I hope everyone enjoys their healthcare in the stimulus package

maybe he thinks we should contract out antiterrorist activities???? great. more haliburton and buttwater.

and NIST should be abolished, cuz that ain't the government's job?
 
Maybe you two ought to actually read the Consitution. It's written so that the layman can understand.
 
I understand it quite clearly. It is the limitations of the powers of the federal government. It isn't the starting point and it isn't a "living breathing document". If it's not specifically written into that document, it's not allowed by the federal government.
 
We know you only care about the Constitution when convenient. So give up the act already.

If you really understoof it and placed any importance on it you wouldn't support the anti-Constitutional things that you have.
 
Gonz said:
WHAT?!?!?!

It was released at 11PM Thursday night & voted on before 2PM Friday. It's nearly 1100 pages. NOBODY READ IT.
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Those of us who manage the public dollars will be held to account to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and our government.

- President Barack Obama, in his inaugural address on January 20, 2009.

So what happened to that webpage where we can go to review these bills for five days prior to debate? Oh, yeah, that was a promise, wasn't it; and we know how those go with this president.
 
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We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
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"When in the Course of human events......"

.....That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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I believe you have mistaken me for a Democrat.

This country was founded on the notion of not being controlled by a government that did not represent its' people.
 
jimpeel said:
Those of us who manage the public dollars will be held to account to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and our government.

- President Barack Obama, in his inaugural address on January 20, 2009.

So what happened to that webpage where we can go to review these bills for five days prior to debate? Oh, yeah, that was a promise, wasn't it; and we know how those go with this president.
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Obama "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."
 
:shrug:
Still doesn't discount the intent .. it wasn't an ordinary bill and therefore didn't need a 5-day review by the internet folx prior to passing.
 
Besides..what did you expect?

"Oh wait...redhillary237 from notfat.com/forum has a valid point..let's scrap this bill."
 
So...why is it the governments job to provide its citizens with health care? My cable bill is around $160 a month. If I dropped cable, I'm sure that I could afford health insurance and still have some change left...;) Priorities, folks...priorities.
 
MrBishop said:
:shrug:
Still doesn't discount the intent .. it wasn't an ordinary bill and therefore didn't need a 5-day review by the internet folx prior to passing.
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The bill was supposed to be available for 48 hours before the voting. I'd like to see you read and understand 1500+ pages in the 12 hours it was available. :rolleyes:
 
Gato_Solo said:
The bill was supposed to be available for 48 hours before the voting. I'd like to see you read and understand 1500+ pages in the 12 hours it was available. :rolleyes:
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Oh, I understood it before. Throw more money at a problem that throwing money at hasn't solved. Of course it will work this time. :disgust:
 
Gato_Solo said:
So...why is it the governments job to provide its citizens with health care? My cable bill is around $160 a month. If I dropped cable, I'm sure that I could afford health insurance and still have some change left...;) Priorities, folks...priorities.
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Many people can't get health insurance at all if they have pre-existing conditions unless it's through a work program.

Why is it an employers job to provide you health insurance?
 
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