The Errington Thompson Show 10-24-09
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November 10, 2009
Now this is good stuff.
Now this is good stuff.
Congress has been blamed for not stopping the war and everything else including post nasal drip. Well, the Senate passed a bill which raised pay for our troops. This was included in a $696 Billion Military Spending bill. $700 Billion. Damn that a ton of money. ———– From WaPo: The Senate voted Tuesday to approve a revised defense bill authorizing a 3.5 percent pay raise for troops while sidestepping a veto showdown with President Bush. The 91-3 vote sends the $696 billion measure to Bush for his expected signature. The president had rejected an earlier version of the bill because of
A Wall Street Journal poll reports that Republicans by a nearly two-to-one margin believe free trade hurts the American economy. This is a shift away from previous Republican support of free trade. These issues are difficult because we can’t pull back from the rest of the world. I feel the core of the matter is that neither party is being up-front about what free trade really means. We’ve lived at a level of consumption and debt that the realities of the world will no longer permit. At the same time we’ve allowed corporations to get the upper-hand with workers. As citizens
Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.
