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Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel received during their tours on active duty.
The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal.
"Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained..
"Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute..."
"I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country," Obama continued. "I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."
I guess this means they can sue for workmans comp!
OK, all you liberals, find away to blame this on Bush....
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It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
Henry Ward Beecher
Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's and truth's.
William Shakespeare
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
Nichiren Daishonen
Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson, writing in Don't Swe
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
Philip Gilbert Hamilton
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato
Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Tyler is known for roses. They have the rose garden and there is row after row of just perfect roses. If your ever in Texas, I recomend it. It's free and worth your time for sure.
While your here don't forget the great zoo. 
I thought a feel good community post would be fun for a change. Have a great week to all and by all means stop and smell the roses along the way!
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