Why Does Will Ferrell Hoard His Money While Children Suffer?
by Michael WilsonWill Ferrell and the fine folks over at “Funny or Die” are picking the low hanging fruit once again. This time they’re going after nameless, faceless “Insurance Executives” in a “satirical” PSA about government-run insurance. But the real comedy is watching a bunch of multimillionaires who do make-believe for a living opine about other people making too much money.
I’m a big fan of comedy. I’m a stand-up junkie, growing up on late-night HBO comedy specials (I’d seen everything Carlin had done by age 11). I got into film making because Kevin Smith made it accessible through foul, filthy and hilarious dialogue that has always hit me where I live. And I don’t believe anything is off limits. It just strikes me as strange that people with extraordinary talent like Ferrell and company would be so off-the-mark with a piece that dives into the political world so deeply.
The irony of the piece is so clear to EVERYONE who sees it. Aside from the unsupported and false claim that 80% of Americans support government-run health care, Ferrell and company decide to pick on the rich executives who clearly make their money preying on innocent victims and drinking the blood of babies without offering the world anything in return… except, of course, for a service that, when paid for (as all services should be) saves lives and keeps you from losing everything you own when you get sick. The irony here is that Will Ferrell earns $20 million a picture (yup, even for “Land of the Lost”). Donald Faison (”Scrubs”), Jon Hamm (”Mad Men”) and others join in the fun as well.
We’re talking about net earnings in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The actors and comedians in the PSA could literally buy health insurance for tens, if not hundreds of thousands of uninsured Americans. And they don’t even have to wait for the government to take their money at gunpoint. They can just do it. And they should. It’s clearly being positioned as a moral issue, so is it immoral for these folks to hoard money while children are suffering?
Well, the answer is “no.” It’s their money. And I think Will Ferrell should be able to keep as much of his dough as possible, even if he uses it to buy a mini-zoo in his back yard for exotic animals like a white tiger or Pygmy horses. If he chooses to buy me and a hundred thousand or so of my fellow uninsured Americans some insurance, it would go a long way toward establishing credibility. It would also prove that we don’t need government to force Americans to help each other.
Which, putting the bullshit statistics, hypocrisy, and not-so-funny execution of the piece aside, is what bothers me the most.
The President keeps talking about “service” when he really means “government forcing you to do things.” I have debated health care with every one of my liberal friends who is willing to engage. And I always ask them the same question when they support the government-run plan. It goes like this: “I don’t have health insurance. Will you buy it for me for just one year?” I ask the question seriously. I mean it. I’d happily accept the gift from someone who wants to help. But they always backpedal. They always refuse.
Why? Because they have mistaken compassion for force. They believe that government will force someone else to pay, that they will not be affected, and that it’s okay because “they” or “the rich” have more than “they” need. But “they” have earned what “they” have, and so have Ferrell and his FOD pals.
The question is whether the folks who preach the message of forcing you to “give” to others are actually willing to do it on their own. Do they really care about those with less or only about appearing to care? I’ll wait with baited breath for the Will Ferrell Insurance Foundation to send a check. But I’ll probably be waiting a while.
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The thing that pisses me off about liberals is that they don't care why there's something like insurance, they don't care what it does, they don't care if it's a good thing or a bad thing, they don't understand capitalism, or commerce, or free markets…they just want to tell people what they should do with their money. They are seen as the "smarter" political side but are some of the dumbest people on earth.
Ah, the compassion of liberals. I just posted something on this subject today about the compassionate Valerie Jarrett, slumlord extraordinaire:
http://benfranklinslepthere.blogspot.com/
I wish the libs who have REAL compassion would wise up fast and see how they are being duped by this administration. (By the way, how many $$$ have been going to Darfur since Obama got in office? Just wondering…)
There is nothing that sucks "funny" out of comedians faster than their own liberal agenda.
There's nothing that sucks more than a self righteoious Conservative.
In any totalitarian state there are two distinct classes of people. First, there is elite class (nobility) and second, there is the common herd (serfs). The elites have special rights that do not extend to the common herd. The elite class is made up of high-ranking party members and their friends. These people are not bound by the rules they set for the common herd. That's why they exempt themselves for such things as government enforced health care, just like our congress had done. This two class system is the rule in all socialized countries. It will be the rule here, regardless of what Obama and the Democrats say.
You are spot-on absolutely correct, the whole thing, but especially the first part. I'm glad you made that point.
I had a heated debate with a "liberal" friend of mine. He was all for teaching first graders about things such as homosexuality is good, big business is bad, and global warming is killing the earth. I looked him straight in the eye and said, "They don't teach that stuff at the catholic school you sent your kids to, do they?" His response was, "I have to do what's best for my family."
Change the words "my family" to "Will Ferrell" and you'll understand Will Ferrell's thinking on things.
Try spellcheck next time…
How about a self righteous conservative who corrects your spelling errors dumb ass?
Except a liberal who cannot spell.
He hasn't time for spell check he has to interpret his 4 year old to see what he will post next.
Next time you want to come off as a highly intellectual being, please get your spelling right. Also your arguments are utterly juvenile. Work on that too.
I wonder if Michael Moore gave his share of Capitalism away to the poor? BTW Mike, have you made any movies since the MM Hates America film? It seems like that could be an entire series like the Bond films…
Look at all the tax cheats in the Obama administration, Charlie Rangel and Chris Dodd. Look at John Kerry who's never earned an honest dollar that wasn't given to him by a rich widow or divorcee. These liberal half-wit celebrities who have to use velcro on their shoes because they aren't bright enough for laces. Remember Barbra Streisand telling everyone they needed to dry their clothes on the line, but when asked if she was doing it, she had no comment. Liberals ARE the "Do as I say, not as I do" ideology.
This reminds me of a saying my dad quoted to me many years ago:
"A liberal is someone who's willing to give you the shirt off of someone elses back".
Libs don't donate unless it's a furry animal. People be damned and that's when they're all too happy to use yours and my money.
Your dad is very wise.
Take it easy on him, he's clearly French. They can't stand the self-righteouis!
Here's a video parody of Will Ferrell's parody: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/09/celebrities-r...
Another sterling argument from the people who talk a lot but say nothing.
It's worse than just irony. There's a bizarre, hateful streak that runs through the left-winger.
We all remember how they would trump up every civilian and soldier death in Iraq and Afghanistan while Bush was in office. It was almost as if soldiers dying made them happy.
But the health care 'debate' has them at their most ghoulish. The horrible website thinkprogress had a link to an article about the death of a young female artist. She didn't have insurance, got sick, and died. The folks at TP thought it was a great idea to play up the fact that she lives in Boehner's jurisdiction. See, Boehner doesn't want health care 'reform', and it's killing his own constituents!
They conveniently managed to ignore the fact that this woman chose her life as an artist, chose to make less money, and chose to not buy insurance that was entirely affordable (something like $50 a month). And just so we're clear, I feel scummy even pointing those things out because hey, someone died, and I doubt she did it to help anyone make a political argument.
