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You have the strawman.
Out of the near hundred million families across the USA, you can always find at least a few examples of what ever you want.
What is the frequency of such stupidity?
strawman
I want Human-Americans to have access to medical care, without checking their bank account first (if they even have one). America is unique among industrial countries is forcing this decision on 50M uninsured, who are so mostly because they have medical conditions and/or incapable of paying exorbitant insurance rates.
You have the strawman.
Out of the near hundred million families across the USA, you can always find at least a few examples of what ever you want.
What is the frequency of such stupidity?
If you don't have money, then hoping your or your child gets well without using out-of-reach medical care is not stupid.
Um, how is not being able to afford insurance or health care "stupid"?
If you want, I can present the study of personal bankruptcies again that shows medical bills as one of the leading causes of bankruptcy.
a majority of all personal bankruptcies are due to medical bills.
That's why the dubya Repugs forced personal bankruptcies through a bankruptcy/financial consultant to see if the bankruptcy was avoidable (real reason: to avoid banks, etc creditors from losing money). Result? Almost every personal bankruptcy was waved thru as unavoidable, with the person being out several $100 for the "advice".
and many/most? of medical bankruptcies are by people who had health insurance.
Are you intentionally misreading my statements?
Lack of health care insurance doesn't mean you don't get seen when you need to be seen. Hospitals cannot turn you down for valid problems.
The stupidity is not doing what is right for a sick child.
"Hospitals cannot turn you down for valid problems."
only taxpayer-funded medical facilities are required to take in anybody without insurance, but they will still bill you, even if you can't pay, and if you can't/don't pay, they can turn it over to the collection hyenas. And for a scheduled procedure, public facilities refuse you if you have insurance.
for-profit hospitals can turn anybody down, and they do check if you have insurance.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-26-2011 at 12:26 PM.
Perry Appointees May Raid Public School Funds To Give Oil Refineries $135 Million Tax Break
Public education — along with Medicaid, women’s health care, and the Texas Forest Service — was gutted in the budget Perry signed this year. But the governor’s hand-picked appointees on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality look likely to raid another $67 million from public schools to give Big Oil a tax break:
Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation’s largest refineries a tax refund of more than $135 million — money Texas’ cash-strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.
The refund would mean more pain for some communities after a year in which state lawmakers had to grapple with a $27 billion shortfall and slashed spending on public schools by more than $4 billion. Nearly half the refund would be taken from public schools, and those in cities where the refineries are based would be hurt the most.[...]
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is evaluating 16 requests for the refund, which concerns a piece of pollution-controlling equipment. If granted, the refund total for those requests could add up to more than $135 million, according to county tax data and application do ents analyzed by The Associated Press. What’s more, agency do ents show that if the commission grants the requests, at least 12 other refineries that have not sought a refund also could qualify.
The commission has signaled its support for the refund in the past, and Perry has indicated he will fully support the $135 million tax break at the expense of public education. One of the companies that stands to profit the most from the refund, Valero, just happens to be one of Perry’s biggest all-time contributors. Valero, the company that has most persistently lobbied for the refund, could get more than $92 million from the commission. Perry has received more money from the company than any other politician in the country except one.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...ion-tax-break/
Perry Appointees May Raid Public School Funds To Give Oil Refineries $135 Million Tax Break
Public education — along with Medicaid, women’s health care, and the Texas Forest Service — was gutted in the budget Perry signed this year. But the governor’s hand-picked appointees on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality look likely to raid another $67 million from public schools to give Big Oil a tax break:
Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation’s largest refineries a tax refund of more than $135 million — money Texas’ cash-strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.
The refund would mean more pain for some communities after a year in which state lawmakers had to grapple with a $27 billion shortfall and slashed spending on public schools by more than $4 billion. Nearly half the refund would be taken from public schools, and those in cities where the refineries are based would be hurt the most.[...]
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is evaluating 16 requests for the refund, which concerns a piece of pollution-controlling equipment. If granted, the refund total for those requests could add up to more than $135 million, according to county tax data and application do ents analyzed by The Associated Press. What’s more, agency do ents show that if the commission grants the requests, at least 12 other refineries that have not sought a refund also could qualify.
The commission has signaled its support for the refund in the past, and Perry has indicated he will fully support the $135 million tax break at the expense of public education. One of the companies that stands to profit the most from the refund, Valero, just happens to be one of Perry’s biggest all-time contributors. Valero, the company that has most persistently lobbied for the refund, could get more than $92 million from the commission. Perry has received more money from the company than any other politician in the country except one.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...ion-tax-break/
Jimmy Ricky and TX Repugs helping Corporate-Americans screw Human-Americans
Windstorm Over Texas
http://www.twiatruth.com/
Thanks for clarifying that.
