My Republican Friends

by JimmyPage 86 Replies latest jw friends

  • BizzyBee
    BizzyBee

    CRR,

    I agree wholeheartedly with your views about food and health. Having worked on funding for diabetes research, I am aware of the importance (and difficulties) of educating a vulnerable population.

    HOWEVER, it would be a mistake to let those issues influence healthcare reform. Government has a role in helping people make informed choices about food and exercise. But HCR legislation cannot be delayed while we wait for everyone to get the message about personal responsibility - effectively punishing everyone who needs healthcare. You seem to be an example of someone who does their best to make good choices, but your condition is beyond your control and requires medical intervention. Glad you've got Medicare.

  • beksbks
    beksbks
    And is that 'compassion' coming out of the gun you're having government aim at those of us who differ with you?

    What was wrong with a public option? It would have been an option, those who needed and wanted it could have availed themselves, those who are happy as they are could have stayed that way. Abortion, if you don't want one don't get one. Gay marriage, if you don't believe in it, don't do it. Etc. etc. etc. Who is aiming the gun at those who differ?

  • Gregor
    Gregor

    HOWEVER, it would be a mistake to let those issues influence healthcare reform. Government has a role in helping people make informed choices about food and exercise. But HCR legislation cannot be delayed while we wait for everyone to get the message about personal responsibility - effectively punishing everyone who needs healthcare. You seem to be an example of someone who does their best to make good choices, but your condition is beyond your control and requires medical intervention. Glad you've got Medicare.

    I agree with everything Biz has said. I guess it comes down to the HCR PLAN that is adopted. I honest to goodness cannot understand the complete blind eye the Dems have turned to Tort reform or allowing insurers to compete within a national market. It smacks of patronage and the Obama administration has really come across as a non-transparent, back room, Chicago-style deal maker with unions, paid off Senators and other special interests.

    Am I being unreasonable?

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    FOX News is the ONLY conservative television news outlet THERE IS! You liberals have all of the rest of them and 99% of all the newspapers, too and yet you STILL bitch and whine. It must really piss you off that even though it is the ONLY one, it has more viewers than all your network and cable TV news shows PUT TOGETHER.

    Oh, and your liberal radio network just closed shop, while Rush and Sean and O'Reilly, et. al. are booming and the sponsors are standing in line to advertise on them.

    What does that tell you about what kind of information people want to see and hear in America?

    For you Liberals "free speech" means "Liberal speech only, please. Or else."

    Farkel

  • AllTimeJeff
    AllTimeJeff

    I have no problem with Fox News. They have the constitutionally protected right to make total asses of themselves with their nonesense.

    Btw, I thought Bill o Really was going to ask Palin to marry him last week. I needed a shower after that. I have no problem with it though. It gives me something to do.

  • BizzyBee
    BizzyBee

    Oh, and your liberal radio network just closed shop, while Rush and Sean and O'Reilly, et. al. are booming and the sponsors are standing in line to advertise on them.

    What does that tell you about what kind of information people want to see and hear in America?

    One theory why conservative radio does well and liberal radio doesn't:

    Talk radio is conservative because of the format. The people that listen to talk radio are primarily working people – truck drivers, warehouse workers, etc. – who find most of today’s pop music intolerable, and who cannot browse the web or watch TV. By nature, these people are not interesting in being lectured on the wonders of gay marriage or gun control.

    Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=85352#ixzz0dTqOdiKp

    I think the guy may be onto something. I would add 'salesmen' and others who spend a lot of time on the road and people who work where they can have the radio on - assembly-line, packing and shipping, etc. I listen to conservative radio when I'm on short car trips - NPR for longer jaunts. Who listens to the radio at home?

  • ColdRedRain
    ColdRedRain

    Me: A person has as much "right" to healthcare as a car owner has a "right" to a mechanic.

    What a crock. One step further with that analogy. When you are at 4 stage lung cancer, put him or her in a car shredder. Tea baggers have no compassion at all.

    The analogy I was making was that doctors aren't miracle workers. In fact, a lot of them are kind of stupid and crooked, much like mechanics. A doctor sees you like how a mechanic sees a car, like just another job. If there's something that requires too much hard work, they'll let the car or the person just kick the bucket. The truly smart only go to a mechanic because their car has something catastrophically wrong with it. A a tuneup (Or physical) are easily affordable.

    Typical Repug. talking point. I am sure that if you were in that situation, you would never think differently.

    I was in that same situation before. I nearly died because of it. It took some common sense to save my life. A long time ago, I ate a half bag worth of unhulled sunflower seeds. Shells and all. The thing stuck in my system and when it came time to come out... well, let's just say that I now knew how Barney Frank feels after his wife is on vacation. And speaking about that term "Teabagger", last time I remembered, isn't your side the one that's for "equal rights for gays"?

    Dx? You mean Rx as in a prescription? There are crooks in all business. Have you seen the padded bills from hospitals administering an aspirin to a patient? Outrageous.

    Hahaha. A DX is simply shorthand for "Diagnosis". Doctors make wrong DXs all the time. The less talented the doctor is, the more wrong the DX will be. When you have a system that will create an artificial demand for doctors, you'll get more doctors with little talent flooding the market and giving wrong DXs. Another anecdotal case in point was my grandmother who lived in a foreign country that also had gubment health care. Also, they pad those bills because they know some schmuck of an insurance company's going to cover it. That schmuck of an insurance company, if UC is passed, is going to be you and all the taxpayers in this country.

    "Glad you've got Medicare."

    Want my Medicare? No real doctor takes it anymore.

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    :Talk radio is conservative because of the format. The people that listen to talk radio are primarily working people – truck drivers, warehouse workers, etc. – who find most of today’s pop music intolerable, and who cannot browse the web or watch TV. By nature, these people are not interesting in being lectured on the wonders of gay marriage or gun control.

    It is beyond the comprehension of Liberals that people may actually watch or listen to something because they actually want to. NO! They have to come up with bullshit "theories" that are tied to some other reason rather than face the fact that their bullshit Liberal agenda is not what most of America wants to hear.

    Besides, don't Liberals claim those little, stupid, uneducated "working people" who don't even know what they SHOULD be watching or listening to, as a main base of support for the Liberal agenda?

    Give me a break, people!

    Farkel

  • journey-on
    journey-on

    I am sitting here LMAO at you liberals trying desperately to denigrate and demean conservative radio/TV listeners. It's a hoot watching you actually using the tactics straight out of the "liberal playbook". And what is even funnier is that you actually think people are buying your tripe of an opinion. Hilarious!

  • AllTimeJeff
    AllTimeJeff

    Hey, why do I need to denigrate Rush Limbaugh listeners? I thought listening to him was denigration in of itself?

    All anyone has to do is listen to that crap. Don't be offended. Will any defender of "right wing" radio defend "Rush" specifically? Just curious.

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