No money for healthcare. Here's a clue:

Are_grits_groceries

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Wed Oct-07-09 04:28 AM
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No money for healthcare. Here's a clue:

Edited on Wed Oct-07-09 04:44 AM by Are_grits_groceries

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The measure would bring to more than $1 trillion approved by Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the latest analysis by the Congressional Research Service.
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Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/senate-passes-pentagon-bu_n_311891.html

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JustABozoOnThisBus

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Wed Oct-07-09 04:52 AM
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1. Yeah, but, health care has to be budgeted

Wars don't. They're sort of free, sort of.

See the difference?

:hi:

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Are_grits_groceries

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Wed Oct-07-09 04:57 AM
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2. It's hard to see

when I keep getting something in my eyes when I see the soldiers or the coffins. Just reading the names sets off my "allergies." I'm allergic to war. Have been ever since Vietnam.
:hi:

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JustABozoOnThisBus

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Wed Oct-07-09 11:45 AM
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6. I got a similar allergy

I'm allergic to that wall in D.C. with the 55000+ names.

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liberal N proud

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Wed Oct-07-09 05:00 AM
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3. There is profit in war

There is also profit in people not having health care.

Congress does not represent people, only corporations.

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underpants

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Wed Oct-07-09 05:01 AM
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4. Also - needymeds.org

http://www.needymeds.org/

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Hannah Bell

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Wed Oct-07-09 05:02 AM
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5. It's also half the Social Security Trust Fund, spent in less than 10 years.

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