A dialoge in response to

pictures I posted of a hike our family took on Sunday.
By the way Falk Family, my lungs are improving, or I would have never been able to make the hike and I paid the Dr. with my own money, did not use any of your taxes to pay for it.
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Homestay Mama said...
Beautiful! I want to go there! I'll call you and get directions! I've been 'itching' to get out in the woods again! My Japanese student is finished with summer quarter this coming Thursday! We should celebrate with a hike, don't you think?Loved your family portrait! Especially the clowning! LOL
August 16, 2009 11:48 PM
FalkFamily said...
Great pics - looks like fun - how are the lungs??
August 17, 2009 8:36 AM
Aussie Therese said...
what a fun outing. Great photos. I think I want to go there when I come and visit you.
August 17, 2009 5:27 PM
Emily the clarinetist said...
that looks like one of my family portraits. i have a huge extended family so the pictures are always intresting :)
August 17, 2009 8:32 PM
diddleymaz said...
nice walk but your politics is so wrong on so many levels.Obama won get over it.Socialism is actually OK after all we have had it in the UK for 100 years and wow are we better for it, and social health care ie NHS is wonderful. I have heard so many ridiculous lies from right wing usa .We may moan about it but its great and we wouldnt dream of getting rid of it. UK has longer life expectancy,less infant mortality than USA.
August 18, 2009 6:57 AM
Aussie Therese said...
Is the NHS really that wonderful? I have children with diabetes and I heard of a family in the UK that a doctor didn't want to test their child for diabetes because she wasn't ill enough yet. This child had had some really high blood sugar numbers and some other symptoms but the doctor decided that she wasn't ill enough yet to test for diabetes. I remember thinking that maybe this wouldn't have happened if the child had been seeing a doctor privately. There certainly are some advantages to a Govt health system but I know here in Australia it has also had a lot of disadvantages.
August 18, 2009 3:23 PM
http://www.blogger.com/profile/18359744428745009730 said...
busy busy busy! ferry rides, hikes up to beautiful falls...FUN!Karin
August 18, 2009 8:18 PM
diddleymaz said...
I dont know what the Aussie system is, looking forward to the final Test though!Ashes coming home.As for Health Care of course there are mistakes but all human systems are liable to error.Once someone has been diagnosed with Diabetes in the UK tey know that they get all care free for the rest of their lives.Heart and eyesight checks, footcare,diatetics and all meds and eqipment are provided and dental.No matter about jobs or insurance or how ill you are for however long.And the same goes for all serious conditions and even if you have to pay prescritions its very low and here in Wales we dont pay at all!If people moan its because they want more gov spending not less.
August 19, 2009 4:12 AM
Gramma 2 Many said...
HMMMM I wonder what your taxes are for? Nothing in life is free. Even under communism.
August 19, 2009 9:41 AM
Gramma 2 Many said...
I am rethinking free. What is the definition of free? At no cost? But everything has a cost to someone. If Health Care is free, do the Dr's donate their time and efforts to heal the sick at no cost? Are they reimbursed? How do they afford to receive an education if they donate their efforts? Is their education free also? Under this type of system why should anyone work if the government is going to care for them? Why should anyone try to do better if everyone is the same?Someone pays someplace. It is called taxes. Once no one is willing to produce there will be a huge deficit in revenue and your precious government will no longer be able to carry you and give you everything for "free".Give me my system and the AMERICAN way of life any day. Long live CAPITALISM the system of innovation and discovery. The system that has produced so much good for the rest of the world.I will die proud of who I am and the way of life my country provides me. In fact I am willing to die for it.
August 19, 2009 9:49 AM

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