Comcast Spreads Cash Wide On Capitol Hill

nutzo said:
And how is that different from Unions (which are considered people too)
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All unions are incorporated, they are the exact same thing. Their scope should be representing their members in negotiations with employers and the health and safety of workers. They've moved far beyond that and decided to be a political force now, most of them don't have the money a Comcast does, but the ones that do are every bit as disruptive on the political front.
 
These Senate members are guaranteeing there will, eventually ,be only one broadband provider in the U.S. Makes it easier to surveil us all. Drone will take care of the rural areas. (And I say that in a "matter-of-fact" tone.)
 
ManofGod said:
Hope and change, eh? :rolleyes: This does suck but, what are you going to do with the low information voters that allow this stuff to continue.
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8 years is not much time for hope and change. I'll take the conclusion of America's longest running war, the recovery of america's biggest recession, and the catch-up to 1st world healthcare as enough change for a career. Especially considering what you're up against (holding economy hostage, gov't shutdown threats, etc).
 
McFry said:
8 years is not much time for hope and change. I'll take the conclusion of America's longest running war, the recovery of america's biggest recession, and the catch-up to 1st world healthcare as enough change for a career. Especially considering what you're up against (holding economy hostage, gov't shutdown threats, etc).
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Guess we should all ignore the record number of people no longer in the work force, the slowest economic recovery this country has ever seen, or that more US military personel have died in Afghanistan under this administration then under the previous one.

As for health care, it's worse for most people. More people have actually LOST thier health insurance than have recieved new insurance under the ACA. While they promised a $2500 drop in insurance cost, the average insurace cost has risen by $2500. My insurance has increased several times faster the past 2 years then it did in the years before, plus my deductable has increased significantly at the same time. I can no longer afford to go to the doctor due to the high deductables, even though I have insurance. So much for affordability.
 
Technicalities and regulations define lobbying vs. bribing differently, but to us folks, they are the same.
 
nutzo said:
Guess we should all ignore the record number of people no longer in the work force, the slowest economic recovery this country has ever seen, or that more US military personel have died in Afghanistan under this administration then under the previous one.

As for health care, it's worse for most people. More people have actually LOST thier health insurance than have recieved new insurance under the ACA. While they promised a $2500 drop in insurance cost, the average insurace cost has risen by $2500. My insurance has increased several times faster the past 2 years then it did in the years before, plus my deductable has increased significantly at the same time. I can no longer afford to go to the doctor due to the high deductables, even though I have insurance. So much for affordability.
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Wtf are you talking about? Health care premiums rose at the lowest rate in a decade for 2013
 
maverikv said:
Wtf are you talking about? Health care premiums rose at the lowest rate in a decade for 2013
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"rose at the lowest rate in a decade" is not the same as "getting cheaper".

The obamapologists never cease to amaze me. Their appetite for the bullshit the media feeds them is simply staggering. Get over it, your hero is as corrupt and evil as the rest of them.

Voting in a different tyrant will not bring you freedom or prosperity.
 
"-and this will be one nation under the dollar, with liberty and justice for none." Lisa Simpson, 1991
 
Jon855 said:
That court decision was ugly but ultimately the correct one.

They do have right to freedom of speech just like us all people...
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For real. They should be allowed to vote too. They should get multiple votes. One for each dollar of market cap. Right?
 
Jon855 said:
That court decision was ugly but ultimately the correct one.

They do have right to freedom of speech just like us all people...
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"Correct" just how exactly? Because there has yet to be a 28th Amendment stating that:

"Corporations are corporations, and people are human beings...and corporations are not people"


???
 
Skripka said:
"Correct" just how exactly? Because there has yet to be a 28th Amendment stating that:

"Corporations are corporations, and people are human beings...and corporations are not people"


???
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It's correct in the assumptions that the businesses in general do have the freedom of speech. I don't like the situation regarding money but it's their "speech" and I support their freedom to speech as they see fit regarding our government. Corporations have right to be critical of our government.

This is my position on this.

