Fox News anchors' five-minute-plus rant about health care reform
May 19, 2009 10:52 am ET
Fox News anchors' five-minute-plus rant about health care reform
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I told them this was an outrage and would be like taxing people with no children to help fund public education.
I presume you're not a teacher or involved in any way with the public education system. Because if you were, you would understand that failures that you speak of in the public education system fall generally not on shoulders of the educators but with the parents and the students.
But I understand that if it can be framed in a political scenario, it WILL be by those with limited knowledge of it.
Kid is failing say, Algebra II.
Teacher (my brother in this case), calls parents to discuss kid's grades. Nobody answers, or calls him back, for weeks.
He finally talks to the parents, and guess what? They don't care that their kid is failing school, and don't want to talk about it, and please would you stop calling and leaving messages.
Brother wants to help kid after school, give extra attention to help him pass Algebra II. Kid doesn't show up for extra help, and seems, well, not interested.
Brother keeps trying. Parents won't come in, kid won't come in. So, brother gives up, kid fails, and has to repeat 9th grade again.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. This happens a lot more than not. At least it has to my brother. It's not the school's fault. It's not my brother's fault. Most of the time, it is the kid's fault, and the parent's fault.
Then, after a decade or so, we can determine that it's time to start spending again, and by then we should have an education system that's the envy of the world.
That would take too much effort and thought. YOU WILL NEVER BE AN ANDERSON COOPER AND WILL NEVER POSESS THE AUTHORITY TO REVEAL ANY THING BECAUSE YOU ARE COWARDS AND AIRTIME HOGS! NO MATTER WHAT YOU NAME THE NETWORK, IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK, TALKS LIKE A DUCK......
America is watching and you leave without a legacy. You are no Barbara Walters--You should try out for a debate team though.
so they believe in taking away a WOMAN's individual right to choose...and it stops there! after that its pretty much u're on your own.
where do the republicans stand on adoption, childcare, poverty stricken places, mst. imp. healthcare? they truly believe the current health system is A1(all good)!?
rebubs are only pro-life when it is politically convenient 4 them!!!
See, in a pro choice world, you get to choose, pro life, or rights of a woman to choose. I'm a pro choicer, but if I had ever gotten a girl pregnant during my young and sort of wild years, I would have pushed hard for her to have the child.
Then they'll bring up the "moral" issue of it all. I always ask, and they never have an answer, as to do they think it's really easy for someone to have an abortion? It's not. Trust me, I know a few women who have had them, and it was the most gut wrenching traumatic decision that they've ever made in their lives. It ain't easy. And as far as the moral issue, well, isn't that something that will be between a woman and her "maker" during judgement time? I mean, if these yay-hoos believe in God and judgement after death, and they're "pro life" (whatever that means), then why don't they worry about themselves, and let the rest of us worry about ourselves?
In other words, you don't care if kids suffer because their parents might only be working say, 2-3 low paying jobs to put food on the table, and that they don't have a job where insurance is provided for them probably like you, and me.
My kids are on their own, they have insurance as well though, and as far as I know, their children are insured. It would not be up to them to insure the whole world.
Dave probably realizes that he only has so much time on this earth. In order to live batter, he agrees to sell part of his time to an employer. During those, (however many hours per week), his time is not his own. He is sacrificing a significant part of his life to try to provide for himself and his family.
Then a tax collector comes along and tells him that he needs to sacrifice a little more so that he'll have streets to drive on, so some other people don't come and take his life away, so he can have treated water and not get sick as often. Dave says "okay" I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit more for those services.
But then the tax collector says, "That's not enough. We want you to sacrifice more and more so other people, that aren't working as many hours as you can have a better life." Dave watches as his share of the profit he was promised in exchange for the limited hours of his life grow smaller and smaller. Dave starts to realize tht the people who want to grow government and increase taxes aren't just taking his money, they are taking a part of his life, a part he can never get back. Dave realizes that if he had all of the money that was taken away from him by the government for things he didn't agree with he would be a much wealthier man today. He would have more choices including choices that would make his life much richer. then it dawns on him that the money he has been earning gave him a power over his life. It made him free to make all sorts of choices he couldn't have made otherwise. And he realizes that the money that has been taken from him not only took away a part of his life, it took away a part of his freedom. He realizes that other people, always with the best of intentions, took from him what his fathers fought and died to defend. Dave may start to get angry about this. When he does he will find that there are a great number of people that are just as angry as he is. The people that don't understand Dave's anger will scoff and laugh and call him names. They'll say he's just too dumb or too mean or being dishonest. They will never understand people like Dave.
I hope I didn't include anything that you couldn't agree with, Dave.
What I find so offensive about most of what the heads at Fox spew is how it plays on the sheer underlying selfishness of their viewers and how they so often couch that behind terms like "patriotism" and "Christianity" which, in my opinion anyway, connote the exact opposite meaning. But that is a whole other topic.
Go for it.
If you think the lifestyle you described is preferable, go for it. I don't have any problem paying for you to collect food stamps and welfare. I happen to know that welfare and food stamps do go to people who aren't inclined to steady work, but I also know that there are - among others - single mothers who use welfare and food stamps to get on their feet, get an education, and create productive lives. I'd just as soon pay (even if I'm not happy about it) for people such as yourself to slack off and enjoy a life of leisure than to take the opportunity of success away from those who just need a little help.
You characterized it as a parasitic lifestyle, so attractive that were considering choosing it over a productive career. Unless, of course, you were just kidding about that. In which case the sarcasm wasn't mine, but yours.
Do you pay for ALL of your own insurance? I am willing to bet, that like most of us, you only pay for some of it, as in, the company that you work for probably pays for most of it, and you pay for a small fraction of it. Some people don't have the option to have a job where they receive benefits. You are free to quit your job, and live the good life off of the government dole. If you think it's so great, do it, see how things work out.
Do you think the unemployment rate now is due to Obama? Or anything he did? If you do, that's incredibly naive, and ignorant really.
Yes, while a Senator, Obama joined with other Democrats to resist Bush Admin. and Republican Congressional efforts to intervene with Freddie and Fannie and head off their collapse. They were providing a market for bad debt that encouraged many banks and investors to overextend. They helped to keep the low interest rate bubble from collapsing by pumping more air into it. When it did collapse, it did so more calamatously. Obama was also involved in the efforts of ACORN groups to pressure lenders into giving thhose bad loans in the first place. Republicans aren't blameless either. But going back to trace the origins of hthis problenm leads you squarely to the failed policies of the Liberal Democrats, no matter how hard MMFA tries to convince you that you can claim it wasn't.