NH Tea Party Members Stage Anti-Obama Rally

In this July 23, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama gestures at a campaign stop in Oakland, Calif. Nearly four years after Barack Obama was elected to the most powerful office in the most powerful country in the world, the question remains: Who is he? This is a man who seemed to come out of nowhere. He had served seven years in the Illinois state Senate, and less than four years in the U.S. Senate _ a meager political resume, augmented by a stirring speech at the 2004 Democratic National C

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As promised members of the Rochester 912 Project, Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC and other groups staged a rally and march to voice their opposition to President Barack Obama before his arrival at Rochester Commons.

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[westend1]

09:38 PM on 08/20/2012

So 30 million uncovered will get free coverage
So who pays?

[Zoran Zokinho Jovicic]

09:40 PM on 08/20/2012

me and you, the people who should pay...you want nice schools, roads, infrastructure, safety, well the people that make all that happen want insurance, and we will pay for it damnit...

[westend1]

09:53 PM on 08/20/2012

But only 50% pay federal taxes. Why should 50% get free coverage while the other 50% gets a double bill?

[Ole Fart]

12:36 AM on 08/21/2012

Of those 30 million, approx half are EXEMPT from paying premiums or paying the "mandate tax"... so for sure, 15 million will get TOTALLY FREE coverage. The other 15 million will be "forced" to either buy insurance or pay the "mandate tax"... but, here's the best part: if they refuse to buy insurance and opt to pay the mandate tax, then, there is no mechanism for actually collecting the mandate tax... so folks in this category will NOT pay either premiums or the tax. So, in summary, that's how 30 million folks can avoid paying anything for BambaCare. Seems the emperor has no clothes.

[Okorie Oko]

08:40 PM on 08/20/2012

The Tea-baggers see life upside down: Good to them is bad, and bad is good. It's the way Rush and Fox have programmed their thinking processes.

[Zoran Zokinho Jovicic]

09:40 PM on 08/20/2012

literally...

[westend1]

09:45 PM on 08/20/2012

The Free-baggers see life upside down: Success is to be punished, and failure is to be rewarded. Its the way Rachel and Ed have programmed their thinking processes.

[altheschrod]

08:33 PM on 08/20/2012

Most of Europe had a form of universal health care many administrations ago, but our Presidents remained too politically timid to really push it here before the Clintons tried and failed. Now we have Obama with enough guts to push it through---and all he gets is criticism for being so brave! For a party that contributed nothing toward our new law, the GOP should be ashamed to condemn it---or our Presidents' effort!

[westend1]

09:39 PM on 08/20/2012

Amost of europe lives in 450 square feet own one car and have a refridgerator smaller than the one we took to college. Is that what we want?

[Ole Fart]

12:38 AM on 08/21/2012

AND, most of Europe pays taxes at 40~50% rates... is that what we want??

[VideoGuy07]

12:40 AM on 08/21/2012

And most of Europe is in the toilet, economically. Their governments can't afford all the free stuff so they are cutting back and all the people that got used to the free stuff are now rioting.
And yeah, healthcare is free, but try getting to see a doctor, and forget a knee or hip replacement for at least 6 months if you can get one. What MRI, what CT scan? Even if you can afford to pay your own way you can't in Europe because it is a one payer plan (govt). So those that can come here to get their operations. Let's not spoil it for them, they need our medical care.

[altheschrod]

09:57 AM on 08/21/2012

Perhaps everything you say is true (also in Canada?) but that doesn't address poor people having to "suck it up" or find a hospital emergency room that will treat them free. I say: THAT'S NOT RIGHT!

[blackiefalcon]

08:17 PM on 08/20/2012

the cancer is obama progressives driving the american people off the cliff by big Gov.

[Zoran Zokinho Jovicic]

09:41 PM on 08/20/2012

ya and the government was sooo small with bush and the repubs in office, it was teeeny, no spending what so ever...worst 8 years in the history of the world...

[VideoGuy07]

12:42 AM on 08/21/2012

Na, the worst 8 years will be if Obama gets elected.
But not to worry, it ain't gonna happen!

[ivanivonovich]

07:54 PM on 08/20/2012

I've said it before, & I'll say it again ! When the republicans can come up with a better health care law that includes everyone, and not just those who can pay for their own care, as well as only the rich, then I might consider voting for them ! But with all the drivel and chicanery, being touted as their own solution, I have some serious doubts that this will happen anytime soon.

[VideoGuy07]

12:48 AM on 08/21/2012

Well, you're right about one thing: It won't happen anytime soon. With Republicans or Democrats. Because you can't pay for everyone's healthcare and remain solvent. Witness our $16 Trillion national debt and we aren't even close to paying for everyone.
Open your eyes, man, think about your own family and life. Can you continue to spend more than you earn. You can live off of credit cards only so long, then they come and get you.
The federal govt can print money and borrow but sooner or later you get the Carter years of 20% interest rates or maybe the Chinese will come and repossess all our stuff.
Do you want to live like that?

