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Call it Crazy says

What??? Is hospitalization the only place medical costs are incurred??

There you go again...

Missing the *whole point* of an argument by obsessing over details.

Of course hospitalization isn't the *only* source of high medical costs.

I was simply pointing out the following: it's pretty obvious that only a small fraction of the population will be in need of expensive medical care at any given moment. I used hospitalization as an obvious example.

freak80 says

Call it Crazy says

Half Of US Population Accounts For Only 2.9% Of Healthcare Spending

I can't believe such a headline would actually shock anyone. Are you surprised that only 2.9% of the population is hospitalized at any given moment?

You seem to have misread the statistic. It doesn't say how much 3% of the population spend, but coincidentally, hospitals and nursing homes do account for 50% of the spending.

The whole population already knows health insurance and obamacare isn't worth a shit. That's why the healthcare industry created the mandatory tax. It's to keep their gravy train running.

upisdown says

those kind of morons are so radical that even their own kids vote the opposite of them.

I know. My father is a Foxbot.

He's also a far-right Christian zealot. I don't think that's a coincidence.

Call it Crazy says

Should I take the rebate in gold coins, since we know the government is broke??

You can get what Germany got when they asked for their gold

AF, I'm packing my bags to head for the hills, but it occurs to me, if I relocate to your town the cannibal anarchy might be a tasty adventure. Are you accepting recruits?

This also means congress and the president will not receive paychecks as well right?

Call it Crazy says

I wonder, when will I receive my rebate check for the taxes I paid for
government services, since those services won't be rendered now???

Should I take the rebate in gold coins, since we know the government is
broke??

Once you figure out how much your rebate should be they can set the printing press to accomodate you.

If something like this happened at my job, I'd be fired, and rightfully so.

We need to clean house of the shit that corrupts our government and the shit in the government that accepts it.

As I've mentioned so many times, public hangings are a good start.

I'll pull the handle and still sleep like a god damned baby.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

Are restaurant convection ovens big enough to fit an entire bankster or Realtor® or will they have to be cut up and tossed into sautee pans in chunks?

The important thing is not to use the microwave. It just doesn't do the meal justice.

I personally like to roast a banker on a rotating stick over a fire like so...

I'll take a wing.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

Wow, no place for you at the Sears appliance sale!

Sears sells rotisserie grills, do they not?

Shutdown the paychecks of congress for a year and we will have a deal done faster than they can sling an insult across the aisle.

Call it Crazy says

It's the only job I know of that pays like 150K a year, and after 4 years, you're a millionaire.... How's that math work??

No kidding. I've seen plenty of it, some average bureaucrat making his 80,000 a year... while driving a $100,000 car and lives in a 5,000,000 house. It's obvious that kind of lifestyle isn't matching the salary or the job.

Goal is to reduce national debt and not spend like a drunken sailor as if there is no tomorrow. Public employee wages and benefits are bankrupting USA and MUST be cut by 5-10% every year for next five years.

That's insane. If you do that, you'll destroy thousands of businesses that depend on Public Employees' patronage.

Team America World Police is bankrupting America, with half the world's military spending. Military spending is utterly discretionary.

How does one party that has lost two presidential elections and a Supreme Court case – as well as two Senate elections - think it has the right to shut down the entire government and destroy the full faith and credit of the United States Treasury to get its way on universal healthcare now?

finehoe says

How does one party that has lost two presidential elections and a Supreme Court case – as well as two Senate elections - think it has the right to shut down the entire government

They believe that their opponents are not legitimately qualified to govern, and therefore any measures against said opponents are justified. So they impeached Clinton and will destroy our system of government to stop Obama.

In the eyes of all Republicans, a Democratic president is illegitimate.

By the way, they've lost 5 of the last 6 presidential elections in the popular vote. They don't care, because the Republican Party is the only party fit to govern.

They put party before country.

HydroCabron says

They put party before country.

But in their minds they're saving the country from the evil socialists.

thunderlips11 says

Military spending is utterly discretionary.

No it isn't. It's our patriotic duty as God's Chosen Nation (tm) to wipe out all of the heathen scum abroad. ;-)

Who's their hosting company Network Solutions?

Probably due to all of that wonderful MVC/Entity framework cluster fuck bullshit, that every half a moron that is CIO thinks every project going forward has to be developed in.

Sure there's a lot of great shit in the .Net assemblies, but it's much better to roll your own. Just because there's a three ton library in .Net one could use, to do the lifting of a 10 ounce object, why would you?

It's much better to have your own domain generic objects, and data access layers, that aren't overly encapsulated with other dependencies and partial classes, and interfaces. Sure that shit looks slick and cute on a small scale but where you got millions of people hitting your site. "What's not so great about the latest and greatest mop and bucket technologies" will bite in your fucking ass.

Call it Crazy says

I don't think they need their paychecks.... They make more on insider
trading...

It's the only job I know of that pays like 150K a year, and after 4 years,
you're a millionaire.... How's that math work??

Oh they will still miss their paychecks..............the greed runs wild. I thought actually having wealth was a prerequisite to winning an election (campaign finance is a joke). 300 million people in the US and these are the best and brightest we could put in office?

Here's a novel idea....how about electing someone who acutally has a proven track record of accomplishments (Allan Mullaly quickly comes to mind).

