Comments on: Bill Kristol: This Is the Week to Kill Health Care http://washingtonindependent.com/51775/bill-kristol-this-is-the-week-to-kill-health-care National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sugarvalley http://washingtonindependent.com/51775/bill-kristol-this-is-the-week-to-kill-health-care/comment-page-1#comment-64377 sugarvalley Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:19:09 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=51775#comment-64377 Open letter to Bill: <br> "...government-required death-with-dignity counseling sessions for the elderly." <br>You know better and your sick comment will only help the liberal cause by shreading the last vestiges of credibility in the Conservative Movement. "Congratulations" and Damn you. Open letter to Bill:
“…government-required death-with-dignity counseling sessions for the elderly.”
You know better and your sick comment will only help the liberal cause by shreading the last vestiges of credibility in the Conservative Movement. “Congratulations” and Damn you.

]]> By: Tuci78 http://washingtonindependent.com/51775/bill-kristol-this-is-the-week-to-kill-health-care/comment-page-1#comment-49106 Tuci78 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:18:23 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=51775#comment-49106 The concerns are manifold, but the one I'm most worried about (at the moment) is the absolute certainty that this slice of "Santa Claus" socialist legislation is going to turn into an instant, devouring, economy-dislocating job killer.<br><br>Any statute law creating regulations that require "on the books" employers either to incorporate health care "insurance" (actually pre-paid health care programs) in their employees' compensation packages or pay to the federal government an exaction (fee or tax or fine or whatever the hell it's called) of about $8,000 per employee per year....<br><br>Well, unlike the Federal Reserve, the average American private citizen can't just conjure cash out of thin air. Look at Bernie Madoff, and how he came a-cropper trying to do that.<br><br>Employers whose employees qualify for health "insurance" under the scheme our National Socialist Party (yeah, they call themselves "Democrat," but we know what they really are, right?) is pushing are either going to cut their employees' take-home pay to the extent that this rape job strikes home, or they're going to have to lay off people.<br><br>As for hiring new people....<br><br>Well, fuhgeddaboudit, buddy!<br><br>Expecting employers to create new jobs in the private (productive) sector with this kind of boat anchor chained around their necks is like chucking our Obamaphiles' Mombasa Messiah out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and expecting him to walk home.<br><br>What, he DOESN'T walk on water? Gee, that's not the impression I get from the "Hope-&-Change" humpers. The concerns are manifold, but the one I'm most worried about (at the moment) is the absolute certainty that this slice of “Santa Claus” socialist legislation is going to turn into an instant, devouring, economy-dislocating job killer.

Any statute law creating regulations that require “on the books” employers either to incorporate health care “insurance” (actually pre-paid health care programs) in their employees' compensation packages or pay to the federal government an exaction (fee or tax or fine or whatever the hell it's called) of about $8,000 per employee per year….

Well, unlike the Federal Reserve, the average American private citizen can't just conjure cash out of thin air. Look at Bernie Madoff, and how he came a-cropper trying to do that.

Employers whose employees qualify for health “insurance” under the scheme our National Socialist Party (yeah, they call themselves “Democrat,” but we know what they really are, right?) is pushing are either going to cut their employees' take-home pay to the extent that this rape job strikes home, or they're going to have to lay off people.

As for hiring new people….

Well, fuhgeddaboudit, buddy!

Expecting employers to create new jobs in the private (productive) sector with this kind of boat anchor chained around their necks is like chucking our Obamaphiles' Mombasa Messiah out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and expecting him to walk home.

What, he DOESN'T walk on water? Gee, that's not the impression I get from the “Hope-&-Change” humpers.

]]> By: Card Urges Health Care Delay: Push For Reform Is ‘Contrived Haste’ | Pure Politics http://washingtonindependent.com/51775/bill-kristol-this-is-the-week-to-kill-health-care/comment-page-1#comment-49144 Card Urges Health Care Delay: Push For Reform Is ‘Contrived Haste’ | Pure Politics Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:04:17 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=51775#comment-49144 [...] of course, plenty of time for bipartisan health reform from 2001 to 2009, but they punted, because they don’t believe that the country needs fundamental reform that covers everyone.” Posted in politics • • Top Of [...] [...] of course, plenty of time for bipartisan health reform from 2001 to 2009, but they punted, because they don’t believe that the country needs fundamental reform that covers everyone.” Posted in politics • • Top Of [...]

