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Unconstitutional Who Cares: DNC Chair Dean Confirms ObamaCare Will Eventually Eliminate Employer Based Private Insurance

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  • Mizpah55
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:44am

    Talk about dictator! Can you imagine what this country would be like if this idiot had won when he ran for President? Talk about fast track to the destruction of a country!!

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    • BRAVEHEART
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:29am

      Howard Dean along with other hard core Commie, Liberals could make Stalin and Hitler look like a couple of Choir Boys. They would bring about another civil war which they would totally lose.

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    • Mayes
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:55am

      I have not seen a mention of the fact that you folks are speaking about Dr. Dean! If his medical practice was anything like his political career, I’m luckier that he lives on one side of the mountains and and I live on the other. I wonder what kind of liberal techniques he used in his practices. Maybe former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson could tells us.

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  • psst
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:44am

    I’m w/ Hussein on this . I think Dean is lying.
    Hussein told me I could keep the insurance company of my choice.My Insurance company is the Mombassa Voodoo and Advanced Technology Ins Co. My agent (who is always sending me E-mails that he would like for me to help him deposit 500 mil in my bank account that we’ll split 60/40 %). He also Moon-light as a Night bank)) re-ASSured me that they have been in the advanced health care insurance bidniz for 5 centuries and would stay in the advanced health care ins bidniz for another 20 centuries at least.
    I called my doctor who was vacationing at his villa in the Kenyan Rain Forest Jungle (I have his cell phone #) Mr. Witch (that’s his real name) assured me that he was gonna be the doctor for me and my 15 chirrens and also my wife and her 12 chilluns from a previous marriage no matter what the lying Mr Dean said..
    I knew all along president Hussein was telling US the truth.

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:44am

    Dean is a communist spy working for the former KGB, his mission is to help disrupt our political system and our Democratic way of life. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are nothing more than toilet paper to him. He will lie and do anything to try and convince Americans how evil America is and it needs to be put in a box and never opened again or NEVER allowed to be a powerful nation. He is an enemy of the U.S.A . The proof is why he no longer runs the DNC , he is better in the field( foot solder) rather than be directly involved with the former Democratic Party and the White House.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:42am

      Um, a communist spy working for the KGB?

      Perhaps you’ve seen some of his paystubs in Cyrillic script?

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  • sWampy
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:40am

    According to my employer, 30% of the pay/benefits they give me are the health care plan, does anyone think they will give me a 30% raise when they kick me off to the single payer plan?

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    • cntrlfrk
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:24am

      Mine is the same way.

      On our on-line ADP pay statement and salary summary, insurance cost is listed as part of my salary.

      According to that page, my salary has increased quite a bit the past year or so.

      I am lucky enough to have a high-end Health Insurance policy (which was a big consideration when I accepted the job) and will be taxed by Obamacare for having insurance that is too good.

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:38am

    “Phi Hare, part Deux”. Howard doesn‘t care if it’s Constitutional just like Phil. Also, Dean believes it’s OK for the federal government to destroy an entire segment of the private sector. If you were a leader of the DNC, would you let him keep running off at the head like this?
    This is just about the average Un-American policy position of most liberals as I read them. It just makes me shake my head and wonder how their twisted “thinking” processes come up with these ridiculous conclusions.

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  • @leftfighter
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:37am

    I don’t see healthcare in Article 1, Section 8.

    I *do* see people on the Left attempting to unlimit the Constitution by quoting five words, “to protect the general Welfare,” claiming those five trump the other 4395 words of limitation in the Constitution.

    It’s funny… It’s almost as if Madison saw this coming when he warned against abuses of the phrase.

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:16am

      Art 2, sec 3 can be interpreted in a kind of scary way, especially with a White House full of “Constitutional lawyers”. See my post above.

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  • jesbent
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:33am

    I just hope that the new house members can keep their resolve. They should vote to repeal something every week regardless of the senate. If they keep bashing away at what has happened in the last couple years they will keep our support and gain new supporters.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:07am

      For the USA to stay a Republic and the light on the hill for the world, we need to down size the Federal Government by at least 60% and increase the States rights/control by 60%.

