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President Bush recently vetoed a bill to expand health coverage for children. What would you tell the presidential candidates about providing children with health care? |
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It seems unreal to me that being a union member for more than 26 years that any union would endorse Hillary Clinton. She is one of the least likely of the candidates to do anything for organized labor.
Dear Republican Presidential Candidates, Where have you seen Christianity and Christian values displayed through the policies of the Cheney/bush Administration over the past 7 years? Christian candidates all, do you think Cheney and bush will find eternal salvation in Heaven for leading America into a needless war, one that has produced a humanitarian disaster?
My wife and I are both academic year employees (she in k-12 public schools me at a state univeristy). Our children arenow 18 and 14, our pay is so high that until six years ago, with double coverage, both kids were medicaid eligible, hmm what happend? Well one bad thing one good the bad involved the Florida Coup De Court, the good was state employees in Washington won collective bargainig starting four years ago, employees in our local at U. Washington have won some very big gains in wages and some benefits sadly it’s still a strain to get the kids to the doctor.
You Know, we can set here and say what the president did was wrong in his veto on children’s healthcare.
I have been a Democrat my whole life, and I really belive it is time for a real labor party in this county. A labor party who will work for all the american’s who work for a living.
That is the only way you will be able to get things done, so wake my brothers and sisters, wake up.
I want Bush to keep it up. In fact, I want the Republican contenders to express themselves freely. I want them to hiss and cat-call Clinton. I want to hear them say “private medical care”, and “private social security”, and ‘no health care for kids,’ and ”cut funds for homeland security,” and “keep the troops in Iraq”. I want to see them hang themselves.
However, without a sharp contrast, without a candidate from our side who provides the
light of sharp contrast, Republican proposals
might just sound reasonable to the many Americans who think by way of slogans.
Four years ago, in our frenzy to beat Bush, rather than vote our values, we selected from among the Democratic candidates the one to beat Bush. That got us embarrassment and Bush. Today, Mrs. Clinton is too ambitious, too cautious and too premeditated to articulate a coherent and intergrated course of action. Unfortunately, Senator Obama has taken to the sdame route. Hearing them debate each other, watching moderators limit debate of significant questions to the two, produces babble.
For their part, Edwards and Kucinich seem to be willing to think in public, but the media does not give them the opportunity it gives to the “leading contenders”.
It really is in the hands of “we the people” to take our country back. From the perspective of undoing Bush, I do not see Clinton or Obama.
John G.
i would like to thank bush for vetoing a bill that allows a family making 80k to have federal money for health care they can afford it on their own if they lived with in their means
I argue that we need health, not health care. Nationwide health care plans amount to guarenteed profits for insurance companies that are exempt from the Taft Hartley Act and are buying up America with workers labor.
Other issues not being addressed by labor leaders in regard to health are Codex, FDA wanting to control vitamins and supplements, forced immuniztions and many more. Food quality is lower than it has ever been and if Codex passes, toxins will come in great numbers with imported food while we have no say in the matter. The AFL-CIO needs to be awakening labor of these issues.
If you doubt it! Not long ago, as manufacturing was leaving the country, they said we were going to become a service industry. Try to get service. Your call is answered in India, Pakistan and Mexico.
Dire problems exist and will only get worse if everyone is kept ignorant of them.