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Feedback ForumNOW wants to hear from you! Send us your opinions, reactions and ideas about "How Will He Lead?"Submissions for this question are no longer being accepted. Previously submitted comments appear below. Comments may have been edited for content or space. Poster: P. Gay,LPN Comment: Here is my situation. I live in Ga. and have been taking RN Classes thru Excelsior in NY. We have recently found out that the Ga. Board of Nursing will not be accepting what we have done thru Excelsior. From what I understand, we have to get our license thru an accredited college in Ga. I have spent so much money on enrollment,books, and test, and now to find out it was all for nothing. My money is gone. I am working 2 jobs and can not leave my full time job to go to a Ga. college, because I have to have medical insurance for my family. My husband is self-employed and I have a 19 yr. old diabetic child that has to be in college to remain on my insurance.He has 2 years left in college. He will not be able to work for himself and afford insurance. If he did find an insurance company that would take him, the premiums would be so high , he would not be able to afford them. I called the Ga. Board of Nursing to see if there were any colleges in Ga. that provided weekend school in order for me to get my R.N.There are not.So I am stuck being a L.P.N. and not be able to futher my education. Poster: Charlie Whitcomb Comment: I hope Barack Obama will show the Office of the President is carefully defined in the Constitution and that he will return it to it's rightful position in the 3 branches. Then I hope he can cut through the DC double speak, have Senators and Representatives held up to clear unambiguous light. When a bill is full of insane prok or is used to hoodwink the people, he should get that on the news immediately with a Fireside Chat type of venue. He should make it clear that he will pull these things out and make the passage of crazy amendments tacked onto important bills a thing of the past. The Bailout should stop and Paulson and Bernanke need to be chastised or even censured for slipping the repeal of tax code section 382 and the other little gifts they have allowed past the Congress. People need to go to jail I think. Assets need to be seized just as they have been for homeowners who lost their homes, or got behind on their mortgages. The CEOs could privately fund their own bailout easily from the bonuses they have gotten as they tanked the country and the world economy for the last 4 years. Poster: Trudy B. Brown Comment: If I heard him correctly, Mr. Ogletree stated that the Roe v. Wade decision was 1972. In fact, it was 1973. I see this error occasionally but am surprised by it being repeated on a nationally broadcast show by someone who should know better. I think a correction is in order. Thanks. Poster: Gustavo Corral Comment: This week Democratic leaders pressured Treasury Secretary Paulson to use part of the $700B bailout bill to help the Big 3 automakers pay for hybrid car development. But is subsidizing automakers with imploding sales and massive debt the right way to spur technological innovation? To find out, I think NOW should visit some of the companies that are doing the innovation. Then it can talk to Congressional leaders to discover how the subsidized companies are chosen and what milestones were put in place. Poster: mimi hood dayhuff Comment: what is all this talk about republican conservatism. it is very frustrating . it is like reading the emperor has no clothes...there was no conservatism in the bush administration it was run by greed , a total immoral self serving recklessness. there is nothing conservative about it. the no government government is a ruse. the republican administration has used government for their own gain. they want government in the service of their own pocket books, that appears to have been their only goal and this they have done in spades. so they do not really want government out of their way . they want to use it , abuse it and ultimately drain the people of all resources. they have used all of us as pawns in their global reach for personal power and financial wealth. this talk of keeping government out and being conservative is a ruse and more garbage to feed the american people while they rape us. there is also nothing christian about it , it was godless. mimi hood dayhuff Poster: Caleb James DeLisle Comment: I hope that Obama can disestablish some of the racist and oppressive institutions in government. For example: the DEA and their war on drugs has put a disproportionate amount of racial minorities in private for profit prisons while government agents have repeatedly been caught importing and selling drugs without consequences (particularly cia secret rendition planes.) I think it is also important that he command the military to disestablish the Civilian Inmate Labor Program ( www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf ) because it is unnecessary for government to have this much prison capacity, and it is unwise to allow them the tools they would need to repeat Hitler's reign of terror. Obama can spread the message of world peace by coordinating with the Russian government to remove the radar and the missiles which are *supposed* to only intercept other missiles from Poland, and remove Russian nuclear weapons from Venezuela. He must also resist the temptation to stir up trouble with Pakistan and Sudan. These anti-genocide operations can at least worsen the situation, and at worst could stir trouble with Russia or China, governments which we are in no position to lecture about helping dictators. Obama could help the unions and the workers in general by ordering the IRS not to audit taxpayers who are not the richest 1%, because those were the only people the income tax was meant for when it was written. He could also help unions by slowing down on free trade agreements because allowing free trade with too many poor countries at once will overload the US economy. Like an overloaded truck on a hill, it will stall and nobody will get to prosperity. I have the highest hopes for an Obama administration, but I caution the American people against complacency. The more the people can hold Obama to his message of change, the better his administration will be seen in the history books. God forbid the American people should be so childish as to equate criticism of the president with racism, the Obama administration will be tempted by the establishment to repackage the same policy, and if he chooses to do so, the true merchants of hate will say I told you so for years to come. Poster: anna brady Comment: i think hell proceed with deliberate speed-as he said. im convinced hes anxious to and will do all he can to help those adversely affected-most of us.its a huge problem-global, in fact.as far as possible,hell consider all affected sectors-some, more immediately, affected than others.we all want him to act directly on OUR problem-mine,for example, is that im 68-my pension/401k-are seriously down.but, im not in immediate danger of eviction;i eat/get my prescription medicine,eat out,go to the theatre.maybe, i should be cutting back more-and i will be more cautious.but, i can see that those who have lost jobs,homes,those with families, need help first.and not only for their own sake-but their purchasing power is so central to other peoples jobs,purchasing power..etc.so we all hang together or..so, i recognize that financial institutions need to be helped-i dislike 'bailed out'(which sounds like a blank check) but with conditions.they lend now-necessary for liquidity-with guarantees, but not a blank cheque.we should share in the upswing proportionate to the amount of taxpayers money involved in the 'bailout'to work out all the details will take time-not to mention the transition.but, im quite hopeful,actually.the sheer magnitude of the problem is going to require good minds but, more importantly,goodwill-and transparency.we all can 'get it'-when we pay attention.and we ARE?WILL BE paying attention like never before!mise le meas anna brady |
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