Good points, heron. There will always be needy children & adults in our society, and there must be ways to address their needs. I don't think you're arguing that any of the nurses on this post...
Sorry your feeling tired, HM2Viking. An umbilical cord to DC is not the way most Americans want to live their lives. Imaginative twist of words (I like it), but it ain't
Pure & simple... the Feds have gotten WAY too intrusive. The Health Care cost reform debate has just underlined what (for some) was a vague uneasiness. It has escalated for decades, well beyond...
Rank-and-file' Americans are not 'practiced' in Town Hall forums, nor even interfacing with their representatives. They work, shrug their shoulders at Dems or Repubs, and go back to what they believe...
You & I (& most Americans) agree there should be health care cost reform. As you say, it contributes to bankruptcies, it is escalating, etc. You & I disagree that it should be the US...
ukrninusa -- bush is not my favorite president, but he is not the demon that many cast him to be. after kuwait was invaded by hussein, iraq was not to develop nukes. but hussein thumbed his nose at...
interesting perspective, hm2viking. too lofty for me. give me 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'. and i don't cotton to either democrat or republican -- so their respective track records...
Thanks, laborer. Health insurance needs reformed. (I'd love to replace it with HSA's). But the Feds have proved they cannot manage our money -- only take it. Quite a
I agree, HM2Viking.... it is hypocritical to disparage this new govt entitlement program whilst holding your own hand out. Let's d/c Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP AND the Public Option....
Thanks for sharing this site, laborer. I'd never seen it -- you could 'mine this thing for gold nuggets' for a long time! For example, I would have thought the big ticket 2008 Presidential campaign...
Hi, UKRNinUSA! I'm just a woiking goil - RN for 35 years, predominantly in Critical Care and Home Health. I've been meaning to ask you -- (which may be asking the obvious): are you from the UK? If...
This meeting was in Dickson TN. The District's Rep (John Tanner) had a 'schedule conflict' -- so it was videotaped & will be presented to him to view when it's more convenient for him. There...
I attended a Town Hall meeting last night. Nothing loud or unruly about it -- but LOTS of American citizens voicing concern about the way the federal government is going beyond their Constitutional...
re: "Dems are not getting pounded by "citizens" -- they're getting pounded by astroturf (phony grassroots) groups organized, funded, and directed by agents of the GOP and the for-profit lobby. Talk...