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POLL: Do You Agree with Supreme Court Decision on Affordable Care Act?
The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a decision on the Affordable Health Care Act. Do you agree? Vote in our Patch poll.
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down their decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act (or "Obamacare," as some call it), upholding the law.
There are about 30 million people in the United States without health insurance. In Virginia, there are 1,039,300 uninsured, according to figures from statehealthfacts.org. Of those in Virginia, more than 10 percent — 157,300 — are children.
Do you agree with their decision? Vote in our poll.
Laurie Dodd
11:07 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
I agree that the power to levy a tax gives Congress the authority to require a penalty payment from any individual who does not pay for health insurance. I find the Supreme Court's logic to make sense, as it has been summarized. (I have not read the full 193-page decision!)
Roger Daplog
12:18 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Dodd and Curveball are right. I had so-called socialist medicine for years and it saved my life. I then moved back home (yes the US) and my insurance was denied. I eventually had to pay $487.00 for a bottle of pills that my mother was getting for $1.86, so what is it you that tea bags are not getting? The old system is dead, gone, does not work. Get over it and stop complaining. Why don't you help the process? The majority wants to help those poor souls (yes, Americans!) that the insurance companies deny. BTW, my best friend is an insurance company executive in Colorado...and he has three houses.
Grace Neary
2:23 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
Why? Don't forget, it isn't free....and it's a shame, the democrats are successfully steering this country toward socialism.....can you believe a politican said this.....
Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille (D): "This is a huge victory for the 30 million Americans who are uninsured and for the president. This will help them to move forward, to get insurance, especially the elderly. It demonstrates that this important piece of legislation was long overdue. It puts the United States on a level playing field with other countries."
The US on a level playing field with other countries? Seriously? What other countries have better health care? How about it lowers the bar down for quality health care. Talk to someone who is a victim of socialist government health care.....they opt for private health care and pay for it.....
Richard Holmquist
5:41 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
Grace, many other countries have better health care - and cheaper too. The US is among the worst of the wealthy countries in respect to life expectency yet we pay more than twice as much for it. How do you reconcile your confidence in the US health care system with the awful results? And if you are so confident in our system, whey would you choose to keep 30 million Americans out of it?
11:17 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Why would the Patch, what is propourted to be an independent and impartial news outlet, title their poll with OBAMACARE? We all know who those "some people" are. Are you now an outlet for those "some people"??
Kelly Rush
11:20 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Very disappointed in the decision. SCOTUS has decided that there are no limits to federal power as long as it's stated as a tax.
11:41 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
I thought the great obama said it wasn't a tax! Get ready for the greedy Dems to tax the heck out of us now!
11:53 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Remember all the lies Obama has told well this was just another one. TAX TAX TAX
1:24 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Here's him saying it in 2009: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/obama-mandate-is-not-a-tax/
Grace Neary
2:13 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
Yes, so sad, shameful, and devasting to this country. Seriously, the United States is finally keeping up with other countries.....
11:59 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Obama-care also cuts Medicare, a job killer, Obama-care puts you between you and your Doctor. Guess who will be Taxed to fill the hole on Medicare. A larger and larger intrusion in your life and the consumer has no voice. We have to replace Obama with this massive deficit that Obama has employed. A vote for Mitt Romney will win for sure now.
12:04 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Excuse me Isaac, just what does that statement mean. You are just being silly now.
12:23 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wow daisymae, you're just filinging poo all over the place, aren't you. Your argument/pseudo-facts don't even make sense. "Obama-care puts you between you and your Doctor." How can something put me between me and something else? Is there a cloning program I am not aware of? Oh and by the way, this IS the Constitution at work. Sorry, but it's not unconstitutional because you and your tebag friends don't like it. Twit.
Isaac Smith
12:53 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Daisymae - come off the ledge, this is not the end of the world, and America will be much better with this decision. In case you've not heard the news over the last decade, many European populations outlive us, pay about half what we pay for health care, and health coverage is not the primary reason for personal bankruptcy filings like it is here. We are behind the rest of the world. Business owners can now focus more on business and can get out of the health care world which consumes lots of time, money and resources - I work in the business world.
Finally, I take it that you are not a Christian, as Jesus would have advocated for this bill, since it's up to all of us to look out for the poor and sick.
1:28 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
This bill will costs businesses more, including small businesses, so your point that they can "focus more on business and can get out of the health care world which consumes lots of time, money and resources" is way off base. I would argue that it's going to cost them more time, money are resources.
Also, we as Christians should take up the welfare of others. Our government should not. It's not the government's job to oversee welfare. If they would get out of all of it they and we would all be better off.
" The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
-- James Madison, speech in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1794
Isaac Smith
2:12 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Doug: How do you logically explain that this will drive up the costs for businesses? The costs for health care will be spread out across a much larger pool of individuals, thereby lowering the costs of health care. This is exactly why health cares costs in Europe are half of what our costs are, and they manage to live just as well, if not longer than we do. As for your quote from Madison, in his pre-Civil War era, states rights were supreme (and if fact the laws upheld the peculiar institution of slavery in the states). Our modern society would never have won two world wars, landed a man on the moon, and won the Cold War, without a large engaging federal government.
Finally, no Christian church (or any religious organization) is capable of extending health care to everyone, and they've had 236 years to do it - clearly this is an appropriate role for the state governments (Romney would agree) and now for the Federal government. If you believe that "We, The People" are the government, than doesn't that include people of all faiths (and you and I) or do you not feel that you are not part of us? Have some pride in the USA!
John Moberly
12:46 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Isaac go back to civics class, states have the power not enumerated (eg explicitly authorized) to the Federal Govt so don't compare Massachusetts and ObamaCare. And those that are comparing us to Europe, read the news, Europe is in dire trouble due to their socialist caused deficits.
I am curious to know from the libs, though, if Obama lied about it not being a tax or if Supreme Court got it wrong...it's either one or the other.
Larry McDorchester
11:51 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
It was the right decision to make, and I commend Roberts for couching the decision in language that Tea Partiers can understand (namely, the Constitution gives Congress the authority to do this).
I do subscribe to the analysis, however, that Roberts voted the way he did in order to give more credence to multiple conservative decisions that he will make on future cases involving civil rights, corporate power etc.
12:02 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Larry, you're not taking eveything into consideration...but if you don't mind being TAXED well I don't care if you are. What happened to the Individual and our Constitution?
Doug K
3:33 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Daisymae --Do you have health insurance? If so you won't be taxed. Most people won't pay any additional tax.
9:09 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
Daisymae - people who don't have health insurance and then cannot pay their healthcare bills, pass those expenses on.
