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Republicans mount shock comeback, erase Democrats’ edge in eyes of Americans

Can you give me some examples of that?

Yes, social security checks would be one example of robbing Peter to pay Paul. As would medicare, and medicaid. Those are a few examples of what I'm talking about.
 
The premise of social safety net examples? The premise is to help people who need help. And that is what they do.

Examples:
people who are hungry get food stamps.
people who are homeless get housing.
people with kids get aid for those families.
people who are sick and cannot pay get medical treatment

Can you follow those examples? Can you get that helping those in need and alleviating their condition is proof of the programs success?

yeah I know - silly questions!!!!! :doh:roll::(

Life long dependence is not solving problems.
 
Sadly, Ernst, what the Constitution says is actually irrelevant. Yeah, we can read it and see what the federal government's powers are SUPPOSED to be. But if the federal government says something is legal, then it's legal. It may be evil. It may be contrary to the Constitution, but none of that matters. The federal government has absolute and final legal authority to determine the extent of its own powers.

your are correct I don't doubt that at all, because there is no merchandize to stop them, state power in our federal government has been lost with the 17th.

however what I state is in fact true..... according to "correct" constitutional law.

so I understand the reality, but I speak in terms of the constitution, ..not the court, or congress usurpation of power.
 
And how do we know what the Constitution actually means? THE SUPREME COURT interprets it for us. Not you.

It is the Supreme Court who interprets the US Constitution. They have been doing so for over 220 years. And not a single Court decision agrees with your far right extremist interpretation of what the powers of Congress are or what the scope of the Federal Government is regarding the American people.

So for you to
1- know this reality about who interprets the Constitution
2- know that not a single Court decision in 220 years agrees with you
3- cling to this ridiculous interpretation in despite of those two facts

shows that their is some fantasy world of the USA that you seem to believe exists that has nothing at all to do with the real one the rest of us inhabit.

if Madison states the constitution was created to be mixed, the court, is without words, because Madison laid the foundation of the constitution, ....and a man knows his own creation.
 
The premise of social safety net examples? The premise is to help people who need help. And that is what they do.

Examples:
people who are hungry get food stamps.
people who are homeless get housing.
people with kids get aid for those families.
people who are sick and cannot pay get medical treatment

Can you follow those examples? Can you get that helping those in need and alleviating their condition is proof of the programs success?

yeah I know - silly questions!!!!! :doh:roll::(

where you fail is state governments are not prohibited from engaging in these actions, you show a zeal for.

however the federal government has no authority to engage is such activity because it is not a delegated power.
 
Yes, social security checks would be one example of robbing Peter to pay Paul. As would medicare, and medicaid. Those are a few examples of what I'm talking about.
Technically, SS was supposed to be peter saving up to pay peter, only it got ****ed up because the government was running it. Also, because average lifespan after retirement increased.
 
Technically, SS was supposed to be peter saving up to pay peter, only it got ****ed up because the government was running it. Also, because average lifespan after retirement increased.

Yeah, the former would be called "a bank account". :)
 
Technically, SS was supposed to be peter saving up to pay peter, only it got ****ed up because the government was running it. Also, because average lifespan after retirement increased.

SS was supposed to be a money maker for the government.

during that time, life expectancy was 65, and a person retired at 62.. shows the government in their thinking believed more would be paid into the system then going out.
 
SS was supposed to be a money maker for the government.

during that time, life expectancy was 65, and a person retired at 62.. shows the government in their thinking believed more would be paid into the system then going out.
Which only goes to show that the government is incapable of long-term planning, and thus should never have been allowed to try it's hand at any.

All the people in charge are forced to think in terms of reelections, and everything else is subordinate to that. Thus, so long as it gets them re-elected, it's good. Even if it's bad 2 decades later.
 
The GOP has a had a few good days with the polls..
The GOP policy of not insuring 40 some million people who are uninsured continues..
The House simply voted to kill ACA again today, with 3 dozen vulnerable Dems..
How much has the GOP spent to meme meme make the ACA fail .
 
The GOP has a had a few good days with the polls..
The GOP policy of not insuring 40 some million people who are uninsured continues..
The House simply voted to kill ACA again today, with 3 dozen vulnerable Dems..
How much has the GOP spent to mmake the ACA fail .

Not enough. It's still there.:peace
 
Junk Insurance = Bankrupcy..
Didn't even read your five-word quip you sent me Jack--but needed to tell you--compared to my four sentences..
As AP told me, just pass me by as I pass you by..
Most of you leftovers from Politico on DP are rightists and pre--anti--Obama..
Remember ABO..For Obama, it is still Against Brutal Odds .

Not enough. It's still there.:peace
 
I think the fact that Obamacare has been such a failure... that it was not, and probably will not ever be, ready for prime time and that was precisely [ as well as in general the imprudence of the damn thing ] what those in the conservative tea parties wing of the Republican party were trying to emphasize, highlight, to warn and rail against... and that when it comes to a real down-the-line accounting, who was for, who was against and who was truly confrontationally against this super clunker, people will finally understand whose hearts were in the proper place.

