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It's still a choice.
Data-entry and dogsitting aren't BFA stuff, either.
Mary Anne
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5/6/2009 1:32:24 AM
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Have you looked at the economy lately?
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Even with 60 Senators health care not a slam dunk
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Buck Galaxy
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5/3/2009 11:37:18 PM
Interesting that the Nays all have public health care
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azstrummer
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5/4/2009 5:40:50 PM
"slowly phase out private industry"
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Lee
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5/6/2009 5:29:48 PM
So do the "pros."
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TB
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5/4/2009 6:08:43 PM
In 6 days, my daughter will have no health insurance at all.
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 12:43:28 AM
Just let private enterprise handle it.
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David F Mayer
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5/5/2009 4:41:01 AM
What?
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Lee
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5/6/2009 5:33:20 PM
What?
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Lee
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5/6/2009 5:33:15 PM
Ever actually priced insurance for a college graduate?
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TB
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5/5/2009 4:43:35 AM
Yes. I know that I exaggerated, but I was using poetic license.
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David F Mayer
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5/5/2009 4:55:48 AM
re: poetic license
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TB
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5/5/2009 5:10:40 AM
Fair enough, but apply same standard to GOP reform
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dtb
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5/5/2009 5:25:46 PM
re: Fair enough, but apply same standard to GOP reform
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TB
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5/5/2009 5:44:10 PM
I could live with that...
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dtb
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5/5/2009 6:37:51 PM
re: I could live with that...
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TB
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5/5/2009 8:25:41 PM
My son passed a kidney stone...
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Jody
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5/5/2009 3:20:02 AM
I bet he couldn't go to the doctor to have his blood calcium level detected before the stone formed.
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 12:46:01 PM
*I* would understand the problem a little better?
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Jody
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5/5/2009 8:05:25 PM
If you say so.
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 8:31:24 PM
Oh...I am a hypocrite too.
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Jody
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5/5/2009 8:50:42 PM
That is neither here nor there for me..
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Jody
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5/5/2009 6:40:14 PM
Well, he could
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TB
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5/5/2009 5:07:30 PM
I think that getting antibiotics for bronchitis from the doctor's office...
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 5:57:40 PM
Yes it gets charged to medicare
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Buck Galaxy
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5/5/2009 6:18:04 AM
typo "treatments"
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Buck Galaxy
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5/5/2009 3:31:05 PM
I had one, and it cost ME $7,000 to have it removed, and the health insurance paid the rest.
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David F Mayer
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5/5/2009 4:45:17 AM
What state does she live in?
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TB
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5/5/2009 2:13:05 AM
Pennsylvania
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 12:33:08 PM
re: Pennsylvania
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TB
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5/5/2009 4:54:20 PM
180 days. Yes, I know.
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 6:02:28 PM
I assumed you were looking for something to fill a gap.
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TB
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5/5/2009 8:27:48 PM
Yes, the starving artist in the attic with tuberculosis.
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 8:34:05 PM
It's still a choice.
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TB
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5/5/2009 8:44:53 PM
Data-entry and dogsitting aren't BFA stuff, either.
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Mary Anne
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5/6/2009 1:32:24 AM
And by the way...
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TB
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5/4/2009 6:10:45 PM
'- - -how destroying the private insurance industry - - - "
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Bowser
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5/5/2009 1:16:43 AM
In what remote way does that address my question?
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TB
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5/5/2009 2:13:57 AM
re: slam dunk
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TB
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5/4/2009 2:41:23 AM
"Working well for me"
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azstrummer
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5/4/2009 5:54:54 PM
re: "Working well for me"
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TB
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5/4/2009 6:18:28 PM
First paragraph should be italicized.
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TB
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5/4/2009 8:04:56 PM
re: slam dunk
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Buck Galaxy
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5/4/2009 3:03:54 AM
One more proof of the need for a TOTAL ban on all campaign contributions.
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David F Mayer
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5/4/2009 1:01:27 AM
Then who pays for elections?
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TB
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5/4/2009 2:48:00 AM
Nobody. Elections will have strict limits of $10,000 for Congress & $100,000 for President paid out of CANDIDATE's own pocket.
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David F Mayer
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5/4/2009 3:21:14 AM
British election funding
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TB
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5/4/2009 2:49:05 PM
That is why I prefer NO contributions whatsoever. That cuts of the head of the hydra.
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David F Mayer
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5/4/2009 5:22:46 PM
And who puts the money into the candidate's own pocket?
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Mary Anne
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5/4/2009 11:22:58 AM
Himself. Another part of my reforms is that nobody can give any candidate or official
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David F Mayer
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5/4/2009 5:24:56 PM
So only the extraordinarily wealthy will ever hold office.
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 12:27:05 AM
WRONG! A $10,000 limit for Congress would not limit candidacy to the rich.
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David F Mayer
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5/5/2009 3:13:17 AM
Heh.
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Mary Anne
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5/5/2009 1:21:00 PM
Exactly why such things should NOT be permitted.
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David F Mayer
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5/7/2009 11:57:56 AM
Plutocracy squared.
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TB
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5/4/2009 5:32:59 PM
Not with a $10,000 dollar limit.
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David F Mayer
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5/5/2009 3:13:57 AM
Why not make it a five dollar limit?
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TB
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5/5/2009 3:48:20 AM
I want some modest expenses permitted. Basically, we are back
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David F Mayer
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5/5/2009 4:35:55 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.