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@aka dancingbear - love your letter...and this phrase..".monkey-wrench millionaires like yourself."
Please read:
Spain: Investigating the Crimes of Franco Dictatorship
Fascist Falange Allowed to Join Prosecution of Judge Baltazar Garzón
by Vicky Short
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17877
My wife pointed another needed statistic concerning the homicide rate. Were the victims male or female? The implication is that women becoming educated is a threat to machismo.
As to the claim that because some people come to our USA for medical care proves ANYTHING, just google "india medical tourism" -- and ponder!
More Repug. Heartlessness with Healthcare:
Excellent opinion piece by Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman re: Gov. (Prez. wannabee) Pawlenty's veto of MN bill funding state healthcare:
"God runs the show"
And he's just God's servant on Earth, except for that stuff about the poor.
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/85562227.html?elr=KArksUUU...
Canadians buy supplemental insurance when traveling in the US.
Caller Andy makes good point about our jingoistic attempts to clamour around our 'best healthcare system in the world' depends upon how lucky you are. This made me cringe to see both Democrats have to pacify the Republicans with such a grandiose claim. I only go to alternative health care doctors.
Tangled Up in Yoo - http://www.youtube.com/user/davidcnswanson
Video
@ Ed in Redondo
Let me say it frankly, Senator Bunning, you’ve got some nerve to put a block on my unemployment benefits, benefits that I paid into and paid for out of my own hard earned paycheck.
I'm a former small business owner and find this statement to be inacurate. I don't know the tax policies of your state but in Michigan the employer is fully responsible for the unemployment tax. However, considering the circumstances, states may transfer funds from the general treasury to replenish depleted coffers.
OOOps, I've been having trouble with this keyboard, thought I'd caught the snafu...
US politcians, even Obamacrats, (there really are so few Democrats left) have bow down to the notion of United States exceptionalism.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/casey-and-wyden-support-publi...
There are now 24 signatories to the letter to Senate leadership drafted by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) demanding a Public Option.
Do NOT buy Dish Network!! They are scumbags! Ask me or Sen. Spector. I'd probably still be getting harassing phone calls from them, even tho I've never bought them, if it wasn't for the fact that they did the same to Sen Spector. Some sheep - dip used my phone number when buying Dish Network. She fell behind, so Dish started calling me. They wouldn't believe this wasn't her number, they wouldnt even tell me who the account was. When I said "I want to talk to your supervisor, they REFUSED and said "it wouldn't do any good.". Finally after a couple of months, I spoke to a woman who believed me and the calls stopped. However, this might have been after Spector raised hell. I found out later that there had been a successful class-action lawsuit against Dish Network.
Dont patronize Dish network!!
*Schweizer Fernsehen (typo)
Some people just hear "USA #1" and all critical thinking goes out the window. US bow down oliticians, even Obamacrats, (there really are so few Democrats left) have to the notion of United States exceptionalism. If another nation tortures, or acts aggressively, then it is prosecutable. If the US does it, yawn.
Dem Primary Challenger Bill Halter Launches TV Ad In Arkansas Senate Race (VIDEO)
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/dem-primary-challenger-bill-h...
So we send our soldiers to foreign lands to save American lives, only to allow them to die on domestic soil by forbidding them to see a doctor.
@ZeroG: It isn’t Kyl is “Pile”.
Barbara! Great phrase!
If we don't take care of them at the front door, your going to see them at the back door.
Which costs more? We are paying for everyone's health care now - said Gavin Newsom when asked about how the San Francisco system would work.
Dear Senator Bunning,
I've been an independent voter for nearly twenty years now, and I'm writing to let you that you and your party are about to lose any chance of winning my vote for the foreseeable future.
Why? Because your recent actions have made it apparent that it is you and your party, the Republicans, which are responsible for disrupting the vital and important functions of government that people like myself depend on during hard economic times.
Let me say it frankly, Senator Bunning, you've got some nerve to put a block on my unemployment benefits, benefits that I paid into and paid for out of my own hard earned paycheck.
I know it is a central article of faith within your party that government can do nothing right.
But I wonder if you realize that when you resort to sabotage from within to keep the government from doing its job properly, that you have at that very moment forfeited your argument.
You lose that argument because by your very actions you demonstrate that the thing that's dysfunctional is not the government itself, but rather your small gang of ideologues who have managed to infiltrate our government.
Indeed, the government was doing what it is supposed to, and doing it fairly well right up until the moment that you intervened to gum up the works.
What your actions reveal is that the dysfunction comes from a malevolent band of Quisling infiltrators who seek to subvert the government from within (i.e. dogmatic Republicans such as yourself).
Fortunately there is a way to remedy this problem, and next November, thanks to your prompting, I plan to invest as much of my spare time as I can volunteering to help the Democrats win the election.
In parting let me simply say thank you for helping to move me off of my long time perch on the independent fence.
You have helped me to see that our government will work much better once we have purged it of monkey-wrench millionaires like yourself.
Respectfully,
Why is it that folk talking to the prostitutes at www.Docs4PatientCare.org always get bogged down in their bogus claims about the USAian healthcare system being the best that they don’t grill them about their proposed list of ineffective, non-existent solutions.
Thanks for the spelling correction Zero G. Anyway you spell the Senator's name form Arizona it comes out JERK. It should be no surprise that Kyl is a shill for the wealthy retirees that live in Arizona. This was in the Seattle Times recently regarding Thomas Stewart, an estate tax fugitive that moved from Washington.
"Mr. Stewart, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Arizona, assembled Services Group of America (SGA) piece by piece until it became one of the state's largest privately held businesses. But four years ago, angered by the Washington Legislature's passage of a new inheritance tax, Mr. Stewart moved SGA's headquarters from West Seattle's Delridge neighborhood to Scottsdale, Ariz."
RIP ieces
But our political choice is limited between, one from column "A" and two from column "B" we cannot change the menu.
The National Security State has replaced any vestige of democracy.
The problem with Medicare is not that fewer people are paying into it. The last time I checked our population was still growing. The problem is the wages of people paying into it have not kept pace with the skyrocketing cost of healthcare. The problem is the cap on wages that pay into medicare/caid. The problem is the taxes apply to payroll earnings only instead of all earnings.
Where is the outrage in these countries that supposedly have bad healthcare? Look at the country where people are trying to change the system and you'll find the system that doesn't work.
Darn- I screwed up my post. HEre is revision:
A caller to @Stephanie Miller Show this morning made this excellent point. If Republicans think the American People do not want health care/ heath care, then they would just allow the Democratic Party to pass reforms believing that the American People will vote the Democrats out of office in the mid-terms.- but they won’t do that, will they?
PS- I'd like to know the age of that last guest, we certainly know his political slant.