Ample Funds for Health care reform: Urban Institute

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 9:33 AM PDT

2009/07/31 · 09:33

I get health care emails from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who paid my tuition in an experimental Physician Assistant Program at Hopkins in 1973-5. They have been looking at various Health Reform problems since then.

I knew instinctively this fact had to be true, given all the waste I have lived and worked with.

http://www.rwjf.org/...

And specifically about this current debate:

http://www.rwjf.org/...

Urban Institute Researchers Calculate Savings from Reform and Show that Revenue Options Provide Ample Funds to Finance Health Care Reform

July 29, 2009

By: Berenson RA, Holahan J, Blumberg LJ, Bovbjerg RR, Waidmann T, Cook A, Williams A and Urban Institute

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 5:40 AM PST

2008/11/03 · 05:40

Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress
(NY-12) , and the first African American to run for President.
I remember voting in my college town, on ballots with punches and holes, and I was in the booth doing just that when I overheard the two elderly ladies in the poll room, saying, "Oh that one, that is the Negro one." I laughed and felt like I knew a secret about life already that they hadn't learned in many decades.
My mother was responsible for that knowledge. She always said we would all be coffee/cream colored someday.

Race was never as important as integrity. Mom refused to join the white flight when professional Asians, African Americans and diverse others moved in to her neighborhood in Ca. These neighbors later saved my elderly Mom's life.

I did not know then that my mother was a delegate for Chisholm. This is discovered by googling Mom's name many years later.

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Sunday October 12, 2008 · 3:08 PM PDT

2008/10/12 · 15:08

A Personality Disorder is a rigid pattern of behavior which makes your ways of thinking, observing, and interacting with others unhelpful to your daily life.

"Everyone should be wary of an individual who has glib charm, a soothing voice, a penetrating gaze, dramatic gestures, and engages in meaningless flattery and vague/inconsistent responses to personal questions. When a psychopath complains of how others treat him/her, it should be remembered who the real victims are likely to be.
Callous, deceitful, reckless, guiltless . . . The psychopath understands the wishes and concerns of others; s/he simply does not care . . . The psychopath believes that rules and morals are for other, weaker people who obey because they fear punishment . . . No matter how bright, and a psychopath is often very bright, s/he rarely maintains a regular job . . . he may have an ingratiating manner and superficial charm, be persuasive, poised . . . Lying, evasiveness, feigned forgetfulness, vague and inconsistent answers about his/her past . . .

http://www.geocities.com/lycium7/psychopathy.html
Quoting Dr David B. Adams.
italics mine to neutralize the sex of his quote.

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 3:54 PM PDT

2008/10/11 · 15:54

Did they report perdiems as taxable income?

Did they use taxpayer dollars to help their church?
Rig the bids, hiring friends' businesses (Republican party officers) for the Sports Complex?
Use the Sport Complex contractors to build their private house?

Avoid a building permit for their house?

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 6:37 AM PDT

2008/09/23 · 06:37

added 9/24/08: I just realized it is doubly shameful for McBush to pick Palin with this degree of racism up front...I was speaking with my Racist fil but got thru when I said "If Obama were your white son, graduating at the top of his class, law review, teach law school run for state legislature and win, US Senator, running for prez, you would be SOOOOO proud of him!!!!"

No one has really been talking about racism in Alaska, because we know so little about it. Here is a blog by Anchorage native African American writer who has some serious questions about why Sarah Palin as governor ignored the requests of African American pastors to meet with her.

A recent meeting with the Rev. Alonzo B. Patterson of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Anchorage confirmed his part of the story. He stated that he had requested a meeting between the governor and members of the African-American community as soon as she took office. According to Patterson, Governor Palin said she would 'consider' the request. But after months of waiting and several follow-up letters repeating the invitation; four from Pastor Patterson and at least one from the Rev. Dr. William Greene, an officer of the local NAACP, the community heard nothing in response.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 6:54 AM PDT

2008/09/22 · 06:54

A Monetarist Attack to induce SHOCK instead of a Terrorist Attack
Like Palin, the monetary crisis is designed to be a moving catnip toy for everyone to look at and to induce fear.

Fear is not ok for Christians, it is an absence of faith. The alternative is to put your faith in God, not man. It allows you to fear no man. For those without faith, there is:

Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is our worst enemy.

