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Posted By: mt on 2009-04-16
In Reply to: To mt: Really over a million people took place in the protest? s/m - sm

First, there is a link provided and you've got to watch the video in the link. Remember the unprofessional CNN stooge lady. Well at about 2 minutes into the video it shows what happened after they stopped rolling the film clip on TV. But click on other links inside this link and you will find other websites.

To the poster of this message - sorry but I've been off this board for awhile working. You know you really should give some people a break for not jumping as quick as you are on this board. We do have to work and do not have this open 24 hours/per day.

First let me say you are questioning what goes on at the tea parties in America by what Canada writes????? Please, I lived in Canada. I have relatives still living there. I know about their economy, system, news agencies, etc. Canada hates America. Period. Of course they will write and say anything that they think will make us look bad, but fortunately a lot of people know what Canada's viewpoints are. They are like an extension of MSNBC or CNN.

Okay...here's were I got my information (of course I am not going to be able to list every single city in America - don't have time for that or the room on this message board.

Whether you want to believe it or not (because your postings sounds like a stooge response from someone who only watches MSNBC and CNN) but whether you want to believe it or not the Tea Parties were a huge rallying of loyal American Patriots exercising our rights of freedom of speech. I'm getting a lot of my information from people who wrote in to different places to state how many people were at their tea parties and there are many many websites you can go to (that is if you want the truth and not be in a coma thinking there was nothing to this), so you can do your own research like I've done, but I have provided at link at the bottom (one of hundreds of different links).

Over 2000 cities across America held tea parties. There were anywhere from 300-500 participants in some cities to over 10K in other cities.

In Tennessee over 10,000 people met at Legislative Plaza.

Rochester NY - 1,000

Cincinatti - 4,000

Madison WI - 8,000

Oklahoma capital - 5,000

Chicago IL - 4,000

Boise ID - 2,500

Lansing MI - 7,000

Hartford, CT - 3,000

Jacksonville FL - 2,000

Pittsburgh - 1,000

Des Moines - 3,000

Louisville - 1,500

North Houston - 7,000

Phoenix - 5,000

Central Valley CA - 7,500

Here in our town we had a turn out of over 9,000 people.

Dayton OH - over 6,000

Alamo, TX - 20,000

Albuquerque NM - 10,000

Indianapolis, IN - 10,000

Ft. Meyers - 3,000-3,500

Eureka, CA - over 500

Monterey, CA - over 500

Coeur d'Alene ID - over 1,000

Memphis TN - 5,000

Redding CA - 1,500-2,000

Lincoln NB - 2,000

Mountain Home - AK - 1,500

Austin TX - Over 5,000

Manchester NH - over 1,000

Morristown NJ - over 2,000

Charleston SC - 6,000

Fort Worth TX - 5,000

Shreveport LA - 5,000

Worcester MA - over 2,000

Salem, OR - 3,500

Grand Rapids MI - 3,600

Greenburg PA - 1,500

Stuart FL - 1,000

Manchester NH - over 1,000

Charlotte NC - 2,500

Olympia WA - over 5,000

Greenville SC - 2,000

Eugene OR - 1,000

Anchorage AK - 1,000

Gulfport MI - 1,200 - 1,400

South Florida - (Broward Blvd) - 2,000

St. George UT - 3,000

Columbus IN - 2,000

Chattanooga TN - 1,000

I didn't include all the little towns mentioned in this article with 500 here, 300 there, etc, etc - you can read for yourself. And even this article doesn't cover every city in America that had a tea party (there is about 1900 other cities whose statistics I do not have, and I didn't mention the huge cities like the capitals of the states, etc. However, on a couple different stations last night they were saying over a million people throughout the country participated whether they were there or they organized it. That and with the festivities, professional musicians, etc. It was a beautiful, inspiring, grass roots movement that is just the beginning.


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Please watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/v/PdJUCU1UH2w&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1
by the way..did u watch the video?
Like I said, if you can support abortion, you should be able to watch it. 
PS: Did u or did u not watch the video????? nm
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Did you even watch the video
Bush was not bowing, he was bending while King Abdullah was putting a medal around him. When people are getting a medal they bend for the person to be able to place the medal around their neck (don't you watch the Olympics?). Would you have preferred King Abdullah to have to jump up and down because he couldn't reach that high, and just fling it around his neck as though he was playing a game of horsehoes?