[ivanivonovich]

12:02 PM on 08/21/2012

No foreign government can come and take possession of any of the U.S. territory, not with out a fight they will lose. My point is why should only the well paid, or the rich have access to quality medical care ? The poor, and even the "working poor" more often than not have access only to primitive care, or emergency care as a last resort. so they are more often left to die from what should have been a treatable condition. Back in the '50's when the first Hemo-Dialisis machines came out, they were reserved for the U.S. senators & congressman only !... A veteran of the Korean War had to wage a legal fight to get put on one of those machines. Is this the type of medical care we want ? There is plenty of money in Washington (D.C.), all they have to do is get rid of all of their "pork" spending. When these same politicians decry that they shouldn't have to pay for the abortions of the economically impoverished, but in the same sentence insist on not providing any financial support for the same woman to raise the child, one has to wonder what their real agenda is.

[wwelbes]

07:49 PM on 08/20/2012

The real cancer is the tea party taliban. While they are quick to be critical I have yet to hear them present an alternative.

[westend1]

09:41 PM on 08/20/2012

Let the states work out a plan. VT, MA, HI all have it already. Each state knows best how to provide coverage. Nothing wrong with that plan!

[altheschrod]

10:38 PM on 08/20/2012

No, there's not--but what about the states that say no? Who cares for THEIR poor?

[John David King]

07:25 PM on 08/20/2012

The cancer in our country is the Tea Party, not the Afordable Healthcare Act.

[ivanivonovich]

07:55 PM on 08/20/2012

and it is a very malignant one at that.

[westend1]

09:42 PM on 08/20/2012

85% of Maercians had health coveragebefore obamacare. Why blow up the entire system for 15%?

[bba007]

07:20 PM on 08/20/2012

The TPers are a cancer to the American way of life which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Their mantra is money, money, and more money and to heck with whomever we step on.

[Papa Joe II]

07:35 PM on 08/20/2012

It's evident you don't know a da mn thing about members of any of the Tea Parties or their ideology, which is LESS GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND SMALLER GOVERNMENT.......

[bba007]

07:51 PM on 08/20/2012

I know exactly what the TPers stand for and their ideology. It is less government at the federal level and more at the state level until the states go broke, and less spending on the federal level so the states can start spending what they don't have on their citizens. Texas is a microcosm of their ends and what I see in Texas is nothing short of an abomination. Their schools are getting worse, they don't take care of their citizen's medical needs, and all the money goes to the big corporations that put nothing back in proportion to their profits. You TPers make me sick, and I only use that word as this is a public forum. To your face I would say something more fitting.

[wwelbes]

07:53 PM on 08/20/2012

It is obvious the tea party taliban have no concept of economics, or what the government does or where it money goes. I have been to many TP meetings and am amazed at the number of peope in the room spouting your lines while collecting government subsidies for agriculture, disability, or land bank subsidies. The other half collect social security and medicare and whine that the annual increases on thier payments are going up fast enough. Whats gonna happen when the less government spending takes away all your subsidies?

[makaveli559m]

05:22 PM on 08/20/2012

Give free health care to everyone and stop the wars!

[patriot1234]

05:30 PM on 08/20/2012

How about they get a job and get health care on their own.

[Papa Joe II]

07:36 PM on 08/20/2012

Don't tell liberals to get jobs, they'll all have a cardiac and flood the ERs......

[ivanivonovich]

07:59 PM on 08/20/2012

You have a job for them ? I know many who have been out of work for more than 2-3 years. Their own fault ? Not a chance.

[Nikki Gustin]

04:32 PM on 08/20/2012

under our dear presidenta my kaiser premium up 3years running, prescriptions up 3 years running you can have a free colon scope every yearnow, my social security disability froze 2 years up 1 year thanks democrats!

[WminPhoenix]

05:17 PM on 08/20/2012

Sorry to read that your premiums and prescriptions have gone up. You haven't got a raise in Social Security Disability in two years, that increase in SSDI earlier this year must have missed you. As for the raise in premium and prescriptions costs, that's called inflation. Just like the price, for example, of milk, bread and gasoline, things go up in price to offset inflation.
You might want to thank both Republicans and Democrats for getting us into unwinnable wars that have destroyed the American economy and allowing a Defense budget that is completly out of control.

[Papa Joe II]

07:43 PM on 08/20/2012

The DOD budget isn't any where near the HHS budget that is TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL and Dwarfs the DOD budget....