The expenses are passed on to our hospitals and our doctors, who in turn pass it on to insurance companies, and the insurance companies pass it on to the customers and employers who pay those fees.
It's a domino effect. You seem to think you are getting off scott free now, but you aren't. Every year the cost of health insurance rises as a percentage that is much higher than our income rises. (unless you are self-employed, in which case anything is possible)
Isaac Smith
11:55 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
And as Romney said, it assures individual responsibility. I say nothing is more American that this supposition. Thank you Mitt for creating this bill that has proven to vastly expand access to good health care for those in Massachusetts! To the Republicans, take solace - if you ever mingle with the un-washed (that is if you take the Metro), you will now be less likely to catch a cold from an uninsured rider, and therefore collectively, on the whole we will be a more productive society; and we will all gain by being a healthier society!!! Hooray for Romney, and Obama!!!
Susan Bennett
11:59 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012
It's past time we joined the rest of the civilized world and acknowledged that health care is a human right.
2:09 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Thank you for your wisdom for pointing out one of the earmarks of a civilized society.
Payin' My Own Bills
10:13 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
If the rest of the world has healthcare correct, why does everyone who is poor want to come to the USA? It seems only rich progressives/liberals threaten to leave America. Oh and Europe is going broke paying for everyone's "human healthcare right."
Richard Holmquist
5:47 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
Europe's not going broke because of health care. They pay less than half as much as we do for health care and have better results.
Richard Nelson
12:01 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Everyone is required to have car insurance and other forms of insurance, why not health care. At least those with pre existing conditions cannot be denied coverage. i know quite of number of individuals who have preexisting conditions who have been DENIED insurance by all companies.
T Ailshire
12:50 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Not everyone is required to have car insurance.
NOW, can we return to the days when emergency rooms were for EMERGENCIES and didn't have to take every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a hangnail and no insurance?
1:05 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
"Not everyone is required to have car insurance."
Really? Where is this mystical world where I don't need car insurance? Are all the cars made of cotton candy? Must be wonderful.
By the way, Tom, Dick and Harry will have insurance because of this law. It may be the lowest form, but it will be something. That's the point. Duh.
Lee Hernly
6:19 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
You are not required to buy car insurance if you don't have a car. Car insurance is a state mandate, not Federal Government.
11:30 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
I can chose not to own a car, and thus not pay car insurance. I can not choose to not be a human anymore, and thus have no option of not paying.
12:23 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
OMG! this is the largest tax increase in the history of the world.
Laurie Dodd
12:40 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
In the first year, the penalty for not buying private health insurance is under $100. Within a few years, the maximum penalty is under $800. This is not a large tax.
12:38 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
(I confess I haven't read the 193 page ruling yet). First and foremost, no one has to buy car insurance unless you drive. The purpose is your potential financial obligation to someone else if you injure someone or destroy property. But you don't have to buy car insurance. One could extrapolate that argument to health insurance however at present, not everyone wants to buy or needs health insurance(yes, yes, I know, one may at some point). But the more fundamental issue is that now the federal govt can compel you to buy something that you may not want or need and claim its a tax. That means the govt can make you spend your funds on anything it wants to(no, I'm not going to make the broccoli argument) and spin it so its called a tax. Remember, theres NO LIMIT on the funds the govt can appropriate from you for whatever it wants. This is just the most recent shot across the bow. And finally for those who feel medical care is a right, that makes it an obligation for someone else to provide it. The more rights that we mandate(especially those that cost money) means the more funds we need to spend to support those rights, which means the more funds the govt needs to "distribute" to support those rights; guess where those funds come from. This is in essence the shallow and slippery slide to socialism(the nanny state, call it whatever you like). One need look no further than the EU to see our future.
Laurie Dodd
12:42 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
No. The government does not compel the purchase. If health insurance is not purchased, then a penalty is levied, and the Court has called this penalty a tax.
12:55 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Dan, as Lauire already said, this misnomer that anybody is "compelled" to purchase insurance is just that - a misnomer. In simpler terms, a lie. Your "freedom" is not taken away. You are not inprisoned or forced at gunpoint. If you choose not to have insurance, you are assesed a fee. This fee is now considered a tax. Whatever. It's a fee for non-participation if you so choose (for some reason) not to have any health insurance. That is the price for living in a socitey of people, a commonwealth as it were, where we are supposed to care for the needy. Not stomp them down because our corporate masters told us to. I say your path of "survival of the fittest" smacks of facisism to me. Neither is good, but I would rather not support the rise of the 4th Reich.
Baba Freeman
3:31 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Dan, so you don't choose to buy a car, can you choose that you will never need health care?
Jim Daniels
5:41 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Incorrect...just like you can reimburse the state for an uninsured auto, you are reimbursing the state for not insuring yourself. There is no one that does not use the health care system. Its a matter of whether you take steps to pay for your care, or you wait and then the rest of us have to pick up the tab. In addition your blanket statement that the feds can do anything and call it a tax is wrong. Read the decision...there are very specific tests to determine what constitutes a tax and what does not...this met every one of those criteria...
12:54 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
The Dodd comment misses the point: one is compelled to so something based on a calculation of the pain or discomfort of not doing it: if the pain/discomfort of inaction is greater than action, then one is compelled to act. This is a calculation we all make every day of our lives, w/o even thinking about it. If the govt can make the "tax" so high that we're forced to action. Hence one is indeed compelled to act even if one does not wish to do so. To think the govt does not compel us to or otherwise is naive in the extreme; just think IRS(amongst other "enforcement" govt entities, thats why its called enforcement!).
1:00 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Gee Dan, you mean that you have to obey the Law?? YOu mean I can't speed, maime and kill at will because of the pesky pain/discomfort of punishment? Boy, I'm sorry all those "rules" bother you Dan.
1:10 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
I am not bothered by "rules" and am a law biding citizen. And of course your assertion is now bordering on the extreme just to make a point. This is an ineffective and sophomoric tactic. I never suggested anything about not obeying the law. I simply made the point that how we govern ourselves is based on, amongst other things, a carrot and stick model. Now the govt has even bigger sticks. This is evolutionary , not revolutionary. We are headed in the direction of the economic chaos that is now enveloping Europe. It may happen in the next 20 or 50 years or later, but thats the direction we're going. Margaret Thatcher said it quite nicely, at some point you run out of other peoples money.
2:40 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
"This is evolutionary, not revolutionary" - very nicely put. There's a good bit of misinformation on this blog, as usual, that confuses correlation for causality and worse, that simply attempts rhetorical tricks - like using false analogies - to make a point. While this law does not ensure the boot of government coming down on collective heads it is, as you say, a furthering of an evolution towards a European or Japanese model of government involvement in our lives. Those regions/countries are still free, and having lived there, are great places to live but it is not who we are.