There's just something wrong with these people.
Political comedy is the laziest form of comedy. It can be funny if done right but today's "comediens" just spew out hatred and get applause from the like minded liberals in their audience. Take Bill Mahrer for example. He'll say something like "Bush sucks" and the whole place thinks he's great. No one will listen to his bilge except the leftists. I'm afraid Farrell is about to go down the same sewer. Too bad.
They're kind of like that girlfriend that mouths off to the big guy in line, then asks me "Aren't you going to shut him up?" But with my money!!!!!
FOD ? Wasn't that a political party in Iran when the Shah was in power ?
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It is 'bated' not 'baited'
Reminds me of South Park when Whoopi Goldberg was MC'ing the Nobel Prize award show. Her only joke was "Republican's are so stupid", "I hate Republican's", "Republican's are so stupid". I'm doubting there is a shared brain cell in the audiences of Maher or Jon Stewart.
Wow, leave it to the leftie troll to come up with a snappy retort that is equivalent to the first grade, "I know you are but what am I." Bravo Commissar Ehrenstein, encore, encore.
you forgot the part where after you hear the pop, it gets really, really bright.
But it doesn't smell bad anymore.
I would just love to see a group of self-righteous "stars" (I use the word loosely) take it upon themselves to help the people that they are so concerned about. Really, just dig into your own pocket and start taking care of people. You'll feel good about yourself and the world you live in. For such smart guys, you completely missed the irony of the sketch. You make enough to take care of loads of people. If you don't have enough, call your other star friends. You all are some of the highest paid people in the country. Put YOUR money where your mouth is. You might accidentally start a trend if you actually DO something instead of lecturing others about what they need to do. Lead by example if you REALLY, REALLY feel strongly about the situation. We will all stay tuned.
Who the heck is David Ehrenstein?
Will Ferrell is a perfect spokesman for Health Care Reform no one listens to him and he is just another celebrity that time is passing them by. Pretty soon Michael you will see him on the streets and be able to say to him "Lets have lunch some time" and he will be looking forward to the call that never comes.
i'm at a loss to why anyone follows this dweeb at all, i've never been remotely amused by any of his stuff. perhaps it's an acquired taste, like castor oil, or lutefisk
What's best for his family is taking his kids out of Catholic school!
you forget the "smug effect" libs love the smell of their own farts
Does the name Paul Newman ring a bell?
I use to enjoy him…why do they have to screw it up being political??????
There they go again, getting all Wee Wee'ed up.
Or cat vomit.
David Ehrenstein was born in New York. He spells "color" with a "U" which may or may not be because he is gay.
“I don’t have health insurance. Will you buy it for me for just one year?” I love that. I hope you don't mind if I rip that off with my next face off with some liberal in favor of government run healthcare. I think I will frame it like a friend asking to borrow money. Will you loan that friend 10K this one time? Of course they wouldn't – only when somebody else is paying for it, are they in favor of the intervention.
Hi all. You know it's kind of funny but there are some parallels between execs at insurance companies (or any company for that matter) and Hollywood stars. They both tend to start small in their respective industries and work very hard to rise up. The more recognition an actor gets, the more roles and higher salary he/she is paid. Similarly, an exec is promoted up through the ranks depending on their performance and how much they contribute to the success of the company (like an actor contributes to the success of a film).
I'm pretty sure that Will Farrell makes more then just about any similarly ranked executive (of course there are exceptions in both industries) however I don't see anyone asking that Farrell return any portion of the huge salaries he's received for the movies that he's starred in that have either tanked real bad or came no where close to making money for the studio that they had expected Farrell to bring in. Which lately seems to be all of them. Maybe it's time for the execs to make a video.
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By the by, I was reading someplace (hmmm, may have been here) where the days of the big paydays for "stars" of any stripe are pretty much over (although the author of the article had excepted Will Smith). The producers have concluded that a "Star" no longer is a guarantee of box office sales. This is true for the writers as well. No more big paydays for our favourite one-trick-pony Mr. Farrell. Hope he invested it well. In Insurance companies. Run by high paid, competent execs.
Cheers All.
or like he may spell it: a loud pooping sound.
Anyone notice how David Ehrenstein hasn't responded to any of the replies that have been posted? That's because the idiot just wanted to post his petty little jab so he could have his little bit of childish self satisfaction. He probably went away feeling like he told us a thing or two. Liberals are just about the stupidest people there are.
Absolutely. I've lost respect for so many celebrities because of the stupidity when it comes to politics. They know absolutely nothing but come across as an expert, because they starred in "Elf". Pahlease!
Ummm , know I think you suck more.
Because libs don't bathe and therefore can't tell the difference.
Jeez, does he look bad in that picture!! What is he, possessed or something? Did his head spin around seconds after the picture was snapped?
He may actually have "Bush Derangement Syndrome", or terminal " Guilty White Liberal Angst Disease". Whatever it is, he might want to take a break from saving the world for a bit, poor guy.
Ferrell's just trying to keep working in Hollywood. You have to "talk the talk" to stay employed. Thanks to his ad, there will be at least two more horrible Will Ferrell movies.
They believe the public will go an see anything…so let's just prove them wrong. Don't go see the next terrible Ferell movie just because there is nothing else to do and it looks kind of funny. Just don't do it.
Besides, it won't be funny anyway.
Whatsamatter? Get you knuckles rapped too many times for spelling errors?
Best Elementary School education there is.
Well his name links to his website, if anyone feels like sifting through all the self fellating bullshit. Apparently, him and all his fellow liberal douchebags gathered 'round jerking each other off constitutes being "someone".
Wow! Hey thanks I followed your links to some pretty compelling stuff. Thank you so much.
There are movies that I will never watch because of some actors. I haven't watched the Oscars or Emmies in years. You nailed it, it sucks the "funny" right out of them.
Come on, everyone, have a little faith in Will Farrell and his compatriots! I am sure that they will live out their convictions. Someday. Soon. Really.
I can see it now–the big Hollywood Bake Sale to raise the necessary $20 million to pay Will for his next flop. I mean, we can't allow anything as sordid and ugly as CAPITALISM to intrude into his precious life. Yup, start baking those brownies now, because it is gonna take a pile of baked goods to fund "Elf 2" or "Land of The Even More Lost". And perhaps, if we make some reeeeeeeeealy good Butterscotch Blondies, we can raise enough extra to afford benefits for the film crew out of the tip jar…
Will Farrell is NOT "extraordinary talent". He is no where near as funny as he seems to think he is.
I make about $42K per year. Should the government force me to buy health care (after my employer drops my coverage to save money) I will live on about $41K. Gross, that is.
If Ferrell, Streisand and their buddies will live on $41K per year then so will I.
