Political & socio-economic nerd-rage thread. page 37

[Grok]

US judges rule that ObamaKare is not forcing you to buy a product from a private company, but it's just a tax which goes straight to the insurance companies.

Go fascism!

[justyouraveragecavemen]

No sir, can't be a tax on me. I make less than 250k; the President said he wouldn't raise my taxes.

[Grok]

Romney promises to fix things by repealing ObamaKare and replacing it with RomneyKare. The difference being that the tax money will go to the insurance companies that Romney likes instead of the insurance companies that Obama likes.

[trekfan]

Boy, I thought this would go 5-4 the other way... didn't expect them to vote the way they did. It seems the court was just as divided as the American people. Not a big fan of the ruling but I get why people like it... hell, I'd have no health insurance if not for this ruling right now (still on my parents) but I don't feel right about it.

Well, that's it. The law is set in stone cause there's no way our congress is gonna pull their shit together and agree on something better.

[Grok]

Well, that's it. The law is set in stone cause there's no way our congress is gonna pull their shit together and agree on something better.

Not this congress at least. I'm not holding out much hope for the next one either...

[kenn]

Boy, I thought this would go 5-4 the other way... didn't expect them to vote the way they did. It seems the court was just as divided as the American people. Not a big fan of the ruling but I get why people like it... hell, I'd have no health insurance if not for this ruling right now (still on my parents) but I don't feel right about it.

Get your own?

Well, that's it. The law is set in stone cause there's no way our congress is gonna pull their shit together and agree on something better.

no it's not.

[Grok]

Can't pay you back right now, need to bail out some bankers...

In the meantime keep paying us more taxes than you will owe so we can use your money interest free. Thanks slaves.

News Headlines

[Grok]

<Hollande> I just lowered the retirement age in France because I'm an awesome socialist. Merkel, I need you to pay for it.
<Merkel> I'm not so sure Germans want to pay for the French and the Greeks early retirement. I think I want to rule the entire eurozone instead. I like the idea of being Queen of Europe. Now, let me tell you how to slash your government benefits to the bone...
<Rajoy interrupting> Our banks are failing big time, and nobody will lend us any money. We need you guys to print up some money for us to bail out our banks so they can loan us some money. I think we need about 100 billion Euros or so. Thanks.
<Lagarde> We can fix this by printing a bunch of money. All we need to do is print a ton of money and all our problems will be solved.
<Monti> I think we need to spread the debt across all of the Euro zone because nobody wants to lend us any money any more.
<Merkel> Can we go back to talking about me being Queen of Europe?

[j3nn]

I feel like we're livestock and the government is the farmer herding us all into the same pen but only while we're worth something; when we're old and feeble, then we go out to pasture. I don't want to be fenced in, I want to roam free. Keep your paved roads and public indoctrination "education" facilities and healthcare and drones, just let me be.

[Grok]

Romney today said, vote for me so we can repeal and replace ObamaKare.

So, if you really hate ObamaKare, you now have a "choice" to replace it with RomneyKare.