Comments on: The CNN world, the Fox News world, and Barney Frank

By: saul

saul — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:14:24 +0000

Barney Frank, many forget, I don’t because I live in Boston, once allowed a lover to run a gay prostitution ring out of Mr. Frank’s Boston townhouse. He cannot be trusted with a public office. Period.

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Lyndon LaRouche and the 'Nazi' label | Political Insider — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:36:37 +0000

[...] doubt you remember the young woman from Barney Frank’s town hall meeting — the one who tied Democratic plans for health care reform to [...]

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:45:42 +0000

Barney Frank…..There is a guy named Barney, who is full of marlarkey; we all know he is fat, poor guy doesn’t know where he’s at; we can’t be played for fools, as we watch this idiot drool; end of day, he’s still gay; just another democrat hard at work, look at him, he’s full of PORK!

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:45:19 +0000

Tony said:
Lets say you make $60,000.00 combined household income per year. The difference between a 50% tax rate (what u pay)

YOUR whole point goes down the toilet with that statement. Nobody in Canada pays a 50% tax rate. On 60K you’d pay about 29%.

And NO ONE in Canada except a few crackpots would ever give up our health care system for the dog’s breakfast you enjoy in the greatest country on earth.

By: SirLiptonShortSide

SirLiptonShortSide — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:35:59 +0000

Barney is always good for a laugh, unlike jimmy galloway.

By: Gary R

Gary R — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:33:02 +0000

Tony…let’s see…take 5, multiply times the square root of 1,872, add -34987, divide by 17 and you get zippity-doo-da. Take any set of numbers and you can make them say what you want. The anecdotal evidence given by the people THAT ACTUALLY LIVE THERE is the best evidence. As for insurance costs, I’ve been paying $400 a month for 1 child for the last 2 years. She’s out of school, has a job where health insurance IS NOT PROVIDED (what this is all about), and qualifies to be covered by my plan (for a little less than a year more). So, I think it is very possible that Ian had a bill of $1200. Here’s a hoot…I have the same insurance coverage options our Senators and Congressmen have. It’s very good coverage and I’m lucky to have those options. That being said, I would still be willing to go to a single payer system. Aside from the fact that EVERYONE would have access to quality health care, it would stop the modern day robber barons, (read insurance companies) from making their obscene profits on the backs of the middle class.
If everyone against health care reform wants to refer to those of us that support it as “socialists”, there’s nothing I can do to stop that. I will, however, start refering to those of you against it as “plutocrats”. The really sad thing is, we already live in a plutocracy.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ~John Kenneth Galbraith

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:26:56 +0000

Ian,
Unless, you having 10 kids, there is no way that you were paying $1200.00 as a premium to insure your family, so your whole point goes down the toilet immediately. I am going to assume that you inflated that number to try to make your point more legit. For the sake of argument tho, let’s take the average $350.00pm that the average US family pays per month nationwide, and then lets compare the Canadian system and cost. Lets say you make $60,000.00 combined household income per year. The difference between a 50% tax rate (what u pay) and a 32% tax rate(what I pay) is approx $12000.00 per year. So even using your calculation and basing it on a $1200.00 per month premium, you save next to nothing by being in Canada. I don’t care that we have less doctors per capita. What I care about is how many specialists there are per capita. When I get cancer or am diagnosed with a serious illness, I won’t need a doctor, I will need a SPECIALIST. And how many Americans sought medical treatment in Canada last year (besides those without coverage, that are leaching off your system anyway). Probably close to 0. Thousands of Canadians sought medical treatment in America. So, even using your calculations, we win. You should have purchased a three dollar calculator before you decide to move to a country thats temperatures average..like 3 degrees.
Time to move back to the US, jackass.

By: John Kennedy

John Kennedy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:48:33 +0000

“Bill White, I love Barney Frank-I hate his sinning. I also have to say that this is like Nazi Germany whereby the gov’t is dictating a costly program on its citizens. I don’t have insurance because I don’t want or need it. My motto is leave me alone and let me go to church. I don’t need some guy from Kenya telling me to buy insurance.”

Bill, If it were true, and its not, that Nazism was behind the government dictating costly programs on us citizens, you would undoubtedly would have been a brown shirt wearing a swastika for 8 years under Bush.

It is contemptible and disgusting to compare anything in the health care proposals to Nazi Germany. It is particularly racist, contemptible and very foolish to use these descriptions for proposals by a black President and a Jewish Senator. You provide further proof of your racism by calling the President a man from Kenya when he is clearly American. You should be ashamed of yourself.

As for you not needing health insurance, there are only 3 possibilities for this. 1. You are wealthy and can afford any bill that comes along. 2. You are poor and have nothing to lose by going to the ER when you do get sick. 3. You’re middle class and will risk everything you own in the event you do become ill. I am guessing and hoping you are #3, you deserve the fate of losing everything when you become ill.

By: John Kennedy

John Kennedy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:22:36 +0000

“clyde, I never did hear the answer as to whether Barmy Frank was going to give up his Cadillac health plan and join the rest of us in what’s being proposed.I know the answer,but it would have been nice to hear it from Barmy’s lips.”

You may not have heard the answer but Barney Franks did say that if there was a public option, that he would use it. Of course you wouldn’t have heard this reply on Fox, or any of the questions from the public that were clearly racist in nature.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:22:31 +0000

Hey, Bill White, I’m glad you don’t want or need any health insurance and that you resent “a guy from Kenya” telling you that you need to get it. Here’s my sincerest wish for you: I hope that if you or a member of your family gets seriously ill or in need of emergency hospital care, you won’t expect the rest of us to pay your bill. I think it’s only fitting that you or the sick family member just lie by the side of the road and die. Hopefully, you wil have made some provisions for burying your remains so the rest of us won’t have to pay the bill.

Oh, and by the way, Bill, you don’t get the “Christian of the Decade Award.” That award has already gone to Mike Huckabee and South Carolina Governor Sanford.