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Coming Soon: The ObamaCare Comic Book?

The MIT economist credited with crafting President Barack Obama’s national health care overhaul law has reportedly started work on his latest venture: a comic book that explains the law in the simplest of terms.

Coming Soon: The ObamaCare Comic Book?

Image: Boston Herald

Jonathan Gruber, a health economist who devised Obamacare’s economic structure, says his children inspired him to use the comic format to explain the law to Americans in plain language. “I’m going to use the facts to tell the story,” Gruber, 45, said Monday. “I’m the narrator guiding the reader through the law. It’ll have lots of pictures and text.”

According to the Boston Herald, the publishing powerhouse Farrar, Straus and Giroux plans to release Gruber’s book — “Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works” — in the fall.

In Gruber’s opinion, the majority of Americans do not like the law because they don’t understand it. “I just wasn’t sure if this would be useful enough,” Gruber said. “Then my wife and kids said, ‘You’re crazy. You’ve got to do this.’ So I decided to give it a shot.”

Gruber also played a key role in developing Romneycare, the state health care plan implemented during former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s tenure.

“There’s a fundamental lack of economic security in our country,” Gruber explained. “If you don’t get insurance from your employer, you are one bad gene, or one bad car accident away from losing everything.”

Gruber’s editor, Thomas LeBien, has reportedly also used the comic-book medium to educate people about the U.S. Constitution and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Herald adds.

“It’s a marvelous medium,” LeBien said. “There’s a long tradition of turning to them to take complicated information and render it accessible to the widest audience.”

“My family made me realize that there’s such a misunderstanding of the bill, and that it’s important to explain why we need this, and what it does,” Gruber said. “I’ve found that when people understand it, they like it.”

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:36pm

    @JOHN 1776,

    DITTO!

    When are they going to realize that the people clearly DO understand what Obamacare is all about and that‘s why they don’t want it. This just makes them look even more ignorant. Why don’t they just give it up already?

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  • Coady
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:35pm

    So now MaoBama is going to borrow more money from China so the federal government can get into the comic book business? Of course a comic book would be the only fit venue for his policies but I don’t believe we should have to pay for it. If he wants to publish comic books let his puppet master George Soros pay for it.

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  • weeblewacker1
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:35pm

    after reading some of the stuff that have been said against this bill,a lot of the people need something to explained it to them in the most simplest of forms!

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  • Stegall TX
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:34pm

    I may be mistaken, but weren’t Republicans stopped from creating a television commercial that showed actual pictures from ANWR? How can this be allowed if pictures from ANWR can’t be displayed? Am I missing something here?

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    • Diane TX
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:44pm

      Ugh. You just reminded me that Obama will not allow us to drill for our own oil because he truly believes that we should be paying $8.00 a gallon as they do in Europe. No oil drilling permits have been approved in the USA since the Gulf Oil spill. Nada.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:58am

      If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how many pictures does it take to represent 2,700 pages?

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  • obrien871
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:33pm

    Reminds me of Al Gore’s cartoon movie An Inconvenient Truth.

    Liberals will eat this up since they can’t comprehend anything longer than a bumper sticker.

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    • DUMBASPELOSI
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:06pm

      This is the result of Obama and his supporters “THINKING” . . . hum? We are way to smart to come up with a stupid idea . . . it must be the stupidity of the American‘s who don’t get it. What shall we do? Hey, what about a comic book – telling them what it is, why its necessary and how it works?

      Good idea . . . one problem – we don‘t know what it is yet and we don’t have a clue how it works?

      Opps.

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  • Sam the Casual Movie Guy
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:31pm

    I wonder…if the Obamacare Law can be bioled down to a few color pages, why couldn’t the original 2,700 page law have been a few pages?

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  • drago
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:30pm

    The headline reads “Coming soon;The obamacare comic book”.Thought thats what obamacare was…..

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  • needanotherReagan
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:30pm

    A comic book to explain a comedy of errors, good idea.

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  • Gruug
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:27pm

    I read the Healthcare Bill before it was passed in the House. Believe me, it is not comic book material. However, by putting it into comic book format, the advocates of the new law will be able to further blurr the lines as to what the law actually does.

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:24pm

    Tough to print up when they defund it next week.

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:24pm

    Kind dear leader comrade Obama wants to help your gramma to stop hurting and go to heaven.

