Comments on: Politicians’ promises

By: czar

czar — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:33:10 +0000

Nothing entitles anyone to anything.
“I may wait a few hours to get a sprained ankle looked at.”
Took me maybe one and a half whole visit in our private system (including wait and looking at).
And what the hell do you care about obama? Damned Canadians insist on sticking your nose into everyone else’s politics.

By: TheZelephant

TheZelephant — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:43:07 +0000

Perhaps you people can take all of your arguements and have them elsewhere and realize this is NOT a discussion board for politics

By: seriously?

seriously? — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:41:25 +0000

How is voter registration fraud not the same as voter fraud? If you are illegally registered, you can illegally vote = voter fraud. So if you are undetected while registering to vote, then you are easily able to illegally vote, and nobody can figure that out unless they go back and realize the registration is faulty.

By: Scuba12

Scuba12 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:52:54 +0000

Obama anyone?

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:35:39 +0000

I dunno–we have public health care up here in Canada and it works great.

By: Res

Res — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:05:22 +0000

And who can forget Mr. Katrina flyover? How scenic! The guy before him had enough financial sense to have plenty of fun at the office!

By: Mordaris

Mordaris — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:31:19 +0000

Vote “None of the above” in 2010!

By: Mordaris

Mordaris — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:30:47 +0000

The “Any Other Time” bar needs to be empty. HOW many vacations has Captain HopeChangey taken, and he’s just starting his eight month in office?

By: Devylan

Devylan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:10:10 +0000

hehehe

By: Devylan

Devylan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:23 +0000

You think? It just wasn’t clearly stated then.

By: forge

forge — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:59:42 +0000

Well it’s a real good thing then that Congress isn’t throwing out the current arrangement at all. There’s no fricking “Federal government takeover” of fricking anything; where do you GET that? The Obama administration and Congress are more beholden to the insurance companies than anyone else in America and that’s really saying something. In short, I’m sorry, I’m afraid you don’t know what you’re talking about.

By: KSY

KSY — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:15:51 +0000

A man with a bleeding leg needs help (reform) but you don’t chop the leg off (throw out everything, including what works very well)! You apply pressure to stop the bleeding (fix what needs fixing) and take time to examine 1) how bad is it, 2) what needs intervention/change, and 3) do no damage to what works. HR 3200 – Obamacare is not about healthcare reform; it is about Federal government take over of our very lives AND an unconstitutional takeover of State’s Rights by the Federal government. Note in this bill how many times you read something like “the Commissioner will have the authority,” – who is this commissioner??? We will not be electing this person and that’s way way way too much power for one person. There’s so many things WRONG with this bill – that’s just a couple of them! And ONE is enough to laugh these people out of the room – a child, okay a completely clueless adolescent wrote this bill.

By: badcat

badcat — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:32:59 +0000

Voter registration fraud is not the same thing as voter fraud. Let’s not start this rubbish again.

By: Blarg

Blarg — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:17:27 +0000

How about a bar of promises that have been broken?

Oh, wait, let me head over to PK for that discussion.

By: Blarg

Blarg — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:16:23 +0000

Zombie Reagan ran on that platform in this last election, but he didn’t even make it to the primaries. Something about a shotgun blast to the head that made him bow out until the 2012 run……

>.>

By: lilpoppa

lilpoppa — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:01:06 +0000

oh SNAP!

By: SCR

SCR — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:50:02 +0000

No, that was ACORN…and just long enough for them to vote.

By: eman

eman — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:04:59 +0000

Which sort of puts everyone right back to…where?…square one. We’ve been interested in comprehensive healthcare for a while now and it doesn’t progress. In the meantime, we are paying out the wazoo for incredibly overpriced emergency room treatment that people without insurance use because they don’t have access to a primary care care physician.

But, like someone else said…they’re poor! Not a problem!

By: sushiman

sushiman — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:45:16 +0000

But poor people don’t deserve healthcare! They’re poor!

…

The Republican viewpoint is a headscratcher indeed.

Then they use Canada as an example of why it won’t work. 90% of what they say is news to me, and I live here. (Yes, I may wait a few hours to get a sprained ankle looked at. But the guy having the heart attack is more important anyways and goes in right away. It’s called triage. And waiting 2 hours is way better than getting a bill for a thousand bucks later)

Us Canadians had such high hopes for Obama, he seemed to have the greatest chance in decades of the US gaining what the rest of the industrialized world has had for generations. You’re not the only ones disappointed. We’re not perfect by any means, but being able to take healthcare for granted is a very nice thing.

By: Ilove2learn (Slayer of Zombies)

Ilove2learn (Slayer of Zombies) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:05:37 +0000

Yay, let’s make zombies! I have some spare dynamite in my pocket!