If Bush had bowed (like Obama did) you bet people would be screaming and shouting. But you need to watch the video before posting it because you evidently did not watch it. In fact I'm sure it probably took you hours and hours of constant not stop searching and you probably saw a photo of Bush bending at the waist and assumed he was bowing. Next time you should watch a whole video before posting it claiming it is something it is not. After Bush was given the medal by King Abdullah he then shook his hand and kissed him on each cheek which is proper etiquette. He also shook the hands of a couple other people and gave a nod to someone else.

A bow is something you do when you first greet someone. Seeing as Bush had already greeted him and was walking down a hallway talking with him, he would not have bowed in the middle of their conversation.

No American leader should be bowing to another foreign leader. Unless of course you are not American and then you do whatever is proper protocol of your country.
PLEASE....DO you research. Watch the video above...
look at the links and the bills that are a matter of public record. No offense, but you really need to educate yourself on this one. I didn't know the extent of it until the last few days either. I was appalled. But of course, I don't put party first...maybe that is the difference.
Excuse me....why don't you watch the video...
than pins the 700 billion fannie/freddie fiasco on Franks and Dodd, and Obama is second on their donations list...even tho he has only been in senate 3 years and others on the list for 20-30 years. You can choose to believe that means nothing if you like. Johnson, Raines, both top Obama advisors, both walked away from Fannie with millions. Keating was years ago, you all keep saying why dredge up Obama's past...but ok to dredge up McCain's? McCain said he was sorry for what he did have to do with it, which wasn't much...and after that, because of that, worked at reforming ethics laws. And was rewarded for it by receiving the JFK Profiles in Courage Award.

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Education+and+Public+Programs/Profile+in+Courage+Award/Award+Recipients/John+McCain/

Shame on you.
did you watch the video from the other post
just wondering what you thought if you did.  the post was onthe faith board that says not for everyone
Sorry, I didn't watch the video...sm
I was referring to the $700+ billion economic stimulus that was pushed through quickly in February. Here is an article regarding what I was talking about. I did a "dogpile" search for "$250 stimulus retired", and came across this. Notice it makes reference to the economic stimulus packing "enacted in February" in the first paragraph. In the third paragraph it says it is "part of the $787 billion package...enacted in February..."

WASHINGTON -- More than 50 million retirees can expect to receive $250 payments from the government in the next few weeks as their share of the economic stimulus package enacted in February.

Economists say the payments will be a timely boost just as the recession is showing signs of easing a little.

The payments are part of the $787 billion package of spending and tax cuts enacted in February to help boost the economy. They will go to people who receive Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, railroad retirement or veteran's disability benefits.

Mary Glenn-Croft, deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration, told a congressional panel Tuesday that the payments are intended to inject more than $13 billion into the economy while helping beneficiaries of the four programs meet everyday living expenses.

The payments are meant for people who did not qualify for the new "Making Work Pay" tax credit that provides up to $400 to individuals and $800 to couples. Taxpayers who would otherwise qualify for both will have the $250 payments deducted from their tax credits.

The tax credits started flowing to most workers in weekly paychecks this month. The $250 payments will be delivered in May, Glenn-Croft said.

The effect on the economy should be known in the next few months, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com.

"We are at the moment of truth for the tax cuts and probably the stimulus more broadly," Zandi said. "If we don't see an improvement in retailing and if the job cutting doesn't abate in response this summer and fall ... it either hasn't worked or it wasn't enough."

The U.S. economy has shed more than 5 million jobs since the recession began, and unemployment remains high in most of the country, but there are signs that investors, shoppers and home buyers are less jittery.

Zandi said the economy is still in decline. But, he added, "The rate of decline is slowing; the free fall is over."

The goal of the stimulus package is to get people to spend money at a time when most are reducing spending and saving more. It makes sense to be frugal when the economy is in such bad shape, but it hurts the economy when everyone does it.

The extra Social Security payments should boost spending because retirees on fixed incomes are more likely to spend them than workers earning more money, said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.

"The people who live closer to paycheck-to-paycheck are more likely to spend it," Swonk said.

The payments are also expected to provide relief to many struggling seniors. Glenn-Croft said the bad economy -- coupled with aging baby boomers nearing retirement age -- has more Americans applying for Social Security and disability benefits.

