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re: Dems Flirt with State Sales Tax Expansion

Nancyc — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:04:16 GMT

I believe this is a painless way to help with the lack of funds. Candy and gum are not necessities and should be taxed.

re: Rendell breaks up Conference Committee

patent attorney — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:32:56 GMT

Hi guys it's too late to comment, but I wanna know what happened next.

re: Rendell breaks up Conference Committee

John O'Brien — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:58:07 GMT

I received this notice about a Town Hall meeting today with Arlen Specter & Kathleen Sebelius. I thought you might want to know about it.

Thanks for your continuing efforts to KEEP America great.

John O'Brien

Specter, Sebelius to Hold Health Care Town Hall

Sunday, August 2, 2009 @ 3:00 pm

Town Hall Meeting on Health Reform with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

National Constituation Center

525 Arch Street, Independence Mall

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Philadelphia Town Hall Meeting with HHS Secretary Sebelius

Last Updated by Specter yesterday

When:

Sunday, August 2, 2009

3:00 PM

Where:

National Constitution Center

525 Arch Street

Independence Mall

Philadelphia, PA 19106

re: PennWATCH Spending Database

soan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:01:18 GMT

Sounds too good to be true. They will never allow it to pass without all kind of exceptions.

re: House Dems Shoot Down No-Tax Increase Budget

soan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:23 GMT

And this is suprising how?

re: A Not So Lame Duck

CHARLES WEIDENWEBER — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:53:54 GMT

DEAR GOVERNOR OR WHOEVER RECEIVES THIS E-MAIL LARGE COMPANIES THAT HAVE PROBLEMS SUCH AS YOUR HAVING WITH YOUR BUDGET VERY WISELY EITHER LAY PEOPLE OF OR CUT DOWN THEIR WORK HOURS IN ORDER TO REMAIN SOLVENT.I' M SURE YOU COULD DO THAT WITH YOUR NON ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENTS AND THEREBY SAVE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY.SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH DOING THIS?GOOD LUCK.

re: Bill would mandate nurse-to-patient ratio

Mindi Miller — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:30:17 GMT

Yes, minimum set standards for nurse to patient ratios should be mandated. Please extend this possible mandate to LTAC (Long-term acute care) facilities and rehabilitation hospitals too. I'm working in rehab, where our patients are very sick; it's not the physical rehab nursing of the past. Today's rehab is acute care -- what hospital medical-surgical nursing used to be! In rehab, we're getting patients straight from the ER or ICU! I can have up to 22 patients and only one nursing assistant or nursing tech. It's terribly unsafe! Please help. Thank you.

Mindi Miller, PhD, RN, CRRN (Certified with the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses)

re: Statehouse Republicans Seek Oversight of Federal Stimulus Funds

PHIL CLEMENS — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:43:38 GMT

THE WE THE PEOPLE PLAN

True Direct Democracy, Let all registered voters, vote on every issue via the internet.

If our framers were setting up their new government today, I believe this is the way in which they would do it. Our framers couldn’t do this because of logistics, however technology has now made it possible for we the people to be in control of our country. With this one fundamental change we could reinstate all of the values and core beliefs that our founders intended. Unfortunately we would still need our Senators and Congressman and woman, however, their power would be greatly reduced and most, if not all power would be placed back in the hands of the people. The role of the Senate and Congress would be to introduce legislation and work out the details only and not to decide which bills and ideas become law. All bills, including everything from budget matters and bailouts to border and war issue etc, would have to be posted in their final form with a restriction on length, (to avoid those 1100 page earmark filled emergency bills) on the internet for a certain length of time so as to give all voters time to read the bill they are going to vote on. Then every voter could submit their yea, nay or undecided votes along with any notes they may wish to attach.

All government positions should be voted in, not appointed. Treasury Secretary, Secretary of State, etc.

By allowing voters to do this via the internet it would effectively eliminate or drastically reduce corruption by taking away the buying of votes and the appointment of position based on campaign donations. This Plan would work not only for federal government but also state and local governments.

Voters would have to use a valid ID. Or login such as voter registration number to help alleviate fraud. We would need to install terminals in places such as Post Offices and link them to the vote site for registered voters that don’t have computers or access to the internet. This would be a very minimal cost compared to some of the earmarks we have been seeing lately.

I’m sure that I haven’t addressed everything here but with the help and input of all the WE THE PEOPLE, people in this great land, I’m certain it can and will help save our country.

Please give this idea serious and deep thought and I believe you will agree that it alone would fix the majority of our problems. Another bonus of this plan would be the possibility of minimizing the usefulness and power of special interest groups like Acorn, and limit the power of Lobbyists‘. this alone would save the taxpayers countless amounts of revenue. Please help us with this proposal by e-mailing to everyone you can think of. I am also going to print hard copies of this and pass them out at upcoming tea parties and events around my area. Plus call and e-mail every talk show and radio program possible.

Thank you for your support and GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY!

Thank You: Phil Clemens

re: Sen. Eichelberger proposes earmark moratorium

John Greene — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:49:59 GMT

Yea right,

(Pa. taxpayers paying $1.3 million for ballpark field.

Rendell and his staff met with Eichelberger and agreed to provide the funding from the governor's share of the state capital budget.)

Another fantasy to go with Rep Ms. McIlvaine Smith's anti-COLA bill.

re: Highmark and Indepedence Blue Cross end merger bid

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re: Highmark and Indepedence Blue Cross end merger bid

Tristan M. Tritch — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:46:30 GMT

Four comments.

First, if $1 billion in savings is to be realized, then that money should be given back to those paying monthly premiums.

Second, it's not up to any compnay to provide $650 million to expand health care to anybody.

Third, if this company can overcharge its costomers by $1 billion, then it sounds to me that there is ample opportunity for competition.

Fourth, when insurance companies are allowed to sell their products across state lines, then we will have true competition -- and lower prices.

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