I can hardly wait for folks like Farrell-(kind of a talentless entity isnt he) to start pissing and moaning about all the excessive contributions they will soon be making. Maybe Hollywood will start adhering to what they know best–alot about nothing!
Except???????YOU
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Michael, I disagree with you completely.
It IS a moral issue when these rich MF'rs decry "rich executives" in the insurance industry and CLEARLY IMPLY that they made that money off the backs of poor and middle class Americans…
and these same RAT B@$TARDS make millions putting out an ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT (can't eat it, pay your bills with it or otherwise use it to improve your lot in life) and don't give up all of it but about
$250,000 per year to benefit poor and middle class Americans.
So, to sum up: HEY, WILL FERRET AND ALL YOU OTHER A$$HATS – GO TAKE A FATAL DOSE OF EX-LAX.
That's why i don't like most political comedy, even when I agree with the politics. I don't oppose political jokes because of the underlying ideas themselves — I oppose them because it's a cheap and easy way for lazy comedians to get laughs, or failing that, applause. (Look up "clappy humor" on Urban Dictionary for more on the subject.)
Michael, I disagree with you completely.
It IS a moral issue when these rich douchebags decry "rich executives" in the insurance industry and CLEARLY IMPLY that they made that money off the backs of poor and middle class Americans…
and these same RAT B@$TARDS make millions putting out an ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT (can't eat it, pay your bills with it or otherwise use it to improve your lot in life) and don't give up all of it but about
$250,000 per year to benefit poor and middle class Americans.
So, to sum up: HEY, WILL FERRET AND ALL YOU OTHER A$$HATS – GO TAKE A FATAL DOSE OF EX-LAX.
I think he was doing his Dubya face, and the camera caught him as he was getting out of it.
or soap
They admit they don't understand the purpose of insurance companies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMSV0wXGT48
How about your mom?
Not only won't Will Ferrell pay for your insurance, he is liable to make you sick.
Three points: (1) I do see nobility in artists donating their time to inspire positive change. Wouldn't it be worse if celebrities didn't speak on behalf of those affected, those who go unheard? I'd rather watch this message again–because it has a real message–than another "football in the groin" clip. I think you're pushing quality control on the wrong side of the Internet. (2) It's not hypocrisy; it's satire. There is a difference. It's existed for thousands of years. It may be older than democracy. (3) Want another distinction to chew on? Don't confuse capitalism for democracy. That's a game politicians play. They're not the same thing. Democracy: 1 person = 1 vote; Capitalism: 1 dollar = 1 vote… It's time for America to decide which system works best for ALL Americans!
Surprised he doesn't have a stock photo of himself in whitey tighties…he doesn't do that *enough* in most of his movies…
I used to like Will. I used to like SNL. I used to like Law and Order. I used to like my local newspaper. I used to like the Dixie Chicks. I used to like a lot of "stars", tv shows and going to the movies. I choose to no longer support an industry that continues toshow it's disdain for half of this country.
aren't you tired of accusing people of hate simply because they don't believe what you believe? Or that they just don't want to hand over control of their lives to mediocre government functionaries? Isn't it possible to you that that is the simple explanation?
Example 1- Family maember in NY is a landscape architect who gushes about all the Kennedys she knows and is loved by…runs her business and maintains her estate by hiring illegals who speak little English, arrive by bike to be driven to the worksite and deal in cash to avoid taxes…she shares she is disgusted by one guy who "keeps showing back up" because he "expected" lunch (when the crew was on site with no opportunity for him to look for a place to buy lunch)…she complained he had the nerve to expect her to lug water around too…no one still working for her expected all that… BUT she is in favor of healthcare for illegals and every other Obama-liberal agenda item… wears the t-shirt, atends Hampton fund raisers and never sees the irony!
Ferrel=Useful Obama idiot
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It's funny isn't it, how people who does the least work always wants a more "equitable" division of wealth.
…people with extraordinary talent like Ferrell…
You lost me there, dude. Will Ferrell is a one-note performer whose ego has reduced that note to the level of the noise made by a drunken sow slamming its forehead down on Schroeder's toy piano. Which explains why Ferrell's career is as lost as his last stupid movie.
Sure there is! It's called a Liberal Democrat. Could suck the Goodyear blimp through a hundred feet of garden hose!
Nearly all the comments at the bottom of that page prove they don't know the purpose of health care insurance. And it's a Michael Moore post on top of that!
There is one thing I truly do not understand here…Will Ferrell is funny? I have not been able to sit through one movie of his(from Netflix mind you) for more than 30 minutes before I had to switch to Nat Geo or the Food Network or something… And every time, twice so far, I have felt as if I was robbed of my buck/buck fifty to rent the damn thing. His parody commercial was no better. In fact, a waste of time and film. I wonder how big the carbon footprint was?
I doubt he's doing anything. All his comments on this thread were made at the same time, more or less, and he's gone. Won't be back to show us how wrong our responses were to his weak comments.
I wonder if Moore of Farrell will invest in a fellow filmmaker and loan me about two million to market my film? Come on guys, spread the wealth to a fellow artist down here with all the other galley slaves chained to an oar. I am not asking either of you for a piece of the principle, just some of your interest on your money. A million each would do the trick. I can have a small theatrical and blow out my DVD sales to the 8.3 million Vietnam Era Veterans out there at 25 dollars which includes tax and S/H, do the math guys. On top of this guys, we have a very special treat too, I am donating 25% of all DVD gross sales to the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial Fund. You both will be a part of this great endeavor, you'll help a fellow artist raise above this evil capitalistic state and live in the land where you both dwell. This is chicken scratch for you guys anyways, what is the big deal. I will return the 2 million plus 15% interest. Besides I will tell the world how you two patron of the arts supported and funded a filmmaker who just needed a share of some wealth. This is exactly what President Obama is talking about! My film honors the vietnam vets and they will appreciate your efforts too. Beside Will and Mikey what better deed then to serve your fellow man?
You know, I do this for fun, talk with different folk with shared values for the most part and possibly learn something. This does take some time to read and respond. To waste my time and go on Huffpo or some other lib site just to stir up the nest does not compute.
What a waste of time tho insulting the idiots that do like to stir things up is also fun.
Does anyone have any idea what Will Ferrell does with his money? The answer would be no.
The man is a multi-millionaire. Healthcare is an issue that deals with billions and trillions, it's bigger than him. He's not asking us to give money to save his neighborhood school, he's using humor to show what's at stake. I know some people who work for large multi-billion dollar health insurance companies who thought his funnyordie video was hilarious.
Why do conservatives get so bent out of shape over humor. I got an idea, the first thirty conservatives posting about this, go buy a video camera, get together, write a humorous short film about why the conservative point of view is right, post it on youtube and voila. Meanwhile quit crying that someone you thought was funny once, doesn't hold your worldview and is using his greatest skill, humor, to maybe open minds.
The topic of Health Care in America is being discussed regularly in the media here in Canada. Can someone set the record straight on what I keep hearing. This gets repeated ad infinitum on radio phone in shows, the news etc..
