http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/opinion/11krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

but unfortunately GOP propaganda works…hell I wonder if the GOP claimed that the wingnuts had to sacrifice their first-born children, they would do so willingly if the GOP claimed that this would prevent the country from descending into Communism or whatever…

I sure hope they intend to include care for illegitimate children of ex-Senators in this plank.
August 9th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

You have no argument, TROLL…which is shown by how you resort to a personal attack…at least offer up the usual cliche, how by following this platform, we’d be turning America into a Communist, I mean TERRORIST country…

affordable, comprehensive health care

It doesn’t say “free.” This is code for everyone being forced to pay insurance companies.

“complete redeployment within 16 months” from Iraq

This doesn’t say that the troops are coming home. This is code for building up in Afghanistan and invading Pakistan (or Iran).

http://progressiveworldreview.com

(You don’t build and own the biggest building in a city by giving your customers a “good deal” . . . and Lobbyists cost a FORTUNE!)

“compromise”?

thanks again…

you’re correct… amanda deserves major kudos…

i DO appreciate the work of ALL the TP staff…
just found the last days lacking, as if distracted…
imagine that…

i even submitted a great topic that the TP ladies should’ve found fun – a compilation of mcCREEPY’s sicko sexist humor…
rachel maddow was expressing her wish for such the other day…

i mean, if they can’t think of more and better ways to promote and help out the Democratic Presidential nominee…
…

I wish I could have given my Mummy gin & tonics. I had to settle for Dilaudid and Ativan.

Having grown up in the UK I have first-hand experience of ‘affordable comprehensive health care for all’ and having worked in the US in construction/woodworking for quite a while I also have first-hand experience of workers-comp (helpful) and of what one’s options are when unemployed and without health insurance of any kind.

UK:
I was born at home with just a midwife attending.
My 12-year old brother R. had open-heart surgery.
My 9-year old brother J broke his arm
My 13 year brother I broke his leg
My 52-year old father broke his foot and a doctor came to our house.
At 12 years old I fractured my skull, spent two days in a coma and a week in hospital.
At 14 years of age I accidentally cut-off the top of my thumb, which was stitched back-on.
At 84 my mother spent her last four-weeks in a hospital which had a garden (in fact all the wards were arranged around gardens) that she could see from her room. The hospital staff let us bring her Gin and Tonic every day we visited (she said it was the only thing she could still really taste).

The only cost to my middle-class (at-best) family for all this was the expected nominal Health Insurance tax taken out of my parent’s and everyone-else’s wages. Importantly, the necessary use of this health-care didn’t change the taxes my parents paid and had no evident effect on their employers’ contributions either.

I doubt there’s anything exceptional in this history of family medical misfortunes except for the fact that only the injuries caused distress–not the finances needed to address them.

united behind a commitment that every American man, woman and child be guaranteed to have affordable, comprehensive health care.

This should be made an amendment into the constitution. Every citizen after all has a right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Therefore, as a advanced society with the advanced knowledge in the field of health care, we should not deny any person access to these life saving procedures. To say that money should be the only determining factor between saving your life or dying is ridiculous. The constitution wasn’t built around wealth, it was built around people. Government by the people, FOR the people. Therefore, if universal health care is wanted by the people, then the government has to serve the people.

Big business conservatives need to wrap their minds around this concept. Life is a right guaranteed under the constitution. More then 18,000 people a year die from lack of health coverage. This should be made illegal under federal laws.

Not: “What a disaster the Republicans have been for the last eight years”???

You gotta be kidding me.

I loudly applaud the platform. Over the years, I’ve written many members of Congress on it. I even worked in a local community collaborative to make it reality. After four very successful years we disbanded due to huge state and federal policy roadblocks.

I’m skeptical the current Democratic Congressional leadership has any intention of making it happen.

Just sayin’….