4:12 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
Anthony...I have been to Europe as well. But you also forgot to mention the sovereign debt crisis they are going through now :)
2:30 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Soooooooo, what then?? You defined how laws work. Good for you. So what? It was called the "Health Care Law" and not the "Health Care Suggestion". It's a law. It works like every other law. Nobody ever suggested otherwise. In this case, there is a caveat where you can, like any other law, comply or pay a fine. The only thing that is sophmoric here is your endless hyperbole.
2:30 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
"Obama-care puts you between you and your Doctor." What, why and how?
None of this will affect those who already have insurance.
Harry Truman said,"I usually find that those who are loudest in protesting against medical help by the federal government are those who do not need help."
8:47 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Actually it takes away the insurance company bureaucrat and replaces it with a government bureaucrat. Wonder what that is like? Visit any DMV.
Richard Holmquist
6:07 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
No, Mike. Sadly, it leaves the insurance company bureaucrat in place. But now the insurance company is restricted in some of the awful practices that they've become known for. For instance they may no longer reject customers with pre-existing conditions, drop sick patients based on technicalities, charge differently for women and men, cap your lifetime benefits, charge a co-pay for check-ups and children's immunizations, etc. The insurance company bureaucrat still remains and has too much influence on your care, but thanks to this law will be a lot less troublesome than in the past.
Skip Endale
3:54 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
I am unclear as to what the Supreme Court decided, what the actual impact will be. Watching the tickers this morning on Wall Street it appears that a lot of bets are in play. I get some offers in the mail about add-on health insurance. So far I have only spent ~300 bucks on a health care screen from INOVA this year. In the process I had to sign some waivers and release forms. Its scary what is happening and nobody can explain one way or another what is happening, its either that or I found the information not credible enough. For all I know its a political fight and I am at the losing end of it whichever way the outcome. My doctor is also stunned.
Laurie Dodd
3:55 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Looks like the Patch poll numbers got cleared through a technical glitch. I was able to submit another "vote" - not that these numbers mean anything at all.
Colleen A.
4:05 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
So I guess the next time the auto industry is flailing, Congress can just require everyone to buy a new car, or pay a penalty on their tax forms. After all, if it's on the tax form, it's a tax. Just great.
Jim Daniels
5:29 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Faulty analogy...not everyone needs a car...everyone uses health care...its a matter of whether you take the responsibility for insuring yourself, or don't and then force the rest of us to pay your health care. If you insure yourself...great.,..if not...you pay into the public coffers so your care is not completely unreimbursed...
Colleen A.
11:40 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
But Jim, that wasn't the justification for being able to do this. It doesn't MATTER that everyone uses health care, all that matters is that it's a tax.
John Moberly
10:36 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Exactly Colleen, it's the first time the Federal Govt has had the precedent to tax people for not doing something and that's the bad part. But luckily tax law has to originate in the House and only takes a simple majority to change.
11:50 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Cut the drama. You do realize that that both you and your employer pay FICA. This is an insurance program that everybody pays, and it is called a tax.
This of course assume you are working. What I have found on these boards is that many of the complainers are not even employed and are already receiving food stamps, social security, federal disability, and other benefits. Hypocracy at its best.
5:22 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Well, good news is that now we all know that Obama lied about never raising taxes, "not one cent" on anyone making under $250k. Since it has been ruled a tax by SCOTUS, now everyone making under $250k will get a nice tax increase.
Jim Daniels
5:25 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Uh..no..only if you refuse to insure yourself thus passing your medical expenses on to the rest of us...
Laurie Dodd
6:46 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
This provision was copied from RomneyCare. Romney also claimed that he never raised taxes, so his claim not to have raised taxes fares no better.
As low as the penalty (or "tax") for failing to purchase health insurance is, Massachusetts found that few people paid it; they chose to buy health insurance instead, which is the real goal.
Joe Bagadonuts
7:32 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
@BDogg - I make < $250k. And as everyone knows we're now (on average) paying the lowest federal taxes in several decades. I'm at about $180k family income and pay about 14% fed rate. Pretty sweet, right? But you've got me really concerned now. Please explain how I'm going to get a nice tax increase. By the way, I'm insured. How is this going to effect me?
5:37 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
The fact of the matter is, that many people say they don't want healthcare mandates from the government, but they are also often the people who complain the most when someone in their family is affected by an expensive healthcare issue. Guess who then complains that the government should pick up the bill?
I am glad to hear that people will no longer be denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions (and these can include such everyday issues such as allergies). I would like to see everyone in our country have access to affordable health care. We have a long way to go before healthcare is affordable and available to all, but at least this is a step in the right direction.
9:16 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Once I realized all of this did not involve any sort of serious tort reform I thought it was a joke. Did in 2009, still do.
Payin' My Own Bills
10:20 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Does this law apply to the millions of illegal aliens (those not yet amnestied under Obama's executive order) who don't have insurance? We say we don't want uninsured people b/c they cost us money and we work to prevent high school dropouts, but yet we are fine with millions of uninsured high school dropouts crossing our borders every year.
Mark Williams
10:55 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
I have (painfully) read the entire opinion, including the concurring and dissenting statements. I think it's completely reasonable, as a legal result. And the tax vs non-tax logic is completely sensible in the Federal context of tax law. The individual mandate is not a tax. Declining -ANY- form of coverage, by contrast, leads to the equivalent of a user's tax, because every person who is not somehow covered or immune does, in fact, create tax burdens for others. Most health care in the US has been publicly paid for over many decades, as a result of the workers' comp laws enacted by the states, and the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations' actions re the original and the later versions of medicare and medicaid. All the ACA does, as actually to be implemented, is appropriately bill free-riders and permit those who aren't free-riders to retain minimal coverage. The actual mandated coverage, by the way, is only 60% of the minimum base costs for ten particular classes of health care cost, so this is far, far from a full-care program in any event.
11:26 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
There is so much more in this bill that has little to do with "health care"....stuff that none of you have touched on. Do some research, read the bill, all 1990 pages if you can. It's eye-opening and not in a good way.
Laurie Dodd
2:05 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
Is there any specific part of the bill you wanted to mention, since I assume you have read all 1990 pages?
8:00 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
To everyone who insists they don't want or need insurance - if you have a heart attack or an accident, will you really say, "No, leave me here. I don't have insurance and it wouldn't be right to go to the hospital when I know I can't pay." No, you'll do what people without insurance do now - go anyway and let everyone else pay for it. Hospitals can't turn away people without insurance. That's one reason they cost so much. We are already paying for other people's health care. It's just not being called a tax.
