jhleek's Diary

One good government program deserves another?

One of the arguments I keep hearing from liberals is that social security and medicare are government programs and most people like them. So therefore we should have government run healthcare. I have not heard anyone counter this.

The problem I have understanding this is I believe they are leaving something out. We have been making explicit payments to both of these programs since their inception. They are more like insurance since we have been paying all along. (I know they are broke since we have been mismanaging them) But, none the less, they are self funded programs (in theory)

But, it seems disingenuous to compare these programs to the government run health care proposal. There will not be equal contribution from all to support this. It is a flat out giveaway.

Why do conservatives allow the left to shout us down on this?

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Don’t most people have to put in a year before their first vacation?

est pro vestri own beneficium

Is it only grass roots when…

it is some minority or preferred Democratic cause?

Why?

I was watching the news at the Y tonight…

and they were discussing how the townhall responses were “manufactured.” That they were bought and paid for and the tactics of standing and shouting were wrong.

What struck me was that this is the only way the “other side” will be heard by these people. They have shut out any opposing ideas in the House and Senate and are doing this by themselves. Then they come out to these town halls and “lecture” the unwashed, and tell us what we need to have for health care.

Shouting is the only way to get through. I live in Dave Obey’s district and there is no one more arrogant than him. If you challenge him on any subject he just tells you what an idiot you are. He never even bothers to send the form answers to my emails.

Shouting at Dave may give me pleasure but will not change his mind!

joe