Looks like the Paultards are "taking a bath" in the gold market.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

They need to learn to suck bankster cock even harder, like their getaway drivers Obama and Paulson. Get down on the knob and really gag on it, hard and loud and splattery. Then all the money will come sliding in. How about offering to throw all bank examiners out of an airplane and disband the SEC? That should get some attention. To top that, the GOP would have to offer to shoot senior citizens and pull the gold out of their teeth and mail it to their sponsoring oligarchs.

When will your Porn & Violence movie open? Could I cum to the early release. LMAO

Call it Crazy says

Eddie, Eddie, Eddie...

Please take a few steps back and get your nose out of Obama's ass...

You just might like the smell of fresh air!!!

That wins for the lamest retort of the year. In other words you have nothing of value to contribute to the debate and so resorting to 5th grader tactics is the best you can come up with. ( golf clap)

Call it Crazy says

They make more on insider trading...

thunderlips11 says

That's insane. If you do that, you'll destroy thousands of businesses that depend on Public Employees' patronage.

Insane...? Or, did they already have their orders placed to short certain stocks?

freak80 says

But in their minds they're saving the country from the evil socialists.

No, that's just what their PR says. They are quite aware that they're just carrying water for the 1%.

Call it Crazy says

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Call it Crazy says

Wait, they only had like 3 years to get ready for it....

If the various governments would have only hired YOU to set up their websites instead of posting here, everything would be perfect. LOL

Analyzer says

300 million people in the US and these are the best and brightest we could put in office?

Republicans don't vote for the best and brightest. Intellectualism is a vice according to their dumb ass culture. That's why Bush was so popular among them. They hated Gore for having even a slight intellect.

Republicans also hate Elizabeth Warren for the same reason. Image what they would feel towards a genius like Alan Turing, Fredrick Gauss, or Nikola Tesla.

In addition to the above, we should have single terms only for everyone in congress and the president.

thunderlips11 says

Team America World Police is bankrupting America, with half the world's military spending. Military spending is utterly discretionary.

The War on Poverty is bankrupting America. Welfare spending is utterly discretionary.

Call it Crazy says

Dan8267 says

Republicans don't vote for the best and brightest.

Dan, I hate to break the news to you, but the 535 + 1 in D.C. aren't all Repubs...

True, many of the Democrats are dumb. The difference is that they and their constituents don't take pride in that.

Dan8267 says

Republicans don't vote for the best and brightest.

Basically they became the "country fried" party. Weird because if you were to have introduced today's Republicans to the Republicans of the early 1900's, those from the turn of the century would ask how in the hell they got elected.

zzyzzx says

In addition to the above, we should have single terms only for everyone in congress and the president.

Agreed, these Senators that have been in there for years and years are like zombies.

zzyzzx says

The War on Poverty is bankrupting America. Welfare spending is utterly discretionary.

As long as Peter gets Pauls money from government, he will always vote Democrat.

Call it Crazy says

Gee, I wonder if their offices are heated with natural gas???

LOL, good one.

finehoe says

They are quite aware that they're just carrying water for the 1%.

In their minds, preserving the wealth of the 1% is the same thing as protecting the country from evil socialists. Any slight reduction in wealth disparity is seen as evil socialism.

Remember, God said "Thou Shalt Not Steal." That means if 1% of the population controls 75% of the pie, that's the way God wants it.

edvard2 says

Basically they became the "country fried" party. Weird because if you were to have introduced today's Republicans to the Republicans of the early 1900's, those from the turn of the century would ask how in the hell they got elected.

The Republicans of today were called Dixiecrats in the early 1900's, and the Republican's of the early 1900's were well familiar with the stupidity of Dixiecrats.

It's not well known, but the Democratic Party before the 1960s was actually two separate parties acting as one. There was the Northern, rational, educated Democrat who was in favor of social reform and alleviating poverty. Then there was the Southern Democratic Party, or Dixiecrats, who wanted to go back to slavery or at least as close to it as they could get. These were the Jim Crow Democrats.

During the 1960s, the Republican establishment adopted the Southern Strategy, a political strategy to court the racist vote at the expense of all minorities on the belief that the minority vote would never matter because America was a primarily white nation and would stay that way forever.

So, during the adoption of this strategy, all the liberal Republicans -- and yes, there were liberal Republicans back then such as Dwight D. Eisenhower -- started moving into the Democratic Party (not all at once, mind you) while the Dixiecrats moved into the Republican Party.

Today's Republican Party is made entirely of Dixiecrats and a few elite manipulators who cater to the Dixiecrat's bigoted social agendas in order to get to commit white color crime unmolested by the police, er, that is without regulation.

Today's Democratic Party is made up of the liberal and moderate Republicans that left the Republican Party, along with the Northern Democratic Party members, and the independents that have given up on trying to win in a two-party system and have recognized that the Republicans are now a batshit crazy party.

And that is why the Republican Party of today is not Lincoln's Party by any stretch of the imagination.

leo707 says

before the party went totally bat-shit crazy.

I would say that the party went totally bat-shit crazy in 2000 when they rigged the 2000 election. The transition from rational party to batshit was from 1955 to 2000. I think there was still a bit of sanity left in the 1990s, but that's long gone.

You're really having to dig for some dirt huh? " Oh lookie! The web site was down! See? See?!