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B2 S.G.V. EXAMINER LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Try to Help Out and It Backfires First, thanks to Nancy Wyatt for her comment on my article. Thanks for taking the time to respond on both topics. Okay. I am sure that all of us have done things to help others only to have it backfire. A few years back when I was in the army and after basic training, I went to my advanced training. As you know, they have these inspections. Everything must be perfect from the foot locker to the bed, from the wall locker to the barracks. In the barracks, it is like a dorm area with bunk beds lining the floor 12 down each side of a center aisle. So, on each floor we have 48 soldiers. So when we find out that we have this big inspection coming down on us, we wax the center aisle and DO NOT WALK ON IT. It will leave marks on the floor. Everyone was working hard to make sure their foot locker, wall lockers and the barracks was in tip top shape. The problem is with American Soldiers, we keep everything. So here we are polishing our boots and getting everything ready for the next day. I get notified that I will have a detail the day of the inspection and I will 623 W. Foothill Blvd. Glendora, California 91741 Phone (626) 852-3374 Fax (626) 852-1904 E-mail: sgexaminer@aol.com EUGENE F. MOSES Publisher/Editor INDAY MOSES Associate Editor Edward M. Moses, Esq. Legal Counsel George Ogden Senior Staff Reporter Ken Herman J.J. McDonough Ken Eliasberg Charles H. Bayer Lorie Pope Pauly Jorge V. Rosales Lynda Siminske Joan Hallidy Contributing Writers Manuel Ampil Karen Babineau Senior Sales Rep San Gabriel Valley Examiner, published weekly by Eumo Enterprises, has been adjudicated as a newspaper of General Circulation for the County of Los Angeles, California in Court Case No. KS 005341. Mission Statement • We believe that journalism should be free from any motives other than relaying information to its readers. 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George Ogden That’s just the way it is! not be there. YEAH!!! So, since I won’t be there for the inspection, everyone came to me for help. My wall locker was going to be a storage locker. No problem. They brought me all kinds of stuff. “Just put it in the locker guys.” as I went on polishing my boots. They would be on display near my foot locker. For those that remember, for a great spit shine, you mix the boot polish with water and use a soft cloth to apply and polish. When done, I simply went back to my locker to put my stuff away. I was in shock with all the junk they put in my locker. I didn’t know they could get all that junk in there, amazing. I put the polish and cup of water on the top shelf and closed the door. The next morning, I made my bunk and you could bounce a quarter off it, no problem. Everyone was getting their stuff ready and I wished everyone good luck and headed out for my ride to the detail that I had to do. I was glad that I didn’t have too deal with that Master Sergeant because we had bumped heads before. He took issue with the way I signed in for the mess hall saying that this was not the way I had signed it in the past and ordered me to his office. As he sat as his desk he was ripping me up and down going over past sign in sheet and accusing me of being a liar. When he got to a page, I saw my name and was upset and yelled at him “what the hell is that” while slamming my finger on the page on top of my signature. WRONG... well, that wasn’t a good idea. Later I found out he suffered from LMS (Little Man Syndrome) since he barely met the height minimum for the Disneyland rides. Well, after slamming my hand down on the sign-in sheet. Everything went silent, he slowly looked up at me and slowly, but loudly said, “What the hell did you just do???!!! You dare touch my (blank’n) desk?” and he went ballistic. He jumped up and threw the phone at me and completely cleared everything off his desk while screaming at the top of his lungs. I had ducked into the corner to dodge the phone and then he turned the desk over. As he was freaking out I tried to head for the door about the same time some of his clones came in and grabbed me and dragged me outside and held me down. I tried to explain what was going on but they soon let me go and had to go and control the sergeant. I was later called into his office again, but this time I brought back up. He was being nice and wanted to dish out a punishment to me for disrespecting him. I could take his punishment or elect to see the CO (commanding officer), our Captain. I elected to see the Captain. This ended up being a joke and actually worked out rather well between me and the captain. However, I seemed to be the only one in the company that got all these extra details. So, in the long run, this detail is working out for me, NO INSPECTION. So just before 10:00 a.m. a jeep pulled up and it is for me. “Why?” I ask and he told me he was sent to take me back to the company. I wondered why and soon found out. They wanted me there for the inspection. Okay, the way this works, the inspectors come in, which includes the Master Sergeant (my buddy) our CO along with the Battalion Commander. We simply “unlock” our lockers but don’t open the door. We stand at the foot of the bunk beds facing the center aisle and “They” come down the middle (messing up our waxed floor) and check us out. Then they travel along the walls behind us checking out our foot lockers and wall lockers. This inspection had them starting on the other side so I