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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Ed Schultz broadcasts from 30 Rock in New York City.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND, joins the 1st hour of Wednesday's show to discuss President Barack Obama calling on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011.

Hilary Shelton, Director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP joins the 1st hour of Wednesday's show to discuss the One Nation Rally.

Adam Green, Of the PCCC joins the 2nd hour of Wednesday's show to discuss his comments about Rahm Emanuel.

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President Barack Obama unveils three economic initiatives in Cleveland, OH. We'll bring you the latest.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks a "disrespectful, disgraceful act." We'll talk about it.

BP says in an internal report that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the Gulf of Mexico spill disaster. We'll give you the details.

The OpEd: Is it a victory for Harry Reid? Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 Ed Schultz says it looks like Sen. Harry Reid might have the votes. Give me your thoughts...

Comments:

	Ben { Bear Hairhat } Nelson. Lucky these egotistical slobs want POWER! This goof Nelson looks laughable with that TOUPE! BUT he IS a U.S Senator! If he loses his seat he becomes stupid looking hairhat Ben! His neighbors will begin calling him BENNY; a horrible thought for a power hungry lowlife like Benny the bearhat! How are your tomatoes this summer Benny? Benny can you help me push my car out of the snow? Benny how much does a toupe like that cost? Citizens of Nebraska want to know ! Lose your seat and you will hear these questions! OH OH NO BENNY HAIRHAT YELLS I WANT MY SENATE [power]SEAT BACK! Posted by corky melon Boca

	I have to Give Harry Reid credit, he didn't back down on the Public Option & he is showing some leadership. He is calling the bluffs of the last few Democratic holdouts. I don't see any political upside to any Democrat who kills health care reform. It is better to stand for something & take a stand on something than to be afraid of the Republican lies, smears & scare tactics because not standing your ground is a sign of weakness. We need strong leaders representing us who stand for something & are not afraid to not back down when it counts. Posted by M, Fargo

	It look like we will have health care reform but have to go with a trigger on the public option. I would like to see a public option out right but rome wasn"t built in a day and change is not going to be easy. Keep doing what you are doing Ed. We progressive will get there one day. Posted by Gregory Geiger new york

	The health care issure is far from resosved. With democratic Senators like Lincoln and Nelson, who are nothing more that whores for the respecitve groups they blackmailed the bill for, should be drummed out of the party. Americans of like mind as mine should do what the can to defeat the two basicallly Rinos during their primary in the midterm elections. Send 5 or 10 dollars to their democrat opponent in. the primary. If you are a resident of the state volunteer for the democratic opponent. As a long time independent I have always been for a single payer system. There is something wrong when a person who does everything right has to loose everything to pay for the medical expenses of a loved one, it is unamerican since it does not support the underdog, its unchristian (anti-religon period) since it allows the less fortunate to sink. Posted by James Reed, Castle Rock, Colorado

	Can you believe Senator Lincoln, she blackmailed Americans for 50 million dollars to support a program that has been proven a failure. Absinence only programs caused teen pregnancy to rise, STD's to spread and more babies to be born with out heatlhcare thereby increasing the problem we are in. Evidence backed programs are the only way. With Democrats like that controlling the party, the symbol should be an elephant and its primary support should come from the birthers. Come election time ALL Americans should work to defeat her since she is hurting us all. Posted by James Reed, Castle Rock, Colorado

	How about that Ben Nelson. Elected by the people for the people, he decides to support the entities that are the root of the health care problem, insurance companies. I think he is a republicn in drag, and the rumor in my circle is he services the insurance industry executives for campaign money at all the holiday parties. Posted by James Reed, Castle Rock, Colorado

