Hey Atlanta...(sm)
Posted By: Just the big bad on 2009-01-25
In Reply to: You are living in some high a.. place and I wish - Bummer
You remember when they were talking about diverting water from here (Chatt) to Atlanta? Are they still talking about that there? I know people here didn't like the idea because they thought it would raise our prices.
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I didn't see any of that in Atlanta
In fact, I was the only white person (no exaggeration, minus a bartender) at a packed bar and everyone was very nice to me.
Furthermore, everywhere I went while visiting Atlanta, I saw the integration of races with no issues at all.
I can't imagine that happened in Atlanta... i highly doubt that is a regular thing
You must have lived in Atlanta in the 30s
because I live inside the perimeter and never, ever have I seen such as you talk about. Back when MLK was killed, waited in line like everyone else- no one got out of line to let me go first. Why do you tell such things when it is not true at all. The people here live and work alongside each other and thank goodness we have really been spared much of what has gone on in years past in other towns. Remember our motto- the city too busy to hate?
OVER 20 thousand in Atlanta!!!
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This is from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
New SCHIP bill, same old reaction
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 06:29 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Details were still sketchy by Wednesday evening, but House Democrats and the White House are talking about a compromise on the bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars to Georgia’s PeachCare, a health insurance program for poor kids. The House may vote on it Thursday.
The few details that have already been leaked to reporters, however, indicate that the compromise won’t be changing the minds of the 10 Georgia congressmen who voted against the original bill - and then voted to uphold President Bush’s veto of it - this month.
The compromise would still expand SCHIP, or State Children’s Health Insurance Program, by $35 billion over five years and raise the money through an increase in tobacco taxes, Republicans complained.
It’s not clear yet whether Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, one of only two House Democrats to vote against the original SCHIP bill, will change his vote - something the state Democratic Party would love to see him do on the eve of Marshall’s re-election campaign.
Rep. Tom Price, a Roswell Republican, has proposed an alternative bill to fund SCHIP through 2012 and he took Wednesday’s news about the compromise as a sign that Democrats have no intention of negotiating the bill with more than a handful of moderate Republicans.
“They’re not working with those of us who are interested in finding a solution, they’re not dealing with our leaders,” Price, a long-time physician, said. “My understanding of the changes they made in the compromise is that they’re nothing but fig leaves. They do nothing to change the structure of the bill.”
The House is expected to approve the compromise if it votes Thursday, just as it did the original version. What Democrats need to see in the vote, however, is whether their new proposal picked up the support of enough Republicans to override Bush’s predictable veto of the bill. The Senate already has those votes.
All that being said...and I won't give my personal opinion as it is already known, other than this: I do strenuously object to one segment of the population being targeted to foot the bill for this, when many of the children affected will have parents who smoke. It will not affect me...I do not smoke, never have. But I still do not think we should target one segment of the population to pay for expanding an entitlement...especially since a good number of the families involved are probably in that segment of the population. To me that is just wrong on a very basic level. They should figure out a way where the cost is more evenly distributed. I don't want my tax burden going up, but if they are going to force this, they should not lay it all at the smokers' feet.
Okay...off my soapbox. lol.
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