Posts made by raphjd

GWB, as governor of Texas, gave illegals countless rights, including; driver's license, resident tuition at county and state colleges, and many others.

Texas didn't like MOTOR VOTER only because the federal government didn't completely pay for it.

@aadam101:

@raphjd:

By "freeloaders", I think he means the illegals who always go to the ER every time they get the sniffles because they know they won't have to pay for it.

Actually the freeloaders are people like Frederick who claim not to need insurance and shouldn't be forced to buy it.   It's the very people who are against ObamaCare because the fact is they were very happy paying $0 into the system and getting substandard, inappropriate care for free.

Oh, so you are advocating an NHS system where you end up with permanent nerve damage in both hands because the NHS (at the time) paid GPs not to refer patients to keep waiting times down.

Or to nearly kill people because GPs can't think out of the box.

Or that you MUST have private insurance so you can get an immediate appointment with a specialist.  If you had to wait to see an NHS specialist, you'd be dead for about 6 months because your appointment.

Or that they wouldn't prescribe appropriate pain killers knowing that you are doing serious harm to yourself by using massive doses of OTC drugs in an attempt to get a tiny bit of pain relief.

Or a system where it's virtually impossible to sue for malpractice, even in the most blatant cases.

I despise him.

He hates the concept of FREE SPEECH FOR ALL.

He's a militant leftist.

He's still a multi billionaire while telling us that we need to give our money to charity.

The flip flopping of the left.  :crazy2:  :crazy2:  :crazy2:  :crazy2:

By "freeloaders", I think he means the illegals who always go to the ER every time they get the sniffles because they know they won't have to pay for it.

I have to agree.

He should play their game.

@aadam101:

@raphjd:

Maybe we should force everyone to buy car insurance too.   After all, it's not about need according to leftists.

Why does my anti abortion Christian uncle have to subsidize abortions?     He's not against subsidizing preventatives like "the pill" and implants, but he is totally against paying for abortions.   In fact, my dad's entire side of the family is like this.

Because that's how insurance works.  I have to subsidize a guy who drives his car 110 miles per hour for fun and for some asshole who builds his house in a flood zone.

Once again, you are making the case for single payer.

Are you saying we should have single payer for car insurance?

Maybe we should force everyone to buy car insurance too.  After all, it's not about need according to leftists.

Why does my anti abortion Christian uncle have to subsidize abortions?    He's not against subsidizing preventatives like "the pill" and implants, but he is totally against paying for abortions.  In fact, my dad's entire side of the family is like this.

I knew the quote before reading the article.

He (don't want to spoil it) was a notorious racist and only did "good" things for blacks if it furthered the parties agenda.

This issue is one of the biggest reasons I hate Obama.

He fucking lied to the people to get elected.  He promised to stop most of the GWB era programs.  The reality is that Obama ramped the shit up far beyond anyone's dream/nightmare.

He promised to stop the "no bid contracts" but he still used them.

Obama only hates Snowden because he proved that Obama was nothing but a fucking liar and enemy of the people.

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There are aspects of Obama's flip flopping that I don't like, but I kinda understand it as a political ploy to get elected.

As a state level politico, he could support gay equality because the people in his area supported gay equality.

To become a US Senator, he had to get the vote of the southern half of the state, so he severely backed of his support for gay equality.  Running for US president, was similar to running for the Senate.

He did lie though and took credit for things he had nothing to do with.  He took credit for a group of protections that took effect on 1 Oct, which was more than a month before he was even elected.

It wasn't insurance as such.  It was just a program that you could sign up for.

Employee's got free health insurance through work.

Hillary claims that 2 of them are her idols though.

Millions of people worship Hillary.  So they are worshipping her politics that were shaped by her racist heroes.

@Frederick:

@USHorizon:

@sutieday:

I love referring to he who shall not be named as #45

Hehehe. Me too!

Me too!   #45 is doing great!
I also like to refer to Hillary Clinton as "She Who Has No Number"

Hopefully she'll have a prison number soon.

LBJ, a democrat, called black people "niggers" all the time.

Byrd was a KKK grand dragon.

The Planned Parenthood founder called black people "weeds".

Too often, the argument here is:  The young, beautiful and virtuous shouldn't have to pay for insurance coverage, since their premiums go to provide care for nasty, old, dissolute people whose need for health care is their "fault," because of bad choices that made them overweight, smokers, etc.

A company I used to work for in the US had a program like this, as a "benefit".

It was an annual "complete check up".

Young people would pay astronomical amounts, while older people would pay very little.  This is despite young people getting very few tests and older people getting lots of tests.    It's a complete rip off for young people just starting out on much lower salaries.

A doctor friend, who I showed the paperwork to, told me not to do it until I was 55yo because it was a rip off til then.

As long as it's only in pieces of clothing or equipment for work, it doesn't bother me.

There is a company in Wisconsin that has microchips that they implant in employees at work "parties".  Supposedly, it's a totally a voluntary system.  There's video of this on Facebook and Twitter.  They get the implant in the back of their hand between the thumb and index finger.

The Rome Statute only applies to those who force/recruit/etc under 15yo to fight.

The Child Soldier Protocol applies directly to the soldier themselves.    If they are under 15, they are not responsible for their actions.  If they are 15yo and over, they are responsible for their actions.

The Paris Protocol is not part of international law because only a few countries have signed up to it.    As for this thread, it's also after the fact, so it wouldn't apply anyway.

The International Red Cross's Optional Protocol  means nothing because it's a voluntary thing with no backing in the international legal system.  This is same issue with the Paris Protocol.

All the above is why Canada has not labelled Kadhr as a child soldier.  In no way can he qualify as such under international law.

NOTE:   The Paris Protocol of 2007 is not related to the Paris Protocol of 2015 on climate change, which dominates most of Google's fist countless pages.

Read my earlier post.  I explain the international law.

It's the Rome Statute that makes 15yo and up responsible for their own actions, under international law.

The UK varies by "country".

England and Wales used to force you to pay upfront if you had any assets.  This included forcing you to sell your house, even if one spouse was still living in it.    Now they wait until both spouses die and take their 100 pounds of flesh.

Of course, this only applies to government funded places.  Private facilities do their own thing, which almost always means paying upfront or being chucked out.

As expected, the number of government beds is falling short of need and getting worse every day.

Ain't socialism so much better than capitalism.

New England states also get subsidized heating.