Yes We Can

Thank you PJ....  This is an amazing post and resonates 100% with this historic weekend and the strength we must all embrace when facing our different challenges in life.

Thank you...

Dear PJ,

Thank you for the new posting, "Yes we can". I found it to we so very heart warming, it brought tears to my eyes. To compare what the country is going throught right now to the fight aganist breast cancer is so very fitting. Just like you are in disbelief when the doctor tell you that you have cancer (now you are in for the fight of your life), so to for many of us with mixed heritage we also are still in disbelief that Presiden-elect Barack Obama is going to be inaugurated as the 44 president of the U.S.A. Again when the doctor tell you that you are free and clear of all cancer, you are again in disbelief. So to the fight for human equity in the country has been a very long and sad fought road. Many have loss their lives in this fight, never to have the privilege that we will have this coming Tuesday to witness history in the making. So just as Mr. Obama said: "Yes We Can", yes we can this is only the beganning of our fight for human equity in many area, but especially in our fight aganist breast cancer.

1stepaheda

YES WE CAN!

I believe President elect Obama's speech about our country and I didn't even vote for him.  I have a strong belief in our country and this speech spoke to my heart about our country as did your snippets for breast cancer survivor's.  Yes We Can!!!!!  I am a breast cancer survivor for 2 years now.  It wasn't easy, however, I had hundreds of people praying for me and I am just plain stubborn, nothings gonna keep me down!  I had a mastectomy, chemo, herceptin and now about a week ago I started with a mastectomy on the other side and tissue expanders to boot!  I am a group exercise instructor.  I stopped teaching during my chemo, but 3 mos. later I was teaching my classes again.  I am on a little leave right now, but I'll be back!!  Thank God!!!!!!

Debbie Baker :)  Cancer Warrior

PJ -- you have captured the essence of President-elect Obama's speech which has resonated deeply within our collective consciousness and deep within our spirits. We can, must, and will... Thank you for catching the message and posting it for all; it speaks to and for so many of us, no matter our personal challenge(s).

When Wednesday, January 21 rolls around, remember our work is just beginning, but togeher as we join hands, efforts, and our spirits, we can do more and better than we have ever done in this country!

Be well, happy, and peaceful in service,

Only in America.    Yes We Can.    Excellent article and my deepest sympathies and my continued encouragement in their fight for all suffer from Cancer.  I've had several family members and many friends who have suffered from this terrible infliction.

But beware, Congress is considering a bill that would limit the types of treatments available to patients, based on "cost effectiveness", much the same way the British do.   The British have an agency called NICE (anything but), the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excelence.   Mr Daschle, Obama's pick for Health Secretary, is trying to model the U.S.'s approach after NICE.   In Great Britain, there is "vocal dissent against NICE constraints, especially among cancer patients who are denied many effective new drugs that, for now, are widely prescribed in the US."

Read the Wall Street Journal opinion article by Scott Gottlieb for further details.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123241385775896265.html

I am very sorry that you have been ill and I wish you the best...but are you kidding me???  In his speech Obama said, "The question we ask today is not whether our

government is too big or too small, but whether it works."  The bigger government gets, the less it 'works.'  And that one can learn from history.  He wants to get the US health care system more like the European health care systems...do you know where people from around the world go when they can't get well from their own health care systems?  They come to the USA.  

Hi inaugural speech was filled with the usual empty rhetoric about bringing 'change.'  Change to what?  More socialism and less freedom.  This has already been tried in many countries in the world.  Socialism is NOT good for sick people.  Capitalism is.  Capitalism and the profit motive is what has brought you the drugs and treatments that have been available to you so far.  

Change in itself is not a good thing.  And the changes Obama has proposed are really laughable, if it weren't so tragic.  His philosophic principles are dangerous and are based in socialism.  

I suggest that you read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.  That will show you the future before we get there.  And it will show you the philosophic principles that lead to freedom and those that don't.