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[kat_chan]

Screw bipartisanship. Screw it right in the ear. If LBJ waited for bipartisan support, we wouldn't have gotten the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act or Medicare. The GOP has no interest in bipartisanship. When did George W. Bush ever try and hold back and give concessions to the Democrats on those horrid tax cuts in 2001, or in

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[jezabel_pheonix]

Amen!

[orin2]

I'm an independent voter and I voted for Obama but I don't think this health care is going to work. Our government is bankrupt. They should be trying to fix the fact that in a couple years the dollar will be worthless and inflation will kill us.

[jajy1979]

*sigh

[orin2]

If you notice I never blamed the health care situation for inflation. I merely point out that we are printing dollars like they are going out of style. See Germany circa 1930s. Yeah we are heading there. Want to see what a 1 billion dollar note looks like? Just wait. As for the health care debate, I say bring it on. Everyone talk like adults bring out the facts and then decide. No action is worse than bad action. But I really don't think that a huge government program will be well run.

[jajy1979]

You've just proven you don't know what the hell you're talking about. We aren't "printing money" we're borrowing it. Mostly from ourselves, but a good chunk from other nations and against trusts.

And we would have to suffer more than a million percent inflation to need a billion dollar note, so quite trying to make bad arguments. Hyper inflation is anything over about 7% annually, not 700%, and certainly not 7,000% or more necessary to see that in our lifetimes.

As for huge government being well run? Medicare has an overhead of 3%... match that to ANY major insurance company in the nation. It's far more efficient as a program in terms of dollars spent on care. Not perfect, since the effectiveness occasionally is hampered by red tape, but it's certainly more progressive in a fiscal sense.

[hysteria74]

GOP people scare me. I met one and I don't think I have ever met someone before to be so blinded by hatred and poor knowledge of the world.