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  • jdawg
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:23pm

    It’s called propaganda.

    http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/architect-of-obamacare-to-release-comic-book-explaining-law

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:21pm

    In the back

    it has a form where you can send off
    and get your very own invisible birth certificate

    just like Obama

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  • DUMBASPELOSI
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:20pm

    “Health Care Reform: What it is? Why it is necessary? How it works?”

    Here’s the executive summary for the soon to be published “scifi” comic.

    It is a socialistic “cowpie” of a program designed by socialists and rammed through against the will of the American people by the dumbest Speaker in the history of the WORLD.

    It is necessary – in the same way that recorded “bird sounds” are necessary in a car wash. It just fits
    the weird needs of the folks in charge at the time.

    It works by taking away many dollars and freedoms – and utilizes millions of dollars paying Andy of Mayberry and P-Diddy to tell you how lucky you are to be on the “No Way List” for a new hip.

    I can’t wait to see this!

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  • Steve Martin
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:20pm

    It will be full of lies

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:17pm

      As long as it has the ads for Joe Weider muscle building, X-Ray glasses and instant sea horses.

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:20pm

    He might be giving us too much credit. Should be a COLORING BOOK.

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  • TumbleBumble
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:20pm

    The left certainly does understand their base. They are the ones behind public education.

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:19pm

    thats one expensive comic book there Barry

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:19pm

    Add your comments

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  • burnteye86
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:18pm

    A comic book! How damn appropriate is that?

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  • Joseff
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:17pm

    Oh, its so simple, it can be explained in a comic book. How many pages is this travesty? Perhaps Gruber should have stuck with comics and not writing legislation. Then of course, comics are for children, sell your healthcare propaganda to them, and you own the future.

    Joe

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:16pm

    He wouldn’t be talking down to us, YA THINK?

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    • american1st
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:24pm

      of course not, us ignerent Americans dislike obama care because we don’t understand it!
      if them elite liberals could just talk in simple enough language or use pictures like in the kiddie books, we would love our overlords ideas and be happy to let them run our health care and our lives…

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:27pm

      LOL .. somehow I don’t think those of us who are ACTUALLY informed on the issue are his “target” audience. He is looking for these people as to not lose interest and support.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI

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  • Smokepole
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:15pm

    I’ll take 2!

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  • DUMBASPELOSI
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:14pm

    This is the only medium where Obama ACTUALLY does something right!!!

    They’ll show him doing things that he never does in real life . . .
    “lead with integrity”
    “tell the whole truth”
    “follow the constitution”
    “listen to the people”
    “answer the question”

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    • justanamerican
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:33pm

      They already have the support from people who can only relate to comic books with pictures………!

      What’s the point ????????????
      Anyone who has higher than a 5th grade reading level aleady knows the scam, and wants NO part of Obamacare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • justanamerican
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:35pm

      Seems like a desperate attempt and a waste of time and money, but hey, that’s nothing new!

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    • Dale
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:55pm

      I heard today that moochele said barry quit smoking, perhaps that could get a mention.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:06pm

      Indeed that will be the only place where Obama does what he is suppose to do as POTUS, then again it is also why the comic book falls into the realm of fiction and science fiction in certain cases. No matter how you look at it, fiction is still fiction.

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:08pm

      Maybe Michael Moore will make a movie based on the comic book. I think that would be an excellent idea! I won’t watch it, but I will smile at the amount of money he will spend making the movie!

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  • GeauxAlready
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:13pm

    .
    It‘s the undeumacated masses they can’t read, but can look at the pictures…………..

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:15pm

      I think the new terminology is: graphic novel
      Speaking of graphic. I wonder if the death panels will be in the comic…
      Abortions?

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:16pm

      Also, will it require 2700 pages?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:17pm

      When the House defunds Obamacare next week, this can be the first item on their list. Those people can p _ _ s away money faster, and on more waste, it’s amazing.

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    • John 1776
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:19pm

      It does sum up what the elitist left thinks of the general IQ of the nation. “They just don’t understand this great law, we need to make a comic book up so that the simple minded masses can understand.”

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:21pm

      says his children inspired him to use the comic format to explain the law to Americans in plain language.
      ———–
      Since Americans are so like a bunch of 6-10 yr olds
      and only ivy-league libs know how to deal with them

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    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:24pm

      I would have to disagree with you that looking at pictures is not reading.

