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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:50 AM) I'm not complaining. I'm actually on your side on this one. That's why I'm saying don't b**** just to b**** because something good is happening for you, just because a few Duke's get under your skin or disagree with what's going on. I don't mind paying a higher cost for my insurance to help others in this regard. I don't think anyone should be bankrupted by a bad luck draw. I don't, however, want to help those that DON'T draw bad cards, but lay great ones down and pick up bad ones on purpose through a crap lifestyle. And that's also what's happening here. So, while I do like some of this law, I don't like all of it. And I'm probably a lot older than you as I'm 38. Aw you're not much older than me. I'm 27. Heck I've even got a thing with a 37 year old executive director of an acclaimed professional orchestra - so I'm not completely ignorant your trials and tribulations.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:50 AM) Sometime doesn't add up here. How did you get a $50/month policy making $52k a year? If you make that much and only pay that much for health insurance, you're part of the problem here. I don't work 40 hours a week because I freelance and I'm doing the actor thing. Me not making $52K/year does not = me not working my ass off.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:28 AM) Because nobody gives a s*** about them. It takes absolutely no courage to stand up for blacks, gays or women. Zero. Theyve got all the rights we do except gays cant marry in most states. Excuse me while I hold off outrage over that while millions are told none of the legal protections afforded to us apply to them. Like I said earlier, gays, women and minorities vote Democrat. The mentally ill dont, so they dont count in the big tolerant society vision. You're such an angry young man. I hope you're able to read all these posts when age and time and life mellows you out a bit. Maybe start meditating?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:46 AM) So its ok for you to get his money because he works harder than you? Damn right you appreciate it man, hes allowing your parasitic lifestyle. The mentality of the poor is so annoying. If you actually worked as hard as the rest of us you wouldnt be so willing to pay more. You just dont have any concept money because like some teenager from Wilmette driving a German luxury sedan to New Trier, you dont have any idea what goes into making that wealth just that youre entitled to a cut. Youre not allowed to say youd pay more if you could, you cant. You cant relate to the rest of us who support you. I make $25 an hour. Remind me what you make?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:45 AM) Well, for the most part I agree with you here. IF something good comes out of this, then great. The problem is, however, if this turns really bad, we will still be stuck with it, or some bastardized form of it...it's not like we live in a world where we shift on a dime when things go bad. Instead, we try to bandaid the problem over and over by throwing gobs of money at it, while fixing nothing. Take a look at education...the US spends more money than anyone in the world and we have one of the worst school systems in existence. Believe me I'm with you 100% on that. I hope it goes well, too, but as I've been saying a lot over the last couple days - the only people we have to thank for a less than stellar bill is the GOP who refused to cooperate, debate, discuss, negotiate and compromise back in 2009/10/whenever this thing was passed the first time. If both sides had TRULY been interested in creating a bill to help the American people and reform healthcare for the better, we'd have had it. Unfortunately one side was only interested in seeing Obama fail. McConnell has admitted to this.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:42 AM) "If young people have to go to war and die to preserve our freedom, well, so be it. I support that. What you can do for your country..." - me, 31 year old who wouldn't be eligible for a draft. Hey the moment Canada invades, I'd be willing to defend our country. However that doesn't seem entirely likely, and no other war we've fought in the last 70 years was done so to "preserve our freedom"

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:41 AM) No, my wife does not work, she's a stay at home mom. Fair enough. I assume, then, that you make enough money to support a family of four? If that's the case, then frankly I wouldn't be surprised if you DO make 8x what I do! Or if not 8x, you're insuring FOUR people for $400 while I'm insuring just one. I don't really see what there is to complain about to be honest.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:36 AM) Hahahahahahaha Pay to cover uninsured peoples' emergency room visits with higher premiums or pay for everyone to be covered by insurance? I honestly can't tell you how it'll hash out yet in terms of overall expense to the consumer, but I'm willing to see what happens. It's worth a shot. But I'm also willing to try and fix a broken system instead of just saying "get over it, that's the way it is". Oh and by the way - as for your beloved free market, I had 73 options of policies to choose between. That seems like a free market to me!

