[fabsroman]

Guys, do a google search on "Pelosi throws cold water on weapons ban"

As much as Republicans bad mouth Pelosi, I think she might be one of the few politicians that has a clue about the feelings of America. I received an e-mail once about her wanting to institute a flat tax, but that e-mail was dead wrong and after reviewing her stance on income taxes, I support it. I know, I'm probably going to get blown out of the water on this board for just saying support and Pelosi in the same sentence.

In the end, I hope that Pelosi is speaking truthfully and forcefully regarding this stupid assault weapons ban proposal. Maybe Obama's staff will see all the internet chatter caused by this statement, and he will back off from it. I like some of his ideas, and think he should focus on the ones all of America can agree on needing to be done. If he accomplishes those, then let him try to resolve the stickier issues.

I think we can all agree that education and health care need to be addressed, and I am not talking about socialist health care, but some type of reform. We have been dealing with our health plan administrator for 4 months now on $160 worth of charges erroneously pulled from our HRA money, and the problem is pretty simple. The provider billed us for the $160 when they should have only billed us $10 (i.e., it was Target clinic and my wife is an employee of Target clinic). Now, we have until the end of March to resolve this and spend the money somehow, because we are moving from the HRA to a Traditional plan and will lose it if we don't use it. I won't even get started about our FSA money and trying to get them to release that. I might as well be talking to the wall. About the only thing we have going for us is that I am an attorney and I am not scared to use small claims Court.