Health Care Law Helps Community Health Centers Build, Renovate Facilities to Serve More Patients

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced awards that will help build and expand community health centers around the country. Grants totaling $728 million from the Affordable Care Act will help pay for 398 renovation and construction projects, increasing health centers' ability to care for more patients and create jobs. Health centers help our nation's underserved communities by making it easier to get primary health care services. Find a health center near you.


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House Dems Offer 'Trayvon Amendment' To Punish States for 'Stand Your Ground'

Democrats are turning non-racial cases into racial hot potatoes, then using them to attack state laws.

“Stand Your Ground"









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What a shocking turn of events in the socialist fruits-an-nuts state!
The state failed to collect as much revenue as expected and SPENT $2,100,000,000.00 more then budgeted!
Now Governor moon-beam is looking at a $9,000,000,000.00 deficit!
CUTS ARE COMING, the people with their hands out will be demonstrationg like they are in the socialist nations of Europe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Illinois is only half a step behind this eventuality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

House Dems Receive Training On Portraying Conservatives As Racist

In the latest transparent attempt by the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party to make the 2012 election a referendum on supposed racism and not Obama’s dismal performance, House Democrats received training this week on how to portray neutral free-market rhetoric as racially charged.

After Obama was elected on the pretense that he was a uniter, he and his minions see opportunities in constantly dividing Americans by race, creed or color and then appealing to them separately.

Portraying Conservatives As Racist









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Of all the things I've lost,
I miss my mind the most
Grandpa Bob
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Former Crew Chief
Grandma's Rocking Chair

Scary Obituary
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh ,
had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can
vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has
been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this line several times!!

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota,
points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy,
with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached
the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the
USA in fewer than five years.

Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic .
Someone should point this out to Obama.
Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution.
There couldn't be more at stake than on Nov 6, 2012.

About 9.5 million people more voted for Obama than McCain. Over 7% more. What is wrong with "one man, one vote"? Is there a better way you have in mind?
The US has a lot of a unique type of people. These people would rather defend the rights of the wealthy, than their own rights. They would rather propogate the wealth of the wealthy, than help someone who is down and out.

quote:

Originally posted by Bucky:
About 9.5 million people more voted for Obama than McCain. Over 7% more. What is wrong with "one man, one vote"? Is there a better way you have in mind?

Voter ID is a start!

The US has a lot of a unique type of people. These people would rather defend the rights of the wealthy, than their own rights. They would rather propogate the wealth of the wealthy, than help someone who is down and out.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can
vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."


Some need help, yes. A lot just milk the system.
If I'm working my ass off to make a better life for myself and someone keeps taking more and more from me. Why would I keep going, if I can set on my ass and have the same thing?

Reread the post!!

quote:

Originally posted by raceadodge:

quote:

Originally posted by Bucky:
About 9.5 million people more voted for Obama than McCain. Over 7% more. What is wrong with "one man, one vote"? Is there a better way you have in mind?

Voter ID is a start!

The US has a lot of a unique type of people. These people would rather defend the rights of the wealthy, than their own rights. They would rather propogate the wealth of the wealthy, than help someone who is down and out.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can
vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."


Some need help, yes. A lot just milk the system.
If I'm working my ass off to make a better life for myself and someone keeps taking more and more from me. Why would I keep going, if I can set on my ass and have the same thing?

Reread the post!!

These are really different subject. Of course the voter id thing is a big deal and needs to be dealt with immediately IMO.

And..The systems that administer our social services needs to be scrutanized and fixed. i will not argue with that.

But if a president wins the popular vote, should he not win the presidency?

quote:

Originally posted by Bucky:

quote:

Originally posted by raceadodge:

quote:

Originally posted by Bucky:
About 9.5 million people more voted for Obama than McCain. Over 7% more. What is wrong with "one man, one vote"? Is there a better way you have in mind?

Voter ID is a start!

The US has a lot of a unique type of people. These people would rather defend the rights of the wealthy, than their own rights. They would rather propogate the wealth of the wealthy, than help someone who is down and out.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can
vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."


Some need help, yes. A lot just milk the system.
If I'm working my ass off to make a better life for myself and someone keeps taking more and more from me. Why would I keep going, if I can set on my ass and have the same thing?

Reread the post!!

These are really different subject. Of course the voter id thing is a big deal and needs to be dealt with immediately IMO.

And..The systems that administer our social services needs to be scrutanized and fixed. i will not argue with that.

But if a president wins the popular vote, should he not win the presidency?

Yes but not by granting amnesty and citizenship to illegal's for their vote.

quote:

But if a president wins the popular vote, should he not win the presidency?

While the popular vote plays a roll in our electoral system, it is not the deciding factor. The presidency is the result of an electoral college vote. We live in a republic, not a pure democracy.

With all due respect, I have a hard time believing this was posed as a serious question. This is grade school social studies. Please use a next time to keep me from

quote:

But if a president wins the popular vote, should he not win the presidency

Your kidding?

algore DID NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Beard:

quote:

But if a president wins the popular vote, should he not win the presidency?

