Who are the heroes?

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Wednesday October 09, 2013 · 4:13 AM PDT

2013/10/09 · 04:13

Republicans continue to claim that "Obamacare" is a BAD LAW, and that they will be the ones who can "Save America" by destroying it, and the man who implemented it.

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Thursday October 15, 2009 · 10:52 PM PDT

2009/10/15 · 22:52

The heat continues to rise, in political circles as well as social "grassroots" circles, ostensibly over the issue of President Obama’s commitment to Health Care reform. The rhetoric flies in both directions, voices getting shrill and loud, in the attempt to convince those on "the other side" of the discussion to abandon their own position and convert. One problem is that the louder everyone yells, the less anyone hears. Another problem is that the different sides of the issue don’t seem to be talking about the same thing most of the time; it’s hard to debate an issue when each side has a different target. What is funny and sad at the same time is that despite the urgency expressed by both sides, what Progressives and Conservatives both want is ideologically similar; it is the emotionally charged conviction of their own correctness that gets in the way of honest discussion. In fact, in some sense it boils down to personality and the perspective each of us brings to the table.

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 7:14 PM PST

2008/11/14 · 19:14

The reason no one can seem to get their heads wrapped around this financial crisis is because everything Henry Paulson and his colleagues do is still based on the ridiculously disastrous Reaganomics "trickle down" economic policy. It's based on the idea that if we give the people at the top (AIG, the auto industry, and whoever else?) enough money, somehow, when they get themselves all straightened out, what's left over will "trickle down" to the rest of us.
You know that old axiom about repeating the same mistake over and over again and expecting a different result? Duh.
I know there's an interesting internet "solution" floating around about giving everyone in the United States $500,000 dollars and everything would be fine. While I understand the absurdity of such a notion, there is an intriguing element of sense in that suggestion.

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 2:09 PM PST

2008/11/12 · 14:09

I watched Paulson's "explanation" this morning regarding the money going to bail out companies is necessary, and blah blah blah blah. Then I thought I was having auditory hallucinations, or perhaps simply flashing back to the time, almost 5 years ago, when this same kind of twisted verbage spewed from the mouth of my husband's business partner, who had left the country with nearly every asset we had, including over $2 million dollars in company and client funds.
The problem we have, those of us without a "numbers" background, is that we have to TRUST those we put in charge of our money. When those people take all the money we put into our little shoeboxes and run away with it, we can't just keep handing them more boxes! They use the language of their profession to confuse us, to reassure us, and to rob us blind! Even those of us who do have a "numbers" background, but who are generous and trusting, as most progressive people are, have a hard time getting their heads around how these sleazy bedbugs can sleep at night after doing the things they do. I still don't really understand, but here's one way of seeing this enormous con game on a very small scale: (it's been an enlightening journey!)

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 4:54 AM PDT

2008/10/26 · 04:54

As a volunteer working with the Obama campaign, one of the things that I hear all too often from Republicans is a line that goes something like "I/ we do not believe we need to give away our money to people who are here illegally, or who are drug addicts or who just don't care to work and look to the govt. for their living"...
I understand, as my fellow Democrats do, that you want to be able to hold on to your hard-earned money. We all do. But what is it, exactly, that you think Senator Obama is going to do that is worse than what is already happening? Your statement is a line straight out of some Republican fear-mongering talking point...it's a line, almost verbatim, taken from various conservative mouthpieces for years. (O'Reilley, perhaps, or Limbaugh? Hannity? Scarborough? McCain? Palin?)
The thing is, like it or not, as citizens of our country, it is one of our founding principles (not to mention the principles of a certain "radical" from 2000 years ago) to care for those least able to care for themselves.

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