	Seriously now, the health care bill will be one of the best things passed by Congress ever. Inadequate health care for the uninsured generates hidden costs that fall upon the American public, governmental ex-penditures total approximately $30.6 billion a year. A 2001 study in Maryland found that among unin-sured children under age 6, 50 percent of their emergency room visits were for problems that did not require emergency care. Among uninsured adults ages 13 to 34, 40 percent of visits did not re-quire immediate care. . The Institute of Medicine estimates that 18,000 U.S. adults ages 25 to 64 die each year as a result of lacking health insurance (this is where the right to life people should be focusing). Posted by James Reed, Castle Rock, Colorado

	In the short term it will be a victory for Senator Reid, if the midterm elections go against the democrats it may be short lived, if the elections go for democrats then hopefully the bill can be strengthened in the the next congress. Posted by James Reed, Castle Rock, Colorado

	I will be proud of Senator Reid if he leaves in the 100 million to help the states damaged by natural disaster and then pulls the 50 million for the abstinence only program and then removes the anti trust exemptions for the inurance mobsters. Posted by James Reed, Castle Rock, Colorado

	Here are three new talking points to magnify the need and the value in the health care reform. There are dollar values associated with the two following points. We need to come up with these amounts to make the talking points work. 1. The amortized cost of the 45,000 people who die each year because they either did not have health care or inadequate health care. 2. The amortized cost of all of the personal bankruptsies that were caused by a family health care crisis. 3. The amount (dollar value) of foreclosures related to people who were in a health care crisis this year. I am quite sure that if you add all these amounts up, and subtract them from the CBO estimate of 840 billion over 10 years, the value will become crystal clear. Please get the word out on the ED nework about this!!! Posted by Ricky Schultz, Bristol, VA

	No victory on health care reform for Americans. I believe in real completion and real choice. A better approach is a nationwide marketplace where all insurance companies are forced to compete, giving Americans real choices. This will bring down costs and improve quality just as it does wherever competition is allowed to flourish. With unemployment at 10 percent and with more than $13 trillion in federal debt on the horizon, why commit to spending another trillion dollars before stopping the waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in current government programs (Medicare and Medicaid). The public option is just another burden for tax payers, the public option will not be offered at lower cost to current healthcare plans, and the public option will not create competition. The public option will only offer Americans a choice to purchase a government run healthcare program. I'm satisfied with my current health care plan other than the cost, I have no confidence my healthcare insurance will decrease at anytime in the future without a nationwide marketplace. I agree with the much needed healthcare reform. Americans will benefit the most with free market competition nationwide. I believe healthcare reform will pass, America's healthcare problems will not be resolved. My concern is with proper healthcare reform not a victory for Harry Reid! Posted by Sawn, Prince Frederick Md

	No, moving this to the floor of the Senate is going to show the American people just what a poor and expensive plan this is. He should have started completely over. It will not pass in the Senate. Posted by Jo

	This bill is a piece of garbage, a gift to the insurance industry and their lobbyists. I don't want it to pass. This is not the reform we voted for. Start all over and target the opposition as they come up for election. We need a third party that is willing to do what is right for America. Stop giving your money to these elected officials who already have the choice they choose to deny to you because of the money the insurance industry lines their pockets with. STOP CALLING NELSON and the rest of these fake Democrats "CENTRISTS". They are not centrists, they are doing the bidding of the insurance companies and the media is letting them get away with it. Posted by Jack

	Ed Schultz will become arm weary from the constant punching he does against the rotten Washington Est. These Wall St. scumbags need to be dragged out of their limos and be taught a valuable life lesson! The only way to get these traitors, globalist filth is to hit them when they are traveling from the dens of crime in NYC to their safehouses, attack the lifelines. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...CEO SCUMBAG OF J.P MORGAN JAMIE DIMON WANTS TO REPLACE RAT GEITHNER AT THE FED! Scumbag Dimon wants" to serve the country". Oh Sure You Do You FILTH! JOE LIEBERMAN IS BAD FOR AMERICA! Posted by corky melon Boca