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  • Lion420
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:27am

    I don’t believe Boehner and the repubs have the stomach for a real fight, and that’s what we are looking at. If Dean is going to start telling the truth like this, and after pelosi’s lil spurt yesterday about this same issue, what else can we expect? I pray I’m wrong.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:35am

      Lion420,

      I do not think you are wrong about Boehner and the repubs.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:30pm

      Well, it’s the same pattern so far… I’ve said this all along.

      Dog & pony show.

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  • dustytrail
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:26am

    We need to unite. Get enough people together with the same voice. Year after year, we take back the country. Fight for the long haul. That is what the progressives have been doing for the past one hundred years. This fight will not end in our lifetimes. If freedom is to survive, freedom must be fought for endlessly. Got to hold the republicans responsible if they waver in any way.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:24am

    The truest thing that he said was that he doesn’t care if it is constitutional or not. I think that it is becoming very apparent the many progressives have the same attitude. If they want something the Constitution should not get in the way. There are videos of other Democrats including Nancy Pelosi expressing the same attitude. To them the Constitution is meaningless and they have a difficult time understanding why other people thing that the Constitution is important. They know that people do, they just can’t understand why.
    As anyone else noticed the similarities between Dean and Ed Schultz? They are both always angry, they both do allot of screaming, and they both think that they are smarter then everyone else while saying some of the stupidest things.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:34am

      RickFromIllinois,

      It was GW Bush who said that ‘The Constitution is only a piece of paper”. I am NOT Bush bashing….merely pointing out that this is not a Democrat v Republican trend. Pretending that only one party does this leaves us open to being coerced by the other.

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    • Rickfromillinois
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:12am

      There are progressives in both parties but I was trying to limit it to something that has happened recently, not 25years ago. I should have said liberals or progressives. It just that the ones that immediately come to mind are Democrats but I gladly stand corrected.

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:44am

      Did you find it interesting that during the mid-term election the Progressive media seemed to be upset by Tea Party candidates defeating incumbant Republicans in the primaries?? They actually seemed horrified by what was happening…..Bennet from Utah was a prime example…..the Progressive media lamented what a “good” Congressman he was…..he was a rather Progressive Republican. I think that the powers-that-be in Washington, DC are truly terrified by the prospect of the American people electing individuals who are outside each party’s zone of control. Both Republicans and Democrats know the games that are played…..at our expense…..but they are quite content with the status quo. A very disturbing trend is to hear the leaders in Congress talk so hateful about the AMERICAN PUBLIC…..politicians attack each other viciously all of the time but it is just a game to them…they are yucking it up at the dinner parties a few hours later…..but to say that people who support the Tea Party must come from “dysfuntional families”, according to Steny Hoyer, or a just a bunch of racist, violence-prone degenerates is beyond the pale….these people in Congress are there to REPRESENT us, not to DENIGRATE us…..it will only get worse, I fear.

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  • flyoverbob
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:23am

    His physical actions and his eyes say deranged,ready to freak

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  • mtnclimberjim
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:23am

    Ocare was never intended to work. It was designed to collapse the financial sys. barry isn’t stupid, he has the collapse of our country on his agenda.

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  • Cpriestess
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:21am

    We must never lose sight of the truth that this is a process. The new members of the 112 Congress are a start, but the corporate republicans will try to co opt them into the Washington game. Listen to Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell, they will try to bully and coerce the new kids into business as usual. It is a beginning but don’t stop paying attention. The political class does not want anything to change in the way they spend our money. I read a thought that moderate republicans are just progressives in slo-mo, it rang peculiarly true to me.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:30am

      Cpreistess,

      I completely agree. The other overwhelming influence coercive to both parties and most politicians is the incredibly well funded lobbying infrastructure. The ‘money train’ is what co opts these people quicker than anything else. How many of the recently unseated legislators from both sides of the aisle will soon be employed by lobbying firms, or corporations that had successfully lobbied them in years gone by?

