Insofar as the 1% could give a shit about my financial situation, I am inclined to not give a shit about theirs. willard says that that is "class warfare". He may be right about that but so what? Even if it is, it didn't start with me, it started with mitt and his various ideological cousins beginning with ronald reagan. If re-engineering our tax Schedules to put more demands on the wealth of the 1% is "class warfare", fine! Give it any name you like. If calling the 1% down for their excesses is denigrating "success" as mitt defines it, too f*cking bad. Tax them until they scream. Tax them until they cry like a child. If that's class warfare, so what? Funny, it wasn't thought of as class warfare when the marginal rates were at 91%. It was what you did to make for a better more equitable society and keep the mobs from your front door. The kind of social myopia that guides the wealthy will come to cost them more than just a few points on their taxes if they don't wise up.

I can see we're all pretty much in agreement about Hightower's article. Too bad the visiting Nazis aren't here now. Well, not everyone's crazy about Obamacare, but I still say it's better than nothing, and it's a step in the right direction. I can't quite understand why the roving Republican ideologues seem to hold self-righteous selfishness to be some kind of supreme virtue, but I guess it's just a case of "I've got mine, so screw you, my fellow Americans." Now that we have the volunteer military, the right-wing blowhards (as on Fox News and talk radio) can forget about serving their country and just wave their little flags as they bank their taxed-less incomes. Then they can get on the media soap-box and tell the rest of us how to be "patriotic" according to their definition. They even had the yahoos hating the French for being honest and sensible about that stupid war against Saddam that W never paid for, so he could hand the bill to Obama at the changing of the guard. I was never much of a conspiracy buff, but it sure makes you wonder if cutting taxes, especially for the super-rich, while launching two costly wars wasn't part of some grand design by W to imperil his Democratic successor's first term; maybe even Roberts was vetted to see if he would make a "Citizens United" decision in order to open the floodgates of unnamed and unaccounted millions from the 1% .

I don't believe a word a Republican says these days, and I like to consider myself an independent thinker and voter. It's going to take a long time for the GOP to persuade me they even deserve an audience for their time-wasting attacks on those who work for a salary. Talk is cheap. I look at what happens when Republicans sit in the White House. Their record speaks for itself. Too bad the Fox-News-addicts never get beyond their "big government" rants, and see that the GOP is currently morally bankrupt. They've sold their souls to you-know-who. But they sure know how to throw up a smoke screen, don't they?

GopCare is where?
But beware,
It's a snare
For the unaware!

It seems to me that, when talking to a Republican, whether the subject is health care, gay marriage, or a myriad of other social issues, their mindset is, "I've got mine; I don't care if you get yours." or perhaps more accurately, since they've voted 31 times to repeal Obamacare, "I've got mine, and I'll make sure you don't get yours."

How dare the middle class and the poor seek the health care that members of the new faux-aristocracy enjoys. The privileged few who have been elected to office, which is only their entitlement, deserve better, don't they? If the lower classes can't afford better then that's only natural selection, isn't it?
has this indeed become the GOP mantra? Are they really sending the country into an economic tailspin just to win an election? How do you suppose the average American defines treason? Espousing the violent overthrow of the government would probably rank high in that definition, but allowing the government to fail from within is not only cowardly, and insidious, but it is not the America that our forbears fought and died for and if such decidedly un-american practices are being carried out by men who were sent to Washington to represent us, then perhaps a recall for non-participation is called for. In business, when an employee does not perform to expectation, he is reviewed, admonished, and then if no behavior is evident, is fired. We have seen an adherence to an artificial ideology that has nothing to do with the job to which they were elected. This is misrepresentation, not representative government.

US has the most expensive Health sys in the world but is only 37th in quality. UK, Can, Fra, It, Jap, Nor, Port; even Colombia are ahead.
Canadians are richer than Americans. They have more bank regulations, more socialism, and universal healthcare. Things Repubs keep screeching against. Better keep Obama.
Dumbos 99%ers that eat the hogwash that more tax cuts to the Romney-likes save money and Obamacare will ruin the nation. Forty million get free care now at our expense. Health Plan will take them off our backs. What we’ve got now’s the most expensive and near-worst healthcare in the world.

Amygdala-dominant conservatives have NO need for facts or TRUTH because they have a total disdain for them.

The rich bastards - or those trying to impress the rich - are destroying our country. WE, the PEOPLE need to stand up and support our president - maybe he will come around that we need either A) the public option added to his healthcare bill or B) the deletion of 2 words - over 65 - from the medicare bill. WE need healthcare for ALL, not just most, people.

This is a great, well-written piece that captures the GOP attitudes perfectly and precisely as well as capturing our subsequent frustrations with the party that has fallen off the right wing cliff. A complaint by a woman in another web site who described her conservative family business sounded like a nice reasonable family out of the 70s or 80s - fine. I would not be surprised if somebody in the "GOP" will now accuse them of being 'liberal.' It s happening all the time now.

EVERY other industrialized nation on Earth has rejected the For-Profit model of Health Care. In fact, only in the U.S. is health care still considered a commodity instead of a human right. As a result, EVERY other industrialized nation on Earth has a healthier population at far lower cost than in here in the U.S.

Isn't it PAST time to examine the rest of the world's successes, craft a Universal, Effective Health Care System that works from their examples and is sustainable and affordable and dump the failed For-Profit Sick Care System that is making us more ill while bankrupting us individually and as a nation?

And we could have it ... with a one page bill that removes the words "over 65", pays for 100% of part A and B and Part D drug coverage and adds the power to seriously negotiate charges and drug prices to the Medicare enabling legislation ALREADY IN PLACE AS THE LAW OF THE LAND!

Improved and Enhanced Medicare for All – already proven efficient, popular and Constitutional!

GOP/elite health plan in a nutshell is to go jump in the lake when you get sick but send us your money when you are well. It is easy cash-flow for the elite, and brine/brimstone for the masses. Nothing has been given by the elites voluntarily and what has been given has been tried many times to usurp. Society does not have to be a tug of war between the super haves and the have not. If we can get through to the elite that their meaningless lives of concentrated wealth/power at the expense of everyone can become a lot more pleasant if they learn to become care takers of the society upon which they sit to get whatever they want. Where is pleasure in forced surrender of one's life to a callous overlord?