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To: studdog who wrote (109919)	3/25/2010 11:08:58 AM
From: Lazarus	Respond to of 116555

Please, pleeeeze... ...stop with this chatter. i want to toss dollar bills at the lame, blind, and injured and let them know that i will pay for their care when i want to! ok now, EXHALE......

To: studdog who wrote (109919)	3/25/2010 1:48:01 PM
From: DebtBomb	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116555

People are upset because it was jammed down our throats, like TARP. 55% of the public did not want this health care bill. The gov't. doesn't seem to care any longer what the people think or want. Also, states are suing because they believe it's unconstitutional to force someone to buy health insurance. Most smart people believe it will end up like every other gov't. program, a disaster. We'll see, won't we.

To: studdog who wrote (109919)	3/25/2010 6:45:45 PM
From: Little Joe	5 Recommendations Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 116555

That is an interesting argument. But if we are paying for it now, presumably because our health insurance costs more, how will it be any different under the new system, where we will be paying for it as a tax. What is the difference? In the meantime your post totally ignores the hundreds of new commissions, boards, agencies etc. that this bill creates. Do you have any idea what these folks will be doing? It is only after this bill is law for 5 or 10 years that we will begin to understand its effects. I believe they will be: 1. Costs far greater than anyone is the Government is letting us know. I challenge to name 3 government programs that cost what the government claimed they would. I can't think of one, except, I think I read, the prescription drug bill. 2. Like Mass. the costs will increase greatly on an annual basis. 3. The quality of medicine will drop drastically. Can you name me a single government program of this size that actually improves anything. Feds got into schools and they got worse, Feds got into energy and the situation is worse. This is the governments track record: 1. Social Security we can’t pay for. 2. Medicare we can’t pay for. 3. Prescription drug we can’t pay for. 4. Spend more money on education than any other nation in the world and many kids, especially in inner cities can’t read their diploma. 5. Criminal justice system that produces criminal injustice. 6. Can’t defend our borders, even banana republics can do that. 7. Country hopelessly in Debt. 8. Economy on the verge of destruction. 9. Encourages lending to people who can’t pay loans back. 10. Encouraged casino risk taking by removing moral hazard, which is the trigger that set of the current catastrophe and now further eliminates moral hazard by guaranteeing bank loans to one another. Do you think they are going to improve health care? Yeah, and your worthless brother in law who never held a job in his life, will surely do a great job running you business. Most Americans have apparently become aware of the ineptitude of government. Those who haven't are the ones who think this health care bill will be a good thing for America. lj