They Give Me a Damn Headache
Okay, let’s say your name is Greg Collett and you’re a 41-year-old software developer living in Caldwell, Idaho, and you’re not making much money but you have 10 kids. Why would you oppose Obamacare?
“I don’t think that the government should be involved in health care or health insurance,” says Greg Collett, a 41-year-old software developer in Caldwell, Idaho, who would rather pay the fine for now — $95 the first year — than signup….
Collett, who is married and has 10 children, says the kids are covered by Medicaid, the joint state-federal health insurance plan for people with low income and children who are not covered.
Wait. Wait. Wait a damn minute. Is there something crazy about that? His 10 kids are covered by Medicaid but he doesn’t think government should be involved in health care?
His rationalization? He homeschools his kids so he saves the government money there.
No. I. Am. Not. Kidding.
Collett, whose children are home-schooled, likens taking Medicaid to sending children to public school. He also does not approve of government-funded public schools. “The government is taking your money. They are spending it on things they shouldn’t be,” he says. “Trying to get whatever you can back — I have nothing against that. You have to at some point try and get your tax dollars back.”
Oh, so he’s just getting even. I get it. No, wait. I could be wrong about that. If his kids qualify for Medicaid, does he even pay taxes?
Collett says that he’ll pay the $95 fine for not getting Obamacare until it increases so much that “it makes economic sense” for him to go ahead and get it. Oh yeah, economic sense. This guy is just full of economic sense. Has the Nobel Prize for economics been handed out yet because this guy could be a contender.
I think we’ve found that “low information voter” I keep hearing about.
His 10 kids are covered under Medicaid so screw everyone else’s kids who might make enough not to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford health insurance.
Greg thinks everybody else should be forced to live by his philosophy to make up for the fact that he doesn’t. There ya go — the typical tea partier.
They make my head hurt.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
He is definitely not saying that he home schools his kids and thus saves the government the money they spend on medicaid for his kids. He is asserting as a matter of fact that because the government takes his tax dollars for public school for other people’s kids that he is entitled to “take back” what he has paid in the form of looting medicaid with his brood and their costs. So: he’s lying to himself and the interviewer because there is no way that the taxes he pays, with the tax credit he probably gets for the ten kids, comes anywhere close to what he is costing all of us with medicaid. And he has to know it. The very definition of both a moocher and a looter who thinks he’s a “job creator” and an independent, randian, individual.
1I save the law enforcement community a lot of money by not breaking the law. So I shouldn’t have to pay taxes either. And I haven’t reported a fire in over two years, sot the fire dept owes me some money. By gawd I want my refund!
2All about Greg:
http://www.gregcollettforidaho.com/
3I think his kids are gong to be real weak in math, civics, and sociology. I suspect their grammar skills won’t be too strong either!
4Geeze, I am living here cheap for the taxpayers. I am gainfully employed, have 100% employer paid HC, my kid is grown and gainfully employed –
ALL I WANT IS FOR MEDICARE TO BE LOWERED to 55! I’m 59 and hubby is 60, he is also gainfully employed with employer paid HC plus VA!
Dayum, this idiot is truly an Evangelibagger who sounds home-skooled hisownself.
SAVE US, MR. PRESIDENT.
5Greg does not have a philosophy. Greg is greedy and irresponsible.
Note: If Greg’s wife has had ten children, who paid for the pregnancies? Or did she just squeeze ’em out while plowing’ the back forty?
6He should take that $95 to a veterinarian and get his balls clipped.
7Now here is a good example of the corpus callosum, The arched bridge of nervous tissue that connects the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain. Females have a porous bridge that allows information to flow freely between the 2 hemispheres. They even have a better chance of recovery after stroke or brain surgery for epilepsy than men. With the male population, that bridge is way solid! Free flowing information is not that standard with huge sections of the menfolk anywhere on this planet. Hence, Greg Collett.
8This guy’s nuts. Read his comments on his Repub Party Disclosure form. He practically rewrote the whole thing & admits he hates Idaho’s Constitution.
“The Idaho Constitution is rife with communist, fascist, and socialistic ideas and is certainly not a
document I hold highly. While it does currently serve as the law in Idaho, I advocate replacing
our state constitution with a new document patterned after the U.S. Constitution, or at the very
least, amending it to accomplish that purpose.”
No wonder he lost. He’s way past their insanity levels. He’s worse than Rand Paul on Rachel discussing Civil rights. They’ll be no equal opportunity employment in HIS Idaho.
At least I know who to call when my cuckoo clock bird dies.
http://www.gregcollettforidaho.com/republican-party-candidate-disclosure
9I know why the man is not making money as a software contractor. He’s an idiot.
10Mormon who adopted kids and uses Medicaid…..interesting role model for us all .
11Speechless. Totally. 10 kids?
12He’s the Talibangelical base all his own self!
13Ok if he adopted 10 kids he’s better than a whole bunch of the right-to-lifers I know! And, BTW,*my* typing skills are weak; that “gong” was supposed to be “going” and this darn phone is supposed to be smart! I do wield a mean shovel…
14The fact that he got whupped by his opponent about 2:1 does a little to restore my flagging faith in the intelligence of the electorate.
15Often, when children are adopted or taken in from the foster care system, the parents receive a monthly payment for each child. I don’t know that that is the case here, but Greg Collette probably doesn’t make enough working from home to support 10 kids on his salary alone.
