Can One Facebook Status Change The World?

The best thing about this? it has the benefit of being true.

Oh my god! Zach Braff is on board?

You better go change your shorts, Michael.

Zach Braff? Pffft! Stephen Baldwin has signed on to go to Glenn Beck's 9/12 teabagger celebration.

Just read this and went to update my facebook status. All of my friends have already done the same.

BO's spreading a socialistic message say Repubs...now school system leaders are cowering. This is beyond pa-the-tic.

"...Some [parents] have threatened to keep their children home from school, a move encouraged by conservative commentators such as Glenn Beck on Fox News."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/09/03/0903obama.html

It's morally wrong to leave 100 million Americans un or underinsured, 1 illness away from financial ruin. And it's wrong to burden small business with the outrageous insurance costs also -- found a cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth

I just read this and put it on my FB. There were lots of others -- many of which are conservative / republicans. Maybe it can't change the world, but I'll settle for a glimmer of hope to reach each other and unite on this issue.

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This idea has been around awhile. In 2007 Cenk Uygur posted a HP blog including the line, “There are some things we should not base on your salary, and whether you live or die is one of them.”... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/socialized-police_b_55698.html …I had posted this before way back and this started winning me over to public options…but to little response (none from KT / other swamp posters + most of the “inner circle”). Also.

Good blog post, M.S. I participated with this electronic chain activism. Pretty sure that's the first political post I've made on Facebook--it seems so obviously true. Perhaps that's the problem with this debate so far--the obvious, true statements are lost among all the ridiculous extreme falsehoods and conjectures that dominate the news so far.

Why is Van Jones part of the Obama Administration?

Why is Van Jones, an avowed Communist part of the Obama Administration?

Why is Van Jones, the "Green Jobs Czar", who also signed "the 9/11 truther" petition part of the Obama Administration?

Why would Obama have someone like Van Jones as part of his Administration?

Ah, but none of these very moving statements address the real point: Do you believe private insurance companies can fix this, or do you prefer the government to do it?

The GOP , with a few notable exceptions, pretty much agrees with those statements. It's just that they want their insurance company donors to be allowed to reap even MORE profits as we try to achieve health care reform, instead of less. I don't think most Americans believe that the insurance companies are warm and fuzzy entities that only want the best for us. But when the GOP gets to frame the debate as a battle between scary "socialism" and patriotic "free market enterprise," people willingly swallow it whole and before you know it, health care reform has become "unAmerican" and "treasonous."

I wish the reform talking points would address that real issue, instead of letting the right obscure the reality. And these statements do nothing to achieve that.

So I think I'll change my FB status to something like "The private market and insurance companies don't give a damn about your health care problems. Don't be fooled by people who want health care "reform" that gives them even more power over your life."

Yes it is true, cute, easy and it makes everyone feel good that we did 'something'. But it is of no real use if we just put it on Facebook without ever writing to a Senator or Representative to let them what we think.

WaPo's Stephen Pearlstein used the phrase "no one should go broke because they get sick" in a Live Online discussion after his August 7 column was published. Unfortunately, that transcript is missing from the WaPo site.

[...] rychlém prolétnutí archivem Time jsem narazil na zajímavý text: Nikdo by neměl zemřít jenom proto, že si nemůže dovolit [...]

Facebook, has the ability to change peoples opinions.
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I'm just trying to learn how to use italics

Obama is just a beast with the way he uses today's media channels. Brilliant - whether you support this or not.

To me, if one facebook friend sent it out it would have been more meaningful than having the same phrase over and over. To me I found it manipulative and obnoxious. Before this viral status update hit, I was a neutral party. The propoganda was just a little too much. So, it moved me to form an opinion, but not the way the original author wanted me to.

No one should have to betray their beliefs because the government wants to control health care. No one should have to wait for treatment because the government needs to sign off on paperwork. No child should die because Obama's advisor wants to control the population. No woman should suffer because Planned Parenthood has the president in their pocket.

If you want health care for everyone then let us choose which health care provider we want! stop letting insurance companies have monopolies over entire states!

a free market that promotes choice and competition will create the best health care ... not government regulated health care!

yeah there is a good and a bad side to everything..

GREAT USE OF TODAY'S SOCIAL MEDIA!

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yea no one should die because they can't afford healthcare but no one should go broke because someone else can't afford healthcare. AND doctors should have incentives like better pay if they are willing to stay in school longer than any one else.

yes unemployment is down in Flint MI because everyone has left town (& the state) along with all the jobs. Businesses tore down or boarded up.

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