Re: OT:Hannity and Wm. Ayers

On May 18, 6:24=A0pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
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> On May 18, 8:12=A0pm, ScottW <Scott...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 18, 4:22=A0pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
> > <artygu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On May 17, 10:40=A0am, ScottW <Scott...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On May 17, 5:27=A0am, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
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> > > > <artygu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > On May 14, 1:34=A0pm, ScottW <Scott...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > On May 13, 6:02=A0pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
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> > > > > > <artygu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > > On May 13, 6:38=A0pm, George M. Middius
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> > > > > > > > Clyde Slick said:
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> > > > > > > > > But that is not to say poor people are 'entitled' to
> > > > > > > > > having the good life handed to them by the government.
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> > > > > > > > It's not a question of entitlement. It's a question of
compa=
ssion. And
> > > > > > > > "the good life" is way over the top when the necessities
are=
 education
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> > > > > > > Just send them to a private religious academy on the
governmen=
t.
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> > > > > > > > =A0and health insurance.
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> > > > > > > 2pid has proven that with a $5,000 deductible almost anybody
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> > > > > > > 'afford' health insurance.
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> > > > > > =A0They will be protected from being wiped out financially
from =
illness
> > > > > > or
> > > > > > accident. =A0Is that a bad thing?
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> > > > > Except that the $5,000 deductible will wipe out many, if not
most,=
 of
> > > > > the people in that category, and that many, if not most, things
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> > > > > not covered in the policy you posted.
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> > > > =A0GMAFB, =A0these people buy cars. =A05 grand is a burden but it
wo=
n't
> > > > force bankruptcy.
> > > > Need a loan?http://www.mymedicalloan.com/?PPCCode=3DG309b
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> > > These people will not be able to afford the deductibles in order to
> > > get care *before* it becomes necessary for hospitalization, when
> > > treatment is *less* expensive for the system.
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> > =A0I suppose, cell phones and cable TV and internet are all so
> > expensive.
> > Who's got anything left for health care?
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> And your "proof" that people in this bracket all have "cell phones and
> cable TV and internet"?

Well let's see....How about before tossing them thousands of dollars
in government money, you prove they don't.
BTW, tell the homeless guy who dumped mercury in the subway in LA
and then called it in on his cell phone, to be more careful.

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> > > So you offer a choice of trans****tation or health care. Soon it will
> > > be food or health care.
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> > =A0At least it's a choice. =A0Soon it will be gov't deciding if your
> > life is worth it.
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> No, they won't.

  Lol.   They already do.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN0348007020080403

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> > > (Don't worry, 2pid: I'll insert "whoosh" here now to save the
trouble
> > > of doing so later.)
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> Oh well. Whoosh!
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> > > This assumes they make enough to do so and that their employer
offers
> > > them, neither of which is true in all cases.
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> > =A0You don't need your employer to set up a health care reimbursement
> > account.
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> No, you need extra money. That's something that many people do not
> have, 2pid.

 If they have some income tax withheld, they should be able to do
something.
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> Duh.
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> > > I have an HSA, but I can already afford the deductible. And this
isn't=

> > > all about "me". ;-)
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> > > Here. 2pid:
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> > > In 2005, there were approximately 113,146,000 households in the
United=

> > > States. 19.01% of all households had annual incomes exceeding
$100,000=
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> > > [5] 12.7% fell below the federal poverty threshold[6] and the bottom
> > > 20% earned less than $20,032.[7]
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> > =A0So we have 20% slugs out there who'd rather sit on their ***** than
> > work.
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> Is that what means? Thank you for your 'insight'. LOL!

 Beats your welfare mentality of giving people what they won't
work for.

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> > =A0I'm shocked. =A0And you want to reward them with freebies.
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> Yes, 2pid. I want to reward people who don't work and spend all of
> their excess money on cell phones.

 I know.  The question is why.  What guilty burden are you trying
to releave yourself of?

 ScottW