You know this guy goes home to his wealth, even if he has lost half of it, that is in the 1% of people on the f#*king planet!

He should have to live on the $28,000. I will be living on this year, down from the $50,000 I used to clear on my small business (working 10 to 12 hours a day, you shmuck!) before he and his like were so victimized by their own greed.

My retired folks are thinking of living with one of us to compensate for the half of their income that is down the toilet. The money they saved after raising six kids and educating all of us. Poor little rich guy! I want to be compassionate. I want to believe that this guy deserves some compassion, but, you know, I am just too damned pissed OFF!

is that this clown is the kind of person that thinks he should be running for office. If he wins, God Forbid, he will be making decisions about running our f***ed up country. Won't that be different for this blockhead than just shouting about how other people are doing such a rotten job!!!

"The Dutch national health care system has done a series of studies on the potential for money savings from increasing healthy behavior. The data shows that stopping smoking, losing weight, increasing activity, and decreasing alcohol consumption do cause people to live longer and be more healthy. However, this actually costs the system MORE money in the long run."

Because we live longer and cost more money ultimately in our effort to live forever. But what about the QUALITY of the lives of the people who lived longer. Better? We need another study, which will help resolve the question about what to do about health care and health insurance and our government not at all.

The bottom line is that we Americans aren't concerned about taking care of people, only what we can show is a better financial gain. All these good arguments are about how to financially improve the system, not how to improve our health care in regards to LIVING A GOOD LIFE. My grandparents all lived into their mid-nineties and were ALL overweight for most of their lives. Healthy and active into their late eighties. They died suddenly of strokes, like my 15-year-old golden retriever. Expected deaths, very good lives.

If we choose to live as though the only thing that matters is MONEY, it doesn't matter what kind of insurance we have or even who is President. It will all amount to another century of greed instead of what is best for people, who are more than their weight, checkbook balances and diseases.

that inherited 3 million. What a great thing to have happen.

She works for a stuggling Midwifery center that offers women's health services in our little town... to really poor, often very young and many times illegal residents of a huge rural area. The "real" doctors in town make the patients pay upfront at least $2,000.00 for each birth. I don't think my friend gets paid most of the time. She can afford to give to people that need it. She speaks Spanish and is the gentlest person I know.

Her husband has a small business that supports artists and he really gives the struggling younger artists breaks to help them get their work better known.

Their big extravagance is a nice house they built for themselves and two horses for pleasure riding.

Life is too short to waste watching movies and drinking beer. Are you sure that you are not suffering from depression? Might sound weird to those who don't have your fortunate circumstances, but the only folks I know that have so little desire and get up and go are really, really depressed.

Cary's response, very good.

These letters priceless. Really. The best in a long while.

OK, I was really trying to look forward and be positive about the loss of the only person I could want to vote for this time. Then I read your letter and it all came back to me. The hopeless feeling I get that my choices will be the ones the Media picked because they make good press.

Obama and Clinton are just more of the same ole thing. I couldn't get excited about either one of them. I don't expect anything to change. Either one of them opposing someone like McCain means to me that we very well may face John McCain as our next incompetent President.

By the way, who really gives a flying fart who the Kennedy's, especially Caroline and Ted, endorse?

"Can someone give AKA Smith a column. I admire Cary's advice but I also admire AKA Smith's. Between the two they usually have it covered."

I second that emotion. I often wish I could email AKA and get some of that no 12-step, down-to-earth, lay it on the line for me, advice.

seeing my mom naked when I was a 45 year old and the horror of realizing that HER breasts were still really good looking and mine were so pointing down. This woman had six kids, I have had zero kids. And SHE has the perky breasts. It scarred me for life. Don't let this happen to your kids, my friends.