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- Neville is a 57 year old single guy from London, England, UK.
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Hello,
My name is Neville, male, divorced.
My children have grown up and deserted the nest. Don't worry though I wont molest anybody, my ethics prevents me doing anything that will offend others, therefore I don't invade other peoples territory. My blogs are about Christianity, animals, Pets, free Training information where possible, ancient history. I'm not a staunch Christian therefore I don't preach but, I believe in the one God our father in heaven the creator of the universe everything within it, King of Kings, Lords of Lords. I fully accept (Immanuel)Jesus Christ as My Savior, who suffered on the cross to save me from my sins, He Lives.
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Fund Health Care Not War
Speaking in a time of war, Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Somehow this madness must cease."
Forty-one years later, young soldiers are returning to the United States from terrifying zones of carnage. The old claims of a justified war have melted away. So have the promises of a humane society back home.
Statistics about the war dead tell us very little about human realities. And familiar downbeat numbers about health care -- 47 million Americans with no health insurance, perhaps an equal number woefully under-insured -- tell us very little about the actual consequences or other options.
"The shocking facts about health care in the United States are well known," Yes! Magazine noted in the autumn of 2006. "There's little argument that the system is broken. What's not well known is that the dialogue about fixing the health-care system is just as broken."
That's an apt description. For all the media focus and political rhetoric on health care, the mainline discourse is stuck in a corporate-friendly rut. But there are signs that a movement for a rational, humanistic health-care system in this country is now gaining strength.
A few hours after writing these words, I'll be at a large demonstration in San Francisco. The lightning rod for this historic June 19 protest is a national meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans, an outfit that cheerily pitches itself as "a national trade association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health benefits to more than 200 million Americans."
As it happens, this meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans got underway just as news broke that the congressional "leadership" has devised a formula to fully fund more war. "Democratic and GOP leaders in the House announced agreement Wednesday on a long-overdue war funding bill they said President Bush would be willing to sign," the Associated Press reported. The bill would "provide about $165 billion to the Pentagon to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for about a year."
There's a lot of profit in death. Under the guise of national security. And under the guise of health care.
Today, across the United States, people are dying because they don't have access to health care. But policy solutions are available. In Congress, about 90 co-sponsors are backing H.R. 676, a bill to provide "comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents." Call it whatever you like -- "single payer" or "improved Medicare for all" or "universal health care with choice of providers and no financial barriers." What it adds up to is the policy option of treating health
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