Democrats promises will be expensive!!!

"They don't cover some treatments of disease because they consider them to be "experimental" or they drop people from the insurance plans because they cost the companies too much money.And yet they make huge profits every year. Healthnet, a large insurnace company actually gives bonuses to management and exectutives who drop clients in order to save money.Our healthcare system is broken and we need to start the ball rolling on fixing it" I still don't understand wh this would be a problem for the fedeal government. Leave it to individual state regulation to get a control on insurace companies. Allow the purchace of out of state health insurance in more states to increase competetion and this alone will begin to make insurance companies lower prices and widen coverage.

"I still don't understand wh this would be a problem for the fedeal government. Leave it to individual state regulation to get a control on insurace companies. Allow the purchace of out of state health insurance in more states to increase competetion and this alone will begin to make insurance companies lower prices and widen coverage" So if someone from one state buys their insurance from another state that's going to end our problems? I didn't know the health care crisis was limited to certain states! As long as health care and health insurance is a for profit industry money is going to come before people. If we have people in charge of our government with some human compassion maybe we won't have people dying needlessly or losing their homes because of a serious illness that they couldn't afford to pay for treatment for. People keep referring to "free health care"; who said anything about it being FREE? (bangs head against wall and pulls hair out!) Annie

Federal budget is at~2.9 trillion or so. To put that $750 billion in the article into a present perspective, the budget of Social Security is around the lines of~$575 billion or so. It also exceeds other heavy items on the budget like Defense, Medicare, Unemployment and Medicaid. Comparing it to an over four year policy it'll be $187 billion a year (about double the spending on education). One thing to note is that there is~$400 billion shortfall when it comes to Federal Revenue compared to Federal Budget and Spending. Just saying. And as long as the people keep saying "here you go government. take my freedom and money" we're going to keep having a power hungery federal government that puts money and itself before people (and definitely after election day is done -_-) I definitely agree on an overhaul of the medical care situation but I want audits, checking and refits on BOTH ends of the spectrum, not place all blame on one side while holding the other as the holy grail. Oh Annie, you think your headbanging is bad, check this out. ......................................__................................................ .............................,-~*`¯lllllll`*~,.......................................... .......................,-~*`lllllllllllllllllllllllllll¯`*-,.................................... ..................,-~*llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll*-,.................................. ...............,-*llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.\................................. .............;*`lllllllllllllllllllllllllll,-~*~-,llllllllllllllllllll\................................ ..............\lllllllllllllllllllllllllll/.........\;;;;llllllllllll,-`~-,........................... ...............\lllllllllllllllllllll,-*...........`~-~-,...(.(¯`*,`,.......................... ................\llllllllllll,-~*.....................)_-\..*`*;..).......................... .................\,-*`¯,*`)............,-~*`~................/..................... ..................|/.../.../~,......-~*,-~*`;................/.\.................. ................./.../.../.../..,-,..*~,.`*~*................*...\................. ................|.../.../.../.*`...\...........................)....)¯`~,.................. ................|./.../..../.......)......,.)`*~-,............/....|..)...`~-,............. ..............././.../...,*`-,.....`-,...*`....,---......\..../...../..|.........¯```*~-,,,, ...............(..........)`*~-,....`*`.,-~*.,-*......|.../..../.../............\........ ................*-,.......`*-,...`~,..``.,,,-*..........|.,*...,*...|..............\........ ...................*,.........`-,...)-,..............,-*`...,-*....(`-,............\....... ......................f`-,.........`-,/...*-,___,,-~*....,-*......|...`-,..........\........ me = /facepalm -_-

You're so right! That magazine is fair and balanced in the tradition of Fox News. Annie

This is why I don't pick a party, I vote based on who I think is the best out of the pack to do the job. I think party affiliations are silly. It's just a way to grantee that you will vote for the person they give you.

Warren Buffet is free to write a check for extra taxes. Massachutes has such a system and the people who complain about the rich not paying their fair share and wanting to raise the tax on people did not pay extra taxes. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, both have fortunes in trust accounts, and they did not elect to pay the extra tax but favored taxing the rich, which did not includ them.

Excellent point. we want disaster relief when something like Katrina or the California wildfires happen. We want our roads and bridges kept up to standard so we don't have more accidents like the I-35 Bridge collapse. I hope we all want our children to get a good education and for our sick and elderly to be taken care of. As for your question, of course it doesn't say what the other side may spend so I guess we're just to assume we'll continue to pour millions per week into Iraq and that people like Warren Buffet will continue to get huge tax cuts. With contributors like D*ck Morris what else would we expect from that magazine? Annie

Excellent point. we want disaster relief when something like Katrina or the California wildfires happen. We want our roads and bridges kept up to standard so we don't have more accidents like the I-35 Bridge collapse. I hope we all want our children to get a good education and for our sick and elderly to be taken care of. As for your question, of course it doesn't say what the other side may spend so I guess we're just to assume we'll continue to pour millions per week into Iraq and that people like Warren Buffet will continue to get huge tax cuts. With contributors like D*ck Morris what else would we expect from that magazine? Annie

