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12:22 PM Monday, November 16, 2009

I am tired of people talking to the poor the way they do. We have people who have been hard-working who have tried to keep themselves together. It isn’t that they made bad choices; it’s just that the economy has gone south. It’s the Republicans’ and (Ronald) Reagan’s policies that have brought us to this point. You can’t have pure capitalism without the ups and downs that we’ve experienced in the past 20 years or more.

Regarding health care reform: If we can spend the money to go to war the way we do, we can spend money for our health care. We are the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have it. If the Democrats don’t get their act together and get this passed, I just may turn socialist. It was socialism that brought public utilities to this town. A little bit of socialism isn’t bad.

President (Barack) Obama again has decided to punt and push the decision about what to do in Afghanistan down the road. If this is somebody’s idea of presidential leadership and the ability to make decisions, I’m going to eat my shoes. In a word, pathetic.

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