Lincolnite

Another one of Lincoln’s finest.

I’ve long thought that most of these people that make outlandish comments only did so because they were able to hide their identity.  Then came the townhalls and mental picture of these commenters that of those crazy townhall people.

Now that some registration is in place the number of drive by comments has come down quite a bit, but it is still there. I’m a big fan of facebook connect for both it simplicity and the fact that you really can’t hide behind an avatar.

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Feel better to have out of your system, Dave? 😊

Mayor Beutler has finally jumped on the Twitter bandwagon!  I saw his comment on inlnk.in with a #LNK hashtag. 

http://twitter.com/chrisbeutler

Hard to compare an unnecessary war which cost hundreds of thousands of lives to a debate about how to reform our crappy health care system.

Not sure if civility in Lincoln is any different than usual, I don’t really mind a bid of rancor. People tend to disagree on issues, it’s democracy.

Hard to compare an unnecessary war which cost hundreds of thousands of lives to a debate about how to reform our crappy health care system
If it helps people say “gotcha,” they compare anything they want.

It’s also hard to compare what I said to saying that the war on terror and health care reform are the same thing. I was making a comparison to the interpretation of dissent in each situation.  During the Bush years, dissent was ‘the highest form of patriotism’.  Now, dissent is a distraction and, according to the Speaker of the House, unamerican.

Do you really think we have a crappy health care system?  So a few million people who want health care can’t get it or it’s very expensive.  Is that what you use to determine it’s crappy? If so, you can apply that logic to almost any product or industry to support its socialization. I’d like to hear what you think about government-run industries like education, mail delivery, and train travel.

I worked for the UPS Store (not one here) several years ago and believe me the Postal Service couldn’t be any worse than this UPS Store was. Most of the people I worked with were incompetent and the drivers who worked for UPS just tossed packages around without much regard. The sad part is people paid more to ship things through UPS than the Post Office. I’m hoping that was an anomaly for UPS but it did show me that the private sector isn’t always better than the government alternative.

As far as health care goes, I don’t want the government controlling what I can do, but I have to say I’m not impressed with the private insurance industry either. I’m glad I have it mind you because I’d be S.O.L. without it… or wait, all of us taxpayers would just pay for it anyway in some shape or form. I’m not a huge supporter of the public option or socialized medicine but if a public option is what it takes in some markets to provide some competition (which would hopefully drive down costs), then I’m willing to consider it.