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Written on Johnson: Road to governorship ran through Gatlinburg :

in response to hvsteve:

Do you mean that tea party convention that promised an impressive turnout and ended up with a few hundred people in a sea of empty seats in a hotel ballroom? "The elephant labored and brought forth a mouse."

I wondered how the Tea Party went. That rag of a paper in Sevier County hasn't even mentioned it yet. I'm not surprised it didn't bring in a lot of people since they only charged $30.00 a person to try to get your vote. I thought politicians were supposed to pay for votes not charge for them.

Written on Ambrose: Rand Paul was right but foolish :

in response to jplummartin#251724:

Good article. Paul is a very bright guy, who doesn't have a lot of on-camera experience as well as experience dealing with attack-dog interviewers. Most non-professional-politicians won't come off very well in that situation. I believe his path of limited government is exactly what Washington is lacking.

In other words, he hasn't had time to learn to lie on cue.

Written on Obama, in Gulf, pledges to push on stopping leak :

in response to powellvoter1:

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What did you expect his presence to accomplish? How does Obama standing on the beach help anybody?


The government has NO equipment to handle this mess and never did. This equipment wasn't there before Obama took office so it didn't just "go missing" on his watch. The government has never been in the business of oil clean-up. Criticizing Obama for not going down there and "looking" is just ridiculous. All he could do is get in the way. He has called in all the experts and done everything in his power to end this nightmare.
If people want to be angry at someone, be mad at the Republicans who want to block efforts to make BP pay for this disaster. I believe Obama has been called "un-patriotic" for wanting step on the neck of BP and not pass the cost to the tax payer. These people are the liars and crooks and right now getting their backs covered by the Republicans.

Written on Johnson: Rocky road ahead for tourism in Sevier:

Mr. Johnson,
As a Sevier Countian may I say Thank God you don't speak for all of Sevier County. My friends and I are very happy to finally see Health care made available to ALL it's citizens. Sevier County has a lot of uninsured and indigent people whose only form of care comes from the emergency room. A cost that is passed along to other insured tax payers in the form of higher premiums and higher taxes. It isn't free.
If your Momma don't like it it is probably because she is one of the hypocrits drawing social security and medicare but wanting to deny others who need medical care.

Written on Should the state House pass the "Tennessee Health Freedom Act," which declares that Tennesseans can ignore federal health-care mandates and calls on the attorney general to fight them in court?:

Why in the world does Lamar Alexander want to waste more tax payer money on a frivilous law suit that he cannot win? I'm sure it's so he can keep his name in the spot light and make it look like he actually cares about the common people in the state of Tennessee. Why doesn't he fight to give back the health insurance he enjoys?


in response to VRSpock:

I can walk into any emergency room right now and get all the health-care I need....without insurance....because laws ALREADY EXIST for this. I don't even have to pay the bill from the last time I was in the emergency room to get service again...from the same hospital.

How many different colors of stupid does it take to spend money to make new laws for something that already has laws in place to address a problem?

Unless of course, you're referring to preventative-care instead of emergency/life threatening care. I guess those in support of this thing have some sort of mentality that everyone is entitled to everything and don't have any personal accountability for the choices that they make in life.

You are correct that hospital emergency rooms are only required to give life saving care and make you stable. If you go to the ER coughing up blood they will do an x-ray and tell you that you have cancer and need to make an appointment with a surgeon. Try getting an appointment with a surgeon without insurance. How many people have you seen in the ER getting chemo or surgery. The ER doesn't supply over-priced medications either. Hospital ER's are not FREE. If you don't pay they can garnishee your wages and take your property and savings. Hospital emergency rooms are also reimbursed for non-paying patients with tax money paid by working class citizens.

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