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I fully support Congressman Dennis Kucinich in his opposition to the Health Care Bill as it now stands without a strong public option. While Obama was cow towing to closet Republican Joe Lieberman he should have been paying attention to the people who elected him not the likes of Joe Lieberman who supported John McCain. Rep. Dennis Kucinich has correctly pointed out that this Health Care Bill is a give away to the insurance cartel. (See Video below).
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Let’s examine some of the issues concerning this bill!
#1. If we don’t act now we will not be able to for another 10 – 20 years!
Really, why is that? If we give America a bad bill then we could loose the chance for another 10 – 20 years. Insurance companies will generate the window of opportunity because if they are not controlled their bad behaviors will anger Ameericans!
#2. Insurance costs are going to sky rocket if we do not pass the bill.
Yes they will skyrocket. But without a strong public option they will still sky rocket and then Democrats will take the blame. If we let the bill die then the Republicans and our glorious free market system will take the blame!
#3. The bill could always be fixed latter. As one Senator said this is just a “starter house”.
More bull! Excuse me but is Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Mary Landreiu and Blance Lincoln going anywhere? It will most likely be even harder to fix as Democrats will take some hits in this fall’s election.
We won huge majorities in both the Senate and the House. We have Obama as President! Where is the change we can believe in? The Democrats have lead the “Charge of the Castrati Brigade” for Universal Health Care. Their mantra has been “MEOW”! I have had it! I would rather the bill loose then for it to pass without a strong Public Option! If it passes with out the Public Option then rates will continue to rise and Progressives will take the blame for this “wicked Socialist Experiment”!
Ed Schultz went on a rampage Wed. night demanding that Democrats rally around President Obama! He had a several guests who were the victim of insurance company greed. (see video below)
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Well the problem is that this will continue and be even worse if the bill passes! We already know how Bush cut established programs by staffing the departments with Republicans who would not enforce environmental laws! What assurance do we have that a future Republican President would not undercut a universal health care system by under-staffing or staffing it with cronies who would let the insurance companies have their way? The only solution is free market COMPETITION via a strong Public Option!
Ed Schulz also went on and on about how Obama won the election! REALLY from the way he and the Democrats have been conducting themselves you would think he lost!
- Obama let Tea Party right wingers slander him with talk of “death panels” his response - “MEOW”!
- Obama and Congressional Democrats allowed these nut jobs in the Republican Party to steal the economic issue and label Progressives the friends of Wall Street and what was their response to being labeled the friends of Wall Street? – “MEOW”!
- Obama allowed himself to be called a “nazi, communist, grandma killer, and a citizen of Kenya! What was his response – “MEOW”!
- Obama allowed traitor Joe Lieberman to destroy the will of the Silent Majority for the Public Option and did not criticize Senator Nelson with his Corn Husker kickback nor Senator Mary Landreiu and the “Louisiana Purchase”! What was Obama’s response? – “MEOW”!
- Obama vowed no tax increases on middle class Americans. Yet he would tax so called “Cadillac Insurance” plans by union members while not increasing the progressive income tax on the rich. Change we can believe in? – “MEOW”!
- Republicans wanted and got Tort Reforms added to the bill. Even while thousands die each year from medical malpractice. What is Obama’ reply? “MEOW”!
If Obama and the Democrats, with control of both Houses of Congress, don’t have the guts to stand up for the values they were elected to advance then the enemies of America will view him as weak!
Why didn’t he push for the “reconciliation process” right from the start? If Bush wanted something done , like tax cuts for the rich, he had no problem with being forceful. Some liberals, such as the founder of “Daily Kos” have even stated they would try to unseat Dennis Kucinich with a primary challenge! Oh the rustle of kitty litter at the White House and Capital!
Make no mistake about it! Without a strong public option insurance premiums will continue to rise and Democrats will then be blamed! Health Insurance Reform will be repealed! Republicans will do the usual rant about “unleashing the forces of the free market from the evil socialist yoke”! If we do not pass this watered down bill then Republicans will take the blame when premiums rise and we can then pass REAL UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE!
We must address the fundamental issue of income disparity in America by a parasitic few. Why any corporate head should be making millions per year is the real issue! For God’s sake it’s not like they earned it! That is why we need a strong progressive income tax! It is just the middle class’s way of saying we have had enough.
Health Care is not a privilege in a civilized nation! It is a right! If the price is a higher progressive income tax then to bad! Again it’s not like these folks in the top 2% actually earned it! Yet we never face this crucial issue! – “MEOW”!
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Actually it started before Barrack Obama became President. Democrats have been playing their favorite party game of “masochism”! We had a majority in the House of Representatives and Nancy Pelosi did not use her constitutional mandate to end the financing of the Iraq War. This allowed Republicans to see that most Democrats don’t have the testosterone to stand up to Republicans!
When you required only a simple majority in the House to stop the unfunded vast wild eyed Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq under Bush and you don’t do it in that environment, then what chance do you stand now in the Senate? In the House they cannot filibuster while in the Senate Republicans can filibuster! One word can sum it all up, “impotence”! When Wall Street gets away with murder and we Democrats don’t stand up to them then you have to ask, “Is that the change we voted for”?
When I hear Republicans talk about “freedom” I need to take a Rolaids because my stomach turns acidic. Tim Palenty used this terminology at a recent meeting of the conservative group CPAC! Actually this is classic Republican rhetoric! The “Freedom” that they so prize is not freedom for the American Middle Class!
In this era where corporations are defined as “persons” I find my personal freedom under further attack! Just this year we have the record recalls of Toyota cars for multiple reasons. Also the diabetes drug “Avandia” has been labeled by many as the cause of heart problems! CBS News says that the company that makes Avandia, “Glaxo Smith Kline” knew about the danger for years!
I heard a segment of Senator Judd Gregg’s interview on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell show. He laid out some plans to punish people who are overweight and engage in unhealthy behaviors in terms of health insurance costs. I guess he would support the removal of Trans-fatty acids in fast foods!
After all when hard pressed and overworked middle class Americans have to grab a fast meal while working shouldn’t they have “Freedom” from trans-fatty acids? What about freedom from nicotine addiction to cancer producing cigarettes?
First a question for Republicans! How is all that Corporate Free Marketie de-regulation thingy working out for ya! Huh? (Wink).
When will Americans ever learn that a decrease in Government Regulation does not translate into an increase in individual freedom! Instead a vacuum is created for the bully to take away the freedom of individual Americans! Just look at the recent insurance increases in California!
My advice to Obama is the opposite of what Sarah Palin said at the Tea Party convention! I have had enough of Obama trying to get the Republicans to come on board. We won they lost – REMEMBER! I am sick of letting Joe Liebermann and his fellow travelers, the blue dog Democrats destroy the mandate of the American people! President Obama has fallen right into the Republican trap. They knew it would work even before he took office. How is that?