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:36 AM) It's easy to say that when it's not the case. It's always easier to spend other peoples money, isn't it? Now, when it comes to me, I actually CAN say that. Where you pay 50$ a month, I get to pay 400+$ a month for my family, and I work for the industry, no less. I appreciate that man, I really do, but first of all I'm sure you at least triple if not quadruple my income on your own. Does your wife work? I know you're slightly older than me

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:28 AM) It wasn't for nothing, since you read it. Oh, and next time you're addressing Duke, do that. The Duke's of the world do not represent "America" in the least. If they did, Obama wouldn't have been elected...twice. I wasn't addressing Duke specifically, but everyone who rants and raves about Obamacare being the WORSZT THING EVARRR! It's ok man - you misinterpreted it and PMS'd a little. Happens to us all

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:28 AM) So you're going to ignore the millions that were negatively affected? If millions have to pay more, so that the 47 million people in this country who were previously uninsured are now able to afford it, then I support that - and would also support it if I were one who had to pay more. Something about what you can do for your country comes to mind...

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 10:23 AM) Only it's not. You're b****ing about something working out well for you, and telling the country to wake up at the same time. The country obviously DID wake up, but you're CHOOSING to ignore that because you want to make a negative partisan political point, for no reason. It doesn't matter what some fringe element wants to do with the law right now...it's law, and it's a law that's been upheld by the supreme court. It's done. This is like winning, and then b****ing because the team you beat isn't happy you won. So what. The country you're telling to wake up elected this president twice. I thought that's what you wanted? Apparently you wanted Romney, since you're telling us to "wake up". I think you misinterpret me. My "wake the f*** up America" is to the Duke's of the world to realize that ACA will do a world of good for millions of people All that ranting for nothing. How sad.

Bush was a figurehead for the people behind the scenes. Obama is trying to do his own thing and failing miserably. Both are incompetent for different reasons. Ideologically they're far more similar than people realize.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 09:33 AM) No vision plan? yes vision is included as well. In fact, they even offer partial reimbursement for gym memberships as preventative care.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 09:18 AM) No, I mean by his trailing comment -- he's telling America to wake the f*** up, while ignoring the fact that America elected a president that put said legislation into effect/law, enabling him to get that, not once, but twice. By that rational, America DID wake the f*** up...or he wouldn't have what he has. This is just typical partisan stupidity. He's b****ing to b**** about nothing. I get annoyed when 21 year olds (or in that age group) pretend they have it so s***ty, and everything around them is s***ty, and that the rest of the world is awesome, and they've not lived a single hard day in their lives. Whoa. EDIT: To be honest, your post is equally ignorant, if not even more so.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 20, 2013 -> 10:28 PM) And to preemptively answer your snarky little question of whether Id rather have them going on a spree once every 6 or so months or have them be entitled to the same rights I am thats inevitably coming... Yes. Id rather have a thousand Sandy Hooks than have any group in this country have rights stripped from them via legislation. Im not living in Jim Crow, Plessy v Ferguson America. That is not what happens next. While most of you humiliate and degrade them and cheer their rights being stripped Im never going to play along. Its morally reprehensible. So you try and think youre clever, and you go to sleep thinking what youre doing here is OK. But when theyve finally pulverized whats left of the mentally ill's rights they wont stop. Theyll find someone new, and maybe then youll wish you said something when they established that it was just fine to rob people of their freedom in the interest of the public good. I've never seen you champion the rights of gays, minorities and women in this passionate manner. Where are all those posts?

