31 Aug '07 -15:20
greenie fuck heads
http://www.lassennews.com/News_Story.edi?sid=4102&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
30 Aug '07 -11:02
Huckabee
I like this guy, how come he does not get any press? common sense never sells in the political arena
Give Americans Congress' healthcare, or give Congress oursQ: What do you think of Sen. Grassley's compromise plan to cover 3.2 million more poor children by raising the cigarette tax, which Pres. Bush has threatened to veto--who do you side with, Pres. Bush or Sen. Grassley?
A: I'd like to side with the people of America who really are looking for a lot better action than they're getting out of their president or Congress. You know, if you want to know how to fix it, I've got a solution. Either give every American the same kind of health care that Congress has, or make Congress have the same kind of health care that every American has. They'll get it fixed. We really have an incredible problem because our system is upside-down. It focuses on intervention at the catastrophic level of disease rather than really focusing on prevention. So we've got a system that, no matter how much money we pour into it, we're not going to fix it, until we begin to address the fact that this country has put its focus not on wellness, not on health, but on sickness.
29 Aug '07 -11:02
health care
Presidential Candidates Weigh In on Health Care
by Scott Horsley Health care has emerged as one of the most significant domestic issues facing the presidential candidates this year. In a July Gallup Poll, only the situation in Iraq was cited as a more pressing problem. Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed said their health care costs had risen in the past year.
A separate survey by NBC and the Wall Street Journal found that worries over health care were contributing to an overall gloominess about the U.S. economy. And older voters in the early-balloting states of Iowa, South Carolina, Florida, Nevada and New Hampshire tell AARP that candidates' positions on health care will be important to deciding their votes.
Major candidates from both parties have been offering up proposals to control the cost of health care and provide better coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. Nearly all of the candidates agree that quality could be improved and money saved through greater use of information technology, best medical practices, and consumer information that allows patients to shop around.
The above is a story on National Public Radio, one of the headlines this morning was about the rising number of working un-insured. The numbers have jumped upward as job based insurance goes away. With it fewer and fewer families can afford to pay and just take their chances. The USA is ranked low on the list of good health care and is the only major industrial nation without a national health care system. This has hit close to home for me recently with those around me. I’m lucky that for the moment I still have work based health care.
How does this enter into my vintage racing? In a big way, those around me having issues are being limited to not racing at all or limited racing at best. If your racing without insurance you risk all that you have. The medical community will take everything you have if they can and are very good at it.
This to me will be a major issue in the next election. If not resolved it could be a poison pill for the vintage racing community. Vintage racers as a whole are over 40 with the biggest group over 50. Can you really afford to lose all you have earned in your working life for the love of a sport?
No answers here just a talking point, think about this when you vote. Get active it might make or break you when it comes to racing in the future.