who were saying someone was "giving away free health care".

It seems to me that the TeaHadists would be the ones who would applaud the clause that people would have to pay a penalty for waiting until they're sick to sign on ... but no. Because it's "Obamacare", they're against it ...

buy their own insurances instead of the rest of us paying for it.

projects, section 8, food pantries/kitchens, shelters and all, and they have the gall to say I ain't gonna pay for no ones health insurance. It's just one huge WTF.

I told another friend that knows them better to ask why should we be paying for their Medicare and subsidized housing!!! Like where the F do they think the money comes from. Some people are just F'en stupid today, there is just no getting around it ...

I should ask her to repay me when she goes on Medicare at 65 ...

until today, I've kept silent on her political FB postings, and made numerous statements on her humorous postings that made her laugh (a lot!)

Not the same thing as free, but I'll take it!

she has a "surrogate" fighting for her ... (the names have been changed to protect the brain-damaged)

surrogate: Michael, you are so wrong on that. Those of us who are TEA PARTY MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS and the ones who are paying the MOST TAXES NOW.....NO MORE TAXES OF ANY KIND and especially one like this that boy wonder touted as "NO, NO, NO...THIS IS NOT A TAX!!!!!"

moi: BS ... some of the loudest complainers I've heard are "friends" of mine ... and quite a few of them are on Medicare and SS.

surrogate: WEll, those on medicare SHOULD be complaining and have every right to do so.....since boy wonder plans to slash $500 BILLION FROM MEDICARE TO PAY FOR THIS DISASTROUS INSANITY

surrogate: WE PAID for Medicare, Michael......we PAID FOR IT.....

moi: Sounds like a true conservative to me ... making sure that people who wait until they get sick to "sign up for health care" would have to pay for their "delinquency" ... like waiting until your house is on fire to buy "fire insurance" ... that sounds like the "personal responsibility" that I keep hearing about ..

surrogate: We have great personal responsibility. We pay dearly for our good health insurance and don't need or want boywonder and his klan anywhere near it. It is ridiculous and uneducated to think that this is ANYTHING but socialized medicine...but then with a socialist impersonating a president.....figures. And it sounds to me like YOU are the one who needs to be personally responsible......but most tree huggers think that the GOVERNMENT and EVERYONE ELSE owes them everything...sorry, but not the case

moi: Wow ... you just totally believe everything Faux tells you ... even the "liberal bias" BS that you will no doubt spout ... when's the last time Faux had a "liberal" hosting his own 3 hour a day show like your example "MSNBC" does with a conservative?

that no one would ever be able to find a family policy for $5,000. a year. I'm pretty sure the least would be somewhere around $1200. a month.

then would be a savings, right?

Just like the taxes that pay for other services would cost us a lot more if we had to pay for private services. Just think how much more it would cost if we had to pay for private police, fire protection, tolls, garbage collection, etc.

the roads to them? (for that matter, the Churches, too).

Make way for the toll roads to and from your house.

Oh, and fixing the part of the road right in front of your house. What you may save on road repairs, you'll probably have to spend on an expensive SUV and repairs to it ...

and since I called her a "liar" (not my "friend", the surrogate), she's "disappeared" from the conversation.

I must have been put on "ignore" for calling her a liar, because several posts before, she said she was hanging it up for the night ... and then carried on the "battle", insulting me.

but just wait ... soon enough, she'll find herself in the sights of the Republican smear machine ... once they are done smearing others, they'll find something to get her on the defensive.

and a woman there said like it was an announcement, "Don't look for any benefit from this health care law, we're the wrong skin color!"

Last I heard, she and her husband are moving to Arizona.

And to think I took pictures at their wedding....

I just came from FB after unfriending two people. I posted about it here last night. One is an old friend from college that I found and friended, but haven't really had any interaction with her since. Especially once I realized she is a raging right-winger. Always carrying on about Obama and socialism. I never engaged with her. But last night I said, fuck it, and posted a somewhat taunting reply, with the intention that I was going to just unfriend her anyway. She hasn't replied back, so tonight I quietly unfriended.

Meanwhile, another college acquaintance posted a somewhat nonsensical comment yesterday, and she had several replies - many in support and a couple against. I also replied to her (again with the intention that I was tired of this and didn't care about keeping a connection with this person.) One of her friends (who had already posted in the thread) took up the mantle to debate with me. We went back and forth 3 times, with the last time him getting snarky and insulting my source (Yeah, ok, it was Wikipedia - but that was the quickest and easiest place to get the info I wanted in a concise version. He was saying that the cause of the financial crisis in Europe is because of govt. health care (!) the same as the problems here are because of entitlements(!).) The "friend" did end up making a reply, not to me in particular, and again it was kind of off topic and nonsensical. It is clear that these people are too far gone. I deleted my 3 posts and unfriended her as well.

I have several other FB friends that are right-wingers (some are family) but thankfully, most of them don't post political stuff very often. I generally just stay out of the fray (learned my lesson a couple years ago), but in this case I was ready to cut the ties so I decided not to bite my tongue on my way out.
It really is true that there is just no getting through to these people. They have been so completely brainwashed by the propaganda. Of course, they think the exact same thing about us....

I informed her that it was the Supreme Court, so she liked my reply and pulled her post and edited it for the same drivel, but this time with the correct branch. No real use arguing with people that stupid.