Is the problem with the health care reform bill, or is it with the Congress?
“My father was born in poverty on a small Ozark farm. He died in poverty too, but not because of his own laziness or waste or mismanagement. He had been a successful commercial artist with 20 employees. No, he died in poverty because he was a hard worker and always paid his bills and died trying to pay the astronomical bills from the cancer that killed my mother. My father fought in WWII. He believed in this country and this country let him down. It’s too late for my father. It’s too late for too many. It’s way past time for healthcare reform. It’s time for single payer healthcare.” (William Ridenour, IL, in Death by Spreadsheet, newsletter of the non-profit organization, HealthCare Now!)
On last Tuesday around 15,000 people demonstrated in the City of Madrid along with other cities. People wanted to reject the Spanish government plan to increase the retirement age up to 67 years old. This is the first demonstration that the United Left and the Humanist party have participated against Rodriguez Zapatero policies. The unions organized this rally.
At 8:15 on August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb “Little Boy” was dropped over the center of Hiroshima City. With energy reportedly equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT, its heat rays and blast burned and completely or partially destroyed 90% of the roughly 76,000 houses in the city. From burnt bodies, homes, and places of work, the people of Hiroshima made a new start in an utterly burnt-out plain of rubble. Lacking materials or assistance, that new beginning was filled with suffering. (From “Hiroshima Peace Site”)
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