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eric lavine wrote: Is medicare medicaid not a federally funded program? i love the new birth control legislation...ones in charge a starting to see population increase...october we will surpass 7 billion on this rock first off you set guidelines and make a catarac surgury a flat price, not whatever you feel, standardize these pracitces, for god sakes in other contries doctors are not put on a pedestal and considered next to god. a captain of a boat has more pull i dont even know what the cost of these programs are, but at 9600.00 per surgery, i would imagine its in the trillions.....you guys yack about less spending but.............................you need the regulation,

Eric, you have still not answered my question. We got more regulation than anyone ONE person can really comprehend with obama care, it was supposed to reduce costs but it was just realeased by the government that it will increase the costs at a greater rate than if it would have been left to the private sector. HOW DOES THIS NEW REGULATION HELP????

Bush spent in his last year 2.1 trillion, and this year alone Obama has spent over 6.0 trillion dollars and sking for more.


We want straight cuts across the board, way it should be, economy strives on that. Rich make more money, hhhhhhmmmmmmmm and they hire people.

Damb Obama rama almost got away with they wanted to cut Medicare, Medicade, Social security and Veterans pay for a month or 2 because we cant pay our bills. And now they want to borrow more... Geeezzzz


P.S You save money, you save money, you save money, U dont freeking borrow more to pay bills. Freeking igornant...

what? are the doctors leaving their field to pursue a job at the 7-11. there are doctors all over this contry working for the VA hospitals below the 6 digit income

Is medicare medicaid not a federally funded program? i love the new birth control legislation...ones in charge a starting to see population increase...october we will surpass 7 billion on this rock

first off you set guidelines and make a catarac surgury a flat price, not whatever you feel, standardize these pracitces, for god sakes in other contries doctors are not put on a pedestal and considered next to god. a captain of a boat has more pull
i dont even know what the cost of these programs are, but at 9600.00 per surgery, i would imagine its in the trillions.....you guys yack about less spending but.............................you need the regulation,

mike, that same procedure 10 years ago was 2 grand, if that

Obama has spent money like a drunken sailor for the past 2 1/2 years. Then, in the month when we have the debt debate fight, he comes out for the cameras and says things like....."We must balance our budget" or "We must reduce spending". What a joke!! He flaps his jaws A LOT, but, does the absolute opposite.

Like Charles Krautheimer says...."Don't listen to what Obama says, watch what he does".

ononewheel wrote: On the same issue the Bush tax cuts are set to expire and the Republicans are so busy doing nothing with the debt, have they forgotten about them? That alone will provide 4 trillion.

If this theory were true dairy queen could become instantly rich by charging ten bucks a cone, "lets see , we sell a million cones a year, we bump up our prices by 8 bucks a cone , and we are quareenteed to make an extra 8 million!" or will people go elsewhere for icecream or just give it up. The left convieniently forgets that the bush tax cuts for the "rich" resulted in a net increase of about 400 billion (This is from memory) in federal tax recievables. There is no direct corralation to increasing taxes and increasing revenue. Businesses and individuals change their behaviors based on tax rates. You dont get the kind of money the "rich" have by blindly making decisions. People look at the return on their investment and they think years ahead. If they are considering building a factory they look at what their money can earn from other sources,such as stocks,gold, bonds..., If they cannot exceed the rate of return from these sources they will not bother. If you increase the tax rates of profits from the evil business by a few percent and that drops the rate of return below other investments the factory does not get built, the govenment does not collect its cut and a few hundred jobs never get created. The same goes for how hard a company work to decrease its tax burden. If they feel they are unfairly burdrened by taxes it is easy to justify unfair tactics to lower them, or just plain moving the revenue centers to another country with lower tax and regulation burdens. Tax revenue has historically incresed everytime rates were lowered, it worked for Bush, for Reagen, and even Kennedy. If you want to punish the rich at the cost of lower government revenues you can raise taxes. if you want to increase government revenues you need to lower taxes, grow the economy and make it up on volume. It works every time.

eric lavine wrote: Bush and Obama went out for a steak and lobster dinner and Bush skated on the bill

Actually they charged the bill on a nearly maxed out credit card- and Obama has an obscenly HUGE house (3x the size of Bush's obscenly huge house) so he cannot make both the mortgage payment and the credit card payment with his income- And rather than downsizing to a more affordable house he is saying "If we dont increase my credit line I will not be able to pay my mortgage....or if I pay the mortgage then I will miss my credit card payment and either will show up on my credit score so I need to borrow more to preserve my credit score.....Oh, and I want to make some additions to my house so I need to borrow for that as well"
Time to downsize to a smaller house.......

that 40% seems to be a number that comes up often.
we must realize Mike that there are major scale monopolies happening in the HC system, you get pissed when you hear the government spends 400 bucks on a claw hammer, i just came in from outside sitting with my neighbor, he is 67ish and just had a catarac removed from his eye, a 20 minute outpatient surgery and he showed me the bill, when all done and said he is responsible for 20% of the bill....now for the total cost 9600.00 bucks, he has to come up with 1920.00 bucks and you and me foot the rest of the bill.....so no, we dont need to reform HC, just keep paying...me and you

How about no eligability for for re-election if the budget is not balanced.

eric lavine wrote: you righties should ring Clinton and get some advice

Clinton my arse!!! I would vote for Al Capone for President before I would vote for Obama and his failed Socialist Policies. Clinton would be a god send.

Its all about the ENTITLEMENTS guys. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have got to be brought under control and made sustainable for us and future generations. You simply can't keep spending more than you take in. What will the "debt ceiling" be in 20 years?.....One hundred kazillion kabillion trillion dollars? If we can't afford that, just raise it again.

eric lavine wrote: if you were put into power, what would you do?

Repeal Obama care, cut spending to 2007 levls by a equal percentage cut to all government spending across the board. then freeze at that level till the deficit is reduced to a few trillion. Institute flat tax for tax fairness.

I was proud to talk to this guy a couple of weeks ago, he mentioned in the past that the company he worked for was on the borderline of shutting its doors, well management came to them and said the only way we can sustaine is by salary reductions across the board...obviously the ants wanted to start a revolution and throw the I deserve every dime i make card out there....The company wouldve closed, if the ants didnt agree to the reduction, doors are still open.
Moral of the story, they wer'nt bull ***************ting and sacrifices need to be made and it starts there....not in big government, this mindset starts at me and you.
When 08 hit, i got hit hard, and the only way i could sustaine and keep the doughnuts flowing was by skipping paychecks, i still put in my usual 60 but no pay. did i like it? no not really, but it was something i had to do

eric lavine wrote: trying to put a band-aid on a levy leak, the structure is slowly disinegrating around the hole

What part of Quadripled the debit allready, and asking for more do you not get???

ski, you always act like this *************** just started happening when Obama took his oath