could see what was going on. Mind you, we are facing each other but yet I am watching the inspection. They would skip a number of lockers then open one up. It was about every third or forth locker that would get checked. Good chance I was SAVED. Well, I could just about tell where they were behind me as they came down our side of barracks. They got closer and closer. I heard them close a locker and the footstep were behind me and I was watching my comrades who were facing me. Their eyes were big some were biting their lip. The foot steps stopped and they had one of two lockers to check. The expression on my comrade’s faces told the story, they made faces and closed their eyes as I heard the latch of my wall locker. Soon after I heard stuff hitting the floor and the words “What the Hell? Who’s (blank’n) locker is this?” Since my name was on the top of the locker, it wasn’t too hard to figure out. “Ogden, get your ass over here!” he screamed. As I turned, he was pulling stuff out including a big plastic bag which he had problems getting out. As he pulled, it ripped open and everything from playing cards, poker chips...lots of plastic poker chips, letters from loved ones, and even to this day, marbles. I have no idea why marbles. They had put all kinds of stuff in that locker. The Sergeant continued to scream and finally just stopped. He glared at me then looked at all the crap all over the floor. The CO and the rest of the inspectors were biting their tongue trying not to laugh. The Sergeant seemed to have calmed down a little but returned to the locker. Now remember, he was not very tall. He stepped up into the locker to see what was on the top shelf. To my surprise, he grabbed that large cup of water and pulled it forward. He stepped down and asked, “what’s in here?” and he proceeded to grab the cup and look into it. He did not bring it down to look into it, but simply turned it over dumping the water directly into his face, his freshly starched fatigues and the floor. Well, he went ballistic, especially after everyone burst our laughing. He tried to throw the paper cup at me but in the process he was standing on slippery playing cards and plastic poker chips and this caused him to do the splits on the waxed floor landing on his ass on the wet floor. He tried getting up right away but couldn’t get traction and kept slipping. Once he got up, he tried to turn over my locker but couldn’t, but he picked up what he thought was my foot locker and threw down the middle aisle, Next, he thought he knew where my bunk was, but he got that wrong one, and he tore up my buddy’s bunk throwing mattress down the aisle as well. About that time the CO and the rest of the inspectors notified him that they were through with their inspection. The Master Sergeant went over to the Sergeant who was in charge of the barracks he told him that he was to inspect my wall locker 4 times a day. Morning, noon, evening and before lights out until I was shipped out. Even though I tried to help out and it backfired badly. I ended up being a hero to these guys, and that was worth it to me. “That’s Just The Way It Is!” Domestic Assault Ends in Death AZUSA — On August 26 at 11:14 PM, a 41 year old female Azusa resident, entered the lobby of the Azusa Police Department with her two children and niece to report a domestic assault which had occurred in her home in the 600 Block of West Gladstone St. in Azusa. The female victim alleged that her estranged husband, 45 year old male, Azusa resident (and father of their children) had arrived at her residence, assaulted her, and displayed a handgun in a threatening manner. Fearing for her safety and the safety of the children, they all fled the residence and drove to the Azusa Police Department to report the crime. Patrol officers arrived at the home and attempted to establish communication with the male suspect who they believed was still inside the home. Phone calls into the residence were unsuccessful, as were multiple announcements utilizing a police car's public address (PA) system. Officers on-scene then heard a single gunshot originat- ing near the rear of the home. During the subsequent search, officers located the deceased suspect on the rear porch area from an apparent, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. A semi-automatic handgun was recovered under the deceased's body. This case is being investigated jointly by the Azusa Police Department's Detective Bureau and the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Arcadia Realtors Plan Charity Golf Tournament ARCADIA — Santa Anita Golf Course is the beautiful site for the Arcadia Association of REALTORS Annual Charity Golf Tournament scheduled for Thursday, September 24. The event is sponsored by the Real Estate Professionals Auxiliary (REP), the charitable auxiliary of the Arcadia Association of REALTORS. All proceeds from the tournament will be donated to numerous local charities. Check-in is at 10:30 a.m. with a Shotgun start at 1:00 p.m. An Awards Banquet and silent raffle will immediately follow day of golfing in the Sunset Room. Each player will receive a golf cart, range balls and dinner! If you don't play golf but would like to attend the awards banquet and raffle, tickets are just $40. The Auxiliary is now accepting sign-ups for foursomes and sponsorship package opportunities. Contact Tournament Co- Chairmen, Adam Throop, Bank of America, (626) 222-3470 or Erin Dunn, Nationwide Capitol, (626) 256-6300, or the Arcadia Association at (626) 446-2115 for more information or signup on-line