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May 17, 2011 - 03:53pm PT
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THE PEOPLE VS. THE POWERFUL: Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers go to gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district.
HMMMM... WHY WOULD ALL THESE RICH FOLKS AND OBAMA SUPPORTERS WANT OUT OF THE WONDERS AND JOYS OF OBAMACARE?
CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 17, 2011 - 03:56pm PT
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Since most all the Obamites seem to be present, I have a question?
Are your votive candles truly progressive and produce no greenhouse gasses?
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May 17, 2011 - 03:57pm PT
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THIS SHOULD HELP THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS.
OH - AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A HAZ-MAT TEAM READY WHEN YOU BREAK ONE IN YOUR HOUSE.
New, federally-mandated light bulbs will cost $50 -- each...
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May 17, 2011 - 03:58pm PT
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CHANGE!
IT BEGINS: Doctors Refusing To Treat Overweight Patients...
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May 17, 2011 - 03:58pm PT
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Man, it's almost like clockwork...post a devastatingly obvious weakness or hypocrisy in the GOP, and the Droids try to change the channel with a cartoon.
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May 17, 2011 - 04:00pm PT
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BUT, OF COURSE -- GIVEN OBAMA'S COMMIE IDEOLOGY:
GM sponsors and celebrates soon to be released Chi-Com propaganda film
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May 17, 2011 - 04:07pm PT
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BUT I THOUGHT LIBS WERE ALL FOR DIVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSITY!!!!?
On his Monday show, Mark Levin went through each network’s line-ups and pointed out that much of it is white and lacks that diversity.
“Let’s go play their game a little bit,” Levin said. “Let’s go look at NBC News. A very, very white guy is in charge of the company that owns NBC News. NBC News is run by very, very white guys. ‘Meet the Press’ has only had white guys in the anchor chair. ‘NBC Nightly News’ – a white guy. Let’s look at their bastard off-child, MSLSD: Chris Matthews – the whitest of the white guys, Joe Scarborough – white, Ed Schultz – fat and white, Larry O’Donnell – mental patient and white, Rachel, what is her name anyway, Maddow – white. It’s so white over there I’m blinded.”
THEY MUST BE RACISTS! WHAT ELSE CAN EXPLAIN SUCH A LACK OF RACIAL DIVERSITY IN ALL THESE LIB-RUN SHOWS?!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAACISTS!
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May 17, 2011 - 04:08pm PT
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Coot -- tell me the "lies" I have told. Be specific.
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May 17, 2011 - 04:11pm PT
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Headline: Black unemployment rate highest in decades.
Hmmmm ... I wonder why Dem economic policies hurt blacks the most?
Anyone know why?
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May 17, 2011 - 04:23pm PT
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LESSONS LIBS COULD LEARN BY:
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
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May 17, 2011 - 04:24pm PT
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman
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May 17, 2011 - 04:25pm PT
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
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May 17, 2011 - 04:26pm PT
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman
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May 17, 2011 - 04:27pm PT
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The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Milton Friedman
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May 17, 2011 - 04:29pm PT
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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
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May 17, 2011 - 04:29pm PT
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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman
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May 17, 2011 - 04:31pm PT
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"The minimum wage law has to be one of the most, if not the most anti-black law on the statute books.”
Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman
Do you any of you really smart libs know why? Do you any of you libs know why the minimum wage kills jobs for those at the entry level?
Come on folks -- this is an easy one.
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May 17, 2011 - 04:33pm PT
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I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a response from TGT (or most of the other Repubs) on that question- they never seem to like anyone. However, once the GOP picks it's candidate, they'll fall in lockstep, no matter how McLame or McFlip-flop the candidate happens to be.
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May 17, 2011 - 04:37pm PT
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WHEN YOUR ECONOMIC POLICIES PRIMARILY ARE FOCUSED ON REWARDING PUBLIC SECTOR, NON-WEALTH PRODUCING SUPPORTERS - THIS IS WHAT YOU GET:
Rasmussen: 9% Rate Economy Good or Excellent, 54% Say Poor
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May 17, 2011 - 04:44pm PT
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REMEMBER PELOSI? "WE HAVE TO PASS OBAMACARE SO YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT IS IN IT."
HMMMM ... WHY ARE SO MANY BUSINESSES WANTING WAIVERS FROM THE WONDERS AND JOYS OF OBAMACARE?
Beyond Irony: Nursing homes need waivers from Obamacare
Washington Times, May 17, 2011
Above the fold on the front page of the New York Times is not normally where one expects to find a news article that lays bare the mortal threat posed by Obamacare to a key segment of the health care industry and hundreds of thousands of its workers. But the pro-Obamacare newspaper pulled no punches Monday in a column-one story titled, "Nursing homes seek a reprieve from health law."
The focus of the piece was that "many nursing homes and home care agencies, alarmed at the cost of providing health insurance to hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers, have started a lobbying effort seeking an exemption or special treatment that would relieve them of the obligation or help them with the expense." A little further on in the article, Mark Parkinson, president of the American Health Care Association, explained that his industry has to get a waiver from Obamacare because "we do not have much ability to increase prices because we are so dependent on Medicaid and Medicare" for revenue.
Neither of these statements should shock anybody. When government controls an industry, the health of firms within it inevitably becomes dependent on their influence in Washington and state capitals. Competition in a regulated industry is typically focused on hiring well-connected K Street lobbying firms, targeting the "right" congressmen on key committees for hefty campaign contributions and knowing which bureaucratic levers to pull in order to ensure a favorable "business environment." What is best for patients becomes an afterthought when bureaucratic formulas determine what care is provided and how, instead of private firms competing with each other to offer needed services at affordable prices while making enough profit to stay in business.
Another quote from the Times article points to two more ways in which government regulation of an industry is harmful, usually to the very people it is intended to benefit. Debbie D. Gantz, administrator of a small Oklahoma nursing home, explained that she would offer her employees health insurance but for the fact that "we are a small home. We are not part of a chain. We could not provide health insurance to our employees and still be able to pay all our bills and make the payroll."
The result, if Obamacare becomes fully operational, will be that thousands of small nursing homes like Gantz's will either have to fire employees and restrict services, be bought out by nursing home conglomerates, or both. The result will be fewer jobs for people who want them, and fewer care options available to those who desperately need them. President Reagan put it well in 1981: "Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem."
It still is in 2011.
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