The Obama Administration is in a bit of hot water because it wants to coerce just about everyone – including a lot of religious institutions – to provide health insurance policies that cover the cost of birth control and certain abortion-inducing drugs.
The White House already has tried to defuse the controversy by shifting the coverage mandate from insurance buyers to the insurance companies, but everyone with an IQ above room temperature realizes that is a meaningless cosmetic change.
Regardless of how one feels about abortion or birth control (or even how one feels about religion), this is a bad policy. Decisions about what sort of insurance to provide shouldn’t be the result of a one-size-fits-all government mandate.
Yes, the Administration’s religious intolerance is unseemly, but it is also symptomatic of why government intervention in the health sector is the underlying problem.
John Cochrane, an economist at the University of Chicago (and an Adjunct Scholar at Cato!) addresses the economic issues in a Wall Street Journal column. Here are some key passages.
Insurance is supposed to mean a contract, by which a company pays for large, unanticipated expenses in return for a premium: expenses like your house burning down, your car getting stolen or a big medical bill. Insurance is a bad idea for small, regular and predictable expenses. There are good reasons that your car insurance company doesn’t add $100 per year to your premium and then cover oil changes, and that your health insurance doesn’t charge $50 more per year and cover toothpaste. You’d have to fill out mountains of paperwork, the oil-change and toothpaste markets would become much less competitive, and you’d end up spending more. …Doubling the number of wellness visits and free pills sounds great, but who’s going to pay for it? There is a liberal dream that by mandating coverage the government can make something free. Sorry. Every increase in coverage means an increase in premiums. If your employer is paying for your health insurance, he could be paying you more in salary instead.
For all intents and purposes, Professor Cochrane is explaining the economics of third-party payer, which occurs when government intervention undermines the ability of markets to promote efficiency and low prices.
He also delves into the moral issues and explains that the only solution is to get the government out of health care.
Our nation is divided on social issues. The natural compromise is simple: Birth control, abortion and other contentious practices are permitted. But those who object don’t have to pay for them. The federal takeover of medicine prevents us from reaching these natural compromises and needlessly divides our society. The critics fell for a trap. By focusing on an exemption for church-related institutions, critics effectively admit that it is right for the rest of us to be subjected to this sort of mandate. They accept the horribly misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and they resign themselves to chipping away at its edges. No, we should throw it out, and fix the terrible distortions in the health-insurance and health-care markets. Sure, churches should be exempt. We should all be exempt.
I’ve explained four principles that should guide policy makers as they try to put the toothpaste back in the tube and restore free markets to healthcare.
And I’ve cited a real-world example of how the system would work if the third-party payer crisis was fixed.
We can implement free-market reforms, though they won’t be easy. Or we can keep on the current path, lose more of our freedom, and eventually have life-and-death decisions controlled by bureaucrats.
Should be an easy choice.
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Brendan, you’re either Nancy Pelosi or some guy having a stroke and falling over his keyboard. Please stop embarrasing the human race. If aliens come across the Internet, we can’t risk them looking at you first and coming to the conclusion everyone is retarded.
@Mark R. Again- you make my point very clearly. You rant… which is the only qualification it deserves… has absolutely nothing to do with the original topic of discussion. Xanax? That is exactly what your kind would love to see happen… medicate us all so we sit idle…. watching as the Republicans, and Conservatives… tear down our country in the name of greed, murder, and theft.
Why don’t you take some Xanax Mark and save yourself from lifting your fat off your chair… clearly you can’t do anything about it.
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@Brendan I was referring to the fact that you may well need it. Is that what you were saying? I missed that.
It may keep you from making claims of self engrandurement. We’re all friends here…You don’t need to prove anything to us… All will be fine in the safety of your mother’s basement… Besides nobody is going to see your Che underwear from here… Now, it would probably serve you well to scrape the Obama sticker off your computer monitor so you can read between the lines. Open your eyes and find some factual information to support your diatribe… I’m just sayin’
@ Mark R. – you make my point exactly.
@ Brendan, it’s called xanax… ask your doctor.