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:28am

      Use yer imagination, DAZE, you moron!

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  • chazman
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:21am

    Hey Dean! The American people will eventually ELIMINATE you, you worthless piece of trash!

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:25am

      Chazman,

      Dean holds no elective office, as determined BY the electorate. How else do you propose the people ELIMINATE him?

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  • mcFirst
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:21am

    Great timing, AS ALL THE SENATORS JUST TOOK AN OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION!!

    What are we taking an oath too if the DNC chair, presidential candidate, can dismiss it in his mind.

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  • ksagpilot
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:20am

    I’m afraid what is going to happen is they will screw everything up and we will all end up with no health care, or what we have will be limited. I guess that wil make us all equal which is what BHO wants.

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  • americansfightingforcommonsense
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:19am

    This is exactly why we must quit electing these people to public office who think they know better than the American people; and don’t care if laws are constitutional or not. We must find patriots that will listen to what the people want and listen to what the constitution outlines for us; and elect them to office!!!!

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  • deadb4red
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:17am

    Obviously the DemoRATS don’t care. Our freedoms guaranteed by the constitution are just an inconvenience to them. How long will it be before they seize all private retirement plans like some countries in europe and Argentina are doing now?

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    • tankerBigRed1
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:53am

      while back dung heap harkin co sponsored a bill to take 401′s into gov – don’t member but think it was Rush had a squib bout that..

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  • PatriotDaze
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:14am

    Perhaps the NEW PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP at the BLAZE can help clean up the headlines, because right now they are frequently False, Inaccurate or (intentionally) misleading. Howard Dean is not the DNC Chairman. High School newspapers have a higher journalistic standard.

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:38am

      Thank you… I have been saying that for a while now with occasional posts about it. Headlines have improper grammar, spelling on a sixth grade level and are everything you say about misleading also. The Blaze should at least hire somebody that takes the time and effort to start putting educated journalists in charge of this site. Remember the “Grizzly” murders?

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    • religion-gunclinger
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:43am

      Poor little progressive, did the big bad website make a honest mistake. Who is your “dear leader” these days, we all want to know.

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:19am

      @ Religion… Man, you do NOT know me at all. If trying to inject a little professional journalism into this site prompts a knee-jerk (and incorrect) response like yours, I’d say you have a pretty limited focus on things. Maybe it’s you that have been raised in the watered down progressive schools.

      By the way… there is (and was) no offense intended to anybody.

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:38am

      Headline Nazis…

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 3:23pm

      Yeah. Should be “Former DNC Chair…”.

      “Grizzly Murders”? I missed that one. Who killed the bears? ;)

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  • Colonial Revolutionary
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:12am

    Wasn’t that the Master Plan all along? Tell us something we don’t know.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:17am

      It absolutely was, Obama himself said so as a candidate.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:35am

      That is why people rejected O’commie-care from day one

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  • BeckIsNuts
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:12am

    Obamacare will not survive long enough to do much of anything.

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:11am

    We surround them. A handful of well financed revolutionaries is NOT going to take my country away from me. A government in collusion with socialist and communist ideologues is not gonna ruin my liberty and my country. They will ruin themselves trying.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:25am

      Right on, BENRUSH! Well put!

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    • kreese
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:42am

      We have to remember, Lenin was not in the majority either. You’re right, this bunch has to be stopped.

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:11am

      Obama has the constitution on his side.

      Article II, Section 3
      …he (President) may, on EXTRAORDINARY occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as HE shall think proper…

      Maybe it is just the conspiracy nut in me, but I think this is what the constitutional-lawyer-in-chief will use to dispense with Congress when the “Top Down” part comes.

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:10am

    “I don’t CARE if it is or not”. Only a court can decide that. A stacked court can decide it so much better than WE THE PEOPLE.

