tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post3206955951463982370..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: Jimmy's EarNewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-21410958425069771562009-09-26T08:29:46.707-07:002009-09-26T08:29:46.707-07:00Mike, you didn't answer the question: As an Ob...Mike, you didn't answer the question: As an Obama "birther," if you lost your paper/embossed seal birth certificate and had to get issued a copy that was formatted differently, wouldn't you have to question whether you were a US citizen? I mean, your copy wouldn't have a seal and everything, would it.Which would mean you couldn't prove you were a U.S. citizen. Awww, too bad. There goes your Medicare and we'd have to make sure if you ever needed an emergency room, you'd be turned away as an illegal alien.Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-46662393496259303602009-09-22T09:34:52.429-07:002009-09-22T09:34:52.429-07:00I actually have the aged original with the embosse...I actually have the aged original with the embossed seal... Haven't needed a copy though...but maybe I am more organized than most... Still have the original SS card from when I was 12 and throwing the Telegram Tribune in SLO Town... <br /><br />I don't understand the nonsense surrounding the actual Birth Certificate for Obama unless one was trying very hard to say he's not a US Citizen...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06093426896476666691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-30799802836908259452009-09-22T06:59:06.125-07:002009-09-22T06:59:06.125-07:00Mike, you clearly didn't read what I had writt...Mike, you clearly didn't read what I had written about Demo & Repub pigs at the trough. Plus you didn't answer my question regarding your paper, ink, misspelled street address Birth Certificate.Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-42765708047226454542009-09-21T07:25:41.669-07:002009-09-21T07:25:41.669-07:00Gad Ann... I am surprised you still live in the US...Gad Ann... I am surprised you still live in the USA with all the corruption you see around every corner... except I guess you don't see that there are probably as many Democrat con artists working just to be re-elected as there are Republicans... You really seem to want a totalitarian form of goverment... of your personal view of what is correct...<br /><br />I am amazed you can stand to live in the USA under our imperfect government... You seem to be for anything the Demo's feed you and spit on everything that sounds Republican... Have you ever even been in other countries...???Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06093426896476666691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-44077979858472001002009-09-21T07:07:04.649-07:002009-09-21T07:07:04.649-07:00Not yet sez:"It is a modern computer generate...Not yet sez:"It is a modern computer generated document, far from a paper certificate such as mine, hand signed by the uncle physician who delivered me, complete with getting my street of parent’s residence off by two letters, a real white lettering on black old fashioned wet process vettable photocopy of the water damaged original. My birth certificate would stand up to scrutiny by the National Archives, not that anybody would find it worth the effort."<br /><br />A question here: Suppose, Not Yet, that your files are damaged by a fire or flood or termites eat your paper and ink birth certificate, so you write to your home county and request another copy and they send you a new! Improved! electronic form and you say, No, no, I want an exact duplicate of my old paper and ink certificate, complete with embossed stamp and maybe purple ink, and they say, sorry, we transferred all those old paper files to electronic data files and dumped the paper as it was moldy and rotting and taking up too much space, this electronic form we sent you IS your official birth certificate now, would that mean you would no longer be a citizen? Or maybe that would mean that you were never born, since you can't prove it ever happend, there now being no ink and paper certificate? <br /><br />As for your contention that Democrats are responsible for our present mess, Aaron's right. We've had Demo & Repug pigs at the trough, but Repubs have been in charge for 20 + years and have, true to their philosophy and their self interests (all those K Street Lobbyists at work there) loosened the "rules" to let the "free market" rule, forgetting that every game needs rules (and Rule Policemen rather than Wink-nudge Cardboard Cutouts put in place to fool the rubes coming in to play) if it wishes to avoid turning into a mooks game -- which this one did, which made a lot of the folks running the scam very happy and left the rest of us stuck with the bill.Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-7051055591943817102009-09-20T10:28:07.235-07:002009-09-20T10:28:07.235-07:00You know who actually ordered the banks like Bank ...You know who actually ordered the banks like Bank of America to offer no-document and no-qualify loans, sub-prime loans? The Bush administration. In a speech he made in 2007, Bush told people, "Go out there and buy your homes." Bush enabled the banks to offer these risky loans. Only later in his term did he even consider cracking down on a <i>few</i> GSEs that caused this mess.<br /><br />Democratic administrations? Which ones are you referring to? Clinton? I'd like to see where Clinton left the floodgates open on these loans. I thought, for a moment, you were referring to Democrats like Barney Frank (D-Mass), who has pushed through legislation that has benefited Fannie Mae in the past. It's true, he was a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 -- and he even fought the Bush administration's reform of Fannie Mae in 2008. True, there have been Democrats who have turned the other cheek, but before the Democrats took over the House and the Senate, the Republicans did not push through a single bill to assess and remedy the impending mortgage loan crisis. Even when they had the power to bust a filibuster, they let the Laissez-Faire market run free.<br /><br />So what has happened during the eight years of President Bush, really? What has happened -- during those eight years -- when the Democratic leadership was in the minority? The Democratic leadership is wholly responsible for this mess? Really?<br /><br />Boy, I can never get tired of that "sonny boy" talk. "You don't have enough life experience," yadda yadda yadda. You know, for eight years, there have been people, older people with more life experience than me, waving their finger and lecturing the people about why the free market should prosper and how the American people would benefit from it via the trickle-down effect. Turns out, they were half-right. Big business -- especially those buying up all the toxic loans/assets -- did profit while middle-class took a nosedive into the recession. Even though some have more life experience than me, they have proven to be wrong -- and quite frankly, wrong for America.<br /><br />Keep your tin foil hat, Not2010Yet.Aaron Ochs - Managing Editor of The ROCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10955571563734090743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-80977135206603217932009-09-20T09:59:34.690-07:002009-09-20T09:59:34.690-07:00Not2010Yet,
I'm not sitting down. You just pr...Not2010Yet,<br /><br />I'm not sitting down. You just proved to me that you have no clue what you're talking so <b>YOU</b> sit down and listen to what everyone else is saying.Aaron Ochs - Managing Editor of The ROCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10955571563734090743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-60940005741135601642009-09-20T09:50:15.891-07:002009-09-20T09:50:15.891-07:00Chura says: Most media is corporate, in the hands ...Chura says: Most media is corporate, in the hands of very few major corporations. That's why I laugh when I hear people say "liberal" media. My response: Chura this may be true however the corporate heads appear to select rampant liberalism despite tanking and pathetic ratings, a la MSNBC. You are correct to note corporate ownership and one would NOT expect them to pursue low ratings (and therefore low advertising rates and profits) however the complete liberal bias and concomitant financial results are nevertheless there for us all to see.<br /><br /><br />Chura asks: "Did the congress become filled with elitist boobs only after the last election, or were the previously Republican controlled congress also filled with elitist boobs? Just trying to figure out if you consider elitest boobism to be Democratic? or are all congresses afflicted with it. If so, were you out there railing against the previous congress or only this one?" Not2010 responds: largely yep, elitist boob-ism happens to be the purview of the Democratic party but I must acknowledge the presence of plenty of Republican participation, such as McCain, Snow, particularly Specter, etc. In the latter cases, some Republicans play right smack dab into the hands of Democrats who are unabashed liberals instead of wishy washy disgraceful pawn Republicans-In-Name-Only or RINOs.