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Excuse me Larry…. but who the fuck are you? I am a taxpayer, own and run a business not because of this country but because no matter where I live on this planet, I would run a business. It is in my blood. I hold in my hand a family bible that shows a clear path between myself, my parents, their parents… all the way back the Mayflower. Thats right, my family helped forge this country. I suggest yours…. did not.
The greatest nation on earth: we slaughtered and slayed millions to keep this little piece on earth. Thats right Larry, I am not sure if you recall… but they left this part out in the text books…. America was founded on the blood of innocent forbearers whom were living (whether peacefully or not is not the debate)… they were here before us… and we slaughtered them… uprooted their means of livelihood… all so that we could control resources that only now begin to dwindle.
Do I approve of this country? :
I approve of humankind. I am not a hippy… if you ran into me I would represent to you everything that is masculine, rough, tough, highly educated, well traveled, and sincere. However, you conservatives- the lot of you- love to cast spiteful words first. It is in your blood. Throw out some insulting words prior to proving your intellectual worth. I surmise your spiteful words are as in Lao Tzu’s own words.. due to the fact you feel cornered like a beast with no way out. You ought to know who Lao Tzu is. Conservatives love using him as an example. Much like you… our country is cornered. Whether you like it or not… we are. We are at a very sticky point in our present day. What to do? I am sure Larry you have the conservative answer that fits nicely with the likes of your GOD. Shame on you for thinking that our good country and its principles are approved of by God. I know know God in any religion that would suggest that in order to live at peace… you must dominate.. create war… and suppress the very freedoms we ‘fight’ for… until our agenda has been made fact upon the people of the ‘rest’ of the world.
You ask me to leave?:
I would love for you to present a clear reason behind that request. Do you hold some determinate power over your listeners or in this case readers? Are you suggestions out of pity? Disgust? Because clearly they are not well thought out. Anyone could draw from text books to heave up the dribble you have written above.
Me a troll?:
Larry: You have everyone out weighted here in your load of BS.
I seek wealth?:
I seek no wealth but what comes from the happiness I share in friendship, family, loved ones, and my own deep sense of spirituality that derives not from one ‘religion’, but from an understand of what is good in this world, and what is just plain old right. You my friend, I fear are amongst the few who still hold onto ideals that will sooner than later be lost to the very clear reality’s that humankind’s existence has dished out.
The earth is suffering, the middle class is growing, the lower class is also growing, homelessness is on the rise, world economies are failing, I live in Boston and have yet to see snow this year… that is a first for me… there hasn’t been one winter in my lifetime where we have not seen snow… poor poor Larry… his nose is all a sniffle because his servitude to our great constitution has left him but one thing left to do… defend a piece of paper… and not the rights and liberties of mankind.
Good day.
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@Brendan – Yes, with my contemporary opinions, I probably would have been one of the people who granted you the life that you are currently enjoying in the greatest nation on the Earth. You espouse all of the the modern viewpoints of the hatred for your country that your education system has drilled into your mind and suffer under the abject surrender to political correctness of Marxian diversity. I would remind you that political correctness is the assumption that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
If you or your President don’t approve of this country, or the Constitutional Republic that you are bound by law to follow, then either change the system through your representatives, or overthrow it entirely. If you choose neither of these options, then remove yourself from this country and find a homeland where your Godless Marxian philosophy will flourish. The citizens of this country owe you, or me, nothing. You seem to think that Americans should pay for your life, simply because you live here. If it is money that you worship instead of your God, then go out and get it without forcing others to contribute through coercion by force of government. Hard work and dedication to principled morals will lead to the enjoyment of life, not by redistribution of others labor.
Consider if it is wealth that you want, above all else including proper governance, then I would remind you of what one of our Founding Fathers advised:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!” – Samuel Adams
@Larry Shepherd…. about 3 centuries ago, I estimate you would have been one to gift the natives with small pox ridden blankets in the name of your god and your good country.
“Insurance covers birth control”
And up until Obamacare, we have been able to make the personal choice as to whether to economically support a private company that makes that choice. And no one to show up with a gun to our head to extract dollars and property to cover the cost.
