Comments on: Rep. Miller: Supreme Court Got It Wrong With Obamacare Ruling

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:00:01 +0000

Your leader Romney that’s going to leed you out of Obama land called the health PENALTY A FINE NOT A TAX!!!! Why can’t yor follow your leader he’s got to be correct it’s Romney.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:24:53 +0000

I think Obama should veto the Restore Act read the following.
I wonder why these republican tea party politicans call this a “water pollution fine” when it’s really A TAX IT’S REALLY A TAX!!!!!!!!!! I guess they use it in the context that fits a political issue. ITS STILL A TAX or it could be a FINE/TAX. Maby Obama should veto this bill since its a TAX. Also everyone shold be aware that this BP TAX /FINE can be used any way the county desires even if it’s not BP related. They still look like a group of vulchers looking for a free bee. I believe this BP MONEY TAX/FINE should be saved and banked for future spill clean up. The next company with a large spill might just throw there hands up and not clean it up like BP has done. We’re lucky BP has done what they have done.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:05:29 +0000

REGARDING:
“Currently the insurance company’s have us over a barrel. We have to have it, they know it, so they can set the price. – - – there is a big difference in being well paid and accepting an unrealistic salary for something others have to have.”

Yes, legally we are currently required to have it. Nonetheless, we do not have to buy it from any particular provider. Therefore, no one of them has us over the barrel unless they are all colluding.

The shareholders elect the board of directors of corporations and the board sets the salary for the CEO. If they pay him more than they have to pay, that is a lower dividend for them. Therefore, it is reasonable to think they pay what they believe they must to get the kind of performance they demand. This makes him like other well paid performers: sports players, entertainers, former presidents..

David who only disagrees with a few
of those who are wrong
and even then only to help

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:45:19 +0000

Regarding David Hule Green,
The point of my comment is that if an insurance company is able to pay their CEO an obscene salary than they can make their insurance affordable. I am fairly confident that all health insurance is probably the same. In a competitive market they would have to do so or go out of business, In other words if my product cost less and is of equal value, the consumer would buy my product and the competitor would have to lower his price or go under. Currently the insurance company’s have us over a barrel. We have to have it, they know it, so they can set the price. This is comparable to the Irish Land barons. They had the land, the people needed it so they charged unrealistic rent, keeping the people in poverty. Our Forefathers escaped this kind of oppression and created the great country we are living in.
Regarding your comment: Despite what you have been told it is not robbery for someone to be well paid. No it is not robbery to be well paid. however there is a big difference in being well paid and accepting an unrealistic salary for something others have to have.

Jesse
who does not disagree with every other comment made

By: bob hudson

bob hudson — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:26:01 +0000

You ever notice that ever one who makes money is evil , unless they are a liberal? You know I grew up and the democratic party was a good thing, you know who killed it? The far left liberals, They should have founded their own socialist party and left my party alone. I notice that Holder is saying that the Republians are out to get him So why then did 21 of the democrats vote with them? Yep he’s guilt. And I hope they nail his sorry hide to the wall.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:44:38 +0000

REGARDING:
“When the average small business owner has to pay $15,000 a year for family health insurance, and the CEO of Florida Blue has an annual salary of 4.7 million dollars, is not free enterprise, but robbery. The greed of the wealthy has caused every bit of this mess and the rest of the economic problems we are facing.“

Despite what you have been told, it is NOT robbery for someone to be well paid. It would be robbery if you were forced to give him your money but that hasn’t happened in the past. You were always free to not do business with his company or to do business with some other insurance company that didn’t pay its CEO as well.

If you didn’t buy from some other insurance company which paid its CEO less because they were too expensive, then who would be guilty of greed there?

Health insurance is expensive because health care is expensive. For some reason the doctors, nurses, technicians, suppliers and janitors want to be paid for their services so they can pay their bills and feed, clothe and shelter their children. Yeah, I know, they’re all greedy too. Everybody is greedy who wants to be paid for the work they do. Shame on them.

David surrounded by greedy people

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:15:29 +0000

What our good Congressmen fails to acknowledge is that this mess he blames the Democrats with should be shared with the Republicans. Insurance company’s have robbed the people for so long that someone had to do something. What President Obama has provided for a solution is not the answer, but what solutions has Congressmen Miller or the rest of the Republican party offered? They had control of Washington a few years back, what did they do to help this mess? Nothing. They sat there and accepted large campaign contributions from corporations that I am sure included insurance. When the average small business owner has to pay $15,000 a year for family health insurance, and the CEO of Florida Blue has an annual salary of 4.7 million dollars, is not free enterprise, but robbery. The greed of the wealthy has caused every bit of this mess and the rest of the economic problems we are facing. While I blame the Democrats and the liberals with much of the Country’s current problems, the economic problems go to the Republicans. What we need is a new working class party. Not the over the top ultra conservative Tea party, but an honest to goodness working class party that has the interest of the working class people at heart. When I say the working class I mean people who work, not the people who expect everyone else to support them.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:34:08 +0000

REGARDING:
“Ok, I’ll agree the SCOTUS gets somethings wrong. Like the 2000 election.”

Nope. It is impossible for the Supreme Court to get legal matters wrong regarding the Constitution and what it allows because the Constitution defines and spells out that they are the final arbiter of what it means.

If they had ruled the opposite way, they still would not be wrong simply because it is whatever they say it is.

This would also apply to the 2000 election. The people voted. The vote was counted. It was close but it was counted. The Florida Supreme Court decided to have them recount it. The recount confirmed how it went. They wanted it recounted differently. The United States Supreme Court ruled that they couldn’t continue to recount until they got a different result or until Plan B kicked in.

The Plan B I’m talking about is that the legislature reject the vote of the people and simply choose electors however would suit them. In this case, with a majority republican legislature, it is reasonable to assume they would have picked the Republican candidate over Al Gore, but regardless, it would not have been the choice of the people but of the legislature.

Further, the basic ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States was that the state could not change the rules in the middle of an election as the Florida Supreme Court had tried to do. That’s kind of basic too.

Similarly, Representative Miller is wrong when he claims the Supreme Court is wrong in this case and was wrong in the Dred Scott ruling. They ruled correctly according to the Constitution as it was at the time.

David for longer memories

By: No Excuses

No Excuses — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:23:09 +0000

The swing vote was made by a republican justice FOR the program. A good argument for being able to impeach Supreme Court Justices and allowing for term limits instead of lifetime appointments. He most certainly did not reflect the feeling of most republicans in the country!

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:41:09 +0000

Jeff Miller has been sitting there in Washington during all of this. Massive debts and the constitution fading everyday but for some reason he is voted back in office. I can tell you I have never voted for him and never will. Until this area wakes up and dumps this clown it will continue to be the same. Miller will only show up every two years and we the people have nothing to show for his efforts. So far his total impact in Washington is to rename 7 buildings and helped with an island issue that is not in his district. He was the deciding vote in the central america free trade which caused your job to go overseas. He fully supports the patriot act which takes your Constitutional rights and throws them out the window. If your able to read this you are able to research what I have posted here. Go take a look for yourself. Because a man wraps himself in the flag does not make him a good American.