Try facism label for ObamaCare
A teacher who identified himself as a government teacher admonished the editor for using the term "socialism" to describe the health care law.
The letter challenged me to look up the use of the term in my Merriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary 11th edition. The definition says "any of various economic and political theories advocating government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods."
Sounds mighty close to what ObamaCare is about.
Perhaps the government teacher would prefer "fascism" when referring to the health care law?
Fascism is "any of various economic systems in which the production and distribution of goods is privately owned but a severe, autocratic agency dictates the price and quality and distribution of goods and services."
If the editor is to be criticized, it may be for redundancy. The phrase "ObamaCare socialized medicine law" definitely is redundant.
GARY McDONALD
Cleveland, Tenn.
Send freeloaders to the moon
I think Gingrich has the right idea!
Start a colony on the moon and send the ones in jail, the ones too lazy to work, and all those who we have to pay for their up-keep, and let them support themselves.
I get so tired of having to pay taxes for those who do wrong, and we're the ones that have to pay for it.
We have to take a drug test for a job, but those who get our tax money for food stamps and welfare do not. They get food with food stamps, then buy their smokes, beer and drugs with what money they have.
We are sick of this!
These are the kinds of changes that need to be made!
Those in jail should have to work to pay for their own upkeep!
Let them clean the road, grow their own food. There's a lot they could do. Build homes for the needy.
JOHN MARTIN
Spring City, Tenn.
Fabricating things shows desperation
The Saturday, Feb. 4, opinion page "A wise decision, sadly reversed": I could not find anywhere on the Internet that donations increased to Komen after the funding cutoff to Planned Parenthood.
It seems just the opposite happened; donors abandoned Komen. That was the real reason for the reversal: All they care about is the $$$$.
If you can't be truthful and have to fabricate things to make a right-wing point you are really getting desperate. Actually funding increased directly to Planned Parenthood by over a million dollars.
How do expect anyone to respect your opinions if you're not truthful?
NELSON SULLIVAN
Hixson
(Editor's Note: The Washington Times on Feb. 2, "In a conference call with reporters Thursday, (Komen CEO Nancy) Bringer said Komen's own donations 'are up 100 percent in the past two days' since the Associated Press first reported the cutoff."
Funding reversal a win for women
In the Saturday Op-ed section, the Free Press editor said that the Susan G. Komen Foundation decision to reverse cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood was a "win" for abortionists.
Komen reversed the decision, hopefully because they realize their funding has absolutely nothing to do with abortions and has everything to do with saving women from cancer.
Komen cut the funding initially because of new rules implemented to curtail grants to institutions under investigation. This is curious because under the new guidelines, Planned Parenthood is the only institution under investigation.
The new rules were tailored to make sure PP lost their funding.
If you listen to political pundits on the right they will tell you that's all PP does, provide abortions, which is very curious because it only represents 3 percent of their funding.
Maybe it's just me, but I have to question why these pundits and other folks feel the need to lie if their cause is righteous?
This wasn't a win for Planned Parenthood as the editor so callously claims. It's a win for every woman whose life has been saved by cancer screening.
JASON MUNSON-JACKSON
How can you take liberals seriously?
In reply to the gentleman (letters, Feb. 2) who, as a proud Democrat, laughingly suggested that conservatives are prejudiced and uneducated.
Really?
Just this week at a long held, pro-life rally in Rhode Island, an occupy group throws condoms at Catholic school girls, shouting down their rally. Next there is a story in Memphis about a black radio talk show host conducting a racist, profanity-filled interview of a black lady running as a Republican for Tennessee District 9, silencing her just because she is not Democrat.
What a show of class and maturity those folks are, huh?
Whether you agree with the other side or not, is that the kind of "educated" behavior the writer is so proud of? So much for enlightened, civil conversation.
It never ceases to amaze how liberals constantly embrace totally indefensible positions like nanny state socialism or that taxpayes' money somehow grows on trees -- even though it never works -- so how can they ever be taken seriously?
WARREN DANIEL
The 'occupiers' are superfluous
Most of us are not in the top 1 percent. However, almost all of us are in the 95 percent or so who are well- fed, well-clothed and well-sheltered.
It seems that the "occupiers" have acknowledged that they are superfluous humans. "I have a problem; someone else solve it."
ROBERT F. CAHILL
Hixson
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Dear Mr. Daniel: Conservatives are generally low information voters who's only source is Fox News talking points. I often debate right wingers on Health Care, and all they know to say is 'job killer,' death panels,' and 'socialism.' I thought they taught more in public schools, but apparently not.
Mr.Cahill,when you say "However, almost all of us are in the 95 percent or so who are well- fed, well-clothed and well-sheltered.",you are apparently talking about those folks who live in your Gated Community?
Dear Bookworm, YOU assume all "Conservatives are generally low information voters who's only source is Fox News talking points." You show YOUR ignorance to make such a blanket statement. But even more telling is the assumption that all Non-Fox talking points are valid and based on absolutely the way things are. So again we see in you that Liberal arrogance which acts like it is for the lowly and poor of society but really in secret scorns the less fortunate and envies those who, well due to hard work, have more. ObamaCare is a problem because it is a government construed way of over-regulating something and will hamper the private sector without which we will soon be finding out we cannot continue to operate as we have been. But you are the expert. I just watch FOX and like all Rush L.'s facebook postings.(I DO NEITHER) Since you know so much I guess you'll just have to take the lead. By the way, don't blame me and the uninformed Conservative voters when your people's ways DO NOT WORK! That is the mantra we always see from the LEFT.
