Comments on: Boehner: ‘God Only Knows’ How We Can Avoid Fiscal Cliff [Video]

By: howa4x

howa4x — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:05:00 +0000

I think you read Fox history, since you really live in the right wing bubble. The great depression had as a lead up by Cooledge, and Hoover both republican presidents. FDR presided over WWII our greatest military buildup followed by Truman who finished the war and then started Korea, which was another military buildup. Kennedy and Johnson had Viet Nam which was another military buildup and war. Clinton intervened in the Balkans by bombing Bridges in serbia and firing Cruise missles at Bin Laden in Afganistan, and the first to prosecute the terrorists who tried to take down the world trade center. Now let’s look at republicans.Nixon invaded Cambodia and continued the war Johnson had, was impeached for wrong doing Reagan invaded Grenada wow, and ran away after a bombing in Lebanon. He built a six hundred ship navy and no one can figure out why, since the soviet union was coming apart at the seams, Followed by Bush who got Iraq out of Kuwiat who was shipping oil to Japan, and his son who invaded Afganistan,failed to get Bin Laden,and then for oil invaed Iraq and we know how that all turned out don’t we. Obama was left to clean up the mess but at least killed Bin Laden who was the wentire reason we started the war there.

By: atc333

atc333 — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:00:00 +0000

No new taxes!!!!!!. That is the Mantra. Oblivious to the fact that the GOP has “redistributed” 36% of America’s wealth to the very rich with their “GOP Socialism” for the very rich, 20+ years of “Tax cuts for job creators”, the “non performing job creators”, who have created less than half as many new jobs during 28 years of GOP Administrations, as the Democrats created in only 24 years in power. What they did accomplish was significant, shrinking the middle class, expanding the numbers of Americans living in, at, or just above the Federal Poverty levels to almost 50% of the population, limited the increases to the minimum wage over the years to such an extent that the Federal minimum wage has only 75% of the buying power of the minimum wage years ago. How many of the U.S.’s social problems are a result of the collapse of the family unit, and the destruction of the Middle class, the result of which is so many children have become “latch key” kids, with both parents working, resulting in schools, teachers, and day care becoming responsible for raising our children. By the time working parents get home to the kids, they are too tired, and beat to properly care for, and guide their children.

The GOP has created a wonderful labor pool for the rich in their concern for that group, as the costs of education and medical care soar. Romney was right in one regard, we do have many American’s who rely upon tax credits, and Federal aid to survive. However, the GOP needs to accept responsibility for its very large roll in creating the lopsided economy which has resulted in our current lopsided distribution of wealth in this Nation.

The GOP claims private enterprise is the job creating machine in America. Yet somehow, private enterprise is doing so well, with more corproate profits than ever before, that Corporate America has no need, nor desire to create jobs. Just as Obama said, Corporate America is doing very well, thank you very much. They see no need to create jobs. Small businesses, real small business, not those classified as “small” under the code, and run by “the Donald”, those with 3 to 10 employees, need to be created, and grown.

Corporate America has had years to create jobs with tax cuts. It is time now for the Fed to begin to seed small businesses in America, through accessible loans, though eduction, infrastructure repair and construction, all of things the GOP is against, End the subsidies, to big oil, to the ethanol industry, which only drives the cost of food up worldwide. Invest in alternative energy creation and production. In other words, invest in people, not corporate America.

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:13:00 +0000

Might be because i have history on my side. Look at all the times we had an economic disaster it was because we had a democratic congress. It always included a gutting of our military and cutting intelligence so deep that they no longer serve a purpose.
from FDR to LBJ From Carter to Obama incompetants that make a bad situation worse all the while flushing down the toilet Trillions of dollars while making them selves rich.
You say you sit on a board yet haven’t a clue about the problems and the legislation passed. And yet you have no knowledge about Clinton’s cutting specialist training and paying hospitals the same as if they trained new ones. Its obvious that its not a paid position because if it was the workers would have removed you long ago.
Taking notes and getting coffee while important for the board doesn’t make you knowledgeable

