NPR you suck

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

If you want to cut funding to NPR, I suggest you call the private corporations that support it, such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Midland, and complain.

I could care less what private corps/charites fund NPR, I can choose to not buy their stock in the case of corps

I just don't want tax payer dollars going there as there's no way to opt out

You know the Libertarian Way!

[Riot]

NPR was started by Nixon, seriously funded by Reagan and Bush The First (that's why I laugh when some refuse to believe I'm a pretty typical moderate R - for 40 years most R's had a strong social conscience).

Now they get about 460 million a year. Sure, take that drop in the bucket away if you can meet the test, below (the GOP has variously tried to defund NPR throughout the years, to no avail).

BTW, do you also want to defund the National Endowment for the Arts?

Before anybody defunds anything, though, I do challenge you to find any demonstrably measurable bias whatsoever, right or left, about NPR. The transcripts are there. Plenty have looked in the past, during past attempts to defund.

You complain there is no "opt out" clause for how your tax money is spent. I say too bad. You are an American citizen. You elect representatives to go to Washington and spend your tax money. Individuals are not entitled to an individual "opt out" clause if they want to be an American and live by our Constitution and laws.

Feel free to buy some land outside American, and start Libertarian World, however (a la Atlas Shrugged)

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

NPR was started by Nixon, seriously funded by Reagan and Bush The First (that's why I laugh when some refuse to believe I'm a pretty typical moderate R - for 40 years most R's had a strong social conscience).)

I don't care if it's R run or D run I don't want taxpayer dollars going to a radio station. Free market provides enough variety and if not there is always satellite and ATRAB.

Originally Posted by Riot

BTW, do you also want to defund the National Endowment for the Arts?

Of course I do!

Originally Posted by Riot

You complain there is no "opt out" clause for how your tax money is spent. I say too bad. You are an American citizen. You elect representatives to go to Washington and spend your tax money. Individuals are not entitled to an individual "opt out" clause if they want to be an American and live by our Constitution and laws.

But I and any other citizen have a vote and if the shift occurs this November too bad your socialist healthcare program will be repealed and Obama's remaining two years will be served out as a lame duck.

Originally Posted by Riot

Feel free to buy some land outside American, and start Libertarian World

I'd rather have my own country back thank you.......

[Riot]

But I and any other citizen have a vote and if the shift occurs this November too bad your socialist healthcare program will be repealed and Obama's remaining two years will be served out as a lame duck.

The only shift I see will be the GOP picking up 30 seats or less in the House. Maybe 35. They already lost the Senate months ago.

The healthcare reform act (really the insurance "a little" reform act) isn't "socialist" in the least (please show how it is?).

And even if both the House and Senate ever voted to repeal it, it would be impossible, as this President would veto it.

I'd rather have my own country back thank you......

"Back from" what? The democratic majority that voted in the last election? As you said, everyone gets a vote.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

The healthcare reform act (really the insurance "a little" reform act) isn't "socialist" in the least (please show how it is?).
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When government, through regulations and laws, is involved in virtually every aspect of healthcare from recommended treatment, education, and prevention to billing and payment, reducing premiums for high-risk patients at the expense of healthy patients, subsidizing healthcare for low income patients on the backs everyone else and increasing funding exponentially to an already fraud-laden who-you-know system reeks of socialism IMO

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQo...layer_embedded

[Riot]

When government, through regulations and laws, is involved in virtually every aspect of healthcare from recommended treatment, education, and prevention to billing and payment, reducing premiums for high-risk patients at the expense of healthy patients, subsidizing healthcare for low income patients on the backs everyone else and increasing funding exponentially to an already fraud-laden who-you-know system reeks of socialism IMO

Oh, goodie! That's not there! You're safe from socialism

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Oh, goodie! That's not there! You're safe from socialism

The new health-care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the United States with coverage for generations.

But last week, a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a Democratic governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized insurance markets that open in 2014

Bigger questions loom over the new insurance markets to be set up under the law.

They're called exchanges, and every state will have one in a few years. Consumers will be able to shop for coverage among a range of plans in the exchange, with a guarantee they can't be turned down because of an existing medical problem.

Bredesen said employers could save big money by dropping their health plans and sending workers to buy coverage in the exchange. They'd face a fine of $2,000 per worker, but that's still way less than the cost of providing health insurance.

yea sounds like they got it perfect?

http://www.suntimes.com/business/283...alth25.article