Monkeys and Their Football

[Bitnis]

The majority party can't stand the fact that they are the minority party when it comes to their recipe for health care reform. They look like monkeys and their football trying to run a touchdown to the wrong goal post.

They keep forgetting that nobody cares about health care when they don't have a job or a house. I believe the official unemployment rate in my county is 13%. So the real number means that approximately 1 out of every 4 people is without a job or underemployed.

They wasted an entire year of our time and money on something that should have been further down the list. Talk about out of touch. In the real world, there should be some people getting fired right now.

 

[moonlightandmargaritas]

They look like monkeys and their football trying to run a touchdown to the wrong goal post.

Many on here are probably too young to remember when the Vikings Jim Marshall scored - for the 49ers!

 

[Winter_123]

They wasted an entire year of our time and money on something that should have been further down the list. Talk about out of touch. In the real world, there should be some people getting fired right now.

Health reform is important but Obama was allowed to campaign for a full year without ever laying out a plan. So we were nowhere when he took office. We do have other priorities, but as Obama says, we have to be able to do multiple things such as health care, the economy, anti-terrorism, and a national energy policy. Problem is he is failing at all of them.

He takes issues and wants to make a big convulated socialist, big, big government mess out of them. So ironically, the man who said he can do everything puts us in a position where we have to pick which one we are able to work on at any given time. Big mistake. Terrorism, oil crisis, financial collapse, Afg or Iran can all blow up at any time. And the dems are right in the sense that the cost of doing nothing in the health reform arena is catastrophic. Get ready for another big convoluted stimulus program to add to the first one, whatever that did. Keep it convoluted, and then wonder why the people can be for jobs but against his bills, in the same way that he is totally confused as to why people are for health reform but against Obamacare.

Problem is, Obama is not the one to tackle those issues. Too convoluted, too global, too much attempt to try to make sure that marxist theory does not get lost along the way, and too much emphasis on hand-outs rather than improved strategy. If his recent mess (a/k/a Obamacare) causes the country to turn away from realistic reforms then it will be uglier each time it rears up because we are well on our way to single payer unless we put something smarter into place as an alternative.

We have just reached the halfway mark where half of the country now gets its health care through a government program. All we have to do just keep on keeping on and we will get to single payer although not by flipping a switch the way the dems had planned. Once we reach the 75% mark, that last 25% will come almost overnight because it will not be that big a leap.
I am 100% in favor of moving ahead on health reform. Of course after the elections is better.