Up until Obamacare, we have had that liberty. Now it is gone.
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@Brendan – You really need to stop reading Howard Zinn’s version of our American history. The Salem ‘With Trials” ended almost one-hundred years prior to the adoption of our Constitution. Zinn was a Communist revisionist who’s books are still being used in this country and passed off as factual history.
“This country is in the deepest of shit. Due to the same thought process you are projecting.” That is the same understanding that I have about the likes of you. You and your kind have been destroying this great country over the past one hundred years in order to bring about some great Progressive Utopia. Well, as you have observed, it certainly hasn’t worked out very well, has it? I’m not quite sure if you are really are a Progressive apparatchik, or just educated in the full immersion technique of Progressivism in the public school system over the past few decades. Either way, you clearly hate this country and everything that it has ever stood for since the founding and before.
I regard our Constitution with the same understanding as I have for my Bible. Both were divinely inspired texts. You have been brought up in the modern culture that makes people want something new, even if the older models are still fully capable of performing in their original design.
What has the Constitution done for me? The same that it is currently doing for you. It is allowing us to banter back and forth about the proper functions of government without fear of that government taking action against us due to our thoughts. That was unheard of in any country prior to our Founding. It also grants the people and their churches to function without interference by the Federal government. This government was never empowered by the Constitution to order a church to change their doctrine. We fought a war to gain these abilities. You should get down on your knees and thank God for his guidance of our Founders that allows us to carry on this discussion.
Yes, we are in a lot of trouble and terribly ill. We do need change in order to return ourselves back to the Constitutional Republic that our nation was founded upon. The illness is caused by the Progressive Cancer that has been eating away at the very foundation of our nation. It must be destroyed in order for the ‘patient’ to survive. Even little cancer, is still cancer which will continue to grow even when you think it is remission. After a few more treatments, I do believe that the patient will survive and grow strong again.
@Larry… your usage of words words words is exemplary… but you fail to see the need for this country to change. This country is in the deepest of shit. Due to the same thought process you are projecting. But its ok… as long as you get your words in there the process of change will be well underway. Your desire to serve and protect the US Constitution are felt by many who have served in the military. Many ‘wars’ have been fought in the middle east so that the us constitution can be upheld to the standards of elitist greed and selfishness. Oh and I am sure you will recall in your old age and wisdom that the document was drafted over two centuries ago… when burning ‘witches’ and instilling ‘fear’ in the masses was commonplace. I suggest you look further back in history and open your fucking eyes as to what is really going on here. The 1st A is doing nobody any good what-so-ever… how has it benefited you lately?
@Branden – Atta’ boy! Keep swinging, even though you don’t have any force behind your blows! When you grow up, you’ll discover how this enterprise that we call a country is supposed to work. It is my hope, that your path to discovery of what is real and truthful overcomes the illusions that you currently see before you. Words are what we use to express the deepest feelings within our psyche. I find it odd that someone as deep as yourself would be offended by their usage.
Forcing Religious organizations to comply with an unconstitutional mandate is illegal. You cannot make it legal by merely saying that it so. You will be forced to tear down the Constitution in order to make your argument valid. it is not enough to make a pronouncement of cause without taking into account what will be needed to affect a validation of your view. Otherwise, you are simply engaging in a form of mental masturbation. It may make you feel good to do it, but in the end, it is simply a meaningless exercise in self indulgence
@Larry Shepherd… the name is Brendan… and I was not struck down by a board of directors.
@Larry Shepherd… is that two or to or too?
@LarryShepherd… I am not sure you get it. But- I encourage you to keep taking those classes. At the very least they seem to provide you with big words.
@Branden – Again, I’m disappointed in you. Part of the Hegelian Dialectic is to have two opposing views which are to be argued to arrive at the real truth of the matter at hand. The extension of Marxist argument, using Hegelian principles, is two have your viewpoint as the primary source to be fully supported and to tear down the secondary thesis in order to overcome your opponent, thus making your view the absolute truth I learned that 35 years ago in my COM 101 class. Once again, you have proven yourself to be unworthy to even have an opinion, if you cannot supply sources to support your point. You are a waste of time. . .When you grow up, come back and try again when your IQ raises above room temperature values.