Am I intentionally misreading your statements? No.
Are you intentionally writing paragraphs with little coherent throught that are hard to decipher and grammatically fuzzy?
In Case You Missed It: Perry Enjoys Accepting Additional Federal Funding For Texas’ Medicaid Program
Texas’ request for a waiver for rerouting “federal funds the state would otherwise lose — an undesired consequence of expanding managed care — to subsidize hospitals’ uncompensated care costs” and finance “projects to help the uninsured” won’t make any real improvements in the state’s dilapidated health care system but could be enough to burnish Rick Perry’s conservative credentials with the Republican base. As Weaver puts it, “The initiative’s warm reception by Democrats and consumer advocates, and the federal funds it seeks, could add up to a political liability for Perry. His 2010 book, Fed Up!, rejects any whiff of federal money — and the rules that come with it.”
I would add that the waiver request and the federal governments initial approval of the project suggests that 1) the federal government is far more flexible in allowing states to design their Medicaid programs than Perry often suggests and 2) this is only the latest example of Perry thwarting his “anti-Washington” image and requesting additional federal funds.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011...icaid-program/
Rick Perry’s Budget Cuts Will Leave 49,000 Teachers Without A Job And 43,000 College Students Without Financial Aid
Perry’s education “standards” — exemplified by $4 billion in budget cuts to education for the upcoming budget cycle — will force schools to lay off as many as 49,000 teachers and will leave at least 43,000 college students without financial aid:
Faced with a $15 billion budget deficit this year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed off on $4 billion in cuts to education in the 2012 and 2013 budgets. The Texas State Teachers Association estimates that as many as 49,000 teachers may be laid off as a result of the cuts and 43,000 college students will lose all or part of their financial aid.
Indeed, scholarships for 29,000 low-income college students will be completely eliminated. What’s more, Perry’s axe to the education budget has forced local school districts to impose fees on school programs and services for students and families, universities to find outside money to continue high-level research, and some universities to consider imposing higher tuition or fees on students.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...financial-aid/
what people still want hand outs
no body thinks they can take care of themselves
alot of lazy selfish assholes out there
49K teachers are employees, not Welfare Queens.
Helping kids pay for college (as long as its not PayDay loans and other capitalist/equityfund mafia loan sharking) has been a bedrock American principle for many decades.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-30-2011 at 05:19 AM.
Dave Weigel explains why Rick Perry failed so miserably in this weekend's Florida straw poll:
Walking through the walls of the Orange County Convention Center, you hear these words and phrases over and over again.
Perry. Immigration. Illegals. Tuition. Illegals. He didn't do as well as he could have. Why?
Almost every conversation I walked into was on the question of why Rick Perry approved a law that let young non-citizens get in-state tuition rates at Texas schools, and why he had characterized the program's critics as heartless.
Obviously this is a huge deal with the Republican base. But I think Perry's real problem is that Thursday's debate badly shook up a GOP establishment that was pretty uneasy with him already.
But there was a bigger problem: Perry looked like he didn't think he needed to even care about any of that stuff. He muffed his attack lines because he hadn't bothered to study them. He wasn't prepared for the tuition fight because he figured that he could just repeat the same old explanations and flash his thousand-watt smile at the audience. He didn't know what to say about Pakistan because he figured any sort of good ol' boy BS would do. It always has before, after all. So he's apparently spent the past month doing....nothing.
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/20...alin-problem-0
Rick Perry Gave Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars To Subprime Lenders
Just as the largest banks began receiving public cash, they aggressively ramped up risky lending. Within four years, the banks were out of business and homeowners across Texas faced foreclosure. In the end, the state paid $35 million to subsidize it. [...]
As Perry offered $20 million in grants to Countrywide and $15 million to Washington Mutual Inc. — each blamed for having a major role in one of the country’s most serious recessions — he took in tens of thousands of their dollars for his gubernatorial campaign.
Both of these companies blew themselves (and many, many homeowners) up via subprime loans, and helped subprime lending increase significantly in Texas:
The AP analysis found that Washington Mutual, Countrywide and their subsidiaries boosted risky lending in Texas within a year after receiving grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund. In 2004, only one out of every 100 Washington Mutual loans in the state was originated to homeowners with less-than-perfect credit. The next year, that figure rose to more than one in four.
In a 2004 speech, Perry “called Countrywide a good employer and said state government subsidies would help other such companies move their businesses to Texas.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...prime-lenders/
I was unaware of this. I wonder if any of the other Republican candidates will pick up on it as a challenge to his "Texas Miracle" claims.
Even if the Republicans don't pick up on it, if Perry gets the Republican nomination, I would expect the Democratic national committee to make hay of it...giving 'enterprise loans' to companies that were hurting their customers.
