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• 1. realfoxnews  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 8:07 am

  just think next year we can get the votes to over turn all this garbage BOBO is doing. Also throw this @@@ out of this Country and take Orlando with them.

• 2. Mike Carroll  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 am

  Wal-Mart (I thought all you liberals thought they were evil) is simply trying to force additional costs on their competition. Wal-Mart already has health care for their employees so a law mandating coverage doesn’t impact them but does hurt their competition. Self interest on the part of wal-Mart, nothing more.

• 3. gowader  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 am

  Why would Wal-Mart even care. They get most of their products from China. They want to bury what remains of US companies. Just like their buddy Obama.

• 4. Orlando Clay  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 9:09 am

  Mike Carroll wrote: “Self interest on the part of wal-Mart, nothing more.”

  You’re 100% on target with this one, Mike. To think that the nation’s largest retailer, which has invested many years and tens of millions of dollars to bust and discredit unions, would suddenly turn altruistic towards labor, is absurd.

  Profit and greed trumps everything else, you know. Concern and compassion are for weenies only.

• 5. Neftali  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 am

  A few thoughts:

  1. I believe around 1/2 the people who don’t have health insurance aren’t in the position that they can’t afford it, its just that they don’t want it. Most of these people tend to be younger and in good health. By forcing their employees to use the program, Wal-mart benefits.

  2. I really don’t see a problem with having a health insurance mandate at least for large corporations. In fact, the system would even be better if various corporate insurance was portable. (i.e. non-wal-mart employees could buy wal-mart health insurance)

  3. Mandates for small private companies will certainly cause some problems.

  4. The National Retail Federation and The U.S. Chamber of Commerce oppose this move but…..(see #5)

  5. At least this is better than the lame-brain idea of a single-payer system/socialized me

• 6. DingDong  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am

  Sure, it is like GE, they own NBC, which is very favorable to Obama. Which their CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, is an advisor and supporter Obama. Now GE is poised to make a lot of money off of \"Green Energy\". GE is highly invested in these technologies. Now all Jeff needs is Cap and Trade and all would be good for GE but the rest of us get to foot the bill. It all boils down to follow the money to get the truth.

• 7. Mike Carroll  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 am

  Orlando wrote-”Profit and greed trumps everything else, you know. Concern and compassion are for weenies only.”
  While I certainly don’t agree with that comment as a generalization, it is true more than we like to admit. I am always reminded of Lenin’s famous quote ” The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”.

• 8. SNuss  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm

  I’ll be willing to settle for government-run health care as soon as the President, the House, and the Senate will accept the exact same system for themselves. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

• 9. realfoxnews  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm

  David what are you a Racist now also Freeport Aquin is a private Catholic School. So stick it in your ass, learn your schools before you say any thing.

• 10. David Barrett  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm

  realfoxnews,
  LOL Further proof of your inability to engage rationality.

• 11. realfoxnews  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm

  Pat You can sit in you Lazy Boy at home at let your local Libs slam the Gop. Call us retards and all that but you will not say one thing to them, but when the other side gets out of hand its another story.
  Pat I’m sorry my spelling is not that good any more,if would like meet me over at the Aquin High School Office some time I would love to compare grades with you. Its been a long 14 months for me.
  It was a hell of accident. its on my space

• 12. Mike Carroll  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 6:18 pm

  realfoxnews- I’ll assume that you did suffer the brain injury that you have referenced. If that is indeed the case, make sure that you go through the rehabilitation that is recommended by your doctors. I speak from some experience as my younger brother suffered a brain injury and he refused the rehabilitation services that were recommended. He has never recovered and there is no expectation that he will get better.
  His injuries impacted his ability to organize his thoughts rationally and severely damaged his short term memory. Prior to his accident he was an independent sales rep and now he is on SSI.
  Listen to your doctors.

• 13. realfoxnews  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 6:29 pm

  Thanks mike Its hard your brother sounds like me I also was in sales right now I have a attorney fighting for my SSI for me. After the accident my IQ dropped 39 points.

• 14. Pat Cunningham  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 7:15 pm

  realfoxnews: In light of your injury, I apologize for what I said, and I’m deleting my offending comment.

• 15. Mike Carroll  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm

  realfoxnews-best of luck.

• 16. Jon  |  July 4th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

  Brain injury or not, anyone who thinks Wal-Mart is doing this for the goodness of their workforce needs their head examined.

  Single payer is _the_ way to go; not doing so is foolish. Single payer seems to work for Police Protection, Fire Protection, Military Protection, Tax Collection, and so on-besides having insurance companies lay off employees (boo hoo hoo cry me a river), why can this not work?

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