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   oldlegodad said, 28 days ago

   Your beloved speaker ob de hoose Pelosi.

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   Ken Warren said, 28 days ago

   It is funny.

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   cabrobst said, 27 days ago

   Just make Medicare available to anybody who wants it.

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   charlie555 said, 27 days ago

   ^How about just to those denied coverage by the private sector, or those being charged over 20% of their income?

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   Magnaut said, 24 days ago

   no…make…him take medicare

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   MurphyHerself said, 24 days ago

   Medicare payments are deducted from every pay check and social security check so you really don’t notice it’s gone. It’s the supplement that you really need and comes out of pocket. Well, the money to the health insurance companies also comes out of pocket, and that is a LOT more than the part B payments. (I went from $1126/mo to $93/mo in a day ((one person, $10,000 deductable)). HUGE difference.)

   Sooo, to make everybody available for Medicare, you have to take the payments out of the welfare checks and if you’re unemployed and don’t get any benefits,I guess you’d just have to find a way to fund it.

   You have to pay into the system to get something out of it. That’s true even in Canada.

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   DrCanuck said, 24 days ago

   Not in Alberta, Murphy; it’s all free. Paid for by oil revenues. Which come from America. So, thanks.

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   MurphyHerself said, 24 days ago

   Well, that’s Alberta. Gee, I thought I had to pay for it when I was there back in the early 80’s. Thanks for the update. And your welcome, I guess :-) We seem to spend money on everything but ourselves.

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   DrCanuck said, 24 days ago

   You did, in the 80’s. No more.

   And you ARE buying oil for yourselves….

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    MurphyHerself said, 24 days ago

    Yeah, that helps us a lot. Too bad we can’t get off it; rather like being on a diet with all those food ads on TV. That doesn’t make sense, does it? I’d better get some sleep.

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    4uk4ata said, 23 days ago

    @ MurphyHerself:

    “We seem to spend money on everything but ourselves.”

    Depends on your definition of “ourselves”, I guess. Some people have been having a very good time in the last 20 years or so…

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    MurphyHerself said, 23 days ago

    That is so, but our infrastructure has gone to pot and we are very vulnerable. Somebody cut a cable (conflicting stories if it was east of here or south) and the whole area was without land lines until this morning. Those on DSL had no internet. How dependent we have become on all this stuff; our grandparents would not be proud even tho it has made life a whole bunch easier.

    How are you keeping the infrastructure up there, Doc? Are your grid lines secure?

    On second thought, I retract that statement-the one about spending money on everything but ourselves. I guess I should say it hasn’t been spent very wisely.

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    DrCanuck said, 23 days ago

    Murph’, as our taxes are not going to support an overseas empire and a huge military machine, we are free to spend on things like infrastructure, health care, education and so forth. All of which are in fine condition.

    It’s all a question of priorities.

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    vhammon said, 23 days ago

    LOL ! It is dismaying to know that most people in Congress do not read the bills themselves - whatever party. Great cartoon jab at our legislative process’s foibles.