Comments on: LOL Of The Week: Where In The World Are Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns?

By: Stephena Helms Held

Stephena Helms Held — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:23:00 +0000

He’s weighed the risk and determined that stonewalling, as risky as it is, is better than releasing customary tax releases…hmmm why could that be??

By: K3HY

K3HY — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:40:00 +0000

Why does the Tea Party, that is supposedly full of patriots, support Romney who hid in France, while brave soldiers died in Vietnam?
During the Vietnam war Romney avoided military service at the height of the fighting after high school by seeking and receiving four draft deferments, according to Selective Service records. They included college deferments and a 31-month stretch as a “minister of religion” in France, a classification for Mormon missionaries that the church at the time feared was being overused.

By: Michael Stoll

Michael Stoll — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:03:00 +0000

Once again you have no Idea how the Senate works and who authored it

By: howa4x

howa4x — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:21:00 +0000

It was the economoic polices of GWB that sent the economy into collaspe. This happend because of relaxed regulatory enforcement that was brought out in committe hearings. It was GWB who said that everyone in america should own a home, and documentaries that don’t appear on Fox showed that the major banks were pressing mortgage companies to get them more loans to package into derivitives and sell. the mortgage companies lowered their standards to produce the volume of loans that the banks were craving. The Banks made billions selling these financial instruments. A derivitive is packages of loans that are carved up into securites, and sold to investors. The banks tried to cover themselves by buying credit default swaps but companies like AIG who made billions on insuring all these instruments,couldn’tmeet the call when the banks realized that all these mortgages were toxic and people were defaulting they began to go under and hence the Bailout. this all happened under GWB and Tarp was created and sold to congress by Paulson.
I agree Tort legislation is needed but only if the doctors agree to a standards of practice for each disease which they are fighting. If they don’t do that there is no protection from the lawyers. We have to hold doctors accountable for their treatment decisions. I sat on the board of directors on a teaching hop for 10yrs and don’t agree that HC costs are soley the lawyers fault. This may be a little over your head by try to get this ok. It dosen’t involve slogans.There is a payer mix of private pay, insurance pay, medicare, medicaid and uncompensated care that the state pays. the hospitals cost shift the lack of payment from the uninsured to the insured so you get a 400. asprin bill.
The majority of health care costs are spent in the last year of a patients life around 80%.Think of someone with advanced cancer, and the care they need in patient, or open heart surgery or someone who is 90 and on a ventilator at $5000./day wasting away. You need to add in medicaid costs and a majority of them are spent by elderly paitents in nursing homes. Also replacement of knees and hips. These operation can cost upward of 150k per knee, or hip. Also think of very sick children with cancer and lykeima, some in the hospital for 6 months to a year
There are a lot of factors that drive health care cost and there is not a boogey man to blame it all on. We need to have a conversation about end of life issues and not call them government death panels or any other slogan, or medicare will go broke. If you want to debate lets stay awy form slogans ok There are very big problems and we will need everybody involved in the solution both conservative and liberal to come up wiht reasonable answers.

By: howa4x

howa4x — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:46:00 +0000

You live inside the Fox bubble! The patroit act was authored by the Bush justice dept and sent to the Senate for conformation. A large number of democratic senators voted no because of the intrusion into the civil rights of americans. The warrantless wiretaps were not thought up by the senate. It is interesting you are trying to blame the failures and excesses of GWB on the democrats. this is typical behavior of a person who watches too much Fox news

By: old_blu

old_blu — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:09:00 +0000

On the other side of that coin, I don’t have to like everyone or their ideas either.

By: Michael Stoll

Michael Stoll — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:25:00 +0000

Then stop attacking me and follow what you just said …I can dewal with that buddy

By: Michael Stoll

Michael Stoll — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:22:00 +0000

You are wrong look at who coached the whole thing up changed everything and sent it to Bush …Or dont you understand the U S Senate

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:58:00 +0000

Where to star dealing with the village idiots
. the patriot act has since been rewritten by Holder and Barak, of course Congress wasn’t consulted or asked to revise the original act. That’s just barak’s way the constitution is nothing but a dam piece of paper as he showed with GM bankruptcy.
.the economy collapsed thanks to the community reinvestment act orchestrated by Dodds and Frank that forced banks to make loans to people that wold never be able to pay them back, while at the same time forcing banks to provide them with sweetheart personal loans
.this country has 5% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds attorneys these guys just like John Edwards are ambulance chasers driving up HC costs. 25% of all medical tests, and 30% of all hospital admissions are unneeded but Doctors prescribe them to PREVENT scrupulous litigation,
. 4 million jobs were created??? Did you pass cyphering in the 2nd grade. There are FEWER americans working today than at anytime during W’s 2nd term and some how in your mathematical universe that works out to 4 million jobs??? I hope you never work in a bank or have anything to do with numbers becasue they aren’t your friend
.Romney paid 15% effective ta rate o income he already paid taxes on and Barak while complaining about fairness only paid 20% far less than his secretaries Sounds like a reasonable person would be pillorying Obama.
. As for paying their FAIR share who makes that determination??? In case you missed it its THEIR $$$$ not yours. Lets do this using your logic I think you should be paying a 75% tax rate that would be fair right???

By: Tavia Hughes

Tavia Hughes — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:22:00 +0000

Mitt Please Take Your Billions And You And Yours Make A One Way Trip To A Foreign Country And Stay, PERMANENTLY, Alright??? Cause Me And My Fellow Americans Really Don’t Want To Live In A America With A Moranic Republican In The White House, Okay??? Now Go Away And Leave The 99% Alone, Okay??? Long Live The Fighters For Truth And Justice For ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obama 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!