DUmmies discover DR Benjamin Carson

[Freeper]

Took em long enough. 

PennsylvaniaMatt (391 posts)

Meet The New Hero Of The Right-Wing: Dr. Benjamin Carson


 
The Wall Street Journal is even calling on him to run for President.

 

Dr. Benjamin Carson is now being heralded as a hero by the right-wing after his 27 minute speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last week where he criticized the new health care law and advocated for a flat tax. He has been on all of the right-wing media outlets since last week.

What we need to do is come up with something simple. And when I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and he’s given us a system. It’s called a tithe. . . . We don’t necessarily have to do 10% but it’s the principle. He didn’t say if your crops fail, don’t give me any tithe or if you have a bumper crop, give me triple tithe. So there must be something inherently fair about proportionality. You make $10 billion, you put in a billion. You make $10 you put in one. Of course you’ve got to get rid of the loopholes. Some people say, ‘Well that’s not fair because it doesn’t hurt the guy who made $10 billion as much as the guy who made 10.’ Where does it say you’ve got to hurt the guy? He just put a billion dollars in the pot. We don’t need to hurt him. It’s that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands. That money needs to be back here building our infrastructure and creating jobs.

Here’s my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed—pretax—from the time you’re born ‘til the time you die. If you die, you can pass it on to your family members, and there’s nobody talking about death panels. We can make contributions for people who are indigent. Instead of sending all this money to some bureaucracy, let’s put it in their HSAs. Now they have some control over their own health care. And very quickly they’re going to learn how to be responsible.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022354510

JaneyVee (2,657 posts)
1. Ugh. I always wonder how some people can be so smart & so stupid at the same time.

Last edited Mon Feb 11, 2013, 08:34 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

I mean, he's head of pediatric neurosurgery, yet he can then turn around and rant about healthcare & our tax system without making any sense at all. It's bizarre.

ETA: He goes on to say that "if a person can't contribute to their HSAs then strangers can donate". WTF? Charity is his solution to healthcare? Also, no one is trying to hurt the billionaire, we're trying to prevent hurting the middle class and poor. His tax system specifically hurts the middle class & poor, NOT the billionaire.

Yes you are trying to hurt the billionaires, that is your ultimate goal to hurt every rich person and make them poor so they can be as miserable as you oxygen thieves.

libtodeath (968 posts)
2. Just another see we really do like black people...as long as they say what we want them to charade

Of course we must be racists for liking what he said. 

JaneyVee (2,657 posts)
5. Exactly. How can someone be so smart & so incredibly dumb simultaneously?

His utopia of healthcare & taxes could work if America's population was under 100,000. Other than that it's a dystopia.

 

If anyone is rooting for a dystopia it is you goons.

[NHSparky]

While there are a few tweaks needed, Dr. Carson's basic plan is spot-on.

IOW, DUmmies want, DUmmies must work for it.  Oh, the humanity!!!

[98ZJUSMC]

I mean, he's head of pediatric neurosurgery, yet he can then turn around and rant about healthcare & our tax system without making any sense at all. It's bizarre.

In your corner of Never, Never Land, I have no doubt of that.  There, you know more about healthcare that a neurosurgeon.  Aren't you just speshul?  Any rational (I denounce myself) being would come away from this speech with a moment for re-evaluating ones position on these matters, their faulty, brain-dead worldview and their unshakable belief in magic beans.

But, nooooo....

The joke is, those magic beans don't work outside a classroom, sweetpea.

libtodeath (968 posts)
2. Just another see we really do like black people...as long as they say what we want them to charade

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

libtodeath (968 posts)

2. Just another see we really do like black people...as long as they say what we want them to charade

You ****ing retards don't even know what racism is.

If we were racist we would hate him for his color in spite of the fact we agree with him ideologically.

[chitownchica]

Now there's a way to get DUmmies to disavow taxes. Let's start calling them tithes. Just the thought of using any term referenced in the Bible will have them running off the cliff like the lemmings they are.

[Delmar]

Response to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:01 PM
 Swede Atlanta (2,117 posts)
8. This moron is just plain stupid...

he may have "book learning" but as a practical matter he is an idiot.

Yes, the Bible talks about tithing but it says nothing about the poor tithing. In fact the Bible talks much more about charity and helping the poor and sick than it does about tithing.

Further, as a doctor, he should be stripped of his license. To suggest that even a generous HSA system would EVER be able to cover more than the most basic health care (e.g. annual checkups, immunizations and the occasional cold or flu visit) is absurd. There is only one way this could ever work and that would be if a doctor visit was never more than $10, a prescription not more than $20, a diagnostic test nor more than $20 and open heart surgery not more than $500.

When this buffoon comes up with a plan to make that happen I'll listen. Until then I suggest he keep his mouth closed.

Where does this pediatric neurosurgeon come off second guessing the mighty Barack Hussein O'Whistlebritches on healthcare?

[diesel driver]

Swede Atlanta (2,117 posts)
8. This moron is just plain stupid...

he may have "book learning" but as a practical matter he is an idiot.

Yes, the Bible talks about tithing but it says nothing about the poor tithing. In fact the Bible talks much more about charity and helping the poor and sick than it does about tithing.

Further, as a doctor, he should be stripped of his license. To suggest that even a generous HSA system would EVER be able to cover more than the most basic health care (e.g. annual checkups, immunizations and the occasional cold or flu visit) is absurd. There is only one way this could ever work and that would be if a doctor visit was never more than $10, a prescription not more than $20, a diagnostic test nor more than $20 and open heart surgery not more than $500.

Few things that sailed COMPLETELY thru your empty head, DUmbass.

