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Gender: Female
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North Carolina
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CJ Tower & Sons - custom & brokerage firm in Buffalo, NY
Aetna Life Ins. Co.
Monarch Life Ins. Co.
Eastman Kodak Co. - all in Rochester, NY
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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Pic is my cat, CC. She loves to curl up in the sink & have her pic taken, the opposite of me, the pic, not the sink. I've had a very interesting life & will write a trilogy once settled into my new house. Some highlights: Lived early yrs btwn NY/NC. Mom killed when I was 7. Dad remarried when I was 9. Scholastic average @ 12th grade when in 8th grade. Molested by family friend at 13. Started work, packing fudge at 14. Gave up premmie baby at 17. Married too young, ended in divorce. Dated 10 years, but men didn't care about who I really was or what I wanted. Decided to concentrate on career. Had job w/ tuition aid. Got BS. Never used knowledge because Co. started downsizing. Became involved with all 7 employee networks. Served on many committees, organized/ran several events & served as board chair of one network + won volunteerism award. Traveled to China for 6 weeks. Flew exactly 1 week after the NYC towers fell. One of the best decisions I ever made! Was more of a nervous wreck thru 1st 5 downsizings, before I took stock of my life & made many changes. When my turn came during the 14th one, just short of 30 yrs service & age 55, I was better prepared than those I left behind. That was almost 4 years ago. I think being downsized saved my life. The stress of staying would have killed me. Since I'd "seen the writing on the wall", I'd made financial & other retrmt plans. I tripled my efforts to slash spending, stopped smoking, started dying/styling my hair, grocery shopped every 3 weeks, bulk shopped at BJ's quarterly & got produce at farmer's market or grew my own. Got certified as a floral designer + took gardening & soap/candle making classes so I could do craft shows. Sold NY house & moved to NC

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Why Ignorant Idiots Are Making News

Maybe its because I like to be informed.  Maybe its because I take the time & do the research before I defend a position.  Maybe its because I love to learn, read & be involved.  Maybe its all of the above.  All I know for sure is that I'm sick to death of seeing people on the news, having people yell at me over the phone or on-line about what they feel is someone taking their health care insurance away from them!!

 

I've been doing my part to educate people by forwarding links to excerpts & analysis of sections of the various bills that were being discussed on capitol hill in DC, yet people were still saying it was "Obama's bill" - like it was only one bill & had been introduced by the President!  How ignorant!  They don't even understand how the process of debating an issue between the House & Senate can result in several different bills going to all kinds of committees where the debates continue until only 1 bill is left standing.  The final bill usually is quite different than the initial bill that was proposed due to all the debates & research that is done during its travel time through the entire process.

 

Some people took a few words here or there out of context, added a twist, then espoused it on radio, TV, Twitter, newspapers - everywhere - just to get people upset.  I couldn't believe it the first time I heard a lady say she had heard that people over 65 would be made to discuss end of life euthanization as an option instead of getting an illness treated!  Can you believe this!  That, alone, drove me to go on-line to find the latest summary of the bill that Congress had left in committee while they took their August break.  Some of the other misinformation being bantered around was just as nonsensical.  I find it hard to believe that anyone could imagine, let alone condone some of the stories I heard!

 

Well, my blood pressure is up with all this, so I better take a break & calm down before I compose any more e-mails or letters to the editor asking people to go to official government websites to read the bill, or at least the sections that refer to whatever subject they think they know they are talking about, so they can truly educate themselves on what the bill says & its true purpose - to insure all Americans, to lower health costs, to provide better preventative care, to take the insurance companies out of their current role as middlemen between doctors & their patients, to create a more efficient computerized system so unnecessary tests, surgeries, medications, etc. are not charged to, or done on, a patient.

 

Please, please, please - do the research before you start screaming nonsense at me or anyone else.  Thank you!

Added: August 11, 2009
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willynilly17
willynilly17 says:

Hi - I think I did this once before - but shall again
Spook and her gang would be delighted if you would join us at (click here)
A Cat's Point of View
Posted: September 17, 2009 11:14AM EDT
cydunne
cydunne says:

Yes, you did. I don't have a lot of time right now to do much more than I am doing, so joining another group just isn't in the cards. Thanks for the invitation, but I'm barely keeping up with everything right now
Posted: September 18, 2009 2:01AM EDT
ltetkow
ltetkow says:

Hello Cydune! We could be great friends! You are so articulate--I see many passions we have in common!
Posted: September 14, 2009 12:10PM EDT
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