Lee Hernly
8:29 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
I wonder if Kim is pro-choice as this bill gives Americans no choice.
Joe Bagadonuts
8:05 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
@Mary Ann Barton - Do you realize that your poll can be taken multiple times by the same person? I wonder which side is more likely to cheat? In any case, I recommend that you fix the poll webpage, or take down the poll or just label it "This is an invalid poll, you can vote multiple times".
David P
8:51 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
SCOTUS endorses Romneycare. Great day for der Mitter.
Jim Daniels
12:15 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
Yes Colleen...and if the Founding Fathers had intended to give the Federal Government the ability to lay taxes they would have explicitly said so in the Constitut...oh wait...
Jim Daniels
4:25 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
Lets step back here a bit and review what has actually happened. The Supreme Court of the United States, has just declared Constitutional the Heritage Foundation position on health care pre-Obama. It is the same position held by Willard Mitt Romney, Newton LeRoy Gingrich, and Addison Mitchell McConnell..pre-Obama. It is in fact a huge boon to the PRIVATE insurance industry who now acquire 38 million new, young, customers...including some subsidized by the Government. Fifteen years ago this was a Republican wet dream. But since the scary "usurper" in the White House proposed it all of a sudden it is socialism run amok and the death to liberty as we know it...terms those throwing them around obviously don't know the definition of!
Jason Menard
8:31 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
It's yet another way to take your productivity, more of your property, and more of your liberty. They will redistribute it any way they please now. You can work your whole life, but if they determine that someone who spent their life being promiscuous got some STD, and it's more politically popular to treat that STD instead of treating you-then too bad.
All the while, forming their new relationships on how they will not participate in the health care system they implemented. The SEIU is not participating. Nancy Pelosi got a provision in the bill that created a special health insurance program for the speaker's staff, assuming she would still be speaker. The politicians have made sure, like with social security, that they won't have to participate in it.
The rich will pay out of pocket, and anyone who cannot afford to escape the system will be funneled into the system, managed as efficiently and effectively as the public schools. For the longest time people thought it was like the third rail of politics to discuss how public schools were funded. People don't want to hear the "evil speak" of one asking how the public school system is being funded. A family with one child and a family with five children pay the same rate for and education for all of the children. Meaning, if you are the family with the one child, you are taking a huge loss for your education dollar. If you are the family with five children, you take a huge gain.
Jason Menard
8:31 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
(cont) This is how the health care system is going to be run now. Everybody has to buy it, if you cannot afford it, it will be given to you. So the non-participants will come out ahead, the participants will be behind. 50% of the American population has no federal tax liability. So now we get to see an increase the taxes for Obamacare (http://www.atr.org/full-list-obamacare-tax-hikes-listed-a7010), even though Obama never called it a tax...yet it was upheld by the Supreme Court because it was a tax. The bottom line is the recipient class gets even more from the productive class, while they call it "justice, the right thing to do, going forward, etc."
Factor in decades of precedent (starting with Wilson's grand progressive vision), you now have something in place that can eventually lead into single payer. Now there is no reason for any company in the US to extend health care coverage any more, all the while the people who engineered this are trying to figure out how not to participate in it. Ted Kennedy always called health care "the dream" in which he fought bitterly for single payer, universal health care for decades. Yet towards the end of his life he was rushed to the best hospitals, probably pushing other people out of the way, no resource or cost would be spared to save him. None of the people like him would ever allow themselves, or their families, to be treated as you will be treated.
Jason Menard
8:32 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
(cont) The funny thing about justice, social justice, equality, or fairness is what that really means is socialism is for the people and not the socialist. They are too important, they are the supervisor making the level playing field, they cannot participate in these programs because the system is reliant on them. The people need the politicians and govt. bureaucrats. So the Obama's, Clinton's, Pelosi's, etc. won't have to wait in the same lines as you. The people who were on the outside, like SEIU, are now on the inside at your expense.
Instead of making the system more amiable to everybody's budget by offering products and services with a myriad of options, they said there is only one type of plan and you have to extend it to all people.
The popular provisions, like keeping your kid on your plan until 26 was already there. Same goes the pre-existing condition thing at the state level. Plans are bought and sold based on the condition of the work force, not the individual-most states already had that. That is not ground breaking stuff. The ground breaking stuff is what we have now is the federal govt. has granted itself the power to compel a citizen to buy any product that the government deems necessary.
Jason Menard
8:32 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
(cont) Now every single business producing a product or service is going to frame that product or service as an absolute necessity (like health care). It's absolutely necessary that all American homes are powered by green energy. The congress might agree, the supreme court might agree. General motors might say it's absolutely necessary for the health and strength of the American people to drive a GM car. The congress might agree, the supreme court might agree. Bottled water companies, vitamin companies, shoes that a produced to reduce body fat...they all find a way to convince the right people.
Why sell your products to the market when all you need to do is convince a few bureaucrats that your product is important. You do not need a free market. You just need to get your product legislated.
Laurie Dodd
9:30 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
Wow, Jason. Do you really think anyone will read all of that?
2:17 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Bravo and bingo Jason. You hit the nail(s) on the head(s). Yeah...Laurie...I read his comment and I've also read 1398 pages so far, unlike our so-called "representatives who voted on it. Furthermore, if reading something the length of Jason's comment seems so cumbersome to you that you'd question whether or not someone else would read it, then I better understand why you're such a staunch supporter of this bill. Perhaps YOU should do a little reading/research (beyond the Huff Post, Media Matters or MSNBC) yourself.
9:13 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012
I am happy to see a bigger percentage that favor the AHA.
Robert Dyer
1:00 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
ObamaCare is an ugly piece of legislation. When Obama and Congress drop their privileged medical insurance coverage and live within the ObamaCare coverage, the legislation may then be worth reading. As SCOTUS has ruled, it is just another excise tax.
Joe Bagadonuts
10:51 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
@RobertDyer - three sentences, three unsubstantiated, disparate, unconnected statements. I recommend that you focus on one idea at a time, back it with facts, and come to an original conclusion. Otherwise you come across as an angry parrot with attention deficit disorder.
10:44 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I once spent two years in which I received socialized medicine. It worked quite well. I was in the U.S. Army.
Socialism? Yeah, right.
Next we'll hear from the tea-party types here about "death panels" run by government bureaucrats. But those jabbering about such things never protested or advocated against insurance company recission policies. They take premiums from some people for years and years, then when those people develop serious illnesses the insurance companies use pretext to cancel the policies -- such as denying coverage because someone in their 50s once had treatment for acne as a teenager. That sort of thing. They pay employees bonuses for denial quotas.
