GOP will fight or become RIP….this could lead to a 3rd party and as a Teparty person I don’t want that. we have to fix what’s broken……….. not put in something designed by beaurocrats and not read by politicians……look at Obamacare
Considering, churchie, that the REAL obligation for contract purchase at the Pentagon is $1.6 TRILLION annually (it’s in the black box), cutting $100 Billion would be easy, like that second unwanted engine from GE.
Budget inequality. Illegal aliens walk into our local city-run hospital and receive free health care, but my 75 year old Russian mother-in-law (legal with a Green Card) who lives with us has to pay $600 a month for Medicare Part A (only). Of course she has no income so it comes out of my pockets, which have been picked clean by both the government and corporations who have been allowed to run amuck with corruption and monopolistic practices.
If you are going to implement a socialist system make it accessible to all. For the American middle class, the overall tax burden (property, sales, federal, FICA (both employee and employer), medicare, state, etc.) and burden of health care costs are comparable to the Netherlands. However, a Dutch citizen has access to numerous benefits including comprehensive job retrainining if layed off. The average American middle class individual, who finds himself in dire straights, is means-tested out of the benefits he pays for others!!!
However, I am opposed to the botched socialist system we have in the U.S. as well as the socialist system found in The Netherlands.
WarBush about 13 years ago
You teabaggers are gonna be sorry you voted those fools in.
Michael Peterson Premium Member about 13 years ago
Last time the GOP shut down the government to show their ideological purity, the voters ran them out on a rail.
Bring it on.
Magnaut about 13 years ago
dems when in complete control refuse to establish a budget…..left-overs become the GOP millstone
CorosiveFrog Premium Member about 13 years ago
Sooky Rottweiler says; Ask people how that works in Belgium…
Motivemagus about 13 years ago
Got it backwards again, Tigger! The GOP refuses to compromise in any way.
oneoldhat about 13 years ago
gop dropped from 100 billion to 61 billion
Magnaut about 13 years ago
GOP will fight or become RIP….this could lead to a 3rd party and as a Teparty person I don’t want that. we have to fix what’s broken……….. not put in something designed by beaurocrats and not read by politicians……look at Obamacare
junco49 about 13 years ago
OH and Tigger: WTF???
Dtroutma about 13 years ago
Considering, churchie, that the REAL obligation for contract purchase at the Pentagon is $1.6 TRILLION annually (it’s in the black box), cutting $100 Billion would be easy, like that second unwanted engine from GE.
pirate227 about 13 years ago
Go for it Dumbo!
phdtogo about 13 years ago
Budget inequality. Illegal aliens walk into our local city-run hospital and receive free health care, but my 75 year old Russian mother-in-law (legal with a Green Card) who lives with us has to pay $600 a month for Medicare Part A (only). Of course she has no income so it comes out of my pockets, which have been picked clean by both the government and corporations who have been allowed to run amuck with corruption and monopolistic practices.
If you are going to implement a socialist system make it accessible to all. For the American middle class, the overall tax burden (property, sales, federal, FICA (both employee and employer), medicare, state, etc.) and burden of health care costs are comparable to the Netherlands. However, a Dutch citizen has access to numerous benefits including comprehensive job retrainining if layed off. The average American middle class individual, who finds himself in dire straights, is means-tested out of the benefits he pays for others!!!
However, I am opposed to the botched socialist system we have in the U.S. as well as the socialist system found in The Netherlands.