Tag: ground zero

A couple of things – Thursday Evening Edition
ecthompsonmd May 5, 2011

Isn’t calling for a sitting president to be tortured (water boarded) a treasonable offense? I might have to look that up. It’s clearly un-American. President Obama honored those who died at Ground Zero.  “When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.” Corporations continue to pay some of the lowest taxes they’ve seen in over 50 years. As a government, our lack of revenue is the problem. The middle class is ponying up their share. It is corporations and the top 1% who are taking home more and paying less. Pakistan plays the Sergeant Schultz card. (See the

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A no brainer
ecthompsonmd September 30, 2010

How can you oppose giving medical care to volunteers who sucked up all of that dust and crap at Ground Zero? Government has no higher purpose than to take care of those who laid it on the line for our country and fellow citizens. From Political Animal: A bill that should have been one of the year’s most obvious no-brainers passed today, about three months later than it should have. The Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act would pay health care costs for 9/11 rescue workers, sickened after exposure to the toxic smoke and debris. The legislation was fully paid for, financed

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Local Edge Radio – Small Business and Labor Day
ecthompsonmd September 10, 2010

For the last several months, I have been invited to be a guest on Local Edge Radio with Blake and Lesley. I’m on a Thursda’s at 4 pm (EST). This week – we discussed how we aren’t moving forward as a country. We get distracted by mosques at Ground Zero and some preacher thinking about burning Korans. What’s up with Iraq? I’m having a problem with the idea that combat operations are over. They aren’t. We take a break then come back and talk about labor and how unions are dying. This show was fun. I hope that you enjoy it.

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