nualak's Comments (217)

“That has certainly been their intent since Ronald Reagan - their Lord and savior- was "puppeted" by the likes of Don Regan and company. It has been downhill all the way since he took office.

When Reagan took office, my husband was a union glazier making $500 a week in the 70's. He had the best health insurance money could buy, plus a generous pension. He passed away in the mid 70's, just at the time that my youngest son was in Catholic High School and destined for college. Reagan wiped out Social Security for a child of a deceased parent, even if a full time student when he reached 18 (before that it was until 21, if a full time student.and wiped out Social Security for me, the widow, when my son turned 16. I was fortunate we had bought a house in the 60's and was able to borrow against it time and time again to help pay for my son's Catholic University tuition, which at the time was $10,000 a year. To-day, that same University is $40,000 a year and only the rich can afford to go there. My grandchildren cannot afford to go to public university in California, which is now in the $20,000 range per year - so where do they go. They are doomed to low paying jobs without access to college. This is the future of families who were once known as the "middle class".”

“Wait a minute, isn't this article about Dodd/Shelby semi agreement on a Consumer Protection Bill. Shelby doesn't want to protect the consumer's, he only want's to protect and banks, so how can that be an agreement. Just look at the grin on that guy's face, he looks so smug, like he just pulled a fast one on Dodd. Why are we, the voters and taxpayer's the last ones to get protection for or from anything. This sucks.”

“Talk about religious fanatics - you and your right wing zealots are the religious fanatics. I wouldn't support another war anywhere, unless you Rush, were the very first ground troop to cross the border.”

“i THOUGHT A CONTRACT WAS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO PARTIES WHO AGREE TO A SET AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR A JOB THAT IS TO BE PERFORMED. WHERE IS THE DISCREPANCY. ARE WE JUST DISHING OUT MONEY FOR A COST + CONTRACT, WHICH IS A NEVER ENDING PAY OUT? HOW STUPID CAN WE BE. I KNOW, I KNOW.”

“Hey, step aside. That was my line. I am 73 years old, live in California and supported Al all the way in his run for the Senate, including monetarily. He had a fantastic talk show on radio here with many of the best political minds interviewed on a daily basis, before he started running for the Senate. I stood up and clapped when I saw Al giving Lieberman a sucker punch.”

“He just wants to go down in history as the Senator who destroyed health care reform for millions of people, all in the name of money. Does that surprise anyone.”

“Go to church if you want to hear Christmas carols. I am a Catholic and I don't want any of you teabaggers interfearing in how my kids celebrate Christmas in school. As the previous writer said, the Christians decided to celebrate Christ's birthday in conjunction with the Winter solstice, or where I come from = the Druids to try to win the people away from worshiping nature. I heard this at a lecture by a Catholic priest at a Catholic University.

Tell them to sing Jingle Bells, or I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas. I have had enough of a country where Church and State were one and I don't want to see it happen here. Find something constructive to do with your life. My very best friend, who happens to be a Math teacher and Jewish, will fight you to the death to keep religion out of the schools. She doesn't believe in Christmas.”

“The Republican's never saw a regulation that they liked, so to think they are going to vote for "regulations" to get the Health Insurance bill passed is ludicrous. Republican's 1, Democrats 0.
What else is new. I thought we won the election with an overwhelming majority, yet one every bill that the Democrats have tried to pass, it was shot down by the Republicans. Show me where I can sign up for the Green Party, or who is willing to start a Progressive Party. How is it that European countries have half a dozen parties and they have to combine their votes to make a ruling government. Oops, forgive me. Shouldn't mention another country being smarter than American Exceptionalism.”

“Well, who would have thunk the Republican's are actually for Medicare,or wait they are against it but no, they are for it. Oh, wait, I'm getting all mixed up. Better go talk to Fox News - yeah Glen Beck will set them straight and if he doesn't do it they will all be bowing down to blubber butt.”

