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June 02, 2006 08:00 AM UTC
23 Comments
It seems the $100,000 the oil and gas special interests gave Trailhead has bought yet another veto win for their industry. Ho hum. More vetoes from Owens, more favors for Trailhead donors. Either that or Owens just really loves price gouging at the gas pump during natural disasters. Hmmmmm.
Good thing we have a Republican Gov to get rid of all those terrible Dem bills. I hope he vetoed the bill turning over State money to Mesa State College. It is a bad idea.
Dems can’t say Owens was a lame duck, since he’s been bought out to veto any piece of legislation of substance. He sites “free-market” on all Energy and Health bills, which translate to the Gov. being a lobbyist in the executive office for big business over the other 98% of the state. Watch the Oil & insurance lobbyist veto Carroll’s lobbying bill! What a joke this guy has been.
“House Bill 1251 violates the fundamental principles of our market-based economy. Basic economics teaches us that in times of shortage or increased demand, prices increase accordingly. “
That has nothing to do with PRCE GOUGING! Owens is big Oily Tool.
Good Job Benson. Good Job Armstrong. Good Job Overstreet. Good Job Hamilton. You have bought yourself another year of record high gas prices, lower wages and bigger bonuses. Will you give your puppet a job in January when he’s booted from the Governors Mansion…oh wait…he doesn’t even live there.
Owens brings sanity to the Dem legislature. Lame duck, Not!
I dont know everyone, apparently we’ve all been in the dark and the free market happens to be the fundamental basis of our economy. who would have thought that? haha, and all this time we all just thought he was lobbying. I guess the joke is on us.
RMP, how does the Governor bring sanity to the legislature in any way. With his veto of a bill to find out which companies actually provide health care and which dont? It must be crazy to know that our state has over 700,000 uninsured workers and do nothing about. How many health care bills did he veto? 12-15? yeah, crazy!
30 vetoes on consecutive Fridays. If you believe in what you believe Republicans, why hide from press coverage in Friday vetoes? Are you ashamed of your own beliefs? Are you afraid these vetoes reveal the real you?
It’s none of your damn business who has health care and who doesn’t. I, like many other Americans, don’t want to buy into the health care insurance scam.
IF you want mandatory health coverage, why don’t you move to France?
Why should I be pooled with millions of fat, lazy stressed out people who don’t know how to take care of their bodies, then at 50, are on all kinds of heart medication and crap?
More Americans die of diseases of the fork and knife BY FAR than due to any other cause. Nothing else explains the insane cancer, heart disease, and Type II diabetes rates we have – the highest in the world.
I’ll take a $10,000 catastrophic policy against loss of work or trauma injury any day. Leave me alone you fascist socialists!
I reject forced inclusion in social security, health care schemes, and your surveillance police state.
You health-care obsessed freaks are so annoying!
JustDoIt
Man, chill out……I agree with you in basics but it sounds like you are about to explode……….
I think if anyone wants health care, freaking buy it like I have to. Put your priorities in order, set money aside and buy it. Simple. What the hell am I missing here?
Many bleeding hearts think it should be tax mandated but we all know that is really just one step towards the utophia called Sir Robin’s Socialism.
Not what our for fathers envisioned for us.
I am cool as a cucumber, Gecko. I just should avoid this site. It’s full of collectivists.
A lot of these people are of the ilk who would gladly have taken part in the forced dispossession carried out by the Soviet Union in the 1920’s. And no, I’m not overstating my case.
Those people were “normal” Russians, who, like many in the US, think their “better” ideas are so good that forcing others to their will at the point of a gun is a small price to pay for utopia.
Look at the history of the world, it’s happened in every society at some point, and still happens in most. Only a few percent of us are not under some kind of coercive government, but we are heading that way by “the tyranny of the majority.”
Don’t you mean to say tyranny of the MINORITY?
