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Wee,

Thank you for the thoughtful ideas. Again, I know there are some that probably do have what Wokin' calls the "Screw You, I got mine" mentality, but I think those represent a small percentage of those out there. I think there is also a percentage of "Screw them, they owe me.." on the other side as well. I just think both groups are small minorities.

I also think if we are going to be realistic, there are some hard choices to be made in the way we think about insurance. Honestly, I think we need to look at universal insurance as more of a catastrophic option, not an all-inclusive.

Look at your auto insurance. I have no idea how much yours is, but it's not cheap. Imagine if car insurance covered scheduled maintenance, oil changes, as well as tires, brakes, etc... How much are we talking now?

Now assuming you have insurance, how much did your last Dr. appointment cost? Most people with insurance can't tell you. They can tell you what their co-pay was, but not much more.

Most people can tell you what their last oil change cost.

Lets stay with the car/health analogy, and yes, I know we are talking apples and oranges here, but there are correlations that can be drawn.

Suppose you have car insurance with, oh, lets say State Farm. You pay your premiums, you don't have any issues for years. Then one day you have an accident, and they drop you. Should they be able to do that to you? No.

Now suppose you don't have car insurance, and one day you get in a pretty big accident. Should you now be able to walk into State Farm's office and buy insurance that will cover that accident?

And yes, I know that the republicans don't have a lot of ground to stand on here - it's not like they did anything about it the four years they had congress and the White House. But that's no excuse for a bad bill now.

When your house is destroyed by a natural disaster, you rebuild the foundation, then the home, and then you paint and carpet, relandscape, and then buy new furniture. You don't do it all at once, you build that foundation and then keep going.

The democrats haven't even broke ground yet, and they're already having the furniture delivered.

Can we bring both sides together? I really don't know, but we have two options before us. Like Sergei and Wee, we can discuss and try to find solutions, even if they are small, and then we can build on those.

Or, we can just ignore each other and call each other names.

BTW poll results 100% of the people said they don't care what Bob has to say.

More Bob...

So something truthful like...


"But in reality, they seem to be a collection of Libertarians, Evangelicals, Racists and societal outcasts. The only intelligent people in the Tea Party organizations are the higher up organizers that are exploiting them for profit and personal financial interests."


Is a personal attack but calling somebody a "whore" is not.