Comments on: Here’s A Guy Who Deserves a Prize!

By: Dutch

Dutch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:03:42 +0000

I saw Mr. Potter recently at a Town Hall Meeting where he was endorsing the Health Care Bill. Which one do I believe?

By: cleanair

cleanair — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:11:48 +0000

Where we live the advertizer has a right to post their ads anywhere they choose their money is good and probably appreciated. This site is run by the ads, anyway they do ask us to frequent the items as that is how they earn their money, this is not a site that is funded by the amount of time we spend here.
You suggest Web they could be biased my thought is they can pay their bills.

By: web

web — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:59:03 +0000

The fact that the site has a link to "PRE-ORDER SARAH PALINS HOT NEW BOOK:" makes me think they might be biased.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:51:14 +0000

Wonderful cartoon covering two important subjects.

The first one is Whistle Blowing and how in spite of the fact that it does benefit society when someone does blow the whistle, it still continues to be no badge of honor, but instead the badge of a rat. Why is that? Are we afraid that one day someone will blow the whistle on us and reveal some secret we have? If someone has a good answer I would be happy to hear it. It is the lack of whistle blowing that allows crime to continue and grow. It allows our government officials to get away with things that hurt all of us. It allows businesses to do things that can endanger all of our lives. We need the President to issue special medals each year for the outstanding whistle blowers of the year. We know our press, which used to do some major whistle blowing as part of their investigative mandate, is for the most part doing a minimal job.

As to the public option, I am not in favor for the following reasons. If the public option costs more, or just about the same as private insurance, then who needs it? If it is much less than what the public can buy from private insurance companies because they do not have stock holders who want profits and do not have to pay to raise capital, then why would any employer offer health care insurance from a private company? If everyone therefore buys the government option, there will not be any insurance companies left, so where is choice at that point? Also, since the government does not allow competitive bidding for Medicare, and refuses to change tort laws, then how are they going to keep costs down? Also, since there is no incentive for profits, then who will care if there is fraud and abuse in the system? The government has not shown any evidence that they care much about our money up to now, by giving out cost plus contracts, and resisting if not eliminating competitive bidding. Except for maybe the IRS, who else is really paying attention to losses and fraud?

Prove to me that there is a government program that runs well and is not in the red, and I will listen. Show me one program that the government fixed that had a problem and is now running well and you might convince me to support a government program.

Rich

By: CB

CB — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:35:09 +0000

O did a great job having others eliminate all of his political competition from Alice Palmer onward (only Bobby Rush prevailed–he wasn’t defeated by the newcomer who bragged to Southside that he was Editor of Harvard Law Review–by appointment, not first in class as traditionally the case).

By having Hillary eliminated in repeated fixes and illegalities, he alienated a lot of the hardworking life-long Democrats. I left the party and am now “Decline to State.” Had the novice won fairly, I would have stayed active in the party, but not voted top of ticket for someone with no qualifications, other than created image, for the job. “He is starting to look Presidential!”
Wow!

I saw zero leadership from him during Axelrod’s rerun of his Patrick Deval’s Hope+Change(TM) campaign. What leadership has he ever shown in his past? What has he ever done for anyone who can’t line his pockets for the next campaign, or help him into a house he can’t afford (the latest new residence is the gift of the corporate-backed media)?

What do you think of your “gift from God” now, Nancy Pelosi?

By: CasualThinker

CasualThinker — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:35:01 +0000

How’s this for a novel plot? Come to Chicago and do some peacemaking yourself. The present is the past faster than you can believe. Criticizing does nothing. Bring the change you want to see.

By: Brodie

Brodie — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:19:02 +0000

The fact that Potter takes the stand he does on “health care reform” should scare all of us sh*tless! He knows what they’re up to and it really is as terrible as we suspect it is. Our whole society becomes more Orwellian by the minute. Thanks for the cartoon, Pat.

By: yazi

yazi — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:13:22 +0000

ummm, it’s extraordinaire. wow.

By: Tricia Spiegel

Tricia Spiegel — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:45:25 +0000

LOL. Funny comment baba….

By: donjo

donjo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:00:37 +0000

The problem is that, as brave as Potter is, spreading some truth around, it seems that he didn’t make a dent in the conscienceless goons that are in our congress.

In order to be actually heard, what he needed to do was give out handsful of $10,000 bills. Apparently, that’s how the people’s business in D.C. is conducted any more.

By: Sassy

Sassy — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:36:12 +0000

Thanks Pat for your contribution to the discussion!
I have made a real effort to follow the ups and downs of the proposed legislation, but it only gets more muddled.
Remember the $600 toilet seats for the military? There are so many more examples of obscene waste in anything run by the government…therefore, I oppose the public option.
The savings, yeah right, from Medicare are targeted to go into the Social Security Trust according to one report.
The only way to control health care costs, in my opinion, is to have everyone enrolled in coverage, but the subsidies for that will be staggering as well!
Mutual Insurance companies supposedly realize smaller profit margins, so being able to cross state lines to buy coverage sounds good to me.

By: candymarl

candymarl — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:25:36 +0000

I agree with Travis’ and Jonathan’s solution to the health care problem. Kill off all of the sick uninsured! Then everyone left has coverage, see?

Hold on.

Yes nurse, I’ve taken my medicine and am not currently hearing the voices. Why I never suggested killing off the sick. Hey what are you doing? Put down that needle! Aaaarrrgghhh!

By: babawankenobe

babawankenobe — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:34:16 +0000

C’mon, guys! President Obama IS a peace maker! He really DID a great deed in the name of peaceful relations between peoples! The Nobel prize committee surely saw the magnificent peace-maker in action when he ACTUALLY brought Harvard Professor “skippy” Gates and Cambridge Police officer Crowley together for a BEER! No less on the White House lawn in fact!
A greater act of peacemaking has never been accomplished in the history of humankind! Nobody is more deserving of the Nobel Peace prize than our very own Uber Messiah!
When everyone world-wide now has a beer, they can propose a toast and hold up their mugs and say,”HEIL OBAMA! The peacemaker”

By: Zoom

Zoom — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:57:19 +0000

Obama is willing to sacrifice the public option just to pass ‘something’.
Right now Alan Grayson is the one telling it like it is to Democrats in Congress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCtp_lsuiA

I wish Reid the Weasel learned something from this guy.

By: TeakWoodKite

TeakWoodKite — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:59:17 +0000

Thanks for pointing him out, Pat.

The use of the word “option” is like a stray bullet and an Innocent bystander.

Medical bankruptcy is the elephant in the room.
No option there, is there?

If the “Public Option” is run or contracted out by the federal Government to Private companies, it is NOT a “public” option at all.