They say if someone gets sick (terminal) in your family that you can go bankrupt, lose your house paying for the bills incurred. Is this true even if you have insurance? Because that's the way the media spins it up here. Does anyone know of anyone who has lost everything because it always seems to be someone who knows someone.
"Health insurance is something like $50?" Wow, I'm going to guess you don't know the value of anything. You either don't have health insurance yourself, or work for a large corporation. Good luck launching your own business and ever buying insurance for your employees. The average employer purchased healthplan for a family of four is $13,000. Private insurance always costs more than employer purchased for the same level of coverage. And almost anything can be a pre-existing condition so we don't know what hers would hav e cost. Well, I can now say I've met a dumb atheist.
After his last terrible movie Farrell will not be getting the same money for one of his films. When the career starts to slide they want to make noise and be noticed. In his case he's taken the route of easy stupid attacks on the right, he's good at doing stupid things. He hopes to enamor himself to the mainstream hollywood idiots to get another gig. They live in such a bubble that they do not have to be around anyone but like minded leftists. He's so stupid he doesn't even know he's stupid.
Finally someone has called these people out. They have as little in common with 95% of the population of this country as do our representatives in congress, our senators, or the president. Do you think these people are willing to make the kind of sacrifices they are asking us to? Are they going to turn down the AC in their 5,000 sq. ft. home? Are they going to stand in line in the ER? Ed Begley is the only person in Hollywood putting his money where his mouth is. SO take your self righteous attitudes about what we who live in the fly-over part of the country, and keep walking.
If what you read is true it just tells me Hollywood fails to see what the problem is. They're still turning out garbage. We don't want to see they're ideology made into a movie. We want good stories again, and we don't want to know their politics. Well written stores, well acted will still make stars of people. But hollywood is so polarized this won't happen anytime soon.
Some want to peg Will Ferrell as an overpaid star, so let's look at that. His worlwide gross is $.2.3 billion. It appears that if he is paid $20 million for every film he stars in, his investors are handsomely rewarded. His salary is in direct relationship to how much money he brings in based on his popularity with the public. Meanwhile, CEOs salaries are set by the board they help appoint, based on the size of the company, the salaries of comparable CEOs and stock prices. Will Ferrell is not paid based on the salaries of other curly haired comedians starring in similar movies. CEOs are in a position to manipulate their stock price, which can pay them handsomely–remember when Bush made some trades and "forgot" to date the paperwork. Wink wink, nudge nudge. (Okay, one is stock manipulation one is insider information). Ferrell has no similar way he can manipulate his salary. Unlike CEOs, there's no showbiz equivalent of a golden parachute in which failure is rewarded. I'm personally all for the free market, but don't think that there isn't a huge inefficiency in our current CEO pay system. More power to 'em.
Sacrifice schmacrifice. Here me now and understand me later: YOU as an American already spend more on healthcare costs than a citizen in any other country. And how is your health on average? It is worst than at least twenty other nations. Why, Bronco46, do you want to be beaten by a Frenchmen? But that's what's happening. The average Frenchmen that I'm unfairly assuming you despise, spends less on healthcare and is healthier. I remember when Americans used to aspire to be better than the French. What's it gonna be, Bronco46? Vive La France? Or America First? If we pass real reform, you will be better off financially than you were before and you'll be healthier. Will Ferrell is your friend, really!
Yes, we work very hard to provide for everything the poor deserve. I guess we're the only ones not allowed to be poor.
How about a self stupid liberal that deserved it?
When his head is out.
Yes, now he can wander into his coffee shop of choice and order his latte while complaining about those mean spirited right wing neo-nazi bigots. (He's looking for a chance to show off the biggest words he knows)
He probably will wipe his glasses and wonder what those big words meant, then struggle to keep a straight face while he looks around to see if anyone is listening.
Since you are obviously an anti-capitalist who's downed more then one glass of kool-aid I won't waste anytime discussing it with you. We're drowning liberal bilge. So I won't bother you with my rhetoric, and you can keep yours. I don't suppose it would do any good to ask you to move somewhere like Cuba, North Korea, or North Vietnam where they're aren't victimized by CEO's and you can enjoy your life and leave us to ours.
Never Mind.
But they will learn to think, how can that help Obama?
That could be an advertisement running on any network. I think I'll avoid this movie just as much as I would a Jane Fonda film,
I hope you don't think this is a convincing argument! I work in a trauma center ER and I'm well aware of what's going in the healthcare industry. If you want some of that french healthcare: be my guest. I've been there, and I'm not interested.
The only thing I could locate was FOD (funny or die) making fun of Iran.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/89e23d3f0c/no-ga...
There would be a nobility if it was a way of life. Not just a chance for a mention in the tabloids.
He could at least start an endowment for a clinic in any major city.
You are so correct. Good stories, well written and acted. That's all many of us want. I do not need to see another explosion or overly vulgar flick just so 12 people can say f*^k for 2 hours.
It's not true.
The benefits of a normal health insurance policy have something along these lines (typically)
A deductable… the part you must pay each calendar year before insurance starts to pay anything. Usually it's $500, or $1,000. Enough you normally would pay that annually for preventative care, or small routine issues.
A percentage they pay at. Normally 80%, but that's deceiving. That would be 80% of the contract rate, a small fraction of cash prices. Blue cross is about 27% of the cash price. So, an ER visit after deductable that would cost someone $1,000 (cash) would be 26% of $200, or about $50.
Then there is out of pocket. At that amount, the insurance company pays at 100%. So, those with expensive illness would only pay up to that amount then the insurance pays for everything else that calendar year. Normally I've seen out of pockets hovering around $5,000, some cheap policies it's $10,000. But, that's usually never reached unless you have a terminal disease like cancer that can be expensive very quickly.
How about breast cancer survivor rates?
When we need to put our necks on the line, why is it that it's defending you healthy frenchmen?
Then let the boards take care of it.
Or, let the share holders take care of it.
Let's not let Obama try taking care of it, we know what happened to GM when 'the one' stepped in, the unions won.
Self righteous conservative? What do you call these videos by self righteous liberals? Or did that point skip by you? Seems like a lot skips by you. Please work on your spelling. I'm giving you a "C" for the spelling problems in all your one-post posts. I'd give you a "D" but I don't want to be too self-righteous.
Awesome article. I have always wondered why these "rich" folks don't put their money where their mouth is. A liberal is always best at spending other people's money. Look at Bono, he runs around the world complaining about the woes A B or C and then turns to America and says "What are you going to do about it?" I for one am tired of supporting the worlds failings when we have 535 leeches in DC we need to excise.
BTW Will Ferrell looks like a slapnuts in that pic.
You & me both. I can't watch Tim Robbins or his mom (wife?), Sean Penn, or the mentally deficient Ferrell in anything without getting sick to my stomach.
