Comments on: CBO: Must Curb Govt Health Spending

By: nuthingbettertodo

nuthingbettertodo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:03:13 +0000

I know this is a little off topic but I had to stick this in here. I found this while linking fom a totally unrelated story (about Gwyneth Paltrow opening her big mouth again). The story is from ’07 in the UK but current related stories on the side bar…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....tists.html

By: jobeth

jobeth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:21:13 +0000

Trialdog…You have missed your calling…You could have been a great lib!
You have the mindset down pat!…or should I say the mindlesset. LOL

I can identify with the comment… “…from really rich people who don’t need it anyway.

I had to listen to a raging diatribe (seriously!) from a rabid lefty Obamabot a few months ago who was spitting angry that someone (me) would dare call Obalmy on his policies etc. She went off on some family member of hers who had the selfishness and audacity to own three houses! Imagine that…!

He owned three houses that “he shouldn’t be ALLOWED to have because he doesn’t NEED three houses.” And that she saw nothing wrong with him having to sell them to have more money to spread the wealth via Obalmy’s new tax system. Because in her eyes he was rich.

BTW…she lives in less than optimal housing. Can’t wait to see what would happen if she decides to ever sell her place if this Cap & Trade bill with its little secret clause of having to spend thousands of $$ to greenly retrofit her house for resale should it get in. Bet she won’t like that little gem. LOL

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:14:51 +0000

Like, shaa, dude

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:11:04 +0000

Pro,

You’re correct, I’m sure. Next up: Bailout money for CA.

And, the “Berkeley class” seems curiously quiet on this issue of being broke and how they got there.

By: jobeth

jobeth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:00:04 +0000

neocon mom…

Off topic one moment please….Are you planning on attending a local tea party this weekend? I understand you are from Gainsville. We are going to one in Ocala on the 4th

Steve…If neocon mom would like my email address, I would be apprecitive if you could give it to her. Thanks :)

By: proreason

proreason — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:41:43 +0000

there ya go Trialdog.

You have described the mentality perfectly.

Perfectly.

By: proreason

proreason — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:52 +0000

“I am just livid with rage.”

Is there a color more extreme than livid?

YOU will end up paying for California politicians’ irresponsibility. It may be hidden, and unpublicized, but the debt of that state will come out of your pocket, Rusty.

By: Trialdog

Trialdog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:28:41 +0000

So the CBO issues a report about fiscal irresponsibility and you assume it is some type of warning? The CBO report is only a warning if you want to maintain a vibrant free market capitalist economy.
You seem stuck using the old way of doing things when analyzing our economy. That’s what got us into this mess. Just ask the President and our objective press.
The President was given a mandate to “fundamentally change” the way we do things. He’s doing what he promised he’d do if elected. There may be other ways of doing things, and you can mention them, but as he’ll tell you, he won.
The CBO report is simply a report on how things sit now so we can measure how well the President’s plans work when the spending goes up higher. And make no mistake, the President’s plans will work exactly as he promised.
The CBO states the government simply cannot sustain its current level of spending. The President says: “Yes we can.” Not only that, we can and will do more. The President is assuring us that the more the government spends, the more jobs will be created and the more the governement taxes, the closer science will come to perfecting free, clean, and abundant energy.
I’m tired of stories premised on the idea the economy or our standard of living was meant to grow under Obama’s plans. They weren’t, they aren’t, and they won’t.
You don’t seem to be embracing the change too well.
I mean, like, I look at your graph thingy and I see that in WWII, we spendt more. And, like, wasn’t that a time when the old geezers came together and stuff? If Obama can do that again, we can all like come together and stuff to make sure people get free health care and stuff. The government can just pay for it with money from really rich people who don’t need it anyway because like George Bush just gave it to them anyway and like we can’t just destroy the planet so greedy people can drive SUVs and start wars for oil. I mean like we should be more like Europe and stuff. They don’t start wars or do colonialism and they don’t have big obnoxious churches everywhere and everything is subsidized and people get free health care, day care, and they have hash houses and cool brew pubs.