<br /><br /><br />Chura notes: Also, about "liberal" left-wing media. What TV news shows or daily papers or national news magazines have a "labor" segment or page. Times has a whole business section every day, but nothing on labor, on working folks, on issues directly affecitng the workpalce & etc. Zip. Zero. Wonder why? Not2010 responds: Open the Sunday TV listings in TVGUIDE.com, highlight everybody's news shows except FOX and Meet The Press when Russert ran it. Hit control-C to copy. Open a blank page in Word. Hit control V to paste. click PRINT and you have your answer as to who's shows are labor or union slanted. Go to top menu bar, click on BOLD, go to top line and type your own heading "TV shows with a labor bias, only they don't use the label LABOR PAGE as Chura suggests". click the diskette "save" icon, and you're set. (No offense meant here, Chura, I realize you're not a dummy and are a keyboard wizard, I'm just making an attempt at a clever response, and I acknowledge that my cleverness has a major degree of variability in it's achievement level). <br /><br /><br /><br />Chura remarks: "and in your final rant, you forgot to tell us what the top Wall St. firms were doing while Fannie May was selling questionable loans to unqualified people. Don't think the top Wall St. firms are being run by Democrats." Not 2010 responds: oh they played along, this is true and I acknowledged that above in paragraph 1 line 47 or so (gads I can be verbose) when I asked the young man from the Rock to NOT tell me lenders enjoyed or boosted some of this." However, I again state that the genesis of bad loans, and the impetus propulsion or promotion under threat of legal force and devastation of these overheating proximate-cause bad loans came right smack DAB out of the hands of the Democratic party and it's elected, appointed, hired and promoted minions and policies therefrom. <br /><br />I believe that when the history of all this is written, and through all the revisionist and slanted historical tripe that will come and has already come, the fault will be allocated properly on the well-meant but disastrous attempts to shove around and change a free market real estate private and pseudo-government financing system by armed Democrats. Armed with the clubs and jackboots of federal lawyers and thugs. <br /><br />6:28 AM, September 20, 2009Not2010Yethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12303065344083043195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-19537984169783221192009-09-20T07:58:04.214-07:002009-09-20T07:58:04.214-07:00A single thread is easily broken whereas many thre...A single thread is easily broken whereas many threads taken together form strong rope or cable which cannot be broken.Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-45546141491151053352009-09-20T07:39:09.842-07:002009-09-20T07:39:09.842-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-76939345610395016142009-09-20T07:30:58.414-07:002009-09-20T07:30:58.414-07:00Dear Ann,
These days a label does not represent ...Dear Ann, <br /><br />These days a label does not represent the true quality of the garment. Not buying something simply because it has wool, silk, cotton, polyester or a blend of any of these limits the experience available to the shopper/buyer.<br /><br />Everyone who will be paying for the collection and treatment of wastewater in LO/BP should be concerned why wasn't vacuum collection wasn't actually studied? When people put their bias aside and ask “why” of those who will vote to take on the responsibility for construction of and who will get paid for the project management their financial interests will be protected. The currently incomplete government "process" isn't in the best financial interest of the people who will pay for it. Asking "why" the only other alternative collection system was not studied in a $7MM study of alternatives isn't only prudent, for many it means continued financial viability, in a coming economic mess.<br /><br />SLOCO, Paavo and Bruce haven't answered the question "why vacuum collection wasn't studied?" and the lack of any response is very telling. <br /><br />AS Bruce Gibson is the Council Chair and LO/BP’s Representative he has a fiduciary duty to correct the incomplete study to include vacuum collection and other more efficient treatment processes, yet he has ignored that duty thus far. He may have a conflict of interest issue should he fail to make good and deliver a “complete” REVIEW of ALTERNATIVES Report. I know not where he is receiving his legal advice but I hope “the people” aren’t paying for that too.<br /><br />Back to my fiber analogy above: A single tread is easily broken whereas many threads taken together forms strong rope cable which cannot be broken.<br />The Golden Gate Bridge is one example where cable is used instead of chain. A chain is only as strong as the weakest link.<br /><br />As catastrophic financial changes are now occurring and as they unfold, we had better begin to work together. We are all Americans first and foremost.Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-30416289493964680452009-09-20T06:53:53.832-07:002009-09-20T06:53:53.832-07:00The Obama administration has not made any "ra...The Obama administration has not made any "radical swings."<br /><br />It's constructed to be cheaper than private insurance, but it's definitely not a "hall pass" for those who don't want to work or for those who are illegal immigrants.<br /><br />Get lost. Don't insult my intelligence.