9 thoughts on “Are you a racist?”

1. Jimmy Carter is wrong. I give him a pass because I can tell you as a guy living in the South racism is still alive and well. I see it everyday. Let’s be honest would anyone be questioning where he was born if he were a white guy named Barry Johnson?

   Carter was wrong to say what he did. Pulling the race card gets us nowhere. It was like when people said you were un-American or un-patriotic or that you didn’t support the troops if you did not agree with Bush W. Comments like that only divide people. Carter only stoked the race fire with his comments. Glenn Beck, who organized the “two million people” to march on 9-12, stoked it when he said Obama hates white people and is a racist.

   Yes racism is alive and well in America. Yes some people don’t like Obama because of his skin color. But, no opposing Obama’s health care reform does not make you a racist. And Obama agrees: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32920370/ns/politics-
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2. Heh. Good stuff.

3. Jimmy Carter is old so maybe his memory is stuck back in the past or maybe he is trying to keep himself relevant. The flow chart is funny.

   However, let’s go back to your introductory paragraph. You write, “Why else would we be opposed to an unprecedented intrusion of government into our freedom to choose medical care?” Health care reform is not going to change your right to choose the medical care you want. It is about reforming insurance practices, pharmaceutical practices and medical record keeping. If you categorize that as medical care well then what freedom does a person have who cannot obtain insurance or cannot afford it? Where is there freedom or is freedom only the right of those that can afford it or who are healthy?

4. Well, as Obama said himself a couple of years ago, the long range goal is to achieve single payer health care run by the government (the Great Britain model). So, if the government runs all the private insurers out of business, I guess our only choice will be Uncle Sam.

   It’s the fact that the liberals are lying about the cost of the program that sticks in my caw. You can’t tell me that insuring 40 million more people is going to save money. And they are going to pay for that by elimanting “fraud, waste and abuse” in medicare? Why don’t they go ahead and do that NOW? What a joke.

   I am so proud of my fellow citizens who are not only not buying it but who are voicing their disgust. There’s hope for America yet.

5. I still get a kick out of how these citizens make you proud and the ones the voiced their disgust with Bush were idiots. You spent the better part of four years ripping these “morons”. I didn’t hear or read one post about the previous president spending money and growing government faster than anyone since LBJ.

   I’m not saying the criticism of Obama isn’t without merit, I think it would carry more weight if you would have acknowledged some of the major mistakes the previous administration made in the same way you are pointing out the mistakes the current president is making. I’m not one of those blame Bush for everything guys, but some Obama critics seem to pretend all these problems started nine months ago and that before he took office America was perfect.

   Anyway, the term is pubic “Option”…which means if you don’t want it you can go private and stick with your current plan. There are public and private universities and that seems to work out ok for both. Private insurance will have to step up their game but if they offer premier services at an affordable price they will be fine.

   But I’d be shocked if the public option even happens. Obama is going to make sure he takes care of the insurance companies. There will be some reform but not nearly enough. The tea baggers act like Obama is the radical guy when really he is juts like every other president. He’s going to look out for the big guys like the banks and the health insurance companies. The bill proposed last week requires all to have insurance and fines you if you don’t. That means 40 million new customers for the health industry. Cha Ching.

   One other thought, people knock Canada and UK health care but the life expectancy in both those countries is usually higher than ours. I live in South Carolina and if I moved to Argentina, where my Gov likes to party, I would have a higher life expectancy. If our health care system is so great why are we the unhealthiest developed country in the world?

   And glad you made it back. Great to see you last weekend. It was a lot of fun.

6. Achieving a single payer system like Britain is not the model at least at this time. In his health reform speech To Congress, Obama stated,“I believe it makes more sense to build on what works and fix what doesn’t, rather than try to build an entirely new system from scratch.”

   I don’t think we can afford to sit by and do nothing simply because of a fear of what could become possible in the future under yet a different bill. Health care costs affect the economy. It cripples American companies trying to remain competitive with foreign companies. We can’t afford to do nothing!

   You are proud of people who protest health care reform exclaiming “Keep the government out of my Medicare!” That is one of the catchier phrases to come out of this debate. Really? Funny because Medicare is a government run health care program.

