[efarmer]

The Red and Blue guys up on Capitol Hill play Punch and Judy for farce for the New York
nation busters, line their pockets, and then quit to lobby their replacement stooges.

It ain't nothing new here, it is just that they have sliced off all the pork fat from America
and now they are cutting off the muscles and hoping the bone meal and tallow man will
pony up a good offer once they get the meat all sliced off the carcass.

[Cid_Yama]

That hypothetical couple would never pass the resource test. Yes, there is a resource test as well as an income test. For both of them to be recieving the maximum Social Security payment they each would have had to be making 6 figure salaries when they worked.

[Serial_Worrier]

Define "middle class". If you have no savings, live paycheck to paycheck and have huge debts you're POOR.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')et another newly revealed flaw of Obamacare promises to add billions to the cost of the new health law. Due to what was presumably an oversight in the drafting of the legislation, it could potentially unload 24.7 million additional Americans onto the Medicaid program.

That’s 50 percent higher than the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) original projection of 16 million. As Medicare Actuary Richard Foster explained in testimony before the House Budget Committee, the definition of income to determine eligibility excludes Social Security benefits, allowing couples in early retirement who make even $64,000 per year to qualify for benefits that should be reserved for those in genuine need. Like so many complexities within Obamacare’s unpopular stipulations, expensive and harmful mistakes lurking in the fine print are surfacing every day.

[Sixstrings]

The funny thing about this supposed outrage is..

well, some folks might get some medical care. Nobody with decent health insurance would *choose* medicaid. Anyone who applies for it obviously isn't getting healthcare from a better option.

So..

why is that so terrible? That people might actually get some healthcare? Anyhow, Obama says he's "going to fix that," guess we can't have anyone getting some benefit out of Obamacare.

[Outcast_Searcher]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1Q0hFOlpQ

Surely to God no healthy human could be so ugly. I have to believe her appearance comes from her arrogant evil hypocritical wealth-sucking soul lurking within.

A shining tribute to redistributionists everywhere. Way to go Nancy. Good to see that you will be able to afford any healthcare you want, while you massively screw it up for the middle class.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '[')img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/15/article-2003954-0C75607500000578-285_468x372.jpg[/img]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1Q0hFOlpQ

Surely to God no healthy human could be so ugly. I have to believe her appearance comes from her arrogant evil hypocritical wealth-sucking soul lurking within.

A shining tribute to redistributionists everywhere. Way to go Nancy. Good to see that you will be able to afford any healthcare you want, while you massively screw it up for the middle class.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')
why is that so terrible? That people might actually get some healthcare? Anyhow, Obama says he's "going to fix that," guess we can't have anyone getting some benefit out of Obamacare.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')
why is that so terrible? That people might actually get some healthcare? Anyhow, Obama says he's "going to fix that," guess we can't have anyone getting some benefit out of Obamacare.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')
why is that so terrible? That people might actually get some healthcare? Anyhow, Obama says he's "going to fix that," guess we can't have anyone getting some benefit out of Obamacare.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'F')rankly I find the selfishness revolting.

[Cid_Yama]

Republican's Vision for America



Where oppression of the working class is job one!

If it's good enough for the third world, it's good enough for America's wretched masses.(formerly misnamed the Middle Class)

Uppity peasants!

[Lore]

Republicans are busy working for their clients, big business. Little do the realize they are also trying to ultimately put their customers all out of business. Who will buy?

[mattduke]

What is clear to me is that the NEEDIEST people should be given tax funded giveaways first and foremost. Anything otherwise amounts to welfare for the rich. And clearly the NEEDIEST are in Africa and parts of Asia. How can anyone justify welfare for automobile-owning, nike shoe-wearing Americans is beyond me. I'm still waiting for an intellectually honest response.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'R')epublicans are busy working for their clients, big business. Little do the realize they are also trying to ultimately put their customers all out of business. Who will buy?

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', '[')b]Republican's Vision for America

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'W')hat is clear to me is that the NEEDIEST people should be given tax funded giveaways first and foremost. Anything otherwise amounts to welfare for the rich. And clearly the NEEDIEST are in Africa and parts of Asia. How can anyone justify welfare for automobile-owning, nike shoe-wearing Americans is beyond me. I'm still waiting for an intellectually honest response.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he number of middle-income neighborhoods in the United States has dwindled significantly over the past 40 years, as the rich-poor divide deepens across the country, a study released Wednesday showed.

In 2007, nearly a third of American families -- 31 percent -- lived in either an affluent neighborhood or a mainly low-income one, up from just 15 percent in 1970, according to the study conducted by Stanford University, and released in partnership with the Russell Sage Foundation and Brown University.

Meanwhile, 44 percent of American families lived in middle-class neighborhoods in 2007, down from 65 percent in 1970.
http://news.yahoo.com/middle-class-areas-shrinking-us-study-000732421.html

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')44 percent of American families lived in middle-class neighborhoods in 2007, down from 65 percent in 1970.
http://news.yahoo.com/middle-class-areas-shrinking-us-study-000732421.html

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')File this under O for obvious.