Control Freaks

"It may even come a time, sooner than later, that you could be denied health care because of your weight"

There is no reason to spread fear about the possibility of this situation occurring when it is already a reality. Insurance companies do deny health care based on weight. Maybe if the author was actually interested in the facts, rather than just supporting their right-wing ideology and spreading fear, they may have known this. But... if he was truly interested in facts, he probably wouldn't be leaning so far to the right anyway.

"It wont be long"... Got fear? Get off the propaganda!

Once again you have are confused. I don't know what this make believe Democrat Party that you've made up is, but a quick search of political parties in the United States yields no such party.

"The Democrat Party is suffering under a mass delusion that they should not only control your life, but they damn well must control your life. They know best. They know what your weight should be. They know what medical treatment you need, not you or your doctor.

It won't be long before you are told how many kids you can have. Why should the taxpayer pay for all your babies if you want five children? That isn't fair to the career couple that has decided that careers are more important than kids. Why should a couple with no kids pay for all your kids?"

Sounds more like today's Republican Party, who aside from telling you who you can and cannot date is under this delusion that they can tell you which religion to believe and what you can do in the comfort of your own home. Of course the party leaders don't have to follow the guidelines just everyone else.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Mr. Eldridge, paranoia extraordinaire.

Reader,

Do you really believe the reason for tobacco tax and this healthcare plan is to cover costs of tobacco related illnesses? I do not. What happens when the price of cigarettes are so high people stop buying them and that revenue stream is dried up? By your stated logic, can that tax revenue no longer be needed because there will be no more lung cancer from cigarettes?

Mike is partially correct, that does sound like something the Republican Party would do, just as it is something the Democratic Party would do. Political parties are in the business of gaining power not doing what the people want. The hypocrisy on both sides is getting out of hand.

I remember some of my liberal friends calling me paranoid when I said that democrats would try making health care coverage mandatory and sure enough, I was right.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_o...

It's just the first step to force people into the so-called "public option" from the government. First, they force you to get health insurance like you do your car except if you can't afford car insurance you don't drive and you don't get a $1,000 fine for not having car insurance if you drive without coverage. There is no similiar option for mandatory health insurance and the fine is astronomical compared to auto insurance.

The next step is to set prices so low (at the taxpayers' expense) that other companies can't compete and still be profitable so they are taken over by the government or dissolved completely.

A public option is one thing but mixing it with mandatory health insurance coverage under the threat of a $1,000 fine, changes the ball game completely. It removes the public's option to refuse to pay for health insurance entirely. It is a perfect example of government thinking it knows best.

Until 2009, "HYSTERICAL NINNIES" was a description generally reserved for frantic elderly ladies voicing their frantic fears in City Council meetings.

Now, it easily describes a whole bunch of ultra conservative self motivated fearful children outraged because after having two presidential elections stolen via corrupt GOP election scams -- the Democrats got organized and won the 2008 election by a wide majority.

No "hanging chads" -- No broken machines in Democratic precincts. No cops stopping Democratic voters and ordering them to return home and to stay away from the polls.

Since November, we have seen endless tears and fears from the ultra right -- those folks who want federal laws to control everyone's bedroom and bodies. Those are the CONTROL FREAKS.

Imagination and paranoia are two powerful tools. I also remember the story of the young woman who was brutally beat by a black man in Philadelphia because she was wearing a McCain button. The fact that she made up the entire story was immaterial for the imagination and paranoia crowd who ran with it all the way through election night.

We should have elected NADER

So I take it you don't pay for car insurance which is require by law?

I don't really see what the problem with everyone having affordable health care coverage is. Having health insurance or not isn't a right it's a privelege. There's no where in the constitution that gives you a right to have or refuse health care insurance.

It's interesting how you all call into question ANYTHING from snopes.com, because it doesn't give you the answers you want and you allege that they have a liberal slant on topics, (I never realized quantifiable research could have a slant) and then expect us to take without question information you pull from notoriously extreme right wing blogsites and Fox News (the bastion of the right wing, who so far in 2009, has not had one positive thing to say about Obama, but couldn't stop singing the praises of the Bush Administration for eight years, yeah they don't have a slant ... HA).

"So I take it you don't pay for car insurance which is require by law?"

Nice try. I choose to drive and therefore, I pay for insurance. If I drive, I pay. I can live with that. What is my option with mandatory health care coverage? I breathe, I pay? I can't live with that.

Did you ever think that not everyone wants health care coverage regardless of whether the government tells them it's affordable or not? Some people just don't want it but again, government knows best and we simple folk just don't know any better.

There's no where in the Constitution that says we have a right to privacy either. Does that mean landlords can spy on their tenants in their apartments or is privacy from a landlord's prying eyes just a privelege too?

If Obama's plan is so great then why force people to get health insurance? If everyone is in such dire need of health insurance and his plan is the answer to all their prayers then why does he need to force people to get coverage? Especially, since he says the "competition" will make prices affordable. If you really think about it, it doesn't make sense, assuming he believes in his "public option" which I predict will become less optional as time goes by and the plan actually goes into effect.

SAM,

Hate to put a fly in your soup, but the meltdown of the housing market started in 2006 in much of Rural America.

Particularly with manufactured homes.

Specifically, in early 2006, there were more than 500 known home lenders for manufactured homes or mobile homes.

Before December 31, 2006, there were fewer than a dozen national lenders. (i.e. - State Farm Banks of St. Louis and Joliet, Ill. dropped out of a market where they had been major lenders.)

Why -- largely because the woefully mismanaged FEMA, with Bush's Texas quarter horse race promoter in charge, opened up some ridiculous emergency home loan programs. Regardless of credit history, work history, ability to pay anything at all -- Just claim to be affected by a hurricane or flood, and get 100% FHA insured home loans. With two major hurricanes, FEMA rules gave FHA insurance for tens of thousands of emergency shelter double wide homes.

The bulk of those ended up in foreclosure within two years.

Guess who profited from this.

Try the manufacturers, who were allowed to inflate prices and profits to ridiculous levels.

The FEMA Hurricane Relief program was operating.

That launched a total panic in the manufactured home market. Since many rural counties since 1965 have seen a sizable majority of new homes in the Mobile Home world. Destruction of the financial underpinnings for those home loans essentially destroyed the rural housing market.

That was the first disaster created by DubYah's FEMA operation. Hurricane Katrina was the second.

The upside down FEMA relief program was the worst disaster to strike the Gulf Coast and New Orleans.

Guess what Sam, all of these were long before Obama had any say about it.

Guess who was in the White House, with frequent tax supported holidays at the Crawford, Texas ranch?

Two clues -- He wasn't from Chicago and he was not even a little bit BLACK? He was a recognized Viet Name era Draft Dodger, as were his Vice President and Secretary of Defense, both well-known HAWKS.

(Rich man's war, poor man's fight.)