Quick thoughts before the weekend

There’s a lot of name calling and mud slinging going around over health care lately and it’s pretty sickening, both sides really. So here’s my quick take before I sit down this weekend and read through everything.

• Hold the town hall meetings, lay ground rules, have police enforce said interruption rules, ie you will be removed if you cause a disturbance. If people want to speak, let them ask their question and answer it. Let this be a civil matter. In fact, give people tickets, draw 20, answer those questions and end the town hall.
• Everyone should be allow to enter without feeling bullied. It goes with my next point.
• Allow people to record town hall meetings. Why? Because it’s a public gathering about a public matter. We should be informing everyone we can with what’s going on during these meetings.
• No one should stop anyone from discussing health care with other people at town halls that are doing so in a civil matter, that means no yelling at people or ACORN grabbing police officers to shut up dissenters. It’s free speech, it works both ways, we can agree to disagree.
• Quit the name calling and get down to the issues. What matters most to the people. Whether it’s the cost of the program or what’s in the bill, this should be time to meet with our representatives and work things out, not shut out people against a plan.

That’s all I have right now it. I’m going to catch up on a few other of life’s fun things and soak in everything that’s happened this week and write a few more articles.