Obama: “America might go the way of GM if we don’t fix the healthcare system.”
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i love his “ordinary american” name dropping…
“did i tell you all, about, Bob, and Loretta Jones, from Nashville? Their dog, needs braces, and that, is, a travesty.”
@gherkin- don’t let the fact that it’s done by every single politician on either side of the aisle get in the way of a good quip.
Pay Restrictions for EVERYONE !
Do what I say or else?? Very sophisticated persuasion from the one.
@4- uh, he didn’t say that, but don’t let that bother you.
4 Sarah Snowpants would def have done a lot better. Grandpa would have died from a heart attack by now, and it would be all hers. Thank your stars that smart people are in charge for a change.
Yeah, well it’s cool, Leon Panetta’s got the CIA running tight, so when we go banana boat, we’ll be able to complete the purges without much trouble.
So if Barry is correct in his prognostication the following will occur:
1. America will beg for a bail out
2. President will be fired Waggoner style
I like the way this may turn out…..
If Obama manages to implement any meaningful kind of health care reform I’ll eat my own shit.
- Porker Stansburry
Would that not insinuate (by recent precedent)that he would be forced to resign?
does that mean he’s going to force us into bankruptcy and screw our creditors all for the sake of the unions that elected him?
He does it every time. With a new character. Stick to one and that might be entertaining. Union Eunice, Factory Freddy.It will be like Garbage Pail Kids!
@11- know your automaker bankruptcies, dumb fuck.
all you fat people get to growing your vegetables now! i sit here and have a smoke…
Yes–because nothing will prevent us from “going the way of GM” like massive spending and debt load to subsidize the most useless assets we have–sick, poor people.
how can you guys not agree with this point. “no fatties!”?
If Obama manages to implement his definition of meaningful healthcare reform, you and the rest of us will be eating shit, fake-Porker @9.
I don’t wish that on any of us.
I heard that they’re gonna ban Ding Dongs and Tastee Cakes. Anyone else heard this?
@17- you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
what do you mean, “go the way of GM?”
if you mean cannibalized by bloated, yankee, unionized socialism…then RIGHT YOU ARE!!!!
@18- NOOOOOOOO
-S Cohen
@20? yankee, unionized socialism?
What does that mean? How does Yankee fit in?
I would like to nominate myself for Czar Czar.
Walter Mitty
@19 – no, asshole. That’s why I made a point to phrase it as a hypothetical, and to further say “I don’t wish that on any of us”
Read for comprehension, please.
#20 – the south is full of fat slobs
the easiest way to rile up a yankee is to use the word “yankee.”
well, that, and fucking around with their ridiculously over-compensated union employment.
Thank god I live in Dallas where folks still have a little dignity and class.
That is offensive @32. How do you live with yourself?
28 Did you just time travel?
Do people still believe his absurd fear mongering?
LOL LOL @ 28
moderators: Post #27 offends me. Please see that it is removed.
@27 Yeah, right, only in your own minds! You embraced Bush. I say that just about sums it up, Genius!
As for healthcare, has the government EVER done anything more efficient than private industry? Has the government EVER done it better and/or cheaper and/or with fewer errors. Do you really want the DMV in your hospital room????!!!! Ugh!
Sure, it sucks that a bunch of people don’t have healthcare, but when you get sick, don’t you want the best care regardless of cost?
Didn’t Dallas invent the Dutch Rudder?
Time traveling is racist.
Survival of the fittest!
Let ‘em die…
why am i not surprised that people from the region which embraced unions wholeheartedly, a pure form of socialism, grow big fat rubbery ones when totally socialized medicine is put on the table…
more handouts for the area of the country which SURVIVES on handouts and heavy-handed socialism…
Here’s a thought for how to price things:
First 80 pounds per person free (free health care for the kiddies!).
Next 100 pounds is $20/pound/year premiums
Next 50 pounds is $50/pound
$1000/pound after that.
Sounds about right…..
Healthcare: high-quality, affordable and coverage for everyone. Good luck with that.
