Former Republican Stops By to Thank Alan Grayson for Standing Up on Health Care

This is Katrina Walker, a former Republican voter who came in to the office last week to thank Alan Grayson for standing up for health care and for her family. The Alta corporation fired her mother after she injured her back, and now her mother can't get health insurance because she is in the pre-existing condition pool. Walker saw Rep. Grayson on CNN and wanted him to know that she stands behind him on health care, and wants a strong public option to fix the system.

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[Meade556]

@dospesentas This argument is used consistently by you lot who call yourselves dynamic and private sector, while the real private sector is in the non-world of Govt contracting. I'm sure you did get a nice report even if you did not do anything, because it would give a chance for more pork. Since you have commented on things YOU know nothing about, to and including my occupation and since Uncle paid your salary you have no right to sign off.

[dospesentas]

@Meade556 Again commenting on what you don't know. They did try it themselves and FAILED, we corrected the issues and then competed with the internal divisions in several agencies/commissions. A study launched by the Speakers office, concluded we offered the services cheaper and with guaranteed results. We reduced their costs by almost 20% and paid our OWN benefits. We EARNED every dime and provided superior services at lower cost and I should be greatful? NONSENSE Sorry I'm signing off.

[Meade556]

Come on, be serious most private sector lawyers I know are better paid than Feds and it does not take account of the fact that there is less income disparity is Govt and you will find the top rate was 90%. Where did you work? It seems to me, however you look at it, taxes were high soc sec was secure, we sent men to the moon, we built the highways and we regulated. I told you USS Forrestal

[dospesentas]

@Meade556 Might want to check your facts on that. I believe you'll learn the governments budget as a percentage of GDP and level of regulation was a fraction of today. I've worked in regulation and it's a ever growing nightmare web of nonsense that even bureaucrats charged with enforcement don't fully understand. The survey is of the MAJORITY of positions - I don't think the government's too big in investment banking. What survey did YOU read - reference it? What fleet/ship were you on?

[Meade556]

@dospesentas U.S.S. Forrestal, after the fire fortuneatly. The Govt could provide those services itself. Data processing? The Govt could have done that itself. Left to the Civil Service they would have done that. Its just job creation because Uncle hands out a wad of money counts as private sector employment, so politicians get to claim their policies have created nice jobs. Don't bash Uncle he paid your salary, it is you who is ungrateful

[dospesentas]

@Meade556 I don't care what you do and never asked - I asked if you had started or owned a business that hired employees and made a payroll. Contracting is the acquisition of goods and services that the government is unable to provide themselves - FYI it's common practice in all facets of business. Ah, a fellow navy man, what unit/ship were you on?

[Meade556]

@dospesentas Ha ha ha. The greatest periods of prosperity were in periods of high taxation and high regulation, at the apogee of the liberal concensus. Sure those companies don't last long, when Govt is on the beat, when Govt is not or does not exist that model breaks down. I looked at the USA Today article it uses the figures for low level private sector office workers. I don't think Goldman Sachs or other big firms like that were included.

[dospesentas]

@Meade556 Do you not understand ANYTHING about business? The ideal is a true free market, absent of government intrusion - it was once like that. You whine about outsourcing - think regulation has a hand in it? A hundred years ago we didn't have an income tax. You pay you get - don't pay don't get. Companies who take money and don't provide goods/services don't last long. Clearly you DIDN'T read the studies - look at USA Todays it examines and compares by job/occupation.

[Meade556]

@dospesentas None that I know of, but since small businesses are what now drive job creation our economy, it makes no difference as to the validity of my argument. I work in the private sector non-contractor, what I do in it is none of your business. As to what you just said, I doubt it. Contracting is nothing more than the ultimate scheme to make the taxpayers' fund a charity for unimaginative businessmen. US Navy eight years.

[dospesentas]

@Meade556 Again you jump to conclusions and make comments on ignorance. Government was a fraction of our overall business/income and we did work that the government tried and FAILED to do. Parasitic? Hardly, unlike compulsory taxes, they had a choice to use our services and came to us for our expertise.

How about that military service? You talk trash - were you there? NO! You trash private businesses and their management - have you done it? NO! How many co-ops in the Fortune 1000?