It’s also very little risk for the people who don’t want government to interfere with health care to go without insurance, because they know if they are not covered for any medical situation they can go to the emergency room and have government pay for 100% of their bill. They can take their stand on the backs of other taxpayers.
16Maggie–the interesting thing is that Einstein’s corpus callosum
17I was very porous and his brain was funny shaped–I just read about it yesterday–don’t remember where-dang! I believe the article also said the CC was thicker than most and allowed his mind to think more wholly because of it…
I wish there was a test, so only holistic thinking people could run for office–there are so many things to consider about bills, rules and laws, and the impact that occurs from each of them.
Sigh.
Obamacare comes from the Evil Gubmint.
Medicaid and Medicare come from Ricky the Magic Pixie.
Everybody straight on that now?
18Also, as a member of the LDS he ( if he’s poor) is getting food and other benefits from the Church itself–that’s one of the reasons they can have such large families–I lived with the daughter of a bishop when I was a student in college and the support for them (she and her husband) was amazing–she was with child before their first year of marriage was complete..
19Of course as a single girl, living with her family(I rented the back room) I was pressured to join, join, join….couldn’t take that so left after 6 months…
Yeah, well, he don’t live in Tayuksis.
20So the bills for delivering this guy’s kids were paid by Medicaid? Goes to show that some guys can be deadbeat dads without ever leaving home and abandoning their families. So far as I can see, he never served in the military nor did anything else for his country or his fellow citizens, except maybe stand up in grade school and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Nice recitation. No follow-through. Conservative patriot? Conservative parasite is more like it.
21Please tell me what software he develops so I won’t buy any.
22As the posted link about him shows, they are FOSTER parents. ALL foster children are on Medicaid, that is the way it works when the state takes custody.
People really should research.
23Who digs up these mouth breathing doofi? And why do we continue to pay any attention to their lunatic ravings?
24Oh Don, he offered himself up as a suitable candidate for the Idaho statehouse! That’s how he got on the radar! I’d sure like to see a Jon Stewart send up of this clown! Glory, y’all you just cain’t make this stuff up!
25Kelly – they him homeschool foster children? All 10 of them?
26Foster parents get X amount of monies per child. I don’t know if it is enough,of and by itself,to pay for each child,and now I have to wonder how tools like this can be so adamant about denying abortions to people who can’t afford children. Foster children surely cost more than an abortion and not everyone is ready,willing and/or able to be good parents. Hypocracy is rampant with rwnj,fauxknee christian doofuses like this one. As an aside,I really love the humor that abounds on this site. Keep me laughing or else.
27Elise, the abridged version of my teeny bit on the corpus callosum goes like this: he’s a cementhead.
28Don’t know about Idaho or their current fosters system. When I was much younger, we had 4 foster kids. The money from the state did not cover their allowance. But DH said , to make a point to people who would have been TPartiers, I always cash my ADC checks at the liquor store.
29I’m sure some of you have seen the Duggers (I hope I spelled that right) series on cable TV. You know, 19 kids & counting. Mr Dugger probably pays no state, nor Fed. taxes because of all his dependents. Uses the the roads & public services that most of us pay for, & no doubt feels entitled to rip off the rest of us.
30I work in the foster system in Texas. My agency pays $25 to $55 per day/per kid, depending on their level of need (medical, psychological, etc.) This dude is making bank off of those kids and the money the state pays is not taxable as it’s labeled as “reimbursement.” Now, I don’t know about Idaho, of course, but I don’t think Texas will let you home school foster kids unless they’re in a home-bound situation or there some other compelling need.
Enrollment for Children in DFPS Conservatorship Ages 5 Through 21
All children who are in DFPS conservatorship and are at least 5 years old and younger than 21 years old on the first day of September of any school year must be enrolled in:
• a public school that has been accredited by the Texas Education Agency (TEA); or
• a private school accredited by the Texas Private School Accreditation Commission.
The CPS assistant commissioner has the authority to approve a case-specific exemption. … 15235.1 Requesting an Exception for Home Schooling
CPS August 2013
A request for a policy exception or waiver to allow a child to be educated in the home must contain all of the following:
• The name and age of the child
• The specific educational needs of the child that justify the request
• The means by which the exception being requested will address those needs
• The circumstances that make the request appropriate
• A description of the alternative school or program, including the curriculum and accreditation
• An assessment of how the school or program will meet the child’s academic and social needs
• Any special education services and modifications needed to accommodate the child’s disability
• How the child’s academic progress will be measured
http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/handbooks/cps/files/CPS_pg_x15000.asp
31Excellent info,momrois. From what I understand about Texas is they lowball all public assistance because of low tax revenues.
32Looked a tiddly bit more into this guy’s background. How the blazes did Child Services ever approve him as a foster parent? He is wayyyy obviously a very fearful person, seeing “stuff” everywhere that he can whine about. This is not the kind of model you want for kids who may have already been through hell. I know that around my piece of the planet if you are on meds you stand just about zero chance of fostering per the county social workers. I really feel for those kids! It has also been discovered that home schooled children have a damned hard time in a regular college, hence the development of a college (Patrick Henry) in my area just for such kids. Nope. No federal $$ in this little red schoolhouse.
33Why do I think he programs in BASIC?
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