at www.TheAAR.com The San Gabriel Valley Examiner September 3 - 9, 2009 Letter to the Editor Opinions Are The Writer’s The “Change” We Don’t Need Apparently many Americans were looking for "change", but did not realize the kind of change Obama had in mind. What's the big rush? It's positively ridiculous and stupid to try and pass any bill without carefully reading it first. Whose health care bill is it anyway? Pelosi"s? Obama's? Congress? Van Jones - the new Green Job Czar (a radical leftist and one of the president's chief advisors)? Over half of the population did not expect or want Obama to revamp our entire system of government, or our health care. Our country has great medical care. No, it's not perfect, but we do have the right to choose a health insurance plan and our own doctor. We can go to the doctor when we feel it's necessary and get the treatment we need. We can also get a 2nd opinion if we deem it's necessary. A Canadian official recently stated that their government-controlled health care system is disastrous. People come from Canada and the U.K. to the U.S.A. for medical treatment because of our outstanding health care. Some things to think about: Senator Tom (tax evader) Daschle stated "that health care reform will not be pain free, and seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age, instead of treating them." What a guy! Contrary to what Obama and Pelosi are saying, House Democrat Health Care Reform Bill H.R. 3200 does allow illegal aliens to obtain free health care benefits. Former Congressman Tom Tancredo has called on President Obama to denounce the deceptive way this bill allows illegal aliens to receive these benefits. According to Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, Massachusetts is touted as a model for health-care reform, but 3 years after it was voted in, the program had failed in its main goal of achieving universal coverage, and total health-care spending in the state has increased by 28 percent, placing new burdens on state tax-payers. Countries having single-payer systems (government controlled) are the most likely to face waiting lists, have limitations on benefits that patients can receive, restrictions on the choice of doctors, etc. However, the growing tendency in these countries is to move away from centralized government into more market oriented features, and make their systems look more like the U.S. Because of rising health care costs, these countries are considering costsharing by patients, market pricing of goods and services, and increased competition among insurers and providers, exploring the power of the market as a way to get much better value for money. Just a reminder - The $787 The San Gabriel Valley Examiner welcomes letters in good taste on any subject. Priority is given to letters exclusive to the San Gabriel Valley Examiner. All letters must be accompanied by the writer's true name, address and daytime telephone number, should be on a single subject and kept to 250 words or less, although we may run letters of longer length. Letters of any length are subject to trimming and editing. Writers are limited to one letter per month. All letters and articles to the Examiner may be published or distributed in print, electronic and other forms. Send Letters To: Letters to the Editor San Gabriel Valley Examiner 623 West Foothill Blvd. Glendora, CA 91741 Fax: (626) 852-1904 Email: sgexaminer@aol.com S U B S C R I P T I O N F O R M � YES, I want a one year subscription of the SGV Examiner NAME_______________________________________________ ADDRESS___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Phone_____________________ San Gabriel Valley Examiner billion stimulus experiment Obama rushed through Congress still isn't creating jobs. And now he's trying to rush through a $1.6 trillion government-run health care plan which will include higher health care costs, enormous increases on families and small businesses, and cause millions of Americans to lose their current health care coverage. We agree that we do need to solve our nation's problems, but without taking away individual freedom and without mortgaging our children's and grandchildren's future. We do need to get more Americans health coverage they need, but not expand government control - a system that benefits all citizens. Eliminating fraud and abuse in our Medicare and Medicaid programs would be a good start. The president has repeatedly stated that "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." Obviously he can't make that promise to everyone. The Democrat health care plan could lead to employers switching plans, and thus forcing their employees into different plans and perhaps to different doctors. We do not want faceless bureaucrats deciding the type and quality of our health care. Furthermore, we simply cannot afford this outrageously expensive and out-of-control government Public Option Health Care Plan. It's an experiment we believe would bankrupt our nation, force us into an inferior government-run health plan, and endanger our family's health and lives. As Ellen Glasgow puts it - "All change is not growth as all movement is not forward." Jean Simpson Glendora A weekly publication. 52 issues a year sent by mail for $75. Local subscription: $50/year. Mail check or money order to: SGV EXAMINER, 623 W. Foothill Blvd., Glendora, California 91741.
