So then you have no problem with those who wouldn't give a if say...your house burned down to the ground? Just sayin.
I pay property taxes to support a municipal fire department so I expect them to respond if my house catches fire. I purchase private insurance to hopefully reimburse me for any financial loss I might sustain.
I cold give a whether you cared if my house burned down or not.
BTW that was a stupid analogy.
If someone doesn't have fire insurance, why should they be rewarded for a new house with other people's money?
"doesn't have fire insurance, why should they be rewarded for a new house with other people's money"
where does that happen?
We know a tiny sliver of humanitarian/solidarity streak in the American soul is committed to providing sick care to the uninsured (a streak the Repugs want to obliterate and are doing it), but providing free housing to uninsured burned-out home owners?
If someone could afford house payment, they can rent.
"doesn't have fire insurance, why should they be rewarded for a new house with other people's money"
where does that happen?
I didn't say it happens. Seems liberals want all types of irresponsibility rewarded, so I interjected that.
I forget though. Did it happen in the aftermath of Katrina? For flooding?
Last edited by Wild Cobra; 09-08-2011 at 02:08 PM.
Katrina/NO was a fricking US Army CoE man-made disaster, so the feds were responsible for the damage.
The CoE MADE those people build their houses below sea level? I didn't know that.
CoE built or contracted for crappy levees.
Just another VRWC.
you said it, I didn't
Holland has the whole nation below sea level. But they don't have ass politicians who stole money intended for levee upkeep.
Your stupid act doesn't fly.
Source that CoE stole the money intended for levee upkeep?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Nice try, stupid.
'bouts posted it back in the day.
If we thought your Mul roll ass could handle the truth it could be reposted.
LOL...
No it wasn't. Sure, the design specs were lied about by contractors, but that doesn't make the disaster their fault. Even if the levies were up to spec, they still could have failed under Katrina!
What is it about you that you always have to blame someone?
I wonder who was in charge of those projects at the time?
"they still could have failed under Katrina!"
the could have not failed under Katrina had they been spec'd and built by real engineers rather the Army.
LOL...
I forget the details, but that wasn't why. How dare you trash veterans you ing sheep er.
Texas healthcare system withering under Gov. Perry
Texas, he said, could manage its own healthcare.
But in the 11 years the Republican presidential hopeful has been in office, working Texans increasingly have been priced out of private healthcare while the state's safety net has withered, leaving millions of state residents without medical care.
"Texas just hasn't proven it can run a health system," said Dr. C. Bruce Malone III, an orthopedic surgeon and president of the historically conservative Texas Medical Assn.
More than a quarter of Texans lack health insurance, the highest rate in the nation, placing a crushing burden on hospitals and doctors who treat patients unable to pay.
Those costs are passed to the insured. Insurance premiums have risen more quickly in Texas than they have nationally over the last seven years. And when compared with incomes, insurance in Texas is less affordable than in every state but Mississippi, according to the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund.
That has taken a toll, as nearly a third of the state's children did not receive an annual physical and a teeth cleaning in 2007, placing Texas 40th in a state ranking by the fund. Over the last decade, infant mortality rates have risen in Texas while declining nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Seniors, despite guaranteed Medicare coverage, also are suffering, as nearly 1 in 5 ends up back in the hospital within a month of being released, one of the highest readmission rates in the country and a leading indicator of systemwide problems.
Similar healthcare dynamics drove Obama's push for a national overhaul. In Texas, however, elected officials have done little to address the growing crisis, local health leaders say.
"The philosophy has been the less public expenditure, the better," said Dr. Kenneth Shine, who heads the University of Texas health system. "And some people will just have to make do."
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
Meet The Money Behind Rick Perry
Texans don't like the government interfering with their business, especially campaign donations, where state laws allow contributors to fork over unlimited cash. No one has benefited more from this arrangement than Rick Perry, who has raised $100 million over the last decade, nearly half of which came from just 204 ultra-wealthy donors.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...rick-perry.php
After debate, Perry rhetoric called into question
http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011...into-question/
Texas Medicaid’s Vast and Dangerous Wastefulness
If only Texas could operate wholly independently of federal rules, he insisted, “you will see more people in the state of Texas who will have more coverage and frankly we’ll save money at the end of the day, as will the federal government.”
Although Perry was forced to abandon that scheme when a state report showed that leaving Medicaid would cost Texas billions (and leave even more Texans uninsured), he still claims that the federal government should stop trying to make sure that more Americans have health care, and that programs run solely by the states would be more efficient.
