The Cellar - View Single Post - So what are the political interests of Women in America?

SamIam · 04-17-2012, 02:34 AM

Urbane, I just love pulling your tail. And however old you may be, you're old enough to worry about your pension as your sig line ever reminds us, so you're old enough to know better yourself.

The twists and turns of your logic ever confounds me. You seem incapable of grasping the simplest laws of cause and effect or learning the lessons from even the most recent history. You are as ephemeral as a mayfly and your pronouncements have about as much weight.

If government sponsored health care is as worthless as you would have us believe, the people of Canada, the UK, etc., etc, as well as those here on medicare/medicaid should be dying off like flies. They are not. The ones who die or who suffer needlessly due to lack of medical care are the uninsured who have no access to medical care of any kind. Infant mortality rates in the United States are shameful. We rank something like 34th among nations - below even countries like Cuba and Croatia. This is what happens when you deny prenatal care to women who lack health insurance.

We have a government that refuses to take any action what-so-ever in regard to job creation or moving us out of recession. At least Obama gave us the stimulus bills. The Republican dominated House refused to act on ANYTHING. Their response to the current economic situation was to "just say no" - placing tea party idealogy over the good of the people of this nation. The Republicans refused to work with Obama - not the other way around.

The national debt has climbed in large part due to the tax breaks given to the wealthy in the Bush era. They used this money to buy themselves yachts and send new jobs off to China, not here - one more reason that job creation here in the US has been lagging. Cause and effect, UG. Cause and effect. What makes you think that another round of tax cuts for the wealthy won't have the very same outcome?

Two hundred of the wealthiest people in the US paid nothing in taxes in 2010, yet the richest among us still demand ever more concessions. Soon the government will be using tax dollars to PAY them instead of the other way around. In some cases this is already happening. So just who is it really who demands government "handouts"? On what grounds do you support the unashamed greed of billionaires?

Half the electorate has become an uninformed rabble. They blindly follow leaders who care only for their own advancement and the country be damned. You may call that "intelligence." I call it a tragedy for our Republic which is rapidly degenerating into a plutocracy.

And when that happens, where will your pension be then?

04-17-2012, 02:34 AM	#4
SamIam Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Not here Posts: 2,655	Urbane, I just love pulling your tail. And however old you may be, you're old enough to worry about your pension as your sig line ever reminds us, so you're old enough to know better yourself. The twists and turns of your logic ever confounds me. You seem incapable of grasping the simplest laws of cause and effect or learning the lessons from even the most recent history. You are as ephemeral as a mayfly and your pronouncements have about as much weight. If government sponsored health care is as worthless as you would have us believe, the people of Canada, the UK, etc., etc, as well as those here on medicare/medicaid should be dying off like flies. They are not. The ones who die or who suffer needlessly due to lack of medical care are the uninsured who have no access to medical care of any kind. Infant mortality rates in the United States are shameful. We rank something like 34th among nations - below even countries like Cuba and Croatia. This is what happens when you deny prenatal care to women who lack health insurance. We have a government that refuses to take any action what-so-ever in regard to job creation or moving us out of recession. At least Obama gave us the stimulus bills. The Republican dominated House refused to act on ANYTHING. Their response to the current economic situation was to "just say no" - placing tea party idealogy over the good of the people of this nation. The Republicans refused to work with Obama - not the other way around. The national debt has climbed in large part due to the tax breaks given to the wealthy in the Bush era. They used this money to buy themselves yachts and send new jobs off to China, not here - one more reason that job creation here in the US has been lagging. Cause and effect, UG. Cause and effect. What makes you think that another round of tax cuts for the wealthy won't have the very same outcome? Two hundred of the wealthiest people in the US paid nothing in taxes in 2010, yet the richest among us still demand ever more concessions. Soon the government will be using tax dollars to PAY them instead of the other way around. In some cases this is already happening. So just who is it really who demands government "handouts"? On what grounds do you support the unashamed greed of billionaires? Half the electorate has become an uninformed rabble. They blindly follow leaders who care only for their own advancement and the country be damned. You may call that "intelligence." I call it a tragedy for our Republic which is rapidly degenerating into a plutocracy. And when that happens, where will your pension be then? Last edited by SamIam; 04-17-2012 at 02:41 AM.