      Pictures are words.

      Logos are images and is the basis of phonics:

      Phonics involves teaching how to connect the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters (e.g., that the sound /k/ can be represented by c, k, ck, ch, or q spellings) and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words.

      You have to recognize the image to know what sound to make.

      There is an interesting theory that may tie into this having to do with synesthesia, “Bouba-Kiki Effect”.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

      I’ve tried this test with a number of people, and it is very accurate.

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    • GeauxAlready
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:25pm

      .
      M frick’en I.T. and all ya’ll could come up with is a comic book.

      Guess ya‘ll couldn’t figure it out either

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:28pm

      one
      seventy
      two

      aaa
      aaa
      haha
      haha
      haha

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    • BMartin1776
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:30pm

      Oh good b/c we are all so stupid to understand the 2000pg bill none of them read Im so glad they will sum up 2000pgs into a cute little comic book!

      BTW who wrote the bill if NO ONE READ IT????

      How much more is enough AmeriKa? You are now being blatantly called stupid to understand them that they have to make a comic book. All you obamazombies better get a clue too while you argue in favor of this bill and defend your boy king. When they are through with you, and they will mark my/our words, you will be cannon fodder to them.

      The continuous insults by this president and the radicals who support him towards the people of this country is off the charts.

      Most Blazers get it but how many are we really in country of 330 million zombies? What more is there to say Liberties Lost, Death of the Republic? How Much Is Enough? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zkGZRfj24

      56 men, our Founding Fathers, knew what had to be done and do what’s right, what about you? http://www.savingtherepublic.com

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:32pm

      Take it from a linguist, Sinista.
      A simple binary choice reflects very little on applicability to the varied complexity of human language, even in its phonic iterations. Besides, we’re not talking about iconic images here, it’s graphic illustration of concepts, or art as pedagogical medium.
      Also vis LeBien’s quote: “There’s a long tradition of turning to them to take complicated information and render it accessible to the widest audience.”
      Long history of turning to comics, yes. But NOT to be accessible to widest audience, only to lowest common denominator audience. Even the dying print newspapers have higher subscription rates than comic books.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:34pm

      Oh, I remember the days when an MIT diploma meant something. Maybe it was an honorary degree, because he doesn’t have a clue about economics if he crafted this bill. Wait , I misread the article – he’s a HEALTH economist… now it makes sense. He’s used to dealing with $4 cotton balls and $8 tongue depressers, and having insurance pick up the outragous tab, no matter how rediculously high. He just applied the same formula using healthcare costs as a whole, and the taxpayers as the ones picking up the bill. I hope the last page has a panoramic view of America smoldering in ruins.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:38pm

      any thing but the truth .

      New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the FBI received a phone call the day before the Oklahoma City bombing warning that the attack was imminent, and that the feds tried to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table if he admitted making the call.

      The documents were released to Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue, who in the course of of a 15 year battle in trying to ascertain why his brother was tortured to death during an FBI interrogation related to the case, has all but proven the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Building was an inside job run by FBI agents who were handling Timothy McVeigh.

      “What that indicates to me, there is a record somewhere of that phone call and the FBI needs to explain it,” said Trentadue in an interview with KTOK News. “If the call was from one of their informants with McVeigh, clearly, they had knowledge of the bombing and didn’t stop it.”
      http://www.infowars.com/confirmed-fbi-got-warning-day-before-okc-bombing/

      The feds’ attempt to make Nichols accept responsibility for the phone call occurred in 2005 after Nichols was visited by an attorney named Michael Selby who claimed he was working for the government and would guarantee Nichols was spared the death penalty if he played ball in covering up FBI foreknowledge and involvement in the bombing plot.

      tower7femacamp  
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:44pm

      We have to pass the healthcare bill,
      to find out what is in it by reading a comic book

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:47pm

      @HappyStretchedThin
      Ohio is set to introduce legislation tomorrow to ban abortions once a heartbeat is detected. You can see it at heartbeatbill.com. IMO, women who say that a baby is part of their body, I say that it isn’t, as the DNA is similar, but different, but that’s me.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:51pm

      This hits a new desperate low of what the progressives will do and resort to for a final stand against those of us in America who will take back the country and restore her, with God’s help, to what and where she is to be – the light and dream of freedom for all into the future.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:56pm

      Will someone ask John Kerry if our soldiers in Iraq will be able to read this comic book ?