The agency expects retirement claims to increase by 300,000, or 9 percent, this year, Glenn-Croft said. The agency expects disability claims to increase by 30,000, or 12 percent, she said.

Swonk said some aging baby boomers are being forced into early retirement through layoffs and they are using Social Security benefits as an "alternative form of unemployment insurance."

"You're 62, you're eligible, you just lost your job," Swonk said. "It's better to get something than nothing."

Go watch the video. Then come back and talk to me about...
disgusting. You have no idea what disgusting IS until you look at that movie.

I repeat...have the guts to go and view that movie..it is NOT an embryo, it is a formed child, and it is LIVING and growing. If you cut it up and suck it out, that is killing it, and it is murder.

You have compassion for animals but not the unborn.

Excuse me, but my creator (don't know about yours) said about children, whatever you do to the LEAST of them, you have also done it to me. Also said suffer the little children to come unto me, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. It doesn't say theirs is the kingdom of Heaven after they are born and take a breath or two. To me that means I should be concerned about the unborn and champion them, because it is obvious that while you will champion animals, you will not afford the same courtesy to an unborn human baby. If you can justify that and live with that decision, more power to you. I cannot.

Go watch the video...at least KNOW what you are defending.

And frankly, with all due respect, it is not up to you where I put my nose. This is still a free country...last time I looked.
You take the moral high ground and watch video
nm
Watch the video. Winged, bleeding, writhing in pain.
O
Hillarious video...Old video of Obama roasting Rahm
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/11/obama-emanuel-r.html
Actually I believe in working hard and working
Are you really that bitter?  I'll say a prayer for you.
Isn't it time to watch Hannity or bowl or some other watch Nascar?
UR W T
A video FUN political video.
http://view.break.com/592648
I don't watch Fox, I watch CNN and feel the
exact same was .... just sayin
I don't watch Fox, I watch CNN and feel the
exact same way .... just sayin
No, it is not working very well for them.
see link.
Why are THEY working to fix it?
I asked DH today, why are they working to fix it? Aren't they the ones who got us into this mess in the first place? What's next let he criminal decide what punishment they will be getting.

Also, seems to me they are not real interested in finding a solution but are too interested in blaming the other side (just my opinion).

Every one of them should be held responsible and they should pay every single cent back they've received from the payouts whether they are democrat or republican.

Also, isn't one or two million enough for them? Heck, I could live very comfortable on $500K. But they are so greedy they have to millions and millions! DH said they are ignoring the fact this is not their money.
We can all see how well that is working
Flame away. It's the truth.
it's not working!
what should it be? I get an old spice commercial, a twix commercial and some person in a library. that's it.
I think God is still working on that, which is why O
nm
Sorry, I was working...

To begin with I'd like to see the video of Obama saying that he is a Muslim--WITH at least one minute of the interview prior to and after the "quote".  Also, I'd like the person who said that he didn't know how many states were in the United States to back that up with a referrence.  There are SO many others, but those are the two that come to mind. 


it's not working for you, is it? nm
nm
CIA and FBI are working

My aunt talked to an FBI agent just a few days before Nov. 4th and they are still working on it.  Supposedly O constantly shows he has a passport as proof of his birth certificate because in order to get a passport you have to show proof of a birth certificate.  


Well in order to be president, you have to show proof of birth certificate, not a passport.  Guess what?  O does not show it.  Hospitals have no record of birth certificate.  All O has to do is SHOW THE STUPID THING and get this all resolved.  So why does he not just show it?   Why is he stalling.  Why is O wasting time judges, courts, and lawyers time.  JUST SHOW THE STUPID THING.


I'm working on that one............sm
I've already had to eat crow once tonight.....lol

Look up at the top.
Most QA here are already working

I'm not sure I fully understand.  I know that there is no law against who you hire and how you hire. I know of facilities that have on-site MTs and have no plans to outsource at all. 


Private practices if they desire hire on-site MTs because they can usually do coding/billing, answer phones, and make coffee (LOL).  It happens.


I've run into 2 different people that have said when you get tired of working from home, come see us...  We'll hire ya'....  LOL - makes me feel good about this profession. 