September 3 - 9, 2009 Picking up where I left off last week, let's just finish with the notion of Israel's having used excessive force in its retaliatory response in Gaza, i.e. its response was "disproportionate." Along the lines of proportionality, Thomas Sowell, a Hoover Institute scholar for whom I have great respect, in a column for Townhall.com entitled Pretty talk and Ugly Realities, 1/13/09 made the following observation which is not just relevant but right on the money: " Today, so-called 'world opinion' not only limits the price to be paid for aggression or terrorism, it has even led to the self-indulgence of third parties talking pretty talk about limiting the response of those who are attacked to what is "proportionate." By this reasoning, we should not have declared war on Japan for bombing Pearl Harbor. We should have gone over to Japan, bombed one of their harbors --- and let it go at that. Does anyone imagine that this would have led to Japan's becoming peaceful today as it has become after Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Or is the real agenda to engage in moral preening from a safe distance and at somebody else's expense? I've been traveling around the good old US for the last month, visiting friends and listening to the debate about health care. It's been fascinating. Last November the American people made it clear that the time had come for a significant revision in the way we provide medical care. President Obama ran on that plank and was dramatically supported by most of us. It was obvious that we the people wanted a set of serious changes which arrested escalating costs and included everyone. As the debate about how this is to be developed has proceeded, the Republican Party, in the pocket of the insurance industry, has managed to mount a wide-spread campaign resisting almost any substantial improvement to what most of us realize is a broken system. These political operatives have relied on a series of serious dis- Ken Eliasberg Those who think 'negotiations' are a magic answer seem not to understand that when A wants to annihilate B, this is not an 'issue' that can be resolved amicably around a conference table." While this observation seems to impart a fundamental truth and a self-evident reality, it is a truth and a reality that is clearly beyond the intellectual reach of professor Shaffer. On the subject of Israel's failure to use "proportionate" force as a sign of "Judaeo (sic)-fascism," I am always amazed to observe how lefties - particularly "anti-Israel" (typically code for anti-Jew) lefties - have so little difficulty in establishing some sort of "moral relativism" when they wish to dump on Israel. Thus, in the present case, the good professor has no problem whatsoever in completely Charles H. Bayer tortions and a few outright lies. Tens of millions of dollars have been poured into an effort to frighten the American people into resisting any significant change in our inadequate and unfair formula. At this writing the profit motivated insurance industry, which looks to garner a new 40 million cash paying customers, seems to have the upper hand. Have you seen the signs and COMMENTARY The San Gabriel Valley Examiner S.G.V. EXAMINER B3 A Different Perspective On Israel's Right To Defend Itself - Quality Reporting or Anti-Semitism dismissing years of a rocket bombardment aimed exclusively at civilians, while, at the same time, jumping to the absurd conclusion that Israel's response was insufficiently measured and thus an act of terror. As a consequence of failing to respond in a manner that the professor deems appropriate, Israel has not just become the aggressor, but it has now become fascist and, as a consequence, Jews must forfeit their right to say "never again" to the holocaust. To somehow suggest that there is some sort of equivalence here between Israel's retaliatory response to the terror that has been consistently visited upon her in Gaza over a prolonged period of time - no matter how over the top one might think that response might be (and I don't think it over the top at all) - and the genocide of 6,000,000 Jews is an act that, as I previously observed, goes well beyond either stupidity or sheer lunacy!! To so characterize Israel's retaliatory response is maliciously vindictive and not just the result of abominably bad judgment. In short, there is no moral equivalence between the acts of a terrorist operation willfully targeting women and children, on the one hand, and a vigorous, forceful, and overwhelming retaliatory response on the other. And there certainly is no moral equivalence between Israel's response to Hamas (no matter how one views it) and the holocaust. Perhaps a word about the realities of war might help to put Israel's conduct in perspective. War is not a ping pong match; it is a brutal, vicious, horrible endeavor, the only purpose of which can be to win it by defeating your enemy in the most cost effective manner possible (and here, when I refer to cost effective, I am certainly including the cost of human life). And to win it, you do not appeal to your enemy's better angels (I assume that course of action has already been taken and failed); what you endeavor to do is to destroy his will to fight, and you do it by letting him know that he will pay a terrible price for taking liberties with your citizens and/or your sovereignty. In the language that a Chicago politician can understand (since it was taken from the movie the Untouchables, which dealt with Chicago politics and Chicago's criminal element (unfortunately, the 2 are frequently indistinguishable)), "when they put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of theirs in the morgue." In the case of war, you wish to put