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Give the American People the control over health care insurance.

Sounds like that's going to happen. Finally?! I dont think it will cost many Democratic seats in 2010, if so those seats will go to Independents who lean more toward the left.

Transparency has its cost.. it's called debate time, and we have given it more than enough time.

True Independents, undecided, and YOUNG voters need to be EDUCATED once this health care bill passes, with specific examples of just how this is going to effect them in a positive way. The truth will be made clear ~ once the bickering stops and we are fully engulfed in another topic of concern, like the economy and jobs.

Transparent times call for really good marketing, to decrease the length of the debating process. It isnt going to get any shorter now.

The media and the people are now really enjoying their ability to Change things and they have been empowered to do so. Everything that goes on is recorded and brought to the table, heck, its then compared to statements made just weeks or months ago and made public via every avenue of communication. I think it is an AWESOME thing.

Again, going back to the question "when in history have the American people been able to stop a certain bill, open dialogue about it, change certain areas of that bill and get it as close to agreeable as possible?

This Heath Care bill isnt a democratic bill, it is the peoples bill, just as all the upcoming bills in this administration will be. There is no other way to operate politically anymore.

I Hope that future candidates are realizing this fact. You wont be democratic or republican..  I think you must be independent to get the optimal, common sense legislation passed. All the others want it their way or no way.

Thats not America anymore.

Sure, change is a hard thing to do, especially for the one who initiates it.

Bring the issues to the people in a broken down way, ask their opinions, listen to all "sides", take all good ideas and put them together in a good, fair, balanced bill to pass into law. Hmmm? I think I actually WATCHED this process last week at the Health Care summit.

Keeping the young voters in tune about politics is a little different than older folks. They dont have the life experience to know what certain issues brought about in the past, but hey, that can be a good thing also. When letting them know about past issues and their good and bad outcomes, they need to know what will make them different now and how times have changed, because many have the influence of their parents to hear also.

The young voters need to be a part of this administration and understand how things operate, they were a big part of the election and as such, they need to be a big part of the governing process. They are the future, but now is also a serious teaching time.

They are 'digital natives' and will direct the communication aspect of politics like no other generation.

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

~Abraham Lincoln

The American people don't want health care reform? This is just simply not true, most believe we are in need of desperate changes in health care and the whole system in general. Nobody is going to agree on every single aspect of it, but we must start somewhere!

We need to poll the majority of Americans and ask what the most important health care reform measures are that need to be taken.

There are numerous things that need transformation, but the basics are affordability for all, including all economic status', minorities, small business owners, insurance reform, medicaid reform and new policies of health prevention as in the "Healthy People 2010" guidelines. This just simply makes sense--- doesnt it ? What is SO difficult about it? Media is focusing in on their own agenda and its time the American people let them know it!! Stop whining and move on with what is important for our future. TRANSFORMATION in many areas. Look around, it really doesnt take a genius to figure out that we are in need of Change. Wake Up! Ahh.. it might be better if ya stayed sleeping..  I for one have seen the next up and coming new media technology ... journalism- by the people, for the people.

Its about time.

Most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identity only with their physical and psychological form. Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in your perceptions, however, you can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life- form, recognize it as one with your own essence and so ... love it as yourself. ~Eckhart Tolle

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Okay. NOW we might be getting somewhere as a united people !!?

I think once you rinse the "mud" off of all political parties and listen to the people good, solid agreeable decisions will be made.

It's so very transparent. "Let's have a tea party at a coffee house!" 

It is obvious that due to the many people who truly are Independents, eventually the parties will have to meet in the middle of the road in order to acquire peace and unity.

You may say (especially if you are 35+) that this isn't the typical way in which our Government worked and it isn't necessary to have bipartisanship during a particular elected parties time in office - especially if the party controls the majority of Congress also-- Hey? Isn't that why we vote.. because we like the way one party thinks and does business? I'd have to say nope, not anymore. Flexibility is important. There isn't room for rigidity - hence the too-numerous-to-count grassroots movements trying to sway the party who most represents what they stand for. If you watch cable news .. it becomes

so deafeningly repetative.

Especially now, since Change and Hope became engrained in much of our population and opened the minds and hearts of many allowing them the power to organize and be heard through the many facets of technology. There is no turning back the hands of time here. So, we better figure this out. We have to realize that we must communicate  in the same way as our youth and our changing times communicate. We aren't waiting for a telegram each morning, instead we receive many messages a day to which we can instantly reply. This is true communication. So, if you ask me.. we are in an extremely important time in history like never before. Our choices now determine our future "telegrams."

One thing is for sure, "Change" is the optimal word. I don't think anyone realized just how transformative and powerful that word was or the effect it would have, down to not only our political but our human core.

How'bout instead of having the "tea partiers" convert the RNC into thinking the way they do JUST to win senate seats, or any political seat for that matter or the "coffee partiers" try and convert the DNC .. we take the heads of each grassroots movement (or movements) in each state and meet at the proverbial table. This is a pretty simple concept, with the widespread use of technology and the plethora of Americans who communicate their political ideas online it's probably the way of today and the future.

Welcome to the e-houseofrepresentatives, aka "e-thepeople."

"The United States is like a giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."

~ Winston Churchill

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

~Albert Einstein