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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:00 PM
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So how do we start to organize mass resistance to the forced insurance buy-in?
What will the equivalent of "burning our draft cards" be?
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:01 PM
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1. Ask the Europeans how they did it.
Edited on Sat Dec-19-09 01:02 PM by HuckleB
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:04 PM
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3. Well, if we could get one of those *parlimentiary systems*....
...things might start looking up!
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:05 PM
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4. Yeah, because everything is perfect over there.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:33 PM
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8. Everything is perfect over here?
After all -- and we'll see if you can answer this without an eye-rolly emoticon -- the social safety net is *vastly* stronger there.

But who gives a shit, right?
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:02 PM
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2. When they start mailing out details of the plan as they will surely have to,
return to sender.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:06 PM
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5. Burning our "insurance cards?"
Or, perhaps more precisely, burning the letter we'll receive from the Insurance Companies via the government telling us what to do and when to buy mandated insurance.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:11 PM
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6. Here's an idea. Keep paying your insurance company's ~200% premium increases..
year after year, while everyone else gets to take advantage of the reforms in the less-than-perfect-but-better-than-the-status-quo bill.

That'll show those evil democRATS!
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:34 PM
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9. Yes, because premiums aren't going to go up at all now!
Pass that ice cream!

(And of course, keep asking no questions and accepting only what's given to you, citizen!)
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 01:32 PM
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7. A mass protest in DC and a general strike would do it.
But for that you need leadership from our progressive organizations and i don't see any.
they are way to busy sending us emails telling us all the bad things that are happening and asking for donations to stop it.
And when you have cash flow it is not a good idea to change things.
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