as many of the enemy in the morgue as possible in order to remind him that he best discontinue pursuit of the endeavor. If we fought WWII the way the good professor would like, we would still be fighting it (if we hadn't already lost it). We won that war by devastating Germany, and by dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan, thereby destroying each country's will to continue the struggle (indeed, in Germany's case, the devastation was so vast and so complete that, not only was their will to continue destroyed, their capacity to do so was destroyed as well). War is not about a Marquise of Queensbury confrontation; it is about killing enough of the enemy to encourage his unconditional surrender. Apparently, the good professor does not believe that Israel has the right to defend itself, or possibly, because of his feelings about Jews, they are not deserving of a defense. And, by the way, war is all about terror; it is the technique utilized to win it. And why I took issue with the professor with respect to his "innocent civilian" piece re 9/11, is because the U.S. had no idea we were at war until the attack (and, according to Obama, the war is over; we'll deal with that preposterous assertion in a later column). Sound And Fury In The Health Care Debate by Sheldon Richman Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is gone. No one in the last 40 years stood as a larger symbol of "liberalism," the view that government is the answer for everything. A great deal has been said in recent days about his compassion and generosity. But bear in mind that in public life, his compassion consisted in spending other people's money and authorizing government bureaucracies to interfere with the social cooperation that takes place whenever life, liberty, and property are respected. We may grant his good intentions, but intentions can't repeal the laws of economics, and insisting they can only causes harm, especially to the people one was trying to help. In thinking about Kennedy, we ought to be struck by his stubborn refusal to see government for what it is: a device for imposing some people's will on others by compulsion. That blunt formulation is surely less romantic than any that he would have offered, but which is closer to reality? Stripped of the democratic bunting, what lies at the heart of government is the legal power to coerce - not only violent aggressors but anyone. heard the diatribe which goes, "Do you want a government bureaucrat standing between you and your doctor?" It's an old trick. Word the question properly and the answer will be obvious. Nobody wants some faceless federal employee to decide what will be the proper treatment for their disease. But wait a minute. If you have private insurance does your doctor really have the last word? No way! Your doctor must ask a faceless employee of an insurance company whether or not the treatment the doctor thinks best will be allowed. What is more, these company employees standing between you and your physician have been instructed to keep one eye on the profit margin stockholders demand. I have been startled as I watched angry citizens in town meetings verbally assault mem- bers of Congress. As Americans they have the right to exercise their opinions. But disrupting meetings is not the same as honestly debating the merits of a proposal. If you look at the crowds you will note that a substantial number of the attendees are senior citizens. It is curious listening to them cry, "Keep the government out of health care," Really? Practically every one of these criers is now supported by Social Security, Medicare, or a program for veterans. Has it occurred to them that these are government run programs? Or do they realize that the same political party now objecting to any serious revision in how we care for each other opposed every one of them when they were originally developed? Do they seriously want the government out of the health care business? I have yet to see any of them tearing up their What Ted Kennedy Never Learned It's not reason or eloquence, as George Washington is reputed to have said. It's force. Believing that this force is wielded in a good cause does not change the facts. In this light Kennedy and his sort are revealed as presumptuous power-mongers. Sitting in Washington, far (both geographically and psychologically) from the people and their diverse personal circumstances, the "lawmakers" presume to dictate the rules of everyday life. They don't simply declare that we must not kill or otherwise harm each other. Those customary rules were well-established long before the first legislative body convened. Rather, they seek to manage - even micromanage - the complexity of social intercourse as though it were a family picnic: the minimum wage that employers and employees may negotiate, the conditions under which children are educated, the kind of health insurance we all must buy. This and so much more are, in the so-called "liberals'" eyes, the public's - that is, their - business. In theory government is supposed to be the servant. Yet in practice it is not the servant but the master. Kennedy surely would have disagreed, and he might have meant it. But facts are facts. When a self-described servant insists on taking care of you according to his notion of your interests, whether or not you want his help and whether or not you want to surrender the necessary resources, he is no servant at all. He is the master. You will be served - or else. Kennedy cared about a lot of things, but he didn't care enough