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1. #1
   On August 30th, 2010 at 11:32 am, Ralph Gizzip said:

   Now if they could just be purged from the voter rolls….

2. #2
   On August 30th, 2010 at 11:45 am, RTater said:

   http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15908205

   Two clinics at University of Colorado Hospital — considered the state’s safety net for the needy — are turning away patients on government insurance plans because they can’t afford to treat them.

   The recent changes at University’s urology clinic, which stopped taking new Medicaid patients this month, and the internal-medicine clinic, which is no longer accepting patients with Medicare, have left community health centers that care for the state’s poorest residents at a loss. The pool of specialists who will accept patients on low-paying government insurance plans is shrinking, they say.

   Hospitals and doctors refusing to be slaves !? Who’d a-thunk it?

3. #3
   On August 30th, 2010 at 11:51 am, Ragspierre said:

   There is a theme that has been perking in my little brain for a couple of days; contempt and condescension.

   I had not until this morning read Taranto’s excellent piece…
   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704147804575455523068802824.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

   But I had read Obama’s remarks on the Beck rally, which reek with contempt and condescension.

   So, too, does this piece in the NYT. It presupposes that THEY CAN know a great direction THEY should lead the rest of us in, that WE REQUIRE that, and WE WILL FOLLOW, setting aside all our very well-founded criticisms, concerns, and principles.

   So, that is the touch-stone of our time in America; the contempt and condescension of the elitists…the Collective…for the rest of us. It explains much.

4. #4
   On August 30th, 2010 at 11:53 am, Flyoverman said:

   The program has grown even before the new health care law adds about 16 million people, beginning in 2014.

   Pigs will fly before that happens! Obamacare is DOA along with Obama’s reelection chances.

5. #5
   On August 30th, 2010 at 11:54 am, hawkeye54 said:

   One in six Americans is now on government aid.

   Add to that the bloated number of public sector union jobs sucking up tax dollars and equally beholding to their political overseers and the ratio is probably closer to one in four Americans.

6. #6
   On August 30th, 2010 at 11:55 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   (Holds out hand) Yep, it’s raining again.

7. #7
   On August 30th, 2010 at 11:58 am, hawkeye54 said:

   Obamacare is DOA along with Obama’s reelection chances.

   One can only hope and pray, but as yet neither is a certainty. The Dems are not to be trusted and the GOP is not to be relied upon to act wisely on its own once in congressional majority.

8. #8
   On August 30th, 2010 at 12:02 pm, cheapseat said:

   The cradle to grave dependent welfare kids are now attending taxpayer funded colleges, and the biggest increase in food stamps and subsidized housing is coming in what demographic? Wait for it, minority college students, legal and illegal!

9. #9
   On August 30th, 2010 at 12:03 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

   In addition to being a socialist, America-hating Black Liberation Theologist, obama is a real world-class jerk. He really is. Nobody would ever want to hang out with him. He is a total downer, a total milquetoast depressing wimp.

   He’s never chopped firewood. He’s never fired a handgun, even at a shooting range. He’s never mowed the family lawn. He’s pathetic.

10. #10
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:07 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Nobody would ever want to hang out with him. He is a total downer, a total milquetoast depressing wimp.

    Actually, Thunder, people will PAY to hang out with him. That is how sick they are…

11. #11
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:07 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    He’s never fired a handgun, even at a shooting range.

    Bad idea…he probably couldn’t figure out the working end of a handgun – he’s no Barney Fife – and end up shooting himself…and that occurance might not be fatal.

12. #12
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:09 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Nobody would ever want to hang out with him.

    True, but as long as he’s got himself to hangout with and idolize, he’ll never be alone.

13. #13
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:10 pm, cicerokid said:

    Solution to the obesity crisis: FREE FOOD!

