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This. As we speak every man, woman and child in this country is on the hook for $41,000.00 in debt. Now toss on another TRILLION so 90% of the country can pay for the 10% that dont have insurance and its easy to see this is an unsustainable model. Hurlshot bemoaned "how could anyone be expected to pay off an $80,000.00 hospital bill" when in fact weve mortgaged our childrens futures to an amount that cant be realistically paid off, all so we can have a circle jerk and congratulate ourselves on funding a program that only 10% of our citizens needed. Talk about poor return on an investment...

"Dont eat the yellow snow." - Frank Zappa

So I must have missed a previous plot critical event. Since I cant remember his character name Ill call him Mr. Black. Now Mr. Black admitted directly to Richard that he was Smokey but when we flash to the present times, Locke is Smokey. What happened to Mr. Black?

What does the "Hz" before Muhammed mean? Tried looking on Google but that only brought me to his Facebook page.

Well that didnt take long:

Huh, art imitating life. Thats exactly how I walk around my house.

Sure, what was the projection, something like 13%? A-ok for who? Oh yeah, those that contribute the least. Awesome!

Heh, thats pretty cool.

True dat. Im just hoping everything doesnt go to hell before my daughter gets a chance to enjoy our once great country. Unfortunately, her kids will probably live in the third world dump that our country is becoming.

Engage your brain. It much easier to pay for something for 30 million people who have the highest taxes in the world then it is to pay for 300 million people with one of the lowest taxes in the free world.

Sure, until 2037. Then the whole thing is scheduled to go belly up and collapse under its own debt.

Sadly, I believe LoF's first paragraph is dead on. Maybe we can spend ANOTHER TRILLION dollars trying to figure it out, cause, you know, our decendants will be the chumps that pay the price.

My god you're magnificent.

My (rapidly waning) freedoms. I dont think you have any concept of what its like to live in a non-Western country.

Um, no. The ones most in need of this bill probably do not make enough to pay Federal taxes.

See Amentep's response, hes much more eloquent than I.

Well, I happen to love my country and its statements like that that make me wish there was a little button on my side that, when depressed, would send a fist out on your side.

Waaaaa...............

Yeah, Im not sure why I clicked your post. Just collateral damage in my "quote" button clicking frenzy.

Yes, but no other bill has had this large a scope, that FORCES every single citizen into a program nobody voted for. Not all pigs are created equally. While your busy giggling and high five-ing that this "burden" of raising yourself has been lifted from your shoulders you should be weeping for your country.

Not for long, soon we'll all be paying for your shrink.

I don't think the Republicans "hide it better"; I seem to recall (although specifics escape my hazy memory at this time) a number of instances where Republican backed bills that was unpopular enough with the other side resulted in a dissection of the "backroom deals" and "riders" on a bill. I think its mostly about how angry passage of a bill makes the other side (can we get a viable third party now? Or do away with the party system entirely? kplsthnxbai). Yes, of course there are always backroom deals. The Republicans had a real stinker of one during the Bush administration regarding Medicare/Medicaid. Thats not the point. The point is: 1) Poking holes in KK ridiculous pie-in-the-sky idea that this was passed for mom and country. 2) The bill only passed by 7 votes. Without these deals not even enough Democrats would have voted to pass it! And that makes the whole think stink to hell. If a bill cant pass on its own merits, its ok to buy the votes? Are you people insane?

A very small organization that you may recall has been credited with swinging Massachusetts out of a 40+ year stranglehold held by the Democrats. While its too late to put this genie back in the bottle, it will be delicious to see how badly the Dems get gutted in the midterms.