Reinventing the Medical Care Wheel
We already have a single payer medical plan. It's Called Medicare and it works, it's in place and very little would need to be done to streamline and modify it to cover the 40 million uninsured Americans that now have to rely on charity or other welfare medical coverage. It would not take much effort by the Congress to clean up any inefficiencies or corrupt practices Medicare has now.
But noooooooo! Obama's pals in the insurance industry are drooling for those 40 million uninsured that they can hose unmercifully along with the rest us to make those Wall Street Insurance companies richer than they are now. Talk about welfare for the rich.
These scum bag Wall Street boys are probably already spending those million dollar bonuses they'll be giving themselves when the mandates kick in 2014.
And don't think the Republicans are off the hook on this scam simply because they are going to stage a dog and pony show and then a phony vote on repeal of ObamaCare. It is documented that the Wall street insurance oligarchs gave the republican members of congress millions more in bribes than they gave to their democrat accomplices to shove this corporate welfare scam down our throats.
This whole issue could become moot when the Supreme Court rules the law (ObamaCare) is just plain unconstitutional. Congress just does not have the authority under the law to force Americans to purchase products goods or services from a Private corporation. The Commerce Clause will have finally run out of elasticity.
The old progressive rant about the states have the authority (you will notice I said "states") to force drivers to buy auto insurance is true, but not the federal government. The states are the sole authority for driving regulations and licensing, not the federal government. Besides, if you don't make the conscience decision to drive, you are not required to have insurance. Is this true with Obama Care? I think not. What could a person possibly decide to opt out of, life?
So there you are. All of you progressive commies looking for socialized medicine had better start recalibrating your wish lists.
What is really needed is a serious debate on putting the insurance industry, the pharmaceuticals and the for profit hospitals on a short, regulatory leash with heavy fines and penalties for slipping it.
And guess what, it's the states that have the lion's share of the regulatory power over the insurance and the other thieves there also, not the federal government.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
That won't work either!
The huge response to Palin's referring to the term "Blood Feud" to the shooting attack in Tuscon
is somewhat puzzling. It has opened her up to all manner of anti-semitism rants by know it all liberal mouth breathers that claim her remarks can only be construed as an affront to Jews. (See Washington Post 01/12/2012)
Rubbish! Just another attempt for the Obama brigades and camp followers to gain some traction for their language assault when the right wing, toxic rhetoric train was derailed.
There has much speculation regarding Sarah Palin's possible candidacy for president in 2012. Rumors have even suggested an exploratory committe has been or is forming in that regard. However this may be a fools errand.
Palin was the spokesperson for the Tea Party prior to the November elections and was an effective speaker for them.
But Sarah Palin has now become a shill for the republican establishment party and an Israeli firster. One always has to wonder which country Israeli firsters have more allegiance to. I suppose it is the one that pays the most.
Palin unforunately is by no means packing the gear to be president. If you use GW Bush as a benchmark, maybe. This woman should content herself with running for Congress, again, maybe.
So, the question remains as to why liberals and Neo-Conservative Trotskyites are giving her so much press and air time as in the Washington Post articles festooned on it's online frontpage?
Is she a diversionary tactic so you guys, the oligarchy that runs the country, can slip someone really offensive into the Whitehouse to finish screwing up our country? Or maybe guarantee another four years of Obama. I know Wall Street would just love another four year term of free ride from an Obama administration. Although anyone of the clowns the republican party has slated as possible candidates would fill that bill nicely also.
is somewhat puzzling. It has opened her up to all manner of anti-semitism rants by know it all liberal mouth breathers that claim her remarks can only be construed as an affront to Jews. (See Washington Post 01/12/2012)
Rubbish! Just another attempt for the Obama brigades and camp followers to gain some traction for their language assault when the right wing, toxic rhetoric train was derailed.
There has much speculation regarding Sarah Palin's possible candidacy for president in 2012. Rumors have even suggested an exploratory committe has been or is forming in that regard. However this may be a fools errand.
Palin was the spokesperson for the Tea Party prior to the November elections and was an effective speaker for them.
But Sarah Palin has now become a shill for the republican establishment party and an Israeli firster. One always has to wonder which country Israeli firsters have more allegiance to. I suppose it is the one that pays the most.
Palin unforunately is by no means packing the gear to be president. If you use GW Bush as a benchmark, maybe. This woman should content herself with running for Congress, again, maybe.