At least they can't vote.

And as for the "Corporate are People", that is overblown...
 
Jon855 said:
It's correct in the assumptions that the businesses in general do have the freedom of speech. I don't like the situation regarding money but it's their "speech" and I support their freedom to speech as they see fit regarding our government. Corporations have right to be critical of our government.

This is my position on this.

At least they can't vote.

And as for the "Corporate are People", that is overblown...
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Speech when it is words is fine....the problem is that corporate personhood as allowed in Citizens United permits unlimited campaign contributions that are for intents and purposes anonymous....since not only are corporations "people" but money is "speech".
 
maverikv said:
Wtf are you talking about? Health care premiums rose at the lowest rate in a decade for 2013
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That's only true if you are comparing different plans.
It's like saying car prices haven't gone up much, you can still buy a smart car for the same price a lexus cost 10 years ago......

I'm paying more, for a much worse plan. If my company were to offer the same coverage they offered 2 years ago, the price increase would be over 50%. That's more than the price increases over the 5 previous years I worked here.
 
nutzo said:
That's only true if you are comparing different plans.
It's like saying car prices haven't gone up much, you can still buy a smart car for the same price a lexus cost 10 years ago......

I'm paying more, for a much worse plan. If my company were to offer the same coverage they offered 2 years ago, the price increase would be over 50%. That's more than the price increases over the 5 previous years I worked here.
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It's an aggregation. How is it the fault of the healthcare law that your company decided to give you crap insurance? My employee contribution didn't even go up this year for the same plan.
 
To be fair, the reason that the some folks premiums have gone up (including mine) is the same reason that Obamacare won't work well, if at all . . . greedy insurance companies.

The insurance companies cut benefits and raised rates not because the ACA raised their costs, but because it gave them a boogey-man upon which to focus the blame when they screwed us. They are, according to reports, making more money than ever before. Most of it due to raised rates and decreased services they can blame on the scarey ACA

**Waves hands in air in spooky manner**
"Oh no, Obamacare is SOOOO complex and socialist that its going to force us to raise rates and cut benefits. Don't blame us, blame the Commie in the Whitehouse!
** Pockets extra money and walks away chuckling**

I don't pretend to have an answer, but I can say that until the power of these insurance companies is broken, they'll be driving all of us - patients, doctors, companies paying their workers premium - into the poor house while they laugh all the way to the bank.
 
Ashbringer said:
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Once again, the Raptor speaks the truth.....
 
Jon855 said:
That court decision was ugly but ultimately the correct one.

They do have right to freedom of speech just like us all people...
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Of course the real problem is transparency though, or the complete lack of it. Imagine how toxic GM or Comcast dollars would be if every single voter could see which politicians got them? This whole situation could go away with a hard campaign funding cap and a ban on anonymous donations.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
Of course the real problem is transparency though, or the complete lack of it. Imagine how toxic GM or Comcast dollars would be if every single voter could see which politicians got them? This whole situation could go away with a hard campaign funding cap and a ban on anonymous donations.
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Let me quote Justice Stevens:

"A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."
-Dissenting opinion, Citizens United
 
Skripka said:
Let me quote Justice Stevens:

"A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."
-Dissenting opinion, Citizens United
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Justice Stevens is just a dirty communist liberal who doesn't understand that free market capitalism = Freedom™.

Corporations are people my friend!
 
DeathFromBelow said:
Justice Stevens is just a dirty communist liberal who doesn't understand that free market capitalism = Freedom™.

Corporations are people my friend!
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Sigh... I won't even begin to try to discuss this rationally with you, given your little quotation of "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. - Mark Twain "

In response, maybe change it to this: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
 
This is a wonderful post over at anand re: this from user dgingerich stating: I'm curious. When in history has a deal like this, where two dominating companies in a market merge to create one that consumes more than half the market, worked out for increasing innovation and better service for the customer. I haven't been able to think of one. I have only been able to find cases where it decreased innovation and degraded the service customers received. Does this guy know of something I don't?
 
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