[meatthebeach]

06:47 PM on 08/20/2012

#1 hard to understand you, #2 stop having your pity party in public. Go back to your own country and see how you are treated! geez

[John Anastasia]

03:38 PM on 08/20/2012

Anyone who thinks Obamacare is a good thing, is lacking in the brain cell department...First of all he is skimming $715 billion off medicare to fund obamacare...Second, he is taxing Americans for 10 years to pay for 6 years of obamacare....So tell me....what happend after 6 years? Where does the money come from? Third, and most important....why would anyone trust he government to do ANYTHING, cost effective or efficient? Every government program, medicare, social security, welfare...always turns into a bottomless money pit of inefficiency.

[meatthebeach]

06:48 PM on 08/20/2012

where's the moey going to come from...lol...mitt will pay for it!

[ivanivonovich]

08:04 PM on 08/20/2012

It was Mitts plan in the first place. He designed it when he was governor.

[bba007]

07:25 PM on 08/20/2012

He is not taking any money away from medicare benificiaries bozo. Read the legislation if you can, but it is difficult for morons to comprehend. Maybe the government should make the law into a picture book so you can understand it.

[westend1]

09:49 PM on 08/20/2012

No he's under paying the docotrs and hopitals that will stop covering medicare patients. So the Obama line you will keep your doctor is in fact a lie.

[John Anastasia]

01:29 PM on 08/21/2012

Hey genius...you read it...He is cutting $716 billion from medicare...the money that goes to pay doctors....And again....He is hitting us up for 10 years to pay for 6 years of obama care...then where will the money come from???? I know....its a lot for a lib to think about..

[krbummer]

03:36 PM on 08/20/2012

The haters of Obamacare are racists, that's why they hate it. I want a valid reason, one that makes sense, as to why they hate it. It has not affected me at all, I am on Medicare now. I have yet to hear a valid reason.

[Ole Fart]

04:45 PM on 08/20/2012

bummer... We Medicare recipients are not affected by BambaCare... however, my retirement supplement insurance is... I have already been informed because of BC tax increases and the elimination of employer tax write-off on my Rx plan, my premiums will rise next year to cover these additional expenses In addition, the implementation of some 21 new or increased BC taxes will affect us all. Ah, now for the infamous "mandate tax". Seems it will affect a mere 15 million folks, who can simply refuse to pay because no delinquent tax mechanisms have been established. OVERALL ESTIMATED COST PER 10 YRS = $1.7 TRILLION to ensure about 30 million folks.... do the math!! Why do I hate it??.... let me count the ways!!

[wwelbes]

08:06 PM on 08/20/2012

Sorry dude but you are spouting gibberish. You forget to mention that the congressional budget office has found that the uninsured who receive medical care from the emergency room and dont pay cost the average insured &1,500 per year in higher medical costs to offset the write offs they cause. Once every has insurance that cost goes away. Of course some insurance companies may continue to price it into thier policies but it will be easier for you to shop insurance without the threat of exclusions or higher fees for minor pre-existing conditions.

[19cash44]

07:44 PM on 08/20/2012

Not racists. Just hate paying insurance for somene that sits on their butt and expects everything handed to them.

[Okorie Oko]

08:51 PM on 08/20/2012

That's why you should support Obamacare. It makes each individual responsible for paying for their own health care coverage. Sorry, the noisy tea-baggers will not allow you to get the truth.

[cabbage farts]

03:16 PM on 08/20/2012

I'd like to hear this person try to use the cancer anology if he actually came down with stage 4 cancer and had his insurance dropped.

[westend1]

09:51 PM on 08/20/2012

Move to MA, VT or HI for starters

[jvargas305]

03:14 PM on 08/20/2012

OBAMACARE 2012" You go with romney and the rest medcaid or medcare they are the
clinics and big drug co,That charge all the old people over the limit?and we tax payers have deal
with these big bills for the older folks,F' Romney and his "boy wonder robin ryan?
get kick back from the drug companies?

[Papa Joe II]

07:50 PM on 08/20/2012

After reading your comment, I'll ask if your a Degreed English Major??? What? your not, how did i guess..........You also have a filthy gutter ghe tto mouth....Your Mama must be real proud of what you've turned into.........

[Dodsworth Fandango]

12:38 AM on 08/21/2012

A CANDY REAR END like wouldn't say anything directly to anyone...Like ALL USELESS FREELOADING LIBERALS, your all COWARDS.......
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People who live in glass houses........................Just saying.

[jvargas305]

04:00 PM on 08/21/2012

Listen Papa Joe 11 you Italian wop" or wasp?I'm more educated than you are,
Also an ex REP" Now a Democrat?Boy"You need to so call Degreed yourself
Back to the back hills you came from probably where they made your family movie
Deliverance with Ned Beety Squeel like a pig"

[Aaron Raider]

02:15 PM on 08/20/2012

Who would want affordable health care? The insurance companies are our friends!!! I love it when they have record profits year after year! Why would anyone want to fix the healthcare industry in this country? Only a criminal would want to take profits from big healthcare.