[ishabibble]

The sheep you speak of are already penned up in the many federally funded elderly high rises. Seniors are the last true voting bloc. This bloc wants major benefits for their vote, Patches and Reed are absolutely shameless in their pandering to them. Most of the people in RI are first, second, or third generation immigrant stock. Most are Catholic. Most still do not understand that the Democratic Party has been hijacked and that it no longer represents the working man, the blue collars, the people who dug ditches and scrubbed floors so that their children could have The American Dream. The old time Democrats didn't question, they just believed. That was then...this is now.

Kennedy and Reed are "confirmed bachelors". Anything that either has to say on this subject should be viewed with a jaundiced eye.

[alwaysconservative]

Can't some smart FReeper do the math and see what these civil unions or gay marriages (whatever) will cost the rest of us in terms of Social Security and private pensions, not to mention increased health care costs for "risky behavior"? Just to donate blood, I have to answer lengthy and intrusive questions about my sexual behavior, you mean they cannot calculate the increased costs of covering "high-risk" unions when it will cost company plans millions or billions of extra dollars?

[alwaysconservative]

I forgot to say earlier that making the Social Security data on "civil unions" known to the seniors might be the most effective weapoon the pubbies have in the next election cycle.