Ask any doctor's office what they think of the huge number of heavily bureaucratic, paper-work monsters called insurance companies. They stand between you and your doctor in more menacing profile than any government bureaucrat ever could.
Don't think I ever saw Fox News report on recission policies.
2:54 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Fox had 4 medical Dr.s (2 of which are regular contributors), do a show a few Sundays ago, which was dedicated solely to the shortfalls of current insurance programs, including recission about which they talked at length. Prior to that, Hannity did a segment, I believe with Frank Luntz, on the same subject (coverage recission). All parties agreed that competition across state lines would do wonders and provide solutions not found in the nationalizing of health care which creates a whole other set of problems and debt. As for those silly "death panels" you seem to think are a "tea party" phenomenon...You couldn't be more wrong. I know several people over 55 (both parties) who are VERY concerned about govt medical decision making especially after the interview with Diane Sawyer where Obama was questioned by a panelist who's 100 yr old mother (otherwise in good health) received a pacemaker and was alive and living well at 105 and her concerns (which went unanswered other than, maybe she's better off with a pill...) about whether this would've been possible under his plan. The HHS defines my mother (whos over 70) as a "unit, which I find disquieting but, getting back to Fox, you can comment more accurately if you actually tune in and pay attention rather than just slinging mud and hoping it sticks to those who don't know any better. In fact, I think Shep Smith (a Lib) has talked about it too. Fox..where more than 1 point of view has a voice - whats wrong with that??
Dennis Auld
11:21 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
The US is spending close to 18% of its GDP on healthcare, highest in the world. The No. 2 country spends 10%. Of the top 30 industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks about 23 on genreral health criteria. I think everyone agrees that we do not have a good health care system. We do have the best specialized services in the world, but not basic healthcare. It comes down to how to address coverage and costs. It also comes down to fee for service vs. fee for outcome. As long as we have fee for service, costs will remain high, delivery inefficient. In general, Republicans support focusing on costs, then coverage will follow. Democrats focus on coverage first, costs next. My personal opinion is that the Democratic approach will get us coverage and reasonable costs quicker than the Republican approach.
2:33 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
I'm excited about this bill, even more so after reading on the comments on this thread. I believe as a country we are def moving in the right direction!


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Major changes are coming this fall with regard to the way Northwest Missouri State University provides meals to students and faculty members who dine on campus.
During Friday's regular session of the Northwest Board of Regents, the university's governing panel awarded a new competitively bid contract to Aramark Educational Services, which serves as the school's dining, vending and catering vendor.
Aramark will now continue as the university's food services provider for the next five years with an option for a five-year renewal. Chartwells, another large national corporation specializing in institutional food service, was the only other bidder.
As part of the new deal, Aramark and the university have agreed to revamp both the food court on the lower level of the J.W. Jones Student Union and the way in which students pay for their meals.
For years, students who eat on campus have begun each term with a declining-balance account from which meal costs are deducted throughout the semester. Since the food court, which serves as the campus' main dining facility, operates on an à la carte basis, those who purchase seconds or buy more expensive meals run the risk of zeroing out their accounts.
Starting in fall 2013, however, all meal costs will be included in the standard room-and-board fee, meaning, according to Vice President for Student Affairs Matt Baker, that students will be able to eat as much as they want whenever they want.
Baker said Northwest's current declining balance system is atypical of most colleges and universities and creates a number of disadvantages. For one thing, he said, nutritious offerings at the various food court stations often cost more than junk food.
Too many students, he said, may be passing up on salads and other healthy fare in favor of burgers and fries in order to save a couple of bucks.
"Now, if they want to, students will be able to go into the food court ten times a day and say, 'I want an orange' or 'I want a cookie,'" Baker said.
Other food court changes will include expanded hours. Stations are currently open from 7 a.m.-10 p.m. and offer limited service over the weekend. When students return to class in the fall, the dining area will offer full service from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. seven days a week.
Baker said Aramark is also planning an $8.5 million food court renovation over the summer plus installation of other dining options at various campus locations.
These are to include an Einstein Bros. bagel shop, a Red Mango frozen yogurt concession and a Chick-fil-A store on the second floor of the union. There will also be a Starbucks Coffee shop in the B.D. Owens Library and a Papa John's Pizza restaurant in The Station, a student lounge and meeting facility on the north side of campus.
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Tokyo - Absent without leaving
The greater Tokyo area has just under 36 million people living in it; it's still the world's most populous metropolitan area. If this monster of cities runs remarkably smoothly most of the time, and even feels like a rather relaxing place, it's because of the particular, even peculiar, habitus of presence which prevails here. Tokyo people are very good at being absent without leaving.
Tokyo's inhabitants, especially in their transitions on public transport, maintain a minimum degree of presence. Crushed against each other or spread out on seats, with lowered eyes and the virtual escape-environments of books, newspapers and electronic gadgets, they're there but not there. They're (it's Howard Devoto's phrase) absent without leaving.
A certain amount of discretion and self-minimisation exists amongst commuters all over the world, of course. But the Japanese are more discreet, and minimise themselves more politely and considerately than anyone else I know. Even their houses seem to avert their gaze; you can pass down a heavily-built Tokyo street with the sense of being completely unobserved, thanks to the frosted glass in the windows, just as you can sit in a crowded train carriage and not find a single eye meeting yours. It can feel uncanny at times, like being an invisible man. Most of the time it's very reassuring, though. You soon miss it in other cities.
Adjectives I'd use to describe this minimised public presence: discreet, considerate, polite, apologetic, cold, withdrawn, inward, socialised, repressed. And there we begin to hit on an interesting paradox: you withdraw into yourself in the interests of the collectivity. Your absence is highly social, even when it resembles a semi-autistic withdrawal. You turn inward to facilitate outward smoothness. You make yourself ghostlike out of courtesy to other people, who do the same.
When you get to your destination, of course, the sublimation and repression can stop. You can suddenly elevate your presence, like the glum silent queuer finally reaching the nightclub, checking his coat, greeting his friends, ordering a drink. What's the maximum degree of presence? Perhaps being a celebrity would represent that: a celeb is a super-individual, someone whose mere presence makes our day, our month and our year. Quick, take a photo! The celeb is being asked his view on this and that, and listened to respectfully. The celeb has engineered his life so that there's no dead time, no self-repression. Like a Romantic poet, we imagine his life filled with moments of maximal intensity. We wish our lives were like that.
