Rant, its whats for dinner...

[weasel2000]

Ok, time for another work exacerbated rant on life the universe and everything. Worked over 20 hours of overtime the past two weeks, and that was with taking a day and a half off for a sore back. Sonofabitch...I had to wait for 4 f*cking hours for the head honcho to review my info and get back to me for edits. It wouldn't have been so bad but I had

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[truthspeaker]

"But fix it in pieces, find what works now and enact it"

I'm all for that. I've been advocating subsidizing preventative care -- the things that if we spend a little now, we can prevent a lot of expensive complications later. That should free up a lot of resources that were previously tied up fixing the problems that could have been detected earlier.

Plus, if you can find ways that should cut waste, sure, go ahead.

I think those are things that are pretty reasonable without going too far, but if you try to do everything, everyone will expect everything in return.

[vvalkyri]

wait, you know each other?

[truthspeaker]

Yes, through LARP. Plus, he's a cool guy. :-)

[stori_lundi]

Just wanted to give you a thumbs up on the protesting, health care, national budget part of your rant.

I also hear you about the work suck. It's like national work suck month.

[flaviarassen]

There's a difference between funding & actually organizing.
How many elected officials were involved with the Code Pink
morons? (Yes, as a Democrat they embarrassed me more
than I can say, but it wasn't our elected representatives
doing any of it) & they were at least escorted out when
they acted up.

That said, you're right about everything else, of course.

(For the record, Move On started out sounding reasonable -
and then they jumped off the cliff.)

Most importantly, however, I am sorry to hear you've been
having a bad time of it - been there, done that, am still
wearing the T-shirt...

[mr_teem]

Criticizing and protesting are First Amendment rights. Shouting "you want to kill my gramma" over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again during a town hall meeting is not.

As I was telling someone here in town the other day as we were talking about that particular Stupid Shouter in my Rep.'s meeting: he's lucky it wasn't two years ago. He was at least able to stand there and make an idiot of himself and disrupt the meeting. Georgie would have had his thugs drag him onto a plane for a one-way trip to Gitmo--assuming he would have signed the loyalty oath to get into the meeting.

And, by the way, health care reform was a major issue in 2008 and I think it would be fair to say that President Obama felt he had a mandate to fix that problem. Unfortunately, he had a few other things still on fire to deal with when he took office.

[vvalkyri]

this. I am very disturbed by the "grass roots" groups who /disrupt/ debate instead of engage in it, and are using deliberate misinformation. Being willing to pay for a doctor's time in helping someone plan for end of life decisions (e.g. living wills) is NOT 'killing grandma.'