Reply #12: Edwards [View All]

[90-percent]

JOhn Edwards was my SECOND CHOICE in the primaries after Dennis dropped out. I liked Edwards because of his very strong stance on Health Care Reform.

And during the summer of 2008 I HAD A GOOD SECURE JOB. I worked for the biggest machine tool builder in the world for 6-1/2 years, a Japanese company that is family owned and beholden to no bankers or stock market. Alas, capital equipment was ravaged by the down turn and since last November, all the builders have been trying to survive on 30 to 40% of what they used to make. So, I was the age 50 to 64 layoff fodder that now faces complete economic oblivion if health care is not reformed. Prospects for another job are nil, so I'm starting my own business. Slowly, really on the cheap.

I am in very good shape now, but my wife almost died twice in the last 2 years and the COBRA will run out June 2010. Then I'll be part of the 14,000 people PER DAY (DO I HAVE THAT FACTOID CORRECT????) that loses their health insurance, if health care is not turned in to an American RIGHT instead of a privilege.

My concerns originally were about the injustice and unfairness and Darwinism of the American corporate health care system. No American should have to face lack of health care or be bankrupted just because they get sick. ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE GOOD JOBS WITH SO CALLED GOOD INSURANCE!

Now it's a matter that effects me directly and if everything went bad, could eventually cause my wife and I to loose everything we worked for our whole lives!

And I am not acting solely in my self interest, there are so many in much much worse shape and I can only rely on our government to please, this time, do it for we, the People! There is too much suffering in America to allow this barbaric health care system to remain largely intact!

Obama will be a single term President and the Republicans will gain back congressional seats if Substantial Health Care Reform is not accomplished shortly. If it passes, the magnificent benefits of a public option or Medicare for all will bring so much happiness and well being to ALL AMERICANS that this cretinous corporate tea bagger racist fight of the tiny minority nutcase uber-fringes will look like a distant aberration along the lines of Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast of 1939!

-90% jimmy