I am always amazed at our liberal friends ignorance of Fox News. If one would take time to watch you would find the following Democrats/Liberals as regulars on Fox: Juan Williams, Joe Trippi, Evan Bayh, Bob Beckel, Alan Colmes, Susan Estrich, Morton Kondracke, Ellen Ratner and Geraldo Rivera . Plus there are many others who I can not tell their political leanings. Geez, they have even had a guy from the NY Times on Bret Baier's show at 6 PM.
GARY McDONALD "If the editor is to be criticized, it may be for redundancy. The phrase "ObamaCare socialized medicine law" definitely is redundant."
ObamaCare has it's origins in a health care idea first publicized by the conservative think tank The Hermitage Foundation as an alternative to public health care. The Hermitage Foundation based the idea on the conservative principal of self responsibility, explaining that people without insurance receive free medical care at hospitals and clinics that cannot deny services, the cost of which is passed on to the public in the form of higher insurance premiums and taxes. By having a MANDATE to buy insurance, or positing of a bond or cash to cover medical needs, it makes people responsible for their own care.
This idea was carried forward by Republicans including Senator Bob Dole in the 90s in a plan designed to counter what was then termed "Hillary Care", a Clinton public option style plan. Republican Mitt Romney adopted that plan and implanted it into the state of Massachusetts while being governor. That plan has worked well to date and has received overwhelming public support.
So if you want to call ObamaCare, which by the way is based on private sector insurance coverage not government public coverage, "socialism" or "fascism" you will first have to thank the socialists and fascists at the Hermitage Foundation and the Republican Party for making it all possible :)
great post Plato.
almost as classy as Barack the magic negro, or "you lie".
if you don't get what OWS is all about you are part of the problem. how many lobbyists does Robert Cahill have on his payroll? i am betting he has zero, but his dumass thinks it is ok for the people who can afford a lobbyist to make the rules. all you working stiffs get up tomorrow, pack a lunch in your igloo cooler, work you ass off for sub par wages, and then go vote against yourselves in november.
you people save your money up all year to go see a NASCAR race and have to bum a ride to get there. dumasses.
send free loader to the moon....i agree 100%......send all the free loader and BLOOD SUCKING PARASITES.....HEDGE FUNDS PEOPLE, USURY PEOPLE AND ALL WHO DONT PRODUCE ANYTHING....ALL WHO SIT ON THEIR BUTT AND SEND OUR JOBS OVERSEAS TO FORIEGN COUNTRY....PEOPLE LIKE ROMNEY WHO IS NOT PATRIOTIC TO AMERICA, PEOPLE WHO DONT SERVE IN THE MILITARY AND NIEHTER DO ANY OF THEIR CHILDREN....BUT WORSHIP MONEY AT OTHER PEOPLE SACRIFICE.....Hmmmm SOUND LIKE THE RICH AND GREEDY HA HA HA
TO GARY MCDONALD....BEFORE THE PRESIDENT WAS EVEN SWORN IN OFFICE RIGHT-WING REPUBLICANS WERE CALLING THE PRESIDENT, COMMUNIST,ARAB,TERRORIST,KENYA,ECT.....FACISISM???? IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO....REPUBLICAN FEELINGS ARE HURT......THEY ARE MAD...THEY ARE SORE LOSERS HA HA HA......SO THEY GET PERSONAL LIKE A LITTLE CHILD......
IF ALL REPUBLICAN CAN DO IS NAME CALL...THEY WILL GET THEIR CLOCK CLEAN AS THEY DID IN THE LAST ELECTION.
Riverman, it is not about ratings, likable people, interesting news, differing parties, etc. Fox was taken to court for lies. Their defense is that it is not illegal to lie. And they won the court case. They are classified as entertainment, not news, so they do not have to tell the truth. That in a nutshell is why they get away with it. Just look it up. So, you can believe Fox all you like, but they do not have to, nor do they often, tell the truth. They are an entertainment propaganda spin master.
WHY DO FOX PRESENT ALL THE WOMEN AS DUMB FLIRTS THAT DRESSES SKIMPY AND CONDUCT THEMSELVE IN A HORSE-PLAYING MATTER.....THE GOOFY MALES ON FOX NEWS JUST DROOL ALL OVER THE TRASHY DRESS FEMALES HOSTESS.......I GUESS THEY HAVE DETERMINED THERE NO SUBSTANCE IN THEIR NEWS SO FOX LURE THE HORNY OLD MALE FOOL TO LEG WATCH SINCE THEY ARE GRUMPY OLD MEN THAT DONT HAVE ANYTHING ELSE GOING FOR THEM.....IS THIS WHY THEY SAY "FOX AND FRIEND"...HA HA HA......MAKE THE OLD MEN FEEL WANTED HA HA HA
JOHN MARTIN Just as a general point of fact. Who is going to pay to build the colony on the moon.... Taxpayers. who is going to pay to fuel the rocket transports that would have to be built to send people to the moon... that's right tax payers.
Do you know why the legal system is broken? Because its a LEGAL system. Think about this, every time someone goes to court 3 lawyers get paid. Prosecutor, Defense, Judge (All three are Lawyers and have to pass the Bar). Kinda strange isn't it. So lets say you have this guy, he's a repeat offender, if you are those three lawyers you WANT him back on the street so you can get paid again.
Fix the legal system. Death Row should no longer exist, if you are sentenced to Life or to Death Row, they should put you to death. It should be televised on Pay Per View, and the Proceeds from those shows should go half to the penal system, half to the families of the victims.
Send them to the moon? Sure you pay for that, me, I'll just grease up the electric chair.
As I stated in another thread, FOX is not a NEWS network, it's a political platform for opinions of the "News"casters.
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