to grasp that fact. Nor did he care enough to question his simple-minded economic philosophy that whatever government decrees it shall get. The "war on poverty" is 45 years and trillions of dollars old, yet Kennedy never declared victory. Does that mean it wasn't won? If so, shouldn't that have p rompted him to reject his faith that government can directly end poverty? Why didn't he learn the authentically liberal insight that the straightest line to prosperity is the free market, which means keeping government from impeding the creation of wealth through taxes, privileges, and restrictions on production? Uncharacteristically, Kennedy glimpsed this truth in the late 1970s. It was he who spearheaded the congressional move to deregulate commercial air travel and trucking. Until then, government bureaucracies strictly regulated both routes and rates, inflating the price of travel and every product carried by truck. Kennedy apparently realized that this system of privilege for politically influential businesses harmed most people Social Security or Medicare cards, or a single veteran refusing free treatment in a VA facility. For those of us who have lived in any other modern nation, the overwhelming value of their health systems is obvious. It is true that those who are wealthy enough to get what they want immediately might have to wait a few days or weeks for some elective procedure, but nobody is left out. Nobody! Every good system needs to be reexamined and tweaked from time to time, and the calls for revisions in the Canadian, Australian or even the French system are important. But if you would suggest that what they really want is to replicate the private profit-based way we do things, you would be thought loose in the head. Why then has this spate of by prohibiting competition. As a result, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission (the oldest federal regulatory agency) disappeared - to the benefit of the public. Unfortunately, Kennedy never applied this principle to health care or much else. To lower prices and better serve consumers, government didn't Dine For The Cure GLENDORA — Despite advances, there is a new diagnosis of breast cancer in the US every three minutes and a life is lost every fourteen minutes. We need to change these statistics - the local Avon Representatives and Denny's Restaurants in the West Inland Empire are doing just that! 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Since 1992, when Avon sold its first Pink Ribbon Pin in the UK, Avon and the Avon Foundation have become leaders in advancing access to care and finding a Summarizing then, even if one were to view Israel's retaliatory response as "disproportionate" (and, as noted, I do not), war requires real "disproportion" if it is to ever be won. So much for Judeo-Fascism, let's take a look at Mr. Bayer's view of the "settlement" problem on the West Bank (which, by the way, is no longer a problem and was not at the time Bayer's piece appeared in this paper, because Netanyahu put an end to further "settlement" construction almost as soon as he took office months ago, see Caroline Glick's column at Jewish World Review on 8/21/09 entitled Et tu, Netanyahu, in which Ms. Glick, a superb analyst, quite appropriately takes Netanyahu to task for preemptively surrendering on the issue before discussions with Obama had even been undertaken and thus getting no quid pro quo for Israel in the process), which I find almost as harsh and just as absurd as Shaffer's "Judaeo (sic) fascism" piece. Shaffer believes that Israel should be punished - and punished severely - for failing to immediately respond to Arab pressure on the U.S. and the U.N. to restrain Israel in its effort to provide room for growth for its "settlers." (to be continued). angry protesters now surfaced? It seems clear that they have been seduced by a powerful well-funded and greedy insurance industry in bed with the Republican Party, which is still smarting over their overwhelming defeat in the last two elections. Bringing Obama down is the goal, not developing an adequate way to universalize health insurance. My guess is the Administration and the Democratic majorities in Congress will realize that no matter what they come up with the Republicans will object, and that the only way to fix what is broken is to go without bipartisan support. Given their majorities, we will finally get a reasonable solution to this enormous problem. But that's just my opinion. Contact Charles Bayer at candwbayer@verizon.net have to run the airlines or the trucking companies, or create a "public option." It just needed to get out of the way. It's the same for health care. Too bad Kennedy died before understanding that. Sheldon Richman is policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation (www.fff.org) and editor of The Freeman magazine. cure. Through 2008, the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade raised and awarded over $585 million in 50 countries worldwide for the mission to advance access to care and finding a cure. Funds raised here in the U.S., whether by the Avon Walk, fundraising products and other special events, are managed by the Avon Foundation and awarded as grants to support breast cancer awareness and education; screening and diagnosis; access to treatment; support services and scientific research. More information is available at avonfoundation.org. To receive a flyer, please call Helen Sackett at 626-253-7984 or your local Avon representative.
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