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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Allocating specific sources of incoming money to specific programs and departments is just accounting voodoo. A government takes money in and spends money. Between the two points it is just a game of balancing the books. Failing to understand this is one reason for the myth of the pending "insolvency" of Social Security.
edited 19th Oct '12 9:20:02 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Tammy Duckworth and Joe Walsh faced off earlier, resulting in Walsh claiming that abortion is never necessary to save a woman's life.
Also admits that Romney/Ryan would end Medicare as we know it.
Somewhat good news on the Grand Bargain
.
I hope he follows through with ending the ridiculous cuts.
... That settles it. Obama it is. Tomorrow. Early Voting begins for me. Time to end this wishy-washyness.
Thank you Joe Walsh.
edited 19th Oct '12 10:07:47 PM by Skatepunk
80-year old woman gets arrested after tearing down a sign with Obama with a Hitler mustache.
Oh, and Walsh also encouraged businesses to intimidate workers into voting Republican.
Godwin's Law rears its ugly head yet again. It's just so disgusting.
edited 19th Oct '12 10:35:00 PM by terlwyth
We can thank grad A douchebag Lydon Larouche
for this.
He's like a combination of Larry Mc Donald and Joe Lieberman.
edited 19th Oct '12 10:41:31 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
From Lydon's Wikipedia page:
"The Heritage Foundation
, a conservative think tank, wrote that La Rouche leads "what may well be one of the strangest political groups in American history."[169] According to the Foundation, La Rouche believes that a super elite (the "oligarchy
") is in control of world events, a group that includes the Rockefellers
, the London financial center, the British royal family,
the Anti-Defamation League
, the KGB
, and the Heritage Foundation itself. Others include Nazis
, Jesuits
, Freemasons
, Communists
, Trilateralists
,international bankers
, the American Civil Liberties Union
, and the Socialist International
—all supposedly controlled by the British—as well as Hitler, H.G. Wells, Voltaire, and the Beatles as representatives of the 1960s counterculture. George Johnson in Architects of Fear (1983)
compares the view to the Illuminati conspiracy theory; after he wrote about La Rouche in The New York Times, La Rouche's followers denounced Johnson as part of a conspiracy of elitists that began in ancient Egypt"
edited 19th Oct '12 11:11:39 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I don't see what La Rouche has to do with anything.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
Wanna take a guess where the Hitler-Obama posters are coming from?
◊.
edited 19th Oct '12 11:13:15 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Yep, I've seen that.
I'm starting to think that PPACA should have been passed in components, with the core "mandate/guaranteed coverage" deal being a bill of its own, instead of one big bill. Having it a giant bill draws all criticisms and controversies to the same law, making actual analysis difficult.
Ah.
I disagree that the bill should've been broken up. Implementation of NAFTA was based on breaking it up into muiltple bills, and what happened was, the worst part of it was passed, and once that passed, the drive to pass the parts which would've made it better would not have passed.
So we might've seen the individual mandate pass... but then the part keeping insurance companies denying coverage for preexisting conditions might not've passed.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryAh, no, those two should definitely be grouped. The core structure of PPACA is that "every qualified customer must pay" and "every business must give back", so it doesn't make sense to delink them. I'm talking about other provisions like Medicare reform and things that people might not agree with. Like, I'm not sure what that Obama-Hitler-Healthcare poster is objecting to, because it's just talking about the giant bill.
edited 19th Oct '12 11:29:07 PM by Trivialis
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Here's some context: During the discussion of U.S. health care reform in 2009, La Rouche advocated a single-payer health care bill, and took exception to what he described as Barack Obama's proposal that "independent boards of doctors and health care experts [should] make the life-and-death decisions of what care to provide, and what not, based on cost-effectiveness criteria." La Rouche said the proposed boards, later compared to "death panels" by Sarah Palin, would amount to the same thing as the Nazis' Action T4 euthanasia program, and urged Americans to "quickly and suddenly change the behavior of this president ... for no lesser reason than that your sister might not end up in somebody's gas oven." Images at tables of volunteers compared Obama to Hitler, and at least one had a picture of Obama with a Hitler-style mustache.
edited 19th Oct '12 11:38:44 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Really? Did he bother to read the damn thing?
Actually, other than the Obama-hitler signs, what relevance does he even have? I've at least heard of Ron Paul. La Rouche isn't even relevant other than the sign.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
We have nothing else to talk about. Wait, here's something:
I also find this
◊ funnier than I probably should.
edited 20th Oct '12 12:04:04 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016

Oh. No, that is illegal. I think I misread the premise of the event wrong.
Although, Gordon Brown did use the Ministry for Defence's money to fund the Dept for Education. Somehow.
edited 19th Oct '12 9:01:48 PM by Inhopelessguy