I am surprised that no one on this board has brought up the flap over the weekend regarding the hunting ranch with the 'n' word name in its le that upset lots of folks and got him some more bad press. That is the sort of thing that just won't go away, imho.
fixed the syllable count for you:
People want hand outs
Nobody cares for themselves
Those selfish assholes
Thanks
"giving 'enterprise loans' to companies that were hurting their customers."
dubya's OCC blocked 19 states, including the Sheriff of Wall St Spitzer (later taken down), who tried to stop predatory lending. Do you really think that Repgs give a about what happens to Human-Americans?
Rick Perry’s New Apostolic Reformation Allies Advocate Burning Books, Native Art, and Scripture
“I wonder what new doors to evangelism might be opened in sophisticated, tolerant, politically correct America if Christians started expressing their faith by encouraging those who possessed artifacts of magic or unclean books to burn them publicly?”
"Top NAR leaders, including C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, Ed Silvoso and, Chuck Pierce, have repeatedly emphasized in their writings the need for believers to destroy or neutralize, by burning, smashing, or flushing down toilets, objects deemed to be unholy, including profane books and "idolatrous" religious texts (such as Books of Mormon), religious relics (such as statues of Catholic saints, the Buddha, or Hindu gods), and native art (such as African masks, Hopi Indian Kachina dolls, and totem poles.)
According to New Apostolic Reformation doctrine, objects to be destroyed include those associated with Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hinduism, eastern religions, Christian Science, native religions, and Baha'i."
C. Peter Wagner lays out his view on the "Dominion Mandate" which, according to Wagner, "has to do with control" as well as "rulership", "authority", and "subduing".
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/...paign=alternet
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I heard some NAR asshole on NPR going on about Japan worshipping the devil (the sun). Thses ers are stone-cold psychopathic crazy.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/140946...le-in-politics
Last edited by boutons_deux; 10-04-2011 at 08:26 AM.
You seriously cannot be more out of touch than this.Hinduism, eastern religions, ...and Baha'i.
Rick Perry's Intelligence Overreach
Why'd the Texas governor go to such great lengths to maintain control of a statewide law enforcement database?
On the campaign trail, Texas Gov. Rick Perry decries the invasive and profligate ways of big government. Yet in Texas he oversaw the creation of a massive, federally funded intelligence database that hoovers up everything from driver's license information to victims' statements to bogus leads that may be falsely incriminating. The system, known as the Texas Data Exchange (TDEx), has drawn the concern of civil liberties advocates, not least because of Perry's aggressive efforts to consolidate control of this sweeping intelligence vault within his own office.
In late 2005 [2], Perry began directing his homeland security office to set up the database. Lawmakers and privacy advocates soon grew anxious over a host of problems plaguing the system. Early versions kept no record of what a particular user did when he was in the system, says Rebecca Bernhardt, the former policy director of ACLU Texas, who was part of a team pursuing reform of TDEx. "You don’t want anybody…to have unsupervised ability to go into TDEx, change names, take things out, put fake things in, and not have an audit trail of who made those changes," she explains.
TDEx also contains every last shred of information that police officers dig up, including tips, false leads, and victims' statements—a vast amount of information that could unfairly implicate people.
Legal watchdogs in Texas, including Scott Henson, who writes a blog following criminal justice issues in Texas called Grits for Breakfast [3], say that Perry put the system in place chiefly to take advantage of money from the federal Department of Homeland Security. Texas has received at least $1.7 billion in federal Homeland Security grants since 9/11 as part of the US government's overall $31 billion [4] investment in state and local law enforcement.
Perry wanted TDEx to be managed by the Texas Department of Information Resources, which is housed in the governor's office [5]. But for the database to receive Homeland Security funds, federal laws [6] stipulated that it be run by an official law enforcement agency. So, as the Texas Observer reported [7] in 2007, Steve McCraw, Perry's homeland security chief, simply designated the DIR office as an official law enforcement body [8].
Perry's end run sparked outrage in the Texas Legislature. At the start of the 2006-07 legislative session, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, joined by the ACLU, sought to force Perry to hand over control of TDEx to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Democratic state Rep. Jessica Farrar was a key figure in the fight to reign in control of TDEx. The homeland security office, she says, "was a political office…We have a statewide law enforcement agency, and that's where [TDEx] should've naturally gone." (Perry's office did not respond to a request for comment.)
http://motherjones.com/print/135572
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Jimmy Ricky's gang could obviously modify anybody's records and extort/blackmail/intimidate any political opponents, exactly like /transves e J. Edgar Hoover did for decades with FBI goons.
At least Barry made a promise of open government. The Repugs are more honest by never saying they will have open, transparent, freedom-of-information govt.
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