So, the question remains as to why liberals and Neo-Conservative Trotskyites are giving her so much press and air time as in the Washington Post articles festooned on it's online frontpage?
Is she a diversionary tactic so you guys, the oligarchy that runs the country, can slip someone really offensive into the Whitehouse to finish screwing up our country? Or maybe guarantee another four years of Obama. I know Wall Street would just love another four year term of free ride from an Obama administration. Although anyone of the clowns the republican party has slated as possible candidates would fill that bill nicely also.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Change you can count on
It ought to be obvious to at least the informed few that the Republican members of Congress have a history of double-crossing the average Americans when given the opportunity. The Newt Gingrich Congress should be a fairly good indicator on how our supposed friends in that party will sell us down the river. Can you spell NAFTA, numerous gun control regulations (Brady Bill) and deregulation of the banking industry?
This bunch, even though purported to be Tea Party candidates, will be no different. Trying to distinguish them from the Obamaite Democrats will be almost impossible, especially when it comes to Obamacare. The Tea Party itself I’m sorry to say, has morphed into nothing more than shills for the establishment republicans and their party. Like the Perot organizers, The Tea Party has allowed the Republican strategists to play us like a giant Wurlitzer at a skating rink.
The Insurance industry (all you AARP members listen up) actually contributed more millions of $$$ to the republican party members to pass Obamacare than to buy all the democrat votes they thought they would need. Talk about bi-partisanship!
I have watched these scam artists from both parties pull this same bit of sleight of hand for more than thirty years on gun control, NAFTA treaties and other issues (how about the evil shit the lame duck congress pulled on us last month with the complicity of the republicans, (Unanimous consent?).
This bipartisan tactic is beginning in the usual manner. The new Majority Speaker, Boehner, will rage with righteous indignation (ala Newt Gingrich) on the latest feigned target, Obamacare. Harry Reid in the Senate will dig in his heels and swear on his mother’s grave he will fight the repeal of Obamacare to the death. But in the end they will have both been lying. Reid knows he doesn’t need to expend one ounce of effort to stop the repeal because he knows the republicans are capable of great theatrics as they have been paid handsomely by Wall Street for playing to an audience of dolts on a done deal.
But at the end of the day, after all the fake name calling and vitriol ends regarding a so called "repeal", Obamacare will have survived and with a new phony mandate and receive full funding and their blessings. Congress’ insurance and health care industry masters will have gotten their money’s worth from both of their servants, the criminal syndicate members we have elected to Congress and the White House.
And once again the American people will buy it, give up more of their freedoms and their hard earned paychecks to our masters in the corporate boardrooms and the Washington DC crime syndicate.
Enjoy the theater. You're paying for it
It ought to be obvious to at least the informed few that the Republican members of Congress have a history of double-crossing the average Americans when given the opportunity. The Newt Gingrich Congress should be a fairly good indicator on how our supposed friends in that party will sell us down the river. Can you spell NAFTA, numerous gun control regulations (Brady Bill) and deregulation of the banking industry?
This bunch, even though purported to be Tea Party candidates, will be no different. Trying to distinguish them from the Obamaite Democrats will be almost impossible, especially when it comes to Obamacare. The Tea Party itself I’m sorry to say, has morphed into nothing more than shills for the establishment republicans and their party. Like the Perot organizers, The Tea Party has allowed the Republican strategists to play us like a giant Wurlitzer at a skating rink.
The Insurance industry (all you AARP members listen up) actually contributed more millions of $$$ to the republican party members to pass Obamacare than to buy all the democrat votes they thought they would need. Talk about bi-partisanship!
I have watched these scam artists from both parties pull this same bit of sleight of hand for more than thirty years on gun control, NAFTA treaties and other issues (how about the evil shit the lame duck congress pulled on us last month with the complicity of the republicans, (Unanimous consent?).
This bipartisan tactic is beginning in the usual manner. The new Majority Speaker, Boehner, will rage with righteous indignation (ala Newt Gingrich) on the latest feigned target, Obamacare. Harry Reid in the Senate will dig in his heels and swear on his mother’s grave he will fight the repeal of Obamacare to the death. But in the end they will have both been lying. Reid knows he doesn’t need to expend one ounce of effort to stop the repeal because he knows the republicans are capable of great theatrics as they have been paid handsomely by Wall Street for playing to an audience of dolts on a done deal.
