For Decades - ever since the reforms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration - conservatives have been howling into the wind, trying to drum up opposition to Social Security, using every ploy in the book to destroy legislation that has benefited - and continues to benefit - millions upon millions of our elderly citizens.
They will use [...]
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Social Security Safe Despite Scare Tactics
The Buddha is Coming to America
Ask randomly a hundred people in America whether they have an interest in Buddhism, and many will reply, in varying degrees of enthusiasm, yes. They may not know much about Buddhism, but their interest has been piqued by things they have heard or read or seen.
Many of these people have turned away from organized [...]
Talk About Taxes - What do you get from yours?
Tax day has come and gone, and we had the Tea-Partiers making a lot of noise about taxes and big government. They proclaim a slide into socialism and the big hand of government and European socialism taking over all our lives.
So you have paid your taxes. What are you getting? This is really the question. [...]
LION & THE FOXES: OBAMA & HEALTHCARE
Something new is emerging in America.
The bitter and fanatical cry of outrage from Republicans, conservatives and Tea-Partiers at the final passage of a first-ever national health care bill is the sign that something unusual is now coming to the fore in America.
The rage, of course, is directed against Democrats, but its real target is for [...]
KAZAKHSTAN AS SEEN BY ITS STUDENTS
The country of Kazakhstan is not very well known in the United States, nor in many other places of the world. Ask someone in the U.S. about Kazakhstan, and many people will respond with “Borat.” The movie “Borat” was not even shot in Kazakhstan, but in Romania, and the scenes in the movie are a [...]
Health Care Reform - Shame on America
The efforts at health care reform now working its way through the hallowed halls of our government is something that should deeply anger all Americans, left and right, Democrat or Republican or Independent. Nothing that comes from these current efforts will ever solve the agony and suffering of tens of millions of Americans who are [...]
Obama and War: America’s Dead-end Vision
To President Obama’s Nobel Prize speech, we have a mixed and strange response coming out of the country. From a Peace Prize recipient, we are so used to a lofty vision, a vision of achievable peace, that Obama’s words about the necessity of war to achieve peaceful ends falls like a dull thud upon [...]
Health Care U.S. - Can’t We Learn from the World?
Here in the United States, in regards to Health Care, we seem to have blinders on. There is a mindset here in too many of our people that refuses to believe we can be anything but number one, no matter what the facts and statistics show.
Our healthcare, if you can pay, is good; but [...]
HEALTH CARE IN FRANCE - AN EXPERIENCE
Here’s another experience of someone who has experienced the health care system of our country, and then was exposed to health delivery in another country - this time France.
For a basic primer on the issues, see our video on health care.
Health Care in England - An Experience
Right now, there is a great deal of confusion blowing rampant through the halls of the media about health care reform.
One of the remarkable things that emerges from all of these so-called national discussions is a mind-set in many Americans that absolutely refuses to look at the facts about our own health care system and [...]