Folks like McCain have marginalized themselves... they are just the buffers which the other team uses to pass these things on to the American people... we needed someone to stand up finally, to say, "STOP!!!" ...to risk a little, to draw a REAL line in the sand... to actually start the battle...not just appease.

I don't know if that will win an election, but it sure as hell is how things need to be.
 
It was textbook incompetence. So...yes. It was a joke. But, in time, the system will beging to work. Costs will quit rising, and all the other problems will begin to settle down. When people get insurance who never had it, especially those with pre-existing conditions, all the naysayers will be outed as fools.
We have been diminished as individuals by this unconstitutional tyrannical act. People with their hands out are always grateful to politicians who will force their neighbors to pay for the things the takers want.

What we all should do, every one of us is cancel our insurance policies. We should arrange with doctors where we live to see us for a reasonable cash payment. No more insurance. No more government. No more crony capitalism.
 
The GOP has a had a few good days with the polls..
The GOP policy of not insuring 40 some million people who are uninsured continues..
The House simply voted to kill ACA again today, with 3 dozen vulnerable Dems..
How much has the GOP spent to meme meme make the ACA fail .

Not as much as Obama paid to build the most expensive website in the world, that didn't even work. And guess what he's still spending millions, to try and fix it. All at the tax payers expense.
 
Junk Insurance = Bankrupcy..
Didn't even read your five-word quip you sent me Jack--but needed to tell you--compared to my four sentences..
As AP told me, just pass me by as I pass you by..
Most of you leftovers from Politico on DP are rightists and pre--anti--Obama..
Remember ABO..For Obama, it is still Against Brutal Odds .

You asked a question. I answered. That's the reason this site exists. I'm not a passer by.:peace
 
I don't care why your party split the vote. Losing serves you all right.
The Dems got their **** together. They consolidated voters from Blue dogs to progressives. The GOP is too busy purging "RINOs" and infighting.

Welcome to electoral hell. If McAulife winning does nothing else, it should, at the very least, show you you're there.
If the voters in Virginia want to drive out the achievers who can move I say let them. Virginia will soon match Detroit for its population growth, promised government services, taxes and unmatched misery.

We must win the Article V fight in 2/3rds of the States. But in the meantime arm up.
 
If the voters in Virginia want to drive out the achievers who can move I say let them. Virginia will soon match Detroit for its population growth, promised government services, taxes and unmatched misery.

We must win the Article V fight in 2/3rds of the States. But in the meantime arm up.

In Lt. Governor Bill Bolling, Repubs had a potential candidate who would have beaten McAuliffe 60% - 40%.:peace
 
Junk Insurance = Bankrupcy..
Didn't even read your five-word quip you sent me Jack--but needed to tell you--compared to my four sentences..
As AP told me, just pass me by as I pass you by..
Most of you leftovers from Politico on DP are rightists and pre--anti--Obama..
Remember ABO..For Obama, it is still Against Brutal Odds .

Linc, let me run this by you. Yesterday AM at the gas station I ran into a old friend of mine who use to work at Ft. McPherson and when it closed down went up to Ft. Bragg with me. He is a staunch Democrat and when I asked him about Obamacare, he backs it 100%. Buth he shook his head and said something akin to, "You know the Republicans have been ignoring those without insurance for years and years. Now we are ignoring those who lost their insurance because of Obamacare."

He is all for the ACA, but he was pretty disturbed with this "Oh well" attitude most of his fellow Democrats have been showing towards those who lost their insurance.
 
Next in line in the stupid department is an attempt to impeach Holder. While I would love to see him, Obama, and their 40 thieves gone, it aint gonna happen.

Like it or not, Republicans can always find a way to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
We should fight every fight. So far the establishment Republicans have covered themselves with dishonor. Or do you believe we should only fight the battles we know we can win?

I believe you are part of the problem.
 
We should fight every fight. So far the establishment Republicans have covered themselves with dishonor. Or do you believe we should only fight the battles we know we can win?

Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.
 
Except the Democrats are no longer socialists. And, anyone calling Obnamacare socialist is totally unaware of what socialism is. THe last socialist act in the USA regarding healthcare was Geaorge W's implimentation of the Prescription Drug plan addition to Medicare.

But, you're too blinded by rage against the D's to see that.
LOL. Yeah, uh-huh. Democrats are no longer Socialists. Obamacare is unconstitutional. It is theft. If it and this regime stands then the nation falls.

Obama is a Marxist. He uses the tools available to him, in this case unconstitutional acts and crony capitalism. That does not lessen his reasons for hating Americans, liberty, and free markets.
 
We should fight every fight. So far the establishment Republicans have covered themselves with dishonor. Or do you believe we should only fight the battles we know we can win?

I believe you are part of the problem.

Repubs should only fight battles they have a chance to win. I believe you are a lefty imposter infiltrating their ranks to disseminate destructive advice.:peace
 
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