Elk Grove Village Opinion
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Three reasons why people don't voteFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - I think more people would vote if Illinois or candidates for office change three things. 1. Have open, not closed primaries. I have never voted a party line but am force...
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Listen to bishops on health care reformFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - What would Jesus do? Much has been said in the debate about health care reform concerning the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposition to federal funding for abort...
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Move forward on health care planFeb 11, 2010 10:00 pm - I write as a concerned citizen regarding the need to move forward with health care reform. It is imperative that reform be passed through our government soon. The plan t...
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Congress, please finish the jobFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - It angers me that we have yet to begin health reform. We need health reform now, not later. People deserve to live healthy lives. Everyone should be able to go to the do...
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Political games don't serve the peopleFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Republicans suffered a significant defeat in the 2008 elections. Democrats picked up eight seats in the Senate, twenty-one in the House, and decisively won the White Hou...
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Obama can't fix everything overnightFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - There's no quick fix or way to take a pill and get healthy overnight. Give me a break (and Obama too). The previous administration had eight years to screw up the econom...
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Cut spending, taxes for economic fixFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - The president's budget proposal for 2011 is so upside down it should scare every American to death. It just may do that. He is proposing $3.8 trillion of which $1.56 tri...
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Sign up to support fair representationFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - The turnout for the recent primary was abysmal. Why? Because people in Illinois are disgusted with our state government and feel very helpless about ever changing how t...
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Cohen earned more votes than BurrisFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - It is amazing how our representatives (ie. Durbin, Quinn, Davis) sway in the political winds. Not too long ago, they vowed not to seat Roland Burris to the vacant U.S. ...
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Don't blame voters, blame the mediaFeb 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Don't blame the voters for the election of Scott Lee Cohen as the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor. The Daily Herald's editorial says he was nominated "in part...