Roadblocks To Your Future Well-Being

Senator Charles E. Grassley believes that a Public Option for Healthcare Insurance will ultimately force private insurers out of busines... is that a bad thing? I guess it is if you're running for national public office, because you can get so much campaign contribution (selling your asshole to get fucked by the big dick of the corporate oligarchs that are running things) from insurance companies.

Grassley claims that the Federal Public Health Program will run the market, and "that doesn't sound like a level playing field to me." Here's what's wrong with that jackass statement -- when is the playing field ever level? Particularly since the Reagan Revolution and the complete deregulation and destruction of the Unions pretty much canted the playing field - permanently in favor the 1% oligarchs who run things in this so-called democracy (what's that favored book? The Best Democracy Money Can Buy)... it's required reading to brush up on why political change favors the wealth and sticks it to the lower class masses (which is damn near everybody by the end for this Business Cycle).

Any Democratic Senators who are afraid of not getting re-elected if they vote FOR a Public Option in the impending healthcare reform legislation need to be voted out of office in ANY EVENT! Because they're letting their petty personal desire to stay in the Senate (and reap the personal benefits) override what is best for the American Citizenry... who they are supposed to be represent. It's funny (well, sad, actually), how money all of a sudden causes Senators to factor out the little man. Just because I can't contribute to your campaign, but live in your realm of control, doesn't mean that I'm not affected by your actions and votes.

The one thing I expect to happen regarding health care is that the American public still pays out the ass for insufficient healthcare. Whatever the "cost" of a Public Option is or will be, it's certainly going to be nowhere near the cost that Dubya and Tricky Dick's unwarranted war has cost us in seven years of struggle with a people that can't get their act together to at least better themselves. Saddam was one mean cuss, but he kept all those combustible Iraqi factions in their place. Although, if you think about it, what's happening now it was would have happened in any event once Saddam died. His perverted and corrupted and twisted and sadistic sons wouldn't be able to run Iraq, they would fight amongst themselves over who should be in charge and then a civil war would be on the horizon... where the factions would be Qusay v. Uday v. the Shi'ites... but it would have been their mess, not a quagmire that sucks and sucks and sucks American tax payer dollars down a drain that doesn't even feed us cheaper than cheap oil. So no, the Public Option would damage this 1/6th component of the economy, it would find a way to

What's just too damn scary is that Medicare and Medicaid are going to bankrupt the economy in any event. Maybe the Sarah Palin prognosticated death panels aren't out of the question, seeing how without proper healthcare cost reform it'll be too expensive to keep sick old bags.

The Senate Bends Over and Spreads Its Ass-Cheeks for the Health Insurance Industry

Say it isn't so?!? Say it isn't so?!!?!

But alas, it is as the the United States Senate's Finance Committee has grabbed its collective ankles and let the pulsating, putrid penis from the Health Insurance Industry get rammed up their sphincter so tough until its bled today, as they rebuked the notion of having a Public Option. While this is the first major setback to President Barak Obama's desire for healthcare reform, it's actually the main critical factor -- because nearly all the other points can be linked back to the fact that there is no choice competitive choice when it comes to selecting an insurer.

You have to ask yourself, "what is so damn bad, wrong, outrageous, socialist(?) about having a different, COMPETITIVE option than the bullshit we're forced to choke on by the likes of Aetna, Cigna and Kaiser?"

What this really says about the power of the Voice of the People is that it has been diluted and nailed shut by the moneyed fat cats on Wall Street. Some national polls (Gallup, Time/CNN, etc.) have stated that 65% of the American people WANT a Public Option. It's not like that super-majority is asking for a Single-Payer System (which is what we should have or some variant of that, like in France*). but what the super-majority craves is an opportunity to not have to deep throat the smelly cock of Wall Street anymore. As much as I relish the fact that President Obama is a Black man up in the White House and it shattered some many societal ails, his biggest campaign contributor was Goldman Sachs... yeah, that investment bank that conned the American public out of $12B (while education only gets $4.3B)... so we're not going to see the "Change We Can Believe In" until the corporations get their dicks out of politics, all campaigns must only take public funds, and there's some rioting in the street (which after the Kent State Shootings... isn't going to happen, because articulate white people got shot then, and they don't want to get shot now. Other Western countries disallow corporate campaign donations, but we in America embrace it, and when that one case comes before the Supreme Court shortly which will decide if corporations can make UNLIMITED campaign contributions, there game will be over. The US of A will become akin to the USSR in terms of who is RUNNING SHIT!

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) had removed the Public Option possibility from his proposal, because he felt he couldn't get GOP/Republican/Confederate Party support. See that's the first BIG mistake, trying to reach out to those who blatantly act in service of the greedy, rapacious and blood-thirsty god called Profit... you don't engage the enemy, you make them kowtow to your agenda. Obama started out from a hat in hand position just by beginning the debate with his line in the sand being The Public Option, the fact that he wasn't pushing for Universal Healthcare for All through a Single-Payer System was him showing that he's got a cockleash on and the handle is controlled by Wall Street factions.

Do you know that Corporations have "better" rights in America than its citizens? They can avoid being sued and have any meaningful recourse taken against them... no company goes to jail for killing people, no company gets put out of business for treating the public like shit and peddling a crappy product that turns around hurts consumers and the environment.

The majority of Americans - both hemispheres - live in a Third World status; I can only postulate that Canada is the only First World Country in the Western Hemisphere, and that's because I don't know if 95% of Canadian wealth is in the hands of 1% of the Canadian population. When then International Monetary Fund and the World Bank stroll around the global stage looking to uplift countries where the wealth disparity is a mirror image to what we have in the good ole US of A, the first thing they would do is say, "you have to break down these oligarchs (that's the term one uses when the upper 1% has such complete control of the wealth) who run the banking and financial services sector they have TOO much wealth and they throw around the muscle the wealth affords them to rig elections, grab the government's dick - squeeze it hard -- and force the government, which is supposed to be run by the people, to continue to pass laws that feed more and more wealth back to the Upper 1%.

Where's the American Hugo Chavez? That's what I want to know?

Is there really any reason why the top personal income tax rate shouldn't be 50% or 60%? I'm in the lower class, and I can routinely pay damn near zero percent income tax (usually around 5%), so imagine what the razor-sharp accountants are doing for someone who's making say $500,000/year?

These questions will be answered later this week -- stay tuned.