The other person like that, weirdly enough, is the madman or homeless person, who lives completely in the moment because he uses the spaces of transition as his places of residence. The street or the train is the homeless person's destination; no need to sublimate, save up intensity for later. This is it; grumble, chatter, joust, laugh, be yourself, right here on the street, right here on the train! It doesn't matter! You're going nowhere! You're mad and you're homeless! The obligation to be self-effacing and considerate doesn't apply to you! Be intense! Live in the moment! Make every second count!
For the rest of us, though, self-repression is a daily fact of life. Especially in conditions of urban density; we could say that density and intensity are at odds. The more dense the urban conditions, the less intense we want people to be as they transition through public space, the more ghostlike we require each other to be. Don't talk on your cellphone! I know it makes you feel like a celebrity, feel more alive and intense, but please don't do it! What if we were all celebrities in this carriage? What if all 36 million of us in this city were super-intense individuals at every moment! What a nightmare! Let's all stay ghosts, please, at least until we reach our destination!
Japan being Japan, of course, has developed aesthetics of non-presence, turning something negative into something positive with its own etiquette and its own subtle beauty, and giving non-presence a sort of presence. Iki describes something muted, sombre, restrained, apparently-unselfconscious, half turned-away, "an aesthetics of the back, of the nape of the neck. It can't be face-to-face. It's an aesthetic of obliqueness and peripheries which avoids focus and despises intellectual analysis". A woman whose seductiveness has an iki quality would, paradoxically, turn her turning-away towards you as she dropped her gaze and revealed her back, her shoulder, the nape of her neck. An absence becomes a presence; it's something I see enacted by women on Tokyo trains every day.
A related aesthetic might be Naoto Fukusawa's idea of the super normal; self-effacing, slightly bland goods that blend comfortably with others are better than loud, flashy, unique, individualistic goods. "Super normal design means design which, instead of trying to stand out by making a statement or being "stimulating", blends into the background, becoming unobtrusive but indispensable."
You might seek maximum intensity in an affair with a lover, perhaps, but smooth, unobtrusive consideration in a longterm relationship with a spouse; the perfect spousal togetherness might approach a discreet, doubled aloneness, whereas the perfect affair intensity would be the unbearable tangle of two celebrities, two Romantic poets, or two mad homeless people.
At the tragic end of intensity is the individual who becomes intolerable when his quirks get amplified by too much attention: "everyone loves you until they know you," as John Lydon sang. At the tragic end of self-effacing consideration is the self which disappears and can't come back, even when the destination-requiring-presence is reached. So we get the otaku, unable to emerge from the pages of his manga, or the hikikomori, who can't even leave home in the first place, and who's taken consideration to its ultimate degree of absence: that barricaded room where the self both disappears from the world and becomes the world.
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KayThanxBye (05/09/2012) [-]
ah damn, i should really learn to double check things haha. i like that you admit that, not alot of people would, so now you can say you're an honest judgemental asshole xD
im too soft for my own good i reckon, i cant help it though i was bought up to be nice to everyone all the time
im too soft for my own good i reckon, i cant help it though i was bought up to be nice to everyone all the time
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Faz (05/10/2012) [-]
I did hold it in, i felt the burning in my lungs and i coughed like a mother fucker haha but i just didn't feel anything...well until i was about to go to sleep after just watching a scary tv show with creepy ass dolls that move. when i closed my eyes i saw like 1000 screaming doll faces and was like....well fuck.
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KayThanxBye (05/10/2012) [-]
he might have so much thc in his system that even crappy weed gets him high. i love how tolerance works, it can either screw you over by making you need more or it can be awesome and make you need less. thankfully i am the latter. did he smoke different weed to you or was it all the same stuff?


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On May 10, the Federal Communications Commission released a Public Notice seeking public comment on how to structure real world trials that will inform the transition from today's telephone network to, well, the networks of tomorrow. The goal of any trials would be to gather a factual record to help determine what policies are appropriate to promote investment and innovation while protecting consumers, promoting competition, and ensuring that emerging remain resilient.
This month, we've seen lots of opinion and analysis of President Barack Obama's decision to nominate Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the FCC. In a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed this week, Blair Levin, instead of joining the arguments over Wheeler's qualifications, identifies the key question for the next FCC chair: what kinds of networks will our communities - our innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses - need to be competitive in the global economy? Levin's message is that the North Star for policy ought to be faster, cheaper, better broadband.
It's past time to set the record straight on Lifeline, the essential service to low-income families that has recently suffered fallacious attacks and been mislabeled as the "Obama Phone" program. Recently, political talking heads have falsely and irresponsibly excoriated the FCC's Lifeline telephone program as a product of the Obama Administration, saying it is focused on giving free cell phones to poor people as a method of garnering their votes. Here are the real facts about this important program.
Two weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing, "The Lifeline Fund: Money Well Spent?" It is impossible to read the testimony from that hearing and deny that the program is contributing importantly to the central goal of the Telecommunications Act: to bring affordable and advanced telecommunications services to every American. More than ever our success as individuals, and as a nation, depends upon everyone being connected to the communications infrastructure of the Twenty-first century. Indeed, it is not going too far to equate such access with a civil right, because the doors of opportunity are closed and locked for those without it. Red-lining low-income citizens by denying them access to these necessary telecommunications services would constitute a clear-and-present public danger as well as a blatant denial of equal opportunity in the Internet Age.
Benton readers know that predicting who gets picked for leadership spots in Washington is a parlor game of high art. For some time now, the game has included predicting who the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will be. We've reported on the speculation in these pages earlier this year. But, more importantly, former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps wrote here that more meaningful than "who", perhaps, are the priorities the President and a new FCC chair set. On May 1, President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the FCC. The FCC has been led for four years by Julius Genachowski who is leaving the commission in mid-May. Wheeler's confirmation could take some time; President Obama tapped current FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to serve as Interim Chairman until the Senate confirms Wheeler. Commissioner Clyburn will become the first woman to lead the FCC in its (nearly) 80 year history.
Last week's Congressional oversight hearing on the Lifeline program vacillated between fact and fiction.
Through a web of subsidies called the Universal Service Fund, U.S. telephone subscribers ensure that telecommunications networks are affordable and available in rural areas; that schools, libraries and rural health centers can access basic and advanced services at discounted rates; and low income consumers can still afford basic phone service. This week, a Congressional panel focused on the program that provides discounts on monthly telephone service for eligible low-income consumers to help ensure they have the opportunities and security that telephone service affords, including being able to connect to jobs, family, and 911 services. Although, historically, the low income program has been viewed as a benefit without a vocal constituency, the hearing demonstrated that many consumers rely on support to ensure their connection to vital communications.
