On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Mark wrote:
> Francis makes you feel dead ? wow > McCain has condemned hate speech coming out of his supporters numerous > times. Then why is he funding robocalls stoking it: <http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9192396> And state GOP leaders explicitly making connections between Obama and Bin Laden <http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849422,00.html> It's no wonder you get people up talking about how they won't vote for Obama because he's an arab terrorist. And this <http://dcist.com/2008/10/17/mccain_to_protect_virginians_from_o.php > Oh sure, they just innocently shaded a cropped clip of Osama bin Laden to to make it closer to Obama's skin color. Ayup! Please. We may be opposed to you politically, that doesn't make us stupid. If McCain wanted to stop this nonsense, he could. by having the campaign focus on their policies and their plans, not Ayers. Hell even Joe the (not so much a) Plumber admitted that yes, under Obama's tax plans, he would have lower taxes than under McCain's. Hell, McCain is explicitly telling me he's raising my taxes, while giving a tax cut to people way above my pay grade. (No? What do you THINK will happen when he starts taxing health care benefits? My taxes go up. If the folks I work for drop health care benefits instead of paying more payroll taxes, my healthcare costs skyrocket.) I pay about $100/month four our healthcare, because the state was able to use it's clout as representing a very large number of people to get insurance companies to sell it to the state cheaply. If you work for a large company you probably get the same benefit. McCains plan would throw everyone whose employer stopped offering the benefit out into the consumer healthcare market. You against the insurance company. Another "Yer on yer ownership" moment. Any one of you having to pay for all of your health care knows what that's like. It ends up not health care, but catastrophic coverage. My brother and his wife just had to declare bankruptcy because she was rear-ended in an accident. Her health care plan won't cover it because it is the responsibility of her car insurance to cover it. The car insurance company initially paid for the treatments, then said, "oopsie, give us the money back! That accident didn't hurt you, it re-injured your back after a previous injury. It's a pre-existing condition, give us the money back. Now." They didn't have the 25K to pay it back, let alone the bills that THEN came from the doctors and the hospital asking for even more because, well, the costs for someone who is uninsured is about 25%-30% higher than someone who is. The single leading cause of bankruptcy in this country is uncovered health care costs, and McCain wants to make it worse, by forcing MORE people into the individual market, where the odds are stacked even more against the consumer. Plus, since he just hateses the regulation, he hateses it, those companies will pretty much have a free hand in ensuring they maximize profit. It's very good for the insurance companies, that's for certain. Maybe that's why one of their lobbyists is currently his Campaign Vice-Chair. <http://mclobbyist.com/berman.html> You no longer have to wonder why the rest of the G8 looks at America which spends 3-6 times what they do on health care for what is in many cases inferior levels of service and asks themselves "Are those people insane??? Don't they understand what a drag on their economy those gargantuan costs are?" -- Bruce Johnson "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
