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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108838)	7/27/2011 1:37:55 PM
From: grusum	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Jake, the truth is that health care costs were bound to rise dramatically regardless of what was done. blatantly false. government forces have acted on health care, raising the prices for it. if market forces had been left to act on health care, prices would have fallen dramatically and would still be going down. in addition, health care would be much higher quality than it is now. cheap, efficient, safe robo surgery would have been here by now. 'nothing could have been done' and 'no one could have seen it coming' are each the bastion of all socialist failures.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108838)	7/27/2011 1:42:04 PM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2012. Message 27521698

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108838)	7/27/2011 1:45:11 PM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Spoken like a a true partisan, brain-washed zombie lemming... Keep towing that partisan line Kenneth until it leads us all in to the ditch...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (108838)	7/27/2011 3:36:33 PM
From: locogringo	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224749

The truth is that health care costs were bound to rise dramatically regardless of what was done. THANKS for admitting that Obama LIED to us.....AGAIN.