en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/551666 Comments by andrea2929 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GR6Q3O0&show_article=1#IDComment85683034 Next thing you know, they'll let the clergy wear polyester, patronize Red Lobster, and eat bacon! Oh wait....... I guess they decided to skip over THOSE parts of Leviticus. Convenient, eh? And for the record, and for the last bloody time, homosexuality is not the same thing as pedophilia. It's 2010. Grow up. Fri, 9 Jul 2010 02:03:49 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GR6Q3O0&show_article=1#IDComment85683034 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68467522 You people are clueless. Do you even understand that the only thing that "obamacare" has done is re-entrench the private health insurance companies for another generation, giving them 30 million forced new clients in the process? Look what the stock prices of drug and health insurance companies did the day after the bill was signed. They skyrocketed. Stop watching Fox news and start thinking for yourself. Obama is no more a Socialist than Bush was a Fascist. They are both corporate-owned drones who will continue to stick it to the middle and working class while the rich get richer... all the fancy talk and fancy labels and scare tactics and tea parties in the world won't change the fact that none of our politicians... whether a D or an R, work for US anymore. Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:06:00 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68467522 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68450234 And for the record, it's "sources." Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:33:03 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68450234 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68438765 Obama's tax cuts are a tiny bandaid to a much bigger problem. As usual, he's taking no real stance at all and trying to play nice with everyone. Until we return to the pre-Reagan income tax structure, and close the loopholes that allow two-thirds of corporations to weasel out of paying U.S. taxes, we will continue to see a continued exponential wealth stratification towards plutocracy. And that never ends well.... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:40:51 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68438765 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68438428 I owned my own business for 10 years. Sold it. Now I'm getting my doctorate. Next I'm going to poison young minds with my lunatic commie rantings and ravings. *cackle cackle* Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:37:48 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68438428 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68437733 Oh god... I've tortured myself through every page she's ever written. I've concluded that the purpose of her main 2 works is to turn otherwise unsuspecting 19 year old boys into raging, selfish d*ckheads. I'm not dismissing bits and pieces of her philosophies, but her fatal flaw is a fundamental misunderstanding of the true nature of the human species. We're not nearly as good as she'd have us believe. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:32:06 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68437733 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68437263 My ideology is anything but confused. That's why I stopped voting for Democrats. The confused ones are the "liberals" who keep voting for centrists. And don't think I don't understand what the Tea Party is all about. A populist movement that decries big government and big government spending, advocating for smaller government and more fiscal responsibility (despite the fact that the original tea party was actually about taxation without representation). That's the party line. Unfortunately, the "leadership" of the party is made up of anti-intellectual hypocrites who use an underlying tone of religiously-based "us vs. them" divisiveness to prod and provoke a demographic made up almost exclusively of conservative, white middle class libertarians who have guns, and this clearly is the point at which a party can very easily become a mob. I'll give them one thing though. They have scared the heck out of the Republicans, who are now making a Usain Bolt style dash to the right, and this is exactly what the left lacks; they need a similar movement to scare the Dems back to the left, which is what Nader has been trying to do for 30 years. Never mind that the t.p. is an astroturfed invention... it's essentially serving it's purpose. But it won't make much of a difference by November. 15 minutes of fame, and all that. And as far as bleak futures go, I think we are both going to experience it. The duopoly that has an iron grasp over the electoral process will ensure for the next generation that we get none of the truly progressive or truly conservative reforms that both you and I favor, respectively. Instead, we are doomed to see corporate money dictate public policy, with our "elected" officials beholden to USA, Inc, instead of the needs and wants of WE, the people. In this frustration, despite our differences, I think we can find some common ground. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:28:07 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68437263 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68402449 If you don't care about me, then why do you keep responding to my posts? Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:43:02 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68402449 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68399129 See above...... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:15:37 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68399129 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68399096 Oh right.... the census is a liberal tool used to turn us into a socialist state. I forgot. And you wonder why the mainstream doesn't take the tea party seriously....... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:15:19 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68399096 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68399015 Yeah, I've taken both macro and mirco economics, along with statistics courses as well. What's your point? You actually think that trickle-down works?! Show me one example in history where trickle down has actually done what it's supposed to do. One. Reagan's policies benefitted the rich, nobody else. Period. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:14:33 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68399015 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68398831 And this is where you've made your fatal blunder. I am NOT a Democrat. I haven't voted for Democrats since 1988. In none of my posts have I defended the voting record of Democrats, nor endorsed any of their legislation, nor their candidates. The fact is, I"m a true liberal, and the Democrats abandoned that platform in the 80's when they started going after corporate money at the same rate as Republicans did. Frankly, I think Obama is a disaster and the congress is even worse. They had a filibuster proof year where the could have actually pulled the party back to the left and they did absolutely nothing, showing their true colors. It's a corporate-owned duopoly, nothing more, nothing less. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:12:36 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68398831 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68398311 You are 100% wrong. In a single payer system, the emphasis is on preventative care. Here, the emphasis is on specialized or emergency care. Do the math. And why do people come here for specialist care? Well, for starters, our system discourages GP's because the pay is considerably lower than specialists pay, so we have more specialists. Secondly, we have the best doctors in the world, who attended the best med schools in the world, funded in large part by government dollars. That wouldn't change under single payer. In fact, our fantastic private doctors would finally be able to practice unfettered by the insurance companies who deny roughly 25% or the services doctors deem as medically necessary. Additionally, they would finally be able to operate under a true meritocracy because patients would no longer be tied down by the "in-network" constraints. The best doctors would make the most money based on reputation and ability. Competition. True free market competition. Surely, you aren't against that, are you? Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:08:21 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68398311 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68397615 Right, and the ethnic and racial plurality of all the tea party rallies really speaks to the broad demographic the "message" attracts. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:02:31 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68397615 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68347449 Ahh.. so you're one of those... "we have a majority in the senate... 41-59" people. My condolences. You do realize that we still remember that it was the Bush administration who brought the country to the brink of disaster, don't you? Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:21:35 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68347449 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68347278 How is supporting privatized doctors and letting them compete in a true meritocracy "looting?" Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:20:05 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68347278 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68347191 Exactly. Who cares about spelling, grammar, facts, and statistics. They all have a liberal bias anyway...... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:19:20 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68347191 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68311812 And if we're going to criticize presidents who spend too much, Clinton left office with a surplus. It was Bush who spent it all, and then some, and then more to leave us with the biggest deficit in history. Let's be fair and balanced, shall we? Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:07:22 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68311812 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68311556 Neither California or New York have debt to GDP ratios of 70%. Palin's Alaska has the highest in the nation. The next closest? 40% And it's California, because they were stupid enough to take a page from the future tea party playbook and require the senate to have a 2/3's majority to pass any taxes, yet go with majority rule for popular referendums. That's a right wing, one way ticket to state bankruptcy. And despite all that, they STILL aren't as bad as Alaska. The Beck argument is the most compelling of all. He got his education at a publicly-funded SOCIALIST (by his definition) institution. Then he turned around and bit off the hand that fed him. Single payer? 80% of Canadians approve of their system. 35% of Americans approve of their privatized system. Do the math. And what on earth is "bueachracy?" Good god man. Spellcheck. Please. All you're doing is proving my point more. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:04:51 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68311556 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68310760 Riggghhhttt... One recanted, so they are all liars. Hmm.... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:57:08 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kdlee/2010/04/15/why-has-obamacare-become-a-tea-party-issue/#IDComment68310760