   The cost of health care reform is awfully high and raises legitimate concerns about the affordibility. However, we are going to pay one way or another. The idea is to share the pain.

   But let me offer you another perspective on the cost. The Baccus bill will cost close to 900 billion over the next decade. Yes that is a lot but as the plan actually riases money in the first decade the CBO says it will actually reduce the deficit. Also remember that prescription drug bill passed under Bush? The 10 year cost for that bill was 1.2 trillion. In five years the 2001 tax cuts cost the county 929 billion.

7. http://news.aol.com/article/cnn-poll-obamas-approval-rating-steady/677992

   WASHINGTON (Sept. 20) – President Barack Obama’s approval rating is holding steady in the mid-50’s, according to a new CNN Poll of Polls.

   Fifty-five percent of Americans approve of how Obama’s handling his duties in the White House, according to the CNN Poll of Polls, which averaged the six national surveys taken since the president addressed a joint session of Congress on September 9. Thirty-nine percent, on average, disapprove.

   Does the poll result surprise you?

   Yes 54%
   No 46%

   Total Votes 48,219

   What’s your take on Obama’s job performance?

   I disapprove 60%
   I approve 32%
   I have mixed feelings 6%

   Total Votes 58,360

   The lies continue.

8. Should go like Canada. I have a 3 1/2 month wait to see a specialist.

   Public health care ftw.

9. Headline today:

   “House Dems say it’s unfair to bar illegal immigrants from paying their way in a government-sponsored exchange.” The article went on to say that since most illegal immigrants are in a younger segment of the population and get sick less, that it would actually relieve funding pressure on the health care system thereby adding money to the system. Really. They really said that. This is a very good example of Democrat logic encountered daily.

   Help me here please. Can anyone else see the words “illegal immigrants” in that sentence? What is it in the status as “illegal immigrant” that makes them eligible for anything other then immediate deportation and/or jail time as felons? I guess that thing must be perceived support for the Democrat party by the Democrat party, isn’t it? Must be it, since they are unconvicted felons.

   I read comments some time back by some probable liberals on this board who claimed that solutions to problems are never offered by conservatives, that all they do is complain. Well here’s a proposed solution offered for those critics.

   If I was in the business of making foreign policy for the US I would try to make it this simple: Our fireign policy with regard to immigrants – status and treatment thereof, will center on attempting to be the reciprocal of what their country of origin is for us. If you arrest, jail, try, convict and heavily fine (and even execute) or otherwise harass in any unreasonable way, Americans in your country, documented or undocumented, we will do the same to your citizens in our country. If you deny Americans free speech in your country, do not allow them to practice the faith of their choice, prohibit them from purchasing property or bar them from employment, or, here’s a good one, fail to prosecute your citizens who commit crimes in the US then flee back to the sanctuary of your country to avoid prosecution, we will do the same to and for your citizens who are in the US and, yes, we will single them out for special treatment. These are only a few examples; it could go on and on – the mind literally swims with possibility here. On the other hand if your treat our citizens with dignity and respect, etc, we will treat yours similarly.

   Question here: as policy warden for the USA, what is Hilary Clinton doing? What in living hell IS she doing?

   The quoted sentence at the front of this post, if true, is simply another example, a drip if you will, of how Democrats seem bent on destroying our country, drip by drip. Another way to try to look at perhaps the overall political purpose of the Democrat party that could provide a little clarity might be to simply ask the question, “what are they thinking they will do if they are able to get everything they want to get done, done? Our country, at that point, a mere shadow of what our founding father’s intended, with big government running everything in the inept way that only they can, with truly the vast majority of most of our moral and ethical values virtually undermined to insignificance……. a primary school education system that turns out idiots more often than decent citizens and is the laughing stock of developed nations and a secondary school system populated largely by liberal professors who not only deny free speech to but harass, demean and often fail students with conservative opinions, cradle to grave welfare requiring no productive efforts on the part of the recipient, and on and on. I honestly don’t so how they would or could ever be satisfied with this – so something else must be going on here.- but what is it?