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    • P C BE DAMNED
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:00pm

      Do you really believe a comic book will do anything to keep Obama in office. We are not uneducated children who are led by comic books ar any of this old sh.t from the 1960s and 70s. We are educated men and women. We will never go back to a circus world of followers. Stay in your ignorance and believe the masses in America will be so easily led. It is to your detrement. God I love you for sending Glenn Beck and all the light. Keep him humble and a useful tool for the true freedom lovers. We will never go back into darkness and the light will shine for at least 100 years. You Communists and Islam are living with the dead. God I love America!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:07pm

      And our tax dollars are PAYING for this? Where is the appropriation? Can it be defunded?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:07pm

      I’ve been reading and collecting comic books for some 25 years. There are a lot of big words in comic books, but it depends on which ones you buy. I am seeing a trend in comics now to try to include Muslims and middle east people. With this, and the prices going up, I don’t know how much longer I am willing to do it.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:07pm

      @Grandmaof5

      Agreed, I hope they can get the health care dismantled one part at a time in addition to the defunding of the nightmare produced by that abomination from the progressives in DC.

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    • 64wildcat
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:08pm

      Really 2000+ pages summed up into a comic book? Is it a series? Does it include little Chimmi Changa who got the ends of her feet cut off because her mom couldn‘t afford to buy her a larger pair of shoes and the dr’s decided they could make some money off of her mom who apparently had health insurance or they wouldn’t have done the operation? Or better yet the woman who was wearing her dead sisters dentures because she couldn’t afford a set of her own? I can’t wait to read how horrible the health care system is (was) and how our Liberal (Progressive) Saviors have saved us. How can they say now how horrible the health care system “was” and how wonderful it is now when the bill doesnt’ kick into effect for a couple of years? I just can‘t wait to have it and all of it’s squishy goodness. For any elites who might read this it is what you might call Sarcasm I would hate for any liberal idiots to think I was for this thing….But If you do I’ll make you a comic book.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:08pm

      Who will receive the comic books, and how? Schools? Where are the comic books on the U.S. Constitution, our Founding Fathers? I’m writing my congressmen!

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    • Tiny280
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:12pm

      Isn’t that how He got elected in the first place? All pretty pictures and no substance?

      Dems are just playing to their base – the ignorant, illiterate, jealous, and lazy.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:17pm

      HOW is OBAMA going to explain OBAMA CARE.. HE doesn‘t even know what’s in it.. what a liar..

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    • pajamash
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:17pm

      Our president dumbs it down enough. How bout we get some specifics and truly find out how much more this will cost us in the long run rather than making a comic book?

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:24pm

      The DUMBING down of America .. is complete.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:38pm

      THE PRESIDENT’S PLAN TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY:

      Our President has a courageous plan to save both Social Security and Medicare

      The Social Security Trust Fund is almost bankrupt and the Medicare trust fund is bankrupt. The problem has been apparent for years but until now no one has advanced a plan to save these popular programs.

      At last, our President has the courage to propose a solution! It is so simple that one wonders why no one thought of it before. The solution?

      Enact a “Health Care Reform Bill” the severely rations health care to the elderly. This will save the Medicare Trust Fund and allow it to be used to reward the Presidents political cronies and provide health care for “deserving Illegal Aliens.”

      Deprived of medical care, the lifespan of the elderly will be reduced, depleting the number of recipients of the Social Security Trust Fund, saving that popular program.

      Both problems solved! Why did it take so long to find such a simple solution?

      Of course, the Congress and the President are exempted from the solution so they can perpetuate the problem. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:53pm

      @Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:24pm
      Sinista Mace, you are a thinker after all, not a troll. My apologies for snotty remarks earlier.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Should be a big seller in Detroit, just tell everyone the get money from Obamas stash with each comic. Obama, Obama, Obama.
      In regards to this guy being from MIT, every campus has it’s clown.

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:31pm

      Duuhh ! thanck guudness we have such mart peeple to rite our laws and teech us what tha meen duhh !!

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    • Citizen7154
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:33pm

      Perhaps Congress could repeal the 2700 page law and just pass the comic book.

