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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 08:59 AM
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"We fought a war against national socialism and lost a lot of good people under Hitler’s tirade,"

said Rep. Mike Ritze, the author of HJR 1054. "We have this legislation to protect our citizens from being under control of this European-style socialism.”

The House of Representatives easily passed a measure Wednesday that would allow Oklahomans to opt out of the national health care system, which the legislation’s author called "European, Canadian-style, socialized medicine crammed down our throats.” Advertisement

House Joint Resolution 1054 won House approval 71-27 and now goes to the Senate.

HJR 1054 would protect Oklahomans "from this tsunami that’s coming at us in the form of socialized Obamacare,” said Ritze, R-Broken Arrow.

http://www.newsok.com/health-insurance-opt-out-proposal-gets-oklahoma-houses-ok/article/3457536?custom_click=pod_headline_politics
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 09:02 AM
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1. The first national healthcare system was instituted in Germany in 1873
Under the leadership of that well-known Socialist Otto von Bismarck.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 09:36 AM
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4. It would be another 15 years
before Adolf was a gleam in the milkman's eye.
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SocialistLez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 09:20 AM
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2. If only we had socialized medicine....NT
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area51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 10:53 AM
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8. +1
Each day, 273 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.

We need single-payer health care, not GingrichCare, NOW.


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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 09:27 AM
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3. The Nazi party was/is not socialist. It's fascist. They're opposites.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 11:07 AM
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9. The term was used to dupe people into thinking the party would help them
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 12:17 PM
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12. Exactly! No one ever makes them define socialism.
Maybe this dumbass will declare they are against socialist roads, fireman, policeman and postal workers.
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 09:42 AM
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5. I know quite a few people who live in Oklahoma,
they are smart, articulate, and overwhelming liberal in both their politics and their social outlook.

How on earth can that state have such a moronic legislature? Their governor is a bright guy - what happened to the rest??

I do not understand.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 09:47 AM
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6. These state 'reps' don' t know 22% of OK's population is on Medicaid & 13% on Medicare.
http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/health/state_ltcb_09_ok.pdf


http://www.articlesbase.com/insurance-articles/oklahomas-medicaid-provider-to-seek-more-funding-1545235.html

During the past year, 825,000 Oklahomans — 22 percent of the state's population — received medical help through one of the health care programs administered by the state's Medicaid provider, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, CEO Mike Fogarty told members of a House budget subcommittee that appropriates health care dollars.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 09:50 AM
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7. That one sentence proves he does not know the meaning of either
'socialism' nor 'tirade'.

Why do American voters elect idiots?
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 11:50 AM
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10. This Obama is Hitler shit needs to stop. The endgame is pretty clear
and I really don't like where this is heading. Because if an armed wingnut actually comes to believe that , , ,

As to Mike Ritze -- great, deny improved healthcare to your citizens,
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TCJ70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 11:58 AM
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11. WHAT national healthcare system?
Where is it?
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SocialistLez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 12:34 PM
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13. It's not here, that's for da** sure. NT
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miscsoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 12:39 PM
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14. the british national health service is a direct result of wartime solidarity
he's pissing on the graves of all the british soldiers who went and fought and often died to crush nazism, then, if they came back at all, came back and voted overwhelmingly for labour's socialist programme in 1945.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 12:39 PM
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15. Even if they pass it; the bill is unconstitutional on its face
Primacy Clause.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-10 02:04 PM
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16. "Tirade?" I do not believe that word means what Ritze thinks it means. nt
Edited on Thu Apr-29-10 02:05 PM by eppur_se_muova
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