"America does not.......let its needy citizens fend for themselves."

[Guaranteed]

- Christopher Reeve

Deborah Norville covering the Reeve story right now.

This stuff is really hitting home with me. It's so bittersweet. I hope the rest of America is listening.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. But...but... those godless heathens want to use stem cells!

We must never forget that blastocytes have rights that are inalienable and are superior to those of everyone else. The Dred Scott decision said so. Too bad for guys like Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox and all the not-so-famous people...

[drfemoe]

2. nah

the CC's pretend the needy don't exist.

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. No, America should not, ought not, but it does

sad to say.

[Deja Q]

4. Why should we have to feed the rest of the world when we need a stadium?

Tom Bernard of the KQRS morning show said THAT this morning. :grr: :mad:

[Disturbed]

5. Amerika's most consistent export is....

death and destruction.

[Kanary]

6. It....... doesn't??????????

What country am I in, then?????

:wtf:

Kanary

[Lady Effingbroke]

7. I don't consider myself exceptionally needy,

but I could be doing a helluva lot better, and I'm certainly fending for myself right about now. No health insurance, laid off in 2001 and have been getting by since then with "manufacturing" (read: fast-food) jobs, etc.

I am just grateful that I am in relatively good health and am able to fend for myself. There are so many in much more dire straits than I who continue to suffer and be ignored by the misadministration of Furious George while billions are being wasted on the "catastrophic success" in Iraq. :mad:

[NightTrain]

8. Actually, it does.

I hate to say that, but it's true. Even in a city as relatively small as my native Hartford, CT, I see homeless people everywhere.

[Pegleg Thd]

9. This country definitely abandons the

elderly who have health problems whose private insurance has long ago become unaffordable. We know first hand as we are in that group...:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Funny, I don't remember ever seeing any homeless before the

Reagan years. I mean, I saw street people in the '70s, and panhandlers occassionally, but people living under bridges?

Huh uh.

[NightTrain]

13. You are correct!

The homeless population in the United States began to skyrocket almost to the day that Reagan took office. I was there, I saw it happen.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

15. Hartford is a small city?

From my perspective it seems to be fairly large, but I grew up in a town of 3,000. My family most likely will be moving to Hartford area next year because my husband plans on going to school in that area.
We're currently living in Orlando. Lots of homeless people around here. They sit on the road side with cardboard signs asking for money. It's really sad considering that there are lots of very wealthy people that live in this area.

[NightTrain]

16. Compared to New York, Chicago, or L.A., yes it is.

Just my opinion, of course.

[CBHagman]

10. Our frayed social safety net is a disgrace.

Garrison Keillor said something a few years back on his "Prairie Home Companion" radio show: that if you were a wealthy person in America, people simply couldn't do enough for you. I've had a chance to observe that that's true, and Bush is trying to make it national policy, a new Gilded Age where the haves pass on their wealth without worrying about taxes and the poor are admonished to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. But the hand up will go to the wealthy and well-connected.

I'm glad Christopher Reeve made that comment. Would that there would be a groundswell of MORALITY in this country -- the kind of morality that says it's criminal to let a kid go to bed hungry or a Mississippi resident pay $1,600 a month for her medications.

[Disturbed]

11. The Glorious Leader..

has said that poor people are lazy. It's their own fault if they are poor in this land of endless opportunies.

This is his msg. to poor people.

[Forkboy]

14. Could have fooled me

:-(

[bushflipflop]

17. New Bush-FlipFlop.com Video of Bush Flip-Flop on Saddam-9/11 Link

New Bush-FlipFlop.com Video of Bush Flip-Flop on Saddam-9/11 Link

http://www.bush-flipflop.com


"CAN'T DISTINGUISH BETWEEEN AL QAEDA AND SADDAM"
VS.
"SADDAM HAD NO ROLE IN AL QAEDA PLOT"