Bring back Campbell? All I have to say to that is ........... "Heck, yeah!!!!!!"
"A President of the United States of America wanted to do as his predecessors have done and address our school children, encouraging them to stay in school and strive for excellence."
Please give me a list of these predecessors who have haulted school schedules all across the country to speak to our school children. Oh, the misinformation and ignorance of the left!
Darn right we should let BO stress the importance of education to our school children. After all, he did such a wonderful job with the educational system in Chicago while he was senator/community organizer.
More Republican talking points:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As President Obama addresses the nation on health care reform, a new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 6.6 million uninsured illegal immigrants could receive benefits under the House health reform bill (H.R. 3200). While the bill states that illegal immigrants are not eligible for the new taxpayer-funded affordability credits, there is nothing in the bill to enforce this provision. Congress defeated efforts to require the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. More than 70 other programs of this kind use SAVE.
-- In 2007, there were an estimated 6.6 million illegal immigrants without health insurance who had incomes below 400 percent of poverty, which is the income ceiling for the new affordability premium credits.
-- If all uninsured illegal immigrants with incomes below 400 percent of poverty received the new credits, the estimated cost to the federal government would be $30.5 billion annually.
-- The current cost of treating uninsured illegal immigrants at all levels of government is an estimated $4.3 billion a year, primarily at emergency rooms and free clinics.
Mike,
Geography 101. What do Florida and California have much in common with Texas? Illegal immigration, maybe?
Suzy,
Most physicians and nurses are also resisting this "change". I haven't spoken to anyone in the medical profession who isn't nervous about this.
I'm not defending insurance companies, but you have to look at the deeper root causes of the escalating costs in health care/insurance. The uneducated, knee-jerk response would be to blame all the "greedy" insurance companies.
I see $500 taken out of my paycheck each month for health insurance. The good thing is I can always change carriers if I chose to do so. There is competition. I can choose not to have insurance at all, though I don't recommend it.
I will be completely helpless when my taxes are increased to help fund the astronomical costs of this president's insatiable spending.
Health insurance is high because health care is high. The insurance companies aren't charging $10 for a box of Kleenex.
Health care has increased drastically because of the continued and accepted influx of illegal immigrants and malpractice lawsuits. I have witnessed women from Mexico cross over illegally to have their babies at Citizen's Hospital in Victoria. They leave without ever paying a dime. They do give birth to an "American" citizen and now cannnot be sent back to Mexico.
Who do you think pays for these and other health expenses illegal immigrants pile up? You and I through high health care costs and high insurance premiums.
Who do you think pays for malpractice insurance that every physician in this country must purchase because of all the frivilous lawsuits filed by people looking for a quick payday? You and I.
To just blame this all on the insurance companies would be ridiculous. But it's not politically correct to lay the blame where it belongs, so Dems like you would never admit the truth.
VBB, Well said. The bacteria in the reservoir and other places these people swim is far more dangerous than a gator. I'm sure there are "Swim At Your Own Risk" signs posted at Coleto like there are at Lake Texana and other state parks. Swimmers know the risks of confronting gators and snakes in freshwater lakes and rivers. All stories like these do is put unwarranted fear into readers and encourage all the trigger-happy "Bubbas" out there to shoot at anything moving in the water so they can get their picture in the paper, too. The Advocate called this creature a "monster" but deer kill many more people every year than gators. The Advocate even used Steve Irwin's "Croykie" in the headline. Irwin is doing the "death roll" in his grave right now after this. There could have at least been an attempt to transport the creature to nearby Green Lake, where there is no swimming and gators the size of this one and much bigger exist with minimal contact with humans.
Did the gator attack anyone or show any agressive characteristics toward humans? The answer is no. Any decent-sized body of fresh water in our area is home to one or more gators. You may not see them, but they see you. This gator's only crime was that it was spotted by someone during daylight hours. It has probably been swimming the Coleto Creek Reservoir waters for years. Please, Advocate, don't try to instill fear into your readers by sensationalizing a story like this. You do your readers and wildlife a great disservice.
Couple of thngs. Very poor choice of words by the Advocate. Monster? C'mon! Is a prize buck a monster? After all, deer kill more people in this country every year than do alligators. Croykies? Give me a break. Steve Irwin would do the death roll in his grave if he saw this disgrace. When I was a kid water skiing on Garcitas Creek, I passed withn 10 feet of dozens of bigger "monsters" than this as they lay sunning on the bank. I often swam within 20 yards of these "monsters" and they never showed any aggression. Many times they would swim far away in fear. The "Bubba element" of our society will marvel at this while those who have spent much time near these animals and have learned to respect them will shake their heads in shame and wonder who the real "monsters" are.
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Bring back Campbell? All I have to say to that is ........... "Heck, yeah!!!!!!"
