tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post5794176352064503020..comments2009-11-16T22:24:22.170-05:00The Ostroy Reporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-51955858457538557892009-11-16T22:02:12.969-05:002009-11-16T22:02:12.969-05:00Holy mother...except for the GIANT, mother-of-all facts that you miss..<br /><br />Those things are not free! They have a cost, a cost that is covered by tax dollars!<br /><br />I blame the lack of economics classes in schools behind the plight of the ignorant liberal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-59514860063924559692009-11-13T15:05:45.883-05:002009-11-13T15:05:45.883-05:00<b>The public (health-care <i>insurance</i>) option is not &quot;government-provided health care&quot;. </b><br /><br />As proposed:<br />1) It would be a government <i>launched</i> insurance company, that does not receive ongoing government subsidies.<br /><br />2) a person voluntarily buys into that option in order to cover the costs of their health care.<br /><br />3) My insurance provider is no more a healthcare provider than my home owners insurance provider is a home builder or mortgage lender.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10290258662064033238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-58809981383423461582009-11-13T08:24:43.131-05:002009-11-13T08:24:43.131-05:00There always has been an ignorance concerning the term, here in the US. Besides the services you have already mentioned, let me add that the state (to use the Marxian term)does own quite a few means of production.Highways, schools, ports, airports, nuclear plants, NASA...Athena Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11483906167304901085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-43469297519758104842009-11-12T15:01:46.806-05:002009-11-12T15:01:46.806-05:00What wrong? The conservatives are still running the show even though the Dems control the White House, Senate and House. They still control the corporate media which feeds the lies hate and scare tactics of the Repubs.<br /><br />I voted for change. I did not vote for continued Repubs being elevated above the Dems. How did we lose control of what is going on? Low poll numbers have more to do with frustrated folks like me than being against the Obama agenda. Why are the conservative Dems given so much power?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-30388825639461685482009-11-12T14:26:42.992-05:002009-11-12T14:26:42.992-05:00I think you miss the point, vis-a-vis the Republicans: they think ALL those things -- Free Education, Free Food Stamps -- are socialistic!William Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17367602370132185413noreply@blogger.com