Decide what your DEMOCRAT VOTE will do, by Thomas Sowell

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/552199/201010291911/Will-Voters-Set-US-Free-From-Obamas-Hold-.htm

[JohnnyMack]

French toast for breakfast today. Then off to get a haircut before football starts.

[Viking Kitten]

Heh heh...the link says "news and anal." Heh heh heh.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Here's another beauty, comrade VK.
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=hdSU4zkUQu

[SanJoaquinSooner]

I just received my defined benefits "open enrollment" package for 2011.

It appears my cost for the medical plan I have (Employee + Family in Kaiser HMO) is decreasing 5%. Surprised me, since the benefits now include no co-pay for preventive, kids covered until age 26 if not covered elsewhere, no cap on annual or lifetime limits.


Regarding Sowell's article, I agree with him about not knowing what's in bills. But that problem isn't limited to health care reform. Nobody knew just how bad NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND was going to be either... you don't get the details of the subsequent regulations constructed by the politburo's appointee's until much later.

And regarding the overall issue of health care, the unsustainability of it really is based on the huge number of old f**kers who rack up millions in cost so they can live long enough for their great grandchildren can see how they weren't. Medicare is the ticking time bomb.

[bluedogok]

I just received my defined benefits "open enrollment" package for 2011.

It appears my cost for the medical plan I have (Employee + Family in Kaiser HMO) is decreasing 5%. Surprised me, since the benefits now include no co-pay for preventive, kids covered until age 26 if not covered elsewhere, no cap on annual or lifetime limits.
Do you have a new deductible? Consider yourself lucky and a rarity if your premium went down without a deductible.

Our insurance doubled and my wife and I are on our own policies at our respective employers. That wasn't the big hit though, we went from a co-pay system to an old fashioned deductible systems. Mine happened last year with minimal increase, as a single insured I have a 5,000 deductible then an 20/80 split for in-network care, my wife's is 3,000. I never come close to meeting a deductible, never have since I have been off my parents policy.

I am with a small firm (50 employees scattered between Texas and Indiana) with many younger females and the Indy office have had quite a few births which always skews the insurance rates. My wife is with a non-profit and they have many employees with disabilities so that skews their rates.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

If this article helps even one person to focus on what the Democrat party has done to America, and especially since they've had control of the govt. for the last 4 yrs, it's a start, and a positive thing

[Crucifax Autumn]

What if it has the opposite effect on some other dumbazz, thus counterbalancing the one person mentioned?

[LosAngelesSooner]

What if it has the opposite effect on some other dumbazz, thus counterbalancing the one person mentioned?
It already has. Witness the thread starter...

[Condescending Sooner]

My insurance went up $200.00 a month. Everyone's that I know of had increases as well. I think Joaquin is in a very small minority.

[SoonerNate]

It already has. Witness the thread starter...

Would you be happy had W mandated you purchase something against your will?

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Would you be happy had W mandated you purchase something against your will?LAS goes silent... that's his answer.

[The]

Would you be happy had W mandated you purchase something against your will?

Not a fan of all those bombs my tax payer dollars went to.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Not a fan of all those bombs my tax payer dollars went to.But, you DO like govt. takeover and destruction of the private sector?

[The]

But, you DO like govt. takeover and destruction of the private sector?


What in the world are you talking about? Government take over of what? Are you like the Dale Gribble of this board? Black Helicopters and whatnot?

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Government take over of what? Who let you out of the root cellar? Don't you have a tv or radio or a means to assimilate current events...for the last 2 yrs

[The]

Who let you out of the root cellar? Don't you have a tv or radio or a means to assimilate current events...for the last 2 yrs

I still have no idea what you are talking about. Have we been invaded? Is it Norway?

[OklahomaTuba]

I guess The thinks its entirely normal for the federal government to own car companies, insurance companies, the student loan industry, etc???

Maybe he has been in Norway???

[The]

I guess The thinks its entirely normal for the federal government to own car companies, insurance companies, the student loan industry, etc???

Maybe he has been in Norway???

A tad bit of hyperbole there, don't you think?

[KC//CRIMSON]

My insurance went up $200.00 a month. Everyone's that I know of had increases as well. I think Joaquin is in a very small minority.

Mine went down as well. Granted it only when down eight dollars a bi-weekly paycheck, it still went down.

[OklahomaTuba]

A tad bit of hyperbole there, don't you think?
No, I was being modest, actually.

[The]

No, I was being modest, actually.

Good for you.

[Cornfed]

I'm doing the "random" ballot this year, I will randomly go down the ballot and mark the first box untill all sections have a mark. (just teasing)

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Lordy Lordy, it all happens tomorrow!

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Bring It, beyonces

[King Barry's Back]

"regarding...health care, the unsustainability of it really is based on the huge number of old f**kers who rack up millions in cost so they can live long enough for their great grandchildren can see how they weren't." -- SanJoaqinSooner

Hey, SJS, can you clarify that part about the "old f**kers" a little bit? It reads kind of like maybe you left a word out, and I can't quite figure your meaning.

Except it kind of sounds like maybe you don't like old people and wish they would die? If so, I am guessing you are still pretty young, and healthy. Good for you.

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

I guess The thinks its entirely normal for the federal government to own car companies, insurance companies, the student loan industry, etc???

Maybe he has been in Norway???
Yeah things are terrible in Norway (http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/) I've heard

As a student, it would be great if the government took over predatory student lending industries. Or better yet, subsidized my education like the rest of the developed world.

[The]

http://i.imgur.com/ruJ0V.jpg

[Bourbon St Sooner]

Yeah things are terrible in Norway (http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/) I've heard

As a student, it would be great if the government took over predatory student lending industries. Or better yet, subsidized my education like the rest of the developed world.


Maybe the gov't can give you a paycheck just for existing:rolleyes:

[Cornfed]

I think the Govt should regulate everything. Including Hyperbole.

[tommieharris91]

Know who else used hyperbole? Hitler.

There. Godwin wins again.

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

Maybe the gov't can give you a paycheck just for existing:rolleyes:
Thats a big jump from education...

[Cornfed]

Know who else used hyperbole? Hitler.

There. Godwin wins again.

Hitler also used the toilet. :P

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Tomorrow is your voting day, dems. Get there early and often!