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      <![CDATA[Kriss S, good luck in your Ukraine Peace Corp work.  I had a neighbor in CT who was in Africa with teh Peace Corp for a few years and eventually was in charge of an area and she and her team still get together annually to recount their experiences some 20+ years later.  My son is leaving for Uganda with a missions team including some Tyson people to set up a sustainablen chicken project at an orphanage there for meat, eggs, and sales.<br>
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I think Peace Corp and other development groups show the America that we think we are, not the hypocritical loud-mouths we actually are.
        
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      <![CDATA[Being the bad person that I am, I am looking forward to the time when all of these poor-ass GOP voters realize that THEY are the moochers that they hate so much. I can't wait to hear them wonder out loud how they are going to hold down their job and take care of their invalid parent(s) who have moved in with them, much less afford any in-home nursing. They are gonna find out that they should have worked a lot harder!<br>
BTW - Fuck you, Tom Cotton...
        
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      <![CDATA[Leaving Arkansas for the Ukraine in March with the Peace Corps.  Leaving the mess the Republicans can cause to the residents of the nursing home I have devoted my life to the past 32 years.  I hate to think that Arkansas will follow Louisiana in doing away with Hospice care as that's how my wonderful mother gracefully left this world.  Perhaps I can help the good folks of the post-Soviet Ukraine to better care for their older population.  Looking forward to returning mid 2015 to a more normal state of mind in Arkansas (who will Dustin be married to by then) and America in general (will assault weapons be a thing of the past?).
        
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      <![CDATA["The best you can hope for is to die in your sleep."<br>
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--Kenny Rogers, the Gambler
        
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      <![CDATA[Mr Cotton, you will, of course NOT, take the House medical and pension benefits nor your Tricare military options and retirement either?.  Either way, if you don't, you are just another leech on the system.  And the US House hasn't done any productive work since the Tea Pot brains got there.  May as well leave their chairs empty since their heads are. I expect the IQ of Arkansas and the U S House to both go up when Cotton is back at his home for the past 20 years in Washington, carpetbagger!<br>
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4th District voters, you really bought a pig in a poke.  He is out to cut your already low income for teh benefit of those rich benefactors who bought all those ads like they bought him.
        
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      <![CDATA[ES:  O.K.. again, you're right. Now turn the record over or turn around, you're preaching to the fucking choir.  Get in little tommy cotton's face(if it can be distinguished from his ass).  Merry Borkmas to all repugnicans.
        
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      <![CDATA[I've thought this many time over the years, but I didn't think it was tied to just one political party, but folks we have way too many people that are just as happy not knowing or caring how to think.  They seem hung up on strong beliefs with adrenaline rush which have no basis in fact, in the plane of existence we find ourselves on.  Hell, maybe they've discovered another plane and aren't telling us.
        
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      <![CDATA[Too bad we're going to have go down this road before the gullible folks who voted these idiots in will learn the truth about these con artists.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Ron Rizzardi]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Best not to be old and infirmed in LA or AR in the future.<br>
I would gladly save money for my own health care and hospice care in my final days and not have to rely on a social program for them. <br>
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Problem is that I have no idea how long I may live, what the condition of my health will become nor f I will ever need any hospice care. I'll plan for it on my own the best I can and hope a social safety net will cover me if my best laid plans don't meet my needs.<br>
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In AR that hope will probably become nill.
        
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      <![CDATA["Boudreaux predicted it wouldn’t result in real savings because many dying people will end up at hospitals, where Medicaid will pay for at least a portion of their care."<br>
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Exactly the outcome I was thinking when reading this post. Going to be some interesting reading on the discharge orders for these patients.
        
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      <![CDATA[Our neoliberals determination to keep the multiple irrelevant cash meters running makes it so easy for the neoconservatives to pull other plugs.<br>
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This has long not been about health or care, but who profits.<br>
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Establish health care as a human right. We should consider our nation barbaric until we do.
        
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      <![CDATA[We at the DBI compound currently have no sick and no elderly to worry about. So, if I may think like a Republican for a minute, screw the hell out of the rest of youse......<br>
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I was smart and got my old and sick off the planet before the cuts came in. Well, there is my stroked out Uncle....but I can pretend he's his kids responsibility....I did my part, that movie is over......never again until it's my time at bat. <br>
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Bork me once............shame on you....Bork me twice.....................er...........ah..............I won't be fooled again!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Norma Bates]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Dogma and lies over reality.<br>
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Team Bork.
        
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