Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
Campaign 2010
Countdown to Congressional Elections
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
THE WORD IS OUT !! AMERICA IS NUMBER ONE. ON WHAT YOU ASK ?? SPENDING MORE ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY OTHER DEVELOPED NATION — AND — GETTING LESS!! Who’s number one ?? New Zealand WITH SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!!!!
No Democrat in the Senate should have to worry about having a heavily laden war chest for their next re-election campaign. The health care industry owes them big. [...]
Next year, during mid-term elections, Democrats better hope the voters haven’t realized the full impact of just how bad this bill really is. Democratic voters and a lot of Independents voted for them in 2006 and Obama in 2008 because they were fed up with the Republicans robbing them blind and handing it all over to the corporate world. [...]
So exactly what is a “right”? We hear a lot about abortion rights and right to life. But isn’t a right to good health care a “right”-to-life? Without it, one dies. [...]
Back in May of this year I posted New Credit Card Bill Allows for Continued Theft — and the banks haven’t let me down. I’ve been proven right on several occasions. In that post I questioned why our lawmakers wanted to wait nine months to implement a new law that would restrict credit card companies from ripping off consumers. Then I offered an answer: Give the credit card companies time to go into high gear to rip off consumers before the new law took affect. Among many other examples I could offer, this one is the latest.
Unfortunately for the public, opponents of real reform admit there’s a problem but offer no serious ways of fixing it. Why? Because doing so would reduce the high-flying life styles of the industry from the mesosphere down to the stratosphere. And for them, that’s not acceptable. [...]
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine is suing the state for not letting them raise their rates by 18.5 percent. The state regulators say they only deserve a 10.5 percent increase, but the insurer say that’s unfair. The insurer is owned by WellPoint, a company that reported a $2.5 billion profit in 2008.
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