@LarryShepherd- again the only thing you prove by attacking others on this blog is that you are highly self-conscious, offer very little if anything to promote healthy conversation, and most likely have an alcohol problem. When I am finished running my business, employing people whom I offer excellent health care coverage to, and exercising vigorously on a daily basis to create a balance between mind and body…. only then when I am done with being with my friends and family, and enjoying this thing we call life… will I give you the time of day.
@Brendan – Oh, come on! With all of your supposed vastly superior intellect that is steeped in Hegelian/Marxist philosophy, you should be able dispatch all nonbelievers with your learned insight. You are turning out to be a real disappointment. I had high hopes that finally a real fire breathing New-Left Progressive would show up to banter opposing viewpoints. Instead, you are appear to be just an uneducated troll. Most schools of higher learning offer Marxist theory and practice in the modern society. You really should take advantage of the Pell Grant and give it a try! Oh. . . I forgot. . .You would need to pass the SAT/ACT in order to be accepted! Sorry. . .
Ugh… people are so stupid.
“Religion should never and should not be able to dictate how a woman makes decisions. Shame on Religion.”
No, shame on the women that have the morals of an alley cat.
@KY, I find your sudden change from an earlier abrasive post to a now passive and insincere attempt at spiritual advice to be very contradictory. I as a protestant woman understand the Catholic churches anger. I don’t see the evil in contraception, but I do understand that forcibly requiring a company to cover your contraceptives, especially when it would violate their moral standards is extremely unchristian and unconstitutional. Contraceptives are cheap and our sex lives should not be taken care of by our employers or anyone else except us. In addition, part of being a christian is being considerate and conscious of not becoming a stumbling block to your brethren (“But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.” 1Corithians 8:9). Forcing your catholic employer to cover your contraceptive would make you just that. Then you have the constitutional aspect of it, the Conscience Clause. Just look it up and you should be able to comprehend what that means for this issue. Lastly, as a woman I am so offended by the simplistic rhetoric being thrown at me that is supposed to convince me that my contraceptives should be covered. I’m not that dumb. Any logical person can see that there is not medical or health issue at hand. It is an issue of convenience. Contraceptives make life convenient for a woman not wanting a child. It prevents pregnancy, which isn’t listed as an illness or disease in any medical book. What some women want is that someone pay for the conveniences of their life. It’s so disappointing -_-
@Zorba now that is a statement based on education. Thank you.
Philosophies, who claim the whole individual, whether through the state, the community’s majoritarian rule, the church, the afterlife etc. are bound to come into conflict….
Just like communism came into mortal conflict with fascism, it is inevitable that those who want to control people through the state and those who want to control people through religion would come into conflict. The two world views are almost by definition incompatible, since they both claim such a large proportion of a person’s liberty. So since their control of the individual is so great, there are many areas of collision, and where they collide, there is conflict. And it’s a nasty conflict, because it is essentially a conflict between sibling ideologies.
So you inevitably get into conflicts of the type: “You don’t control my uterus but I control what you are obligated to offer me”, vs. “you don’t control what I will offer you but I control your uterus” etc.
Since America is going down the collectivist path to Europeanization — and decline — one of the few joys left in life for you libertarians is to sit on the sidelines and watch the collectivists carve their eyes out.
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@Ky – There is nothing in the First Amendment that states ‘separation of Church and state’. This nation was founded as a Christian Country. The ‘establishment clause’ was placed in order to keep any one Christian religion from being declared as the official religion of the United States as occurred in England as the Anglicans and Catholics fought for the Royal Crown. That’s what the First Amendment was all about.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” That’s all it says. Congress is forbidden to pass any law that would threaten the “free exercise thereof.” The Catholic church in particular has over a thousand years of established protocol on the subject before us.