I think it depends on how greedy that particular physician/facility is and how much they care about the quality of dictation and how much time they want to spend correcting it. 


Working for ministries..

Working for a non-profit ministry is vastly different than working for a for-profit company.  I say this, because I work in a ministry.  Many ministries have Codes of Conduct.  However, it's legally required that you be informed verbally and in writing of these codes of conduct, and then you sign a waiver stating that yes, you can follow those, or no you don't.  You have a choice up front.  It's a contract, and you can choose to sign and abide or not to sign and walk away.


I have no idea of the standards for the Salvation Army, but I doubt they are as stringent as what you are saying.  The rumor mill is an ugly thing.  I think we all played pass it down as children, and we know how drastically a statement can be altered when passed down just a minimum of two to three times.


If this guy says the surge is working...
November 29, 2007
Read More: Iraq

Murtha: 'Surge is working'



Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) acknowledged that the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq is “working” after returning from a brief trip to Iraq last week, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The comments, coming from a harsh critic of President Bush’s Iraq war policy, suggest there may be a shift in Democratic rhetoric on Iraq in light of recent reductions in violence in Iraq over the last several months.


Murtha made the comments today at his district office in Johnstown, Pa.

He added that the Iraqi government needed to better “take care of themselves” and achieve greater progress with political reconciliation, according to the Post-Gazette.

The statement is a marked shift from this July, when Murtha told CNN that he “dismissed” an op-ed by Brookings Institution analysts Ken Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon that the surge was beginning to make progress, declaring their comments were “an illusion.”


Well, at least he has the guts to step up and tell the truth after seeing it with his own eyes.  Good for him!


you been working on that answer

for the last 2 hours?  My compliments - it was worth the wait.


 


Working harder
Dee I so agree with your post.  I already have a hard time making ends meet and I work for 3 services, dh works a FT job and a PT time job.  I will not work more so that the lazy class can do nothing to help themselves.  There are a lot of people I know that started out liking Obama (me included) but now will not vote for him because of his socialist politics.  If that is happening in one small area I'm sure it is happening all over this country.  When is someone going to care about the middle class, who carry the brunt of the tax burden of this country???? I don't like McCain either but he is the lesser of 2 evils. 
working in Washington?

The thing that everyone is forgetting is that not everyone is in Washington right now working - there are some people there trying to work out the details and everyone else will just vote when it is handed to them. 


In fact, they said that things were going better before McCain and Obama got there, that once McCain got there things started going downhill because there are a group of Republicans who do not want to support the package that their Republican President is wanting passed. 


Now, I don't know if I would support it or not if I was there, but I don't think that it is a requirement that every Senator be in that room while they are working on the details. 


I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican - don't know yet for sure which way I am going - but I do not fault Obama for not automatically running to Washington just because McCain did.  In fact, from all the information I have gather this morning, McCain did not contribute anything to the conversation yesterday anyway. 


Exactly right. Remember that when you are working...
100% for the STATE.
Working your butt off
Is never having a day off because during the week you MT part time and take classes AND teach youth group and then you have a second account on the weekend.

I'd love to have kids but I'm not going to right now BECAUSE I CAN'T AFFORD IT and I don't expect anyone else to pay for them! It's called being RESPONSIBLE.

Think before you speak.
Believe me, you may be working your butts off..

but in the end it will pay off. You will live your American Dream and you will thrive. Most today want it all now, gimme gimme, gotta have it now, material things come first. DH and I are debt free but the house; do we want a new BMW or Escalade, you bet, can we afford it, you bet, do we have them, he!! no, our cars are a few years old and paid for and drive just like a new one. Do we have the latest, greatest electronics, no to that too, we don't have anyone we need to impress that much. However, we do have piece of mind that we have money in the bank, can take vacations, can pay whatever price gas is, pay cash for anything new we want and can go the mailbox or answer the phone and know there isn't a debt collector on the other end.


We have been in your shoes, working our tails off and it has paid off greatly for us. Sure, we struggled but now it's worth it. We did it without whining to the gov't for help, expecting some man speaking eloquent words at a podium to come to our rescue.


Were you working for the OP? What do you know for a fact?
Unless you were working for the OP, you don't know what she paid her employees or anything else about her business. She was using that as an example...I work full time but my employer isn't that generous with me as far as fullfilling my shift obligations. If I am late, I get docked. Simple as that. No job I ever had gave incentives like the OP did.