But at the end of the day, after all the fake name calling and vitriol ends regarding a so called "repeal", Obamacare will have survived and with a new phony mandate and receive full funding and their blessings. Congress’ insurance and health care industry masters will have gotten their money’s worth from both of their servants, the criminal syndicate members we have elected to Congress and the White House.
And once again the American people will buy it, give up more of their freedoms and their hard earned paychecks to our masters in the corporate boardrooms and the Washington DC crime syndicate.
Enjoy the theater. You're paying for it
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Time For Change
Article I, Section 8 of The US Constitution states in part, "Congress shall have The Power to...To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water."
These delegated and enumerated powers are pretty conclusive on which body has the power to declare war. It is not the President. In addition The POTUS does not become Commander in Chief until such time as there has been a formal declaration of War rendered by the Congress. War powers was a gift from Congress to give cover to a president in order that he may continue unlawful wars like the one we are being consumed by presently. Conversely, the Congress can blame the POTUS, and I suspect this is more case, when the War is going bad.
It should be obvious that this inbred major party system (Repub/Dem) is the root of the problem that plagues our country. It is time to clean these guys out en mass. We need at least one third of both Houses of Congress to consist of Independents. Nothing else can counter the partisan collusion that continually favors one party or the other. Vote for anybody that is not a member of the two greatest organized crime syndicates in the World, a Congress controlled by either Democrats or Republicans. Being elected to Congress was never intended to be a career spanning decades. Getting rid of these bought and paid for life long members of Congress is the only thing that will save the US.
These delegated and enumerated powers are pretty conclusive on which body has the power to declare war. It is not the President. In addition The POTUS does not become Commander in Chief until such time as there has been a formal declaration of War rendered by the Congress. War powers was a gift from Congress to give cover to a president in order that he may continue unlawful wars like the one we are being consumed by presently. Conversely, the Congress can blame the POTUS, and I suspect this is more case, when the War is going bad.
It should be obvious that this inbred major party system (Repub/Dem) is the root of the problem that plagues our country. It is time to clean these guys out en mass. We need at least one third of both Houses of Congress to consist of Independents. Nothing else can counter the partisan collusion that continually favors one party or the other. Vote for anybody that is not a member of the two greatest organized crime syndicates in the World, a Congress controlled by either Democrats or Republicans. Being elected to Congress was never intended to be a career spanning decades. Getting rid of these bought and paid for life long members of Congress is the only thing that will save the US.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
If You're Looking for Change, Forget It!
How Ironic, the very presidential candidates that are promising to cure all of our ills, are the very people that caused them.
As members of Congress they are responsible for every bad trade deal, every war, every flawed pork barrel budget, the unprecedented expansion of executive power and last but not least, the total deregulation of the business sector that is now bleeding the economy and this country's working people white.
The good citizens should take the time to read our Constitution, paricularly Articles I an II.
Article I spells out the vast powers of the Congress, powers that dwarf that of the President's as spelled out in Article II. It is the Congress after all the has the lion's share of power in order to keep the president from aspiring to emperor status.
For the last thirty years and before, Congress has been quietly expanding the power of the executive to something akin to an emperor. This steady creep of the imperial presidency has been enthusiastically, and I might add, unconstitutionally proceeding with the complicity of both major parties. One wants to gag when you hear the word "Change" uttered by these phonies. The only change Americans will see is the change from Constitutional Republic into a banana republic.
The Congress however, is mindful to take care they do not relinquish all their power, just enough to be able to blame the president for their misdeeds although this president most assuredly deserves it. Congress' power to impeach and remove from office the president remains in their hands.
The Founders took great care to ensure that members of the House were required to stand for reelection every two years while the Senate stood for reelection every six. This was meant reduce the tendency to concentrate power in any one single branch of government.
Being a Member of Congress was never meant to be a career stretching decades, lest members became career politicians, a danger to liberty. There was no requirement for parties either, no matter how many there were.
Our brand of Republican and Democrat career members of Congress have born out the fears of the Founders. Whomever takes over the Oval Office will be nothing but an instrument of the continuation of the destruction of the United States. A transformation of a free republic into just another impoverished member of the global plantation. The same destruction elitists have been conspiring to accomplish since the end of World WarII. A vote for either party's candidates will simply be business as usual. The continued destruction of the United States and the descent into the third world.
