Posts made by Frederick

@raphjd:

New England states also get subsidized heating.

I have to give credit where credit is due.  In New York, they have what is called "Direct Heating" in which businesses and residences get free heat.
The way it works is they drilled massive tunnels and pipes which pump water into a pit under Hillary Clinton's house that goes all the way down to hell.. where it is turned into steam.. and piped all over New York!  Who said Hillary was worthless?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

Seriously though, it's interesting that the "sanctuary cities" loaded with illegal immigrants (notice I didn't say immigrants, but ILLEGAL immigrants - who have no business even being in the country) could not exist if not for massive subsidies.

@ryn:

The faster we get to a sense of normality where politics is about substantive policy debates and economics, the better.  Sadly it seems the only chance to escape this ridiculous political theater is in 2018/2020.

Oh.. I don't think it will take that long. 
I would give 50/50 odds that Obamacare will be replaced this month…
I would also say that a massive tax cut will pass in November.

The election was like a lightning strike right to Hillary's petrified vagina.  The democrats have been running around like a load of chickens with their heads cut off since then.  Instead of accepting the results of the election, and moving on, they have doubled down and refused to  accept the results of the election - and are making fools of themselves.

Yesterday, I said the stock market went from 18,500 on election day to todays roughly 22,000
Well.. I did a little more research.. and found out I was wrong!  Sorry!
Actually at midnight on election day.. the stock market was 17,400, not 18,500

So that means, in just 9 months since Trumps election, the stock market has gone from
17,400 to 22000  an increase of 4600 points…  or 26.4% !!!!

Four states (New York, California, Maryland, and Massachusetts) get 40% of federal healthcare money, yet are only 20% of the population!  That leaves 60% of the money for the other 80% of the population.  
That means for every $100.00 that those 4 states get, the other states average $37.50

None of those states voted for Trump, and all 8 senators of those states are democrats.

As I have mentioned in the last week, healthcare should be a STATE issue.  Republican Senator Lindsay Graham has come out with a state oriented  healthcare plan which will probably be voted on this week.  
Do you think that Republican states will want to get almost 3 times as much money for healthcare as they are now?   Uhh.. I think so!  
Of course the 4 states (8 senators) that will lose half their healthcare money will hate the idea.. but they are all democrats and wouldn't be voting for any Republican plan anyway!

In fact.. nearly all 52 republican senators will vote for that plan.. and Pence..  The two dyke republicans and senile McCain will probably vote against it….
BUT.. I think a few democrap senators will vote for it since the average state will go from 37.5% of their share of the pie to 100%. 
Even moreso.. because that 37.5% is the AVERAGE.. I'm sure that there are some democrap states that are getting just 25% of their share of the pie.

Here is how one citizen in Springfield reacted to this news...  https://youtu.be/6FdbqXZukhg?t=12

@royalcrown89:

Disgusting Scaramucci is out  :cheers:

This isn't surprising though. This White House has already proven itself to be incompetent and for that reason, there will be no major legislation accomplishments aided by this White House. It's only going to go downhill from here and it truly is sad to witness. Just wait until the investigation really gets going.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-communications-director/story?id=48952277

What's disgusting is how you are so happy whenever you think the country is failing.  Sorry to rain on your misery parade, but the stock market is at an all time high now… 21,891.  (it was 18,500 before Trump was elected).  Next month, a massive tax cut will be passed - which will be a much bigger postitive accomplishment that anything Obama ever did.    As for Scaramucci..  that's a case of the moonbats attacking that he got the position.. and again attacking when he was removed.

I'm curious about something though.  You mentioned an investigation.  Investigation of WHAT?  And why have we heard nothing of any investigation or any evidence?

@royalcrown89:

A president with a 32-38% approval rating should expect constant criticism from all sides until he proves he has real leadership skills and is loyal to the American people. The current president hasn't done either of those things; therefore, he is being rightfully criticized. The American people are not going to blindly follow an incompetent blatant liar and coward, which are the only characteristics this president has shown us so far. Maybe things will change and maybe he will become more presidential and will stop being a coward and a liar, but for right now that's all he's shown us.

