Steve Benson for October 26, 2013

The American Control Act is what is going to harm our children.

The sky is falling – the sky is falling – give me a break wackos

Jeffy,

You are repeating tea party talking points, which are mostly lies. There is plenty about ACA that should be criticized and fixed. Take the time to separate truth from the fictions you have just spit out.It looks to me like you hate Obama and will cling to anything that justifies your hate, even lies.

As has oft been said, if you don’t like Obamacare, come up with a more valuable alternative. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Anyone can criticize, but we’re paying the criticizers $150K per year, plus more benefits than you’d care to count, to do nothing else. Opposition without a plan for meaningful improvement is just noise, and I, for one, am really tired of noise.

Write your “representatives”, and demand that they do the jobs they are so richly rewarded for, so far, not doing.

Or you could just continue to write to GoComics about how much you hate. They may very well lead to the same conclusions, but you won’t know unless you try.

Wrong once again. Obama is taking responsibility and is committing the resources to correct the technical bugs.

No such thing as free health care. What the poor have now is second rate and inefficient/expensive health care.

With compliments to Player, I just add this.The cartoon is divisive and drives a wedge between neighbors who might otherwise talk calmly in searching for a solution. The baby isn’t Obamacare, it is Obama himself, and the serpent are those who will not even support ideas first put forth by Republicans because Obama resurrected them. Mr. Obama was not the seasoned politician our nation needed when he became President, but we allowed the media and the money given to the DNC decide who our choices would be and Mr. Obama does speak well. He’s not Clinton or Reagan, but he talked a talk that didn’t walk. This is not entirely his fault since from the moment he was elected an unprecedented level of impediments gathered and united against anything he proposed. Conservatives refuse to accept this, but the ACA was based on the plan Romney produced in Mass. The Immigration reform act was presented first by Mr. Bush and Mr. Rubio. Guns were permitted to be carried in National Forests, and I can go on. Many liberals have been turned off by his many right of center proposals, and only the immoderate and often extreme positions of the conservative extremists have kept independents and liberals as involved as they are.As a politician, Mr. Obama was a baby, not ready for a presidency… but the GOP has allowed some poisonous attitudes to make people forget the many good things they have done in the past, and the actions of the GOP in the states have made that perception worse. And this poison is not a GOP monopoly as there are plenty of liberal extremists willing to use the tactics of division to, as Mr. Washington said, “divide and weaken our nation.” We need an anti venom.Respectfully,C.

This is a new low, even for Steve Benson.How short are the memories of Dems.Harry Reid on a question on helping one child with cancer at the NIH.“W-W-W-Why….WHY would I want to do THAT???”.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/2/reid-helping-one-child-cancer-why-would-we-want-do/

I fear we are destined to disagree, Ansonia, and on many issues. You fear my vision of a better America, though I feel myself to be not far left of center, and I certainly fear the visions presented by the extreme right.Regretfully,C.

1st – That was Harry Reid who said that when asked why he wouldn’t help fund the NIH to help a child with cancer.2nd – BECAUSE of Obamacare, more people are being cancelled by their insurance companies because it doesn’t comply with Obamacare than there are people that are even able to sign UP for Obamacare. If you call that help, keep away!

“So Americans need to be forced to purchase overpriced crap called insurance.”

Not my point at all. Never has been. Single payer is the only answer. With so many currently-running systems to analyze each individual advantage and disadvantage, American ingenuity has the capacity to provide much better care for less.

“So ACA will drive profit out of being a medical provider. Point well taken.”

You over-simplify. Insurance itself has driven profit out of being a medical provider. Anything that includes private insurance as part of the health care system will continue to drive profit out of being a medical provider. Since ACA drives everyone to private insurance (which Mr. Ryan wants to do to Medicare, by the way), it will contribute to the problem. So, your statement is correct out of context. It is not ACA itself that is doing this, it is the insurance industry that the ACE force-feeds.

Again, single payer. Single payer.

“Obamacare has ensured that everyone’s insurance is cancelled…”-My insurance hasn’t been cancelled. You were wrong about that. I bet you’ve duplicated such wrongness elsewhere.

“……JFK, the last decent Democrat President we had?”.I beg to differ..JFK inspired hope, but his enemies killed him before his legacy could be determined..LBJ accomplished much, particularly in the area of social reforms, including medicare and medicaid..Clinton presided over a remarkable period of economic growth, stability, and relative peace..Obama’s place in history will be interesting. Ground-breaking for sure. In a color blind nation, possibly the potential to have been the best since FDR, if the many were not continuously plotting his failure. .The best of the Republicans, Reagan, although a good communicator, was over-rated..Bush 43 was a disaster that will take decades to recover from.

said, 1 day ago@DrCanuck“That is fine; it is, of course, your choice again to view the world through many such filters.”

Your posts appear to have the habit of disappearing. Then re-appearing. It’s like magic.

May I ask what filters you are using to read folks’ posts here?

replied to a point noted in my comment, “Yes, I noticed DrCanuck’s posts seemingly doing the same thing, at least in one particular thread.”

…but not to the question I posed:OmQ R asked earlier: “May I ask what filters you are using to read folks’ posts here?”

I sense Eryx is being missed.

I suffer from androgenic alopecia. Looking at my late father’s photos, I think I’ll soon achieve the tonsure effect.

I make up the difference with the fact I rarely shave in the mornings. I often have a full beard but usually stubble. Designer stubble, of course.

And I like my unibrow.

@ JuliaGreenEcoNo, not your political leanings, just in general; but thank you for your reply nonetheless.And yes;I recall that you and Eryx had an interesting, almost exclusive, relationship on this forum. It does one good to branch out. Do have fun; don’t let those filters focus too narrowly.

1st off Obamacare is 5 yrs old – then hired Michelle’s friends in Canada for 600megabucks to really FK it up – then BHO claim no responsibility – TeaParty tried to save everyone’s A$$ by cancelling it and then at least delay it for a year – but Reid and Pelosi said no and now all of congress wants to delay it – when sticker shock really hits, there is your snake Mr. Benson