AVG CON

Talk about indoctrination.

This country is going down.

It comes with all white crayola crayons too.

$11.50 minimum wage: Washington DC's city council has approved raising the minimum wage in the US capital from the current $8.25 to $11.50 in 2016. The minimum wage will then be indexed for inflation.

I know you won't buy a big house or fancy car but could you live on this?

These multi-billion dollar companies (McDonald, Subway etc.) don't pay enough to survive therefore they are forced to apply for food stamps. So in essence we, the tax payers are forced to pay the difference between a non-livable pay scale and one where it's employees can eat. There needs to be a higher minimum wage unless you want to pay for it. I also believe that the CEO's are grossly being over paid. It's the income inequality that Obama ran against. I know some animals will eat themselves to death. The CEO is one of those animals. I know we shouldn't enforce a maximum but the gluttony will continue resulting in the shutdown of our economy. Why can't companies be told that they can't pay their CEO's more than 20% of their profits. It sounds bad but so does the failure of capitalism.

He's not dumb, just a little too friendly.

How do you feel about that. Let me know what party you are in too please?

Wa. minimum wage 2014: Big push for $15 an hour vs. $9.19 ...

www.examiner.com/article/wa-minimum-wage-2014-big-push... Cached

Increasing the Washington minimum wage from $9.19 an hour to $15 an hour is a banner protesters in Seattle are pushing for. ABC News reports Aug. 19 that demons

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The TPP suffers from a serious lack of transparency, threatens to impose more stringent copyright without public input, and pressures foreign governments to adopt unbalanced laws.

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You get a $5k voucher and send people on their way. There is no lifetime cap like in Obamacare.

And it would cost $7 Trillion, for much less service than Obamacare.

The Romney-Ryan plan, of course, involves the use of vouchers, an approach that the Republican Party once rejected but has now come to embrace.

Henry J. Aaron helped write the Medicare voucher program now championed by Republicans, but has since opposed the program. He's an economist and noted health-care expert at the Brookings Institution.

Aaron says that Romney and Ryan are misrepresenting facts about Medicare and the Affordable Care Act in the plan they are proposing.

"What isn't acknowledged is that if the savings and the additional revenues that would flow into Medicare as a result of healthcare reform were repealed, as Mr. Romney has pledged to do, the date of insolvency of the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund would move up from 2024 to 2016 -- forward eight years -- by their proposal," Aaron said. "And we have not seen any suggestion of how equivalent savings could be achieved in some other way."

Aaron recognizes that there are flaws to the Medicare system (i.e. it isn't as efficient as it should be), but he said that the Affordable Care Act closes two-thirds of the long-term budget gap projected in Medicare; the remainder is fully financed.

Romney instead proposed a series of his own reforms, including slashing Medicaid funding and turning the program over to state control, converting Medicare into a voucher program, and allowing health insurance companies to avoid states' health care coverage and benefit mandates. The Medicaid plan would cut federal spending on the program by $1.26 trillion through 2022, Flavelle concludes.

Romney also backs limiting lawsuit damage awards from medical malpractice cases and some limited restrictions against health insurance companies denying to cover those with pre-existing conditions.

Jim Crow laws in N. Carolina? (condoned racism)

She said she will not mess with the debt limit vote.

Why can't Cons have such class?

you will lose it if you become laid off or fired. Insurance for self employed or people not in a group your insurance costs will sky rocket by hundreds of percents. Obamacare gives you the opportunity to sign up with collectives that are all on Obamacare to get you the best prices available. Same thing if you don't have insurance now or want to change it. The large number of participants (millions) give you bargaining power to obtain lower insurance rates. And don't forget there are no preexisting conditions clauses and no lifetime cap clauses. This is much better than anything available before Obamacare. So why does the GOP want to shut down the Government and not allow the always needed debt limit revisions? They are essentially holding a gun to our heads to kill Obamacare.

In addition, they are asking for everything but the kitchen sink including killing the consumer protection agency to be dissolved. They want a Federal anti-abortion law which I'm sure some of you think is great. Defaulting on our debt will create worldwide market damage that can lead to a genuine depression. We cannot use these two obligations as hostages and I agree with Obama when he says they are not negotiable. The Cons are in fact Domestic Terrorists and they don't even know it.

He certainly acts like him. Is the fact that he is a Texan or a Republican that makes him act like Hitler?

and is not living up to his promise to be transparent?

It's obvious the klan, err GOP tells more blantant lies more frequently but still Obama is the liar?

He is transparent, he is on TV so often explaining what's happening in general Cons complain about it. Anyway third person observations say it is the Republicans who are habitual liars.

Some examples:

A leading media fact-checking organization rates Republicans as less trustworthy than Democrats, according to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University. The study finds that PolitiFact.com has rated Republican claims as false three times as often as Democratic claims during President Obama’s second term. Republicans continue to get worse marks in recent weeks, despite controversies over Obama administration statements on Benghazi, the IRS and the AP.

According to CMPA President Dr Robert Lichter, “While Republicans see a credibility gap in the Obama administration, PolitiFact rates Republicans as the less credible party.”

Both Sides Don’t Do It: Study Finds Republicans Lie Three Times More Than Democrats.

Romney: President Obama “went around the world and apologized for America.”

Politifact rated this a “pants on fire” lie.

“…we think it’s a ridiculous charge. There’s a clear difference between changing policies and apologizing, and Obama didn’t do the latter. So we rate Romney’s statement Pants on Fire”

“The president has never used the word ‘apologize’ in a speech about U.S. policy or history. Any assertion that he has apologized for U.S. actions rests on a misleading interpretation of the president’s words.”

Romney: President Obama’s health care law “represents a government takeover of health care.”

Politifact rated this a “pants on fire” lie.

“…we find flimsy evidence for such a strong claim. The government’s expanded role in health falls far short of being a government takeover. As we said in our Lie of the Year announcement, analogies about strict government regulation provide some helpful illustrations. The Federal Aviation Administration imposes detailed rules on airlines. State laws require drivers to have car insurance. Regulators tell electric utilities what they can charge. Yet that heavy regulation is not described as a government takeover.

“There’s no question that “government takeover” has been a successful talking point. A poll in March 2010 found that a majority of the American people believed it was true. But the facts simply don’t support it. The health care law continues to depend on private health insurance and private-sector physicians. So Romney earns the same rating as others who have made the false claim: Pants on Fire!”

There are tons more if you want I will post them.

who will explain to the veterans, elderly and sickly they won't get any help because the cons are immature?

George Zimmerman is a hero?

Is that Obamas fault too?

hostage over the funding of the affordable care act?

It is already less expensive than they predicted.

The Cons like having control of your health care.

They can make you broke with their rates increases.

Same thing with college costs.

Why don't the Cons admit their party is phuqed up?

Iowa just approved gun ownership and concealed weapons for BLIND people.

Doesn't anybody see how lax gun laws are?

As for background checks, Hickenlooper pointed out that last year, some 2,000 people who underwent a background check in Colorado were denied the right to buy a firearms, either because of a criminal record, an outstanding warrant, a restraining order or some other reason.

"People would say to me, 'Well, criminals aren't stupid. They're not going to sign up for background checks.' It turns out many criminals are stupid," he said.