It's Official: A Democratic President Offered to Cut Social Security

[Fumesucker]

35. I'm not sure if it's my fault or yours or neither

But I have a hard time parsing some of your posts, I got your first paragaph but the meaning of the last one escapes me.

I for one can't hold it all in my head, I have to concentrate on one thing at a time and Sandy Hook has really given my morale a beating and distracted the hell out of me, I have three grandkids that are just a bit older than those poor children and it has really upset me.

Despite following the health care developments fairly closely I still don't understand how it's all supposed to work, it seems like some Rube Goldberg apparatus designed to be as complex and confusing as possible. I do not see a connnection between what I'm reading and me walking in the doctor's office and being seen, there's just too much monkey motion in it for me to follow. It's been over four years since I've seen a doctor and I have three more to go to Medicare, seven years is a long time to go with no medical care at my age.

Just because you are comfortable being in a car where the driver is playing chicken with your future please don't assume that everyone else has your phlegmatic disposition. Ever since the public option was thrown by the wayside I haven't trusted Obama, the single main reason I supported him in the first place was he ridiculed the private mandate while he was a candidate and I agreed with the points he made, then once elected the mandate became the centerpiece of his health insurance reform. The thing that really stings is I expected the turn around from the beginning, I actually have a post up on DU2 from Nov 2008 saying I expected the mandate to be the end result.

I have what I consider sound personal reasons for loathing and despising the medical insurance companies, it chaps my nads to the max to feel like I've been sold to them as just a hunk of meat with (supposedly) a government subsidy attached. It is particularly galling to have seen the sellout coming right from the beginning while my candidate was busy telling me what I wanted to hear.

We have now had Nancy Pelosi confirm that cuts=strengthening when it comes to SS, just like many of us have been saying every time the politicians talk about "strengthening" SS and have been roundly denied by the usual suspects here on DU.