<br /><br />Every village has at least one…Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-24439820801458091472009-09-20T06:52:37.498-07:002009-09-20T06:52:37.498-07:00McCain's Early Recognition of Fannie/Freddie C...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63siCHvuGFg" rel="nofollow">McCain's Early Recognition of Fannie/Freddie Crisis</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5qKYfqALE&NR=1" rel="nofollow">Barney Frank in 2005: What Housing Bubble?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k" rel="nofollow">Barney Frank: Plenty of rich people that we can tax</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I-PVVowFY&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Maxine Waters (D) Slip of the Tongue Reveals True Intentions</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4BI-fVb0I&NR=1" rel="nofollow">Barney Franks theme song</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5NrqqK60OI&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Barney Frank - "Banking Queen" w/ caption</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HS8n8Y4qo&feature=related" rel="nofollow">The Day OBAMA CARE Died</a>Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-27827250768885924192009-09-20T06:28:25.241-07:002009-09-20T06:28:25.241-07:00Not2010yet sez:"it is just so crystal clear t...Not2010yet sez:"it is just so crystal clear to me that the media is slanted."<br /><br />Most media is corporate, in the hands of very few major corporations. That's why I laugh when I hear people say "liberal" media. <br /><br />and, "I'm actually a little proud of the success of our system in the mainstream getting the attention of the elitist boobs in control of Congress. Really proud."<br /><br />Did the congress become filled with elitist boobs only after the last election, or were the previously Republican controlled congress also filled with elitist boobs? Just trying to figure out if you consider elitest boobism to be Democratic? or are all congresses afflicted with it. If so, were you out there railing against the previous congress or only this one? <br /><br />M sez:"Government power apparently is addicting and they can't seem to get enough of it."<br /><br />Actually, this has to do with corporate money and plotical campaigns. Congresspeople know on what side their bread is buttered. Unless and until we get real campaign reform and elected officials who are unencumbered by having to raise millions of dollars every day, The People won't have any real representation, except for a few crumbs tossed to them after Corporate America takes the lions share. It's all about the golden rule.<br /><br />Also, about "liberal" left-wing media. What TV news shows or daily papers or national news magazines have a "labor" segment or page. Times has a whole business section every day, but nothing on labor, on working folks, on issues directly affecitng the workpalce & etc. Zip. Zero. Wonder why? <br /><br />M sez:"Those of us that go to work 40 hrs. a week find it a little bit hard to take when we are going to take care of those that dont wish to work."<br /><br />Hmmm, code words for "Welfare Queens Driving Cadillacs And Having 15 Babies." perhaps, hmmmm??? <br /><br />and in your final rant, you forgot to tell us what the top Wall St. firms were doing while Fannie May was selling questionable loans to unqualified people. Don't think the top Wall St. firms are being run by Democrats.Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-48344777670455710412009-09-20T01:49:54.910-07:002009-09-20T01:49:54.910-07:00The “unregulated markets and companies” caused th...The “unregulated markets and companies” caused the recession. You say? Aaron, sit down, it’s unrevised History 101 time. Open your note tablet and pay attention, class is in session. The recession was caused by the collapse of residential housing. The collapse of residential housing was caused by a doomed, near-Ponzi overheated market forced by Democratic administrations and Attorney’s General who threatened lenders if they did not write MORE LOANS particularly in areas the liberals deemed “red-lined” or minority occupied and discriminated against. Lenders responded as any business under significant Federal threat of destruction with offering no-document and no-qualify loans, sub-prime loans, etc. Fannie Mae will buy it, they were told. The head of Fannie Mae made tens of millions while destroying the institution. It was therefore the Federal threat which brought about loans to anybody alive enough to hold a pencil. I knew and employed some of those who took such loans, knew their finances at their confidence, and gave them advice to NOT over-extend. Most of them could not resist the siren call of undocumented mortgages and simply craved a nicer house, a house out of the “hood” and in the Inland Empire where homes were big and drive-bys were less common. Who could blame