No one suggested that white people should not have a voice, only that the people who showed up where not representative of the makeup of the district. Don't go building that strawman.
My point is that its likely the people showing up for the townhall meeting are not actually representative of districts constituents. One would expect a grassroots movement to be made up of people mirror the community they live in. I would suspect these people are simply an organized minority in the neighborhood, although they could have been brought in from outside the district.
If a group of mostly black people showed up a Malibu city council meeting claiming to be representative of the city, I would say exactly the same thing.
There is no reason for anyone to be angry about healthcare reform because not only are there no details to get upset about, but it has been made clear that anyone who likes their healthcare coverage may keep it. The "anger" is all phony, or perhaps these people are angry because the president is black.
Did they live there, or didn't they?
Hmmmm?
Yes.
Then they had as much right to be heard as anyone. Congressional district gerrymandering does not override the Constitution.
Do you know every detail of all the legislation enacted by congress?
Why not? Arent you troubled?
The only thing "pathetic" is these furious, incensed people at town hall meetings who won't allow a democratic exchange of ideas to take place. Why? Because they are so angry about health care. Why are they angry? I have no idea. Nothing has been taken from them, nothing has been threatened, no matter what form of bill is passed they will not have to change their health care if they don't want to. So why are they angry? I suspect because Glenn Beck or some other brainless fringe pundit told them to be angry.
Good to see some things are constant. Scarecrow still cannot argue against what is actually said, having to twist words to have something he can make an argument against.
Hint: no one said that any one did not have a right to be heard. Thank you for trying, but once again, you failed.
For some strange reason, the nation that won the Cold War isn't all that excited about trusting the party that opposed the efforts to win that War.
And, then again, the party making the vast and empty promises is the party that lied their asses off to defend a perjured president, who tried to steal the election in 2000, who stole the Minnesota Senate election of 2008, who hasn't spent nearly a trillion dollars in "stimulus" money but wants to spend one or two more trillion stimulationg something, no one's sure what, and who can't run Medicaid or a CARS program, yet demands to nationalize the entire country's medical industry.
No, we're not going to trust those friggin' idiots, and even the worms under the grass roots are starting to realize the danger of letting Democrats steal 1/6 of the national economy.
They are exchaning ideas.
Instead of sitting there getting fed loads of horse**** from Democrats, they're giving the Democrats the idea that not everyone likes horse****.
That's the most refreshing exchange I've seen in decades.
I guess on top of everything else, you're a race-baiter, too, eh?
You failed to state that the "minority" was not legally resident in the aforementioned district.
What you are doing is responding to the perfectly valid point that minorities in gerrymandered district also have a right to confront their Congressthing with issues, and the Congressthing is obligated to listen.
No, instead, you're entering irrelevant ad hominem BS because you can't address the truth. You seem to have some issue against minorities being represented equally in Congress.
Originally Posted by rathi
It then creates new regulations for health insurance providers such as no denying for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime maximums and minimum required covered treatments.
Actually, you seriously need to read and comprehend the thread before making accusations. I started my comments based on some one pointing out that the meeting was not representative of the district since it was almost strictly white was not "bringing race into the issue".
Now, I repeat the point that contrary to your claim, Neither I nor any one else stated that any one did not have a right to be heard. You made it up and attached it to me, which is incredibly dishonest.
No.
I read your post.
Clearly if the "minority" is white, then in your eyes they should shut up and be fitted for slave collars.
You were quite plain.
Now insurance companies cannot raise premiums on you mid term for any reason already. They have 30 days to "inspect" and cancel you at the beginning of a policy(or charge more premium) and its usually 60 days prior to the renewal of the policy, if they are raising rates or canceling your coverage. The industry has to be allowed to raise rates for increased risk assuming. The government will have to raise rates, in the form of taxes, for the exact same thing. Telling a private company it can't, is forcing it out of business.
I agree with your analysis, although I don't think the consequences would be quite as drastic. The dutch have find a workable solution called "risk equalization".
Risk equalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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