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Was the Bush Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Socialist?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by SamFisher, Aug 21, 2009.

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Was the Bush Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Socialist

  1. Yes - it redistributed the wealth, that is SOCIALISM!

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  2. No - using such a loose definition of socialism is silly.

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  1. SamFisher

    SamFisher Member

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    see question.

    As general background, the 2006 plan is essentially a subsidy (redistribution of tax dollars) from hard working, healthy americans like me to oldsters on Medicare to allow them to buy themselves their nitroglycerin and all the other junk they need.

    more: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/federalbenefitprograms/p/meddrugpro.htm

    For the record, I personally don't believe the Bush Prescription Drug Plan was a feature of the implementation of Marxist-Leninism.
     
    #1 SamFisher, Aug 21, 2009
  2. Fatty FatBastard

    Fatty FatBastard Member

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    For the record, I think you're an idiot.

    And I'm all for revising healthcare. I'm not for giving away everything for free, however.

    [​IMG]
     
    #2 Fatty FatBastard, Aug 21, 2009
  3. SamFisher

    SamFisher Member

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    Hey yo....It's the JIMBO MORNING ZOO EVERYBODY..plan accordingly

    Shock us some more mmkay with your outrageousness!

    You are like the crazy science teacher wearing Jams to school!

    You know those really crazy colorful shorts that were popular for a while in the 80's!

    They are popular in Williamsburg these days FYI!
     
    #3 SamFisher, Aug 21, 2009
  4. Fatty FatBastard

    Fatty FatBastard Member

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    Pots calling kettles out is so tired these days.
     
    #4 Fatty FatBastard, Aug 21, 2009
  5. rhadamanthus

    rhadamanthus Member

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    What an enlightening response. Very informative and intellectually compelling.

    [​IMG]
     
    #5 rhadamanthus, Aug 21, 2009
  6. Fatty FatBastard

    Fatty FatBastard Member

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    You really have had a hard on for me recently.

    Any reason?
     
    #6 Fatty FatBastard, Aug 21, 2009
  7. SamFisher

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    Jimbo - ratings are going down with this crap, add more SHOCK and less SCHLOCK
     
    #7 SamFisher, Aug 21, 2009
  8. SamFisher

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    I intended this thread in order to prove my rule over the interwebs by entrapping BBS conservatives in the intellectual wilderness, exposing the paucity of their knowledge and the shallowness of their understanding of "socialism" and exposing its emptiness when employed in the health care context, and then smugly acknowledging my own brilliance after having vanquished my foes.

    But it is now a Dr. Phil style Pity Fatty Party....which is fine and dandy as well.

    TY Fatty.
     
    #8 SamFisher, Aug 21, 2009
  9. Fatty FatBastard

    Fatty FatBastard Member

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    No, you threw up a brain fart of a thread with an antagonizing title, and you got busted for it.

    If you're going to b**** about Basso threads, be prepared when someone calls you out for doing same.
     
    #9 Fatty FatBastard, Aug 21, 2009
  10. SamFisher

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    In your opinion, was the Bush Prescription Drug Plan "socialist"?


    Feel free to decline to answer on the grounds that you don't have enough factual familiarity with either the plan or socialism to make an assessment.


    Oh, and i apologize in advance if answering the question hurts your feelings.
     
    #10 SamFisher, Aug 21, 2009
  11. Fatty FatBastard

    Fatty FatBastard Member

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    Why in the hell would it hurt my feelings? Are you high right now?

    I don't think any of it is "Socialism." Healthcare needs some revision. Giving away everything leads to mass abuses. Do you think everything should be free?
     
    #11 Fatty FatBastard, Aug 21, 2009
  12. SamFisher

    SamFisher Member

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    Thank you for your response.

    No I don't think everything should be given away for free. So if the "Let's Give Everything Away for Free Act of 2009" were to come before congress, I would not be in favor its passage.
     
    #12 SamFisher, Aug 21, 2009
  13. Fatty FatBastard

    Fatty FatBastard Member

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    Fascinating. Thanks.
     
    #13 Fatty FatBastard, Aug 21, 2009
  14. rhadamanthus

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    I just enjoy pointing out your general idiocy.
     
    #14 rhadamanthus, Aug 21, 2009
  15. Fatty FatBastard

    Fatty FatBastard Member

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    Got it. Everything I say causes a pavlovian response in you to comment.

    Find a hobby.
     
    #15 Fatty FatBastard, Aug 21, 2009
  16. rhadamanthus

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    No, just the really dumb things - and only when I have time/inclination. Which really isn't that often - you just say so many silly things that it appears I mock you a lot.

    I'm not the one posting his whole life on the internet.
     
    #16 rhadamanthus, Aug 21, 2009
  17. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Fatty Fat Pharaoh has spoken. So let it be written, so let it be done.
     
    #17 CometsWin, Aug 21, 2009
  18. Dubious

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    It might have been considered socialist if it hadn't been expressly mandated that the government couldn't use it's purchasing power to negotiate drug prices I guess it was just sort of a benevolent Corporatocracy.
     
    #18 Dubious, Aug 21, 2009
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    That is because you are a liberal pinko who lives in Jew York City. Here in the remnants of the Confederacy which is being sorely tried by Mexicans, other foreigners and immigrants from up North like myself, it is clearly socialism.

    Ask Refman if you doubt me.
     
    #19 glynch, Aug 21, 2009
  20. rocketsjudoka

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    I sense that y'all are trying to get onto the next animated D&D throwdown.
     
    #20 rocketsjudoka, Aug 21, 2009
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