Steve_MB
February 26, 2014, 2:55pm
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Kobal2:
Well, he’s got a point, and god dammit I’ll support him if it costs me my reputation on this very forum !
Yes; those thoughts (which surely occupy Burkman’s mind every hour of every day) presumably inspired the proposal.
Locrian
February 26, 2014, 5:48pm
13125
Ugh. When-- WHEN will these dopes wise up? He’s basically saying, “I don’t like change, I like things the way I think they should be, so I should be able to discriminate legally while hiding behind a religious curtain.”
So not being able to discriminate against people/ideas you DON’T like is an attack on religion.
Dearest, silly repubs, here’s the thing: You’re not making the GOP look any better, but you’re definitely making Christianity look even worse!
Wait! Don’t give up hope! The Pubs have a fix for the ACA!
A Republican-led bill designed to “save American workers” would cause 1 million workers to lose their health care coverage and increase the deficit by $74 billion, according to Congress’ official scorekeeper.
The legislation, offered by Rep. Todd Young (R-IN) and 208 co-sponsors as a tweak to Obamacare, would change the definition of a full-time work week under the health care law from 30 hours per week to 40 hours. The aim was to mitigate the effect of the law’s employer mandate, which says businesses with 50 or more workers must offer insurance to full-time employees.
An analysis of the bill, released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation, found that it would cause 1 million people to lose their employer-based insurance coverage. The report projected that more than 500,000 of them would end up getting coverage through Medicaid, the Children’s Health Care Program or the Obamacare exchanges. The rest, CBO and JCT said, would become uninsured.
The legislation would also lower the amount the federal government collects in penalties from businesses who don’t abide by the employer mandate. As a result, the report found, the deficit would go up by $74 billion over 10 years.
Titled the “Save American Workers Act,” the bill was touted by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) as part of the GOP’s winter 2014 agenda. It cleared the House Ways & Means Committee on a party line vote earlier this month and was slated for a full House vote perhaps as early as next week. Of the bill’s 208 cosponsors, seven are Democrats.
Finally! Finally, now we can understand the why of all these Stupid Republican Ideas!
The GOP serves (mainly and mostly) the interests of the rich.
The rich are nuckin’ futs. No, really.
Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California-Berkeley, is not surprised by these rich-guy outbursts, which have included offensive comparisons to Nazi persecution. His research shows that large gobs of money often make people drift away from the reality the rest of us know. So if some of those millionaires and billionaires seem to be completely out-of-touch rich guys lacking sympathy for their fellow man, that’s because they are.
“Extreme wealth in our lab makes people less compassionate, they care less about the suffering of others, they’re less empathetic,” he told the Huffington Post in an interview. “They tend to think that they have their tons of money because they have a stronger genetic profile. You put that together, and you get jackasses.”
Studies by Keltner and others have shown that rich people are less likely to share money with a partner or feel empathy for starving children. They are more likely to take candy from a baby.
Being rich re-wires your brain and your environment in such a way that it’s easy to feel entitled to your money and harder to understand why other people don’t have it, Keltner said.
jayjay
February 26, 2014, 10:24pm
13129
Is it really fair to include Fucker Carlson? That’s like a secret cheat to guarantee at least one entry per day…
Arizona Tea Party Group on anti-gay bill : ‘The First Amendment protects only the practice of the Christian faith’
You see, there is already a law that protects the right of those of the Christian faith to not serve those who are clearly abhorrent to that faith.
It’s called the First Amendment.
…
The First Amendment was meant only to protect the Christian faith. When the founders spoke of religion, they meant the Christian religion. They did not have to keep saying the Christian religion because everyone knew that is what they were talking about.
Somebody tell him you don’t scab on the Pope.
Because that’s EXACTLY how HITLER got his start!
(at least, that’s how it’s taught in Arizona schools)
So, that would be only for Michigan and only after its becomes law, right? Can’t come after you for stuff that happened before, like, say, 1966 to the present? 'Cause I know some people who might have to sell their grandchildren into slavery.
[QUOTE=U.S. Constitution, Article I §9(3)]
First Amendment, well, that is another matter entirely.
Morgyn
February 28, 2014, 9:36pm
13137
Does it count as a separate stupid Republican idea of the day each time they vote to repeal the Affordable Car Act? Because they’re about to do it again, for the 50[sup]th[/sup] time .
C’mon guys. Give it a rest already, will you? You’re wasting time and money on this that you could be spending elsewhere, where it could do more good.
Morgyn:
Does it count as a separate stupid Republican idea of the day each time they vote to repeal the Affordable Car Act? Because they’re about to do it again, for the 50[sup]th[/sup] time .
C’mon guys. Give it a rest already, will you? You’re wasting time and money on this that you could be spending elsewhere, where it could do more good.
I’d really like to know what they would do if it actually got repealed. Would they kick off the 4 million plus people who have already signed on for it?
jsc1953
February 28, 2014, 10:06pm
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Locrian:
Dearest, silly repubs, here’s the thing: You’re not making the GOP look any better, but you’re definitely making Christianity look even worse!
I would love to see one duly constituted religious authority come forward and claim that it’s a sin to serve a cheeseburger to a gay person.
Never gonna happen. This isn’t about Christianity, just about some of its stupider adherents.
Kobal2
February 28, 2014, 10:07pm
13140
That’s what you get for 30 years of customer support telling anybody experiencing any issue whatsoever to shut down the computer, turn it back on and try again !