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Carla, Common Purpose all sounds like a front for communist teachings and organization. Just another name for it. Give it a new name, plaster on new clothes, and those who do not look under the skirts will never know what's really there. As my great grandmother, who my mother often quoted, used to say: Over hooey and under phooey. It is infuriating, all of it. As I once pointed out in an earlier post on this forum it is a new feudal system where most people are little more than slaves to the lords with the king at the top of the heap. It is all just another name for the game of control, greed, power and corruption which is let loose in the world from time to time. I would despair if I did not believe that in the end goodness will prevail.

Pat, it sounds as if you really worked hard in the past as a nurse for very little money. Hopefully the job itself was some compensation for everything you endured during that time. Thanks for sharing with us more of what organized socialized government "healthcare" is really doing in UK. It helps to hear about what is actually going on in other countries. I hope we all can find our way out of this morass. I think that taking the broader view, trying to keep ourselves free of this madness in the US, or, in the case of UK, freeing yourselves of this substandard care is extremely important. As things stand now, I think research into this illness is one of the last things that will happen (maybe never, as I truly believe those in government now do not care), not with a government intent on cutting health care for the elderly and those unfortunate to be disabled or chronically sick.