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It can’t be true, can it be? I can’t imagine, I will not see!

March 8, 2016 By johntmay

It is undeniable that Secretary Clinton is accepting large donations from huge financial interests and millions of dollars from the health care corporations.  While it is also quite clear that Senator Sanders is not attracting capital from … [Read more...]

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A Turtle on a Fence Post

February 23, 2016 By johntmay

Please note:  All numbers are adjusted for 2016 dollars. According to the Land’s End catalogue, a “medium guy” is someone who looks like me.  I’m 5’10, 168 pounds, 32” waist, 32” inseam, 40 regular suit size, size 10 shoe.  I am your … [Read more...]

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An exercise in solidarity. Let’s do more that talk the talk. Let’s walk.

February 8, 2016 By johntmay

First, announce who you support in the Democratic race for the presidency. Second, tell us what you admire about the other candidate. I will go first.   I support Senator Bernie Sanders.   I greatly admired the … [Read more...]

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Other People’s Money?

February 3, 2016 By johntmay

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money” Margaret Thatcher famously said as she and our President Ronald Reagan began their revolution against anything that was socialist and embraced all things … [Read more...]

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An “Affordable” Human Right?

February 1, 2016 By johntmay

If "Affordable health care is a basic human right." one problem is defining "affordable". I could afford a Ferrari today, but it would require that I sell my house. So how do we define what is affordable?  Let's look at Canada.  I … [Read more...]

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Drug Tests, Poverty, and Cutting Ties with Old Friends.

January 25, 2016 By johntmay

No doubt you’ve seen the message on social media or received it via email from a friend, “You should have to pass a drug test for welfare because I have to pass one to be able to work my ass off to earn it for you!”  The implied message is … [Read more...]

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Howard Dean as Cypher

January 14, 2016 By johntmay

Howard Dean now serves as senior advisor to the law firm "Dentons", where he works with the firm’s Public Policy and Regulation practice, a euphemism for Dentons’ lobbying team.  The Dentons Public Policy and Regulation practice lobbies on … [Read more...]

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The Joke Is On Us.

January 2, 2016 By johntmay

There's the story of the gambler who bets on every football game he can.  He calls his bookie several times a day, betting pro, college, even high school football games.  He looses every time.  In fact, after the football season is finally … [Read more...]

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Health Care Debate tactics that you can use this holiday social season.

December 28, 2015 By johntmay

I'll argue that most of ones health is predetermined by genetics and/or ones family environment . Along the same lines, much of ones wealth is predetermined by ones birth. That said, if one does not believe in universal single payer health … [Read more...]

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

December 17, 2015 By johntmay

Watching American laborers embrace Donald Trump as their choice for president makes me look back to the Egyptians who worshiped the pharaohs as representing the gods on earth. The Republican Party has cultivated an electorate that … [Read more...]

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