Wrong.  The polls are garbage.. but even if they were legitimate…  the attacks began the instant Trump was elected - so obviously they are the product of Trump haters / moonbats and not the result of anything Trump did or did not do. 
If you want a real poll.. take a look at the stock market.

@aadam101:

The Dow rose from 6500 to a record 19500 under Obama.

Also according to Breitbart, Obama lowered food stamp usage dramatically.  By the end of his administration it was at a 7 year low.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/20/food-stamp-use-falls-lowest-level-seven-years/

You consistently misrepresent the articles you refer to. 
You seem to forget that Sheik Obama was occupying the White House for EIGHT years..  and during his regime, Food Stamp Enrollment hit a record high peak of 47.6 million people  (it was 28 million when Bush left office).  Also, the amount of $$$ per recipient has dropped considerably… which is horrible.  So, the people who do need benefits are getting LESS.  I know of people who used to get $200 a month that Obama cut to $15 a month.    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/02/19-million-more-americans-on-food-stamps-despite-low-unemployment-rate/

You've also lied about the DOW.  The DOW has gone from 18,500 on election day - when Trump was elected.. to a record 21,891.. an increase of 3,391 just since Trumps election.. and a staggering 18% increase in just the 9 months since Trump's election!

@raphjd:

Leftists attack Trump 1,000 times more than righties attacked Obama.

Not just the volume of attacks.. but the intensity is much more severe as well.

@aadam101:

Here you go disrespecting our President again.  Trump promised hundreds of times of times to repeal and replace ObamaCare.  He said it would be very easy in fact.  I'm really getting tired of you coming here constantly and accusing him of lying.  It's disrespectful.

If ObamaCare already failed then why is still the law?  If it failed it would be easy to repeal.  The fact is that Republicans LOVE ObamaCare.  They can't do any better than this.

You must not pay attention to the news.  AFTER that spectacle in the Senate on Friday.. in which McCain did a flip-flop and stabbed the Republican Party in the back.. and the Moonbats celebrated.. and Mitch McConnell essentially gave up..  Trump pulled several Republicans into his office.. and the vote to repeal is once again alive.  Trump is very skilled at persuading people.  I recognize some of the techniques he uses. 
One thing that does surprise me is not ONE of the democrat senators has dared to break from the pack and vote with the Republicans. 
It's disgusting that the Senate is so polarized.

@aadam101:

@Frederick:

@aadam101:

Well she benefits from it anyway…..

Tomi Lahren revealed yesterday that she is "luckily" benefiting from ObamaCare.  This is very strange that she feels this way considering she has spent years bashing the law.

http://fortune.com/2017/07/30/tomi-lahren-chelsea-handler-obamacare-politicon/

People have got to realize that Conservatives are total liars.  They don't give a damn about anyone but themselves and erasing the legacy of a Black President.  It seems that most of the people who are against it are actually benefiting from it in some way.

Considering what the moonbats.. and YOU have been spouting.. you are hardly in a position to be calling anybody else a liar.

As for Obama's Legacy.. I have asked this dozens of times both here and elsewhere..   what IS Obama's legacy?  What did he accomplish in his 8 year occupation of the White House?   I have yet to get a response from anybody.