You are quite right in your critique of Will Ferrell and others on the PSA.
I must be an elitist when it comes to funny. I enjoy Seinfeld, Leno etc, and the usual stand up
comics. I have mixed emotions about those that act funny, that get into situations, written by others and mainly make faces. Ferrell is just silly and that goes a short way in my opinion. William Buckley and others of his ilk did not do stand up but they were incredibly witty, that goes a long way, Lucille Ball, and I will take hits over this one, made faces, not funny for my long run anyway. Adam Sandler made faces but also has a wit about him, and so it goes. Ferrell makes 20 mil a film with his talent, HAH! he ought to stay home and keep the 90w lube handy for his face and keep quiet.
I tried to see things from Ehrenstein's point of view, but I just couldn't get my head that far into the chasm where the sun never shines…
Wow, the lib trolls are getting famous now?
Who next, Bill Maher? Bring on the hacks!
Sorry ehrenstein, we will not allow indoctrination here. If you admire those socialist countries, you are free to go. There is no fence around this country. Go to a port, get in a boat & go. You will not be missed, except maybe as a negative example.
Next time you want to come off as a highly intellectual being, please get your spelling right. Also your arguments are utterly juvenile. Work on that too. That's your homework assignment and please don't come back until you pull your head out. You'll know when that is because there will be a loud popping sound.
There is no "about to" about it. He is already in that sewer. I didn't enjoy his early movies, & I've stopped patronizing them completely. Sheltered leftists lecturing us on politics is like being taught nuclear fission by a two year old.
I wish there was a way to actually organize conservatives to boycott these elitist hollywood lib a%%holes. For some reason unbeknownst to me, people, including conservatives still spend their hard earned money on this garbage. On TV or the big screen it's all the same. Hit them where it hurts, stop buying the products their sponsors sell. For some reason most people find it hard to do so. Write a stinking letter to the company that produces the products the commercials sell. You eat a whale one bite at a time.
Sorry Fedup, but the day you see a leftist spend their own money instead of yours you'll be the only one to see it, because everyone else will be looking up at the flying pigs and marveling at h*ll freezing over.
Sorry Fedup, but if your fantasy ever came true you'd be the only one to see it. Everyone else would be looking up watching pigs fly or marveling at hell freezing over.
Will give you that one, do you know any live ones?
Algore gave something like 250 bucks and that was at a supermarket
where they ask if they can keep the change for charity. Took 1 year and a half to accum.
When an American spells color colour, they're being snooty intellectuals. I bet he wears those goofy "I'm smart" horn rimmed glasses too?
They're kind of like that girlfriend that mouths off to and pisses off the big guy in line, then asks me "Aren't you going to take care of him?" Except replace bloody fight with other people's money!!!!!
There aren't many. They seem to donate time (which, in liberal speak, means donations of other people's money) but not their own.
I'll mispell a word every now and then. I admit it. But these smug liberals come here, act intellectually superior and they can't spell. Hell half of the trolls, including this one, can't put out one coherent thought together with meaning and facts. They're just like little kids (liberal is synonymous with immaturity) who run up behind you, poke you in the back then run away. They're usually gone before you can smack them!
I believe most Celebtards donate their time and receive a write off against their taxes, take advantage of the expense allocation the charity gives them and make a 10 min appearance.
The story of Dionne Warwick is, if you are aware of it, is classic. A Lib of course.
Our friend David hasn't responded recently, he must be wearing WiKi out looking for a response.
Word on the street ………….Will Ferrel is a 'no talent', un-funny,austere and spartan comedian wannabe…
Author and film critic, Marshall Fine wrote a scathing review regarding Will Ferrells " Land of the Lost". (It was in the Huff Post, even the libs can't stand him, and he's one of theirs). The review states………………………..
"OK, I'm big enough to admit when I'm wrong. I apologize to Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. It's not the most witless, humor-challenged movie of the summer. The winner and new champion: Land of the Lost. At least there's truth in advertising. See it and you lose your time, the money you spent on a ticket and, perhaps, the ability to walk upright without dragging your knuckles on the ground. Abandon hope, all ye who enter. "
I read the whole thing at Hollywoodandfine.com, its absolutely hilarious. I guess if your into dinosaur poop and urine…………….you'll enjoy Land of the Lost.
Philanthropists and liberals do not know each other.
will ferrell = not funny liberal
They're Hollywood "do as I say, not as I do" Liberals. These Hollywood types have their heads shoved so far up their backsides that they have lost touch with reality. Mainly that is because too many people worship these fools and put them up on pedestals. When the majority of people start thinking of the Hollywood crowd as little more than the bottom feeders they are, the power they have acquired will fade.
A few of them have woken up to reality over the years but they are quickly admonished by the Hollywood elite for daring to go against the Liberal flow.
boycott hollywood, its products and sponsors………
I knew Will Ferrell for about a year when I worked at the bldg. he lived in while he was on SNL.
He seemed like a nice guy and his brother,mother and dad were very nice people.
That year I made about $6000. in Christmas tips from the people who lived in the bldg. pretty good huh?
Will Ferrell's contribution?
$25.
Thanks again Will, stuff your faux concern about uninsured americans.
Tim Robbins is married to Susan Sarandon. A few years ago she did a series of commercials for Macy's promoting a charity. I wrote Macy's and told them that that was the same thing as having Rush Limbaugh do the commercials. I cannot see a Macy's logo without thinking of her. Bleh.
Politics and consumerism DO NOT MIX.
Some celebs appear to have brain activity that closely resembles that of a rock and we're supposed to follow their lead? Huh? I don't get it…
I want a salary cap put on Hollywood. I want the actors' income tax to be 90%.
And by the way, Jay Leno has 200 cars. Confiscate all Jay's cars except for two econo models and give the rest to the poor!
I think the extent to which spelling is telling has decreased with spellchecking technology.
Farrell does what all self-centered, over-rated (yet wealthy) Hollyweird liberals do…..he hoards all of his cash…..does absolutely zero for the needy (unless, of course, there is a media crew around to spread the word of his 'charitable nature'…in other words…sounding the trumpet for himself), and feels that 'only the little people should pay taxes'. Oh yeah….Farrell and his fellow ego-driven left coast freaks are just shining points of light. Be a REAL American…don't financially support any of the shlock that these leftards produce.
[...] RNC. Tags: Publius+Forum , Warner+Todd+Huston , Barack+Obama , Congress , Healthcare Bookmark to: Why Does Will Ferrell Hoard His Money While Children Suffer? – bighollywood.breitbart.com 09/28/2009 Will Ferrell and the fine folks over at “Funny or Die” [...]
Why Does Will Ferrell Hoard His Money While Children Suffer? Because hes' a no talent hack, and a spinster fraud. He's tighter than a clam with lock-jaw. He enjoys teaching small children to cuss for his comedy skits. Whoa to the man who leads a child astray, tis better to have a millstone tied around your neck and cast into the sea.
