Will Healthcare Reform Be Kennedy's Final Legacy?

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David of ID
Incentive is what we all need, A lot of our problems stems from fewer parks because of more homes and less activity.
I believe if our activity level was greater than it is today because of technology. less people would be obis and our prisons would not be as full.
In this country we used to have barn dances and all kinds of activities. some of us still go fishing and hunting However a lot of people trying to get Ahead of everybody else has no time neither do there children and all of there activities are not always legal but makes good business since as they understood there parents who may not be around to straiten them out.
Do not get me wrong Technology is A wonderful thing We just did not adjust to it as we developed it.
We are able to make more than we need but rather than make use of it all, We destroy some or most of it to raise prices.
Sometimes we even ship it to third world countries for tax purposes and to keep it out of our market which is better than destroying it.
Yes we need incentive but it would be nice to be able to afford it or are you still thinking like a cave man and believes only the strongest will survive.
What do you want when you go to a restaurant, Clean floors?, clean tables? clean dish's? yet those are low paying jobs. What makes you better than the person that washes your dishes. And they cannot afford health care as it is but you obviously Can.
If you still have A cavemen mentality than nothing I have said makes since to you, But if some of what I said makes since then we have hope.
I like what you said about the dog I see that a lot in empty city counsel rooms and no grass roots groups around.
Don D. Brock

Don D. Brock of AZ 7:48PM August 31, 2009

Your post was dead on. Kennedy was a disgusting human being who was worshipped by the left. The only principle that guided him was the principle of " will it make Teddy happy and does it feel good".

james of IL 2:47PM August 31, 2009

Here is Ted Kennedy's Legacy
-Alcoholic
-womanizer
-adulterer
-killer of a young women in the prime of her life
-coward: as proved by not attempting to save the drowning woman)
-cheater (just ask Harvard university)
-rich on daddies money (obtained illegally through racketeering)
-never worked one day outside a goverment job
-showed no loyalty to his wife or his church
This is the debaucherous clown that you liberals are worshipping. Liberals have no class, no standards or morals and that is why Ted Kennedy was their hero. It really is this simple.

bobby of MT 2:41PM August 31, 2009

It has nothing to do with legacy . . . it's all about Obama, Pelosi, Reid not letting a crisis go to waste. It's an attempt to squeez gain out of someone's misfortune.
Brock wrote: "Hey you cannot say the health care system is working unless you are upper middle class with great health care."
Precisely, Brock. It's called "incentive" which is the rational you used to suggest that people would go back to work.
It's like the dog lying in it's favorite spot on the porch. Then one day, a nail works it's way through the porch and now it poking the dog. The dog will lay there an howl all day about his miserable condition because of the painful nail. And yet, the dog refuses to move from his favorite spot on the porch despite the nail.
Dems don't like the idea of "incentive" as motivation. They somehow think people go to work because they like to work. I believe people work because they don't want to live under a bridge, they have a sense of duty, responsibility, and obligation to themselves and their family. The pay the price for a good education so they can get the better than average job that offers health benefits, they want more and better then what they currently have.
Understand, though, that it not just the upper middle class that has jobs that offer health care benefits.
Low wage employers like Mcdonalds, Wal-Mart, Texaco, etc. all offer employee health benefits. So I don't buy the rhetoric that only upper middle class workers have health insurance. That's is patently false.
The problem is, people who have lost jobs and even those who don't want to go to work, have to much pride to be seen wearing a Mcdonald's shirt. They'd rather sit at home, grouse and complain about their lot in life like the dog on the porch and expect you and I to pay for their health care by increasing our taxes. I direct you to re-read the little red hen who grew the wheat, harvested the wheat, and made the bread. Those who did nothing and had no input in the process should not deserve none of the benefit.
Obama and his ilk want to "spread the wealth around". They want to control your hard earned paycheck, take your sacrifice and effort, your precious time you sacrificed to be away from your family to earn the paycheck and "spread it around" to those who do nothing. Classic liberal/socialism. In other words, take the incentive away and expect those who do work to be worker bees for everyone else.
They'll likely come up with a nice slogan like: "Arbeit macht frei!"

David of ID 1:08PM August 31, 2009

Correction:"Limousine"

JP of TX 11:37AM August 31, 2009

Correction:"Limousine"

JP of TX 11:37AM August 31, 2009

Here's to a stubborn old New Dealer -God forgive him his trespasses etc. That does not mean, however ,that the living should suffer the effects of a seriously flawed policy.The schmaltzy sales pitch by Joe Jr.at the library lecturn & later a grand kid or two graveside struck me as a sign of how desperate the liberals are to sell this "pig in a poke" to the US voter/taxpayer.Kinda' like watching a cheesy remake of El Cid.P.S Who ever coached the brat doing the John-John salute (from inside a LIMOSINE ?) needs a smack upside the head!

John Patrick of TX 11:31AM August 31, 2009

Here's to a stubborn old New Dealer -God forgive him his trespasses etc. That does not mean, however ,that the living should suffer the effects of a seriously flawed policy.The schmaltzy sales pitch by Joe Jr.at the library lecturn & later a grand kid or two graveside struck me as a sign of how desperate the liberals are to sell this "pig in a poke" to the US voter/taxpayer.Kinda' like watching a cheesy remake of El Cid.P.S Who ever coached the brat doing the John-John salute (from inside a LIMOSINE ?) needs a smack upside the head!

John Patrick of TX 11:31AM August 31, 2009

Here's to a stubborn old New Dealer -God forgive him his trespasses etc. That does not mean, however ,that the living should suffer the effects of a seriously flawed policy.The schmaltzy sales pitch by Joe Jr.at the library lecturn & later a grand kid or two graveside struck me as a sign of how desperate the liberals are to sell this "pig in a poke" to the US voter/taxpayer.Kinda' like watching a cheesy remake of El Cid.P.S Who ever coached the brat doing the John-John salute (from inside a LIMOSINE ?) needs a smack upside the head!

John Patrick of TX 11:31AM August 31, 2009

Here's to a stubborn old New Dealer -God forgive him his trespasses etc. That does not mean, however ,that the living should suffer the effects of a seriously flawed policy.The schmaltzy sales pitch by Joe Jr.at the library lecturn & later a grand kid or two graveside struck me as a sign of how desperate the liberals are to sell this "pig in a poke" to the US voter/taxpayer.Kinda' like watching a cheesy remake of El Cid.P.S Who ever coached the brat doing the John-John salute (from inside a LIMOSINE ?) needs a smack upside the head!

John Patrick of TX 11:31AM August 31, 2009