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QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 11:20 PM) Your ultra-conservative crusade is really turning into a tired act. Cantor's report of targeted violence was clearly a contrived farce. If you want people to take your arguments seriously, you will need to concede on some of the no brainers. I called out a friend for posting a b.s. story this week about Bush Jr. wiping Haitian cooties off his hand and onto Bill Clinton. I would hope you could do the same with Cantor's diversion. Please, let's all try to start using common sense again. QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 28, 2010 -> 10:03 AM) Like most politicians dive to the middle to get elected, Kap has dove to the right to keep things stirred up. Relax and enjoy the show. It's like have Rush on steroids visiting everyday. No, you all, even after I made it clear, are trying to paint millions of people in a light that is simply not true. ALL "tea party people" condone violence and racism is about as stupid as ALL "Democrats" are communist. And some were "stupid" enough to go along with it. That's contrived and shameful.

The choice now is pay out your ass for decent insurance, pay the same for heavily rationed costs and a ton higher out of pocket, or get dropped, and buy it yourself for a billion more because "you're prexisting". We are going through negotiations right now (our enrollment reset date is Jul 1) and I can tell you now it's f***ing UGLY price wise for the same coverage.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Mar 27, 2010 -> 04:18 PM) First thing on your priority? New chat room. Yea, qwerty, I'm going to try to get this done tomorrow.

We'd like to welcome Kyyle23 to the admin ranks. He's done a great job helping out with the site, and with that, there goes the neighborhood once again.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Mar 26, 2010 -> 09:25 AM) The truth is, if I have to pay slightly higher taxes in order to enjoy the benefits and services of a government that generally acts in a responsible manner and is committed to providing a basic safety net for its constituents in need, I am completely willing to do so. Lower taxes is not everything to me. A government that is responsive to its people is. Oh, only slightly? Man, that sucks. In order for utopia the proper redistribution of wealth, you better hand over more then slightly. One of these days, you're going to be "rich".

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 10:00 PM) As individuals they are as sane as you or I, but when they get their group think happening, then yeah, they are crazy muthaf***ers. GMAFB. You people are sick.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 09:16 AM) I'm sure you wouldn't mind broken windows at your home...or someone cutting your gas line.....or getting death threats on your voice mail. That's all normal. Sure, when the shoe's on the other foot, it's ok.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 11:29 AM) you do not want to get me started on how columbia missouri used their bike grant. UGH Skater' Die, dude? What'd they do?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 11:28 AM) In New Jersey, its actually pretty poor. Theres a difference between mtn bike paths and acceptable paths for road bikes, and that makes its usefulness for me pretty limited. Yea, I'd like to see the paved paths. That way I can cart along the kiddos.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 11:54 AM) This is a gift from God for the Democrats, I think. If I was Harry Reid, I'd propose all the cuts come from the home states of the Senators who object. Maybe cut a Boeing contract from the plant based in OK. Or just pull all the stimulus funding from the state of OK altogether. Since Coburn was opposed to that in the first place, he should be fine with giving back the 2 billion, right? You better put all that money in from the last 8 years on your lower tax rate while you're at it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 05:45 PM) Cantor basically completely made this up. The bullet did hit his window but it was a random stray bullet that could've been fired from several hundred yards away and just happened to come down there and odds are probably like 99% the person that fired off the round didn't even know that was one of Cantor's offices or that it was even there. Then for fun he said "because I'm Jewish" as if the bullet had a note on it and tried to draw a weak equivalency. edit: yeah basically what bmags posted. Yea, and equivalizing the whole "tea bagger" movement is just as douchey.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 10:53 PM) i think that faxing nooses, vandalizing and making death threats is the definition of crazy ass...but not to kap. Yep. All those teabaggers are crazy muthaf***as. ALL of them.

Well, Obama is socialist. But whatever, it's an overused word right now. It doesn't mean he's a commie bastard, he's just a socialist, especially in the American political spectrum.

