The Northway Democrats
Who would have guessed a year ago that we'd have two members of Congress living on the I-87 corridor, one in Plattsburgh and the other in Glens Falls?
And who would have predicted that they would be Democrats.
That's a lot of Adirondack Foothills muscle.
Labels: election09
posted by Brian Mann @ 11/04/2009 06:24:00 AM
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7 Comments:
I am so relieved that Bill Owens won. Health care is such a vital issue that to have one Democratic vote is very important. Right now I know a family without health insurance facing an enormous medical bill after 3 weeks of surgery and intensive care. We have to have a level playing field so people can start from the same place. People will take more calculated entrepreneurial risks if they have the basic security of guaranteed affordable health care for their families.
What makes you think it'll be "affordable"? To many people, not you perhaps, "affordable" means someone else is paying for it. Wouldn't it be better if taxes were lowered so that business could afford to hire people and those people could then afford to shop for their own insurance? Even better open the health care insurance to free market competition, like auto insurance, instead of limiting plans to each state.
I fear you are sadly mistaken about the looming health care package. I will try to find the article I read yesterday, it pointed out that the nearly 2000 page bill is full of fines, taxes, restrictions and other nasties, it's not all goodness and light.
BTW- just where in the Constitution or BoR is a "level playing field" a right?
Another thing on Health Care- did you know the Senate is refusing to receive petitions against the plan now from certain groups Like Grassfire? Don't try and convince me everything is above board in Washington and Albany. What being done is CRIMINAL and in another time those people would have been forcibly removed from office and brought to trial.
Yes, the health care debate is indeed criminal. Health insurance companies are exempt from anti-trust laws. Why is that? Dick Armey can leave congress and then be hired as a lobbyist for one of the largest and most profitable health care companies in the world. Is that criminal? Politicians can rail against a public option but yet receive publicly funded health care for themselves and their families. Is that criminal? Joe Lieberman's wife can engage in lobbying for the health insurance companies while he serves in Congress and votes on impending health care legislation? Is that criminal? I guess the definition of criminal is not so easy to determine.
Regarding cost, what is so bad about spending roughly another 90 Billion per year to insure 50 million additional people? We spend nearly twice that in Iraq per year alone, and all of it borrowed money. Oh that's right, it's for the American Empire, can't question that expense.
Of course we an question it! And I agree that much of what you outlined falls under "criminal" in my book. That's why we need real CHANGE in Washington , Albany, every capitol in the country. The Republicrat elites are running thin and it's got to stop. Obama doesn;t want to fund the war? Then lets bring them home- ALL of them- Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Haiti, Korea, Europe, Japan. Let the rest of the world care for itself. Let the UN finally have to buck up and fulfill their mandate without the US bearing the brunt of the cost and work.
Whats $50,000,000,000.00? It's an enormous sum of money that we shouldn't be talking about as if it's pocket change. I doubt it will be $50B anyway, current projections put it at 1.4 TRILLION over 10 years, and those are just projections. Have you ever sen a gov't program come in at or under budget?
Sorry Brett, but 90 billion annualy in a total federal gov't budget of about 3.3 Trillion per year is not unattainable. And if we truly want to make American companies competitive on the world stage, removing the extremely costly yoke of health insurance from their necks would go a long way to that end. Why do you think many companies support health care reform? It's really only the health insurance giants and big Pharm that are resistant, and for obvious reasons. And I completely agree that it's time America pull all its forces out of not only the Middle East (including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.), but Europe, Asia and Southeast Asia as well. We can no longer afford our gargantuan, inefficient, and wasteful military budget. Like England, France, Spain, and the Romans before them, maintaining an empire at the cost of everything else will yet prove to be our undoing.
So by your estimate we;ll be 500 B less than the initial est? Whoop-te-doo! We're in the money!!!
Come on. First off there's no way it'll be run under budget, there's no way it'll be efficient. And where is all the money going to come from? Is there an untapped resource out there we don;t know of? No, it'll come on the backs of the taxpayers and on business. Please explain to me how added taxes and costs and fines are going to help? All this to "help" that phantom 40 million uninsured. Ever see the break down on just who "they" are? Take a look some time.
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