$50/month for full health care including dental, specialists, etc, etc with max $1,000 out of pocket and a $0 deductible? Thank you Obamacare! Wake the f*** up America.

this week is going to be TOUGH - McCoy and Lynch both on bye weeks... yikes. Vereen and Donald Brown it is... O.O

9-2 b****ezzzz

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 15, 2013 -> 05:26 PM) I remember when he said that Hurricane Katrina was an example of how you shouldn't involve the government in crises. Because, of course, there was apparently too much government involvement in the Katrina effort. Of course, he lives in a state where more people claim that Barack Obama screwed up Katrina than they say the same about George Bush. He also recently tried to implement a plan that would abolish their state income tax while drastically increasing the state sales tax to compensate...which is stupid. It didn't pass, thankfully for non-rich Louisianans. He still says he wants to eliminate all corporate taxes. The latest poll (other than ones that his own consultants release) showed him with a 28 approve/59 disapproval rating within Louisiana. He is anti-amnesty and pro-fence. He supports allowing teachers to teach intelligent design and has signed a bill into law permitting them to do so. He claimed to not want any stimulus funding before accepting a great deal of the funding allocated to his state. So far, he has refused Medicaid expansion, despite the fact it will cost his state nothing in the short term. The CBO estimates that over the next ten years, it may increases the state's expenditures by 2.8 percent, which does not include possible savings from emergency room visits by the uninsured. Anti-abortion under all circumstances, unless the fetus unintentionally aborted while trying to save the mother. Has slashed education funding, both at the primary and post-secondary level. He has implemented a voucher program that has diverted funds away from public schools and is now going to be reviewed up by federal courts because it has disproportionately benefited white children to the extent that it seems to violate desegregation laws (by removing a lot of white kids from integrated public schools). I don't really think he has much of a prayer yeah amongst people with our points of view, but none of what you've mentioned will matter much to the majority of GOP voters

any chance Bobby Jindal rears his head again? He's actually got a decent record to tout in LA the last few years.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 14, 2013 -> 06:17 PM) Want me to summarize yours real quick? Other people need to buy my food, shelter and healthcare. Ban anyone who doesn't agree. You and Tex should get a room at the Motel 6. I love this kid. Hahaha

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 14, 2013 -> 05:24 PM) Honestly, that is everyone's view of government. I don't have a car, i believe they should maintain roads.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 14, 2013 -> 02:41 PM) Prisons shouldnt be privatized. Thats a legitimate arm of government. Its sad that they are, but it just shows how f***ing backwards are government's priorities are. You cant trust the market to run a legal system, just like you couldnt trust them to run a military. Its just the odd nature of those things. And yea, I like the National Parks. I do, I f***ing admit it. I dont mind that money for personal reasons derived from me just liking something. Protect that land, I'm with it 100%. It probably has something to do though with there being a million white trash families of idiots suckling off the state who I couldnt give half a s*** about adversely harming by cutting them off while theres only one Glacier, Yosemite, Mt Rainier in the world and it would be sad if it turned into a dumb theme park marketed to the aforementioned trash. By the way (and its funny that my throwaway comment better responss to the theme of your post than the past two paragraphs so if you want me to expand I will) this isnt creating a problem for the fijancially incompetent, its a solution to them. My summation of Duke's views: "If I personally enjoy something, the government should pay for it. All other things should be privatized" Great stuff.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 1, 2013 -> 09:21 PM) Again, LOL. The audience split in the ratings amongst anyone not named Fox shows how wrong you are. But that's fine, ignore the ratings, they're not a tell tale sign of an audience or anything. You are right, to a degree, that neither are as slanted nbc or fox, but the others ARE still slanted left, albeit less than nbc. If msnbc was the only opposite of fox, it would command the entire liberal audience, but it doesnt, because it's not the only other avenue liberals have. Now, if we were taking talk radio, maybe you have an argument, or even non prime time Sunday morning shows that nobody watches...but that's not what we're taking about here. since they're owned by republicans, why do you think they slant left? or is it that the facts just happen to always skew to the left?