If the American voter is stupid enough to reelect the same bunch of organized crime figures,(members of Congress) that have infested the halls of Congress for these last decades, then they will deserve exactly what they get. The largest banana republic on the planet and the impoverished slavery that goes along with it..
As members of Congress they are responsible for every bad trade deal, every war, every flawed pork barrel budget, the unprecedented expansion of executive power and last but not least, the total deregulation of the business sector that is now bleeding the economy and this country's working people white.
The good citizens should take the time to read our Constitution, paricularly Articles I an II.
Article I spells out the vast powers of the Congress, powers that dwarf that of the President's as spelled out in Article II. It is the Congress after all the has the lion's share of power in order to keep the president from aspiring to emperor status.
For the last thirty years and before, Congress has been quietly expanding the power of the executive to something akin to an emperor. This steady creep of the imperial presidency has been enthusiastically, and I might add, unconstitutionally proceeding with the complicity of both major parties. One wants to gag when you hear the word "Change" uttered by these phonies. The only change Americans will see is the change from Constitutional Republic into a banana republic.
The Congress however, is mindful to take care they do not relinquish all their power, just enough to be able to blame the president for their misdeeds although this president most assuredly deserves it. Congress' power to impeach and remove from office the president remains in their hands.
The Founders took great care to ensure that members of the House were required to stand for reelection every two years while the Senate stood for reelection every six. This was meant reduce the tendency to concentrate power in any one single branch of government.
Being a Member of Congress was never meant to be a career stretching decades, lest members became career politicians, a danger to liberty. There was no requirement for parties either, no matter how many there were.
Our brand of Republican and Democrat career members of Congress have born out the fears of the Founders. Whomever takes over the Oval Office will be nothing but an instrument of the continuation of the destruction of the United States. A transformation of a free republic into just another impoverished member of the global plantation. The same destruction elitists have been conspiring to accomplish since the end of World WarII. A vote for either party's candidates will simply be business as usual. The continued destruction of the United States and the descent into the third world.
If the American voter is stupid enough to reelect the same bunch of organized crime figures,(members of Congress) that have infested the halls of Congress for these last decades, then they will deserve exactly what they get. The largest banana republic on the planet and the impoverished slavery that goes along with it..
Monday, February 4, 2008
Time to Throw the Rascals Out 2 Feb, 2008
Surveys have shown that almost two thirds of the American electorate claim "Independent" credentials rather than subscribing to the entrenched Republican or Democratic party preference. Unfortunately these Americans have few choices when it comes to casting their votes.
Many if not most state's primary elections will permit only registered voters from the two major parties to participate, leaving Independent voters little choice but to stay home or hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils.
This would explain why there are so few Independents in both Houses of Congress. Independent candidates have been effectively locked out by a sufficiently unfair nomination process.
The (Independent) voter has little representation in Congress, while the major party's entrenched members pander to the select few, the one third of the electorate that consider themselves "true believers."
Both parties have systematically provided for our country's incremental destruction, socially and economically, by abdicating their powers under the Constitution to the President, giving him almost unlimited powers. President Bush and his cronies likes to refer to this power grab as the "Unitary Executive theory.
Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibilities and allowed an out of control Executive to run up huge deficits, declare war, commit war crimes and most of all, hold in contempt, the Constitution of the United States. Both parties have given this president almost unlimited power in contravention Article I, Section 8 and Article II, Presidential powers of the US Constitution.
It will be of little consequence as to which party's candidate is elected to the presidency, as it will be business as usual if the same Congress is returned.
The Founding Fathers were adamant in their conviction, that an Executive, unrestrained by Congress, would simply replicate another monarch.
What the founders did not take into consideration is that the Congress could just as easily become as corrupt as any monarch as they have demonstrated today.
They simply did not comprehend the penchant for corruption of 20th century members of Congress or the Executive. To arrogate their delegated and enumerated powers to the President, as the last twenty or thirty Congress' have done was simply unimaginable, not to mention a serious violation of the oath of office and other numerous impeachable offenses.
An important new report by the libertarian Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org/) "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush" is an unblinking 28-page analysis of our slow devolution into autocracy. Its message can be summed up with this quote:
"Under (the president's) sweeping theory of executive power, the liberty of every American rests on nothing more than the grace of the White House."
The real ringleaders however, are the entrenched members of the Congressional leadership. They have mastered the art of behind the scenes manipulation of the public, the rank and file membership, and the executive branch. They have made sure that the President can serve only two terms while they enjoy unrestricted tenure in their respective houses. They control the President's budget and the Pentagon's.