40′s on to something.
40 I’m 9’3″ and a svelt 390 lbs I don’t think this is fair.
@ 43 – Goliath
preshiate cha’ AMA
Health costs? FU, that’s for whitey…
The One is doing a fantastic job and, yes @6, the “smart” people are in charge… You fking tool.
@11 You are correct. Don’t hate the playah, hate the game.
- Robert Mugabe
@41 And government run to boot! You’ll be lucky to get one of the three!
@ 43 – Goliath
@40 – I don’t think the anorexic’s should get free rides. They have a lot of emotional problems that will be costly. But your plan has potential.
FUCK THE UNIONS
do they have free healthcare in “pokkyston?”
What’s a playah?
Um, I don’t think the demise of GM was a result of them NOT offering generous benefits like high-quality low cost health care to their employees.
@52 – it’s kinda like a record player
@46: you forgot to include the usually expected comments about how Bush screwed everything up, prior administration did notthing, time for change, blah blah blah.
Please be more consistent in future moronic emails.
Sincerely,
People that have to read emails from morons
@46: you forgot to include the usually expected comments about how Bush screwed everything up, prior administration did notthing, time for change, blah blah blah.
Please be more consistent in future moronic emails.
Sincerely,
People that have to read emails from morons
@40 – that made a lot more sense than I initially thought it would.
Worrisome, that.
it’s bad enough they are talking about taxing soft drinks that aren’t labeled “diet”…why do I have to suffer because some fat a$$ can’t find time in his day to work out? how about walking around the mall 2x before you go in for that second donut? and now this? I didn’t think he meant “socialism” when he was talking about all that “change” stuff. anyone travel to canada looking for healthcare recently?
The One is great at making the LMAO posts flow. One line with “Obama” generates is good for 60 posts in an hour…300 on a weekend lmao
Hopefully Barry’s well on the way to getting our global community as organized as chicago was. Dude handles business (and just wait until that bball court is setup @ the whitehouse..).
@58, what in the Sam Hell did you think he was going to be? If you were President and your party had control of Congress, would you really try to be pragmatic, move to the center or just do whatever the fk you wanted? Yeah, good thing we learned to fear one party govt after Bush…
High health care costs for both retirees and employees were a major contributing factor to GM’s decline. So yeah, i agree with the BHO — We don’t get a handle on health care costs, we’re going down the toilet.
Love all the wingnut interpretations of the quote, though.
BLANUS!
60 bball court already there, douche. Also bowling alley, tennis courts and other amenities built by his predecessors on both sides of the aisle
Interesting anecdote… Pittsburgh has more MRI machines than all of Canada.
How many people shilling for universal healthcare would be willing to wait a year for an MRI?
@1
Nice!
Question for the illiterate, yet Bible-toting Right:
Would Christ be a free-marketer or a socialist? Discuss.
@60,
I heard Obama and Ahmedinejad were going to settle the whole Iran situation with a game of H-O-R-S-E.
@63: please read below and then wipe the peanut butter off your balls. Your cat’s distracting you again.
regards,
“I hear there’s a bowling alley and obviously that hasn’t gone too well,” Obama told comic Jimmy Kimmel in a satellite interview from Philadelphia on Sunday. “So we’re getting rid of the bowling alley and replacing it with a basketball court in the White House.”
If anyone has ever had to goto the DMV down by Wall Street or the Post Office on Lex and like 53rd, then you know just how bad Gov’t supplied services can be.
67 I thought he was a Jew?
@ 24, the correct answer to @ 19 was “No!” Please respect the fine usage of a Happy Gilmore quote.
@63- my apologies. Those instructions were meant for @64 (unless you also have peanut butter on your balls and your cat’s licking it off. In that case, please heed them as well).
tnx
73 Fail!! STFU
@71 Hence free-marketer…
I am getting mixed messages from this thread. So it is ok to bleach my anus, but it is not ok to have my cat lick peanut butter off my balls? Or is it the other way around?
