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Posted: Nov 24, 2012

The Obama administration proposed 80 new regulations… today posted at 2:11 pm on November 23, 2012 by Erika Johnsen "The Obama administration proposed at least 80 new regulations the day after Thanksgiving (go ahead and give ‘em a scroll-through for some good times), adding to the now 1,773 proposed in the last thirty days. …But tax hikes on the wealthy and more government spending are what we need to get our economy going again. Uh-huh." http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/11/23/the-obama-administration-proposed-80-new-regulations-today/ ;

....and if it weren't for Fox and other RW sites, the public - would never know this. He counts on it.

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I'm sorry, but Fox viewers are profoundly mislead. - Short version: Suckers. nm

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that should be misled, not mislead.... - anon

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can't even put a sentence together correctly. short version...well, you figure it out.

Insults are prohibited, as is acting as the - spelling police. nm

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insults??? can anyone point out an insult here, - anon

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when the one that was posted to had a definite insult in it...sucker??? hmmm. me thinks it is the pot calling the kettle.... :)

Whatever. Both spellings are correct, BTW. - nm

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Saying someone "can't even put a sentence together correctly" is.... - sm

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an insult, especially in an MT community. I guess you are not an MT or you would understand.

how disingenuous do you get? - lol

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"can't even put a sentence together correctly" is an insult. You can run, anon, but hiding your insults inside your post doesn't make you honest.

Obamacare is going into effect, extending health insurance - to as many of us as possible. SM

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The Affordable Care Act, House Speaker John Boehner aside, is going to go into effect. The rules are being written, and in about half the states work has already begun to set up their side of the program. But there are obstacles beyond just Republican governors dragging their heels.

Here's one of the bigger challenges: how to bring in the millions of people who are completely unaware of the options they will have under the new law.

Part of the problem, experts say, is that people who will be affected don’t realize the urgency because the subsidies won’t begin for another year. But policy decisions are being made now that will affect tens of millions of Americans, and the lack of public awareness could jeopardize a system that depends on having many people involved. Low enrollment could lead to higher premiums, health policy experts say. Hospitals worry that, without widespread participation, they will continue getting stuck with patients’ unpaid medical bills.

And advocates say the major purpose of the Affordable Care Act – extending health insurance to more Americans – will go unmet if large numbers of vulnerable people don’t take advantage of it. [...]
Seventy-eight percent of the uninsured Americans who are likely to qualify for subsidies were unfamiliar with the new coverage options in a survey by Democratic polling firm Lake Research Partners. That survey, sponsored by the nonprofit Enroll America, also found that 83 percent of those likely to qualify for the expansion of Medicaid, which is expected to cover 12 million Americans, were unaware of the option.

In separate October polling data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 41 percent of voters described themselves as “confused” about the health-care law.

Sabotage has been a big part of the Republican fight to make sure that the Affordable Care Act doesn't succeed, their fallback position to doomed repeal efforts. Keeping the public uncertain about the fate of the law and confused on the aspects of the law is definitely part of that effort.
So is Boehner's promise of never-ending "investigations" by the House into the implementation of the law. House Republicans have already started in, specifically targeting the Department of Health and Human Services efforts to publicize the new law.

A number of non-profit organizations have formed a coalition under the umbrella Enroll America, "whose mission is to ensure that all Americans are enrolled in and retain health coverage." It's planning an advertising campaign to inform the public of options under the new law, but confusion in the states where Republican governors are gumming up the works will complicate that effort as well.

The Affordable Care Act will move forward. Now the fight is going to be making it a success.

Obamacare is going into effect - despite not enough money to fund it

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Freebies are not free. It's a financial disaster in the making.

hmmmm - anon

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Department of Health and Human Services....."welfare"! and "qualify for subsides" again, "Welfare". I don't want to be on "welfare." I don't want to be included in that group of "welfare recipients." Designed for losers who do not want to work for what they take from other hard working people. Count me out!!! I hope "enrollment" stays low. I hope the "gumming up the works" continues. I hope the "investigations" continue. "Inform the public of options" under the "new law...". If it is a "law", there are no "options." just "do it, or else." I do not respond well to "demands" made upon my personal freedom of "choice."

Happily, you can leave yourself out. How about a Norquist- - type pledge for the rest of your life? nm

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apparently I won't have that "choice" either... - anon

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being in the over 60 group, I won't "qualify" for "reasonable health care" anyway....with the policy of "let 'em die, cause we can't afford it." This is only for the younger crowd who keep spitting out babies and expect everybody else to care for them.

Of course you will. Just say, "No, I won't share - in it." You can do that on your own. No

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need to look for someone to instruct you. You're a free citizen. Stand on your beliefs.

not free... - anon

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if I attempt to "stand on my beliefs, I will be "fined for it" if I do not comply with the order from above that I HAVE to or else! that's not freedom...check into the country of N. Korea once, because that is what USA is becoming and quickly!

You just buy private insurance, as before, that has nothing to - do with the state/federal programs.

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You do that anyway, right? You're not one of the spongers riding on the backs of the rest of us?

oh sure....seems more like you are riding on the backs - anon

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of the rest of US...gimmee, gimmee, gimmee "free healthcare", so I don't have to pay for YOU.

