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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:37 AM Original message |
If the Medicare cuts of 21% go through with a Democratic majority... |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. And we will be saving even more money than ever... |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
65. Oh ...pffft ...they are just trying to save more money for military use... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:28 PM Response to Reply #65 |
76. JOBS?? Try weaponry. |
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luckyleftyme2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. why we will lose in nov. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. You want ME to stop playing the "rights'" games? Really? |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 05:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
41. The reason Brown won in MA, that is being swept under the rug, |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. And that's a demonstration of really skewed priorities. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. Obama is NOT calling for "huge cuts in Medicare." |
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luckyleftyme2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I agree with you |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. He has not been clear on the cuts...not at all. Don't call what I write "crap" |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
31. Please calm down, I understand perfectly that Advantage Plans need to be cut!!! |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Don't condescend to me. He is not fixing Medicare, he is cutting benefits. |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 05:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
43. To some; Cutting half a trillion dollars, half the medicare budget, |
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backtomn (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
64. I agree.... |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Thank you. n/t |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Crap? Really? |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Guess you're not happy about that. OK, I take it back. You're just wrong. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. We have a majority. We allowed a 21% cut to go through. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:19 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Already have. The 21% is the reimbursement rate. I favor - strongly - restoring that. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
55. My congressperson, Jackie Speier said the Medicare Advantage plans would get cut |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. "* Reductions in payments to providers "...his own words. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
73. Cuts to Medicare Advantage constitute only about a third of total cuts to Medicare. |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
79. Plus AARP is an Obama supporter. |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
80. Plus AARP is an Obama supporter. |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
6. Why do we keep thinking Democrats are something more that the Left wing of the Republican party? |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. Why does this country hate the elderly? Does everyone hate their parents? |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 08:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
48. and the disabled, many of whom are not elderly |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
81. Are you kidding? You should try being a woman over 60 in this country. Even young WOMEN hate us. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. Where'd that 21% figure come from? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Link: starts tomorrow. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:07 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. More at this link. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. 21% is a good start. Many people have had cuts of that or greater in income |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Insourcing instead of outsourcing? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Oh, well, then let's hurt our seniors to make a point. Way to go. |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. This poster is a huge fan of "the race to the bottom" |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:24 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Well, I don't have to see it anymore. |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I wouldn't worry about RB |
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Sgent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
62. That's 21% of what practices are paid |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
77. Who else will work to save your very life?? Doctors deserve every penny. (Not one, nor am married to |
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bjjblackbelt (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
19. ... |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. My mother is a cardiac medicare patient. |
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SlingBlade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
25. Thank You madfloridian once again for ... REALITY ! |
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Sgent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
27. The cardiac cuts |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Looks like the cardiac cuts already happened. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
82. IMO, and I don't really care what others perceive, Obama has a very, very cold heart. |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
30. The 21% cut will not be effective tomorrow, fixes are coming...Medicare has 14 (or 29) days |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:10 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. This says tomorrow. They have played games with this fix for ages. |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:13 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Yes, but Medicare has 14 days to process electronic claims and 29 days for paper claims |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. That answer does nothing to respond to my topic. |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:40 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Nothing happened yet... |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:46 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Due tomorrow. Scheduled since 2003. AMA tells doctors how to get out of Medicare program. |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 04:51 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Please see # 30...And try to stay calm, nt |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 05:32 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I am updating my list. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 05:48 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Madfloridian..that crap keeps being done to me as well..the stay colam crap..it is a ploy |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 06:32 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Telling someone to "stay calm" is meant as a slam at their intelligence. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 07:42 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. excuse my typo..i am on meds ...and i just noticed I had a typo..too late to correct! |
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Biker13 (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 04:58 PM Response to Reply #39 |
68. In Idaho... |
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luckyleftyme2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 06:54 AM Response to Reply #37 |
88. this is in reponse to your spiel |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
32. My sister in law does billing for numerous Cardiac docs..and just before New Years |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 02:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. It's across the board. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #33 |
45. yeah..i sadly understand that now...unfreaking believable..this will effect so many in our state of |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
49. Anyone who supports cutting Medicare....be willing to pay your parents' medical bills. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
50. "Democratic attempts to blame this on Senate procedure will ring utterly hollow" |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
51. Some clarifications. |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 06:37 AM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Thank you for this...I wish some people would just calm down and think and about what |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-03-10 06:39 AM Response to Reply #52 |
96. To all the professional hyperventilators! There was NO 21% cut afterall, it passed |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 06:57 AM Response to Reply #51 |
53. Record portability is still a mirage. |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #53 |
69. More clarifications. |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 08:40 PM Response to Reply #69 |
84. corrections indeed. |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 10:38 PM Response to Reply #84 |
85. Not so. |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 03:40 AM Response to Reply #85 |
86. Even the clinics have to meet standards of some sort. |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 06:44 AM Response to Reply #86 |
87. No they don't. |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 06:58 AM Response to Reply #87 |
90. Congratulations. |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 07:19 AM Response to Reply #90 |
93. Uninteresting cop-out is uninteresting |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 07:19 AM Response to Reply #87 |
92. One more thing. |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 07:23 AM Response to Reply #92 |
94. I'll give you a better one. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 10:16 AM Response to Reply #51 |
56. No, not the 21% rate cut. Not every year. This is devastating. |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 05:17 PM Response to Reply #56 |
71. True. |
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DisgustedInMN (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
54. Yep... |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 10:25 AM Response to Reply #54 |
58. Yep...the "overwhelming minority"....true words. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
57. Doctors say Medicare's pay cuts are killing their practices |
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apples and oranges (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
59. don't you think those same doctors would be furious if we got single payer? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 01:13 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. That is not my topic. I am writing about destroying Medicare. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
61. Two things Democratic forums care little about: Medicare and education.. |
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backtomn (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
63. The worst part is...... |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 02:42 PM Response to Reply #63 |
66. I agree. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #63 |
67. This one is really bad. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
70. ANYTHING but raise taxes on the wealthy. |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 06:05 PM Response to Reply #70 |
72. Because the rich own the country and the government?... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 06:56 AM Response to Reply #70 |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
74. Another chance blown. |
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backtomn (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 01:21 PM Response to Reply #74 |
95. Excellent Point !!! |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
75. We will DESERVE to lose!! |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
78. Hip Hip Hooray. Dean would never have let this happen. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-01-10 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
83. Kick |
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luckyleftyme2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-10 07:12 AM Response to Reply #83 |
91. lets make this thread honest |
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