Do you think we would've had these town hall meetings about Iraq if we had been in a recession back then?

Of course not. George Bush never intended to take into account citizen opinion. He hid the financing until it was far too late to be stopped. `

"At least with health care reform we'll get something for the money we spend." You really have no idea what this plan that is being passed around is about do you? The current bill is designed to -eventually- make it so that ALL Americans are on govt. insurance. It will appoint a committee to make all decisions. This committee will NOT be accountable to the citizenry and will be appointed by the POTUS. There will be A commissioner in charge of the whole mess. ONE man/woman will make decisions about your health care-and it won't be you. The bill provides "end of life counseling", and yes it is as bad as you've been hearing on the news and from those crazy conservative talk show hosts. The bill (Sec III (2) pg 22-23) states that "the Commissioner will submit a report to congress providing recommendations to ensure that the LAW does NOT provide incentives for small and medium sized employers to self-insure or create adverse selection in the risk pools of large group insurers..." I'm not really a lawyer, but that sounds to me like the govt will pass laws that will keep small and med. businesses from looking elsewhere for insurance to provide for their employees.

This bill is a disaster and we will end up screwed for it in the long run. The idea may be solid, and I'm not sure that many wouldn't agree that the insurance situations need to be modified, but govt run health care isn't it. By the way, we're still paying for "a worthless war" and not saying a peep about it. In fact your boy B.O. added more soldiers to the war, just in a different location (Afghanistan).

After 911 the need to call a town hall meeting about what to do in situations of national security would have been pointless. Everyone was on the same page. You would never have a town meeting about national security. That is pointless. If weapons of mass destruction exist or not. Why try and arm chair quarterback it now? Why bash Bush to defend Obama. Why not defend Obama? Why throw Bush into it. Health care has been broke along time before Bush. I will never say Bush was great. I sure wont about Obama either. What is going on now is a radical change to a 7th of the united states economy. To simply buy in to it cause you hate Republican is ridiculous.

Absolutely.

No -until obama took office, a health care bill wasn't being discussd. For that matter, no large bill was being discussed that congressional personel had to discuss in town hall meetings with their constituents.