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Topic: The 2017 Republican Controlled U.S. Congress
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 3 of 86 (796805)
01-04-2017 6:52 PM
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Reply to: Message 2 by Phat 01-04-2017 6:09 PM
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Re: Dismantling
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 8 of 86 (796876)
01-06-2017 7:21 AM
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Reply to: Message 7 by Tanypteryx 01-05-2017 9:52 PM
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Re: U.S. House changes its rules to ease federal land theft
No one generation or group of corrupt politicians has the right to steal our heritage. Historically rights are superseded by power.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 11 of 86 (796996)
01-09-2017 11:10 AM
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Reply to: Message 10 by Taq 01-09-2017 10:55 AM
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Re: Health Care
The problem with your scenario is that it assumes the Congress will produce something with at least a passing nod to reality.
If you are going to insure sick people then you need healthy people paying into the system which requires some sort of mandate to be in the system. Only if you want it is actually be fiscally neutral.
2. If you are going to make it affordable, then you have to limit the amount that you charge sick people. This means having healthy people pay more. See above.
3. If prices are too high for even the middle class (which it often is), then you need to subsidize their insurance by taxing the higher income brackets. Or simply let them suffer and pass the costs down to the local levels.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 27 of 86 (798745)
02-05-2017 9:00 AM
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Reply to: Message 26 by RAZD 02-05-2017 8:07 AM
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Re: H.R. 622 withdrawn
HR 621 & HR 622 were different but equally crazy bills. Looks like both have been withdrawn. Maybe a slight nod to sanity.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 33 of 86 (798870)
02-06-2017 6:13 AM
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Reply to: Message 32 by NoNukes 02-05-2017 10:14 PM
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Re: H.R. 622 withdrawn
I was reporting what was said in quotes attributed to him. I will try to find the news stories again.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 51 of 86 (799656)
02-12-2017 3:35 PM
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Reply to: Message 50 by ringo 02-12-2017 2:55 PM
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Re: SCOTUS on gerrymandering?
There are some and they have even elected some Representatives but of course the have little or no power in Congress. There were even third parties at the Presidential level but again, they simply have not attracted enough support. There are two Independents in the Senate. The only Third Party that has organizations in all 50 sates is the Libertarian Party. The Green Party has organizations in 44 states while the Constitution Party has organizations in just over 20 states.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 56 of 86 (799829)
02-16-2017 10:50 AM
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Reply to: Message 55 by Percy 02-15-2017 2:18 PM
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But I feel so much safer under this Congress.
quote: The chairman of the powerful panel the main investigative committee in the House sent a letter to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demanding to know why, in an attempt to raise awareness of the Zika virus, CDC appears poised to make a sole source award to the Jim Henson Company for $806,000 to feature Sid the Science Kid in an educational program about the virus.
Sid is really creeping me out. He asks questions like why he can't scratch his ear with his foot? His dog can! You worry about little stuff but Rep. Jason Chaffetz is looking out for the rest of us.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 57 of 86 (802543)
03-17-2017 1:16 PM
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Congress decides to fuck the poor again.
Congress is proposing even greater cuts to Medicaid as well as adding a work requirement and changing to a block grant program to allow States to decide who to cover and what to cover.
source And they are not even offering to buy dinner after the fuck job.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 59 of 86 (802564)
03-17-2017 5:40 PM
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Reply to: Message 58 by Theodoric 03-17-2017 4:07 PM
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This Congress is Hooded Robin
This Congress seems to be Hooded Robin' instead of Robin Hood; its policy seems to be rob the poor and give to the rich. Take health care from the masses and give tax breaks to the rich.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 70 of 86 (824916)
12-05-2017 9:58 AM
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Make Italy Great again! Make Germany Great again. Make America Great again. All the result of popular support from the citizenry. Polish terrorists attack a German radio station. The threat is real. Palestinian Israeli Terrorists blow up the King David hotel. The threat is real. USS Maddox attacked by North Vietnamese gun boats. The threat is real.
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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 75 of 86 (825329)
12-13-2017 7:43 AM
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Reply to: Message 74 by Pressie 12-13-2017 7:20 AM
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Well, they did. And sold out the Arabs and Ethiopians and Czechs and the Lithuanians and the Latvians and Estonians...
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