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Health Care – we need something

Keith — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:35:26 +0000

We definitely need to change the system but is this the way? I don’t know. I do know that I have a friend who has a grand-daughter, who had an injury that was covered while she was in college. She dropped for 1 (one) semester and now the same insurance company won’t insure her as it is a pre-existing condition. Is this right?

I know folks who work hard, not bums or homeless, but work for stores, delivery services, etc., 40 hours a week+, who can’t afford health insurance. Is this right?

Rates in California recently went up as much as 39%. Is this right? If the price of gasoline (in my case diesel) went up 30% in one day would you be screaming?

He may be wrong. The country for the most part thinks he is. The bill is terrible flawed but we have to do something. Maybe we should start again – but only if we mean to provide health care to our citizens who need it IN SPITE of what FOR PROFIT insurance companies want. We can’t let hard working Americans be victimized by insurance companies and their lobbyists. It is time to get corporations out of our government.

It’s just the beginning

Keith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:00:17 +0000

The friends we have

Keith — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:36:34 +0000

I don’t have a lot of friends. Especially close friends who would drop everything and come to my aid if I needed them – maybe 3 or 4 like that. I think one should pick and choose friends wisely.

We are judged by the company we keep (at least that’s what Mom said). Would I have a friend who protested in the 60′s or fled to Canada or participated in crimes against the government – no.

It is a fact in America we are quick to forgive and forget. Partly because we really don’t teach history but mostly because we are always looking to the future. Not necessarily a bad thing.

But some, like me, don’t find it easy to forgive and forget some things. I think it is because of the time I spent in the military. Bill Ayers (a legend in his own mind), shown here in a photograph from Chicago Magazine, would not be my friend. Not only do I see him as a weak coward, I am mad he is teaching, writing and making a profit from being a revolutionary.

”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”

Oh really. That is exactly how I feel. I don’t feel like we did enough to squash worms like him.

And now, Ayers is making money from his days of crime. He is not really a true rebel. He was and is that way only when it is convenient. When it brings him attention. When it strokes his ego. Otherwise he wouldn’t just be talking about it from his comfy college job with his Starbucks in hand. He would be out there blowing something up. (How brave to stomp on a flag with no one about except the photo crew.)

And sadly, some people are drawn to idiots like this - even those running for political office. That is their mistake and I am not likely to forget that either. In fact, because of their association with Ayers, I am willing to conclude that they share some of his beliefs. Not something I would want in a President.