[skio]

lap it up folks, the clown show is in town once more. This is on ATM, but it's taken from the NY Times.

http://www.atsnn.com/story/38060.html

[voodoo]

color me shocked

[zachs]

[skio]

LOL!!!

[kvm_mkdb]

Originally posted by voodoo:
color me shocked

OK:



BOT:

I find this particularly interesting:

In the videos and advertisements, the government urges beneficiaries to call a toll-free telephone number, 1-800-MEDICARE. People who call that number can obtain recorded information about prescription drug benefits if they recite the words "Medicare improvement."

[voodoo]

That is one shocked feline

[skio]

Originally posted by voodoo:
That is one shocked feline

Definitely. Push the eyes a little closer and it might just look like Bush. Nah, cats are sweet, we'd need to use a monkey for that.

[zachs]

[skio]

Originally posted by zachs:

friggin 'ell, that's too close for comfort. Guys, we do decend from apes, there's the linkage right there. Monkey -> Bush , all thanks to zachs

[BRussell]

Originally posted by kvm_mkdb:
I find this particularly interesting: quote:
In the videos and advertisements, the government urges beneficiaries to call a toll-free telephone number, 1-800-MEDICARE. People who call that number can obtain recorded information about prescription drug benefits if they recite the words "Medicare improvement."

That is funny. So you have to recite the mantra in order to get information.

I think these ads are arguably government-funded campaign commercials. Same with those tax cut checks that were sent out with a letter that said something like "George Bush has given you a tax cut. Isn't he great? When you cash this check, please think of him."

[ghost_flash]

Originally posted by BRussell:
That is funny. So you have to recite the mantra in order to get information.

I think these ads are arguably government-funded campaign commercials. Same with those tax cut checks that were sent out with a letter that said something like "George Bush has given you a tax cut. Isn't he great? When you cash this check, please think of him."

You mean like if Kerry wins the Presidency and I file my tax return and get my bill he'll write a little note saying, this tax hike is a gift from John F. Kerry? Remember him when you write your check to the IRS?

[lil'babykitten]

Originally posted by kvm_mkdb:
OK:

[vmpaul]

Originally posted by ghost_flash:
You mean like if Kerry wins the Presidency and I file my tax return and get my bill he'll write a little note saying, this tax hike is a gift from John F. Kerry? Remember him when you write your check to the IRS?

I thought all we had to remember was that Halliburton was spelled with 2 LL's?

[BRussell]

Originally posted by ghost_flash:
You mean like if Kerry wins the Presidency and I file my tax return and get my bill he'll write a little note saying, this tax hike is a gift from John F. Kerry? Remember him when you write your check to the IRS?

Maybe Bush's tax cut should have come with an informed consent statement to sign:

"I, (write your name here) __________, understand that, in taking this tax cut, my children will pay off the ensuing debt, with interest to be determined by prime + 3.75%. But that's a lot better than me paying our expenses now. You also have my permission to dramatically increase spending, because it's our children paying for it after all. Thanks GW, great plan!"

[thunderous_funker]

Originally posted by ghost_flash:
You mean like if Kerry wins the Presidency and I file my tax return and get my bill he'll write a little note saying, this tax hike is a gift from John F. Kerry? Remember him when you write your check to the IRS?

How big was your tax break?

Are your state taxes higher? Local taxes? College tuition?

Any cuts to public services in your area (public health, transportation, etc..)?

[spacefreak]

Originally posted by skio:
lap it up folks, the clown show is in town once more. This is on ATM, but it's taken from the NY Times.

http://www.atsnn.com/story/38060.html

Big whoop. It's an infomercial made for the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

Can I feild this one?

Originally posted by thunderous_funker:
How big was your tax break?

Pretty substantial. Can't complain.

Are your state taxes higher? Local taxes?

Dispite all the whining and hand-wringing to the contrary that they would be, they were no higher than last year. Maybe I'm just one of the few who knows how to file his taxes properly?

College tuition?

Any cuts to public services in your area (public health, transportation, etc..)?

Perhaps we should consult the Spliffdaddy pie charts on this one?

Of course all of these are things we should allow the states to pawn off as Federal expenses in order to justify endless Federal tax hikes that don't ever fix any of these things anyway. Riiiiight.

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

Heh heh!

Check the brain-surgeons posting on the link's comment board!



"This is Coast to Coast with Art Bell. East of the Rockies, go ahead caller..."

Condorcet:
"Is it possible that medicare fraud has become a cover for black-ops funding? Why else would Bush be inflating this program?"

"Why, I don't know caller... have the black helicopters been looming outside your basement window again...?"

[Krusty]

Originally posted by spacefreak:
Big whoop. It's an infomercial made for the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

*ahem* (from the article if you read it)
Federal law prohibits the use of federal money for "publicity or propaganda purposes" not authorized by Congress. In the past, the General Accounting Office has found that federal agencies violated this restriction when they disseminated editorials and newspaper articles written by the government or its contractors without identifying the source.

[rezonate]

Originally posted by spacefreak:
Big whoop. It's an infomercial made for the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Yeah, really big whoop. Maybe if you read the finer print it might have prevented you from jumping the gun.