    Time for our representative government to get an overhaul, and start representing us, not imposing their communist structure upon us.

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:08am

    Dean and Obama, what a pair. Upside down is right side up now.

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:07am

    That’s what he thinks.

    I’m gonna stick with the free entreprise system, personally. I invite all true blooded Americans to join together and ride this out.

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    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:12am

      GOP is going to have to make the case for HSA’s and why they are vastly superior to Obamacare.

      If you could make HSA‘s portable and allow employers to contribute to them like 401K’s then you’ve got coverage for life, AND for 95% of Americans that have them you will retire with a pile of money in your HSA account to fund health costs that Medicare doesn’t pay for. Folks, this idea just makes sense, and it is very frustrating that nobody in the GOP can seem to make this case.

       
    • Polwatcher
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:16am

      That was the plan from the very beginning. The Dems always ACCUSE the Repubs of doing exactly what the Dems in fact ARE doing. Remember the Dem that accused the Repubs of wanting to let people die…and how many Dems have accused Repubs of wanting to deny health care to people. With a broke government, how many people will actually get any quality health care with a single payee system? If the Repubs don’t fix our intentionally sobataged health care system, we need a third party.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:32am

      I’m with you on that. I will not comply with any demands to “prove” I have insurance, nor will I pay any fines levied for failure to comply. It is unconstitutional and I’m quite willing to be the case that goes before SCOTUS, since having fines and penalties levied against me *should* give me standing to pursue the case.

      And if that fails, I’ll still not comply. That simple.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:36am

      HSA would pull power from the crooks in washington, can’t have that now, can we.

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    • shorthanded12
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:37am

      Dean needs to be the new White House Press Secratary. Either that or Barry would wish Dean shut his pie hole. Or my last thought Barrys using Dean as his outlet to let there base know whats actually in Obamacare.

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    • Muslim in Chief
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:41am

      The true face of Obamunism. They do not care about the consitution. We have seen this time and time again from the Liberals. Yet they get angy when people accuse them of being unconstitutional. We are only using their words against them.

      1 Maxine waters declares she is going to take over Big Business
      2 Phil Hare says he doesn’t care about the Consitution
      3 Nancy Pelosi Forces Healthcare without due process
      4 Howard Dean doesn’t care if healthcare mandated is against the Constitution
      5 Joy Bahr states that the love of the Constitution is going to far

      To name a few

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    • taskmaster78
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:42am

      I wish this guy would just fall off the face of the earth: he doesn’t belong in this nation, not with the disrespect shown to our laws. He should be sent to his home land, mother Russia or Vermont. Why people give him time for either interviews or conferences is be on me, he’s that dimwit at the play ground, he’s nice to have around, at times, but you wouldn’t take advice from him when it comes to life decisions.

       
    • decendentof56
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:46am

      Everyone MUST understand, you need to get involved. I’m taking a Constitution class (13 weeks), and after that I will decide where best I can help. The Tea Party’s are a good place to start. You can get help on where to be started/involved. The Dean’s of the world must be shouted down. This guy is a disgrace, as is his buddy Sanders. Are Vermonter’s really that stupid? What the HILL ails those people? They need to go look at Detroit, Newark, NJ, E. St. Louis, Gary, Ind, etc,etc,etc. When we used to go to Vt. in the 70′s, there were only 550 blacks living there. Go visit the above-mentioned cities and see what your Progressive policies have done to them. Conservative, middle-class blacks see what’s going on, and they are disgusted, too.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:32am

      This guy gives a constant new definition to the phrase “stupid criminals” and for some reason, even when they believe themselves to be constantly above the will of the people; most of the nation will fall for their lies.

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • CatB
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:45am

      More proof that Dems don’t care about the Constitution or the laws of the United States in general … time to finish cleaning out the progressives 2012!

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:47am

      Obamacare already weakens HSA’s .. no longer can buy over the counter drugs WITHOUT a prescription using my HSA .. And the omount you can contibute yearly is going to be reduced .. Can’t have you controlling your own healthcare now can they?!!!

