Don't you mean preserve the American way of death? How many hundreds of thousands have to die or be disabled over the years for lack of health insurance, for you to care?

I obviously can't be of help to you in your fixed opinion that we should become a socialist country so divided we fall.

THE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT TRYING TO KEEP THE WAY OF LIFE IN AMERICA. THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO HELP AMERICANS WHO CAN NOT GET HEALTH COVERAGE. THIS IS AMERICA, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN FOR OUR OWN PEOPLE. THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE SAME PEOPLE FOR 8 YEARS WHO MESSED UP THE ECONOMY, TOOK US TO WAR, AND STARTED THE BAILOUTS. THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO GAVE TQAX CUTS TO THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN AMERIA, WHILE THE MIDDLE CLASS SUFFERED AND AND NEVER PROSPER AS THE RICH DID UNDER BUSH. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN BUSH HELPED BAIL OUT WALL STREET AND GTHE BANKS AND ALSO THE AUTO INDUSTRY. DID YOU COMPLAIN AND CALL IT SOCIALIST. THE REPUBLICANS HANDS ARE NOT CLEAN IN THIS BY A LONG SHOT. DO NOT BE FOOLED AND DO NOT HAVE A SHORT MEMORY OF THE PAST 8 YEARS.

cassandrayp------------> The Dem's controlled congress and the committees. Frank and Dodd told the white house everything was fine, right up until it wasn't. Then they decided like Obama does with everything that it was such an emergency that they just had to stuff money in and count it later, but don't give me this it's all Bushes fault crap. Obama has tripled it in less than 10 months and there is nothing temperary about Obama's socialism. It is what he is, not a one time exception for a real emergency.

ey can get US to disagree on th more WE focus on each other rather than our REAL common enemy.

That's all congress is - a tool to keep WE, The People fighting with each other rather than with the REAL enemy for which 'OUR' congress works. This two party hoax is nothing but a ruse to convince WE, The People that WE have sides to choose, that WE have something to stand for or that WE even matter at all.

WE Proved in November '08 and then again this past August recess how powerful WE, The People can be even when WE divide OURselves. United WE are more powerful than WE could possibly imagine.

So how powerful are WE, The People?

By keeping US divided, THEY effectively reduce the power of WE, The People by at least 50% or worse. The only thing THEY have to fear is a united WE, The People. THEY are our REAL common enemy. THEY exist, THEY are dangerous and the only ones who can stop THEM are WE, The People. Divided WE lose, but united THEY don't stand a chance in hell.

Know OUR enemy!

You are right - the warS go on! If you want to complain about money spent without representation, then talk about the two wars we are fighting that were never declared. They are draining our resources, costing billions of dollars not to mention the unspeakable cost of young American lives lost or compromised. Shame on you. We willing pay for death dealing but begrudge money spent to bring healing and health. And, we say that we are a Christian nation.

gv:"America's roots" included slavery and not allowing women to vote. A lot has changed in the last 400 years. Personally, I don't think we have the money to pay for health care reform ... otherwise I wouldn't be an ideologue about it

99% of republicans do not believe in change. Period. Change is needed NOW. Bush gave enough money to his banking and gasoline friends. Time to help all of the american people now. Some of the rich people may not agree now. But your lazy children will not have health care forever. Also, the rich may need help down the way. Maybe when they can not get their big pensions or maybe just when they retire and need help. Amen for Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I trust that all you who don't think we should have health care that the governmant is involved in are going to refuse to take Medicare, RIGHT???
It is run by the government, after all. No you bright and shining stars, sheeple of the Republican right wing, want to keep giving twice or three times as much money to private insurance companies for medical coverage that is mediocre at best. In fact, you would rather give the control of your health and wellness to private companies that are ONLY interested in THEIR bottom line and THEIR profits. If you die in the mean time.... oh well, there are more suckers like you. Myself, I want the PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES to keep their noses out of my health care, and let my doctors decide what needs to be done. That is something that insurance companies can never allow to happen, because that means they loose control over their PROFITS. So you idiots, keep drinking the insurance company kool-aid and spitting out the Ratpublican party line about how bad the government is for the country. But the next time you are caught in a natural disaster, or need public assistance, or want your social security, or call a police officer or fire fighter, or retire and sign up for Medicare, remember how BAD the government is for you and the country and go F**K yourselves. 'Cause the Repuklicans won't be there to help you in YOUR time of need. They are all about feathering their own nests, and the little people (you) can go pound sand.

