My hometown (and alma mater) is in a Salon.com article, And it's on health care reform, I couldn't be more proud |
 Aug 12 2009, 10:36 AM
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Arlen Specter visited my hometown to hold a town hall meeting on health care reform at the local university (where I went to undergrad) recently. Here's the article.
It's central Pennsylvania, so naturally most of the people were afraid of godless socialism and blind support-our-troops sentiments. Oh, and they completely buy into the "government-sponsored death panel" myth (without realizing that the US already has death panels in the form of large insurance companies). Sigh... |
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Aug 12 2009, 08:02 PM
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Aug 12 2009, 10:34 PM
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mipadi My hometown (and alma mater) is in a Salon.com article Aug 12 2009, 10:36 AM
brooklyneast05 man if i hear one more person screaming and carryi... Aug 12 2009, 05:40 PM hypnotique I saw a news clip from that town hall meeting and ... Aug 12 2009, 05:47 PM Teesa I LOVE JOAN WALSH. whenever she's on hardball,... Aug 12 2009, 06:42 PM brooklyneast05 RE: My hometown (and alma mater) is in a Salon.com article Aug 12 2009, 06:49 PM
Teesa ^ME TOO
and some more of jon stewart. he addresses... Aug 13 2009, 02:40 PM coconutter One of the town hall meetings had people screaming... Aug 13 2009, 02:51 PM kryogenix You know what? I'm glad people are pissed. The... Aug 13 2009, 05:02 PM brooklyneast05 yeah but it'd be nice if people were pissed ov... Aug 13 2009, 05:06 PM
kryogenix No, people are being pissed over real shit, it... Aug 13 2009, 05:33 PM mipadi QUOTE(kryogenix @ Aug 13 2009, 06:33 PM) ... Aug 13 2009, 05:42 PM kryogenix QUOTE(mipadi @ Aug 13 2009, 06:42 PM) It... Aug 13 2009, 05:55 PM mipadi QUOTE(kryogenix @ Aug 13 2009, 06:55 PM) ... Aug 15 2009, 12:09 PM |
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