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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (138428)	10/8/2013 6:59:25 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

Well clearly Obama's speech was not met with open arms by wingers: * House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said a spending bill to reopen the government with no strings attached would represent " unconditional surrender." Let's note, for those who still care at all about reality, that a spending bill to fund the government with no strings attached was John Boehner's own proposal literally a month ago. (I think he's hoping we all have short memories and no access to search engines.)

To: Road Walker who wrote (138428)	10/8/2013 10:34:04 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Road Walker Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Those are some good ideas. If people pay over their entire life, like they do with Social Security, then we have a better chance at affording care for all. The problem is that we have 80% of all health care costs in this country being incurred by the sickest 5% of us and you have 50% of the country who are going to have to be subsidized by the other 50%. So there are some real mathematical problems here. If we really want to pay for all this, what we need to do is shave $500B per year out of the military and Homeland Security and earmark it for health care. I think I'd be ok with that.