BS: Republican Arseholes

Subject: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Greg F.
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 03:06 PM

Commentary: 'Obamacare Fight' Shows GOP's Contempt for Non-Rich People
Yahoo Contributor Network By Jared Spurbeck
18 September 2013

Let's get a few things straight.

First, House Republicans are not going to stop Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. (This website explains what it actually does.) They're not going to prevent freeloaders from having to buy health insurance (to help pay for care for people with actual medical conditions, which the ACA also requires insurance companies to stop coming up with excuses not to cover them), and they're not going to prevent the Medicaid expansion, which will let poor families and workers get chronic and life-threatening medical conditions taken care of. Their leadership has very publicly refused to commit to a course of action, and it's kind of ridiculous to talk about "defunding Obamacare" in the first place.

Second, it's even more ridiculous to talk about generally defunding the government (via refusing to raise the debt ceiling or continuing "sequestration") versus letting Americans have some semblance of the health care coverage people in practically every other first-world country have already. That's because those aren't the only two options on the table. We can choose what we want our society to look like, and it doesn't have to be a "winner-take-all, the rest of you fight for the scraps" universe.

I currently depend on government-funded health care for life-saving medical interventions, through hard-to-find and hard-to-sign-up-for programs that I didn't even know existed and that put a hard limit on how often I can see a health care professional. I wanted to go on Medicaid in 2014, but the Republicans in my state of North Carolina rejected federal funding of the ACA Medicaid expansion, over the protest of the state's doctors and even though it'd cost them nothing.

I'm scared that my life will be thrown away.

Right now, we have widespread unemployment and poverty because no one's spending enough to justify hiring more workers. Poor and middle-class Americans can't spend the money, and people with unearned wealth simply aren't.

We, as a society, go to a lot of trouble to make life easier for rich people. We build the roads, bridges, and public schools that make the United States a better and safer place to do business than Somalia, and even though they get most of the benefits, we don't even make them pay their fair share of the cost. Instead, we let them deduct practically everything from their taxes, avoid paying corporate income tax, and rewrite the tax laws every year with the help of their full-time accountants.

"Sequestration" is basically rich people saying -- via the House Republicans -- "screw you all, my $300,000 wristwatch is more important than your child's health care." Or her preschool program, or her breakfast, or her teacher's salary. Why do we think this is OK? Do we really have to let people curl up and die -- 502 of them every week in 2010 -- to make sure rich people get to keep all the unearned wealth that we worked so hard to give them?

Why are we even talking about this in the 21st century?
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Jared Spurbeck lives in Cary, N.C.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 03:10 PM

Watch you language!


It's assholes.

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 03:25 PM

Well I'm English and the original spelling is fine by me- we have the same rightwing arseholes running Britain... reminds me of Peter Elliott, lifetime leftie and fine singer of Birtley, County Durham- just south of Newcastle upon Tyne if our US friends can find that on a map. Anyway he died and at the celebration after his humanist funeral, his will was read out. He left his banjo to... his records to .... and his arsehole to the UK Tory party.... as his will 'stated to join the rest of them..'

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Greg F.
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 04:16 PM

Good job, Mr. Elliott.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 04:35 PM

Republicans give nether apertures a bad name...

Just sayin'.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Joe_F
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 05:03 PM

Arseholes have their uses.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Greg F.
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 05:08 PM

As opposed to Republicans?

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 05:49 PM

Republicans do have a use..... they can always serve as bad examples and object lessons.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 05:54 PM

That petrol emotion.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Greg F.
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 06:39 PM

they can always serve as bad examples and object lessons.

Apparently not to a significant and growing segment of the U.S population, which thinks they're just wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 07:24 PM

If you called a republican an arsehole, he may say no, I am an American.
:)

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 07:26 PM

I'm not sure about the "growing" -- they still haven't figured out why they lost a couple recent elections.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Sep 13 - 08:18 PM

"If you called a republican an arsehole, he may say no, I am an American"

Well we did have a thread about the fact there's no specific term for citizens of the USA, but I really don't think that would be a good one to adopt.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 08:55 AM

Like!!

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: GUEST,Musket musing
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 09:49 AM

All those years with having to put up with Webster and his infernal dictionary and now at long last you are beginning to learn to spell correctly.

Well done old chaps!

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: GUEST,Jim Knowledge
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 12:46 PM

I `ad a couple of American fellahs in my cab the other day. Studious guys, both with copies of the "New York Times", deeply engrossed in the reports.
I could `ear `em when they started talking about the news and one said,
    "`ere Chuck, now this Syrian bizz has got really serious where are all the Republican arseholes?"

The other one said, with a twinkle in `is eye, "Right at the top of their Republican legs, I guess!!"

Made me laugh!!


Whaddam I Like??

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 08:41 PM

The TeaPub Party is desperate...

It is in the middle of a civil war within while trying to hold up its obstructionism...

They are toast...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 09:19 PM

"... you are beginning to learn to spell correctly."


So... are Worchestershire and Cholmondeley spelled incorrectly or pronounced wrong? ;>)

'Most' of our colonial spelling shows our desire to be economical... we leave out those useless extra letters & syllables, which probably saves tons of printers ink every year!

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 09:47 PM

Agreed, Bill. However, I do prefer 'lift' over 'elevator'.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: GUEST,musket not giving in
Date: 20 Sep 13 - 01:56 AM

Quicker to write s than z. Just proved it.

Many years ago in sales conferences of a large multinational I learned the noble art of verbing nouns. Two things here. 1. It was in Chicago. 2. I'm sure it would have been "verbalizing." (My phone's spell checker has no problem with that word. Grrrr)

Mind you, back then in the 80s I also mentioned how much I loved faggots. .....

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 20 Sep 13 - 05:48 AM

There's not a lot wrong with Republican arseholes, apart from each one being attached to a Republican, the upside of which however, is that with Republicans most of the shit comes from the other end.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Republican Arseholes
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 13 - 10:27 AM

That's why it is most disgusting to see them eat their words.