But lately the facts about Perry’s own record as governor have begun to emerge—and they don’t support his argument. Over the past several weeks, a Dallas TV station has exposed the “golden teeth” Medicaid scandal in Texas, now under investigation by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Perry appointees who run Medicaid have allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to be misspent on orthodontic braces for children who don’t need them—with huge profits for private dental clinics owned by Wall Street hedge funds.
Nor is that the only aspect of Perry’s record that belies his boasting. One of the most embarrassing episodes during his first two terms as governor involved a plan to let private firms run Medicaid, replacing state employees. The privatization plan was an “innovation” that was supposed to save money. What it accomplished instead was to earn enormous sums for contractors like Deloitte Touche and Accenture (along with their Texas lobbyists), while costing taxpayers still more hundreds of millions of dollars—and all without achieving its most basic objectives.
Four years after the plan was implemented in 2003, the Austin American-Statesman published a thorough report on its results, and what the newspaper found was a project “in shambles.” The state had been forced to cancel its contract with the Accenture group and continue to use state employees to perform necessary work on an outdated computer system, exactly the same as before Perry’s privatization scheme began. How much had this great innovation cost the state? Approximately $500 million, not including the amount spent using the old system, at roughly $1 million a month.
Unfortunately this fiasco wasted more than money and time, as paperwork vanished and patients suffered. As the Statesman reported, it may well have cost a 14-year-old boy named Devante Johnson his life. Left without health insurance for several months because of the Texas Medicaid enrollment bureaucracy, the Houston boy could not get treatment in time to save him from the kidney cancer that eventually killed him in March 2007.
While it isn’t clear yet whether his administration’s Medicaid operations were corrupt or incompetent or both, none of this has fazed Perry at all. He went on to reappoint the Texas health and human services commissioner who oversaw the entire mess—and then to run for president himself, as the populist who will “reform” Social Security, Medicare and, of course, Medicaid.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print...ally_20110908/
Please let him win, please let him win...
WonketteThe Rick Perry Investigative News Team over at POLITICO was still feeling nostalgic for Ronald Reagan’s America following the other night’s GOP Supersexxxual Debate about “taxes,” a thing that is fun to debate especially when no one on the stage understands what that word means. So someone started digging around news archives from 1986, which is the year Pixar opened its cartoon shop, “going postal” became a thing, and then-state Rep. Rick Perry “accidentally” sent sex videos to a bunch of teenagers, to teach them about the dangers of drug use.
Innocent Rick Perry was just trying to do his part to educate young minds about the dangers of recreational drugs, by sending an informational video to the schools in his district. Little did he know, they were in for a sinful surprise!
A state technician says a nude scene attached to the end of a videotaped program on drug abuse was not the fault of the lawmaker who provided the tape to a surprised high school audience.
The scene depicting a nude couple in bed was inadvertently attached to a taped drug program sent by state Rep. Rick Perry, D-Haskell, to the 26 schools in his district.
The discovery prompted Perry to recall all the tapes.
Tommy Varner, an assistant coach at Baird High School, said the scene flashed on the screen 30 seconds after the drug awareness program ended.
Varner said he was telling his freshman health class what would be on a test when the eyes of his students became glued on the screen.
“All of them were bug-eyed and looking up there. There were these two people in bed,” he said. “I turned the machine off and tried to go on. It wasn’t easy with 30 kids chuckling and giggling.”
The 45-minute drug tape features noted toxicologist Dr. Harry Edwards discussing his experiences in dealing with drug abusers and rehabilitation, said Dusty Garrison, Perry’s legislative aide.
Garrison said Perry saw the tape – without the added attraction – and wanted schools in his district to benefit from the “excellent program.”
To add to the strange/creepiness of this scenario, the scene was from “1984,” which means that the technician who took “full responsibility” for somehow “accidentally” copying the boring drug movie onto a piece of his personal movie collection was trying to warn everyone of something, and we should have listened. Sorry, 1986 Director of House Technical Services Mike Fickel!
Perry said he was shocked to learn of the scene on the tape he sent to Baird High School. After checking his copy and finding the same scene, Perry said he was convinced all 26 copies had the “embarrassing” scene and he asked that all copies be returned.
“We were doing it for public service, and it backfired on us to a degree,” he said. “We were trying to help kids with drug problems, and now it’s totally ineffective with this five-second skin shot.”
Perry Campaign Says It’s Going “Like Wildfire”
Texas Governor Rick Perry is already taking over former Governor Mitt Romney’s status as front runner for the GOP presidential nomination. Now he is trying to win Romney’s other claim to fame – most tone deaf candidate on the trail.
Asked how the fundraising was going, his campaign replied, “it is going like wildfire.”
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/perry-ca...#ixzz1Xdj3fi2Q
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faux-populism Repugs are profoundly empathetic with Human-Americans.
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