"A President of the United States of America wanted to do as his predecessors have done and address our school children, encouraging them to stay in school and strive for excellence."
Please give me a list of these predecessors who have haulted school schedules all across the country to speak to our school children. Oh, the misinformation and ignorance of the left!
Darn right we should let BO stress the importance of education to our school children. After all, he did such a wonderful job with the educational system in Chicago while he was senator/community organizer.
More Republican talking points:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As President Obama addresses the nation on health care reform, a new analysis by the Center for Immigration
Studies estimates that 6.6 million uninsured illegal immigrants could receive benefits under the House health reform bill (H.R. 3200). While the bill states that illegal immigrants are not eligible for the new taxpayer-funded affordability credits, there is nothing in the bill to enforce this provision.
Congress defeated efforts to require the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. More than 70 other programs of
this kind use SAVE.
The report is available at http://www.CIS.org/IllegalsAndHealthC....
Among the findings:
-- In 2007, there were an estimated 6.6 million illegal immigrants without health insurance who had incomes below 400 percent of poverty, which
is the income ceiling for the new affordability premium credits.
-- If all uninsured illegal immigrants with incomes below 400 percent of poverty received the new credits, the estimated cost to the federal government would be $30.5 billion annually.
-- The current cost of treating uninsured illegal immigrants at all levels of government is an estimated $4.3 billion a year, primarily at emergency rooms and free clinics.
Mike,
Geography 101.
What do Florida and California have much in common with Texas?
Illegal immigration, maybe?
Suzy,
Most physicians and nurses are also resisting this "change". I haven't spoken to anyone in the medical profession who isn't nervous about this.
I'm not defending insurance companies, but you have to look at the deeper root causes of the escalating costs in health care/insurance. The uneducated, knee-jerk response would be to blame all the "greedy" insurance companies.
I see $500 taken out of my paycheck each month for health insurance. The good thing is I can always change carriers if I chose to do so. There is competition. I can choose not to have insurance at all, though I don't recommend it.
I will be completely helpless when my taxes are increased to help fund the astronomical costs of this president's insatiable spending.
Health insurance is high because health care is high. The insurance companies aren't charging $10 for a box of Kleenex.
Health care has increased drastically because of the continued and accepted influx of illegal immigrants and malpractice lawsuits. I have witnessed women from Mexico cross over illegally to have their babies at Citizen's Hospital in Victoria. They leave without ever paying a dime. They do give birth to an "American" citizen and now cannnot be sent back to Mexico.
Who do you think pays for these and other health expenses illegal immigrants pile up? You and I through high health care costs and high insurance premiums.
Who do you think pays for malpractice insurance that every physician in this country must purchase because of all the frivilous lawsuits filed by people looking for a quick payday? You and I.
To just blame this all on the insurance companies would be ridiculous. But it's not politically correct to lay the blame where it belongs, so Dems like you would never admit the truth.
VBB,
Well said. The bacteria in the reservoir and other places these people swim is far more dangerous than a gator. I'm sure there are "Swim At Your Own Risk" signs posted at Coleto like there are at Lake Texana and other state parks. Swimmers know the risks of confronting gators and snakes in freshwater lakes and rivers.
All stories like these do is put unwarranted fear into readers and encourage all the trigger-happy "Bubbas" out there to shoot at anything moving in the water so they can get their picture in the paper, too.
The Advocate called this creature a "monster" but deer kill many more people every year than gators. The Advocate even used Steve Irwin's "Croykie" in the headline. Irwin is doing the "death roll" in his grave right now after this.
There could have at least been an attempt to transport the creature to nearby Green Lake, where there is no swimming and gators the size of this one and much bigger exist with minimal contact with humans.
Did the gator attack anyone or show any agressive characteristics toward humans? The answer is no. Any decent-sized body of fresh water in our area is home to one or more gators. You may not see them, but they see you. This gator's only crime was that it was spotted by someone during daylight hours. It has probably been swimming the Coleto Creek Reservoir waters for years. Please, Advocate, don't try to instill fear into your readers by sensationalizing a story like this. You do your readers and wildlife a great disservice.
Couple of thngs.
Very poor choice of words by the Advocate. Monster? C'mon! Is a prize buck a monster? After all, deer kill more people in this country every year than do alligators.
Croykies? Give me a break. Steve Irwin would do the death roll in his grave if he saw this disgrace.
When I was a kid water skiing on Garcitas Creek, I passed withn 10 feet of dozens of bigger "monsters" than this as they lay sunning on the bank. I often swam within 20 yards of these "monsters" and they never showed any aggression. Many times they would swim far away in fear.
The "Bubba element" of our society will marvel at this while those who have spent much time near these animals and have learned to respect them will shake their heads in shame and wonder who the real "monsters" are.