Althouse: About that poster of Obama as the Joker.

August 4, 2009

About that poster of Obama as the Joker.

A lot of folks are outraged and there's the predictable crying of racism.

But — as Drudge points out — Vanity Fair did exactly the same thing to the image of George Bush a year ago.

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Hoosier Daddy said...: @Hoosier, point of order Sir! What is the source of the 47 million number? Why do you believe it?

Actually I'm being gracious and conceding the figure to them. As I said, Medicare has 42 million on the rolls now and the Medicare budgets is a few billion shy of $500 billion a year. So when Obambi tells me he can insure 47 million more and it will save money and it will only cost $1 trillion over ten years I call bullshit. He's a liar on this as he's lied on every damn thing he campaigned on and I have no qualms on calling him out on it.

I work in the insurance industry and I will tell you right here and now that we can scrap the entire military budget tomorrow and it still would not be enough to cover the 47 million uninsured. Not based upon the kind of coverage they think they're going to get.

Again, we have four Government health care plans on board right now and Obama wants another one. Why not simply extend Part A to the 47 million uninsured and mandate a premium they have to pay rather than create an entire new program?

See guys like garage say we spent $1 trillion in Iraq. Yes we did garage. $1 trillion we borrowed from the Chicoms over a 6 1/2 year period. That $1 trillion would have funded Medicare for two years. Let me put it to the Obamaphiles here. How much are you, yes you, willing to pay in federal taxes? 40%, 50%, perhaps 60% ?

Tell you what kids, you run a few numbers based upon what the Federal government is spending now between Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP and then tell me how much more we need to pony up to cover another 47 million folks and how much of your money you're willing to part with so some 20 something can continue to but double mocha decaffe lattes while you pay for his health care.

Take you time.; 8/5/09, 9:36 PM
Hoosier Daddy said...: * The number of uninsured children in 2007 was 8.1 million – or 10.7 percent of all children in the U.S.1

SCHIP. Google it.

* The percentage and the number of uninsured Hispanics increased to 32.1 percent and 15 million in 2007.1

Yes I am certain beyond all doubt these are all American citizens too.

Young adults (18-to-24 years old) remained the least likely of any age group to have health insurance.

Ironically the same age group that voluntarily refuses coverage even when offered by an employer. Interferes with financing for concert tickets you know.

* Nearly 40 percent of the uninsured population reside in households that earn $50,000 or more A growing number of middle-income families cannot afford health insurance payments even when coverage is offered by their employers.

Someone earns $50k annuall and can't afford employer sponsered coverage?

Bull. Fucking. Shit. I suppose they could do like I do and live by a budget and forego certain items in order to buy essentials. I mean I would like to forego the $275 a month I pay for our health insurance because I want a new Harley but you know, being the responsible person I am, I won't do that.; 8/5/09, 9:46 PM
KCFleming said...: Hoosier, quit talkin' FAX, man, there's a socialist train comin' and you individualists are in the goddamned way, man!!; 8/5/09, 9:52 PM
Big Mike said...: Well, Jeremy, here's the problem. I stopped believing statistics from any advocacy group in Washington, DC, unless I can review their raw data. The 47 million number is gleaned -- they claim -- from a Census report. But for me to credit that number I'd want to look at how the Census defines "were without health insurance."

To see what I mean let's look at "spent a portion of." My son was without insurance for one whole calendar day when he changed jobs. That number would have included him, even though his exposure was pretty negligible.

So, bottom line, I don't at this point credit the number 47 million.

And, BTW, the latest word I've heard on the mostly unread healthcare bill is that it does not cover all of those (allegedly) 47 million. But no one can say how many will not be covered, so you're asking us to buy something that may cost a lot, not do much, and (over time) sacrifice my own healthcare coverage.

Naw, I'll just say no.; 8/5/09, 10:42 PM
kentuckyliz said...: I can't tell that the VF pic is Bush, just looking at the pic by itself without a caption to tell me. The nose is right but nothing else is. Doesn't W have steel grey eyes? And thin lips? The lower lip is too thick.

Ooh ooh ooh. I said thick lips. I must be a racist! Even though I was talking about a white man.; 8/6/09, 6:01 AM
hombre said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/6/09, 10:57 AM
hombre said...: Unbelievably stupid, even for the WaPo.; 8/6/09, 11:03 AM
JAL said...: Do the math.

People will "sell" the govt perfectly good older used cars at an inflated price ($4500). Said car is destroyed, removing it from the available pool of cars.

Those cars which are older whose owners do NOT want to sell them to go into debt for new cars (whose replacement batteries will cost how much again??) will increase in price as there will be fewer of them available, they will be desireable, as people neeed cars, and a not insignificant number do not want to buy "new" cars. Thus your $1200 Craigslist car will become scarcer.

Comprende?

I think this is basic economics of "supply and demand" but then, that's not my strong suit. (Living well on relatively small amount of money is.); 8/6/09, 9:20 PM
Unknown said...: Why Obama is the joker?; 8/15/09, 10:11 PM