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Cobra Commander
If my opinion makes you want to punch someone in the face, that's your problem. I don't recall ever attacking you or being rude to you in any way.
This is an extremely divisive issue, and for you to not expect dissenting opinions that really rub you the wrong way is quite naive.
You want a .gov site you can trust? Any law enforcement agency. However, any site run by the sitting administration will be slanted in their favor. This is not exclusive to Obama, Bush, or anyone else. The WMD's in Iraq that didn't ever turn up is an excellent example of this - the information was brought out by the administration, and corroborated by other sources foreign and domestic. And they were wrong. It's not a one time occurrence. Politicians stack the deck in their favor any time they have to face the public, or even other politicians.
I never shot down your examples or even made an argument against your points. All I said, regarding this health care issue is "I don't like it, and don't want it" and "People with no jobs can't afford to buy health care, so they should focus on the economy instead." Your issue in this discussion is not, or should not be, with me. I provided an opinion. My major opposition to this issue relates to how we will pay for it, and my distaste for raising taxes. I don't really care who runs the health care system, so long as it doesn't wind up costing me more money. At the moment, Obama's plan to force me to buy a product I can't afford is also a problem. I don't have health insurance because I cannot afford the deduction from my paycheck. I actually could take one plan. However, the deductible is $1000. I go to the doctor once per year. It's cheaper to just pay out of pocket than to lose $60 a month AND THEN still have to burn through that deductible to get any of my benefits. From where I sit, this mandate will simply force me to flush my hard earned dollars down the toilet. I don't have to give you facts to back that up, it's simply reality for me and many others.
You, as well as everyone else, probably learned in school that the government, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the like were all trustworthy sites. That's just fine. They tried to tell me that the New York Times was an unbiased information source, too. You will find a bias one way or another in virtually every source.
What I usually do, is read news releases from multiple sites. Yes, I like Fox. I am well aware that they lean as far right as CNN leans left. My solution is to check both of them, if it's something I care enough about to follow up on. Or look at BBC, or Reuters, etc. Hell, sometimes the only one talking about anything is Glenn Beck or that lunatic that runs InfoWars.
If you want me to provide a site to you that I personally approve of, you won't find it. There's no one single source that I go to for news and information. However, when it comes to something that costs me more money, I don't trust the government. They want to pass the bill, of course any information they release is going to show it only in a positive light.
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