keepthefaith

There's just that little detail that he has violated Federal law just being in the country and has no right to work in the United States. Give him the license and show him the door.

Single payer? What we all need is a post-office or IRS like health care system where the consumer has no choice and coverage decisions and coverage quality are made by a single governing body that rules with an iron fist and writes the rules of the game to suit their own agenda. Yup, that's exactly what we need. Medicaid and Medicare for all? No thank you.

You're a year behind on the O-line comment. They replaced most of their starters from 2012 and have a good and improving O-line. 2 rookies started this year and played well. Their offensive stats improved a lot this year. The O-line has to get some credit for that. Jennings is a very good corner. Bears had a lot of injuries on D this year.

Bills need to sign Josh McCown. He'll help the young guys and he can play if you need him to.

Football is a relatively small industry which hires almost exclusively from within. Maybe some day a team will have the balls to hire a great coach from another sport.

He was nicer to Ashley Dupre.

Still available, 48 bulbs cheap. http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-4-Packs-48pc-100-Watt-GE-Soft-White-Light-Bulbs-Household-Incandescent-/111244600332?pt=US_Light_Bulbs&hash=item19e6b1e40c

Meanwhile, Helicopters sit and wait.

Hey, The department of energy has a budget of what, about $30 billion per year? This has to be one of their signature accomplishments. It is awful. Low income people might be forced to live in the dark if they can't afford the fancy new high priced bulbs. They may be forced to choose between food, healthcare or illumination. That creep Bush didn't provide a subsidy on the higher priced mandated product.

Obviously the law is too complex and the only answer is Medicare for everyone at any age.

The Tea Party has never had a platform of letting people die. The Tea Party simply believes more in the virtues or personal responsibility and more fiscally responsible government. Fixing the pre-existing condition obstacle could have been done to protect the sliver of the population that effected without negatively revamping the whole system. You simply believe (if I read your various posts correctly) that our federal government should provide all of the basic needs for able-minded and able-bodied people (food, clothing, shelter, education and health care) if they cannot afford it themselves with no limits on the duration of benefits. You simply want to make working optional for people. You want to make it so that people can quit high school, have babies (married or not), make little or no effort to support themselves and as a birth right be guaranteed a basic minimum lifestyle paid for by the most productive taxpayers or financed through borrowing by our Treasury department.

Not sure where you got the Q3 GDP number or government debt interest rate. I've seen numbers closer to 4% for Q3 GDP and our average debt interest rate (that's the number that matters, right?) is in the neighborhood of 2% which is very low historically. My concern still is that in 2-3 decades, the interest rate at which we finance our debt will be higher than today and the principal will be in the $30T range and the annual cost of interest will be a far more significant budget item than it is today even with growth in tax receipts. We'll look back on the first 2 decades of this century and be really sorry more fiscal restraint wasn't in place. Any organization that spends 15% or more of its' revenue on interest payments is in a bad place.

We've had a medical coverage plan for poor people for decades called Medicaid. We didn't need the ACA to cover poor people. It was already being done. Depends on how you define "poor". The government has had such a definition and it's the same I believe for all skin colors. You can debate where to draw the line on "poor" and also how to pay for it.

McCown will be a hot property this off-season. Not that he'll be annointed as a starter, but a terrific backup, a guy who can start and a great teammate.

Somehow people expected EJ as a rookie to come in and perform consistently at a high level on a below average team with a new coaching staff.

The President dealt himself a sure-thing defeat when he signed the law. When the reality of a huge law change fails to live up to the big and frequent promises for most people, the scoreboard won't read in your favor. What we're watching now is the game being played.

The gator should be expelled for polluting a "Merry Christmas" titled thread with this income disparity junk.

Screw them, we're keeping our fresh water here.

Someone will over pay for Cutler. Hopefully not Buffalo. He's fragile and is not known for his leadership skills.

The medical and Pharm industry have been speaking out against vitamin and mineral supplements for decades. It's good for business.

I believe it was Robin Hood.

I follow your math and reason but I don't think it's realistic to expect that GDP will grow at a faster rate than debt. Many believe it's far more likely that the opposite will occur, that debt growth will be much greater than GDP growth even with some inflation and an improving economy. Many believe it's far more likely that interest rates on debt will increase significantly from the very low rates that exist now. All this adds up to much greater annual interest expense. I for one lose sleep at night with the thought that annual federal interest expense could reach 10%, 15% or more of the annual budget especially when there are so many demands on tax dollars and elected officials that don't have the will or the guiding principles to solve this. This is why I believe the 30 and under generations need to wise up and vote for politicians that will make a real effort to stop the bleeding.

It has to be this way. Damn racist Republicans tried to prevent the ACA from becoming law and now they will stand in the way of fixing it. The President has no choice but to maneuver around our laws for the betterment of society. He know's what's best. We can only hope that the next President is equally artful and caring in his or her approach to improve the lives of Americans.

The man is a ideological coward.

No, the devil is in the details and what happened back then is not terribly relevant now.