The Congress has become the ultimate king maker with the complicity of both party's leadership. In short, the President serves at their pleasure and not the other way around.
When there is Congressional overreach, as in the Iraq "Authorization to Use Force" debacle, it is disguised as the Commander and Chief's misguided handling of the continuing "War Against Terror." When Congress gives up their power to declare War on the word of known liars like Ahmed Chalabi, a traitor to his own country. Allows the president to do as he pleases in violation of the Nuremberg Crime of Agression ruling, attacking a sovereign country, and then blames the executive for the war, now that's skillful, Congressional manipulation.
The Congress, if it had a mind to, could in fact bring the Pentagon and even the Presidential cabal of Cheney, et.al. and the Likud party's illegal influence on our government to rapid halt. The whole bunch and their fantasyland ambitions of democratizing (conquering) the entire Middle East.
But the Congress will not because the half baked scheme to dominate the world and concurrently transform the United States into the world's largest Banana Republic I fear, most likely originated in some House and/or Senate cloak room and not in the Oval Office.
Surveys have shown that almost two thirds of the American electorate claim "Independent" credentials rather than subscribing to the entrenched Republican or Democratic party preference. Unfortunately these Americans have few choices when it comes to casting their votes.
Many if not most state's primary elections will permit only registered voters from the two major parties to participate, leaving Independent voters little choice but to stay home or hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils.
This would explain why there are so few Independents in both Houses of Congress. Independent candidates have been effectively locked out by a sufficiently unfair nomination process.
The (Independent) voter has little representation in Congress, while the major party's entrenched members pander to the select few, the one third of the electorate that consider themselves "true believers."
Both parties have systematically provided for our country's incremental destruction, socially and economically, by abdicating their powers under the Constitution to the President, giving him almost unlimited powers. President Bush and his cronies likes to refer to this power grab as the "Unitary Executive theory.
Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibilities and allowed an out of control Executive to run up huge deficits, declare war, commit war crimes and most of all, hold in contempt, the Constitution of the United States. Both parties have given this president almost unlimited power in contravention Article I, Section 8 and Article II, Presidential powers of the US Constitution.
It will be of little consequence as to which party's candidate is elected to the presidency, as it will be business as usual if the same Congress is returned.
The Founding Fathers were adamant in their conviction, that an Executive, unrestrained by Congress, would simply replicate another monarch.
What the founders did not take into consideration is that the Congress could just as easily become as corrupt as any monarch as they have demonstrated today.
They simply did not comprehend the penchant for corruption of 20th century members of Congress or the Executive. To arrogate their delegated and enumerated powers to the President, as the last twenty or thirty Congress' have done was simply unimaginable, not to mention a serious violation of the oath of office and other numerous impeachable offenses.
An important new report by the libertarian Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org/) "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush" is an unblinking 28-page analysis of our slow devolution into autocracy. Its message can be summed up with this quote:
"Under (the president's) sweeping theory of executive power, the liberty of every American rests on nothing more than the grace of the White House."
The real ringleaders however, are the entrenched members of the Congressional leadership. They have mastered the art of behind the scenes manipulation of the public, the rank and file membership, and the executive branch. They have made sure that the President can serve only two terms while they enjoy unrestricted tenure in their respective houses. They control the President's budget and the Pentagon's.
The Congress has become the ultimate king maker with the complicity of both party's leadership. In short, the President serves at their pleasure and not the other way around.
When there is Congressional overreach, as in the Iraq "Authorization to Use Force" debacle, it is disguised as the Commander and Chief's misguided handling of the continuing "War Against Terror." When Congress gives up their power to declare War on the word of known liars like Ahmed Chalabi, a traitor to his own country. Allows the president to do as he pleases in violation of the Nuremberg Crime of Agression ruling, attacking a sovereign country, and then blames the executive for the war, now that's skillful, Congressional manipulation.
The Congress, if it had a mind to, could in fact bring the Pentagon and even the Presidential cabal of Cheney, et.al. and the Likud party's illegal influence on our government to rapid halt. The whole bunch and their fantasyland ambitions of democratizing (conquering) the entire Middle East.
But the Congress will not because the half baked scheme to dominate the world and concurrently transform the United States into the world's largest Banana Republic I fear, most likely originated in some House and/or Senate cloak room and not in the Oval Office.
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