Rebecca Hauk's List: Current Events

• For the Crisis Center at Safe Harbor -- there's no time off. Every month  operators field two thousand calls, but now the crisis center is itself in  jeopardy.
  
  

  • Safe Harbor is needed in this community.
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• Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
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• Supporters claim the co-ops would compete effectively with private companies and  help hold down the cost of insurance
• said the proposal doesn't go far enough to control costs or guarantee a greater  choice among health plans for consumers.

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• Under Obama, the Pentagon has already sent a surge of 21,000 troops to  Afghanistan, and the Administration is even weighing the possibility of  deploying as many as 40,000 more.

  • I think that by sending in more troops, the U.S. will have a better chance of doing what it needs to do and getting out of Afghanistan more quickly than it would with less troops.
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• Afghanistan as it was in the 1970s, a country at peace internally and with its  neighbors, whose towering mountains and exotic peoples drew tourists from around  the world.

  • This sounds like a great ideal - I hope Afghanistan can go back to how it was over time.
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• to put ourselves and friendly Afghans in a position to manage future terrorist  threats in that country without a major U.S. combat role.

  • It seems like both all-outers and middle-grounders of the war in Afghanistan want to do just that, but they have different methods of doing so.
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