Covers nuts and screams "OW MY LIVER". 'Cept that wouldn't work for her. Damn... we need to come up with another plan.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 09:12 PM) they also rejected a request to put out a joint statement denouncing the death threats that lawmakers have been getting from the crazy a*s teabaggers. Yea, man, those crazy muthaf***as. They are just ... muthaf***as. Dain't dey? Those damn southern racist poor muthaf***as.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 08:30 PM) anyone that gets worked up over Ann Coulter comments is a retard. a "f***ing retard". Come on... get it right.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 07:17 PM) So the wife got rearended on the way to work on last Wed by a student at the school where she teaches. Today, or six days later, she gets big old packets from two local ambulance chasers. Beauty.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 08:16 PM) Seriously? You posted this? This describes 95% of your recent posts. Really? You're kidding.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 07:17 PM) Kap, can you not do this, and at least try? I know you CAN actually have a back and forth if you want, you were just doing it last night, otherwise it's really obnoxious and doesn't add anything. In response that, there's no point, because I'll just get an obnoxious rhetorical question that warps it into "liberal logic".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 07:54 AM) This bill enshrines employer-provided insurance and actually strengthens it quite a bit by making it possible for small businesses to afford insurance. What no one has said so far in last night's discussion, and I'm half surprised and half not surprised...is that there's a reason why employers still provide insurance...and that's the GIGANTIC tax subsidy for health benefits. Even after the excise tax begins to kick in 7 years down the road, the government is still going to be providing a huge tax advantage for companies to purchase health benefits for their employees by making those benefits tax deductible up to a certain point., Employers are planning to drop insurance because of this bill? That's insane on their part. First of all, if the employer cuts 20% of his or her employees off of his or her insurance plan, and they can't get into the exchanges...their own insurance rates are going to go up because they're less of an important buyer. But then on top of that, if the employee has to go and buy his or her own health insurance, even in the exchanges, the company refusing to provide insurance is at a huge tax disadvantage relative to a company providing insurance. Simple math really. $15,000 a year insurance plan, $35,000 a year employee salary versus $50,000 a year salary, except in the 2nd case, your employee has to pay tax on the full $50,000, while in the former case, the employee pays taxes on $35,000. LMAO. You have no clue.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 09:12 PM) guess what guys, many research says that the dropping was going to happen anyways - beginning in this decade, accelerating in the next, it's one of the reasons a lot of steps were created to help the individual market. Employer given health insurance was getting sicker. Okay, let's kill the entire system to fix what 20% was broke. (And now Balta steps in with blog about "GOVERNMENT SAVES" and round we keep going). And before you say that's not the truth, I'll say again that the whole bill is "government run health care". Everyone with any forward thinking at all can see what's coming. Hey Mr. Bubble, do you see another one coming? (Hint: insurance stocks... but they won't be "too big to fail".)

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 09:03 PM) But the whole purpose of them dropping that benefit and paying the fine was because they were saving a significant amount of money, so there is a benefit to paying the fine instead, and they pocket that extra money...? If it was really zero sum then they might as well keep the benefit. But like Tex said in a roundabout way, now you as an employer look less attractive... it'd be the same thing as offering a lower salary. No, it doesn't, because companies almost all companies are going to not offer insurance. It was done by design that the "penalty" is right around the same percentage, on average, as your insurance benefit now. They had the data, and it was written in that way. And no, it wasn't an accident. Just as SS mentioned, pensions are rare, very rare, now. Insurance is going to become the same type of "benefit".

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) quote does work Yea but on his post for some reason, it didn't. Besides, I wanted to show my bipartisan appeal here.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 08:55 PM) then the individual market will become a lot more affordable, in no short part to this bill. Really? Okay, say it does. But now you have to ration the s*** out of your care because you now have a flood of people at a "lower cost", when in fact it isn't going to go any lower. Do you get a substantially lower cost on anything without a cut in quality or service? Inflation alone makes this a pretty stupid arguement... "bending cost curves" doesn't happen without a radical change in service.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 07:24 PM) Ok, I'll bite here. If my employer (very unlikely but let's just say for the sake of argument) drops that benefit and pays the fine, I go and get my own insurance through an exchange or whatever at some comparable cost. They don't give me that money back in pure salary, and keep it as profit. Using the same logic that conservatives use for tax cuts (which I think has a point of diminishing returns that we've passed but that's another topic), wouldn't this money be used to hire new employees? What am I missing here? No, because it becomes a zero sum. Instead of the money that they have set aside for benefits, it now goes straight to the government in the form of a new tax ("penalty"). Since the money totally bypasses insurance and goes straight to the government... guess what happens?