You're stupid. Did you also read the part about the elderly being required to see a counselor to be counseled on the best way to die? Did you read the part about the bill being funded by $500 Billion, yes BILLION of Medicare funds (which to explain for you, since you ARE SO STUPID, means that they're cutting that much from Medicare which takes care of the elderly). I don't care that the practitioner will be paid faster. I care about the affect on the general public and especially, some of our nation's finest people...the elderly. Considering that you're a retired educator, I would assume that you are at least close to being a senior citizen and possibly using Medicare benefits. How would you feel, if you were forced to receive counseling on how to under nourish or to stop taking medicines that are keeping a life threatening condition at bay? The government might as well just perform euthanasia on our elderly, if that's the case. Oh, but don't forget that the "old" people in the Congress won't be subjected to this, because they're getting prime healthcare for free to them, but at the cost of the taxpayer. You're a shitty person, and as much as I dislike you, I hope you don't get your wish for this bill to pass. I would hate to see what it will do to the elderly population of this country.

I received this in a newsletter that I receive from the American Family Association:

The American Spectator
July 24, 2009
By Ben Stein
We've Figured Him Out

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.

There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.

Civil war is the last thing I want to come of all this, but I will say without fear that if the government becomes a true dictatorship, I will be the first to rise against it.

Apology accepted, and I apologize for the things I said.

To add to my previous reply. I don't get much time on here and I enjoy using this site. I don't want to spend the little time I have on here, deciphering tantrum induced banter.

Excuse me, but your vicious reply was not warranted. I asked very politely and explained that I wasn't trying to put you down, because I am NOT a troll liberal. The reason I asked very politely for you to stop using all caps, is because it is very difficult to read a post in all caps with horrible punctuation and sentence structure. You want to vent, and I understand that. I fight for this country and the free speech that you so blatantly reminded me that you are exercising. Here's my free speech. Pull your head out of your ass and look at my other posts. Yes, I asked a few people to stop using all caps, so you shouldn't feel victimized and act like such a raging bitch about it. I never said that I was anybody's superior on this site, hence the reason, I ASKED politely for people to stop using caps. I don't go around barking orders here, and I have also been on this site since it's infancy. I'm sorry that I'm not on here every day, because I have orders to obey and a country to protect. I will, on the other hand, say this. This is a place to vent, but as you know the trolls are here too, and when you structure sentences worse than a 3rd grader and use all caps and don't know how to use punctuation, you feed the trolls, by making them think that we are just a bunch of uneducated, redneck Republicans! You did NOT have to attack me for the request I made, but I will retaliate when I am attacked, as you have done.

I sure hope not.

I hear ya there. I have a genuine concern that I need to be extremely careful what I say on here and how I approach my Reps and Senators, because I feel like I'd be more vulnerable, since I'm in the military.

No problem...it's the best browser I've used, and I've used them all...lol.

Too true in most cases. Personally, I don't tolerate racial slurs of any kind in the workplace. I don't care what color someone is, if they say N*****, they're getting a warning and if it happens again, they get reported. Racism has no place, regardless of who it's coming from. Thank you for sharing your story. It must've taken a lot of discipline to bite your tongue.