Mr Ehrenstein……………….I hear a lot of lumberjacks, but I don't see any trees falling.
Brilliant. I saw the FOD bit and had a similar reaction. Your piece here is spot-on, nicely done.
You want to know what is really, really wrong with America? That Will Ferrell got $20 million to star in "Bewitched."
You want to know what else is really, really wrong with America? That Will Ferrell got $20 million to star in "Land of the Lost".
You want to know what else is really, really wrong with America? That Will Ferrell got $20 million to star in "Semi-Pro"
(Stick around guys. I've can do these all night long….)
Interesting how a comedian who injects himself into politics quickly becomes unfunny.
Celebrities often forget that what made them famous had little or nothing to do with their political beliefs.
Wonderfully well presented commentary by Mr. Wilson. Will Farrell should spend the next year answering this rhetorical question every time he steps in front of a microphone: ____"Mr. Farrell, you have earned over $200 million in the past few years. How many poor, uninsured people have you personally helped insure to protect them from the injustice of the immoral insurance and medical industries? What other multimillionaire Hollywood celebutards have you pressured to help insure the poor and uninsured?"
PS I am happily unconflicted on the critique of Mr. Farrell, unlike many of you. I have thought him a talentless, sophomoric clown since the first time I saw him on SNL, doing some camp-quality cheerleader skit. He has made hundreds of millions thinking the way H L Mencken did — “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
Betcha five bucks that Will Ferrell is worth more than any health care executive.
oooh, brilliant post Michael. I am going to ask all my liberal friends to pay for my health insurance—and if they refuse, I'll call them racist.
What a hypocrite Moore is! He better be careful!! Obamacare will institute the "Fat Patrol" and if he doesn't comply, his LARDASS will get no healthcare!!! Obama will redistribute the wealth and Moore won't have the dough to go to Cuba!!!!
At least Bono does put some of his money where his mouth is…unlike Will Ferrell etc.
I have commented on other blogs about the "Actors" that I will no longer support by paying to see their movies. Farrell has joined this group. I have never thought he was funny, more in the shitty Chevy Chase mode, and his PSAs are even less funny than his movies. Altruism in Hollywood is all but dead since Paul Newman died. These people believe in the 1st Amendment as long as there is no price to pay for their statements and public positions. The Dixie Chicks are a good example of a group, mostly Natalie Maines, who belittled America to a foreign audience and then complained that their rights under the 1st Amendment were being taken away by the record buying public. If we all apply this standard to these talentless hacks maybe they will get the message
Bravo!!
Wow – it generally amazes me how much raw hatred these 'family oriented' conservatives have. Kinda scary in a way.
haha – you know whats more funny then that? Their intelligence was right! haha thats right, we were wrong – nope no WMD in Irag and a $50T bill for the needless war!
We should have listened to France… But thats ok, because Bush did a lot for the US, right?
Very well written and argued, Michael.
This article could not be more right on. Bravo.
"hatred"?
for what? for sanctimonious lefties who wipe their a** with fifties yet feel obligated to lecture everyone else on our lack of morality for failing to sip the kool-aid latte?
I see anger at leftwing hypocrisies that pile on forever,
and I see lefties who type things in so emotionally charged with outrage they must have to wipe down the monitor afterward from all the spittle flying.
clue bud,.
don't throw stones bashing folks for making money, if you
make more than they do..
makes you look as stupid as Ferrel, and as the post mentions, doesn't that make him immoral too?
or is that too hard for a lefty to grasp?
Justin, aside from the fact that you think you're just scoring a cheap point, I think I'll actually respond to that bit of nonsense.
The reason "family-oriented" conservatives are so full of "hatred," as you put it, is that they see the welfare and freedom of their families– themselves and their children (You've heard of children, right? They're these things people out in the hinterlands have, which somehow are related to the continuation of the species)– threatened by the casual assumption that the government has the right and duty to plunder their very hard-earned savings in order to give, oh, say, ACORN a few billion bucks to illegally bolster Democrats' votes for Senator Al Franken, when they're not to busy breaking into foreclosed houses so they can set up sex-slave brothels with little girls as the starring attractions. The fact is, to all these "tea-baggers," as you not doubt contemptuously refer to them (and you can suck my balls, you ass), this nonsense has real-life consequences that they feel every day, as they attempt to be responsible and take care of their kids.
And you know what? Yes, it's hatred. But not hatred of people– like you thumb-suckers tearing apart the family of Sarah Palin, or… oh, God, the examples are limitless– but a good and healthy hatred of the irrational, intellectually dishonest, self-serving, egomaniacal crap that passes for "liberal" thought these days.
I can only think of two "celebrities" that actually put their money and time and effort where their mouth is, Paul Newman who started "Newman's Own" foods and contributed over $250million dollars AFTER taxes to charities of his choice and Dick VanPatten who started "Natural Balance" pet food and contributes to domestic animal(pets) causes with his profits.
Think about this, these two guys along with their families start for-profit companies selling great products and then pay taxes and then give the profits to those they consider deserving.
Paul Newman was a great American, even if he was primarily an actor….
snort
Likewise, this quotation attributed to Winston Churchill:
"If you're not a liberal when you're 20, you have no heart. If
you're not a conservative when you're 40, you have no head."
Read through his quotations; what wisdom, wit and insight he possessed!!!
It's no wonder that Obama returned the bust of Churchill to Great Britain!!! (Obama very well could have found a room in the White House, perhaps a closet. But, NO!!!! He just wanted to showcase how rude and insulting he could be!!! Etiquette escapes him.)
[...] at Big Hollywood, Micheal Wilson makes a great point: The actors and comedians in the PSA could literally buy health insurance for tens, if not [...]
Will Ferrel probably another commie idiot who hoard money and scold others for being a capitalist pig. Why does this idiot give up their money and send it to Barack so he can create that Utopia that he promise?
For the record, Will Ferrel has no talent.
what a great response!!! kudos!!!
If you don't like government run healthcare then why should WE support YOUR insensitive NEED for your MONEY?! At my blog, collectivewishes.blogspot.com, we oppose everything that is destructive to the world and the country at large…and if you knew what you were talking about you'd stop and just think about that.
Ferrell's video http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/041b5acaf5/prote... makes all these Hollywood elites look like the idiots they are. There is a funny come back video that slams Ferrell and friends, it's hysterical! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwmkCVa0u1w
It's all about virtue.
It is virtuous to be generous. It is evil to be selfish. It is virtuous to punish the evil, therefore it is virtuous to punish the selfish.
People who have money and don't give it away are selfish. It is therefore virtuous to punish them by taking their money away.
That leaves the money-taker with money. It would not be virtuous to hold on to it, but it is generous to give it away, which accumulates further virtue.
The Leftist, thus double-armored by virtuous behavior, is then free to protect his or her own assets to a degree that would make Scrooge blush, and they do. I refer to the behavior as "Mercedes Marxism".
