Comments on: Why Mayor Floyd Supports Sam Olens For Attorney General

By: May

May — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:49:45 +0000

Thanks, us Decatur liberals don’t know much about principles and values.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:32:39 +0000

There are alternative options in countries w/socialized health care, at least there was in Spain about 8 years ago! Mys husband had a medical emergency that required a hospital visit. The inn keeper at our bed and breakfast insisted on driving us himself to a private hospital. The inn keeper told us that the government run health system was sub-standard and we would be waiting forever to see a doctor – if we saw one at all. So, while not black market, it certainly was an option for anyone who could afford it.

By: "Naaman" Gibbets

"Naaman" Gibbets — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:33:36 +0000

George, So then–and now–people flee this present system to get better health care, but when our system becomes socialized they will flee even more–that is, those that can afford it. The nagging question here is what sort of systems, in other markets and other countries, are people fleeing to? I believe they are socialized health care systems.
It doesn’t follow that if our system cuts the influence of insurance companies and doctors and becomes socialized suddenly people will need to go to other socialized systems for treatment. Will there be a perpetual shifting of citizens from country to country to country? Sounds kind of silly if socialized medicine is so bad or even detrimental.

By: cubalibre

cubalibre — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:45:05 +0000

Now, your last paragraph, I can totally agree with.

By: cubalibre

cubalibre — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:44:06 +0000

Oh, Georgie-Porgie-Puddin’-N-Pie! You lost me (and your credibility) at the invocation of Ayers, et al. I don’t know about “Blago”, but Obama merely served on a board LONG ago with Bill Ayers (they were NEVER friends– and Obama was about 8 yrs old when Bill was doing his radical crap). Further, he did at least have the stones to rebuke and repudiate Jeremiah Wright’s vituperation. I don’t see mainstream Repubes rebuking the teabaggers for their racist rantings– no, they hop right on that bandwagon (to borrow a phrase from Nell) so they can get the votes of the lunatic fringe that are more and more making up their “base”. As for the healthcare legislation, I’d agree that what got passed wasn’t ideal, but if you’d get your talking points somewhere else besides Faux News, you’d understand that the majority of Americans DID and DO want healthcare reform– the Party of No (in case I need to spell it out, the GOP) made sure that they took care of their insurance industry cronies by eliminating most of the things (including a public option) that people wanted. Blaming Obama alone for what ended up in that healthcare bill is just being willfully obtuse.

I think you mistake a justified curiosity about who the Mayor is endorsing for an across-the-board unwillingness to acknowledge that there are people from all across the spectrum here. Whether you like it or not, the majority are…gasp…PROGRESSIVES!!!! It’s perfectly logical for us to question why the Mayor would place what’s tantamount to the City’s imprimatur onto the campaign of someone whose values don’t represent the majority’s. I mean, c’mon– if Sonny Perdue endorsed, say, Thurbert Baker, you lot would be crapping gold bricks.