I don't partake in capitalistic "doctors" and their ego-centered ideas of diagnoses and treatments. I trust my Lord to keep me healthy and it has worked well for me over the years....see no need for "forced insurance." I have NO medical bills whatsoever and have not had in over 30 years...so YOU are not paying for ME in any way, shape, or form! So YOU are the sponge who wants me to help pay for your healthcare or be fined for not doing so...and your birth control....and your murdering of children...excuse me...forgot the NICE word of "abortion." I don't want to be forced to pay for YOU either! ha!

Let it all out - grits

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... all of that anger is toxic, and it's going to land you in the hospital sooner or later. You might want to look into biofeedback or other healthy ways of channeling it.

ha ha.... a little humor is the best medicine! - anon

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and you provided that...free of charge...unless you want to put it "on my account," to be paid at a later date with all that free forced insurance. No anger here....meditate daily...something you should try. Your own words have been pretty toxic themselves over the past few months, what with all the bullying you and your cronies have been doling out previous to and since the election. You may want to try a bit of that biofeedback yourself... you may find out where your own anger lies, ...maybe within??

try to remember - ...

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we don't know who we are talking to, so it sounds kind of nutty when we call someone out by saying "you" and "your" and "your cronies". lol.

Yes, well, turns out you can't refuse to partake. I didn't - know you were one of those not

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buying insurance for yourself already. You win the argument.

I do believe in personal freedom as much as possible. For those who've obtained genuine maturity (maybe 28 or so) and are mentally competent, I would support an opt-out clause where people found ill or injured would not be taken to a hospital and cared for.

The problem is less philosophical and more practical for me. An opted-out motorist in a traffic accident--moving him to the side of the road to live or die would be messy and distressing to viewers, often a physical obstruction to neighborhood life for as long as the person was alive, and then there's disposal of the body if he dies. When home was close by, those people could be delivered home by ambulances that did not provide medical care, but who pays for even that? And what about the others who don't have a home nearby? Or cases of infectious disease? We will have real, lethal epidemics eventually. They can't be left lying around, even at home, for public health reasons.

Then, of course, many (most? almost all?) in the midst of suffering and facing the specter of death would change their minds, and we'd have to give them care if they asked for it, even knowing they'd never ever be able to pay for it. That'd be just like now.

It just wouldn't work, but if it could and you were competent to make these decisions I would support your right to refuse to participate in any way.

Oh, dear. - oh, boy

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Let's hope the lord doesn't chose you to be one of his lucky cancer patients.

took the words out of my mouth - breaks my heart (nm)

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:(

you can't break something one does not have. nm - nm

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There's a story about a man in a flood that applies here. - grits

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Stop me if you've heard this one. A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says "get in, get in!" The religious man replies, "I believe in the Lord and the Lord will save me."

Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy operating it tells him to get in. The man repeats, "I believe in the Lord and the Lord will save me."

With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down the offer again 'cause "I believe in the Lord and the Lord will save me."

With the water at chin high, a helicopter throws down a ladder and they tell him to get in, mumbling with the water in his mouth, he again turns down the request for help: "I believe in the Lord and the Lord will save me."

Eventually he drowns and arrives at the gates of heaven and is granted an audience with God. "I was faithful to you till the end," the man cries, "and you let me down!"

God shakes his head and responds, "I don't know what you're complaining about. I sent you three boats and a helicopter."

there is also another story.... - nm

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Lord, i believe in you, I pray constantly for a cure for cancer, for heart disease, for all physical ailments to be healed. Why have you not answered my prayers.

the Lord responds...."but I did answer your prayers."

But why then are these things not cured?

the Lord responds...."I answered every one of your prayers for the cures for these diseases and ailments. I sent the ones who would find these cures, but you killed them."

While you're obviously referring to abortion - grits

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...the kid in question could just as easily have been Iraqi. Palestinian? A rock-throwing Mexican, perhaps?

"...the least of these..."

and the point is??? - numkins

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you don't make any sense...as usual.

You get it. You may not want to admit it - grits

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because you dislike the messenger, but you get it.

Hey - mbmt

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What grits said made perfect sense to me.

he did.... - nm

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he sent you.

You just called a poster cancer. - wow.

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Moderator?

See if I care scum bag president - anon

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Trust the Lord and do the best you can to take care of yourself, that's me. Don't trust the goons in the government to do it for you. I haven't had health insurance for over four years after I was laid off from a decent job and had to take a lousy company job. I got along just fine without it. I am not a freeloader either. I will not participate in his scam and don't tell me you are paying for my healthcare. I agree with "oh sure seems like you are riding on the backs - anon." I have no intention of paying any penalty either. I will not conform to this ridculous healthcare plan. It is unconstitutional as everything has gotten to be under that scum so-called president of the United States. You can take him and shove him.

Count me in too, will not participate in this scam. - anon

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Count me out too. I might as well live in shanty town to afford this crap. I have no intentions of participating in this and I don't care what happens to me. I will ignore it.

IRS: Tax Rates for Wealthiest Fall Again in 2010, - continuing a trend SM

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"Effective tax rates fell for high-income households in 2010, continuing a long-term trend that is fueling momentum for rewriting tax rules.

The Internal Revenue Service said in a report released Wednesday afternoon that average effective tax rates — the percentage a taxpayer actually pays after deductions and other breaks — fell for every income group [...]"

(Thank you, President Obama.) Rest of article at the Wall Street Journal.

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