He expanded healthcare to millions of people. 
He is the first President to openly support gay marriage which became legal during his term.
He ended Don't Ask Don't Tell.
He captured and killed Osama Bin Laden

That's a mighty pathetic list of accomplishments. 
Expanded healthcare to millions… by that I suppose you mean he made purchasing healthcare mandatory for people who can't afford it to begin with. 
Gay marriage  - a STATE issue - is not that great, since the institution of "traditional" marriage is a disaster in which over 50% of marriages fail. 
I thought "don't ask, don't tell" was supposed to be good for gay people.  It was supposed to allow gay people to serve in the military as long as they didn't flaunt it openly.. and prevented them from being asked if they are gay.  So, I assume that now they can once again ask people if they are gay.. at any point.. and be kicked out of the military and lose their benefits if they are determined to be gay. 
He captured and killed Osama Bin Laden?  No he didn't.  He never captured him,  They killed him.. for some unknown reason.  Every person and dog involved in that raid had a camera mounted on them.. and yet not one image of Osama Bin Laden has ever surfaced from that raid.. why?  Why did they kill him?  Bin Laden was already weakened to the point of being neutralized.  And then.. there was the birth of ISIS which is FAR worse than Al Queda ever was.  During the Bin Laden raid, we lost a stealth helicopter and it's technology - and nobody even knew we HAD such technology.  (later on, Obama would deliver our best drone fully intact right into the hands of the Iranians.. and then give the Iranians hundreds of billions of $$$).

So.. all those things you listed were actually failures.    Nice try though.  Nobody else has ever dared respond to my question.

@aadam101:

@Frederick:

@aadam101:

One of the reasons that costs are so high is because employers are involved in the equation.  Patients don't know how much their healthcare costs.  I have no idea how much it costs my employer.  If the insurers have to market and sell to patients directly the prices will come down.

From a couple of people I've heard from.. their employer pays 4 to 5 times as much as the employee does for their healthcare… but that is misleading, because the money that the employer is paying directly to the insurance plan is money that WOULD have gone to the employee.  The cost of an employee is far more than the salary of the employee.

To do what you suggested.. would require Obamacare to be completely REPEALED first!

What I hate about is that it allows the employer to essentially give an employee a pay cut (or a raise) without the employee even knowing it.  A lot of companies change their healthcare plans every year.  This means your total compensation is likely being changed as well.  It's still a gamble for the employer.  A lot of sick employees could be a disaster for the company when their premiums are jacked the following year.

I once worked at a place that had a dental plan.  I expected it to "maybe" pay 100%.. or maybe 80%… and was confident it would pay at least 50%.    The root canal and crown was $800.. of which that plan covered $5  which is about 0.6%

That is another thing about healthcare.. the deductibles.  This one lady on the radio said that the DEDUCTIBLE of her Obamacare was $8000.  She can't afford $8000.. so even with her Obamacare, she can't use it because she can't pay the deductible.

Healthcare insurance is completely hopeless.  In fact, it is so hopeless that eventually health insurance will be so expensive that almost nobody will be able to afford it - and the services covered will be minimal.    This is what happened with automobile insurance.  Maybe we will wind up with "Logan's Run" in which people are euthanized once they turn the ripe old age of 35.

@aadam101:

One of the reasons that costs are so high is because employers are involved in the equation.  Patients don't know how much their healthcare costs.  I have no idea how much it costs my employer.  If the insurers have to market and sell to patients directly the prices will come down.

From a couple of people I've heard from.. their employer pays 4 to 5 times as much as the employee does for their healthcare… but that is misleading, because the money that the employer is paying directly to the insurance plan is money that WOULD have gone to the employee.  The cost of an employee is far more than the salary of the employee.

To do what you suggested.. would require Obamacare to be completely REPEALED first!

@altoids582:

McCain has been acting brain damaged for years, now he at least has an excuse.

The only real reasons McCain would have to vote no are that he hated Trump's agenda or he didn't even know what the bill was.

Hating Trump is of course the case, but I doubt that's the reason here. Since McCain had also been trying to have the bill go into conference along with a couple other senators. In other words, they wanted to debate what would be in the bill some more which of course was promised to them as the bill was going to have to go back to the House anyway. Thing is this happened over the course of a couple days and given McCain's mental state due to his tumor, he may not have remembered that he was guaranteed the bill would be going to conference as he asked.

If he couldn't remember that some questions had already been asked during a congressional hearing within an hour of his asking those questions again, then how likely is it he'd remember the deal he made about the skinny repeal bill?

