O'Reilly, Stossel agree that Medicare is a "ponzi scheme"

"Medicare is there so old people can get free Viagra" etc...
... don't know if anyone remembers, back in '03-04 or so, O'Reilly used to argue that partial birth abortion needed to be banned because women would demand one if they had a headache.

It is factually correct in the point that the system is in the red big time and the comparison to a ponzi scheme is a bit on the abstract side but not invalid. And viagara is covered under Medicare. Of course you like to split hairs with wording whenever it suits your purpose. You'll quote Stossel word for word now ( and BTW you quoted him incorrectly, he did not say "Medicare is there so old people can get free Viagra") But you will accuse O'Reilly of saying things that he did not say when it suits your purpose, such as the comments he made about the murdered girl in NYC. The point I was making is that Stossel's comments are correct, the Medicare system is broken and somewhere along the line changes have to be made. His point was that perhaps things like viagara should not be covered so that the life saving care that many need can continue to be available. Is that an unreasonable position to take?

See, Wall Street's fleecing of America is Okay, because it's not associated with the Gummint.

It's just like Health Care. These guys weep and moan at the thought of the Government taking their money and using it to pay for sick people's health care... even though Insurance Companies do the exact same thing.

Do YOU anything to say - ever - other than, "the left does it too!", or staunchly defend every wingnut noisemaker every time they say something nonfactual, half-factual, or just plain stupid {which is pretty much all the time?}

"Do you have anything constructive to say at all. Nope I didn't think so."
HA, spoken like a true conservative. A seemingly genuine question that ends up being rhetorical capped by a definitive assumption. Trust me there's plenty to say. I couldn't exactly say anything constructive in between the period mark after "all" and the capital N in "nope". My comment regarding pay scale was specifically directed at Bill O'Reilly if you reread the first sentence of the post. To me its not a right or left issue. Anyone that's exponentially wealthy sounds hollow and arrogant debating Medicare or universal health care. They'll never need it. Its like a man describing the feeling of child birth. Bill will never feel the anxiety of retirement era financial struggle. Medicare is certainly flawed and needs either heavy reform or a replacement program. But the last 8 years haven't exactly been conducive to nationalized anything aside from war and fear. Most liberals fully understand the unshaken relevance for government assisted health care for all who cannot afford it. At the very least the current progressive movement shows a type of compassion and logic that clearly Bill O'Reilly and John Stossel denounce and even mock through Viagra humor. So either Bill and John are both truly elitist(yes),they're trying to manipulate an audience to fit their within they're individual opinions (that They're paid to do).(yes) or They're slowly starting to rethink why the mood of this country from a human stand point rather then a paper one.
Either way they have no answers. only hate.

you lefties like to critcise the right for making money while the left has the wealthiest politicians in our government.

Prove it, hick.

And he was being factual in pointing out why viagara was covered and birth control was not. Do you disagree with that?