[Boomer]

OK.

I got up, flipped on the coffee pot, the television, and the computer, in that order.

I spotted the healthcare discussion that started last night.

I tried to resist it. I could not. I wanted to respond. I needed to respond.

Then I told myself that I must move forward with my life today.

Then I said to myself, "But wait."

Then I ventured back into the recesses of my own posts.

I found the one I was looking for. At first I could not find it. It was way back when the weather here was brutal and I was in the throes of writing that soap that claimed me for a few days. I can't believe that I took a political detour at all, especially during all that. It was a long, cold winter.

OK. So I found the thread. Then I spent at least 20 minutes trying to highlight just my own post so I could link it here.

I could not do just mine so I had to give up and just link the whole thread.

If you are killing time or whatever and would like to read what I wrote, please look at the 11:07 AM post. There is one that follows it, but all I am doing there is responding to someone else.

Now, let me give you a little preface here that might surprise you.

First of all, we have decent coverage for now. But it would never occur to me to embrace the what I call the "I got mine. Too bad ya don't got yours." philosophy.

Secondly, we are not old hippies. Mr. Boomer was a Green Beret for goodness sake.

Third, I have almost always voted Republican. I fear that Democrats will tax everything we have worked for into oblivion, but now the Republicans have broken my heart for many, many reasons. It's not only the war. There is a quote I heard the other day that goes something like this. "Unrestrained greed is not only bad morals, it's bad economics."

So my old post is in this link at 11:07 AM, the first of two. The second one is merely a smart :edit: reply to someone. I have not changed my mind. As a generation, there are far too many of us who are dreaming of the 65th birthday just like we dreamed of our 21st. It is not right.

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