A recent study led by Vanderbilt University professor Peter Buerhaus polled registered nurses about two timely issues -- the state of health care and the importance of the issue in the upcoming election.
With a close election expected, the country's three million registered nurses could make a difference in the election, Buerhaus says.
Most nurses interviewed support some form of universal health care coverage, although opinions vary on just how extensive coverage should be.
Very few approve of the country's health care system as it stands now, the survey shows.
...Slightly more than half, or 51 percent, believe that if all nurses could join together to address one health problem, it would be the number of uninsured Americans.
A video clearly explaining the origins of our economic woes and identifying the politicians complicit in them:
I blame both sides, in terms of the record defecit, they all authorised a war for which there was no basis and we could not afford. It's mighty funny that republicans belief that spending to no end for a senseless war is ok, but won't put their money where their mouths are and actually agreed to be taxed for it.
In terms of the housing crunch limited oversight of banking and lending practices resulted in these lenders falsifying information and lending to homeless people.
We can debate whether or not the war was morally right, but it is dishonest to blame our country's current financial crisis on the cost of the war.
Our financial crisis resulted from the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage business, a situation Obama helped to create by filing suit against Citibank (on behalf of ACORN) back in the 1990s to force the lender to extend mortgages to borrowers who didn't qualify under Citigroup's standards. Those sub-prime mortgages were bought by Freddie and Fannie, organizations which paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Obama during the 3 short years he has served in the Senate. The bribes paid to Obama in those 3 years are surpassed only by the bribes paid to Christopher Dodd, while both "public servants" turned blind eyes to the signs of the impending financial crisis, touted Freddie and Fannie's "soundness" and blocked John McCain's attempts to shore up these organizations years ago. As if that's not enough, Obama has hired 2 of Fannie and Freddie's former top leaders to advise him on financial matters.
No, thanks! Obama obviously underestimates the intelligence of the American people if he thinks we don't get this.
We can debate whether or not the war was morally right, but it is dishonest to blame our country's current financial crisis on the cost of the war.
Our financial crisis resulted from the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage business, a situation Obama helped to create by filing suit against Citibank (on behalf of ACORN) back in the 1990s to force the lender to extend mortgages to borrowers who didn't qualify under Citigroup's standards. Those sub-prime mortgages were bought by Freddie and Fannie, organizations which paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Obama during the 3 short years he has served in the Senate. The bribes paid to Obama in those 3 years are surpassed only by the bribes paid to Christopher Dodd, while both "public servants" turned blind eyes to the signs of the impending financial crisis, touted Freddie and Fannie's "soundness" and blocked John McCain's attempts to shore up these organizations years ago. As if that's not enough, Obama has hired 2 of Fannie and Freddie's former top leaders to advise him on financial matters.
No, thanks! Obama obviously underestimates the intelligence of the American people if he thinks we don't get this.
Those men belong in jail, not in public office.
One of the biggest problems with your argument is that this was not McCain's legislation at all. Wrong again...
The 2006 legislation that the McCain campaign cites was introduced more than a year earlier, in January 2005, by Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, and co-sponsored the same day by two Republican colleagues, John E. Sununu of New Hampshire and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina. ... Republicans and Democrats in the Senate familiar with the legislation and lobbyists for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac say that speech was the only action by Mr. McCain they recall on the issue. Mr. McCain 'never took on the role that some other Republicans did' to try to limit the companies, said a former Freddie Mac executive who later lobbied for the company until its failure. 'I remember working against a number of amendments, and they were always introduced by Hagel and Sununu,' said the former executive. 'John McCain was never anywhere to be found.'"
mr. president, this week fannie mae's regulator reported that the company's quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were "illusions deliberately and systematically created" by the company's senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
the office of federal housing enterprise oversight's report goes on to say that fannie mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. in the case of franklin raines, fannie mae's former chief executive officer, ofheo's report shows that over half of mr. raines' compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. the report of financial misconduct at fannie mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at freddie mac.
the ofheo report also states that fannie mae used its political power to lobby congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator's examination of the company's accounting problems. this report comes some weeks after freddie mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the federal election commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. these are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
for years i have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs fannie mae and freddie mac--known as government-sponsored entities or gses--and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. ofheo's report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. in fact, the report does quite the contrary. ofheo's report solidifies my view that the gses need to be reformed without delay.
quick info
s. 190 [109th]: federal housing enterprise regulatory reform act of 2005
last action: committee on banking, housing, and urban affairs. ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
status: dead
i join as a cosponsor of the federal housing enterprise regulatory reform act of 2005, s. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of gse regulatory reform legislation. if congress does not act, american taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that fannie mae and freddie mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
i urge my colleagues to support swift action on this gse reform legislation.
emphasis mine.
so why didn't the dems listen? oh yeah, they were being paid not to. so now we're all paying, big time.
Barack Obama has expanded his lead over John McCain, among registered voters, from yesterday's record nine points to 11 points today, according to the latest Gallup daily tracking poll.
The poll, which has a margin of error of +/- 2, shows Obama is now attacting 52 percent of voter support, while McCain is attracting 41 percent.
These poll results would not reflect opinions on the second debate. Those would be expected to come out in a couple days. they would seem to reflect the growing unease of Americans with the state of the economy, and the current credit crisis.
Now, as always, polls are polls, and should be taken as no more, no less, than snapshots in time. But they offer a glimpse at what those being polled are thinking, at the very least. And by these numbers, which continue a trend of Obama becoming more popular the longer the financial crisis stays in the news, and the days financial news from the IMF that the crisis is resulting in a economic slowdown worldwide that will continue at least into 2009, these would be discouraging numbers for the McCain camp.
On the other hand, they're national, not state by state, so they don't necessarily reflect any change in the electoral makeup of the country. The electoral map, however, is not looking very good for McCain at the moment, with a number of poll based projections noting that if opinions stay the same and people vote the way they're now thinking, Obama is within a single state of the 270 it would take to become the next president, while McCain needs as many as 11 more states to get to the 270 threshold.
In any case, this is the biggest gap yet seen in the poll we try to keep up with most often. So, what do we think it means?
Stump ALL you like. It's becoming a ROUT!!!!!!!! WOOT!!!!!!!!!
i no longer have any other issue that is of more importance in this election than the failure of mccain and palin to admonish their hatefilled - racist base.
the hill
labor group calls on mccain to denounce supporters
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Valerie Salva, BSN, RN
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what a revolting and angry post.