Regards,
Ric
olddog, I've also heard
"A liberal is someone that spends their life in the mistaken belief that it's possible to pick up a turd by the "clean" end."
You would be incorrect on one point: Capitalism. Liberals definitely understand capitalism when it's their capital you're talking about. That's why liberals such as Will Ferrell hire agents and managers to deal with the capitalistic side of their life. They want to increase their capital and they hire people to get it for them.
that's funny, i never thought funnyman ferrell was funny at all. in fact it's funny that people think he's funny. funny thing that, eh?
When exactly did hatred become taboo for liberals? Shortly after the flaming effigies of George W. Bush petered out?
Wait a minute, is it an acquired taste or is it like lutefisk? Uff da!
"Raw hatred"? As opposed to "Cooked Hatred?" I've got a newsflash for you Justin – it's coming from both sides. Open your eyes and try a different cliche next time.
Perfect, now someone send it to Will and see how funny he finds it. He always struck me as an ass, the same way Chevy Chase was suppose to be a nice guy, till you met him.
I'm going to miss that upcoming movie of his, the one where he plays a bewildered effeminate guy. Groundbreaking stuff!
Twenty years from now, Will Ferrell will still be doing his W routine….at clubs in Branson, Missouri for bus-tours of old people.
Problem:
There are reported to be 46 million uninsured (15% of the population) in the country – the other 85% have private health insurance or are enrolled in Medicare/Medicaid. The status of the uninsured folks breaks down as follows: 14 million already qualify for Medicare/Medicaid but have not signed up; 8 million wealthy people who choose not to have health insurance; 8 million single young people without children who have the means to purchase health insurance (>$50,000 annual income) but choose not to; 10 million illegal aliens; and 6 million people who want health insurance but cannot afford it and do not currently qualify for Medicare/Medicaid. Considering these facts and the moralistic stylings of liberals, I make the real problem out to be 16 million people (10 million illegal aliens and 6 million who want it but are unable to get it). Let's just make it simple and round this up to 20 million.
My my my look who shows UP on a right wing website! Why the friend of Cathy Siepp! "Why are straight me so fucked up" from DL. Oh how FUNNY Ehrenstain. Still drinking I see.
Opportunity:
There are over 300 million people in the USA organized into roughly 100 million households. Polls consistently show the following proportions of political ideology: conservative 40%, mushy middle 40%, and liberal 20%. So that means we have about 20 million liberal households.
Solution:
So we have 20 million uninsured people that liberals lie awake at night worrying about, and 20 million liberal households. So here is the easy smeasy solution: Each liberal household should simply adopt one uninsured person by promising to provide that person with health care! The cost to each liberal household must surely be worth it considering their apocalyptic attitude to the current situation. Perhaps this would mean fewer trips to Starbucks or having to send their kid to a private school one notch lower on the status list.
But, my extensive knowledge of liberals tells me they would rather feel good about themselves not because of what they have done themselves, but rather because of what they have mandated others to do. Given the collapsing poll numbers for Dear Leader, it would appear the rest of the country is learning some of what I already knew.
I've got an idea. Lets have gov't mandated entertainment to "compete" with the private actors in the entertainment biz, because they make waaaaaay too much money. Therefore, we will cap what any actor can make at, say 100K per year, and then create a government run tv & movie company and hire homeless comedians and unemployed actors, and force the entire country to watch this government run tv station and govt. movies instead. Those evil film and television companies will finally get what they deserve!!
a liberal measures success by counting how many people are on a "program" while a conservative measures success by how many are not.
Why don't all the bleeding hearts in Hollywood and elsewhere simply form a charity, pool vast amounts of their own money, and forego the whole insurance middle man thing that they seem to see as a scam, and use that big pool of money to pay for the health care of the poorest among us as needed? It's a pretty easy thing to get organized.
Oh, right…
(My church does that though. And my sister started a Foundation in the memory of her husband, who died at 31 trying to save a stranger from drowning. That foundation has given nearly $80,000/year…more than she makes in her job. And my wife, who works as a speech pathologist in the neo-natal unit of our city's children's hospital, volunteers time and services, along with many of her co-worker doctors, nurses, rehab specialists, etc. But these Hollywood liberals? They're busy at the next Playboy mansion party and red carpet event. Screw them.)
We should go out to them and just ask them for money. They are rich and we are poor. That should be enough reason and then we will go and move into their mansions in Hollywood because we are poor and they are rich. Let's do it!!!! It will be so much fun. Madonna's home. Michael Moore's home..they have so many bedrooms and bathrooms and lots of food! They are rich and they have to give it to us because they say so! "Give money to the poors"
You know that's all well and good that Boner does actually use some of his own funds for these awesome services, but then the douchebag disgracefully disrespected President Bush (who Sir Geldoff graciously acknowledged for giving the most to Africa than any other president) by ducking his hug on stage and then making fun of him about it and joking with Obummer about it. Unreal that his misguided hatred for Bush could eclipse his gratitude to the President. Again, typical liberal, totally classless and nauseating!!
You're not very bright are you? Did you see the part where she has to pay $10,000 out of pocket before her insurance kicks in coverage? You didn't? Figures. Because that's what $50 a month buys you–an insanely high deductible, which is why it is called "catastrophic" health insurance. Real insurance, the kind that covers things besides you getting hit by a bus and somehow surviving, is in the neighborhood of $400 a month. So nice try on blaming the victim. And your little rant about liberals being happy soldiers were dying? That says a lot more about the way you view the world, because I don't know a single liberal who was happy about that. That you could even make a blanket generalization like that shows that you can't be trusted in even the smallest of things, much less commenting on important issues.
Ah, nothing like making up stories. Try a little harder next time though.
What kills me most about this guy is that I'm a DIE HARD USC fan.
I can tolerate his meager infantile film making…I just don't have to watch them. But when clowns like him empower the jokers of the DNC leadership all I can say is "GO THE THE UCLA SIDELINE." They are more YOU.
Except a self righteous liberal. Note how to spell righteous, but you are so much smarter than us? NOT!
Actually they are not married. Some kind of defiance against the institution or something. It's not like i know how they think…
More Epic hypocrisy from the Hollywood elites, who of course, know better than us simpletons out here in flyover country. This is comically similar to the big, fat, rich Michael Moore getting richer and fatter by making a movie about just how evil Capitalism is! Just how much money has that pig made by exploiting tragedies like Columbine and 9-11? Does he donate ANY of it to charity?? Not that I’ve ever heard. Because if he did, Hollywood and the Liberal establishment would be beating us over the head with how noble he is.
What a country!
