Republicans Are "Pro-Small-Business", Huh?

[Mr. Shaman]

"While Anthem Blue Cross has been taking the heat for proposing rate increases of up to 39 percent on individual consumers, other health insurers have stunned some small businesses with hikes that in some cases exceed 75 percent.

Tom Simmons, president of an Oakland design and consulting firm with four employees, said he had just read about the Anthem increases when he opened a letter from his insurer, Blue Shield of California, informing him his monthly family premium would go up to $1,596 a month from $908, a nearly 76 percent increase."

Maybe Republicans consider health-insurance extortionists "small businesses".​

 

[Diamond]

And how do you connect this article to the Republican parties viewpoints?

 

[The Silver Eagle]

Republicans are starting to become half Liberal just like McCain. Maybe not all of them.
Thats why I'm Conservative. They keep agreeing or just saying ok with the Democrats
you even wonder are they still their own party?

When McCain proposed gay marriage legal I was just shocked!
Sarah Palin is our woman! We need Conservatives, but I already
found that out along time ago.

Something on Republicans have changed, their views are mixing in with
Dems & Libs.

>>>>>>>>.Full Conservative here.<<<<<<<<<

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Sarah Palin is our woman!

You actually brag-about-that?????



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[Mr. Shaman]

And how do you connect this article to the Republican parties viewpoints?

Lemme guess....you decided to get-into politics....'cause it's the hip, trendy thing-to-do, presently...right?



Try to catch-up.......

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[dogtowner]

And how do you connect this article to the Republican parties viewpoints?

its shaman, he just types random words from the lib lexicon

 

[Mr. Shaman]

its shaman, he just types random words from the lib lexicon

Something like that......



You wouldn't understand.​

 

[dogtowner]

its shaman, he just types random words from the lib lexicon

if he types anything at all. not big on originality.

 

[OldTrapper]

Something like that......



You wouldn't understand.​

What we understand is that you are about as honest as the websites you use.

If you had an original thought you could use your own words, actually give examples, and be able to support your idiocy.

 

[ASPCA4EVER]

if he types anything at all. not big on originality.

OldTrapper Said: What we understand is that you are about as honest as the websites you use.

If you had an original thought you could use your own words, actually give examples, and be able to support your idiocy.

Clipped from the Link that Mr.Shaman provided: Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

Interesting publication and it a true shame that you 'DOGTOWN' didn't bother to look at the link and read the article...but that's what your forte is...taking the cheap shot at the person instead of reading and learning something 'NEW' to improve your mind...

 

[dogtowner]

Interesting publication and it a true shame that you 'DOGTOWN' didn't bother to look at the link and read the article...but that's what your forte is...taking the cheap shot at the person instead of reading and learning something 'NEW' to improve your mind...

I did read it and a fine display of contrived results it was !

Perhaps a forum could be opened for shaman where he could post his silly links as is and he would not need to bother himself providing any thought of his own. Sort of a plagiarized blog

 

[Mr. Shaman]

What we understand is that you are about as honest as the websites you use.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....let's simply ignore all o' that rhetoric about "conservatives" supporting small-businesses (..'cause they actually create jobs), while at-the-same-time defending health-insurance-companies that bleed small-businesses to Death!!!

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“I guess our question is why are small businesses seeing increases that are twice the rate of medical inflation?” said Jon B. Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Association of Hospitals points the finger at insurers, saying in a recent statement that “under current Division of Insurance regulations, insurers can charge small businesses as much as 76 percent more in premiums than they charge their ‘big business' counterparts,” while adding “billions of dollars to healthcare costs through their billing and claims requirements.”

 

[ASPCA4EVER]

I did read it and a fine display of contrived results it was !

Perhaps a forum could be opened for shaman where he could post his silly links as is and he would not need to bother himself providing any thought of his own. Sort of a plagiarized blog

Seems your 'opened mindedness' has left you...with whom have you locked stepped with to start THINKING that we all have to write/think/speak in the same exact way?

I've busted more of ASUR's posts by reading his very own threads from his very own posted sources and yet he has a following that just adores his mindless dribble and you remain silent to his blathering and that of the 'ALWAYS' waste of bandwidth under the same name and you never say anything to admonish that mental midget.

Mr.Shaman puts a POV in his topic/thread title and along with the link in his post...maybe you just don't GET IT and that causes you much frustration...Hmmmm

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Perhaps a forum could be opened for shaman where he could post his silly links as is and he would not need to bother himself providing any thought of his own.

....As-opposed-to you NeoCon-wannabes....who're constantly posting (fact/reference-free) Absolutes, the same way you swallow them; via Porky Limbaugh & FAUX Noise.



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[OldTrapper]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....let's simply ignore all o' that rhetoric about "conservatives" supporting small-businesses (..'cause they actually create jobs), while at-the-same-time defending health-insurance-companies that bleed small-businesses to Death!!!

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Perhaps you can explain, if the lying Dems are so good, why it has been over a year since your master BO took office, and nothing is being done for small businesses, or to create jobs? They have spent over one year BS'ing the people, and fools like you accept those lies, over the environment, and healthcare, and have done nothing for the people, only the big banks (and AIG wants another 9 Billion), and corporations.

Have you noticed how the stock market is making record profits? How's the housing market doing?

Now, anyone with any common sense should understand (that lets you out on two points, common sense, and understanding) that as an economy goes down, and no jobs are created, that a certain number are going to lose the ability to pay for their house, and for insurance. As fewer people are enrolled in the program then the revenue line to pay claims goes down, and the costs to everyone else goes up.

Then there is the other side of the coin. As the Dem pols seem to have no problem with the markets profitting, and some big corporations, as well as banks, why would one expect them to care when Blue Shield made a 3 billion dollar profit last quarter, not last year, and is raising rates 39%? Just as the banks, and corporations, are making higher profits through paying lower wages, raising interest rates on credit cards, etc., and just as federal employees get their pay raises, and Congress gets more money for its perks, what basis do they have to ***** now?

At any rate, as far as I have seen you just want to blame Republicans for everything with no basis, and yet you have refused to answer the question which was name one thing in this bill you support that will actually lower healthcare costs?