While the popular vote plays a roll in our electoral system, it is not the deciding factor. The presidency is the result of an electoral college vote. We live in a republic, not a pure democracy. And feel free to bang your head all you like. Your frustration has no affect on my feelings.

With all due respect, I have a hard time believing this was posed as a serious question. This is grade school social studies. Please use a next time to keep me from

I didn't say is it the way it is...but rather the way it should be. What purpose does the electorate serve in modern America? If it is one man one vote, why the outrage that landownership didn't decide the last election? Should a man who owns millions of acres get a million more votes than a man who owns one? Or none?

You really don't understand why we have a republic and not a democracy? Democracies collapse under mob rule. A democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for lunch. I've said this repeatedly, but the country was established in the way it was, by specific intent. It's unfortunate that the generations that followed could not keep our republic.

Land ownership does not enter into it, in any way shape or form.

Sorry, took me a bit to figure out what the h*ll you were even talking about, but I see now it's in reference to a raceadodge chainletter. While an interesting tidbit of trivia, the land stats are irrelevant to the election, and I don't think anyone was advocating for election by acreage.

quote:

why the outrage that landownership didn't decide the last election? Should a man who owns millions of acres get a million more votes than a man who owns one

When did this happen?

quote:

Originally posted by Bucky:

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Beard:

quote:

But if a president wins the popular vote, should he not win the presidency?

While the popular vote plays a roll in our electoral system, it is not the deciding factor. The presidency is the result of an electoral college vote. We live in a republic, not a pure democracy. And feel free to bang your head all you like. Your frustration has no affect on my feelings.

With all due respect, I have a hard time believing this was posed as a serious question. This is grade school social studies. Please use a next time to keep me from

I didn't say is it the way it is...but rather the way it should be. What purpose does the electorate serve in modern America? If it is one man one vote, why the outrage that landownership didn't decide the last election? Should a man who owns millions of acres get a million more votes than a man who owns one? Or none?

You're missing the point.

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
tenements

Ownership of property SHOULD be the first requirement for getting a voter registration card.

Obama Carolina Convention Plans Going Awry for Democrats

President Barack Obama’s decision in February 2011 to hold the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina looked like a bold move to reclaim a state he’d won in 2008. Today, it’s more like an awkward fit.

The state’s Democratic Party is mired in a sexual harassment scandal. Voters just approved a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which conflicts with Obama’s view on the issue. Convention fundraising has been slow, and labor unions tapped to fill the financial gap are angry the convention will be in a city -- Charlotte -- with no unionized hotels and in a state where compulsory union membership or the payment of dues is prohibited as an employment condition.

Convention planners are expecting to receive, at most, $4 million from unions this year, less than half of the $8 million contributed by organized labor in 2008, according to a person familiar with the funding strategy who wasn’t authorized to speak on the record about fundraising. The number could eventually be less than $1 million and the Charlotte host committee, the main vehicle for funding the convention, is still short more than $20 million, the person said.

Obama’s re-election campaign stands by its decision to locate the convention in Charlotte

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Grandma's Rocking Chair

quote:

Originally posted by raceadodge:

quote:

Originally posted by Bucky:

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Beard:

quote:

But if a president wins the popular vote, should he not win the presidency?

While the popular vote plays a roll in our electoral system, it is not the deciding factor. The presidency is the result of an electoral college vote. We live in a republic, not a pure democracy. And feel free to bang your head all you like. Your frustration has no affect on my feelings.

With all due respect, I have a hard time believing this was posed as a serious question. This is grade school social studies. Please use a next time to keep me from

I didn't say is it the way it is...but rather the way it should be. What purpose does the electorate serve in modern America? If it is one man one vote, why the outrage that landownership didn't decide the last election? Should a man who owns millions of acres get a million more votes than a man who owns one? Or none?

You're missing the point.

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
tenements

I disagree with BD's post that one should have to own land to vote. There are plenty of people who pay income taxes, and rent their first appartment or even rent all their lives. There are people who fight overseas and own no land here. There are people in slums who desparately need representation, and who also may be paying taxes, and they shouldn't be represented by a vote?

Dodge, I am not missing the point, I am disagreeing with it. When the leadership of this country turns it's back on working people to the point of allowing many of the jobs to go overseas, should the people whose lives suffer because of that not be represented equally? Somehow it is a tragedy that the poor vote? Guess what! If the Republican party would put a candidate out there that truely represented the views of mainstream America, we would outvote the poor hands down. But as long as we grow our population of poor and present to the voters candidates who polarize the population, it will be the wealthy voting against the rich, and everyone in between will the be the swing votes. Neither of the candidates represent me at all. I guess I am a swing voter.

quote:

If the Republican party would put a candidate out there that truely represented the views of mainstream America, we would outvote the poor hands down.

Really?

I guess you'll have to define what those "views of mainstream America" are.