	Sawn, Prince Frederick Md, You satisfied with your HC plan? Fine, stay with it, but do not deny the chance for me to get enrolled to GOV'T RUN HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN (PUBLIC OPTION) ! That was one of main reasons, I've supported Obama and I won't back up on that issue, not a millimeter ! I don't trust private HC insurance companies! When the race for profit kicks in - the care for sick kicks out! They can function for insured benefits ONLY with stringent gov't regulations. We all seen, what's happening, when we deregulate them and let them run wild. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!! I will see, who will cast his/her final vote AGAINST this bill and you can be sure: I will do everything, I can, those WOULDN'T GET RE-ELECTED ANYMORE!!!, their Senator/Congressmen career would end once and for all on Nov 4th/2010 ! Posted by ILJA Hiram, GA

	While you are sitting down to your Thanksgiving turkey. Please let us remember those whose lives have been devastated by the lack of access to our health care system. Once you have looked into the eyes of those who have fallen into the class of the uninsured or underinsured... and the heartbreaking collateral damage there is no way that you can deny that this health care initiative must move forward. This is a classic scenario of the battle between good and evil. Are we going to let the dark forces of the corporate world of special interests dominate? Or... are we going to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity and bring this legislation all the way down the field. I pray that those few legislators who have been fence sitting to please think about this: Corporations don't elect anyone but board members. Be there on the side of the people.... and meaningful health care reform can and will happen. Posted by Ricky Schultz, Bristol, VA

	I have thought about how well most European people live and then I think about my own country. All European countries have a single payer or mostly single payer system that covers everyone. America is a bad place to live when you are one of the 50 million who do not have health care. There are 20 million others who are under-insured. All of these folks face financial disaster everyday. It is like rolling the dice at a crap table if you crap out you go totally bankrupt and can even die right here in America. Not having health insurance is the greatest form of injustice we face America. There are no excuses for supporting the status quo when so many Americans face disaster all it takes is a bad accident in a car, a long term illness, and even upper middle class people can become homeless and bankrupt. I am not totally happy with the bill in the Senate but I strongly support it because it is a beginning. It is the beginning of the end of the Great American Corporate health insurance lottery. There are few winners in this lottery because the only prizes for average families are increasing premiums, then when illness strikes bankruptcy and even death by being cut off by corporate bureaucrats. Because the rules to the health care lottery game are all rigged by corporate swindlers on Wall Street who make money off of other people's sickness or death. Posted by Rex, Moorhead

	I am very disappointed by the figures released by the CBO which Speaker Pelosi posted to her blog, The Gavel, on December 1st. According to the graph in that entry for a single person making $29780 a year the required insurance premium payment will be $2830 a year. Even with a subsidy this is STILL to steep for me. Rents in my area top over $1000-1100 a month for a 2-3 room apartment in a safe neighborhood. A salary of $573 a week would leave me with just $425 or so after taxes. This is a monthly salary of $1700. Here are the expenses I could expect: Rent: $1000 a month Cable for Internet and phone: $84.90 (Please note I cannot afford a TV) My mother's phone bill: $50-60 (She lives in a residence for the elderly) My electric: $50-60 Gas: $15-25 Food, transportation, personal care items, office supplies: $100 a week On average I'd be living right up to my take-home salary without much for savings AND WITHOUT ANY MONEY FOR SUCH A VERY HIGH INSURANCE PREMIUM. The alternative is a very high penalty. And I don't have the money to pay that either. Even if things improve and I do make $35K a year again, I will never be able to pay this kind of a premium because rents in my area are so high. Even in a low-income area, rents for apartments in old buildings are that high. This still won't be affordable for those who are self-employed and making a very modest income. It will be a choice between having insurance or foregoing a family car, a TV a new computer. Or else be penalized. Mostly to profit the private sector. This is outrageous. I no longer see hope and change and a new beginning. The Dems deserve to lose big time and this piece of awful legislation should be driven into the Abyss. Posted by katie mason stevens


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