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lordjedi
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What's up with all the right-wingers on this site?
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12-Sep-2008, 11:38 PM

I can't find anything specific on clean water acts right now, so I'm going to skip it.  The second point pretty much involves the FDA though.

FanFiltration said:


He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.

Hmm, that's interesting.  The FDA was created by a Republican controlled House and Senate and signed by a Republican President:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA#History

Now yes, it would seem that Teddy was a bit of a "progressive", but I don't think you could convince me that every Republican in both houses of Congress leaned the same way, especially since Taft beat him in the next election.  So once again, we have a bunch of Republicans creating a government organization to oversee the general safety of food and medication.

Of course, I think the general point is that none of these people did these things because they were "liberal" or "conservative".  They did them because they thought it was the right thing to do at the time.

All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too because his employer needs to offer competitive benefits to hire the best people.

This actually has to be a joke.  A $10 copay has more to do with HMO's or "managed" care than it has to do with union workers.  Most union workers that I've ever known take a PPO plan (private practice office) over an HMO any day of the week.  The PPO costs a little more, but you also have a far greater choice of doctors because you aren't limited to who your insurance says you can see.

There's also no law, State or Federal, that I'm aware of that mandates any of it.  Employers are free to not offer medical insurance and most don't if you're not working full time.  Of course, maybe you just haven't been paying attention to everything the Dems have been saying about wanting universal health care either.

I'll be back with more later :)