Posted at 11:37 AM PST
Howdy, Pardners…
Yes. I’m going to continue to beat the healthcare horse. I think it’s necessary for two reasons. First, Americans need a reformed healthcare system. Second, this is about our country and how it is run.
It’s openly talked about on the floors of Congress that the problem is not about how to design and pay for a good healthcare system for America. Anyone with even a dim awareness of the issue knows that every industrialized nation in the world is providing inexpensive quality healthcare to its citizens. We don’t need to re-invent the wheel here. The problem is about the Corporations (mostly the insurance companies and Big Pharm), who are spending over a million dollars a day lobbying congress. Right now, there are two industry lobbyists for every member of the House and the Senate.
Get it? Our elected politicians are openly admitting that they can neither fight nor control these Corporations, and that any laws that might be passed will increase the profits of the Corporations and decrease the quality of life for most Americans.
Doesn’t that get you even a little bit pissed?
Current polls show that over three-quarters of American citizens have said that there must be some sort of nationalized healthcare program to offer some relief from the private healthcare Corporations.
The answer? Well, the most recent Senate bill is fixing the problem by REQUIRING every American to buy health insurance from the private sector, and if you don’t have this insurance, you’ll be fined.
See? Now the congress can say that the problem of uninsured Americans has been fixed. Everyone will be insured. Really.
The ideas of single-payer health insurance or even a minimal national insurance program isn’t even being seriously discussed.
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The big Unions are supporting the Corporations. Why? I’m not sure, but I’ll bet that if you follow the money, you’d find out. What floors me is that the Union members are out there in force demanding that no changes be made. Their argument is something like this… “We have ours, the rest of you can go fuck yourselves.”
It’s a shameful day for labor.
Are Union members really that stupid? I mean, do they really believe that after the Corporations defeat the federal government, that they won’t go after whatever benefits the Union members have? Do they actually believe that the Unions are more powerful than the Corporations?
A sad and shameful day.
And on a personal note… “Thanks for your betrayal.”
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Welcome to the First Corporate Wars. They are here, and we are watching them happen. The masks have come off, and the Corporations are openly challenging the power of the government. A Corporate victory will mean nothing less than the demise of any pretense of democracy in America. We will “elect” politicians that have been vetted by the Corporations, and then the elected politician will take orders directly from Corporate headquarters.
A paranoid delusion? A fantasy?
No. It’s real. Right now, our members of Congress are telling us that they cannot win a fight against the Corporations. They can’t fight the Corporations, because the Corporations have purchased too many members of Congress. It is as simple as that. It’s not complicated. It’s not an “open secret”. It is open knowledge that no one seems to be too embarrassed to talk about.
And where will you stand during this war?
If you’re an average American, you’re probably not even choosing a side. You don’t care. This somehow doesn’t even involve you. You don’t know anything about the issue, and you can rationalize your self-imposed ignorance.
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” - - Thomas Jefferson
Fortunately, the times of fearing the government are coming to an end. The government is no longer in charge, therefore… no longer to be feared.
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There is an ember burning in you right now. It’s small and fragile, but it’s there. Nurture it. Don’t fear it. Let it burst into flame.
America is experiencing a very real coup d'état. It’s time to man the barricades.
Have a day.
Riley
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