I'm college educated, and have taken more than one college level economics class. Have you? I understand capitalism and insurance quite well (probably better than most uneducated conservatives), thank you very much. I also understand that despite paying thousands of dollars a year to insurance companies (multiple companies in multiple states over 15 years), most of the time when I'm in need of medical care, insurance has failed me, rejected my claims and forced me to pay for my health care out-of-pocket while they pocket the money I pay them for a service which they do not perform. Thanks to our government, they can't be sued for failing to live up to their end of the bargain. May you or a loved-one someday have the same experience with healthcare that myself and millions of others have had, then I'll buy you a beer and listen to you complain. Maybe one of your children will die because insurance refuses to pay for treatment you cannot afford, maybe other republicans that have not had to deal with an insurance company will laugh at you and call you ignorant when you are down. Maybe, if there is justice in the world.
Let me guess, Mr. Wilson – you know exactly how much Will Ferrell does or does not donate to charity every year? I suppose you've also never had, or at least had to use (tried to use is more like it), health insurance. If you did, you'd obviously know what a racket it is. You pay a premium for it (pun intended), and yet when a claim is submitted, it is almost always denied. In any other form of contract one participant could sue the other for failing to live up to the agreement. But not insurance companies, HMOs to be exact, the holiest of cows in America, the only institutions that cannot be taken to court for failing to provide according to a legal agreement – may everyone that has ever worked for a health insurance company in any capacity, burn in Hell forever!
Health care reform made easy: require every health insurance company to include with ANY health insurance policy issued, a $2 million life insurance rider. I doubt any health insurance company would refuse to pay a claim from that point on.
In case anyone is wondering why Mr. Wilson looks like a bigger a$$ than Will Ferrell for writing this article, it's because of this: It is not Will Ferrell's job to provide healthcare to people that need it. On the other hand, it IS the job of health insurance companies to pay for health services rendered to their customers – something they rarely do, at least at full market value or without first rejecting the claim numerous times hoping the customer will get discouraged and give up at attempting to collect on what is rightfully theirs. Will Ferrell's job, is to entertain us, and make us laugh. Unlike the greedy heads of health insurance corporations, who are only sucessful financially because of congressional protections that prevent their precious HMOs from being sued by the people they have wronged – Mr. Ferrell is quite good at his job.
$50T Where the heck did you get that ridiculous figure? The Iraq and Afghan wars up til 2009 cost America less than one, yes one Trillion dollars. Get your numbers right. Though having said that, even one Trillion is too much and I'm no Bush fan and feel the Iraq war was unnecessary and not fought well until Rummy was fired. The deficit was barely 1 Trillion for 2008, it's double that and headed towards quadruple that with the excessive social spending plans of Obama…and will be over $10T says the CBO in the coming 10 years, and that's after they assume the war spending drops after we get out of Iraq in 2011. France by the way has a GDP smaller than California's, so much for their empire, and with their labor party controls, they haven't seen sub 10% unemployment for decades. Remember the kids burning cars in the streets? That was due to ridiculous unemployment and efforts to raise the age of when a French person can enter into a 5 year labor contract…that's right, 5 year labor contract…hence the 14% unemployment rates. That seems to be the model liberals and Obama want…..now that's not very bright is it? Do we really want a lower GDP and higher unemployment? Companies will flee, and are already. I'd take Clinton's moderate Dem economic policies over the lefty Obama's anyday.
Compare what an exec has to do annually to earn, say, a modest 10m and what your typical Hwood celib has to do. Most of the over-indulged entertainers hectoring us would have to not work every couple of years to keep it down to less than 10m.
I've never had a claim denied including tumor extraction and a car accident that should have been on my car insurance company and I have private health care that is not from my employer that I can't imagine being any cheaper.
hahaha. conservatives are funny. Get upset about something else inconsequential and let me know!
Nope. I don't know how much Ferrell gives to charity. I have had insurance in the past. My kids have it now. I've never, ever had a claim denied. At least not one significant enough that I can think of it. And you're also full of shit about the lawsuit thing. You cannot sue the federal government for failure to provide services under contract law, but people sue their insurance companies every day and win when the insurance company is wrong. So I don't know where your facts are coming from, but everything in your post was wrong. Next contestant.
You bring up some valid points, Jason. If private insurance was held to account and not allowed to refuse service for technicalities, or preexisting conditions, things would definitely be better. If costs could be brought down by allowing interstate competition and reforming tort law, better still. Odd thing though, is that these are some of the very reforms proposed by uneducated conservatives, or Republican lawmakers, if you will.
We aren't opposed to reform, Jason. We are opposed, however, to mindless reform, reform that does not ultimately make the system better. We're very much against the moral equivalency this essay illustrates. Holding insurance companies' feet to the fire (as well as those of the hungry lawyers out there), economically and procedurally, will actually help those who find themselves in your situation. One thousand-plus pages of convoluted rhetoric won't do much at all. Good luck-I honestly hope everything works out for you.
[...] The Legend of Ron Burgundy” and “Step Brothers.” In a Tweet on Tuesday, McKay says that my last article (about Will Ferrell decrying insurance executives) was “sub-moronic.” He also [...]
You apparently do not understand the concept of insurance.
Insurance is not a price offset. The idea is not that you pay $50 a month and the insurance provides you with $500 a month of health care. The idea of insurance is that you pay a small amount to offset the possibility of a large claim.
So the large deductible idea is quite rational. The problem is that we no longer think of health insurance as insurance. We think of it as subsidy. Which is why expanding it to everyone and making it mandatory is an unworkable business model.
But even with that said, you're wrong. There are numerous health care plans available for less than $100 a month that conform to the Blue Cross / Blue Shield pay schedule of $25/$10/$10.
"I don't know a single liberal who was happy about that"
And how many people do you know who voted for Nixon, Ms. Kael? MoveOn.org's shameful ad campaigns during Bush's presidency is all the rebuttal your ignorant point needs.
Actually I own insurance, and I work for a small corporation. But neither is relevant – you admit ignorance as to what her plan would have cost, and when the story broke the local insurers all released information as to what affordable plans she could have purchased.
Actually, their intelligence was wrong. There were WMD in Iraq:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?...
This report has been cited over and over and people like you just won't accept it.
But more importantly, the only reason France didn't want to invade Iraq was because they – along with China and Russia – were making tons of money off illegal kickback deals with oil-for-food, and selling Iraq weapons and other war material.
I'm sure at HuffPo people don't fact-check you. Here you won't get a free ride.
[...] released a MoveOn.org-funded pro-ObamaCare video for his website FunnyOrDie.com. Several at Big Hollywood took issue with the video. Ferrell’s partner Adam McKay even tweeted that our Michael [...]
check out a parody of the Will Ferrell video here. Much better, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ9Te1XP8RM
Hi Mr. Wilson, I'm from town. Nice ideas piece you got here. Check if I've got it summarized correctly.
It's ironic that the most successful liberals are successful.
You are a big fan of comedy.
I own a culinary magazine. Would you please write an article about how:
It's ironic that the saltiest foods are salty.
Your favorite food is lunch, although breakfast isn't too bad, either.
How disgusting to say someone's child dying is "justice in the world". You should be ashamed.
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