Patriot's Day, for baseball fans, means an early start for the Red Sox game. For runners, it means the Boston marathon. The meaning of the holiday -- the commemoration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 -- may have been lost by many of us. But after this past Monday, April 15, 2013 will take on a new, horrific meaning. The Benton Foundation joins the world in condemning the cowardly act that killed and injured scores of people in Boston and we salute the brave people who responded to the explosions with acts of heroism. Sadly, it was just a couple of months ago that we wrote about the connections between media, telecommunications and the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, this week we look at the role of communications in the wake of the Boston marathon bombings.
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Our big news this week, obviously, was the big announcement from the Federal Communications Commission's meeting March 20 that Robert McDowell, the current commissioner with the most tenure, is stepping down from the FCC. "[I]t is time to turn more of my energies towards an even higher calling: serving my family," Commissioner McDowell said. He indicated that he would leave the FCC in a few weeks. Well, that WAS the big story right up to the moment we started penning this round-up and then heard that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski would announce his departure from the FCC on March 22.
Today marks the beginning of a major campaign to bridge the digital divide.
In case anyone doubted the authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require fuller disclosure of who actually pays for all those anonymous political ads that flooded the airwaves last year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just reaffirmed that authority. The GAO—the government's top watchdog agency—is also critical that the FCC has not bothered to update its "sponsorship identification" guidelines since the 1960s and it recommended that the Commission do so.
Just a month ago, we focused on a new executive order aimed at strengthening U.S. cyber defenses, increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect national security, jobs, and privacy. Before the ink was dry on President Barack Obama's signature, the White House was calling on Congress to act as well to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks. In the past week or so, we've seen a great deal of discussion in Washington about cybersecurity -- most aimed at getting Congress to act on the issue.
Who owns your cellphone? Or, not to put too fine a point on it: who controls what you can do with your cellphone after you've paid for it?
To further explore the current state of nonprofit media, The Knight Foundation and the Council on Foundations joined forces to create a working group tasked to dig into regulatory obstacles. I was honored to participate on this working group and am pleased that our report, "The IRS and Nonprofit Media: Toward Creating a More Informed Public," is being released on March 4th.
On February 27, the House Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) broadband stimulus programs: the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) directed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in the Department of Commerce and the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) run by the Rural Utilities Service in the Department of Agriculture. Larry Strickling, the head of the NTIA, and RUS Administrator John Padalino testified before the Subcommittee.
At first blush it sounds so silly. The first topic of conversation at just about every communications lobbyist lunch these days is: "So, what are you hearing about who will be the next Chair of the FCC?" The same list of rumored candidates is then tossed on the table and dissected, with sometimes a brand new name thrown in just to spice things up. The follow-up question is usually: "When is Chairman Genachowski going to leave?" The pros and cons of various departure dates are then analyzed, even though the current Chairman has shared no hint of his intentions. Handicapping possible successors, while interesting, doesn't get us very far. Is it all just silly speculation? Is this nothing more than one more expense-deductible meal while we all wait breathlessly for white smoke to belch forth from the Oval Office chimney? I think not. It's a question of focus.
"America must … face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks," said President Barack Obama during the State of the Union address on February 12. "Now, we know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private emails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy." And with that the President announced that he had signed a new executive order aimed at strengthening U.S. cyber defenses, increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect national security, jobs, and privacy.
A source close to the House Majority Whip's office tells us that Susan Crawford will be the next chair of the Federal Communications Commission. At least, he said, once we say it, it'll be true. Oh, who are we kidding? It was Rep Frank Underwood who told us, so it must be true. Or it will be true, right?


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John Robinson, who gained his Doctorate at MIT in the USA is highly skilled in global contexts, having worked for the DSIR, OECD, UNESCO, UNEP and UNU. Plus other wide-ranging interdisciplinary work.In this interview John discusses the immediate and long view of NZ within the context of a deteriorating globalized economic, environmental and societal scenario.His focus is to open up the inquiry to NZ's future, at a national level to debates and to argue pros and cons at conventions, and events to enable the discussion to connect both town and country and for engaged NZers to discuss and shape our common future in these increasingly precarious times.When the people lead the politicians follow, and this is how it should be, especially when the populace have accessed the knowledge, are informed and are clear about consequences. Do we want to rise to this level of personal responsibility?
Topics Covered:His research shows that we are a controlled society and are brainwashed, like no other peoples before us. Advertising and media control all the programs, so how do we break out? How do we the people reorganize the media? John unambiguously states that capitalism and unbridled growth has had its day especially on our finite planet. As it is trashing the earth's ecosystems, habitats, oceans and forested areas. There is a limit to growth and we can only expand so far.Science also has to be freed up totally, as there is a great deal of information that has been covered up and closed down and the need for open and free discussion, including policy analysts within Govt to express their views and concerns, including having jobs for all. There is a need for the bringing down of our population and the debate of having fewer children, stop the overuse of the car and stop the roads of national significance. Advocating controlling our currency and restructuring or closing down the stock market . This includes tax changes.Defaulting on our overseas debt, could be a possibility. What could be the outcome? We need to get serious and organize our country and think about having a very highly refined wide-ranging interdisciplinary research system that is linked country wide, that dispenses information, ideas, and possibilities. johnrob [at] paradise.net.nz www.ibws.blogspot.com
NZ can definitely model an organic society and be the planet's ark for heirloom seed, free of genetic manipulation and compared with all countries, we stand apart as having the communication system to bring about an urgent shift in awareness.This being especially now, as food, energy and societal / cultural challenges face us down, when we can take a more simplified strategy to become intimately closer and connected to the land. This is where the value set of this renewing paradigm is based on simplicity, reciprocity and organics - offering one means to that pathway with a very physical hands on approach, around community, the seeking of truth and the many virtues around being human, such as beauty, forgiveness and co-operation.This change needs to be an individual and collective decision making process and not from a top down mechanism, for example, what type of society sprays chemical poisons on its food and then eats it?There is a need, for us as modelers for a revitalised tomorrow to be far more conscious than this!
What is cultural intelligence? What is relationship? How do we align to the web of life? Brendan lucidly covers these topics and asks the question, can NZ provide leadership and not 'followship' in the months and years to come?www.organicsystems.co.nzwww.organic-systems.orgwww.ifoam.org
Under this initiative 39 Community gardens and an increasing number of schools are putting in gardens across the Auckland isthmus.Are you a community based organisation, group, Marae, Church, or school wanting to set up an edible garden? You may be eligible for help.The aim of this program is to make growing your own fruit and veggies the normal thing to do.We are starting with community gardens in places like the Marae, schools, churches, public open spaces etc., so people can re-learn how to grow fresh veggies - and enjoy eating cheap organic veggies.