“Luck you. I think I am about to go home to the "Old Country" after 50 years of a wonderful ride. The last 8 years have destroyed it all. America is finished - no industry, no jobs, no health care, no decent education, unless you can pay for it and on and on. My kids now have dual citizenship, so I think it is time for us to move on and watch from a distant shore and good old USA sink under it's own stupidity.”

“It's about time someone told it like it is. The Corporate Republicans are hell bent on turning this country into a wholely owned subsidiary. As a matter of fact, it already is. Is this the reason the Republicans keep calling the U.S. exceptionalist. I wonder how many of these neanderthals have ever actually traveled to the hundreds of countries that have state of the art transportation, solar and wind power, free higher education, etc. and have five thousand years of history and have not invaded another country in the last two hundred years. I know it is impossible for you people to know what is going on in the world when all you listen to is the lies told by Glen Beck and blubber but in Florida. Where do you go to get contradictory information.”

“WE have perfect mountain's to offer here to-day in So. California - the foothills are sliding into the backyards of the fortunate homeowners who did not lose their property in the Summer wildfires.”

“Just what I was going to say and I haven't heard or seen the word arse in print since I lived in the "Old Sod". I'm surprised the word wasn't censored.”

“Oh, my God. What is the big deal. She is changing job's. Is this news. Have you seen the movie "The Blind Side". a movie based on fact about a woman who actually did something extraordinary to change someones life. Come on. Give up the adulation of Media personalities”

“This just goes to show how outrageous it is for health insurance companies to be in the profit making business.”

“Is this what they call a government in a country Cheney likes to call "Exceptionalist". It's obvious he hasn't traveled much outside the U.S. i actually would be interested in knowing if Cheney ever traveled anywhere that wasn't war related.”

“That's exactly what I was thinking and if any of these guys get off, it will be because they were tortured and that evidence cannot be used in court from what I understand. Didn't the right wing Supreme Court already decide on that. On the other hand, they are also afraid that Obama won't fail.”

“What the hell is this. The Army is being used as a cheering squad for a woman who can't tell the difference between Iran and Iraq, but is determined to crack down on IRAQ for developing nuclear
weapons. We are just not going to put up with it. What is she planning on doing about it. A half dozen Presidents have tried to bring IRAN, which is probably what she was talking about, into the fold to no avail, but she is going to do it, probably with her hunting rifle. That is a laugh. THIS WOMAN IS A JOKE.”

“Paul Voulker and Paul Krugman would make a great duo to advise President Obama.”

“Bring it on. One thing I don't get as far as the Republican's are concerned - they are forever talking about FREEDOM and THE SECURITY OF THE NATION. I never realized that either one of those things was at risk, except under the Bush Administration. The only time this country was attacked was under Bush/Cheney, with their knowledge and refusal to do anything about it.”

“The book was being advertised on MSNBC last night for $4.99. Hurry on over for a bargain of a lifetime.”

“Other than cheating on his wife, what did he lie about. I want to know. Is this another of Fox Noise real true stories?”

“I wonder if all the Congressmen and women and all the Senators in the country have asked to have abortion coverage removed from their government approved health plans. Maybe we, as citizens, should go the streets and demand that all coverage for abortion, birth control pills, morning after pills, and breast cancer, should be immediately removed from their insurance. This is American style Taliban. No rights whatsoever for women, except to work and reproduce. This is the 21st Century - not the 17th.”

“I am a Catholic and I am pro-choice, anti war and anti death penalty. Where do we separate these three issues. The pro lifers in the Christian Fundamentalist side are not anti war, or anti death penalty. Where do they get off telling pro choice people how to live. There are people in this country of diverse religious faiths, or no religious faith. Why should they be dictated to by the Catholic fringe in a country that Constitutionally separated between Church and State. If the Catholic Church had it's way, there would be no birth control, no morning after pill and yet I don't ever hear them speak out about Viagra. Once the women decide - no more sex until they get the health care they need, there would be a sea change in this country.”

“Exactly my thought.”