On 7/20/2012 19:20, Lee Lofaso -> John Massey wrote:   
    LL> Hello John,   
      
    JM>> 'Let me get this straight . . ..   
      
    JM>> We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced   
    JM>> to purchase and fined if we don't,   
      
    LL> Nobody is "forced" to buy anything.  However, those who refuse   
    LL> will be gently reminded of their duty.   
      
   Gently reminded of their duty?  Sounds ominous.   
      
      
    JM>>> Which, purportedly covers at least ten million more people,   
      
    LL> Nobody knows exactly how many people the Affordable Care Act will   
    LL> cover.  Hopefully everybody who needs it.  But only time will tell.   
      
   So 10 mil added is not unreasonable.   
      
    JM>> without adding a single new doctor,   
      
    LL> The Affordable Care Act is not an employer.   
      
   Yet it provides (read hires) for 16,000 new Government jobs.   
      
    JM>> but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,   
      
    LL> There is nothing in the Affordable Care Act that can compel the IRS   
    LL> to collect the fines imposed on those who refuse to purchase insurance.   
    LL> IOW, no enforcement mechanism was put in place.   
      
   So just exactly what will the 16,000 new Government agents be doing?   
      
      
    JM>> written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it,   
      
    LL> The Affordable Care Act was passed by both houses of Congress, not   
    LL> just a committe, and then signed into law by President Barack Obama.   
      
   That's true, but most of the work of molding the bill is done in the   
   committee. For the Committee chairman to say of the finished bill that   
   "he didn't understand it" is significant. Or at least I think so.   
      
    JM>> passed by a Congress that didn't read it (but exempted themselves   
    JM>> from it),   
      
    LL> Each member of Congress has a staff that reads everything put on a   
    LL> table before them.  Members of Congress have their own health care   
    LL> package, as they should.   
      
   As they should?  Why should they have their own health care package?   
   Every politician should be forced to depended on the same care they would get   
   if they were indigent.   
      
   Save money close the House and Senate  medical facilities. Let them go to a   
   local D.C. hospital and wait like us commoners.   
      
    JM>> and signed by a President who smokes,   
      
    LL> President Barack Obama no longer smokes, according to his wife.   
      
   Then the photos of him smoking were Photoshopped?   
      
    JM>> with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his   
    JM>> taxes,   
      
    LL> He may have been a bit late, but he did pay them.  And he did promise   
    LL> to pay his taxes on time from now on.  So what's the problem?   
      
   Well as long as he promises to be good and never do it again.   
      
    JM>> for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take   
    JM>> effect,   
      
    LL> Some benefits have already taken effect.  Other benefits kick in later.   
      
   So will the hidden taxes in this disgusting law.   
      
    JM>> by a congress which has already bankrupted Social Security and   
    JM>> Medicare,   
      
    LL> Social Security and Medicare are not bankrupt.  Yet.   
      
   Unless something changes they will be.   
      
      
    JM>> all to be overseen by an obese surgeon general and financed by a   
    JM>> country that's broke!!   
      
    LL> Not to worry.  The FDA has approved a pill for obesity and fatsos   
    LL> will once again be able to return to work and save this country from   
    LL> financial ruin.   
      
   P.T. Barnum had to be right. There has to be a sucker born every minute, to   
   explain why so many people are so gullible as to believe things like that.   
   There is an FCC rule that all advertising on TV and Radio  has to be true. Do   
   you believe everything you see advertised on TV and Radio?   
      
      
    JM>> What the hell could possibly go wrong?'   
      
    LL> We could get stuck with a president named Willard.   
      
   Well if that's all that happens, things might begin to look up.   
      
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