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Are there no prisons? ARE THERE NO WORKHOUSES?!?

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This is Wall Street investment banking financial engineering at its finest! Create a complex structure with enough inefficiencies to produce profits. No economic benefit to the "real world,' of course.

But - so what?

Here's the GAO Report: <a href="http://www.gao.gov/new.item..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05836t.pdf">http://www.gao.gov/new.item...

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in his defense, he thought "catastrophic" meant "caused by cats".

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248 electoral votes.

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i don't know but it's terrifying me.

though i AM pleased to see bamz slide seems to be reversing slightly - for god knows what trivial bullshit reason.

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Corporations that want to be treated like people -- with free speech rights, etc -- should pay taxes like human people. I don't get to subtract my operating expenses. I pay taxes on my income only, minus a couple exemptions and $12K standard deduction. Corporations that don't waant to pay taxes like people should shut the fuck up. My friend.

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How much did Mittens pay to the consultants? Does Bain have a consultancy division? Inquiring minds want to know.

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And then:

<blockquote>After a US General Accounting Office report responding to concerns of Republican Senator Charles Grassley, the Romney administration vigorously defended using contingency-fee revenue maximization consultants and revenue practices – that the GAO labeled illusory. The GAO responded that “hospitals should benefit from increased federal reimbursements and Massachusetts’s arrangement appeared to result in lower payments to hospitals, despite increased claims for federal reimbursement.” The Romney administration even defended double (if not quadruple) billing practices “of allowing multiple agencies to bill Medicaid” for “services for the same beneficiary.” The GAO concluded that the Romney administration “did not provide convincing evidence that the [Medicaid] services provided by the four state agencies were unique,” and the <strong>Bush administration agreed with the GAO’s conclusions</strong>.</blockquote>

Mitt Romney: such a shitbag, even Chuck Grassley and the Bush administration couldn't stand the stench.

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Romney-Care, the closer you look the sicker you get.

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Sorry, if this doesn't originate with Buzzfeed I can't take it seriously.

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I'm sure none those catastrophically ill children would have gone on to be a job creator. No harm, no foul. Right Mittens?

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