Nan and Butler--- You don't know me and I can see how what I said could be easily misinterpreted. I hate war and I hate division. I love my country and really believe in my heart that this government is dead set on making all of us dependent on them. That is socialism or worse. The wars were necessary but the threat to destroy our business community and cause money to run from our tax man is insanity under the cercomstances. Either Obama does not know what he is doing or he is hell bent on turning America into a communist country. I don't see the middle ground coming from him. I hope you prove me wrong. "In God We Trust"

Marsha,
Just got off work late today as a public/charity hospital. They received exceptional care and NO one died from lack of professional, first class health care provided to them!!

Actually if you follow everything back...the decline in our economy started with Reagan, he did things that helped the rich , yes, but hurt middle class and below, Bush and Bush have followed suit, and Clinton was one of the few presidents who actually balanced the budget, so looking at our current history (last 30 or so yrs)it looks more like Republicans are more at fault than any other, although truthfully there hasnt been a decent Pres. in 50 yrs or more.

Vampirelady
It was the Republican Congress that balanced the budget; not Clinton. In 1994 they took 49 seats from the Dems and turned things around, just like they will do in 2010.

Marsh needs to do some homework...this country has the best healthcare in the world! Wake up people!

I agree. "reaching across the table" doesn't mean grabbing the Repub's and trying drag them back across the table.

aman to that obama is trying to get what he want

Marsha:

Nazi Pelosi and her liberal socialists with Hussein Obama are leading this country away from the Constitution Principles that this our forefathers use to found the Greatest Nation on Earth. They are leading us to financial ruin, the only way to take over a free society and the American principles of our nation is not by miliatry threat by economic ruin.

Where is it written that the American Citizens must provide for the lazy, sloven, illegal aliens that influxed the US. Hussein Obama, Nazi Pelosi, Harry Bin Reid, and the Blue Dog Democrats have their own agenda, along with the Socialistic Czars that Hussein Bin Obama has surrounded himself.

The White House and Congress ignore the American Citizens that allow them to exist in Washington; They have forgotten that they work for us not that the American Citizens work for them. It seems that if they don't pay their taxes, take bribes, and ignore the Principles of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; then Hussein Bin Obama appoints them and his Cronies to legistative post in Washington.

The new American Revolution has begun. "If in Doubt, Vote Them Out!". I pray that the 2010 election will not be too late! Everything that Obama, and Congress has passed or trying to pass is "Unconstitutional".

Nothing in the bring America to her knees Obama driven government insurance mandate actually helps you people without insurance. First of all, none of you must ever have had insurance because if you did, you would recognize that health insurance has DEDUCTABLES that YOU HAVE TO PAY IN FULL FIRST before you get your insurance "benefit." NOTHING in this stupid democrat mess rids you of that deductable. Haha. Pay pay pay out of your own pocket for insurance premiums, get taxed on your insurance, and now pay your deductable first BEFORE you get any benefit. And for those of you who have actually worked in your lives and had any Workmans Comp (government health insurance) you know the grief of paying first and getting reimbursed - reimbursed after filling out form after form after form, where any mistakes make the whole claim rejected and you have to fill out forms to explain the mistakes. And THEIR doctor (the one they force you to go to) refuses to help and gives you gobbledygook to fill out the forms with that the government wants specifics from the doctor on. It's a bureaucratic nightmare that you have no say or control in, and then they threaten to audit you and your forms and if they find a mistake, you are subject to fines and jail. Just like the IRS. Welcome to Obamacare!!!!!

Marsha, your comment is typical of the bull$hit we hear from you tree-hugging liberals every day. Most of these people don't work because they don't want to work, and would rather the government support them. I'm tired of my tax money going to these slackers. How's the hope and change going for you?