All you hear from the GOP is that it too expensive to waste money on the health of the poor

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Throughout the health debate today you could see dollar signs every time Republicans spoke.

send a message to the media (Fox of Arabia) and to your Republican friends and relatives!

Republicans:

1. Don't want the poor to get healthcare because they don't think that they are worthy of it.
2. Don't want people to have preventive healthcare because this stops drug companies and healthcare companies making money.
3. Don't care if anyone has a weight problem because they know that obesity is related to ill health and the drug companies and the health insurance companies will make money.
4. Don't want a public option because it will bring down premiums for their health care insurance company friends.


and there's something that they DO want to do:
They want to privatize Medicare, VA and Medicaid (they pretend that they won't).
They want to spend your money on war instead.

[FrenchieCat]

1. I noticed that. Democrats were talking about people.....

Republicans were talking about money.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Yes exactly!

voters want to hear about what they are going to get. The majority support a public option.

Fox of Arabia of course want them to funnel taxpayer's money and loans from the Chinese for never ending wars.

[bulloney]

14. And that rings hollow, given that the Repubs ran up the deficit like drunken sailors under Dubya.

[gkhouston]

15. but we spent *that* money on defense contracts to kill people, not on anything

that might help poor people. Spending money to rid yourself of vermin is okay. :sarcasm:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. Rome slept while Dubya ran up the deficit

[dkf]

3. Actually poor people get healthcare through Medicaid

It's the middle class that gets screwed.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. not young people without dependents?

[VPStoltz]

4. Size Queens! I'm sure we all agree - they were disgusting.

All you heard was: big bill, huge bill, humongous bill, 2000 page bill like a bunch of size queens.
And those jackasses reiterating over and over that CBO or OBM or whatever office that was said rates would raise 10-15%!
Where were they when it was reported that WellPoint in California is raising its rates 36%!
Maybe what they are actually complaining about - besides the shape of the table - is that the increase is TOO SMALL.
Again, I say "size queens!"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. That's a good name

[dmr]

5. Do they also think it's cheap enough to waste money on war?

They've got some screwed up priorities for the American people.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. they are supposed to representatives but they don't represent

only the 'few'

[tekisui]

6. You are so right. This is how Dems should have framed it

from the very beginning. They never framed it this way. It would have sailed with a stronger frame, especially with the approval Obama and the Dems had last year.

[Cleita]

7. The poor I guess are the former working class who can't work anymore

because of illness. Brian Williams did a bit up in Canada while covering the Olympics about a retired fireman, who had to have medical care (I forgot what for now) but it involved some expensive care and hospitalization. The interviewer (not Brian) asked him if he could afford it without the government health insurance and he said he would be broke by now if he had to pay for all the care he got out of pocket. Not only that there were no co-pays or other extra expenses. So I guess this fireman isn't worthy of health care once he's outlived his usefulness in our Republican's eyes.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. usefullness

we are basically fodder for the corporate masters

[Jennicut]

8. I got one main thing out of the Rethugs from yesterday and that is, if you need health care

and can't afford it you are a burden to them. They could care less.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. One outdated fighter plane = thousands of people's healthcare could be covered

The republicans keep wanting to keeping building outdated fighter planes wasting millions. Just think how many people that could cover in terms of healthcare.

[quaker bill]

17. We can't afford

Healthcare
Pensions
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Jobs Programs
Schools
Government regulation

We can afford
Bombs
Bullets
Prisons
Tax subsidies for business
Tax cuts for the wealthy
No bid military contractors