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Old 12-28-2014, 11:29 AM
 
Location: The land where cats rule
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Overlooking the extremely immature name-calling, I would say it is wonderful that Obama's "personal, radical agenda" happens to coincide with most of America's.

Everything Is Awesome! - Michael Grunwald - POLITICO Magazine
Overlooking your extreme, non intellectual support of anything Obama, you actually have not idea how his personal, radical agenda compares with the majority of the people. Various polls should give you a hint as should his ratings (manipulated by his spin doctors as they are). The majority of the population, at least outside your insular enclave, don't like him or approve of his actions.

Try reading the news, outside of the puppet Politico and its biased views, and you may learn what is really happening. But you won't as it does not coincide with what you want to believe.
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Old 12-28-2014, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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Working people are PAYING for all of that. ACA is nothing but a redistribution of income and a gravy train for the insurance companies.
The majority of working people have insurance through their company. Their company picks up most of the cost. That cost is tax deductable for the business. It's the biggest giveaway besides Medicare in the country. The amount of money the taxpayer gives away for employer sponsored heath care dwarfs any amount of money spent by the taxpayer on the ACA.
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Old 12-28-2014, 11:51 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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The majority of working people have insurance through their company. Their company picks up most of the cost. That cost is tax deductable for the business. It's the biggest giveaway besides Medicare in the country. The amount of money the taxpayer gives away for employer sponsored heath care dwarfs any amount of money spent by the taxpayer on the ACA.
I doubt it, especially when vast numbers of employers have ended insuring employees because they could or because they juggled employee numbers/hours to do so - a direct and negative ACA affect on wage earners and taxpayers.
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Old 12-28-2014, 12:01 PM
 
Location: NJ
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His popularity among Latinos shot up 10 percent following his immigration announcement, the economic picture is much rosier (and Americans are finally starting to notice), and they generally agree with Obama's decision to re-establish relations with Cuba.

If Americans wise up to the BS anti-ACA agenda peddled by the right, his popularity will soar.
that would be 10% of the illegals polled
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Old 12-28-2014, 12:13 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Minions believe whatever obama admin says.... like this statement even the minions would have trouble defending without a thesaurus.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvYRJci0RZ4
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Old 12-28-2014, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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Working people are PAYING for all of that. ACA is nothing but a redistribution of income and a gravy train for the insurance companies.
Some gravy train. Thanks to Obamacare, premiums rose at a lowest rate in ages.

Keep on thinking it's harming "working Muricans" though. That's exactly what the GOP, the party of the 1%, wants.
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Old 12-28-2014, 12:16 PM
 
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The majority of working people have insurance through their company. Their company picks up most of the cost. That cost is tax deductable for the business. It's the biggest giveaway besides Medicare in the country. The amount of money the taxpayer gives away for employer sponsored heath care dwarfs any amount of money spent by the taxpayer on the ACA.
Exactly. But the anti-ACA crowd doesn't want to even acknowledge this. They continue to insist that they are "paying their own way." I'd love to see this benefit disappear and force people to see what the real cost of their insurance is. And then deny them any help in paying for it. Then we'd see those "leeches" crawling out of the woodwork whining because without their employer subsidized insurance, they are priced out of the market. Which is exactly what all of us without this government benefit have had to face for years.
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Old 12-28-2014, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Unperson Everyman Land
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Americans are finally starting to wise up to the "worse than Bush" rhetoric right-wingers have been spewing. About time.


RCP says otherwise, but if you really want to cherry-pick, the last Reuters poll has him at 37%.

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Obama Job Approval
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Old 12-28-2014, 01:05 PM
 
Location: Phoenix
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I didn't vote for Obama but thanks to the Repubs taking the House and now the Senate, he is steering the country in a mostly positive direction. At least he is no longer screwing things up....hope that continues for his last 2 years.

It's ironic that he was supposed to be the savior for the poor and blacks and a bane in the side of rich whites....however, he's been great for me and other wealthy people but blacks and poor have fallen into despair during his stewardship. I just hope he doesn't say he is trying to help rich white men...if he does, I'm emigrating.
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Old 12-28-2014, 04:33 PM
 
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Just what his party wants, support from Obama-bin-Laden. Even his own party is beginning to realize that he does not have the best interests of the country in mind, only his own personal, radical agenda.


Both parties are a stinking loaf of corruption, insanity and power-madness.

There is a small percentage of good people in both parties.....too few and far between to make any real difference.
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