The Affordable Care Act

[whell]

Originally Posted by barbara

At the risk of derailing this thread.... What's a squirrel?

Its actually a reference to the behavior of a talking dog character in one of my kid's favorite movies: Up.

Because its a kids movie, it apparently has a particular appeal to /resonance with certain posters in this forum.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by merrylander

It should be removed completely as it stands it is a regressive tax.

Agreed.

Absolutely.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Nobody put the screws to active duty military quite like Messrs. Bush and Cheney, with their stop-loss extensions and quadruple tours of duty.

Agreed.

They use em, abuse em, and then toss them aside, all the while sporting their "Support our Troops" car magnets.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by icenine

If you think about it Medicare and SS are the greatest acheivements in America. Look who wants to tear it down.

You got that right.

And look who benefits most from them.

The 65 and over age group that are the Republicans most reliable voting demographic.

How is that for Irony?

Originally Posted by icenine

Odd that Ryan does not want to touch defense...but he probably gets money from defense contractors.

Defense contractors are the biggest hogs at the public trough there are. They beat everybody else out by a country mile.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

You got that right.

And look who benefits most from them.

The 65 and over age group that are the Republicans most reliable voting demographic.

How is that for Irony?





Defense contractors are the biggest hogs at the public trough there are. They beat everybody else out by a country mile.

You know you are right...but ever since 2010 I have had a fear that irony is going to lose the battle to stupidity.....

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

You got that right.

And look who benefits most from them.

The 65 and over age group that are the Republicans most reliable voting demographic.

How is that for Irony?





Defense contractors are the biggest hogs at the public trough there are. They beat everybody else out by a country mile.

I know two seniors who might vote Republicant about the same time hell freezes over.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Agreed.

They use em, abuse em, and then toss them aside, all the while sporting their "Support our Troops" car magnets.

And worse...they come back after the 2nd or 3rd deployment so ravaged by post-traumatic stress they can barely function, and the motherfuckers sent them right back out again, no evaluation, no treatment, just another sack of cannon fodder for Cheney's war for the financial benefit of his pals at Haliburton and The Carlyle Group.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

And worse...they come back after the 2nd or 3rd deployment so ravaged by post-traumatic stress they can barely function, and the motherfuckers sent them right back out again, no evaluation, no treatment, just another sack of cannon fodder for Cheney's war for the financial benefit of his pals at Haliburton and The Carlyle Group.

Do you remember the E-6 that President Obama invited to the SOTU this year? He was wounded while on his SIXTH deployment! How can we do this to people?

John

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Do you remember the E-6 that President Obama invited to the SOTU this year? He was wounded while on his SIXTH deployment! How can we do this to people?

John

We make up for it by saying "Thanks for your service."

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

We make up for it by saying "Thanks for your service."

That might be funny except that the mouth-breathers think it does make up for it.

John