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    • exdem
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:48pm

      I ma gonna sit er spell and do some readin of my comic book and watch my muslim Cosby show and then I ma sure i be understandin these newfangled idears of OBAMMY. Ima so happy r adminstration has tooken da time to help me with all this smarty pants stuff cuz I ma aMerican and hasnt been edumacated enuff.

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    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:53pm

      HappyStretchedThin

      That’s an interesting opinion from a linguist, but with all due respect, this statement is looking at this from a 2 dimensional perspective instead of an all encompassing vortex geometry based perspective.

      What I mean is that the binary choice is not simply binary, but encoded with information that is based on a vortex, which defines the boundaries of the binary representations of the images and gives them individuality. They are distinct images but encoded with information that adds additional dimensionality to their description.

      For example, Hebrew, one of the oldest languages, are represented by by symbols which have multidimensional definition. The entire hebrew alphabet can be displayed by a golden mean spiral rotating in a tetrahedron, and so can the entire english alphabet.

      Real mathematics are not base-10.

      It is base – 1.618 (phi)

      The circuit is a doubling circuit.

      In electronics, we call that a voltage doubler.

      It’s one of the secrets to free energy, where you can take the smallest trace voltage and exponentially increase it by a factor of 2 until you have millions of volts. The current of course decreases with an increase in voltage, but that‘s the reason we’re supposed to design devices that operate on the lowest possible current, by utilizing the vortex geometry yielding the longest mean free pathway of least resistance.

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:02pm

      They had to do it as a comic book so Obama’s supporters can read and understand it!

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:29pm

      @ Sinista > Kudos for the amount of thought put into your concept. I’m not arguing for a completely arbitrary conception of the link between linguistic forms and their graphic representations, so I partially agree with you on the substance. I’m just pointing out that if you generalize that too far, you’re falling for the association = causation fallacy. The logic you describe doesn’t hold THROUGHOUT language, it just rightly calls into question de Saussure’s original supposition of total arbitrariness.
      @ Citizen > you crack me up dude
      @ Tower > Be relevant at least, you conspiracy whack-job troll.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:14pm

      @John 1776
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:19pm
      It does sum up what the elitist left thinks of the general IQ of the nation. “They just don’t understand this great law, we need to make a comic book up so that the simple minded masses can understand.”
      - – - – - – -
      I keep thinking, “What the government giveth, the government can taketh away.”
      I keep thinking, “I have a RIGHT to healthcare.” (Our rights are endowed by our Creator.)
      I keep thinking about all those years we pay into the healthcare program, but “What the government giveth, the governemtn can taketh away.”
      So, what happens then to all that money paid in? And, what guarantee do the seniors have that we will be provided healthcare? “What the governement giveth, the government can take away.”

      This administration does not give a damn about it citizens, about what the citizens want, or what the citizens do not want. This administration wants only CONTROL over our lives and as much of our money as it can squeeze out of us.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:14pm

      found on the shelf under gov’t fiction.

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    • What's next
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:45pm

      O-bam a-Rama-ding-dong !!!

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    • Jovan2
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:09pm

      I’ve always said the whole thing is laughable!!!!!

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    • I CHOOSE THE RED PILL MR PRESIDENT
      Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:08am

      This is certainly hilarious…. And a waste of time. Anybody who needs this level of propaganda… er education, believe this tripe already and are already on the kool aid. You’re preaching to the choir idiot.

      Meanwhile… Back in reality:

      What the new healthcare bill has done for me:

      In a statement released by my employer, the increases are directly related to mandated provisions to meet the new healthcare “standards”

      My premium doubled.
      My deductible doubled.
      My co-pay went up by 30%
      I am no longer able to use co-pays to pay for labs, diagnostics and x-rays. I now have to pay full price until I meet my deductible.

      What I got for the increases:

      Before I got to opt in or out of prenatal/maternity care. Now I am forced to have it. I’m 45. No more kids for me.

      I can now add my 24 year old child, who is a grown up and should be paying for her own coverage.

      A co-worker who has a “pre-existing” condition… Sure he got coverage, but his diabetic supplies went from costing him $250 per month to over $1000 for the exact same prescriptions.

      I’m sorry, but there is no room for politics here. It shouldn‘t matter whether you’re Democrat or Republican. The new healthcare bill has only harmed me.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:50am

      Maybe they should have given this comic book to Congress so they could read and understand it before voting on it.

      A comic book is appropriate considering Obamcare is a joke.

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