I completely agree that if a religious organization would decide to offer this coverage, then so be it! The government should be not even be the last place to order a change of morals. But, I will completely support any organization that resists this illegal control of religious practice by this, or any future administration.
“I honestly wish this issue would be resolved not through government. . .” Be careful. . .That’s a Conservative viewpoint! 🙂
Vagina Monologues was amazing BTW, good reference. And I do not think of it as a swear nearly a piece of anatomy like lungs or heart.
I am glad we could come to some sort agreement 🙂
I do agree with separation of Church and State, but it is so far from reality. “In God We Trust” should be taken off of our money.
I honestly wish this issue would be resolved not through government, but by religious organizations taking it upon themselves to support women’s rights and basic equality. I know in my heart that is what Jesus wants.
@Ky – “I am Catholic AND I use birth control,” I have no problem with birth control. I and many others simply oppose the federal government ignoring the First Amendment and forcing religious organizations to pay for the products, if said purchase is in opposition to their religious practices. You will find that most people are of the same opinion.
God Bless your work in the Philippines!
@Ky – I’m not sure if you are one and same person, as the timbre of your two posts are completely and absolutely 180 degrees apart. Rude? Your own opening remark set the stage for a blog-styled Vagina Monologue.
“. . .what decade are we living in?” The decade doesn’t matter when it comes to the absolute truth of the First Amendment clause regarding the free exercise of religion. If you don’t like the clause, then work to change it.
“Anybody telling me that my insurance should not include birth control is a simple lack in respect for women.” Birth control is not expensive, but it will be once the insurance companies are forced to pay for it. As a health care professional you know this to be true. Lack of respect for women? That’s quite a stretch of logic that I have heard others try to resolve without much success.
“And it is our choice what we want to do with them (vaginas) NOT yours, certainty not our employers, and not even our governments.” I couldn’t agree with you more and would stand right beside you on that point!
“. . .I will pray for you.” Like all sinners, we need prayer. My heartfelt thanks for yours!
As a Medical Missionary in the Philippines, a Catholic Country, I provided birth control to women with 8, 9, 10, 12 children who they could not afford to feed. I helped one woman to gain control over her fertility because the doctors told her if she were to be pregnant again, both she and the child would probably die. Giving women the physical control over their bodies, but also the emotional right to say “I am Catholic AND I use birth control,” I believe is literally a matter of life and death.
@Larry you truly point out how ignorant you are in your babble. I am as American as they come there champ. Perhaps your job didn’t go so well? Or was it that you didn’t get enough fight in when you were a supposed marine? You certainly have not mastered the gift of dialectic… so for now that will have to do it for you. Obama will be here for another 4 years so get used to it.. oh and do remember to breathe between jerk off sessions.
Larry I happen to be Catholic myself, and yes I happen to be a woman living in the year 2012. I do not believe that the two are mutually exclusive. I love working at a Catholic hospital and being able to bring a spiritual element to my care. And with you being so down right rude and aggressive towards so many others in this conversation, I am lead to believe that you wear your religion on your sleeve and speak harsh words in the name of Jesus – but do not live with it in your heart! Jesus preaches compassion, and I will pray for you.
@Brendan – ‘Atta boy! Spoken like someone who has no depth of understanding of the position that you are trying to foist upon any readers that happen by. I deal with your kind every day. . .What you OBVIOUSLY are not, is an American. An American respects the Constitution. PERIOD! In order to remain an American and continue to harbor the views as you have at least tried to express (although not very well), you MUST change the Constitution accordingly. You and the President really don’t have any other choice. The changes to society that the Progressive movement have been working on for many decades should not have occurred for a least another generation, or two. Your man in the White House and his associates have simply jumped the gun.
“The principles here are completely bogus.” I have no idea what principles you are referring to.
@LarryShepherd- I have not read Saul Alinksy, and don’t need to. The principles here are completely bogus. You have no idea what I OBVIOUSLY am or what side of the political spectrum I represent. You bs attack only tells me that you should pull up your sox and drop your cock and get with it.