McCain needs to give up his seat NOW..  McCain is senile, and/or stupid, and/or hot headed, and/or brain damaged, and/or ignorant.  Take your pick.

@Spintendo:

Despite the mendacity of your claim, Khadr’s detention was and still is illegal under international law. The law as it deals with child soldiers is described at these three sites. (Feel free to peruse the information found there — for the next time you want to act like you know what you're talking about.)

ANOTHER mistake of yours is blaming Trudeau. By participating in Khadr's detention, it was actually Harper who violated Canada’s own international human rights obligations and Khadr’s Charter rights, not Trudeau. This is how the Supreme Court of Canada ruled more than seven years ago. Even in the face of that ruling, Harper still refused to seek Khadr’s repatriation and instead fought his return. Every other Western country which had prisoners at Guantanamo secured the return of their citizens held there. Canada was the only country which did not do so. Now they are paying the price for that intransigence. Make no mistake: Trudeau may have paid the bill — but it was Harper who incurred the charges.

Stephen Harper and his 9 year regime destroyed the Conservative Party in Canada.  Harper was completely corrupt, and a bumbling asshole.. but people liked him because he looked like Phil Donahue (especially with all the cosmetics he wore) and always had a big smile on his face.

@aadam101:

Well she benefits from it anyway…..

Tomi Lahren revealed yesterday that she is "luckily" benefiting from ObamaCare.  This is very strange that she feels this way considering she has spent years bashing the law.

http://fortune.com/2017/07/30/tomi-lahren-chelsea-handler-obamacare-politicon/

People have got to realize that Conservatives are total liars.  They don't give a damn about anyone but themselves and erasing the legacy of a Black President.  It seems that most of the people who are against it are actually benefiting from it in some way.

Considering what the moonbats.. and YOU have been spouting.. you are hardly in a position to be calling anybody else a liar.

As for Obama's Legacy.. I have asked this dozens of times both here and elsewhere..  what IS Obama's legacy?  What did he accomplish in his 8 year occupation of the White House?  I have yet to get a response from anybody.

@royalcrown89:

Hopefully this "Skinny repeal" also fails. 16 million will lose their health insurance because of it and it will do nothing to please the Republican base so passing it will still cause political pain for the Republicans. I agree with what others have said in other threads, the ACA was the Republican's plan and they only came out against it because President Obama was the president who signed it into law. The only direction Republicans can go into is to the left on this because the American people will react negatively to any report that shows millions losing coverage.

Actually.. the ACA was not Obama's invention.. but Hillary's.  When Hillary was the first lady under President Bill Clinton, she came up with a socialized healthcare plan, and she was laughed at by both Republicans and Democrats.

Trump is going to have a massive number of new supporters who are currently being forced to purchase healthcare who will no longer be required to buy it.

@aadam101:

That's part of the job.  If you don't want to take a beating in the press then don't run for President.  Every President deals with this.  Trump get it a little harder than most but that's because all he does it lie.

How many times did he tell us on the campaign trail that he had a great healthcare plan?  He refused to show it to us but promised he had one.  It's now 7 months later and we have seen nothing.  He whines on Twitter but he hasn't offered up any plan whatsoever other then to let ObamaCare "implode" (even though he is blowing it up).

That is complete crap.  NO president has ever been attacked the way Trump is being attacked.. and it began the instant he was elected.. 3 months before he was inaugurated. He got it a LOT harder.  Sheik Barack Osama got an 8 year free pass.. beginning with a Nobel Peace Prize before he sat his ass in the Oval Office.  
Trump is certainly more honest than Obama, Bush, Clinton, or Bush Sr.

Obviously, you have no clue how bills are created and passed.  A president can propose legislation, but writes none of it, he only signs the final product.  It basically starts in the House to be written and voted on, then handed over to the Senate to be re-written and voted on, and then back to the House to be voted on.. then to the desk of the president.

