptoms instead of the cause, who run too many tests and scans unnecessarily because they know they could be sued at any time for any reason while at the same time knowing every decision they make has to be approved and overseen by HMOs who also pay them.
There's something wrong with this picture.

I thought you already had it figured out. Reform the physicians and cut costs, don't you remember?

I am coining a new word.

Plutogligacrat

The soul of the TEA PARTY

Definition- adj. Austerity based only on the imposed sacrafices of the poor and those absent wealth by default of compassion or contract.

Spell Check THAT!

Wartime VII wrote:

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Your desperation is pathetic.
Raising cap gains taxes is the road to ruin. It's more wealth redistribution, taking from those that earn and invest, and it would damage business and investment beyond imagination. You're no better than your treasonous Kenyan communist fraud in the WH. Stay stupid, commie.

the guillible Zombie, Apostles of "The One," are on here bragging about Obama's addition of 250,000 either low paying, temp holiday delivery or made up jobs based on the fictional birth/date model. But its more the same: Obama the Job Killer is preaching class warfare, his horrible budget that the Dems only need 51 votes to pass (and even THEY won't pass it) all in his effort just to get re-elected again by the blind and unknowing.

STUCK ON "FAIRNESS"

Obama on Capital Gains: EVERYBODY IS SUPPOSED TO LOSE

"If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes," asserted President Obama in his State of the Union speech.

For those with predominantly investment income, that would effectively double their capital gains tax rate from the current 15 percent rate, producing a triple negative impact on U.S. economic growth and job creation by reducing the incentive for domestic investment, increasing the incentive to move more jobs and capital overseas, and directly reducing the amount of capital available in the private sector by way of greater transfers of income to the government.

It's not hard to understand the disincentives to job creation in Mr. Obama's proposal. If the government wants more people to quit smoking, it increases taxes on cigarettes. Similarly, if the government wants more people to quit investing, the appropriate policy is an increase in taxes on investment income. And if the government really wants to kill job creation and new investment, it should double the tax on capital gains.

So where's the common sense in this call for more roadblocks to investment, more disincentives for the financing of companies and start-ups in the private sector, when 12.8 million Americans by the government's calculations are already out of work, and millions more aren't counted as unemployed because they've given up looking for work and left the work force, and millions more are working at reduced pays or reduced hours.

Currently, over 10 million part-timers are looking for full-time employment and can't find it. None are included in the government's unemployment number.

Add it all up and the current jobless rate is 17 percent, double the official unemployment rate of 8.3 percent.

So why would President Obama be pushing for such a counterproductive policy, a tax hike that's likely to slow economic growth when we're already growing too slowly, cut job creation when we're already breaking records in terms of long-run unemployment, decrease American investment and productivity when we're already reeling from increased global competition, and reduce government revenues when we're already hemorrhaging trillions in red ink?

The answer, it seems, is that President Obama is stuck on "fairness," so much so that he gives short shrift to any negative consequences that will predictably flow from his repeated attempts to produce more economic leveling, more redistribution of wealth and income, and more "shared sacrifice."

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/13/stuc...

Homer wrote:

<quoted text>And because she couldn't control her spending, my tax dollars have to fund her daughter's college education.

why don't you write about why the costs of college education has sky rocketed (as in because of government interference)

'At best,…[Obama's student loan plan is] a band-aid solution. The real problem is that we’ve been running a higher education bubble, one that — like the real-estate bubble — has been pumped up by cheap government money. Since 1999, student loan debt has increased by 511%, while disposable income has increased by only 73%.

That’s because when the government subsidizes something, producers respond by raising prices to soak up as much of the subsidy as they can. College is no exception. Tuition has been increasing much faster than disposable income, and families — believing that a college education is a can’t-lose investment, much as they used to think houses were — have been making up the difference with debt. After all, we’re told, student loan debt is “good debt,” because a college degree guarantees more earnings.

Tell it to the Occupy Wall Street protesters, many of whom note that they’re deep in debt for fancy degrees that didn’t get them jobs.

The problem is,“college” isn’t an undifferentiated product. Companies can’t hire enough mechanical engineers, but there’s no bidding war for majors in Fine Arts or Women’s Studies, degrees that cost just as much, but deliver a lot less in terms of employment.

In an economically rational market, it would be harder to borrow money to finance fields of study that were unlikely to produce enough income to pay back the loans. But since the federal government subsidizes everything – and makes student loans un-dischargeable in bankruptcy — there’s no incentive for lenders to care, and even less incentive for colleges and universities to care. They get their money up front, after all — just like the people who wrote the subprime loans that fueled the housing crisis.

For serious student-loan reform, we’re going to have to look well beyond the Obama proposal. We need something that aligns incentives with reality.'

Jane Says wrote:

<quoted text>the guillible Zombie, Apostles of "The One," are on here bragging about Obama's addition of 250,000 either low paying, temp holiday delivery or made up jobs based on the fictional birth/date model. But its more the same: Obama the Job Killer is preaching class warfare, his horrible budget that the Dems only need 51 votes to pass (and even THEY won't pass it) all in his effort just to get re-elected again by the blind and unknowing.

Not to worry.
Preventing gay people from getting married is gonna fix everything up.