Okay, anyone disappointed in Obama so far?

[Anonymous]

Please I went through my uninsured phase and the reality was that I didn't prioritize it enough until I got a clue. You can get a job at Starbucks if you really want insurance and don't want to pay 100% on your own. I am sooooooo tired of all the poor me people..life is not meant to be easy and the government is not your mommy or at least shouldn't be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please I went through my uninsured phase and the reality was that I didn't prioritize it enough until I got a clue. You can get a job at Starbucks if you really want insurance and don't want to pay 100% on your own. I am sooooooo tired of all the poor me people..life is not meant to be easy and the government is not your mommy or at least shouldn't be.

Unless you were have pre-existing condition. Then forget it. As I mother, I am thankful that I have a healthly child but what about the other parents that don't have can't put their children on their health plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please I went through my uninsured phase and the reality was that I didn't prioritize it enough until I got a clue. You can get a job at Starbucks if you really want insurance and don't want to pay 100% on your own. I am sooooooo tired of all the poor me people..life is not meant to be easy and the government is not your mommy or at least shouldn't be.

Yeah, I wish the government would stop building bridges and roads and subsidizing airports. It's time people grew up and took responsibility for themselves.

[Anonymous]

I'm really, really amazed by the lack of compassion I'm seeing on this thread. You folks are very very lucky if you really can't fathom a situation where you are jobless, uninsured or worse not able to be insured b/c of a pre-existing situation. But, it is shocking that such a concept is so outside your box...

And, I do wonder (if as the PP points out) that you think government also should not provide bridges, roads, clean up the environment, etc.? If so, then we will just have to agree to disagree. Luckily, for the next 4 (and hopefully 8) years, my president agrees with me and not you.

[Anonymous]

Yes your wonderful president who is bankrupting the country--he is your guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes your wonderful president who is bankrupting the country--he is your guy.

Well, who is your guy? Apparently no one in the republican party even thought of putting together an alternative budget until yesterday -- the day before the final vote.

They could have worked on an alternative that could have stripped off enough votes to force changes to the final budget. By doing nothing, they ensured its passage. At least the president wants to fix the country. The republicans are only interested in their future political prospects, and they are willing to tank the economy to get what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:te.

They could have worked on an alternative that could have stripped off enough votes to force changes to the final budget.

You have to be kidding - the Dems don't need a single house GOP vote to pass the budget, and the Senate has some dependable Dem backing RINOS such as the Senators from Maine and PA - The GOP budget proposal was for sound bite purposes, no one seriously things there was any bargaining position here at all.

[Anonymous]

correct

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1457-I have lost jobs and then I had gone on cobra or I have gotten insurance on my own--for majority of people without coverage it is a choice. As for helicopters--much like ambulances they are something that should be funded by states as they are not an insurance tool so I don't see what the point of bringing that up is? Again, no one is against taxes just penalizing a group of people to foot the bill. Universal coverage is not only a bad business model it won't help overall quality of life for majority of Americans who already have great coverage..it will just bring down the quality to serve people who choose not to be insured.

No, it's not. I think about 30% of the uninsured are uninsured by choice. I can find those stats for you if you'd like.

Please, PP, do post these stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes your wonderful president who is bankrupting the country--he is your guy.

This is very funny. I guess Bush and cronies had NOTHING to do with the current economic mess??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:te.

They could have worked on an alternative that could have stripped off enough votes to force changes to the final budget.

You have to be kidding - the Dems don't need a single house GOP vote to pass the budget, and the Senate has some dependable Dem backing RINOS such as the Senators from Maine and PA - The GOP budget proposal was for sound bite purposes, no one seriously things there was any bargaining position here at all.

Untrue. There are legitimate disagreements within the democratic party about certain budgetary issues. The Republicans could have gotten their way on some things if they wanted to. They had cards to play, but they would rather play for politics than for their true budgetary interests.

[Anonymous]

As a poster upthread put it: "The stock market is the leading indicator of the economy." Pretty much all you need to know to stop reading. As the innumerate folks who surrounded W for some many years were fond of saying, "It's Economics 101!"

Would have been nice if a few of them had signed up for a couple more courses. Like Econ 102, maybe. Or Econ 442...

I'm sooo happy we have a team of adults in the White House. The flag-waving Temper-Tantrum crew had their chance for eight years, as was totally predicted, they screwed everything up.

Of course, the folks who cheered them on the entire way don't even have the moral development to be embarrassed, and instead project their anger outward yet again.

Same old, same old.

[Anonymous]

Team of adults? Based on what? So far they have basically put the country on the road to bankrupty and are on the road to killing of viable businesses and oh yes basically encouraging a new generation of people to not even try to build a business because god forbid you are successful you need to give most of your proftis away. Sorry taxes will now be verging on 50% of every dollar if you include state taxes. It's a mess and it's awful. Oh yes and they are trying to push states to enlarge their welfare programs--yeah real adult. Good for Gov. Perry to tell Obama to basically xlkfjdsljsdfdls off.

[Anonymous]

Thank god for President Bush by the way--most of the last eight years were wonderful--hmmm low unemployment, high GDP--in fact Americans were doing soo well that the idiots amongst us thought they could buy homes and forget that even if you have a good salary, you need to actually pay your mortage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank god for President Bush by the way--most of the last eight years were wonderful--hmmm low unemployment, high GDP--in fact Americans were doing soo well that the idiots amongst us thought they could buy homes and forget that even if you have a good salary, you need to actually pay your mortage.

Yes, and now Obama will use the tax dollars of the responsible people who met their financial obligations to bail out those same idiots.