@Branden – I’ve read Saul Alinsky too! Stay on the attack! You tried to shift the point of my observation about you without addressing my premise: You are either an atheist, or a New-Left Progressive. I gave you the prescribed solution to your intellectual quandary regarding the First Amendment, but you choose not to respond. Fine. You appear to be nothing but the appointed troll on this blog.
I mean, people, they got a point.
Soon you will be forced to pay for my healthcare, so that I can retire early, and you found the minor coercion imposed on a religious organization to fret over?
@LarryShepherd you are proof that the US does in fact still turn a blind eye to inbreeding. What pocket of society did you crawl out of to manufacture a rant like that? Obviously you represent ill will and something that cannot ever be considered American.
A few observations. . .
@Clarence Swinney – Me thinks you need to drop by a Clinic and see about some Xanex for the obvious emotional distress to this article. Also, staying on the point of this article would go a long way to ratcheting down your anxieties.
@Branden – It’s obvious that you are either an atheist, A New Left Progressive or a combination of the two. You also clearly have no regard for the United States Constitution: Amendment #1. Fine, then get your hippies together and elect enough members of Congress to offer an amendment to overturn the offending clause regarding Religion. Until then, you and your President are subject to that clause, so get over it.
@KY – “Women have vaginas!!!!” I have heard of offensive people being described as talking out of their a$$e$, but you have moved that phrase to an entirely appropriate orifice for your venomous diatribe. What is your beef with your Catholic employer? Did they tell you that in order to gain employment with their hospital, that you must bear children? Do you dislike their religion so much, that you feel you must tear down their long-established to satisfy some inner hatred towards Catholics? Why are you working there in the first place? Nurses are in high demand all over the country! You seem to suffer from masochistic tendencies. Were you not aware that that birth control would come out of your own pocket when you applied for and was granted your position with them? You advised that you took care of your situation with an IUD. Okay, what’s the beef? Just because you are a woman does not put you three tiers above the rest of the crowd in this match. This game that your President is playing is a high-stakes contest with strict rules of conduct. He is not playing by the rules and we are awaiting the response of the ultimate referee: The real American public!
You three, with your sanctimonious, hippie views are the ones that are out-of-step with the Constitution, not Conservatives. Get a life, get over it, change the Constitution, or find a new country! Semper Fidelis!
VERY WELL PUT Ky!!!
Get over it people. Women have vaginas!!!! And it is our choice what we want to do with them NOT yours, certainty not our employers, and not even our governments. You do not have to use birth control if you dont want to, but as a nurse at Catholic hospital I ask you to respect my decision to get financially stable before having children. Anybody telling me that my insurance should not include birth control is a simple lack in respect for women. I honestly put this on the same level as being able to vote. So I will tell you what I did before taking the job at the Catholic hospital, I got an IUD. Which is actually more expensive and comes with complications that may very well be passed on to the increasing cost of medical care. Abortions, pregnancies, and children belonging to the state increase cost as well. Seriously, what decade are we living in? As I said, get over it people.
Insurance covers birth control. Religious organizations namely CATHOLIC employers CHOOSE not to procure coverage for their EMPLOYEES that cover birth control. SO instead of the employee being able to elect insurance plans that cover their needs…. the employee is FORCED to choose coverage that satisfies the archaic and backwards thinking of the religious employers. These very arguments are what keep the middle class where it is today.
I want it and I can force someone else to provide it through my vote. I do it. What’s so hard to understand?
Why should a religious entity be allowed to do anything different than any other employer? I am not confused. There are many ways to blur what is really going on here Tenerife.
Brendan, you seem to confuse the right to access birth control with the right to force someone else to pay for it.
What a load of BS. It is Religion that is the attacker… Obama’s mandate is realistic, modern, and in line with what MOST forward-thinking WOMEN are arguing for. But- since I am not CATHOLIC I guess I just have to accept that in order for a law to be passed it has to pass CATHOLIC scrutiny prior to the ideals and mores of the common public.
His religion says it is OK.
My religion says it is not.
He is using the government to establish and reinforce his religion.
OK in Presbo’s America.
