Former President Clinton tried to get universal health care, but couldn’t. Barrack Obama might have a chance to do it. The USofA is the only industrialized country in the world that does not have universal health care. There are so many reasons to have a universal health care plan but to make the point as simple as I can here is why we should have universal health care.
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Who needs universal health care?
December 19, 20081st Vietnamese-American elected to US Congress
December 8, 2008
It’s incredible to think that a Vietnamese-American is a US Congressman. Anh Cao is elected to Congress in the state of Louisiana. What next a Vietnamese-American President? Maybe someday. For now I’m just proud to be a Vietnamese-American.
America’s First Black President!
November 4, 2008
Vote: Two (somewhat) unrelated news
November 3, 2008
One of my favorite news portal is Yahoo! News. Here are two somewhat unrelated news that should be related. The first one is your “Odds of a single vote deciding election: 1 in 60million.” And the other odd news is “NYC couple travels 9,300 miles from India to vote”. The cost for their trip is $5000. Maybe someone should tell that couple how much their vote really matters.
Prop 8 – Ban on Gay Marriages
October 29, 2008
Next to the presidential pick Prop 8 is probably the next biggest political decision on California voters mind. According to the California voter guide, Prop 8 “Eliminates right of same-sex couples to marry. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.” Both sides of the prop are on the very end of the spectrum. One side wants to eliminate a right, and the other side wants equal rights. Does this sound familiar to you? Sounds like discrimination to me. Just reading the title of the prop says it all – “eliminates rights”.
Eliminating a right of an individual, or in this case a couple, to be married based on their sexual preference is discrimination. Same sex marriage is no different from heterogeneous marriages. Two individual making a life long commitment to one another, that’s what marriage is all about. Everyone living in this country should be able to pursue their dreams and have the same rights as everyone else. No one group of people should have more or less rights than another group of people.
People tend to quickly forget past struggles and live life based on their own current condition. Our freedom today is not of our doing but of people before us. The people who fought to eliminate discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Even age discrimination is prohibited by federal law.
I’m opposed to any laws where one group of people has more rights than another group of people. When I voted on my absentee ballot last week it was an easy decision for me. I hope you make the right decision on November 4th, 2008.
Palin charge rape victims for rape exams
October 24, 2008
So after a woman gets rape Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla wants to charge the victim for the rape exam. Whoa, what a slap in the face for the victim. I understand budgets are tight but this is just ridiculous. Read the whole story here. So you don’t know how to come up funds for rape exam but you know how to dress to impress.
So who won the final Presidential debate?
October 15, 2008Update: According to CNN national poll 58% felt that Barack Obama perfomed better and 31% believed John McCain performed better.
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