Also.. Trump is not blowing it up.. Obamacare failed before Trump ever took office.   I assume you would like the House and Senate to vote on bail out bills to temporarily keep Obamacare going, even though it would further bankrupt the country.. which has already had it's debt DOUBLED to $20 Trillion - which is $64,000 for every citizen of the USA that is impossible to ever pay off.  So what do you do when you have a debt that is impossible to ever pay off?   Go bail out Obamacare and add another few hundred billion to the debt.

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and the Obama version…  as we know, Obama circumvented the Senate and House by issuing a slew of "Executive Orders" like a dictator.
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In debate #3, Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would accept the results of the election.  He said "maybe" - and was blasted by both the left and right.  They all piled up on him saying basically that whoever wins an election, they must be accepted so that they can do their job.

With Trump, that has not been the case at all.  Before the election, VERY few people expected Trump to win (other than me).  Once he did win, the attacks began, en masse, and have not ceased for one day since November 8, 2016.

This goes against the foundations of democracy.  What is the point of having free elections if people are not going to accept the results?

It's really disgusting, unethical, and wrong.

Am I not thrilled with a lot of what Trump says and does.. but of all the candidates we had to choose from, he was the best.  I challenge anybody to name a better presidential choice from the pool of candidates we were given.  The problem is.. nobody in their right mind would run for president to begin with.

.. and to cut to the chase… I would never have children, because this country and the world are going right down the toilet.. and there is no way to prevent that.  It would be nice if the world could go another 50 years without failing, but at this point, I don't think it will be that long.  The population is growing at an exponential rate (there are more people alive NOW than have died in the entire history of the planet).  Economies around the world are failing, insane countries such as Pakistan, India, North Korea, and Iran already have or will be fully nuclear weapon capable within a few years.

It's sort of like being in a canoe in a river with a waterfall.  Trump is doing his best to row against the flow and avoid the waterfall.  The moonbats are doing the opposite, heading directly towards the waterfall.  Obama's 8 year regime in which he occupied the White House greately accelerated the ultimate doom.

Meanwhile, we have a billion or so Muslims thinking like they are in the stone age.

This guy is in a non-sexual scene in a Bel Ami movie.   I don't know who he is though.

I found him.. he is Nate Donaghy… but his hairstyle is different in this picture than his later movies. 

@aadam101:

I do have to wonder if McCain's recent diagnosis played into his decision. 
We are a long long way off from single payer.  The biggest reason that a President has never pushed for it is because of the impact on the economy.  Millions of people work in administrative healthcare jobs.  It's a huge waste of money but you can't just kill all those jobs overnight.  My last job only existed because of the ACA.  If they did a full repeal my job would have ceased to exist.

I have a plan to fix healthcare and I really think it would work.  The first thing you do  is prohibit all employers from offering health insurance.  You keep the mandate that everyone has insurance but you require that insurers market and sell their plans to YOU, the consumer.  The insurer will have to price their plans accordingly and compete for YOUR business, not some CEO's.  Everyone will have to buy from exchanges just like the ACA plans of today.

Then you create a public option.  Make the insurers compete for customers and compete with a government option which will offer low prices that are government subsidized.  This isn't unheard of.  Medicare operates this way and Medicaid in my state does this as well.  Medicare is the overwhelmingly popular choice for Medicare beneficiaries.  85% of them choose the government run traditional Medicare instead of a private plan.  There are pros and cons to this but it's about choice.  The government could use their public plan as leverage to keep the private insurers prices affordable.  Over time they could slowly put the insurers out of business or they could just choose to co-exist alongside the private plans.  The important thing is that Americans have a choice to choose either the public plan or a private plan.  This is already how Medicare has worked for the last 15 years or so.

McCain has been a lifelong asshole. 
Your healthcare plan (and everyone else's) ignores the fact that healthcare costs are 10 times higher than what they should be.  They need to shift that decimal point.