them? The tragedy was MOST of them ALREADY had (to lose) little houses already going, mortgages they were MAKING, having their own slice of the USA pie albeit not in the "greatest neighborhoods" crime-wise. They over-reached or bought a second home they could NEVER manage based upon conventional loan economics, and were caught and devastated. One I still talk to is back to RENTING. Bank of America didn’t invent such loans, they were ORDERED to do so. Why? I’ll bet you’ve NEVER been under Federal threat or order, "sonny boy" (intentional diminutive but honest shot at your young and limited life experience). I HAVE been, you do what the Feds tell you, in fear, even though you did nothing wrong. Right or wrong has no meaning when the Federal Hammer or Sword of Damocles is poised right over your jugular. You comply, pay the fine if any, and shake your head at the dishonesty or wrongness you perceive of it all. I was slightly late on some seemingly inconsequential Federal paperwork (not taxes nor involving a dime) that’s all. The threat of fines is unbelievable, six figure written proposed fines against a tiny small business man by a foreign-born federal bureaucrat who never made a payroll in his life. I got mine tossed nearly all out after an exhausting and soul-busting long fight, at HUGE cost to myself and my blood pressure and sleep. The lenders wanted to avoid such an attack and fight. That’s the source of the recession, not “companies”. Don't tell me lenders enjoyed or boosted some of this, I realize they did, but the GENESIS and the PROMOTION of the overheat was 101% Democratic Party and elected officials' pressure. <br /><br />Geez, Aaron, write this lesson on a chalk board over and over like Bart Simpson until you get at least THIS CRITICAL PART of USA financial history burned into your brain. You can keep ALL the other liberal stuff with my blessings, so long as you get THIS ONE right, it’s been world-changing and it was at the personal hand of Janet Reno and William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and their liberal well-meaning ilk of buddies. Capice? Regards, Happy HHD's. Not2010YetNot2010Yethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12303065344083043195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-41785538338852761712009-09-20T01:40:05.591-07:002009-09-20T01:40:05.591-07:00Aaron, you have so much that needs covering, it’s ...Aaron, you have so much that needs covering, it’s difficult but I’ll try. You’ve made one good point and goofed others. You are quite right that Dobbs is on CNN; the guy has some fairness to him AND you are quite right, it’s not like CNN to allow his kind of balance to get into their mix. They and you deserve some points on this one.<br /><br />You let yourself down when you say Obama has shown his actual personal birth certificate. He has ordered his papers sealed. The officials of Hawaii have said they’ve “seen it and it’s valid but it’s his private affair” and have issued AN ABSTRACT, if you happen to know or can look up what one of those is. It is a modern computer generated document, far from a paper certificate such as mine, hand signed by the uncle physician who delivered me, complete with getting my street of parent’s residence off by two letters, a real white lettering on black old fashioned wet process vettable photocopy of the water damaged original. My birth certificate would stand up to scrutiny by the National Archives, not that anybody would find it worth the effort. Obama has NOT displayed his, how can you get this point so wrong? If he had, it would be EVERYWHERE and "birthers" would have egg on their faces, and an interesting issue would be open and shut forever ON THE SPOT. <br /><br />CNN’s coverage of the marches flashed heavily on the least-centrist signs, didn’t pan large groups so you could freeze frame and make your own survey or judgments of the general tone of them, had to watch FOX for that………<br /><br />You say “the Obama admin. hasn’t made any radical swings”. On this point you and I have nothing to discuss, because you are in denial about the truth. Take a page from the publishing heritage of the planet, and get some reality going for yourself. See my next post please about your opinion of the "cause of the recession". <br /><br />Not2010Not2010Yethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12303065344083043195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-27124341383618579042009-09-19T22:40:09.208-07:002009-09-19T22:40:09.208-07:00Failure to lead? Is that all you have?
Get lost. ...Failure to lead? Is that all you have?<br /><br />Get lost. Don't insult my intelligence.Aaron Ochs - Managing Editor of The ROCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10955571563734090743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-64302833400358438442009-09-19T21:29:17.774-07:002009-09-19T21:29:17.774-07:00I'll take that as your retraction.
