Jon Ralston, you are one worthless SOB.

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I don't believe for one minute that Jesus was a Liberal. His plan granted us our free agency.

Do I believe we should help the sick and feed the poor? Absolutely! Do I think that it should be left up to the government to do that? No! We as individuals, private organizations, charitable groups, faith based charities could do a much better job--and would do if the government would get out of the way.

Two things. First, I do not believe that this poll reflects the majority opinion of Nevadans; I think that it should be viewed with a great deal of skepticism. Second, it is not a question of whether we need to improve the country's health care system, of course we do. The question is whether we want a government run health care plan. It amazes me that people do not see the danger in allowing the government to control more and more of our lives. It is a bit like the battle between good and evil as depicted in the Bible (I realize that the simple mention of the Bible necessarily poisons my argument in the eyes of the progressive, liberal atheists who would relish the prospect of handing over our freedoms to big government--but still I will use the reference).

The plan for good, as described in the Bible, grants people the free agency to choose their way through life. The plan for bad, as described in the Bible, would have forced, constrained and compelled our actions, just like Big Government does. Our founding fathers were inspired men who framed the Constitution (remember this document) explicitly to insure limited government and more personal freedom and independent action. The more power and control we give government over the functions and activities of the country, the more power the government has over us personally and individually. We will lose our free agency (freedoms) and will be compelled to live as the government specifies, thus living in a manner consistent with the plan for bad, as described in the Bible.

All of us should recognize that our government is on the path to socialism. Remember that in addition to being hell on their citizens, socialist and communist countries have failed in almost every instance. Remember also that government run plans do not work, just look at Social Security, Medicare-Medicaid, the Post Office, Amtrak, etc. Don't give control of the health care plan to the government as another program they screw up and use to finish us off financially. Good hell, wake up people.

The Tea Party Movement has the right ideas; i.e. Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government (small government), Free Markets and States Rights--and I might add Term Limits and no Benefits For Life for Members of Congress; unfortunately the Tea Party does not have the apparatus, or big party machinery, that the Republicans have, which is absolutely necessary in order to get a candidate elected. Unless the Republicans and the Tea Party (and all the other conservative groups) can come together in an alliance that will support conservative ideas and candidates, then "woe is me" (we) because the Nanny State Democrats will again place their Big Government, control freak, Socialist Diktator, Harry Reid back in office, as well as other Democrats who are in the process of ruining these United States. I implore the leaders of the Nevada Republican Party and Nevada Tea Party to come together and run a campaign to elect conservative candidates satisfactory to both groups. Having the Democrats back in office is just too sad to contemplate.

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As I said, "a majority of complete idiots."

As usual, the liberal, left, Green Freak Democrats are happy to push industry, jobs and a strong Nevada economy out the door; most likely to the benefit of some other state with the foresight to see the benefits to be derived from a nuclear waste storage facility. For all but these mental light-weights, it is easy to picture billions of dollars pouring into Nevada in support of an industry that will grow now that the federal government is starting to see the light and has endorsed, however tepidly, more use of nuclear energy. What better place for a nuclear waste storage facility than in an isolated desert area of a sparsely populated state--a state that will always be sparsely populated. Nevada, bereft of reasons to not welcome the Yucca Mountain storage facility, is unfortunately, similarly bereft of sensible people, and instead, is populated by a majority of complete idiots.

The Democrats in Congress know that high gasoline and oil prices are hurting Americans--and what are they doing about it? They introduced a 2008 bill to help solve the problem, a bill called an energy plan that has no energy production in it, but is simply, as is the normal Democrat response to everything, a bill to raise taxes on somebody or some thing. Dear Senator Reid and Ms. Pelosi, you and the rest of Congress have been asleep at the wheel! Why did you not realize that we had an energy problem six (6) years ago (or even earlier), when President Bush had the foresight to demand that Congress allow drilling in a minuscule portion of Alaska's barren, uninhabitable Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and when the entire Republican Party was screaming from the rooftops: Drill! Drill! Drill?

Congress, due mainly, but not solely, to the Democrats, has caused considerable harm to the economy of the United States of America over the last few years. By its actions and its policies designed to impede, over regulate, stop, hinder, over tax, interfere with, or in someway harm the economy, Congress is in the process of destroying the hopes, the dreams, and possibly the future happiness of a vast number of Americans, and for that, every Senator and Representative in Congress should be kicked out of office. I support term limits, as it would be impossible for a bunch of "greenhorns" to cause more harm to the people of these United States than has the present Congress.

Lastly, for the Congress Democrats to simply go off for a month of vacation, when many of the rest of us are so worried about the damage high gasoline prices and the lack of an integrated energy plan are causing in our lives, is the height of irresponsibility. I can only hope that this year's Congressional elections teach you a well earned lesson.