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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (106957)	1/5/2012 2:19:51 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The Republican future for America's poor elderly: Wang Fuchuan lies in bed wearing a quilted black jacket, with two comforters pulled up to his chin to keep out the chilly November air. The heating at Beijing Songtang Caring Hospice is broken and the 90-year-old’s nostrils are stuffed with toilet paper to stop them dripping. Cockroaches scurry across the floor of his room, which has no running water or toilet. His possessions, a few articles of clothing, are in a plastic bag under his bed next to a pink wash bowl with a sliver of soap. His only entertainment is a transistor radio. Wang counts himself lucky. While he has no family or savings, he fought against the Japanese and Kuomintang in the 1940s, so the government pays the clinic’s monthly fee of 2,000 yuan ($318). His 200-yuan pension buys food. “A lot of people my age can’t afford to be here,” Wang says. “The food isn’t too good, but I have nothing else to complain about.” bloomberg.com

To: RetiredNow who wrote (106957)	1/5/2012 7:50:59 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

You are wrong, tejek. Just how wrong won't become apparent until we get a President who will use these new powers against innocent Americans. When that start happening, the abuses will come fast and furious until everyone will be able to say, they know someone who has been impacted. When that day comes, we will be a Dictatorship. Obama has set us on that inevitable path now. First of all, I don't think Obama is done with this issue. Secondly, a president doesn't need this bill to go rogue. There is enough power concentrated in the presidency s/he can pull it off without this bill so long as s/he has the backing of the military. Thirdly, and most importantly, we have far less control over large corps than we do the presidency.