By: howa4x

howa4x — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:16:00 +0000

Life in the bubble must be great. Republicans can do no wrong and all the ills of America are the democrats fault. You and I don’t need to communicate anymore since you can’t get off your one track, and refuse to take any accountablity for anything the republicans did wrong. Even though I sat on the state health planning board and also the board of a teaching hospital for 10 years you know more about health care from watching fox. That’s in your own mind anyway
Merry Christmas to you and your family

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:59:00 +0000

Well we know for sure that 1 million babies are murdered every year with out insurance thanks to the taxpayer funding of planned parenthood. The reason why people use the emergency room is a democratic congress passes a aw that hospitals can’t deny admission due to lack of $$ or citizenship. NJ cost of Medicaid is far more than $1.8 Billion not including illegals that they are covering.
Insurance companies of course make a profit that’s why they are in business. however you fail to assess the fact that trial lawyers rob the system of over $400Billion a year that could be used for care with out ever raising rates. Every other country has fixed their Tort system with loser pays, that way 99% of the cases are never brought. As for the standard of care that should be the only role that the federal govt exercises in healthcare.
Once again you have zero grasp of what the clintons pulled. They wanted to dictate the number of specialists trained every year and have more GP’s. But then again that would have required you to either read or remember something you obviously aren’t capable of doing.
W inherited a recession when he took office a hollow military and non existent CIA. The only cuts cinton ever made was to the military and not to the bloated i=unnecessary federal bureaucracy.
Barak had 26 months of growth?? What growth there wasn’t 1 new job added during baraks 1st term. there are fewer americans working today than at any time during w’s 2nd term. Time to turn off the State Run Media and try to think for yourself.
I have read the musing of nobel winners and they all agree lowering taxes is the ONLY solution for the economy.
W could go down as a mediocre president but the worst president ever is shared by Carter and Obama

By: Michael Welch

Michael Welch — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:13:00 +0000

I’d rather see the country go over the fiscal cliff than see our Progressive Republican President Obama make a deal that includes cutting Social Security or Medicare. Doesn’t the President realize he won the election with an electoral landslide? Why doesn’t he have the balls to keep Social Security and Medicare off the negotiating table? Would he be willing to put his baby, the ACA on the table next? Why is he nominating Kerry? Why is he so willing to give the Republicans ALL they ask for (albeit after a feigned struggle)?

By: howa4x

howa4x — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:44:00 +0000

All you spout is the talking points of Fox news. You live completely inside the bubble. The Harvard study of the uninsured drew the figure of 50k deaths a year from a lack of insurance. People had to use the emergency room for primary care and it cost the states billions . In NJ alone the cost was 1.8 billion for the uninsured.These are all facts. the insurance companies made a 20% profit out of premiums. They did that by denying care, dropping people like Atena did when the stock was downgraded, 8.5 million, and denying people for pre existing conditions. During Bush the high bankruptcy rate was due to this tactic by the ins cos. As for Tort reform, the only reason it isn’t there is because doctors refuse to create a uniform standard of care for every disease, so the standard of treatment varies for place to place and the trail lawyers have become the regulatory system for gross mistakes. Also Doctors very rarely police themselves and medical review board are a joke. The ACA has a medicare pilot that 5 hospital systems have volunteered to try. That is if they mismanage an operation the system has to eat the cost not medicare. the insitute of medicine did a 10 year study on the healthcare system and found 700 billion of waste, fraud and un needed surgery and treatment. AS for Clinton not traing specialists, you must be living under a rock, since all of medicine is specialized. The crisis in medicine is there is not enough primary care doctors and he tried to promote that by offering grants to become one.
We were in a slight recission when Clinton took over and the economy grew under him not contracted as the republicans would have you believe. It was GWB who was handed a surplus and truned it into a deficit. He handed Obama an economy in free fall with a 600 point drop in the dow, and a loss of 40,000 jobs per month, He turned that around and we’ve had 26 monthis of growth. Try reading a noble prize winner in economics instead of the Fox mumbojumbo. You are like all the other republicans where everything is the fault of the democrats but when you had both houses and the presidency the only thing that happened was that the rich got super rich and the middle calss stayed Flat. Why don’t you own the Bush predidency. He will go down as one of the worst presidents of the 20th century just Above Nixon and Hoover, 2 other republicans.

