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in this section:  Think of all the starving corporations in Delaware.... Americans gather in Panama City for a Coffee Party photos and captions by Eric Jackson People
who have coverage for the world's most expensive health care shouting
down members of Congress to make the point that others shouldn't get
health care; conventions where anti-immigrant activists advocate the
repeal of landmark civil rights legislation; TV personalities launching
vitriolic attacks on churches that advocate social justice --- for so
many Americans, both in the USA and around the world, that's just not
our cup of tea.
There are those who believe that the federal government has things to do and ought to do them well; that inertia, a culture of obstructionism and the power of wealthy lobbies is making the American republic dysfunctional; and that it's a time of crisis when people need to take a calm but determined stand for the country and against the demagogues. Thus a small group of Panama's Americans joined the Coffee Party Movement by holding a klatch on March 13, as was done in dozens of places across the United State and among American communities abroad at the same time.  Karen Saum, who lives partly in Maine and partly in Panama, gives her take on the situation  Writer Phil Edmonston, a US-Canadian dual citizen living in Panama, reflects on former Governor Sarah Palin's health care trips to Canada Also
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