Posted on 01/23/2010 2:12:39 PM PST by raccoonradio
To the editor:
When Martha Coakley was not voted into Ted Kennedy's seat — and it was Ted's seat, he was in it for 47 years — not only was it a slap in the face of his legacy, but it was a mistake of gargantuan proportions by the people of Massachusetts.
A year ago, the people of this nation and Massachusetts rose up with emotion and passion to exclaim that it was "time for change," and voted in Barack Obama and his policies to ensure that the mistakes of the previous eight years would not repeated. Then, a year later, we turn around and put another representative in office with the same policies as the ones we rose up to change in 2008.
How many times are we going to make the same mistake? How many times are we going to vote in white, upper-middle-class men who are so out of touch with the majority of people in Massachusetts? It's ridiculous.
I guess good looks and a winning smile have now become solid qualifications for getting an important seat like Ted's.
It's like Massachusetts has amnesia. Or perhaps we were just thinking of ourselves.
Universal health care should be a human right. It should not be debatable, argued or blocked. All citizens of a developed nation should have access to quality health care. Anything less is a violation of those basic rights and should be unacceptable.
Almost every other large nation has a form of universal health care, even countries not yet developed: Canada, France, England, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Columbia, Peru, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Singapore, Finland, Thailand, Northern Ireland, Wales, New Zealand and virtually all of Europe — I could go on. Aren't there models enough to base our system on? We already know it works. What more proof do you need?
The rest of the world seems to understand something I guess our nation and the people of Massachusetts don't.
Jennifer Perry
Ted Kennedy and John Kerry set the precedent.
My brother, who lives in Thailand, says that doctors in the scheme treat nearly everything short of a broken bone with tylenol.
On the other hand, real medical care and the good drugs are not expensive, for those who have the money. Apparently, even tylenol is a major advance for a large proportion of the population who never had any kind of medical care before.
A certain minimal level of care makes sense in many 3rd-world nations. The Cuba model of mass-producing "doctors" who are really nurses with some advanced training would be a good model.
Wakefield is most definitely not “upper middle class”. It’s as working class as you can get.
Check median family income of Wakefield (67k) to place like Saugus (55 k) I used to work there.
I take it back. I forget how rich mass is now. I left there 20 years ago. Wrentham is about 90k
the letter writer was from Stoughton (not nearby)...but Salem was one of the few cities/towns in the area won by Coakley
My Mom say to never say anything bad about the Dead.
Ted Kennedy is Dead.
Good!
PS I'm glad you guys didn't mention for her to go to Portugal. Please stay out of Portugal we are already invaded with indoctrinated brainwashed Socialist Erosionist morons there. Thanks. Just move to Cambridge.
This is no longer red or blue country THIS IS BROWN COUNTRY.
For the first time in my adult life, since Reagan, I'm really proud of my country.
BROWN COUNTRY.
Too bad Mary Jo isn't here to experience that "human right". I guess the right to live isn't a "human right".
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