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WillYourVoteBCounted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:16 AM Original message |
Poll question: Should Congress be stripped of their health benefits? |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. This is the easiest poll I've done. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
2. They should be forced to have worthless "indiviudal plans" or HMO's or health savings accounts |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'm sick of paying for their health care |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
4. Maybe those 3 no votes are congressmen that are on DU..hey we don't get healthcare you don't either |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. Heh. Tempting, but no. Because then only people rich enough to afford their own... |
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WillYourVoteBCounted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. don't they get health care for the rest of their life - after |
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me b zola (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. Until we have what they have... |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
8. You forgot clawback of their salaries to reflect the bad economic conditions & their non-performance |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
9. Stripped by who? Congress? |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 01:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
30. lol. exactly. (i voted yes anyway!) n/t |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
10. Absolutely. They should be required to go a year with no health insurance. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 04:01 AM Response to Original message |
11. Doing that would turn off their life support. Then again most have been dead for years. |
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SleeplessInAlabama (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 04:04 AM Response to Original message |
12. No but I think they deserve a downgrade |
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stuball111 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 04:28 AM Response to Original message |
13. And send em to the Wise County Fairground in West Virginia |
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WillYourVoteBCounted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. or tell them to go to the ER |
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Cass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 06:01 AM Response to Original message |
14. Without a doubt. They need to get it through their heads they are no better than the rest of us. |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
15. I said no on basic principle. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 06:04 AM Response to Original message |
16. Fantasy poll. |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Agreed. Asking Congress to deny themselves. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 07:07 AM Response to Original message |
17. Their health benefits, their pay &, in many cases, their heads. |
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WillYourVoteBCounted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
19. 91 votes |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. where's the HELL YES button? |
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npk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
22. Hell yes. n/t |
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Strong Atheist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. Congress should have to live under all the same laws the rest of us |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-26-09 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
24. AND they shd have to buy their own ins. under pseudonyms, to make sure |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
25. I'd like to see some kind of check against them for taking so much in campaign contributions |
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newtothegame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
26. Well of course we know the answer; but what does knowing the answer do for us? n/t |
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Lifelong Protester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
27. They should have to feel for just a month, even, the terror |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
28. Other: I don't care because they are already rich and wouldn't feel a thing but pride stinging them |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-27-09 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
29. They should be FORCED |
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