Health Care Deform
The Republican Party and its allies, the Health Insurance Companies and the Drug Industry are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to derail ANY reform of our healthcare system. They have two goals in mind:
(1) They want, desperately, to prevent the re-election of Obama by discrediting him and preventing him from keeping any of his campaign promises. Their desire is to see Sarah Palin, or someone like her, in the White House, and to regain control of the Congress.
(2) They also want to protect the profits of the Insurance and Drug companies, and to keep as many people as possible uninsured, insecure, and frightened, so they can
(3) appeal to the worst aspects of human nature: fear, selfishness and greed, now and in future elections.
Anyone who buys into their lies or passes them on to others is complicit in the ongoing destruction of our terminally ill “democracy.”
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
"Jobless Recovery"
The next person that uses the term "jobless recovery" in public needs to be remanded to a re-education camp. Where is Mao when we need him? It is hard to imagine a more damning indictment of the economics "profession" than their glib reminders (repeated regularly by our befuddled/brainwashed President) that "unemployment always lags behind an economic recovery. Hey idiots! When there are 16 -20 million jobless and who knows how many "uneremployed," THERE IS NO RECOVERY!
Those who have access to Harper's Magazine should check out an article in the latest issue by Kevin Baker, titled "Barack Hoover Obama. He seems to have been reading my mail. Instead of channeling FDR (as I suggested a year and a half ago in a letter published in the Progressive Populist), Obama is channeling Hoover! As Baker notes, "This approach looks like an exercise in democracy drawn from his hays as a community organizer, the sort of strategy that helps a neighborhood to decide whether it wnats, say, a health clinic or a youth center. What he doesn't care to acknowledge is that, in the case of the US Congess, he is dealing with a neighborhood where maybe half want a health clinic and the rest are holding out for grenade launchers and crystal meth." There is no middle gtround. He needs to use his manifest charisma to reach out to the American public and DEMAND that they DEMAND that Congress do its duty.
Today's Times has a piece by Barabara Ehrenreich that epitomizes the heartlessness and cruelty of our society. I have linked it, but not sure it will show up.
Those who have access to Harper's Magazine should check out an article in the latest issue by Kevin Baker, titled "Barack Hoover Obama. He seems to have been reading my mail. Instead of channeling FDR (as I suggested a year and a half ago in a letter published in the Progressive Populist), Obama is channeling Hoover! As Baker notes, "This approach looks like an exercise in democracy drawn from his hays as a community organizer, the sort of strategy that helps a neighborhood to decide whether it wnats, say, a health clinic or a youth center. What he doesn't care to acknowledge is that, in the case of the US Congess, he is dealing with a neighborhood where maybe half want a health clinic and the rest are holding out for grenade launchers and crystal meth." There is no middle gtround. He needs to use his manifest charisma to reach out to the American public and DEMAND that they DEMAND that Congress do its duty.
Today's Times has a piece by Barabara Ehrenreich that epitomizes the heartlessness and cruelty of our society. I have linked it, but not sure it will show up.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Conspiracy???
One of the most basic axioms of conspiracy theory is that a newly elected President is taken into a secure room, handed a large book and told to read it in order to find out the real job requirements. Lest there be any confusion about “conspiracy theory,” please note that the definition of a conspiracy theorist is “someone who believes that undemocratic people are trying to influence events behind the scene.” If you don’t believe that, you are a foolish simpleton. We can argue over who they may be and how successful they may have been, but it should be obvious to anyone that those who are mentally ill behind money and power will do anything to feed their addiction.
Which brings us to our new President. Apparently, Barack Obama was initiated almost immediately after his election, because his first response to the economic crisis was to gather around him a group of “economic advisors” who were the very people who led us into the mess in the first place.
Now that he has been in office for a while, we have two choices: either he was lying to us during his campaign for office, or that “book” left him no choice but to renege on all of his promises. The second choice does allow for the possibility that his “initiation” convinced him that failure to continue with business as usual would lead to a catastrophe such that history would remember him as the Captain when the ship of state hit the iceberg and sank to the bottom. Recent interviews with Bernanke (on “60 minutes”) and Geithner (on PBS News) made it clear that they have been telling him that all along.
There is no doubt whatsoever, though, that he has reneged on all of his promises. If you bother to follow the news, you know I’m right. If you don’t, then you don’t deserve to live in a putative democracy.
Which brings us to our new President. Apparently, Barack Obama was initiated almost immediately after his election, because his first response to the economic crisis was to gather around him a group of “economic advisors” who were the very people who led us into the mess in the first place.
Now that he has been in office for a while, we have two choices: either he was lying to us during his campaign for office, or that “book” left him no choice but to renege on all of his promises. The second choice does allow for the possibility that his “initiation” convinced him that failure to continue with business as usual would lead to a catastrophe such that history would remember him as the Captain when the ship of state hit the iceberg and sank to the bottom. Recent interviews with Bernanke (on “60 minutes”) and Geithner (on PBS News) made it clear that they have been telling him that all along.
There is no doubt whatsoever, though, that he has reneged on all of his promises. If you bother to follow the news, you know I’m right. If you don’t, then you don’t deserve to live in a putative democracy.
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