1.  The IRS projected costs for Zerocare ($20,000/year/family) is more than I have paid for my healthcare MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!!  (I'm 54.)  Let ME decide how to handle MY healthcare. 

2.  Get government the HELL out of healthcare, the costs WILL GO DOWN.  Enter capitalistic competition, they will go down further.

3.  How you people have enough intelligence to type this shit and STILL remember to breathe is beyond me.

[txradioguy]

C'mon people...haven't you learned by now...we're just mindless idiots...ONLY the DUmmies have any brains.

 

[Conservative Libertarian]

While there are a few tweaks needed, Dr. Carson's basic plan is spot-on.

IOW, DUmmies want, DUmmies must work for it.  Oh, the humanity!!!

Dr.  Carson's proposal is so simple that it WILL work. DUmmies hate it so it must be good.

[FiddyBeowulf]

Response to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:01 PM
 Swede Atlanta (2,117 posts)
8. This moron is just plain stupid...

he may have "book learning" but as a practical matter he is an idiot.

Yes, the Bible talks about tithing but it says nothing about the poor tithing. In fact the Bible talks much more about charity and helping the poor and sick than it does about tithing.

Further, as a doctor, he should be stripped of his license. To suggest that even a generous HSA system would EVER be able to cover more than the most basic health care (e.g. annual checkups, immunizations and the occasional cold or flu visit) is absurd. There is only one way this could ever work and that would be if a doctor visit was never more than $10, a prescription not more than $20, a diagnostic test nor more than $20 and open heart surgery not more than $500.

Walmart already does that. $10 for a 90 day supply. Granted you might have to actually step foot into a Walmart to get the prescription but on the plus side they might have a sale on Cheetos that day.

[USA4ME]

JaneyVee

Ugh. I always wonder how some people can be so smart & so stupid at the same time.

That must be hard for you since you're so stupid & so stupid at the same time.

.

[Karin]

healthcare & our tax system without making any sense at all. It's bizarre.

Made perfect sense to me with no effort at all.  Who's the stupid one? 

[Splashdown]

I found this hilarious:

JaneyVee (2,657 posts)
1. Ugh. I always wonder how some people can be so smart & so stupid at the same time.

Last edited Mon Feb 11, 2013, 08:34 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

I mean, he's head of pediatric neurosurgery, yet he can then turn around and rant about healthcare & our tax system without making any sense at all. It's bizarre.

ETA: He goes on to say that "if a person can't contribute to their HSAs then strangers can donate". WTF? Charity is his solution to healthcare? Also, no one is trying to hurt the billionaire, we're trying to prevent hurting the middle class and poor. His tax system specifically hurts the middle class & poor, NOT the billionaire.

Who the hell is paying for your healthcare now? Your family? No I am--a stranger.

[DefiantSix]

Took em long enough. 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022354510

Well, whaddaya expect? Dr. Carson made his comments at a PRAYER BREAKFAST.  You and I both know that unless they're bashing their skulls against the floor for Allah or slashing their wrists for Gaia, DUmbshits avoid anything to do with PRAYERS like the plague.

[JohnnyReb]

....and Ray Stevens sings, "If 10% was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for uncle Sam......."

[Gina]

libtodeath (968 posts)
2. Just another see we really do like black people...as long as they say what we want them to charade

No Fartknocker, try again.  WE really do like smart people.  WE like people that don't steal.  WE like people that work for what they own, not those that take other's belongings with the help of the gov't.  WE like any race as long as the individual acts like a responsible human being.  I will admit I don't like ANYONE that doesn't adhere to basic social etiquette or the law.   

[Gina]

Walmart already does that. $10 for a 90 day supply. Granted you might have to actually step foot into a Walmart to get the prescription but on the plus side they might have a sale on Cheetos that day.

They don't have sales, they have rollbacks.

[Rebel]

Response to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:01 PM
 Swede Atlanta (2,117 posts)

8. This moron is just plain stupid...

blah blah

Further, as a doctor, he should be stripped of his license.

blah blah

When this buffoon comes up with a plan to make that happen I'll listen. Until then I suggest he keep his mouth closed.

Yet more proof why it's so easy to set up dictatorships among the leftists. "Oh, you criticize dear leader? You lose your license!!!"

****ing fascists.

[Freeper]

No Fartknocker, try again.  WE really do like smart people.  WE like people that don't steal.  WE like people that work for what they own, not those that take other's belongings with the help of the gov't.  WE like any race as long as the individual acts like a responsible human being.  I will admit I don't like ANYONE that doesn't adhere to basic social etiquette or the law.   

Hi5 for saying fart knocker.

[Gina]

Hi5 for saying fart knocker.

Fav word 

[Gina]

Hi5 for saying fart knocker.

and you didn't give me a ^5 

[Karin]

Swede Atlanta:

Until then I suggest he keep his mouth closed.

Oh, you suggest that, do you?  Who are you again, that you can determine who can open their mouths or not?  ****ing fascists is right. 

[Freeper]

and you didn't give me a ^5 

Have to do do it at home can't do the hi5 on my phone. So I will give you 2 tonight.

[Aristotelian]

Well, whaddaya expect? Dr. Carson made his comments at a PRAYER BREAKFAST.  You and I both know that unless they're bashing their skulls against the floor for Allah or slashing their wrists for Gaia, DUmbshits avoid anything to do with PRAYERS like the plague.

I'm just surprised that they're not complaining about the violation of church-state separation.

[Wineslob]

There is only one way this could ever work and that would be if a doctor visit was never more than $10, a prescription not more than $20, a diagnostic test nor more than $20 and open heart surgery not more than $500.

Lets see how quickly people LEAVE the medical profession.............