Posts Tagged health care
Kevin O’Brien… Isn’t the Tea Party Your Cup? Why Are You Still Here?
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Media on March 29, 2010
March 29, 2010… Why does The Plain Dealer print Kevin O’Brien? That was the headline atop Sunday’s letters page in the morning newspaper.
So why does the newspaper put up with his nonsense?
There were eight letters all taking O’Brien, a PD editorial page editor and columnist, to task for – even for him – an unusually strident, stupid and ignorant column on the recently passed health care measure.
The column cited screamed out for such a response.
Kevin is upset.
But he is upset in a mean-spirited and dishonest way.
O’Brien’s most onerous paragraph, cited by the first letter writer Philip Pellett, tells it all.
“The Democrats in Congress and the White House have forced upon the United States of America (music please) a federal health care plan designed for people who are too stupid, incompetent and weak to managed their own affairs.”
Anyone who has lived even a little should take offense to that.
Anyone who has lived even a little knows that there are bumps, if not crashes, in almost everyone’s life. You don’t have to be stupid, incompetent or weak to know this. You just have to live.
I think Editor Susan Goldberg and Editorial Page Editor Elizabeth Sullivan should give this some thought.
They need to ask themselves, “Why do we print Kevin O’Brien?”
Lots of people really want to know. Why?
Do You Tell 30 Million People to Wait for Perfection?
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in People, Politicians on December 22, 2009
December 22, 2009… Medical care for 30 million people who do not have medical care now.
30,000,000. That’s one more than 29,999,999.
What do those who want to kill the health bill because it doesn’t go far enough say to these 30,000,000 Americans? Wait longer?
Not good enough for me because I have mine and I want you to have better health care? So wait longer.
If you don’t have health care, how do you get better health care from a bill killed by those who can’t see the benefit for the 30,000,000?
Wait 10 years and we might have something better for you?
Who is so politically pure that they can tell others to wait for perfection.
Wait for heaven. You’ll have it ALL then. Actually, no need for health care anymore.
Until then, hold on. Or take two aspirin and call us in 10 years.
Here’s the good and the bad and why the-not-so-good will have to be good enough for now:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/learning-from-lieberman_b_398705.html
COUNT THE NUMBERS AND THEN THINK
COUNT THEM…KEEP COUNTING THEM… AND KEEP COUNTING THEM – YEAR AFTER YEAR, AFTER YEAR, AFTER YEAR. ONCE YOU GET HEALTH CARE TO THE PEOPLE YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO TAKE IT AWAY. JUST LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY. JUST LIKE MEDICARE.
SCREW THIS UP FOR SOME IDEAL AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU HURT: 29,999,000
29,999,001
29,999,002
29,999,003
29,999,004
29,999,005
29,999,005
29,999,006
29,999,007
29,999,008
29,999,009
29,999,010
29,999,011
29,999,012
29,999,013
29,999,014
29,999,015
29,999,016
29,999,017
29,999,018
29,999,019
29,999,020
29,999,021
29,999,022
……
29,999,890
29,999,891
29,999,892
29,999,892
29,999,893
29,999,894
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29,999,896
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29,999,900
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29,999,910
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29,999,930
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29,999,991
29,999,992
29,999,993
29,999,994
29,999,995
29,999,996
29,999,997
29,999,998
29,999,999
30,000,000
That’s 30,000,000 people. Is it worth a compromise to them or should we stick to our precious government option or nothing?