Captain Terrific
75 FAIL! Recall He threw all the free-marketers out of His Father’s temple.
creative, @74. tnx for trying. i’m sure mom and dad over in rockland cty couldn’t be prouder that their son slappy mcdipshit’s killin it over in metrotech for jpm.
78, in all respects that matter, I am better than you.
Enough said. We don’t want Bess to break Greg’s record.
@77 That was because of the socialist priests that required those specific animals for sacrifice. Besides, hating on other free-market people is a prerequisite for being a free-marketer.
LMAO! 400?
@82- you know she has already, right? cool.
@ 79 is my secretary. pls fill in the blanks about what happens next.
81. Huh?? Prereq? You’re obviously not a Christian. So stop posting on this topic.
@83
But how many days did it take her? Greg’s amazing performance happened over the weekend and started just around closing time on Friday. Can’t beat that.
@86- it took her 3 days (same amount as greg, fri/sat/sun) to get to where he is now, 319, and then beat him by thirty. http://dealbreaker.com/2008/12/advice-to-our-hedge-fund-frien.php#comments
suck it.
87 suck it? Hmm, are you that dude from Pomona?
@85
1) You don’t have to be a Christian to understand the Bible.
2) What do you think the money changers were selling if they weren’t selling animals for sacrifice?
@87
Greg’s not done yet. Plus she did it from Wednesday to Friday, much easier to do.
suck it.
89 you are missing the basic points… were the money changers thrown out of His house or not? Doesn’t matter what they were selling; the problem was that they were selling in a temple.
Jesus would be a Democrat – I mean socialist.
92 correct. The point is the Democrats actions of empathy, compassion are more Christ-like. Amazing, shocking that the Republicans somehow has the media convinced they are the more Christ-like party. Nope…the fact is the Republicans are the modern-day Pharisees that persecuted Christ.
Greg was spawned from Hitler’s anus.
@91 You must have a different interpretation of “den of robbers” than I do. There is nothing wrong with selling animals for people to sacrifice. They are sold at the Temple to ensure they meet cleanliness requirements. Jesus’s problem was that they were robbing people by charging prices way over what is fair, the priests enabled it, and people were getting filthy rich off a necessary religious practice.
@92 I’m not sure how to interpret that: nice work!
@72 – my bad, sorry.
There are lots of movies with timeless quotes. Sadly, Happy Gilmore, for me, isn’t one of those.
@91 You must have a different interpretation of “den of robbers” than I do. There is nothing wrong with selling animals for people to sacrifice. They are sold at the Temple to ensure they meet cleanliness requirements. Jesus’s problem was that they were robbing people by charging prices way over what is fair, the priests enabled it, and people were getting filthy rich off a necessary religious practice.
@92 I’m not sure how to interpret that: nice work!
I am typing this as I pound my secretary in her ass.
95, no you might have a different interpretation of free-markets than I do. Firms set prices, not at cost, but at people’s willingness to pay. Charging people way over what was fair = above the firms cost of capital.
@93 Jesus didn’t steal money from the rich to promote social agenda.
@99 Thanks for the Econ 101 lesson. I never would have figured out free-market trading without you.
@90- yes, but the comments on BL’s post were actually in reference to the post, and not just “you suck greg” or iterations of “anus.”
100, true but Jesus did say it is difficult, but not impossible, for the rich to enter Heaven. Repent.
101 you need to work on your critical thinking skills. You are almost there, though. Re-read the post, think about it, and I’m sure we will post again.
@103 What does that have to do with Socialism?
The classic debate over jesus’ political philosophy …
Oh wait, I’m not listening to Hannity and Colmes!?!
@104 Thanks for the High School Counseling 101 lesson. I wouldn’t have motivation without you.
Way to take the fun out of everything, religious retards.
http://tinyurl.com/cr3qs5
106 uhh, dumb dumb, Hannity does not have a college degree. He’s unable to have philosophical debates
@93: you word of choice “action” needs to repaced with “guise.” They are no more empathetic and compassionate than any other political party.