"So many people don't like Bush and fail to realize how well the economy has been working after recovering from the recession of the Clinton years. Memories are very short, but they will be reminded when the after tax income goes way down under the democrats tax plans." Wow, my memory must be REALLY short! The recession of the Clinton years? I guess I dreamed up the most prosperous years of my adult life. The economy's been doing well? Please, tell me for whom because I'm apparently hanging out with the wrong crowd because no one I know would say it's doing anything but lousy. There are some on the right whose hatred of Clinton is so strong they think they can rewrite history. The Bush taxcuts gave those in my family's income bracket about $200 extra a year. Less than $4 a week barely pays for a gallon of gas so please give those without health care some help and take my taxcut and shove it! Annie

This response to a response needs more dot com bubble. The recession occured in 1999 and on, due in part to some of this.

Yep, there are a lot of short memories in the liberal camp... either that or they are in denial. They would rather raise taxes and throw even more money at a problem instead of actually trying to fix the problem in the first place. Yes, Clinton's fiscal policies put the country into a recession, and the economy was very slow when he left office. I think some people really need to open their minds and do some honest research instead of blindly following the Bush bashing crowd. If people are doing worse under Bush, why not consider the higher fuel and food prices that have contributed to the higher cost of living? The democrats were demanding answers to that prior to taking control of Congress, but now have pretty much shut up, because they know that it is not a political problem, it is an economic one that politics can't fix. They also can't point fingers like they were when the republicans had control for for reasons that should be very obvious... one of which is that they would be blaming themselves since they are now the ones that handle the budget and appropriate money. If people are doing worse then they were a few years ago, it isn't because of the Bush tax cuts, and a lot of it is most likely attributable to poor budgeting and money management skills on an individual level. I for one am living on about 60% of what I was making when Clinton was in office, and I am getting by. I once was in a discussion where both people were making a combined $21+ hourly wage, and this individual was blaming Bush because her and her husband and child just couldn't make ends meet. That is called living beyond your means, and has nothing to do with the president or the government, and everything to do bad budgetary habits. These people that claim they have so bad under Bush's tax cuts haven't seen anything yet, just wait until all of these tax increases that the liberals want go into effect. That will affect every taxpayer regardless of income. One more thing, what is the idea that certain people have that the government should be compassionate? Compassion is for charities and the like, and has nothing to do with running a country... or a business either. Compassion is for those folk who are waiting on a government handout, and for those enablers who don't seem to believe in personal responsibility. The government is made up of the people, and the money that the government gets come from people in the form of taxes. I think all of these people that are waiting for these government handouts should get off their lazy butts and start pulling their own weight for a change instead of depending on the rest of the taxpayers to do things for them, such as healthcare and all of the other socialist programs and wealth redistribution schemes that the liberals love so well. Yes, these tax and spend democrats are planning on costing the American taxpayers a bundle in new taxes, old taxes, and every other tax they can dream up.... simply because they think that the taxpayers are too stupid to be trusted with their own money, and that the democrats know just how to spend better than the taxpayers do. Anyone who votes democrat is proving them right, and is in fact approving of the higher taxes. Welcome to the USSA...

You forget that Congress is who makes the budget, the president merely approves or vetoes it. There is no way to pay for all of the things that the democrats promise, and most of those promises are empty when you look at the lost benefits that they will incur, such as the degradation of health care, and the shrinking after tax income that will result from these tax increases, not to mention all of the other variables involved. The clowns you refer to have been in Congress since 1994, which you may recall was during the Clinton years under his wonderful budget that you are so proud of. Now, what made them so good under Clinton, and clowns under Bush? All of these democrats with their tax increases have a little tool that will protect their finances that the average tax payer does not have.... offshore accounts that are not taxed. So their promises and fine talk is even more empty and dishonest, because they are trying to pass things that they won't be affected by, yet the little guy will be. The democrats will go nuts because they can't stand the thought of tax cuts for anyone. The only thing they care about is how much money they can get out of Americans.

Ronald Reagan had the biggest tax cuts in history... I don't know where you get your information, but you are sadly mistaken, and rewriting history to suit whatever agenda you are trying to run isn't going to cut it. How about you do some research on this subject? Reagan is the one who cut the top tier from 70%% down to 35%. You don't remember the long debates over Supply Side and Trickle down economics? You don't remember the double digit inflation and high interest rates when Reagan took office after that buffoon Carter? Those problems no longer existed when Reagan left office, and despite the efforts of Clinton and both Bush's, Reagan's economy is still working fairly well. Here is a link that will explain a lot of this and also how the Reagan tax cuts saved Clinton and Gore..... http://russp.org/taxcuts.html

as for tax encreases it was a republican ( Ronald Reagan) that had the largest encrease in history.