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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:25 PM
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Missouri seniors may lose prescription drug program
Source: st Louis Today

A showdown today between Missouri House and Senate budget negotiators could determine whether 226,000 elderly and disabled Missourians keep a state subsidy that helps them buy medicine.
On the chopping block is a program known as Missouri RX.
It pays half the cost of deductibles and co-payments for prescription drugs for low-income people enrolled in a Medicare Part D plan.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_e98bf580-dad5-5e8b-a7ed-cf0d23c306f7.html


Bullies go after the weak.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:33 PM
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1. Yep, the F'ers go after the ones that can't fight back. Cowards! n/t
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mindem Donating Member (353 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:35 PM
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2. Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:39 PM
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3. Excellent!!! n/t
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demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:55 PM
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5. So true.
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freshwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:57 PM
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6. Both of those fit very well. Thanks for tying that together.
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 10:13 PM
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12. Thank you :0) Very fitting
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:47 PM
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4. "Hey, it's time to kill more poor and elderly people!"
:puke:
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freshwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 09:05 PM
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7. So true! Run for your life, the Pro-Life mob is coming again!
Edited on Tue May-03-11 09:07 PM by freshwest
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Blacksheep214 Donating Member (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 09:15 PM
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8. Elections have Consequences
You will excuse my lack of empathy for states who did this to themselves and elected right wing douchebags.

Next time turn off FoxPac!
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 09:36 PM
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9. I know I have disdain for my fellow citizens, but I doubt even this will
wake them up. Masses of people still don't get what's going on in this country. Americans just do not pay attention and are slow learners.

Many still seem to have no idea that how they vote (or don't) will have direct consequences on their lives in this country. They fall for the manipulative RW rhetoric and outright lies. Wave the flag, thump the bible, bash minority groups and you get their vote.

Most Americans are as dumb as a bag of rocks when it come to politics and vote for the wrong people for all of the wrong reasons. It is such a highly propagandized and manipulated society.
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 09:40 PM
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10. I have to agree with you
The majority of the voters of Missouri got what they voted for...
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 08:27 PM
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26. And the minority didn't. So fuck you too.
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 09:48 PM
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27. with the media in the midwest pounding the right's message into the brains of the people...how can
we blame them for listening to a medium that, ten years ago, was the main source for balanced news?
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StarsInHerHair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 01:31 AM
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16. but the Republiscum DID NOT advertise themselves as out "to kill Grandma"
they lied & said they're priority was "job creation" because they knew that was on alot of people's minds. False advertising, being sociopathic doesn't help the Left.
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 08:34 AM
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20. Sure they did
It was in code...they referred to it as cutting the deficit...just like the Repukes at the federal level! Voters have the responsibility to educate themselves and make their own decisions based on facts...not on what Rush and Faux News tells them!

And you know what will happen in the next election cycle, they'll vote for the very same Repuke asshats again...even after "grandma dies" because she couldn't afford to pay for her medicines!

And why will they re-elect them, because the Repukes will point the finger at someone else and plead for another chance!
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StarsInHerHair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-11 01:29 AM
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28. & ifvDemsshowed clips of the GOP like the DailyShow the voting public
may well vote differently! I think what is happening in WI is just the beginning of an awakening. Dems need to go for the jugular of these Republiscum......America is in dire circumstances, they better start acting like it.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 08:25 PM
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25. Fuck you too.
I voted Democratic. The State House district I live in is so heavily Democratic, the Republicans didn't bother to contest the race. You're a dick if you think that poor elderly people in my neighborhood deserve to have this program taken away because they somehow can't magically influence the voting behavior of people that live hundreds of miles away. Seriously. Fuck you.
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 09:42 PM
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11. This might be the only way to get the seniors who vote republican to wake up and smell the coffee.
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russspeakeasy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 10:23 PM
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13. So lets punish all the seniors? 
I'm a senior. I sure as hell didn't vote republican and those
that did won't wake up and smell anything unless it's fox
shit.
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 11:50 PM
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14. not us! we didn't vote 'em in!
I work with severe special needs kids...believe me, this effects people who aren't even able to vote.
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plumbob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 11:53 PM
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15. I know. The dumb bastards who think EVERYONE should be
punished for the actions of others have my contempt, and my fond hope that in the very near future, they, too, can experience catastrophic loss and have others lecture them on how much they deserve it.

They must read Leviticus for amusement.
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999998th word Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 02:00 AM
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17. Plumbob AGREED-Thank You-
That kind of self righteous smug does not belong here.

Thanks,from Wisconsin.
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 02:47 AM
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18. I swear....
Our elections are rigged. How else can we here in Texas explain Rick Perry as governor with less than 33% of the vote. My sincerest sympathies to any DU'er living with the government they didn't vote for.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 08:21 AM
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19. Thanks!!! It's miserable having ones life ruined for them through no fault of their
Edited on Wed May-04-11 08:22 AM by RKP5637
own than trying to lead a decent life and having "The Stupid" of this country vote in absolutely un-American fools. Or because of the rigged corrupt elections now in this country. And a supreme court that has lost its way.
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 10:27 AM
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21. I blame FOX News and it's propaganda.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 10:37 AM
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22. Yeah, same here. They are a despicable outfit, frankly guilty of un-American activities
in my book.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 11:23 AM
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23. utterly revolting...fuckin' pukes! nt
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 11:26 AM
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24. So those plants in the '09 town hall meetings were
talking about the GOP plans, not Obama's plans.

Silly me. I so misunderstood.
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