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      <![CDATA[Happy New Year 2012 to all regular posters !  Making full usage of our freedom of speech one post at a time !:)
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh come on Mr Catastrophe, you know u luv me. <br>
The use of psuedonyms has a long history in our country, just check the federalist papers.<br>
  In any case, since I post opinions which aren't the same as yours I must be suppressed? I can't possibly just be me.  Rest assured i'm just one regular American who will always voice his opinions.<br>
  I don't have any idea who Clarkie is and as a reader i can pretty much tell his or her posts have a very different tone than mine.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:16:26 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[mat catastrophe]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[For New Year's, I'm going to pledge to stop feeding the troll. Go get a facebook account and go back to the P&C threads, artclarkie.
        
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      <![CDATA["We can investigate if they are guilty of pulling the rug out from under customers and use our wallet as comdenation".<br>
And, if in the absence of regulation, they all decide to do it?<br>
Also, did you miss the part of the health care reform that makes deadbeats get health insurance so the rest of us no longer have to pay for their trips to the ER?<br>
Sounds like personal responsibiity at it's best to me.
        
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      <![CDATA[The City Paper does a fine job of what your asking. <br>
        
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      <![CDATA[Since i have seen you post that health care insurance company issue before. I'll be your huckleberry.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why not save the rest of us a lot of typing and post one of the Republican candidates "embellishments" for each one of President Obama's that you seem so concerned about? <br>
There are lots to choose from.
        
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      <![CDATA[Big Whoppers of 2011 your not likely to see in the City Paper Part 2.<br>
  President Obama went overboard arguing for higher tax rates on high earnings, claiming that he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher making $50,000 a year. That’s not true.<br>
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A single taxpayer with $50,000 of income would have paid less than half the effective rate paid by the Obamas in 2008, 2009 or 2010.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bush has long since retired. We cannot do anything about him.
        
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      <![CDATA[And because of this, our health insurance companies can no longer drop us if we get sick after paying them decades of premiums.<br>
Let's compare to another President's "embellishments".<br>
Iraq has WMD's, so we have to have a very short war with them. Don't worry, the Iraqi people will be throwing flowers to our troops.<br>
Thousands of our young military needlessly dead, along with 100,000 Iraqi citizens needlessly dead.<br>
Another trillon or so of debt.<br>
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Which is worse?
        
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      <![CDATA[Big Whoppers of 2011 your not likely to see in the City Paper.<br>
 One of President Barack Obama’s favorite personal anecdotes — which he had told any number of times to sell his health-care legislation to the public — was not true.<br>
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The president told the story often during the 2008 presidential campaign and the many months before he signed the health care law. He said his mother, as she was dying, nearly was denied health insurance coverage due to the fact that her ovarian cancer was considered a preexisting condition.
        
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      <![CDATA[Like the BOV says, Rosa is the perfect person to clean up the mess....job security.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:17:01 -0500</pubDate>
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