]]> By: PH Weiss http://washingtonindependent.com/51775/bill-kristol-this-is-the-week-to-kill-health-care/comment-page-1#comment-48744 PH Weiss Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:31:38 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=51775#comment-48744 If Obama, Pelosi & Reid think this plan is so wonderful, then are they going to mandate members of Congress & other government employees enroll in it? I recall the campaign promise Obama made that all Americans should have the SAME coverage as Congress! If Obama, Pelosi & Reid think this plan is so wonderful, then are they going to mandate members of Congress & other government employees enroll in it? I recall the campaign promise Obama made that all Americans should have the SAME coverage as Congress!

]]> By: joshquasimoto http://washingtonindependent.com/51775/bill-kristol-this-is-the-week-to-kill-health-care/comment-page-1#comment-48730 joshquasimoto Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:06:17 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=51775#comment-48730 They inserted 160 amendments into the bill that left the house. The MSM keeps on talking about partisan bills, and it is a fact that the Dem's who control both houses are guiding the process, which by the way is the norm when one party controls either house in Congress, the only thing that is different is the optics of what bi-partisanship means to the MSM. Apparently getting in 160 amendments into a bill, out of committee, does not mean that the GOP wants bi-partisanship since every one of their spokesmen from McConnel to Gregg, from Boehner to Cantor only seems interested in making it look like the Dem's are railroading the process and whatever the Dem's might accomplish will be the end of fiscal responsibility for the US. Of course this ignores the fact that Reagan, Bush I and GW Bush were all in favor of growing the government and expanding the federal deficit. And of course the MSM refuses to ask these Congressmen where their seemingly "scrooge" attitude was when these GOP Presidents spending willy nilly. It is not that the Dem's are perfect, far from it, but they have not built all of there political capital on the theme, of fiscal conservatism and small government. Nor have they built there house on the idea of morality (albiet from a Christian perspective) or the party of 'family values'. As I said it is not that the Dem's are perfect, it is just so obvious that the GOP has "no clothes!" They inserted 160 amendments into the bill that left the house. The MSM keeps on talking about partisan bills, and it is a fact that the Dem's who control both houses are guiding the process, which by the way is the norm when one party controls either house in Congress, the only thing that is different is the optics of what bi-partisanship means to the MSM. Apparently getting in 160 amendments into a bill, out of committee, does not mean that the GOP wants bi-partisanship since every one of their spokesmen from McConnel to Gregg, from Boehner to Cantor only seems interested in making it look like the Dem's are railroading the process and whatever the Dem's might accomplish will be the end of fiscal responsibility for the US. Of course this ignores the fact that Reagan, Bush I and GW Bush were all in favor of growing the government and expanding the federal deficit. And of course the MSM refuses to ask these Congressmen where their seemingly “scrooge” attitude was when these GOP Presidents spending willy nilly. It is not that the Dem's are perfect, far from it, but they have not built all of there political capital on the theme, of fiscal conservatism and small government. Nor have they built there house on the idea of morality (albiet from a Christian perspective) or the party of 'family values'. As I said it is not that the Dem's are perfect, it is just so obvious that the GOP has “no clothes!”

]]> By: Card Urges Health Care Delay: Push For Reform Is ‘Contrived Haste’ | Think Progress http://washingtonindependent.com/51775/bill-kristol-this-is-the-week-to-kill-health-care/comment-page-1#comment-48946 Card Urges Health Care Delay: Push For Reform Is ‘Contrived Haste’ | Think Progress Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:11:54 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=51775#comment-48946 [...] plentitude of happening for nonpartisan upbeat improve from 2001 to 2009, but they punted, because they don’t conceive that the land needs basic reform that covers everyone.” Share and [...] [...] plentitude of happening for nonpartisan upbeat improve from 2001 to 2009, but they punted, because they don’t conceive that the land needs basic reform that covers everyone.” Share and [...]

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