It isn'...I'll take that as your retraction.<br /><br />It isn't clear if you are referring to 3200 or any of the other proposed bills.<br />Perhaps we will hear something from the POTUS tomorrow about when he will actually put something about health care in writing.<br /><br />The POTUS failure to lead has resulted in much confusion as evidenced by statements like:<br /><br />It's constructed to be cheaper than private insurance, but it's definitely not a "hall pass" for those who don't want to work or for those who are illegal immigrants.Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-39196040839665939062009-09-19T19:52:45.483-07:002009-09-19T19:52:45.483-07:00Mark, do your own homework.Mark, do your own homework.Aaron Ochs - Managing Editor of The ROCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10955571563734090743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-15424044922162284462009-09-19T17:00:05.628-07:002009-09-19T17:00:05.628-07:00Here's another challenge to the statement:&quo...Here's another challenge to the statement:"It's constructed to be cheaper than private insurance"<br /><br />Whose insurance?Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-2753778396376409472009-09-19T16:20:22.223-07:002009-09-19T16:20:22.223-07:00Fuel Tax
Diesel Fuel tax today is $0.54 a gallon....<a href="http://www.californiagasprices.com/tax_info.aspx" rel="nofollow">Fuel Tax</a><br /><br />Diesel Fuel tax today is $0.54 a gallon.Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-47092725307745458012009-09-19T16:13:54.333-07:002009-09-19T16:13:54.333-07:00It's constructed to be cheaper than private in...It's constructed to be cheaper than private insurance, but it's definitely not a "hall pass" for those who don't want to work or for those who are illegal immigrants.<br /><br />Please tell us you didn't "hear" this on NPR..<br />Show us the chapter and verse that supports this statment or retract it.<br /><br />40,000+ die each year in traffic accidents on roads paid for by road use taxes collected at the pump.<br />In Arizona $0.54 is collected for State and Federal Tax on each gallon of road fuel.Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-2440853885775953972009-09-19T16:05:32.823-07:002009-09-19T16:05:32.823-07:00Mr. Rodgers<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=G44NCvNDLfc" rel="nofollow">Mr. Rodgers</a>Watershed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717188673263291686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-78428678142123337822009-09-19T13:29:52.787-07:002009-09-19T13:29:52.787-07:00M,
I'm not trying to start anything.
Unfortu...M,<br /><br />I'm not trying to start anything.<br /><br />Unfortunately, race is an issue. Of course it's an issue.<br /><br />You said, "Those of us that go to work 40 hrs. a week find it a little bit hard to take when we are going to take care of those that dont wish to work." That statement is illogical.<br /><br />Those who don't wish to work won't be able to even afford the plan. The public option isn't exactly free. It's constructed to be cheaper than private insurance, but it's definitely not a "hall pass" for those who don't want to work or for those who are illegal immigrants.<br /><br />The logic behind your statement is flawed due to the following premise:<br /><br />Why should taxpayers pay for roads when some people don't drive?<br /><br />Why should taxpayers pay for public schools when some students drop out?<br /><br />Why should taxpayers pay for a war when the majority of Americans don't support it?<br /><br />Do you see where I'm going with this? We utilize these services funded by the taxpayers without a second thought because it has been a way of life. In our country, we've set forth laws that seek a public benefit of convenience and wellness. Ironically, our health (the first priority of wellness) is now at the mercy of a mostly unregulated health insurance industry that can approve or disapprove coverage at will.<br /><br />Here's a statistic for you. Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday that nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one each 12 minutes -- because they either lack health insurance or they don't get good coverage. What about them? Are all of those 45,000 people not working? Are all of these 45,000 not worthy of your taxpayer dollars, the very same taxpayer dollars that go toward public works and initiatives?<br /><br />Just some food for thought.Aaron Ochs - Managing Editor of The ROCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10955571563734090743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-63205062846594221422009-09-19T12:48:28.126-07:002009-09-19T12:48:28.126-07:00Aaron, it sounds like your inviting a revolution. ...Aaron, it sounds like your inviting a revolution. Actually it sounds like you are promoting one. Most revolutions only seem to work out for the betterment of a few. Those few in power.<br />Have you seen or heard a word of Michael Savages plight on CNN, MSNB, FOX, or any other media outlets? Of course not. They're still talking about Michael Jacksons death.<br />As a white anglo-saxon male I take great offense to rev wright. If he is so vocal about white domination, where are the black leaders today? Jesse Jackson? Al Sharpton? Two names was all I could come up with. Oh yea, Obama. Course he's half white as well. Race is not the issue. Who is going to have to pay for it all is. Those of us that go to work 40 hrs. a week find it a little bit hard to take when we are going to take care of those that dont wish to work. Why is that so hard to comprehend? <br />Sincerely, MMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422834300453521293noreply@blogger.com