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:58:20 +0000

In light of California’s inability to pass a budget as of midnight last night, it bears saying again…actually YELLING again that the problem isn’t spending on things that are necessary; The problem is wasteful spending on things that everyone knows is wasteful and unnecessary! Free healthcare for illegals, welfare, free housing, and on and on.

It’s, once again, the elephant in the room and when people in Calli-fahwn-ya aske “where’d the money go?”, like a father confronting a teenager who has no gas money because he spent it on a new amplifier for his car, I will say…”YOU SPENT IT, DUMBASS!”

It’s the SAME THING…..you spent it on stuff you shouldn’t have so that now you don’t have money for the things you should. Schools have no money…care centers for the aged have no money, because Swarzenegger’s government felt so happy to GIVE it away to the needy masses…

How do you get your car registered at the DMV now? And….with all the money spent….giving out IOU’s???? So when I get a ticket in Calli-fawhn-ya…I’ll just send them an IOU to pay the ticket, right?

Give me a break. And Blammo looks upon that state as a MODEL for how to run the nation’s finances?

Tell me this is just a bad dream or that it’s somebody’s idea of a joke.

California as a MODEL? For what? Fiscal dysfunction? My god…..you wanna just slap somebody.

There were some lines from an old Frank Sinatra song…”Use your mentality…..Wake up to reality”

I am just livid with rage. Billions of dollars California takes in in taxes and they cannot manage what they get…..so….they will raise taxes for MORE money because they’ve so badly mismanaged what they get already. No wonder there are protests in the streets of California because they SPENT IT ALL.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! This is how The Rookie wants to use federal tax dollars. As for healthcare, California has one of the most liberal policies of doling out cash to hospitals that take care of illegal aliens and people who do not have health insurance. That is the Obama healthcare plan…get it?

THAT, is the same as socialized medicine because they get the money from those who pay taxes and by charging more from those who DO have healthcare insurance.

DO THE MATH…..with The Rookie at the helm….watch GovCo start handing out IOU’s for tax refunds next year. Good at all Sonic and McDonald’s for one giant shake.

The mind boggles———

By: Gila Monster

Gila Monster — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:39 +0000

Mark Levin referenced this thread on his broadcast tonight, kudos Steve.

By: bronzeprofessor

bronzeprofessor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:36:19 +0000

Thanks proreason & jobeth. I’ll keep it handy.

By: jobeth

jobeth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:49:09 +0000

Yep…that “ching ching” you hear is from the funeral industry…due to all the oldsters that don’t get the treatment, but instead a pat on the head and a “toot a lou to you oldie”

By: neocon mom

neocon mom — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:07:36 +0000

Apparently the duties of someone of his “pay-grade” include referring older patients to government sponsored palliatives in lieu of treatment.

By: bill

bill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:14:55 +0000

I have an aged aunt on medicare … it sucks. We send money.

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:02:17 +0000

“CBO: Must Curb Govt Health Spending”

Here .. “CBO: MUST STOP GOV”T SPENDING”

I’m thinkin’ that’s what they wanted to say!

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:59:53 +0000

This is like the average household trying to use its Visa to pay off their Mastercard. Or, even, refinancing their house to get out of debt…which is what barry has actually done, rescued before going under financially by a lucrative book deal which returned them to solvency. I often wonder what would’ve happened had the book deal failed and he and his lavishly spending consort were forced to sell their ASSets.

See, the Obamas were knee-deep in debt. In fact, deeper than knee-deep. They had a very expensive townhouse in Hyde Park, IL and they refinanced it to get mo’ money. Meanwhile, paying the minimum towards their student loans..with loan officers calling them at home.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opi.....UT6&B

So, you see, to Blammo, debt is a silly thing…mostly to be ignored. “It’ll go away”, I’m sure he figures.

Their combined income was quite high…if you wonder where that mysterious 250,000 dollar number comes from.

Yet, rather than pay down their incredible student loans, they lived the lives of Riley and spent, spent and spent…then refie’d the townhouse and spent some more.

So….now we get to see his “high-finance” skills in action. I guess he figures the people will all come up with book deals to cover the new debt that he’s laid on us.

Clown
D*ckhead
*&%$#!