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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 03:14 PM
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You can' t squeeze blood from a turnip.
Edited on Tue Dec-15-09 03:14 PM by Skidmore
Period.

After all the negotiating and handwringing, that is the ultimate truth. You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. Congress will learn this and so will the insurance industry as it begins losing customers. You can't force a person to pay a tax who doesn't have money to survive on. Doctors and lawyers will learn this too. This whole teetering gerryrigged structure will collapse. Because we turnips are all tapped out.

Oh, and you can't squeeze votes from pissed off people either.
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Yuugal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 06:14 PM
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1. wait until the average person sees how bad they've been had
The shit is going to hit the fan hard when people find out they have a 5000 dollar deductible and the "premium" is going to cost them 10k a year in take home. It is a cruel sick joke on us but in the end I'm hoping the joke will be on rich people once the poor figure out how badly they got screwed and start to get even.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 06:52 PM
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2. Well freakin' put!
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