14. #14
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:12 pm, cicerokid said:

    Obesity has been linked to poverty,

    Only in the United States is this possible. (from the link above)

15. #15
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:19 pm, rightisright said:

    Long before Obummercare, here in Oregon if you didn’t have insurance or enough money to cover an unexpected illness or injury you would go to a hospital for help, naturally. The business dept. would right away get you started and signed up for Oregon’s state health plan, Medicaid, called OHP, it’s broke by the way. Along with medical assistance you may qualify for food stamps, housing assistance and more. It’s not hard to see why or how the “give me” roles have increased here.
    Here in Oregon the illegals receive every possible welfare benny there is available. I see 1 and 2 cart loads of food at the check out lines being pushed by what is obviously illegals, can’t speak English and pay with the state Food Stamp Card…GGGRRRRRRR!!!

16. #16
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:24 pm, dat60a3 said:

    Train them to be parasite and they will become parasites. There is a difference between a hand up and a hand out. It seems that there isn’t a goal of getting people to be self-sufficient, but to be dependent on the government.

17. #17
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:48 pm, Regulus said:

    One in six Americans is now on government aid. Liberals consider this a sign that their system is working.

    “Anyone who robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.”

    By repealing welfare-to-work reform, and converting Social Security and unemployment benefits into extensions of welfare, the present administration seeks to turn that expression into reality.

18. #18
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:49 pm, rambler said:

    The goal of a good parasite is not to kill the host.

    Those who earn the wealth still control the wealth. The gov can’t take what the individual refuses to earn. I could expand my business, but I won’t. There is no incentive to fund freeloaders.

19. #19
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:51 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    One in six Americans is now on government aid. Liberals consider this a sign that their system is working.

    Actually, to the Leftists, it means their system is still a work in progrss – When six in six Americans are on government aid and/or working for the government, only then they’d say their system is working.

20. #20
    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:53 pm, frostrt said:

    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:10 pm, cicerokid said:
    Solution to the obesity crisis: FREE FOOD!

    —————————————-
    The cheapest foods tend to also be the most unhealthy and fattening.

    And I’ll bet dollars to donuts (get it?) that most of those food stamps are being used to buy cr@p that is all sugar and calories and no nutrition. (See above-you can get more of it for fewer stamps.)

    ‘Tis true – only in the U.S. would the “poorest among us” also be the most overweight. Yes, their bellies are bloated, but it ain’t from extreme hunger!

21. #21
    On August 30th, 2010 at 1:07 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On August 30th, 2010 at 12:12 pm, cicerokid said:
    Obesity has been linked to poverty,

    And all thsi time I thought “fat Biafran babies” was an oxymoron.

22. #22
    On August 30th, 2010 at 1:08 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    thsi = this (slap!)

23. #23
    On August 30th, 2010 at 1:08 pm, RedDog said:

    12:30pm today in the Rose Garden — wherein he will push for more programs to shift more private citizens onto public subsistence in the name of “recovery.”

    The only additional private citizens I am looking forward to seeing on public subsistence is Barack Obama and a sizeable number of Congressmen – out of office and living in a federal penitentiary.

24. #24
    On August 30th, 2010 at 1:13 pm, nail49 said:

    He’s never fired a handgun, even at a shooting range.

    Would you want to be around him with a loaded gun in his hands? The guy is as nervous as a whore in church — oh, that’s right, he doesn’t go to church — make that, he is as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

25. #25
    On August 30th, 2010 at 1:38 pm, BuckeyeSam said:

    Hard workers buck up for freeloaders.

26. #26
    On August 30th, 2010 at 2:20 pm, happy2behere said:

    Thanks RTater for the article. I heard that rumor and didn’t belive it. Although UCH is a separate not-for-profit entity which receives no state funds directly, it is still the only academic hospital associated with the University of Colorado. And the week before that, they announced a 400 million dollar expansion, but they can’t afford to treat Medicare patients in the urology clinic? These are amazing times.

27. #27
    On August 30th, 2010 at 2:48 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Only 1 in 6 Americans?
    Is that only Documented Americans, or does that count Harry Reid’s buddies?

28. #28
    On August 31st, 2010 at 10:48 am, Solo said:

    One in six on some type of government (state & fed) aid sounds low to me as well.

    Welfare
    WIC
    Low income housing
    Free or subsidized school breakfast & lunch
    Food stamps
    Subsidized or free healthcare
    Subsidized prescription drugs

    That’s just off the top of my head so I’m sure there’s more.