Not OK in my republic.
It’s an attack on the 1ST amendment Of the Constitution.
While a lot of this is largely “revenge regulation”, a significant component to the road to serfdom, which does not bode well for individual freedom…
Given the fact that many churches have recently expressed explicit support for mandatory collectivism…
…Today, I’m just going to take a break and watch the Church collectivists fight the HopNChangers in the grand coliseum of collectivist politics.
It is Religion that has been stubborn for all these years. Religion has to change. Religion has to adapt to serve not only the spiritual realm of peoples, but also the health and well being of peoples. I am for this mandate. Religion should never and should not be able to dictate how a woman makes decisions. Shame on Religion.
WILL OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS USE iNEQUALITY AS ATTACK ON REPUBLICANS PROTECT 10% SHAFT 90% POLICIES SINCE 1980?
EQUALITY BUILDS GREAT SOCIETIES
MANY STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT HAPPINESS IN A POPULATION IS IN A DIRECT PROPORTION TO EQUALITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
SOCIETY WILL REMAKE WITH SCARCITIES
NO SAFETY NETS WE WOULD BE ON A WARPATH
A MORE SIMPLE LIST IS:
OUR RANKING IN OECD NATIONS
# 2 AS LEAST TAXED—30% OF GDP IN FEDERAL-STATE-LOCAL TAXES COMBINED
# 2 LEAST TAXED CORPORATIONS—35% TAX RATE-PAID 12.1% TAX RATE IN 2011
PAID 1.5% OF GDP ONCE PAID 6%–THIS RANKED US 2ND LOWEST
YET! OUR LEADERS CAN SCREAM CUT THAT 35% RATE.
IT DOES NOT MATTER IF IT IS 100% IF THEY GET 90% IN EXEMPTIONS
# 4 ON INEQUALITY—IN `1980 IN BOTTOM 5
WHY? 10% OWN “ABOUT” 80% OF OUR WEALTH AND TAKE 50% OF OUR INCOME
SINCE 1980 WE BORROWED 14,000B THAT ALLOWED THE TOP 10% TO GET RICHER
80% WERE SHAFTED BIG TIME.
IT IS SAD SAD SAD THAT THE RICHEST PLUS LARGEST CORPORATIONS
GET MORE IN—- E X E M P T I O NS— THAN THEY PAY IN TAXES
SIMPLE-BURN TAX BOOK—START ANEW—THAT GETS US “EST” 2500B ADDITIONAL REVENUE AND SURPLUS. SINCE 1980, TAX BOOK HAS BEEN A CHRISTMAS TREE TO LOAD GOODIES FOR THE RICH.
Olduglymeanhonest mad mad mad at INEQUALITY IN AMERICA
HEALTH CARE COSTS HAVE BEEN UNCONTROLLED FOR DECADES.
FREE MARKET-CHARGE WHAT YOU PLEASE—MONOPOLY–
Pharma led, for decades, all industries in profit per dollar sales.
Oil replaced them under Bushoiloon.
For decades polls had 70%, consistently, saying Reform That Sucker.
Vet Adm gets drugs 40% under Medicare.
Wife one night in emergency room cost $6000.
two tests. Elevated blood pressure. Nitro patch on chest.
Cloth gauze shoulder to elbow $600 just for gauze. A roll enough for two was $20 in local store. Cut bill to $100. 900% mark up.
Pill a Day?? Why not some one a week? Ha! Dream On. Cuts pharma revenue by 86%
Blood pressure- one a day. Never. always one a week then one a month OK
Pharma=$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ TRUST? NO WAY $$$$ GOD
Medicare and Defense loaded with overcharges and fraud
GE is most fined by its govt than any company in world.
Overcharges on defense contracts.
Health Care Insurers have been fined many billions for fraud.
$$$$$$$$$ CHEAT $$$$$$$ BY ANYONE
SEXXXXXX & $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ TRUST NO ONE
We rank 37th on world health care forum for efficiency list.
America The Stupids. $$$$$$$$$$$$ CONTROLS SHEEP