The more I see of Owens’ vetoes, the more I see that a Democratic legislature needs the adult supervision of a Republican governor. I’ve been leaning Dem for gov because I don’t want a Tom DeLay gov, but, then, a Hillary Clinton gov appeal even less.
It will be an interesting campaign.
Maybe we need a dem governor to show just how bad it would be with dems in control?
The question is, how much damage could a Dem gov and legislature do before the electorate would throw them out?
A lot, in my honest opinion (imho).
Quixote, I don’t think we need to let the other team win for motivational purposes. This seems like a “scorched earth”, the results be damned strategy. Why throw the baby out with the bath water?
We need to cleanse the GOP leadership and make room for real Republicans, not social issue Dems who have stolen the party.
I usually don’t care for this Gov, but bless him that he vetoed HB1363. Everyone likes after school programming, but makes me think the Gov’s heart grew one size when he vetoed this bill because it would have levied a $75 fee/tax on, as the Gov put it accurately, “the least popular” among us, those people convicted of misdemeanors or felonies (ie. they can’t pay as it is). Good for you Gov…Now what’s up with SB1?!?! You should have signed that one…
Yes, the dems could do a lot of damage if in control.
On the other hand, how much damage is being done by GOP “leadership?” Quite a bit.
We may be faced with the lesser of two evils being the democrats.
Which is a sad but true commentary on how low the “leadership” of the Republican Party has sunk, having been bought off by Trailhead money.
Without a truly effective “wakeup call” who will the Republicans offer next time for governor or party chief? Listless Liston? Token Jones? Frogface Gardner? Name your own RINO, but that’s the type who dominate party leadership positions at the moment. Unless the Republican Party truly cleans house, and takes power AWAY from such people, the Party will continue in its downward spiral.
So maybe we need a comparatively small excise of the cancer now, rather than wait for the tumor to become even larger in the next 4-6 years.
HB 1251 included all products in it’s mission to prohibit price gouging.
If a disastrous tornado came along and 7-11 increased a bottle of water from $1.25 to $1.40, 7-11 would have been “price gouging.” A natural disaster in the form of drought comes along and the cantaloupes go from .49 lb to .55 lb, that would be “price gouging.”
Thank you Gov. Owens for nixing that idiotic democratic bill.
As a Democrat I am happy that the Governor decided to take a pro-choice stance. SB 1 was a bill about allowing the disabled to have a choice in having access to the medically necessary life sustaining medications. This was a choice of removing the State from receiving the federal governments mandated “best pricing” for cheaper drugs for Medicaid. It was a choice to protect seniors from making horrific mistakes in deciding to drop their Medicare Part D coverage as soon as they hit the doughnut hole, to join the multi-state drug pool for their prescriptions, and pay massive penalties for doing so.
JustDolt: 80% of healthcare dollars go to 20% of the population. That’s the whole idea behind insurance–to pool the risk so that they unlucky (relatively) few do not have to bear all the burden. And if you think it’s people’s “fault” if they get sick just wait until you or someone in your family gets sick. How about breast cancer–which seems to be some sort of mini-epidemic among my contemporaries–no known cause, not a lifestyle issue, and at least $50,000 in treatment costs. Not to mention that France and every other civilized country that has national healthcare (Germany was the first–in the late 19th century) pays a good bit less per capita with much better results. We can spend $200,000 per minute in Iraq–much of it stolen, given to contractors who didn’t perform–a massive transfer of taxpayer dollars to friends of the President and his Vice–national health care would be a much better and more moral use of that money.
My dad had Blue Cross/Blue Shield with a one million dollar limit. He crashed his Harley in October of 2001 and ended up in a coma. After almost 6 months in intensive care (while still in a coma), he was magically released. Turns out he used up his million dollars plus extras that the hospital could write off.
One year later he died due to complications from lack of professional intensive care.
I say this while also saying our health care system is fine the way it is. If you want health care, fu%&ing buy it.
Otherwise move to Canada and stand in line.
Love,
Gecko