one step forward, two steps back
1 in 3 teens says First Amendment goes 'too far'Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.
I can't even address this properly. I just hope to God that one-third of the survey group gets a fucking wake-up call before they reach the age of eighteen.
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Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly UnderwayEmboldened by their success at the polls, the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress believe they have a new opportunity to move the nation away from the system of employer-provided health insurance that has covered most working Americans for the last half-century.
In its place, they want to erect a system in which workers - instead of looking to employers for health insurance - would take personal responsibility for protecting themselves and their families: They would buy high-deductible "catastrophic" insurance policies to cover major medical needs, then pay routine costs with money set aside in tax-sheltered health savings accounts.
Because all employed people have thousands of dollars to set aside for emergencies. (Naturally, of course, we don't care about the unemployed people.)
You know, after Bush proposed the guest worker program for illegal immigrants, an issue that hits kind of close to home for me, I started to think there might be hope for him. I mean, I don't necessarily think it's going to work, but it felt like his heart was in the right place.
But, nah. He still sucks.
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I don't want to end on such a crappy note. Check out shezan, who reposted an article about the Iraqi elections on Sunday, which had an over 60% turnout. The pictures, full of hope and promise for the future, brought tears to my eyes.
I can't even address this properly. I just hope to God that one-third of the survey group gets a fucking wake-up call before they reach the age of eighteen.
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Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly UnderwayEmboldened by their success at the polls, the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress believe they have a new opportunity to move the nation away from the system of employer-provided health insurance that has covered most working Americans for the last half-century.
In its place, they want to erect a system in which workers - instead of looking to employers for health insurance - would take personal responsibility for protecting themselves and their families: They would buy high-deductible "catastrophic" insurance policies to cover major medical needs, then pay routine costs with money set aside in tax-sheltered health savings accounts.
Because all employed people have thousands of dollars to set aside for emergencies. (Naturally, of course, we don't care about the unemployed people.)
You know, after Bush proposed the guest worker program for illegal immigrants, an issue that hits kind of close to home for me, I started to think there might be hope for him. I mean, I don't necessarily think it's going to work, but it felt like his heart was in the right place.
But, nah. He still sucks.
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I don't want to end on such a crappy note. Check out shezan, who reposted an article about the Iraqi elections on Sunday, which had an over 60% turnout. The pictures, full of hope and promise for the future, brought tears to my eyes.