-92
@Lowly Assistant
Nice pic.
Yeah this is db– one liners only
@103, Actually what was said is that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter heaven.
Jesus wouldn’t have been a free-marketer or a socialist…he was a carpenter. More like an engineer than a businessman, but definately not a politician. Render under Caesar what is due to Caesar, but render under God what is due to God.
Also, the reason the moneychangers were indeed thrown out of the temple for selling in the house of The Lord. It was about disrespect, not the point of running business.
Jesus was all about helping out your fellow man, without taking something in return up front or later down the road.
“So what are we to make of the fact that conservative Americans donate 30% more to charity than liberal Americans?”
http://talkingpoints.wordpress.com/2006/12/0
1/conservative-vs-liberal-charity-donations/
113 cognitive dissonance? However you want to rationalize it, dude.
@109: Hannity’s inability to have a philosophical debate has nothing to do with a lack of education. He’s a high-function retard.
College wouldn’t fix that.
@113: They don’t really give more; they’re just cheating on their taxes…
@113
But considering as charity paying the salary of your preacherman is not a good idea of charity. Exclude all donations to religious congregations (from both liberal and conservatives) and you’ll find that liberals actually give more to real charities than conservatives do. So there.
All you can say is that conservatives give proportionately more money to their religious congregations than liberals do. So who cares? Religion is a tax free business in the USA. That’s why I ordered my minister certificate through the mail last week. I will become a preacherman for the Church of the First Day Saints.
@117
Religious congregations provide numerous services to the community that improve the life of the community. Mental health, food pantries, after-school programs, family counseling and other services besides the emotional benefits of corporate worship. They should be the service providers that socialists want the government to take care of.
“Democrats love to tax the crap out of you, and skip on paying their share ”
http://inductivist.blogspot.com/2009/02/democrats-love-to-tax-crap-out-of-you.html
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2009/03/liberals-and-tax-cheating.html
@118
Since I donate my expensive skills to such community organizations run by Catholic nuns (e.g. food pantries and soup kitchens, training job seekers, etc.), I can tell you without reservation that the vast majority of funds come from private donors (individuals and corporations). The congregations have barely enough money to stay afloat as their own administrative costs are ovewhelming them and can’t give much to the community organizations that they should sponsor. And private donations are drying up because of the economy.
From the trenches across the Hudson from Wall Street,
@117
Every time I see this I am reminded of President Obama and why we should appreciate that there is something only a man like him can do for us all……..
Yes we can!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfGXmxJ1vM
@120 If Obama cuts wealthy tax deductions, the big primary donors won’t be supporting as much as they do even now. Thank you for using your skills for something more than financial gain.
fix main street!
@40 – Interesting concept, but don’t you think the “body mass index” would be a better tool? A 5′ woman who weighs 140 lbs pays a lot less under your plan than a 6’2″ man who weighs 180 lbs, but she is definitely fatter. BMI has been correlated with specific health problems, like diabetes and stroke. Some US medical insurance companies charge a surcharge to patients with higher BMI’s, which is a variation of your plan.
Americans pay more and get less than any other advanced country. How does that make private healthcare more efficient? How can you have a good system when doctors, lawyers, insurers and medical companies are all dedicated to extracting as much as possible from peoples pain & suffering?
Hmmm, Barry’s showing a bit of desperation, don’t you think? Kinda early in the cycle for that. Unless he knows it’s dead alereay.
Which it is.
Maybe he’s not so dumb after all.
wait, what am I saying?
127 you’re a dumb fuck. You expect Barry to solve this healthcare fiasco -decades in the making- in six months. Your others presidents failed to make any meaningful dent in the healthcare debate over the course of their entire presidency. Unlike Iran, in the US Congress does not have to do what the President says or wants. In the US, we call this the system of checks and balances, you idiot. So yes, expect compromises and revisions over the next few months- the shrewd politicians are pragmatic, and recognize compromise is necessary to push these complex issues forward. Barry began as a legislator- he gets this. That’s why Barry is the One.