So until you have walked in her shoes, you really have no right to say something like that. IMO.
I see the Kool Aid is working. nm

I'm not working but If I did work s/m
I would take a pay cut right after I saw the suits take a pay cut in proportion to the size of the cuts which their employees were asked to take.  No, that wouldn't happen, they would take the money and give themselves a bonus for running the company into the ground.  I would also be willing to take a pay cut if the cost of goods and services went down but that isn't happening either.  So.........I say NO to pay cuts for anyone.  Either lower costs where people can live on minimum wage or make wages sufficient to pay for essentials.
yes, it's one of the bonuses of working for the Q -nm
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A lot of those people are working -
Food stamps are not just for people who are not working. If you have a husband and wife making minimum wage, exactly how much money do you think they are making? Not enough to feed themselves and live, let alone feed a family if they have one.

Not everyone is cut out to go to college, not everyone has the funds or resources to go to college, and we all need these people working in these lower paying jobs to keep our world revolving, and they are always going to require some help to get through life.

I don't see that it is just a bunch of deadbeats that are getting food stamps. Now, I agree, there are people who could do better than they do, but there are also people who are generally just in need of help and not taking help because they want to, but out of necessity to live.
Starting at the top and working their way down........sm
the Bill of Rights? If the government can do this, you can well believe they can strip other religious freedoms and move right on down the line to the right to bear arms and whatever else they would like to strip away. Thomas Jefferson said it best (loosely quoted) - "A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to can take everything you have."
It looks to me like they have all been working parties too -
One of the lines even said that it was a "hamburger and hotdog" affair for the congressman; and it also plainly stated that Obama had left the party before the conga line started - but who cares anyway?

Do you think just because he is President he is not human and does not like to interact and have fun? Do you not think that every President before him has entertained and enjoyed themselves at their "HOME"?
Working link. sm
http://thomas.loc.gov/


