Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read'

Bloomberg: Congress 'Can't Read'

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Saturday that some newly elected members of Congress "can't read" and don't know what or where China is.

Bloomberg delivered his stinging assessment of Washington's newcomers during an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

"If you look at the U.S., you look at who we're electing to Congress, to the Senate--they can't read," he said. "I'll bet you a bunch of these people don't have passports."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/0 ... 79975.html


But some of them are ready to cut Social Security and Medicare... Hey, as long as the uber-rich get to keep more money in their pockets, to hell with the seniors, the sick and the needy.

Congress is filled with idiots because Americans no longer want the brightest and best representing their interests in Congress; instead, Americans are electing people who are most like them-stupid and bloated with hubris.
When John McCain picked Queen Dipstick as his running mate, he opened up the floodgates for making stupid a politically sheik characteristic.
So many of these officials believe that global warming is false, that Creationism is true and that an abstinence only education will prevent pregnancy or STDs.

Gosh, you libs are so engrossed with palin, don't ya just love it when the liberal sharks feed on each other, I sure do.. lol

outdoor338 wrote: Gosh, you libs are so engrossed with palin, don't ya just love it when the liberal sharks feed on each other, I sure do.. lol

Palin is a Liberal??? rofllol rofllol

Who knew? :bash :bash

whatever, see you proved my point, you can't read either..right LJ, or whatever..

Congress doesn't want to read!!!!! Remember your witch party leader saying we have to pass this so we can read it??????

Liberals will say anything to argue, even if it makes no sense!!!!

Are you letting off of Bush now and picking on Palin? I can see she is now the threat to you wackos, so change your attack to her. :bash :bash

I kinda figured that reading wasn't an important part of being a Senator. Isn't that what you took away from the fact that so many voted in favor of the health care reform who also admitted that they hadn't read what they were voting for? Heck, I figured that is why the progressives didn't want the bill read into the record. None of them would have been capable of doing the task and they were just too embarrassed to admit it! rofllol

Nmysys wrote: Congress doesn't want to read!!!!! Remember your witch party leader saying we have to pass this so we can read it??????

Liberals will say anything to argue, even if it makes no sense!!!!

Are you letting off of Bush now and picking on Palin? I can see she is now the threat to you wackos, so change your attack to her. :bash :bash

Once again, the right parrots a meme without understanding of what was said.

“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.

“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=1576

Time and time again I read your posts and find them void of understanding. I guess when your information sources are all the equivalent of McDonalds such malnutrition is not surprising.

And everything in it, all the "free" goodies like preventative care with no out of pocket expense, will drive up the cost of care and the cost of insurance. When the consumer is divorced from the cost of their consumption of a service, the cost of providing that service goes up. When the costs to the insurance company to pay for 100% of that care, the cost of the insurance premium goes up to compensate for the out of pocket expense, plus profit, plus paper work, plus profit on the paperwork and the care ends up costing the consumer more than it would cost them if they simply pulled out their wallet and paid for the service.

The way to decrease the cost of care has been proven in the elective surgery market. When lasik surgery for eyes first made its debut, the cost per eye was north of $2K. Now you are able to get both eyes done for less than half of that amount in many instances. Why? Because insurance didn't pay for it, the consumer paid for it out of pocket and thus the cost of the care was subjected to market forces. Those who charged less per eye had more customers of their service. They made less profit per eye, but more profit overall. When the consumer is insulated from the cost of that annual wellness visit and therefore doesn't know/care what the price tag is, the ability of the doctor to use that to supplement a lower profit margin in another area of their practice will find its way into the cost of the service, which will be picked up 100% by the insurance company because 80% of every dollar of the premium has to go towards paying for claims under the new bill, which will then increase the cost to the consumer because their policy is not so much of an insurance policy as it is a prepaid health care policy.

End result is that rather than a wellness visit costing $50 if the cost was paid by the consumer, it will cost $200 and be paid for by the inclusion of that charge, plus profit, in the premium that the insurance company charges the consumer. That isn't so difficult to understand, is it ckm8? We've seen what the change from the standard insurance model, meeting a deductible prior to the insurance company paying any money on a claim, to the co-pay model has done for both the cost of care and the cost of insurance already, haven't we? How totally insulating the consumer from any costs is supposed to lower costs is truly logic only a progressive mind can hope to comprehend. If it were only wellness care where the use of such nonsense was employed, one might excuse it, but the reality of the situation is that the law is filled with such instances.

Face it cmk8. Obama and the progressives sold us down the river to special interest groups. The insurance industry and the family practitioner will be making out like bandits under the new law. Of course they were willing to sign on and give their approval. The Democrats just handed them a load of cash they could never hope to realize if they actually had to compete in the open market for business.

Congress sold us out Printsmith. All the Republicans and a good percentage of the Democrats. But that is not the point. The point is that Nymysys repeatedly misquotes Pelosi. He is either ignorant or lying. What about you?