Stinky The Clown
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Sat Jun-20-09 09:35 AM
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If ***YOU*** had the Bully Pulpit .......... |
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..... what would YOU be bullying about?
I'd be bullying for serious, actual, massive health care reform.
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Sat Jun-20-09 09:37 AM
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What could be more important?
Does anybody want the insurance companies deciding who should get what treatment?
I hate the insurance companies.
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Ohio Joe
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Sat Jun-20-09 09:39 AM
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2. No one wants me to have a bully pulpit |
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I have a vulgar mouth and would go on about everything I think is wrong until some one dragged me off of it. I do not think it would be a pretty sight. but... maybe that what people need...
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merh
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Sat Jun-20-09 09:41 AM
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3. Health care and Equal Rights and end of war |
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but a biggie not mentioned and so necessary after reading so many posts here, the funding of education that require civics lessons be taught at all levels - people have no clue as to how our government functions.
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Sat Jun-20-09 09:43 AM
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4. I'd open the books on BCCI - that means major issues like healthcare will have NO OPPOSITION |
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Edited on Sat Jun-20-09 09:43 AM by blm
because BushInc and his enablers would either be in jail, disgraced, or have no credibility with a huge majority of the American people.
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Sat Jun-20-09 09:46 AM
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5. June 24, ABC ,Healthcare town hall |
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"On Wednesday the President will hold a town hall meeting here at the White House in the East Room on health care, which will be broadcast on ABC during prime time."
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:06 AM
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6. campaign finance reform |
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aka get corporate donors out of the political process.
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Missy Vixen
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:08 AM
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7. Health care and homelessness |
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Right after that, public financing of elections, and meaningful term limits.
:woohoo:
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:17 AM
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8. End the wars, establish universal healthcare. Pare down this |
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overblown government so money saved could be spend to benefit citizens, not big biz, not self-serving politicians.
How naive of me to dream such of a thing, I'll never live to see it.
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Warren Stupidity
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:31 AM
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15. And yet so many yearn for the same. It is our common dream. |
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:23 AM
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9. health care. definitely. |
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:24 AM
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10. Dirty Limericks. Actually, Single Payer health care, the environment, |
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ending the wars, decriminalization of pot, ending corporate personhood.
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:26 AM
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11. There once was a man called Obama |
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:30 AM
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13. His election to some was a trauma |
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:30 AM
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Edited on Sat Jun-20-09 10:30 AM by alfredo
do dupe dupe
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Sat Jun-20-09 11:26 AM
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16. though they piss and they moan |
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Sat Jun-20-09 11:27 AM
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17. and then throw their stone |
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Sat Jun-20-09 11:27 AM
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18. it's just more republican drama |
Warren Stupidity
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Sat Jun-20-09 10:27 AM
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12. Medicare for everyone! Throw the kleptocratic bums out! |
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What we need is an eloquent fire and brimstone liberal/progressive leftist - as in LBJ/Harry Truman/FDR social democratic reformist center left - to articulate the demands of the people in terms that are easy to understand and that lay wide open for all to see the kleptocratic bullshit barrage that we are assaulted with on a daily basis. I knew I wasn't getting that with Obama, I had some hope that out of an economic crisis this administration might do something different, but that hope has faded. We have no voice. We have no leaders. It is once again just the rabble outside the gates.
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Sat Jun-20-09 11:54 AM
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19. Health care as KEY to growth |
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So far, health care is presented on a compassionate basis. That is a sure loser.
Instead, I would present it as the most important element in unleashing small businesses and entrepreneurs to innovate and grow. People would be more willing to start a business if they knew they could access good, affordable health care. In addition, people would be more willing to take new jobs and try new ventures - this "creative destruction" lies at the heart of the capitalist system.
Furthermore, the federal requirement for emergency room access is a classic case of an unfunded mandate. Thus, universal, affordable, quality health care - with a public option - will relieve cities and counties of a substantial and uneven burden. This will not only encourage savings through preventive care, but will also encourage hospitals to build new emergency rooms, enhancing our national emergency care system.
Notice that this neatly defuses arguments against health care, and emphasizes growth.
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