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I think the President makes so many valid points, while the GOPers just flounder around doing nothing but lying and attacking everything he does.
It seems they have forgotten the Bible they so often want to throw at everyone else. As the President said in his famous speech from several years ago now, "We are our brother's keepers" and Health Care Reform is just part of it.
Taking care of each other and making sure that everyone is safe and protected should be our highest priority, in every way possible. Whether it is a friend, a neighbor, or a family member, however the GOPers seem to be of the mindset, I have mine, screw you.. We live in such a ME society now, and we forget the basics of which we were taught and of which we grew up with.
That's what health care should be about.. that's what all our problems could be solved by going back to. Loving and caring for our neighbors.
Yup, somebody really does need to stand up and look the members of the Party of No in the face and demand to see their plan. It may be a useless proposition, though; from everything I can get from what they've been saying, the Republicans actually think out health care system isn't broken, so no reform plan is needed. As long as they aren't hurting, everything's fine. And if we little people are hurting, so what? We're just cannon fodder, expendable and replaceable.
And speaking of bills in Congress... The House passed a bill authorizing a further 13-week extension of emergency unemployment benefits, specifically aimed at those (like me) who have exhausted their benefits, a week or so ago. When is the Senate gonna get off its collective butt and pass their version of it? I know the health care bills are important, but it shouldn't take much more than 5 minutes or so to deal with this, so it wouldn't really be a distraction from the "bigger" issues up for debate!
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