By: Craven Moorehead

Craven Moorehead — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:27:11 +0000

Homemade hamburgers are (typically) made by hand from fresh ground beef purchased at the store and mixed with seasonings and other ingredients. Because they are mixed and formed by hand, they are often irregular in size, shape, and weight.

Factory hamburgers are made by machines from ground beef and any other substance the company throws in for shelf life, convenience, flavor, or fun. They are formed by machines in order to ensure uniform weight, shape, and size – which makes it easier for rapid cooking and helps decrease the amount of actual thought required for the fast food employee to cook and prepare the hamburger. They are also (very often) frozen for shipping and (hopefully) thawed properly by the staff at the local McDrivethru.

There are a great many reasons why some people in the United States are overweight. Cheap, unhealthy, fast food is not the least of them, that’s for sure.

By: Moore

Moore — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:19:10 +0000

Vote Ficus in 2010!

By: Messier

Messier — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:17:17 +0000

a factory hamburger is made in a factory and a home made hamburger is made in the home.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:36:41 +0000

I think he/she meant to raise taxes on the dead…

By: CM

CM — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:23:02 +0000

Trouble is, one gets the sense that all the “changes” that are being introduced are done so at warp speed, with the sole intention of getting them approved while the “iron is still hot.” The excuse given by the Dems is that “Americans voted OVERWHELMINGLY for change.” Meanwhile, the vote was 52% to 48%, which is hardly overwhelming. Furthermore, our democratic system is supposed to encourage free dialogue, not criticize and curtail it. Such “if you’re not with us you’re against us” diatribe, which was seen as a major shortcoming of the Bush administration (specifically in regards to the war on terror), is heralded by Dems under this administration. The hypocracy is overwhelming (and fascinating).

By: Devylan

Devylan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:56:16 +0000

Yeah, same here.

By: Obama

Obama — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:53:05 +0000

That was the original purpose of the Death Committees.

By: RT

RT — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:50:25 +0000

What’s the point. I’m no Republican, but they ran on the “Contract With America” of 10 promises years ago, and managed to get 8 or 9 of them accomplished when in office. Do you ever hear anything but ridicule over that? You ideological morons who ragged in basically sent the message “we don’t care what you do” and both Parties have been following that advice ever since. All because one side of robots can never admit when the other side actually does soemthing as promised. No, it all has to be “Our side = perfect angels, other side = evil demons” forever and ever while the actual politicians on both side laugh their *asses* off at all of you.

By: X

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:47:02 +0000

Some of us actually support a national system, but slapping together a bill to meet some political headline is not the way to do it. The problem is the media focuses on the wackaloons so the more thoughtful and rational objections to ther current bill are drowned out.

Also, some people seem to think we can take an “EU style system” off the shelf and it’ll just work in our very different situation. There’s also many different systems there- they are not all 100% nationalized and centralized. Did you know Switzerland has a combined public and private system? I personally like the Netherlands system where private insurance covers short term care and public insurance for long term.

By: Student

Student — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:43:50 +0000

I have a question..
How exactly does a factory made hamburger differ from a home made hamburger? Which one is better in terms of health and safety?

I’ve heard hamburgers are the reason why Americans are fat .

By: Boter

Boter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:39:40 +0000

For those of us in New York looking at our senate this summer, they didn’t even promise to show up to work.

ALL INCUMBENTS GETTING VOTED OUT come November.

By: Cache Videos

Cache Videos — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:15:41 +0000

Thanks for the info. Who asked you??

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:04:48 +0000

The attempt was noble but the massive amounts of mis-information was insurmountable. Ignorance wins.

By: i_@m_#1

i_@m_#1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:03:52 +0000

I’m fairly sure that I’ve never heard a president promise to raise the dead.

By: parksj1

parksj1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:44:22 +0000

Can we compare promises to what they actually accomplish?

By: Alcari

Alcari — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:34:19 +0000

A hamburger is a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground meat, usually beef, placed in an open bun or between two slices of bread. Hamburgers are often served with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, or cheese and condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and relish. Hamburgers are usually a feature of fast food restaurants. The hamburgers served in major fast food establishments are mass-produced in factories and frozen for delivery to the site. These hamburgers are thin and of uniform thickness, differing from the traditional American hamburger prepared in homes and conventional restaurants, which is thicker and prepared by hand from ground beef.

The term “Hamburger” originally derives from the German town of Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city. In German, “Burg” means castle, and the term “ham” could derive from the word “hamme”, a denomination for a moraine hillside. However, this remains unclear until now.

By: Alcari

Alcari — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:32:23 +0000

And when someone finally DOES reform healthcare, half the country opposes it because they don’t have a clue what it’s actually about.

-prepares for incomming flames-

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:08:49 +0000

FIRST!