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    • GEW
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:55am

      Its amazing to me, how many people can say “I hate this guy” well I ask why? What he says is the truth! If you did not understand the fact that the small business man, matter of fact all businesses who offer private health care will get out of the health care business and would embrace the Obama Care , then you were one who the Dem’s have “pulled the wool over your eyes”. The fact is, no one will be in the private health care business with this Health Care.

      the only people that will be given the opportunity to the kind of health care that the poorest of us in the USA get today will be those that can by pass Obama Care one way or another. The fact is, rather it is with the Constitution or against it, it will happen, people will line up and except the fact that being on the right side of wrong will make their bottom line more profitable. Of course until it happens to them personally they will not understand that it will cost them in their personal lives, life and death.. Good luck people, the world has changed and America has too.

      GEW  
    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:58am

      An integral part of the plan for world domination is the dumbing down of the average American. Those who are behind this push for one world government have used the public schools to indoctrinate our children in anti-Christian ideas and anti-American ideology. The public schools have been their primary weapon in the war to destroy our children’s future, indoctrinating them in liberalism and by intentionally giving them a substandard education. The ability of all Americans to read, to think and to reason clearly is at an all time low. One reason for this is because the public schools refuse to use phonics to teach children how to read. Why? Because colleges of education financed by the Rockefeller foundation do not teach the teachers of tomorrow the phonics method of reading instruction. Instead they use the “Look – Say” method which has proved a dismal failure (just as they planned?). Presently the public schools are more interested in teaching our children about condoms than mathematics. Why? Because those who are in control of the educational establishment know that they must demoralize and “dumb down” America before they can disarm us, suspend the United States Constitution and put us under their absolute control.
      http://www.apfn.org/apfn/destruction.htm

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    • ilovethiscountry
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:11pm

      Taskmaster78 I agree with you and couldn’t have said it better. We knwe the plan was to eliminate the private insurance companies. I don’t see how they think that having people who work for small businesses buy their own insurance would be good for small business. for people to afford insurance they would have to be paid quite a bit more than they are now.

       
    • Curator_JDR
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 12:39pm

      Progressives are like drug addicts. When their mouths are moving they are lying. This new animated short feature exposes the insanity of the Progressives with BIG TIME HUMOR. http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu

      The “head-up-the-butt” people, from the movie, are an image that mocks Progressives, makes us laugh, and will win more American people to the Conservative movement and principles.

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    • crazedbanshee
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 4:00pm

      @taxlordcometh

      HSA’s already have all the features you have mentioned, I agree they are a great choice. You did forget to mention to qualify for an HSA you must have a “high deductible” health insurance plan. This saves huge costs from insurance premiums, most of the time saving you more money than the difference in your deductable.

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:08pm

      @TAXLORDCOMETH:

      It is the same reason that Progressives rail against the Flat Tax. They are blinded by IDEOLOGY!!! If you look at the “Progressive” Income Tax it is not Progressive. A FLAT TAX is more Progressive as a fact since when you Tax people at a Flat Percentage Rate everybody pays different levels of Taxes and it would hit the rich harder than the poor but with a Flat Tax you would have ALL peoples paying into the Tax Pool and not just a small percentage. Progressives are using their “PROGRESSIVE Income Tax” as a weapon against all people but mostly the Conservative Rich.

      Howard Dean failed in his attempt to gain the Presidency with over exuberance in Iowa and now we see why he failed in the 2010 midterms. Over Ideological in his point to the point of exposing the truth it out for his opponents.

      1TrueOne55  
    • seeker9
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:07pm

      Dean is on record as saying health care was about wealth redistribution, isn’t he?

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    • ozz
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:38pm

      I’m in too. I will not get health care and I will refuse the fine. They can kiss my @ss!

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    • ricklap
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:50am

      The man’s an idiot. If not for the nanny state he’s have succumed to nature long ago.

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