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HMM: Iraq confident Obama won't withdraw troops too quickly. "The Iraqi government is confident that president-elect Barack Obama will not jeopardize Iraq's improving security by hastily withdrawing U.S. troops, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday. Obama has 'reassured us that he would not take any drastic or dramatic decisions,' Zebari told BBC television."

Tom Maguire: "NOW they tell us!"

I think national health care could be a good thing. Since everything comes at an expense though I think we need to look at where and how the tax dollars are spent. I think education in this country needs to be patched. It is a bleeding farse created, funded and masked by a notion that it is all for the children. It is not, you know it, I know it, the unions know it, everyone knows it. The teachers are in it for themselves period. Sure they talk about this district vs. that district but when you boil it down its all about what the teachers are getting. More days off, better pensions, free hand outs, all in the name and a grave injustice to our children. If you fear health care costs, look at yourself and ask why. Its insurance like any other. You pay for it every pay check. If you don't like it don't pay for it. You will get healthcare regardless, and can opt out of any and all insurance. The problem is you will run up a huge debt and expect others to pay for it. People need to learn to live withing their income. You chose your path. You put yourelf where you are. Don't look at me for a fix.

Fred, there are employers like Walmart that don't offer health insurance, there are people who work places where they don't get health insurance. There are those whose insurance companies dropped them due to pre-existing condiditions. How do we cover the 47 million without?
I think you have to have a law or regulation in place that insurance companies cannot deny payment for a justified treatment or deny someone coverage based on pre-existing conditions, nor can they charge a higher premium due to pre-existing condiditions it should be affordable for all. There is a way to do it without a huge expense to all otherwise why would over half the globe have some sort of single payer universal healthcare in place?
I agree that no system is perfect, but I think there are 47 million in this country who would sleep better knowing they had coverage. Canada seems to fund theirs without going broke, yes we have more people but China has it and they have well over a billion citizens and their life expectancy is higher than ours and their healthcare system as a whole is rated higher than ours.
We are something like 37th in the world amongst quality of our healthcare systems with Costa Rica ahead of us.
Thats sad.

Mike, I think universal health care would bankrupt the country. We have too many people visting too many doctors for the littlest of things. And health CARE is a right in America. You cannot be denied treatment in a life-threatening situation regardless of your ability to pay. I'd like to see everyone meet half-way and come up with a nationalized catastrophic insurance coverage that could help cover people if they discovered they had cancer for instance. But as far as all-around insurance- I don't think so.

I have some thoughts on your privelege vs. right angle. A free, public education in America is a right and it's also a privelege. What you choose to do with it is your choice. No one told the minimum wage workers without health insurance to skip classes to smoke outside the mall, to watch TV or play video games intead of studying, or to basically be all-around F***-ups when they should have been exercising their right to a free education. And therefore, they have lost some priveleges - like a health PLAN paid for by the people who did exercise their right to a quality education.

America is still the land of opportunity. You have choices to make and if you make the right ones, usually opportunity finds you. If you make the wrong ones, you can't rely on everyone else to pick up your slack. If that always happened, then what incentive would there be to make the right decisions?

Rob, I disagree, How does China do it with over a billion people.
How does Russia do it?
It has nothing to do with going bankrupt. Universal healthcare would be a more proactive system and would catch more serious diseases early before they become costly.

And here we go. Read what the drive bys are starting already. The man they whole heartedly supported, they are now worried about who he is and what makes him tick? This is the dialouge from the Charlie Rose show.

ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW: No, I don't either.

ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

BROKAW: You know that's an interesting question.

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches, two of them.

BROKAW: I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

Please, we know who he is, he is an American, you want to know his foreign policies go to his website and do this thing called reading. Its this skill using your eyes and your brain to process letters that form words and words that form sentences that form ideas. Its all on his website. He has also made his foreign policy known in his speeches. I don't think McCain ever talked about his positions on China, that was never anything asked during the debates.

Thats only 15% of the pop. Many other issues in this country that trump this communist ideal. Healthcare is available for all. What they need is to put measures in place so if an individual becomes burried in debt, due to their healthcare costs alone (sorry you need to learn what is a need and want if you are that sick you should be focused on staying alive, not buying things) they can get assistance. But when you think about it I think we have a program called medicaid. As for your rants about walmart they are a business and it is their right to offer whatever benifits they want. If an individual dosn't like what they offer they can work somwhere else.

What McCain talked about is irrelavent. He is not the presidentelect. While I voted for Obama and think he may do fine. I am a little concerned about some of the things I am hearing by our friends in the media as well. I tried to copy and paste some things but I guess the host feels the need to review everything. Any way some scary things are starting to reach the surface and it is only two days. The 401k thing, the greatest post presidential election stock market drop in history, his ideals i'm affraid will harm this country more than help it on many levels. As for what is posted on anyones web site, you can't actually be so stupid to believe it. Which brings me to another point. Being rude and insulting to your blog viewers is rude, insulting and will decrease your hits.

I can't believe you are still ripping on McCain. You have as nuch class as the people you bashed in your post below. Are you really that bitter about things. Your communist candidate won. McCain is out of the picture. Time to move on as you all like to say. Time to watch your pay check shrink and let your thoughts be further controlled. You put the messiah in office now live with the consequences ahead. You will not get your free healthcare, the war will not end, we not be looked at by the world as a better country. The only thing we are going to get is more government and higher taxes. When the rich have to start paying those wait and see what happens to our economy. The rich didn't get rich in a day and will adjust what they do to maintain their income. This will lead to more layoffs which will fule more economic and social problems but from what I can tell you want all that.

Wow that is all I can say.

Now lets connect the dots. On Tuesday we elect a new president. The new president promises to increase corporate taxes, increase capital gains by a third,increase the top marginal tax rate on income, impose a massive new energy tax and the market drops like it has never dropped before post election. Didn't take the haves long to figure it out did it. The last two days have shown some of the biggest sell offs in history. Life is over as we know it. For all. Even the middle class will feel the effects of this mans ploicies. Some of us will be unemployed. At least he has promised to take care of us. Wow talk about further dividing the classes in this country. We will now the haves, the hads, and the have nots. Looks like some real sunny times ahead. You voted for it.

Well while everyone is at here remember our friend Al Gore predidicted the end of our world. We have 7 years, 2 months and 10 days left.

Is he a citizen? Is he black or white?