Local protests target Obama on energy, health care

I agree Babs. If we weren’t taxed so heavily, health care would be affordable. If people didn’t sue doctors so often, for so much, malpractice insurance wouldn’t be so high. The judges and jurys should have had a clue. Equipment is more advanced and expensive. I don’t see any of that getting better. If I was a doctor, or owned a hospital, and was faced with the threat of lawsuits, I probably wouldn’t care how much I charged you either. I suggest looking into alternative medicine. Grass roots people who aren’t motivated by money. check out the Weston A Price foundation.

Babs, if Walmart were forced to provide health care, you wouldn’t be shopping there because it would be too expensive. There is no need for a solution. The constitution solved this a long time ago. It supposedly gives us the right to the pursuit of happiness. No garuantee of it it, only that you may pursue it. Hypocrites worry about themselves, yet promote a vision of everyone holding hands, tip toeing through a never ending field of tulips together. I joined a union 21 years ago so I could provide health care for my family. Industry standards dictate the whole thing. Spending habits drive industry. Too many years, of too many Americans, not choosing “made in USA” have caught up to us all. Are you worried about the Chinese having health insurance? They work hard and supply most everything in our stores. Tune up voice “me me me meeeeee”

Ripmesolips, I avoid shopping at Wal-Mart because of their slave-like working conditions.  (My b-i-l was an employee there for years, so I know.)  My concern is that all of our pursuits of happiness will be put on hold unless something is done about our health care system.  I’m subsidizing care now, whether through Medicare, Medicaid, or the astronomical premiums I pay for my family’s insurance (I too, am union.  22 years).  The people singing “Me me meee” are the ones who claim they have a RIGHT to smoke, yet my taxes and premiums pay for their oxygen, wheelchairs and lung transplants when they didn’t quit.  If I’m going to pay for someone else’s care, then there needs to be a solution.  Being ignorant to the needs of ALL the American people, insured or not, will not cut it!  Not when I’m footing the bill and NOT getting my money’s worth!

The reason the economy is hurting is because too much government intervention already. If these liberals pass cap and trade along with health care, it will only force more companies to relocate overseas where they don’t have to deal with all this oppressive government policies. More taxes and More regulations are going to destroy jobs not create them.

WAKE UP people. Socialism is the problem and creating more jobs should be our top concern. Osama should be focusing on the economy and stop pushing things that are going to hurt business conditions in this country.

It is the Democrats that have fought every effort to produce more domestic energy. It is the Democrats that pushed laws that required banks to make risky loans that caused the financial meltdown to begin with.

Now we have the very ones that set the house on fire in charge of EVERYTHING to put the fire out.  It is the Chris Dodds, the Henry Waxmans, and the Hillary Clintons that caused this mess and they are running everything now.

More spending, more borrowing, more printing money. More and more of the things that are driving the jobs out of this country is not what we need. These modern day Tea Party Protesters have it completely right.

Adding more cost to business with socialized health care and tax and cap legislation could be the finial nail in the coffin of the American Empire. It is free enterprise that made this country, not socialism.

Is there anybody in Congress that has any sense?

As usual, these people are quick with the mouths and slow with the ideas.  Do these geniuses have any viable solutions for those people who work, pay their taxes (you know, to keep those hypocritical Republicans with enough $$ to pay their girlfriends), and still do not have affordable health insurance?  Of course not!  Have solutions, then talk.  Otherwise, go have a cup of tea.

This article is clear proof of the RT-D’s political bias and marketing agenda. Throughout the years of George W. Bush’s presidency, there were numerous large demonstrations in Richmond that went uncovered by the RT-D. On multiple occasions, a group of this size gathered outside of the newspaper building itself to demonstrate against George W. Bush’s military and foreign policies with no mention of the event in the next days paper. Coverage that treats conservatives pretending to have a new outrage in a staged performance like news is exactly what the RT-D hopes will attract white, suburban eyeballs to its products.