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odetomy (Friday 6th of June 2008 03:49:14 PM)

You entered the military for your own reasons, not for people like me. The battle that you supposedly fought in, was most likely not for my freedom, but some stupid crap that one of the Bushs got us into. That's not defending any freedom of mine. That's just starting war with another country. I did some time in the military too. Not long enough for your kind of benefits, but still I would have been sent to war, if I was serving during such a time, regardless of whether I wanted to or not.

WeedaPeople (Saturday 7th of June 2008 08:04:38 PM)

ode:"I did some time in the military too" That still does not make you an expert on VA care, since you never received care from the Government, and never had to wait in line, and be denied care when you need it, and told to return another day. The problem here is you have no personal experience with it, yet you come here talking like you know how it works. I do. That is why, even though I could get some care free, I choose to pay. The care I would get free is worth every penny.

WeedaPeople (Saturday 7th of June 2008 08:11:36 PM)

(cont)You do not ask someone about Government run health care who has no experience with it anymore than you ask a plumber how to fix a jet engine. You have nothing to base your claims on. All you know about it is what you read off of biased web pages that have a socialist agenda. Either way, there will be no funding for it. It is a well known fact that there is no way to compensate for the huge loss of revenues that baby boomers will no longer contribute once they retire. Do the math.

WeedaPeople (Saturday 7th of June 2008 08:24:15 PM)

(cont)It is ridiculous for you to continue to tell people that we can afford to do this. The estimated average American income is about $49K. The average American Social Security check is about $1K per month, which equals $12K per year. If the rate of taxation were to remain the same, and each person payed 30% in taxes on their annual income, then individual contributions would decrease from 14,700 to 3,600. That means that 3/4 of all contributions from 1/3rd the population would disappear.

WeedaPeople (Saturday 7th of June 2008 08:31:28 PM)

(cont)The math I just did was overly simplified so you can get a small glimpse of what you are dealing with. We all know that no one pays 30% of their Social Security check to taxes, and the less you make the lower percentage you pay. Older people have been promoted more and make more, so the average is skewed to reflect younger people who do not make as much. It does not take a math whiz to figure out that it can only have a devastating impact on funds available for social programs.

odetomy (Friday 6th of June 2008 03:40:04 PM)

Yes, HR 676 will be better. This system that we have now is not going to be better, no matter how you twist it, bend it, crack it, smack it, or calculate it. Privitization of health care just does not work. When another party earns its living by denying or screwing you out of a service it should be providing, it doesn't belong in society. Infact, under other circumstances, it would be against the law!

WeedaPeople (Thursday 5th of June 2008 06:16:26 AM)

ode:"I'm not saying (all) people of one party (are) evil, but..." But you are doing exactly that. Somehow you think that Democrats, who have been dangling the carrot of UHC for 70 years (Truman campaigned on it in 1948) are somehow less evil than the Republicans who have tried to keep people from being more dependent on Government. Party affiliation is only a minor difference in basic philosophy.

WeedaPeople (Thursday 5th of June 2008 06:00:36 AM)

ode:"They managed money well enough for you to get paid, now didn't they?" Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Did you know that there is talk now of furloughs later this year for Government workers if Congress does not get off their butts and figure out how to pay them? Again, do a google search.

odetomy (Friday 6th of June 2008 02:35:29 PM)

You know they'll do something to fix it because otherwise the government knows people will walk out.

WeedaPeople (Thursday 5th of June 2008 05:55:42 AM)

ode:"The people you seem to have a problem with are the uninsured and the poor." I do not have a problem with them, I was one of them for a long time. I had a problem with being one, so I am not anymore. That is not bigotry, that is realizing your problems and fixing them. Not wanting to make people dependent on Government for their care is not hypocritical at all. I know how Government care works, you don't. I would not wish it on anyone.