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:40:00 +0000

It obvious that rather than reading a newspaper you spout Barak’s talking points. Even a fool would know the history of what W inherited from Clinton a recession, a hollow military a non existent CIA to name just a few.
Who started the war? Clinton, had he taken Osama when he was offered to him by Sudan 9/11 would never have happened.
Who is giving americans a TRILLION dollar a year deficit to implement obamacare W???
During the tax cut years the economy grew at a 3.5% clip and millions of jobs were added. The economy tanked when Barak and hilary and peelosi took over congress in 2007 and their magic doomed the economy.
Were factories built over seas YEP..but you fail to state why…It was unions and gov regulation that drove the jobs over seas. In 4 years barak hasn’t added 1 net job…no president has done that poor of a job since Carter.
You were on the board of a teaching hospital and yet no mention of Clinton paying them NOT to train specialists. There were millions without insurance but everyone received care. The largest reason why insurance costs so much is the $400B a year that trial lawyers cost the system. barak of course REFUSED to fix the tort system because trial lawyers are the largest benefactors of the democratic party. If you want to blame someone for the lack of insurance blame trial lawyers and the Dem party.
Dem’s have bankrupted SS/ Medicare and Medicaid by ensuring that illegals are eligible for benefits even though they have never contributed 1 dime
No one has ever died in this country due to lack of medical insurance not one person.
ACA doesn’t save 1 dime, until trial lawyers are put out of business ACA will only mean MORE abuse not less. Time you read a newspaper and stop listening to the state run media they are only there to advance the democratic socialist agenda

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:08:00 +0000

Romney votes were from taxpayers. barak was elected by the Dem base the 47% who don’t pay taxes

By: howa4x

howa4x — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:28:00 +0000

Once again you act like you watch too much Fox. Clinton handed W a surplus not a recession. It was GHWB who handed Clinton a recession and a deficit. I can’t believe republicans can’t own your history. Who started the wars against Iraq and Afganistan? was it Obama or W? Who gave seniors an unfunded drug program, W or Obama? Who gave tax cuts to the rich who’s wealth went up 256%. W or Obama? Are you going to sit there and believe your own lies. The deficit when W left office was in the trillions not 175B. Add to that the economic collaspe.
During the tax cut years the 1% shipped out 2.6 million jobs, and there is 1 trillion stashed overseas. Middlecalss wages were flat. Haliburton a company that Cheney was CEO of got a 6 billion no bid contract for both wars. It left here for Dubai along with Cisco to Ireland. Bill Gates took his tax cut and built a factory in Bangalore India, Steve Jobs move manufacturing to China, and GE built a factory in Brazil. all to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. This all happened under Bush

As for health care, I was on the bd of dir of a teaching hosp. When W left office there were 32 million uninsured americans. Insurance companies had the right to drop you from coverage anytime, and deny you for pre existing conditions. Sometimes they even did that after surgery forcing people into medical bankruptcy, which was the biggest cause on that. Let me ask you. Are you an atheiest? Do you follow any religion? If you are a Christian how can you sit there and say it was ok for not only 32 million to no have medical insurance but out of that number 50,000 died each year. The ACA was a republican idea 1st put forward by that socialist Bob Dole as an alternative to Hilliary care, and thought up by the heritage foundation. You can insure people 2 ways: 1 public option, which the government insures everyone like medicare, or 2 have everyone buy insurance with reduced rates and subsidies for the working poor. We chose option 2. We did that because another Republican, named Romney tried it when he was governor of Mass. The ACA stopped the abuses of the Insurance companies, and took some of their profit and will return it to you. So go back to listening to Glenn Beck Or Rush Limbaugh. BTW they make million lying to you.