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PonderThis Wrote: (11-16-2013, 10:18 AM) -- I didn't realize they forced you to accept Medicare. -- Actually you're right. My wife has medicare. I have an independent plan. We hate them both equ...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-16-2013, 11:57 AM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-16-2013, 11:03 AM) -- The US is the LAST industrialized nation to not have a national health care plan. Over 30 other nations have one. If they are so terrible, why has NOT ONE of th...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-16-2013, 11:54 AM
    Thread: 119% of Fox news viewers will not understand this
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MarkM Wrote: (11-15-2013, 11:01 PM) -- Oh please. Obamacare was written by Mitt Romney and the Heritage Foundation. -- I know that there is a desperate urge to find somebody to blame for this unmit...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-16-2013, 10:21 AM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-15-2013, 11:16 PM) -- Most voting conservatives already have single payer. We call it Medicare. And you're right -- they love it. -- Veterans have single payer and you might look l...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-16-2013, 10:11 AM
    Thread: 119% of Fox news viewers will not understand this
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The fun thing about Obamacare is that none of the legislators even read it. So who wrote it? Want to bet that when it all shakes out we find that the health insurance companies designed it and then ...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 10:40 PM
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The war profiteers are the smallest tip of the iceberg. Look at the education administration industry. Look at the medical industry under medicare. But the biggest hogs at the trough are the "too b...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 10:36 PM
    Thread: 119% of Fox news viewers will not understand this
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csrowan Wrote: (11-15-2013, 02:33 PM) -- Well, lets see. Money gives you power. People with power are elected to power and other people with power are paving the way with truckloads of cash. For some...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 02:46 PM
    Thread: 119% of Fox news viewers will not understand this
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PonderThis Wrote: (11-15-2013, 01:37 PM) -- I have to admit I was one that predicted great inflation to come also, and it's left me with egg on my face. They do a far better job managing the economy...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 02:38 PM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-15-2013, 01:29 PM) -- I'm sure SW is a Paul guy. They've been screaming about runaway inflation since Obama was elected. It's never happened. The opposite is true. Deflation has been...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 02:20 PM
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PonderThis Wrote: (11-15-2013, 01:23 PM) -- 2% inflation looks to me like it works out just about perfectly, and it's been doing so for quite awhile now too. I fail to see this great calamity you ar...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 02:12 PM
    Thread: ‘You Could Never Anticipate This Happening in the United States of America’
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A successful civil rights lawsuit generally has to get around two obstacles - there exist absolute immunities for certain officials such as judges, legislators, district attorneys which would not appl...
Sidewinder National and World News 36 13,516 11-15-2013, 01:39 PM
    Thread: 119% of Fox news viewers will not understand this
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MarkM Wrote: (11-14-2013, 10:55 PM) -- Friedman's main preoccupation was with inflation, but he was not against rising prices per se. He believed a certain amount of inflation was good for the econom...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 01:14 PM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-14-2013, 08:06 PM) -- I think if you and I both work equally on a $100 job and I take home $80 while you get $20, you would feel that was inequitable. My response naturally would be ...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-15-2013, 12:42 PM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-14-2013, 08:41 AM) -- 1) Quantitative easing is widely viewed as halting another slide into recession, or worse. It has nothing to do with creating or accelerating wealth inequity. -...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-14-2013, 01:44 PM
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PonderThis Wrote: (11-14-2013, 07:33 AM) -- Sidewinder Wrote: (11-14-2013, 07:08 AM) -- Did you know that Ford made a special low price Model A called the doctor's special? It was target marketed t...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-14-2013, 01:17 PM
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chuck white Wrote: (11-14-2013, 01:13 AM) -- Same thing in the medical industry, Government regulations, triples the cost of medical care. Doctors could charge less, if they didn't have to spend mon...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-14-2013, 07:08 AM
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Leonard Wrote: (11-14-2013, 12:52 AM) -- The logical conclusion would be to nationalize the Energy industry as well as the Banks and all public utilities. -- Bingo! There you have the whole point ...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-14-2013, 07:01 AM
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It would seem self-evident that any regulation imposed upon commerce will bring with it a "cost of compliance." BO himself threatened that those dirty coal companies could keep doing their thing but ...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-14-2013, 12:23 AM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-13-2013, 06:08 PM) -- I'm still not clear on what Obama did to harm the country? I've been wondering about this one for some time since my TP friends are quite convinced of it. I jus...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-14-2013, 12:19 AM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-13-2013, 05:31 PM) -- SW, they say in politics, if you're explaining, you're losing. -- We used to say in education that we were battling two evils: stupidity and ignorance. The d...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-14-2013, 12:12 AM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-13-2013, 04:07 PM) -- I'm glad to see you're concerned about wealth redistribution (it's being redistributed UP, by the way) but it's not because of "endless inflation." I suppose in...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-13-2013, 04:34 PM
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Leonard Wrote: (11-13-2013, 11:48 AM) -- Actually Nixon was quite ''progressive'' for his time. -- Precisely. Leonard Wrote: (11-13-2013, 11:48 AM) -- Carter I believe you are in error regar...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-13-2013, 04:11 PM
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gapper Wrote: (11-13-2013, 11:10 AM) -- As expected. A non-answer. -- Sorry. Didn't mean to go over your head.
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-13-2013, 04:05 PM
    Thread: Cover Oregon: Health exchange mired in unexpected delays; what went wrong?
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cletus1 Wrote: (10-18-2013, 08:44 PM) -- Does this mean Obamacare sucks or that computer glitches suck? -- It means that a bureaucrat armed with a computer is the most dangerous thing in the world.
Sidewinder National and World News 123 70,364 11-13-2013, 10:41 AM
    Thread: Cover Oregon is Covering No One
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Willie Krash Wrote: (11-12-2013, 12:57 PM) -- I don't think so. It doesn't even pass the smell test, no computer no health care? -- You don't understand. Under the plan the necessary computer is a...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 19 7,940 11-13-2013, 10:35 AM
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MarkM Wrote: (11-12-2013, 09:13 PM) -- Overnight, Nixon obliterated American confidence in their own government that had been build up for generations. Bush allowed the most severe attack against ...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-13-2013, 10:29 AM
    Thread: 119% of Fox news viewers will not understand this
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This FOX News viewer rates Obama, Nixon, Bush, and Carter as the worst presidents ever, in that order. But that evaluation is based on factors beyond the statistics quoted. It really is based on har...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 76 28,497 11-11-2013, 06:18 PM
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I find it humorous that the bureaucracy freaks told us we needed to take health care out of the hands of the health care industry and let the wise ones control it. The only thing that works is what i...
Sidewinder Local News and Culture 19 7,940 11-11-2013, 06:12 PM
    Thread: Ten Cheapest US Cities
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TennisMom Wrote: (11-09-2013, 01:48 PM) -- I wouldn't rush to move to any of these places but they offer an alternative to those wishing to live simply and cheaply. -- That old supply and demand th...
Sidewinder National and World News 2 1,534 11-09-2013, 03:41 PM
    Thread: America's wealth distribution...
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TennisMom Wrote: (11-01-2013, 11:43 AM) -- Sidey, you're implying that the wealthy only invest in Treasury Bills, a self-evident mistake. Your first argument has been debunked by almost every liv...
Sidewinder National and World News 67 27,543 11-03-2013, 03:39 PM