From that we hope they will go home and plant a few in their own back-yard. This is where it really has to start, out of our own back yards.People working and sharing alongside each other, find kinship and camaraderie and deepen ones understanding of what it is like to be human and embedded in nature. Community is a solution to global economic problems.When we find ourselves outside our house or the building we work in - away from overhead lights, phones, computers and air conditioning and spending time in the garden, or grounds surrounded by trees and shrubs, we enter another realm. This realm is one that we basically disconnected from when the industrial revolution drew us into cities of brick, concrete and steel.Now a grass roots revolution is again happening in the garden.Richard Main Project Manager Community Gardens across Auckland's Isthmus.http://www.dpt.org.nz/Grdn4health/grdn4health.html
Gary Cook is a leading writer on the special nature of the mystic realms that are to be found in New Zealand.An explorer of ancient sacred places and energy sites in the unique New Zealand landscape, Gary has devoted many years of searching and writing of the wonders to be found within the islands of New Zealand and the South Pacific.His extensive journeys and experiences allow him to share much of the deeper nature of the forests, the waters and the mountains that allows us all to connect with the natural order in a deeper and more meaningful way.The interview ranges over what evidence is available of earlier Portuguese and Spanish visits off the Northland coast, back to the Egyptians of Rata and Maui as well as early Chinese indications in the South Island.
To Auckland's energy nodal power point or 'acupuncture meridian' beneath One Tree Hill, Maungakiekie and dowsing to recognizing the sacred of mother earth in having reverence for nature, plus communion with the biota of the natural world, to what is the role of taniwha.The author of two books in the Secret Land series, Gary is a regular contributor to Australian and New Zealand magazines offering readers unique glimpses of the sacred landscape of Aotearoa.
He holds honorary Doctorates in Science and Philosophy, and is a Temple Knight within the Supreme Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem and Knight Grand Commander of Grace and Duke of the Duchy of St Michel de Clermont.http://www.secretland.co.nz
Is there another crunch coming ... as early as late this year? This is what is being perceived that maybe by 2012 at the latest.Why is the Govt not looking at conservation measures or fuel efficiency?The NZ National Government and the Labour Party refuse to acknowledge that global oil production has hit a plateau and that estimates of oil deposits are shrinking and that oil companies have even declined to prospect in NZ waters due to increasing costs.NZ will be hit harder than the USA when it comes to dependence on oil, due to our intensive use of fuels in agriculture, forestry and tourism.
85 to 89 million barrels production per day is a gigantic number that has been basically pumped at the same level for the last 4 years.We have used up this endowment of cheap easy oil and the bubble is about to burst.It takes a 10 to 15 year run up time before production of oil or coal can be deployed, with no huge breakthroughs in finding new oil fields, plus the problem of releasing more pollution into the atmosphere and very few hybrids and electric cars, earth citizens are running out of time and ideas.How do we look ahead at what may happen and what do we put in place to invoke 'the precautionary principle' - do we have to stand at petrol pumps for a number of hours some time in the future to actually ... get it?This is not fear mongering, this is envisioning where we go as a supposedly intelligent species.Denis Tegg; Previously interviewed as the Coromandel Watch Dog, in Stopping Mining inour National Parks.http://oilshockhorrorprobe.blogspot.comhttp://www.energybulletin.net


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With Bushes rant on the foiled terrorist plots the fear mongering continues, some how he has to justify all this insanity.
For one, the foiled terror plot on what Bush called the Liberty Tower in Los Angeles which is actually the U.S. bank Tower was debunked almost immediately in 2002.
He obviously thinks we all just watch CNN, FOX News and the rest of the government controlled media.
Intelligence professionals were outraged, the mayor of lost Angeles claimed Bush blindsided his city with his claims and a senior counter-terrorism official, who worked with the CIA and FBI said there was no definite plot, and it never materialized or got past the thought stage. This so called terror plot has been completely discredited back in 2002.
Just like Bush's State of the Union speech whereas he brings up the 19 hijackers, when a least eight of them are known not to be involved with 911, and are alive and working in various areas in the world.
It seems to be never ending lies deceptions and double standards, such as now, occupation is war, hostages are detainee's, torture is interrogation, truth is conspiracy theory and everybody that doesn't agree is a terrorist.
Well anyway this is old news just type in any search engine foiled terror plot with a word like lie discredited false and then you can read what the government controlled media will not tell you.
Happy truth seeking!Watch the video below
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Please pray for my uncle Michael, he is in surgery for a lung transplant. He has a genetic lung disease that my aunt also had and passed away from about 2 yrs ago. He has been on oxygen for almost 3 yrs, and without the surgery he would not live much longer either. With the surgery he could live for decades longer, but there is only a 50 percent chance he will survive the surgery.
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Illinois gay and lesbian couples received a Valentine's Day gift from the Illinois Senate. The Democrat-led Senate passed legislation, in a 34-21-2 vote, this afternoon that would allow same-sex marriages in Illinois, according to Huffington Post. The gay marriage bill now goes to the House. If it is signed into law, marriage officially would be changed in state law from an act between a man and a woman to two people. The legislation says nothing in the proposed law would force a religious denomination or minster to "solemnize any marriage," according to the Chicago Tribune. If the bill is also approved by the state House of Representatives, Illinois will join Washington, D.C. and nine other U.S. marriage equality states, according to …
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Mother Nature did her best to wreak havoc on the 5A girls tennis state championships, washing out the first day of the scheduled three-day tournament. But it was just a blip on the radar as Columbine's Lillie Pettibone and a pair of Chatfield doubles teams took to the court to face the state's best.
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The Carolina Panthers wide receiver is teaming up with Central Tampa's Metropolitan Ministries tol wash feet and give shoes to 400 homeless people at the Pinellas Safe Harbor facility in Clearwater.
Before Carolina Panther Steve Smith takes the field against the Buccaneers to open the NFL season Sunday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, he will be in Clearwater, washing feet. Smith, a prolific receiver, will use his hands to wash 400 homeless people's feet and give them new shoes and socks at Pinellas Safe Harbor on Saturday. Smith and other volunteers working with Central Tampa's Metropolitan Ministries and international nonprofit Samaritan's Feet will give out these items starting at 5 p.m. Smith is planning to distribute shoes in each city the Panthers play this season. Manny Ohonme, who got a scholarship to play collegiate basketball because of a donated pair of shoes, started Samaritan's Feet in 2003. He got his first pair of …
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