In what has become a recurrent theme the big banking industry is setting it's site on fleecing yet another group of Americans. As if crashing our economy and being bailed out by the taxpayers for their own greed were not bad enough, banking institutions have set their sites on the fleecing of American students, and are attempting to keep them in recurrent debt for the rest of their natural lives, much less their careers. Well, now it is time to fight back against these crooks who care little for their country and the people within as long as the bottom line is preserved.
We have been pretty disappointed here for most of the heatlhcare debate. I mean, we lost single-payer before sitting down to bargain, and now barring a Christmas miracle from sixty or so House members we have lost the public option while being mandated to buy coverage. Folks like myself with a pre-existing condition in my case Type 1 Diabetes can still be discriminated against for five long years. Now in retrospect we lost another battle that shows nicely just how bought and paid for our Congress really is.
Let us make no mistake about it. The only good things in the healthcare bill have been viciously buried alive in a shallow grave. Single-Payer was the real solution that would have guaranteed fair, across the board coverage for all Americans. It met a slow, and tortured death buried alive. The Public Option was then our only hope to keep insurers honest, and it met with a long, torturous death buried alive with malice while the American people virtually begged for it. The employer mandate, like single-payer appears to have been buried alive. Yes, everything good that could have come from reform seems to be somewhere near Jimmy Hoffa, dead and buried never to be found.
In my email in-box today, was the weekly message from the White House with the video of the President's weekly address. This week, he focused on why I should support the Senate's "health care reform" (i.e., the Insurance Company Revitalization and Stimulus Act of 2009). Without noting that the address was recorded before the Senate bill was finalized, Mr. Obama gave all the now tried-and-true reasons: historic opportunity, better than status quo, yada yada yada.
Congress and the Senate in particular are on the verge of cramming a mandate that I buy insurance from Corporate Crooks using taxpayer money that they do not deserve. Once again Progressives and those who really needed real reform the most have been stabbed in the back. We got used to it under the Republican Congress and President George W. Bush but it is a particularly poison pill to swallow under a Democratic Congress and President I gave so much money and effort to.
Mitch McConnell. As a citizen of Kentucky I must apolegize yet again to the whole enlightened world that my state has elected and re-elected an evil, little man that works his ass off for the greediest and least patriotic among us all while representing the oppressive Communist government of China in the process. This man cares nothing of his country or the majority of the people within it as long as he has power he can wield to insure that 99% of Americans are at the mercy of the Chinese government and any Corporation with a checkbook.
Members of the House Populist Caucus, chaired by Representative Bruce Braley (IA-01), held a press conference on Thursday to endorse a bill that would "assess a small fee on Wall Street day traders to pay down the national deficit and invest in America's middle class families."
Oh, those poor souls who are crying so hard about the legislation provided for Universal Healthcare in the House. I mean, our "leaders" were so concerned with helping the average working American who do not have and cannot afford to buy private insurance for whatever reason that they just were so very unfair to those who have contributed so much to the problems we now face. My heart just bleeds with sympathy for these groups of people.
In the wake of Congress Officially Castrating the Public Option, two disturbing news stories have come out that suggest just how much we needed a public option and how very weak and impotent the one we have really is.
The question is how many more can we thank today. And who should we target, other than Reid of course.
30 Senators signed a letter to Majority Leader Reid on October 8th. Each of these needs to receive as much support as possible to ensure that they stick to this position. And the 'leaders' in the Senate need as much pressure as we can muster to make sure they understand how important this element of the total bill is to the American people.
So here we go folks. If you're browsing the tubez today, check your emails for the different petitions that are out there and SIGN the ones for the public option. Take an hour of your life and call each of the 30 Senators below and deliver your thanks. Call the 'leaders' and make sure they know your view on this.