Not the WORKING Americans!
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Working for the people? .............sm
I'd say so in this instance. We don't know what Obama's total healthcare package is going to cost either, but it will come out of my pocket and yours. Personally, and I know I will get toasted for this, I would rather use my hard-earned dollars to insure me and my family and let everyone else worry about doing the same. Why should I pay for insurance for people who haven't bothered getting insurance on their own?
Apparently abstinence and no sex-ed are not working.
More failed policies?
CNN working to get COMPLETE info.
Perhaps there is more to the story than sam is trying to insinuate...like some of the replies have been suggesting. Take a peek at O's record on Katrina.
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/when-the-cameras-are-off-barack-obamas-hurricane-katrina-record/
1. Here is O's record on rebuilding after Hurriane Katrina
2. Sept. 2, 2005: Obama holds press conference urging Illinoisans to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
3. Sept. 5, 2005: Obama goes to Houston to visit evacuees with Presidents Clinton and Bush.
4. Sept. 7, 2005: Obama introduces bill to create a national emergency family locator system
5. Sept. 8, 2005: Obama introduces bill to create a National Emergency Volunteers Corps. Sept. 8, 2005: Obama co-sponsors the Katrina Emergency Relief Act of 2005 introduced by Senator Harry Reid
6. Sept. 8, 2005: Obama co-sponsors the Hurricane Katrina Bankruptcy Relief and Community Protection Act of 2005 introduced by Senator Russ Feingold
7. Sept. 12, 2005: Obama introduces legislation requiring states to create an emergency evacuation plan for society’s most vulnerable
8. Sept. 15, 2005: Obama issues public response to President Bush’s speech about Gulf Coast rebuilding.
9. Sept. 21, 2005: Obama co-sponsors bill to establish a Katrina commission to investigate response to the disaster introduced by Hillary Clinton
10. Sept. 21, 2005: Obama appears on NPR to discuss the role of poverty in Hurricane Katrina.
11. Sept. 22, 2005: Obama and Coburn’s Hurricane Katrina financial oversight bill unanimously passes Senate committee.
12. Sept. 22, 2005: Obama’s amendment requiring evacuation plans unanimously passes Senate committee.
13. Sept. 28, 2005: Obama and Coburn issue statement about the need for a Chief Financial Officer to oversee the financial mismanagement and suspicious contracts occurring in the reconstruction process
14. Sept. 29, 2005: Obama and Coburn investigate possible FEMA refusal of free cruise ship offer
15. Oct. 6, 2005: Obama and Coburn issue statement on FEMA Decision to re-bid Katrina contracts
16. Oct. 6, 2005: Obama co-sponsors Gulf Coast Infrastructure Redevelopment and Recovery Act of 2005.
17. Oct. 21, 2005: Obama releases statement decrying the extension of FEMA director, Michael “Brownie” Brown’s contract. Obama calls Brown’s contract extension, “unconscionable.”
18. Nov. 17, 2005: Obama and Coburn introduce legislation asking FEMA to immediately re-bid all Katrina reconstruction contracts.
19. Feb. 1, 2006: Obama gives Senate floor speech on his legislation to help children affected by Hurricane Katrina
20. Feb. 2, 2006: Obama introduces legislation to help low-income children affected by Hurricane Katrina
21. Feb. 23, 2006: Obama issues statement responding to a White House report on Hurricane Katrina. Obama noted that the top two recommendations that the report had for the federal government were initiatives he had been working on since immediately after the storm hit. Obama called the administration’s response “delinquent.”
22. May 2, 2006: Obama gives speech about no-bid contracts in Hurricane Katrina reconstruction
23. May 4, 2006: Obama’s legislation to end no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina reconstruction passed the Senate.
24. June 15, 2006: Obama and Coburn announce legislation to require amendment to create competitive bidding for Hurricane Katrina reconstruction for federal contracts over $500,000. Although it passed previously, the language was stripped in conference.
25. June 15, 2006: Obama releases podcast about his pending Katrina reconstruction legislation in the Senate.
26. June 16, 2006: Obama and Coburn get no-bid Hurricane Katrina reconstruction amendment into Department of Defense authorization bill.
27. July 14, 2006: Obama and Coburn’s legislation to end abuse of no-bid contracts passes senate as amendment to Department of Defense authorization bill.
28. August 11, 2006: Obama visits Xavier University in New Orleans to give Commencement address
29. August 14, 2006: Obama and Coburn ask FEMA to address ballooning no-bid contracts for Gulf Coast reconstruction
30. Sept. 29, 2006: Obama and Coburn legislation to prevent abuse of no-bid contracts in the wake of disaster passes Senate to be sent to President’s desk to become law.
31. Feb. 2007-Present: As Obama begins his Presidential campaign he references Katrina as a part of his stump speech as he travels around the country in his familiar line, “That we are not a country which preaches compassion and justice to others while we allow bodies to float down the streets of a major American city. That is not who we are.”
32. June 20, 2007: Obama co-sponsors Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007 introduced by Senator Chris Dodd.
33. July 27, 2007: Obama and colleagues get a measure in the Homeland Security bill that will investigate FEMA trailers that may contain the toxic chemical, formaldehyde.
34. Aug. 26, 2007: Obama outlines a detailed Hurricane Katrina recovery plan.
35. December 18, 2007: Obama calls on President Bush to protect affordable housing in New Orleans
36. February 16, 2008: Obama releases statement on toxic Gulf Coast trailers

i don't mind working and helping out others
but would prefer to choose who I help... not the government telling me
At one point in my life, I was working
but still had to count on foodstamps to feed my two kids.  Was a burden to society?  Had to learn to use coupons, and then one day the checkout girl forgot to take off the 25 cent coupon of my food bill.  I was told, "It's only a quarter" to which I replied, "I hope you never have to learn what a quarter means."  Found out years later that unfortunately she too learned what a quarter was after she married, had a couple of kids, and was on foodstamps.  But I thank those Americans who paid their taxes in order that my children did not starve, even as I was working full-time.  
We already have this plan in my state and it is working very well...sm
Keep our own doctor, private insurance companies, etc. Republican governor too.
Sad he uses the working class as an excuse
This man has abused/used the working class/middle-class name to climb the backs of those hardworking people who actually are so sick and tired that they are willing to fall for anything.

Only he has climbed their backs up the ladder to socialism. Looking at his early years, the only people he wanted to help and still ONLY want to help are the minority. And by duping some middle-class families into voting for him, he will take their hard earned money and increase the welfare payroll.

It is so disgusting. Flame all you want!!!!