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Not better or worse, just different

I know some of you won’t like this but I was thinking recently if there weren’t some advantages of more socialist countries that we tend to ignore here. From what I understand, people in Britain and France do not nearly have the standard of living we do–they have less toys and money and big cars [...]

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The Truth about the Obamacare plan.

Obama gave a speech on his healthcare program on September 8th, 2009.  He repeatedly told us that the the right wing Republicans were lying to us about his proposed healthcare package and told us that his healthcare plan was nothing to worry about. In the spirit of truth and honesty, and in my typical fashion [...]

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Something got lost on the way to socialism…

One of Facebook’s many survey’s declared me to be almost directly in the middle of the politically spectrum.  I’m almost directly in the middle with a slight tilt towards the left.  As someone who practices Zen Buddhism, I feel this is almost exactly where I should be.  After all, the Buddha taught “the middle way”–not [...]

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No one should die.

No one should die: 1) Because they are already old, and it’s cheaper to hand out pain pills. 2) Because they were waiting in line to be seen by an overworked physician. 3) Because the smart Medical students, rerouted their college careers to bec…ome lawyers. 4) Because Nancy Pelosi used up all the Botox. If [...]

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