They are deliberately panicking all of the congresspeople so they will blindly give up their rights, and those of the states, and the constitution.

SLOW DOWN and consider the fine print. consider Nancy Reagan's advice: JUST SAY NO!!!! to the money druggies as has been explained by Background Noise.

"Sure, Let's put the drug addicts in charge of the pharmacy."
http://8ackgr0und-n015e.dailykos.com/

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 10:01 AM PDT

2008/09/20 · 10:01

Fri 9/20/08 on Real Time with Bill Maher:

Naomi Klein's SHOCK Doctrine= The bomb dropped on Mainstreet USA is a time bomb of debt:
All the money available to the USA has been looted, so there will be no money for any of Obama's programs.

Like the Nazis leaving Occupied Europe, Bushvandals have burned all the resources and all the records and will leave such a hole in the budget it will be easy to say: "Privatize social security, we can't provide education or health care, because..."
of leaving us with a debt we can't manage.

"Now we HAVE to privatize social security" on Obama's watch....Now we CAN'T Afford Health Care or education" ...because we have to pay China and other foreigners all our money and Obama will look like the screwup!!

They have burned through all the money, leaving none for social programs in the Dems watch. By the Shock Doctrine, scare people to death and then do unpopular things.

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Sunday September 14, 2008 · 10:56 AM PDT

2008/09/14 · 10:56

Unfair attacks on the Obamas are mostly assertions of white privilege.
That is why they are so hard to grasp. Thanks, Tim Wise for the secret codewords.
http://www.buzzflash.com/...
"White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful."
I was a Hillary voter in this year's primary, but she was not the first woman I had voted for.
I voted for Shirley Chisholm in 1972 because she was a woman with lots of experience.
It was my first presidential election, and while I was in the voting booth in California, I heard the poll ladies talking about the ballot. One said "that is that N****" I was newly aware of racism, but white privilege is harder to pin down, isn't it?

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 5:27 AM PDT

2008/09/11 · 05:27

NEW voters, who are never polled, are critical to this election.

Polling ignores them, because you measure how likely to vote by looking at behavior in past elections.

NEW VOTERS!! Please don't lose heart because the polls are so close...

If you ask the wrong polling question of the wrong folks, your answers are going to be wrong.

NO EMPATHY Palin

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 10:14 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 10:14

The Alaska dems vetted Palin, revealing

A woman who, like McCain, loses civility when she is opposed and uses vengeance against others. She was a boss with no empathy.

http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/...
Sarah before the 2006 Governor's race, many pages worth

according to Tapped archive The American Prospect
http://www.prospect.org/...

Make it clear that attacking Obama isn't a plan

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 6:49 AM PDT

2008/09/06 · 06:49

When any politician who has not presented a plan attacks Obama, they should be told voters will read Obama's plans in detail.

Someone Calling Obama/Biden a name or names?
consequence is we read another chapter of Obamanomics.

Exaggerating or lying about Obama's record?
result is we study a few more of his podcasts

Repurposing Obama's ideas to lie to us?
we call another radio or talk show to mention specifics of the Obama plan.

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Sunday July 01, 2007 · 9:54 AM PDT

2007/07/01 · 09:54

If you voted for G.W. Bush for President, you should be wondering who you actually voted for.
Was it the Federalist society? or
Liberty Law School graduates?
Cheney and the Nixon administration staff? Rove and the political tricksters?
Oil companies?
Rove and his dirty tricksters?

The Bush 8 year debacle has proven that for these politicians, "small government" is code for "spend more but be sure OUR friends get the government money AND the tax breaks".

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Ample Funds for Health care reform: Urban Institute

My first vote for Black Presidential candidate was 1972, when I was 23

Utter lack of consc!ence, huge egos, short tempers,+ appet!te for exc!tement!!

Legal/Tax Questions for the Palens:

Biggest Problem yet: Palin ignored African American leaders

Money is "Catnip" Beware "EMERGENCY POWERS"

"We've been Bombed" USA looted by Outgoing admin

BZFlash! Tim Wise Clarifies White Privilege for us all.

Polls are Wrong : NEW voters not "LIKELY" voters

NO EMPATHY Palin

Make it clear that attacking Obama isn't a plan

who did Bush fans really vote for to run the country?