The health care reform debate brought out the wild and wooly in our society. Not simply the rather profane nut cases, but the craziness that we allowed to creep into government under the cover of ideology. The truly discontented members of the middle class in our society must learn what actually happened to their [...]
Entries from May 27th, 2010
Selling Out to Corporations: Gale Norton and Bush’s Department of Interior
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, Culture, Politics
Tags: Bush administration·Gale Norton·Interior Department·James Watt·national parks·privatization·public corruption·public oil and gas leases·Stephen Griles
Fascism and Neoconservative Republicans
March 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
The word “Fascist” as with the terms “Socialist” and “Communist” are thrown around a lot by people who have no idea what they mean. If you want to know what those terms really mean, find someone who was in some branch of military counterintelligence, the CIA, the security section of the State Department, Defense Intelligence, [...]
Tags: Fascism·Fascists·mobs and tea parties·Neocons·Neoconservative politics·Neoconservative Republicans·violent political action
Health Care Reform and the Fight for American Democracy
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
So…we did it. We passed health care reform. It is simple and basic stuff. The Neocons would like to make it more complicated than it is. Here is what you get and when you get it.
This year–
Young adults will stay on parents’ medical plan if they wish to age 26.
Insurers cannot cancel policies of [...]
Tags: Fascist Party·Health Care·health care reform program·political thugs and violence·Politics·Right Wing groups·White Supremacists
American Society at a Crossroads. For People or for Corporations?
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics, jobs
We are facing a serious problem as a society. The problem is whether we will approach our fellow citizens as equals, with equal opportunity for a decent, secure life. Will we also look on our less fortunate fellow Americans and offer them a hand up?
Or will we turn inward, striving to maximize our lifestyle [...]
Tags: America's political future·American government·corporate lobbying·deficits·Domestic economy·Economics·health care reform·Neoconservative obstruction·tax revenues·the national debt
Health Care Reform or Obstruction. Whom Should You Trust?
March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Politics
On the question of health care, in the absence of actually looking it up yourself, it all comes down to: whom do you believe?
Do you believe the Democrats who have created the health care plan? One could assume that they created it as something for which they will be praised. They certainly realize that [...]
Tags: Democratic health care reform·Health Care·health care reform·Republican obstruction
Republicans Panic, Call Voters: Be Afraid of Health Care Reform!
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics
“Hello, this is Congresswoman Judy Biggert. I’m calling to warn you about Medicare…”
How lucky am I? My Congresswoman, Judy Biggert was taking the time to call me personally about the dangers of Medicare. She called poor-little-old-me to ask if I wanted to join in on a conference call about health care reform.
She is [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Congresswoman Judy Biggert·Democratic health care reform·health care reform·Medicare·Neoconservative health care plan·Obamacare·Repbublican phone calls·Republican obstruction·Republicans Panic over Health Care Reform
Who Created the Recession and Who Can End It
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics, jobs
Jobs, jobs, jobs. It is the mantra of the Liberals. It may also be the mantra of anyone who is out of work and would like to simply earn a living. Seems too much for the Neoconservative Neanderthals to understand.
There is one thing that the Liberals and Progressives must lodge firmly in their consciousness [...]
Tags: depression·foreclosure·health care lobby·jobs·Neocon Republican obstruction·recession·unemployment
Beware the Ides of March and Neocon Budget Scare Tactics
March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
We are going through one of those periods right now where the Neocon anti-middle class propaganda machine is cranking out trash day and night. The result of course is that the weirdos crawl out into the daylight where you can see them and read their illiterate scrawling in every electronic blip on the Internet.
Of [...]
Tags: deficits·national debt·Neoconservatives·scare tactics·stimuli·tax cuts
Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics, jobs
Do you want a job? Do you need a job or know anyone who does? Do you think that there are fewer jobs than are necessary for the workforce right now?
Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? Sounds ridiculous. Apparently not to Senators John Kyl of Arizona and Sentor Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Bunning held up unemployment insurance [...]
Tags: Bush recession·domestic manufacturing·Economics·health care reform·job creation·jobs·national debt·recession·Social Security and Medicare·unemployment
Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics, jobs, wars and militarism
Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g., a Neocon. He had been a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives. He was in favor of cutting taxes. (Not very controversial.) He was in favor of preventing [...]
Tags: hypocritical politics·Lobbyist politics·neocon·Neocons·Neoconservatives·propaganda and conservatism·Right Wing Neoconservatives
Are You an American or Are You a Neocon?
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Politics
The actions of John Kyl and Jim Bunning recently bring into sharp focus, as Dr. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate has said, the differences between the two most prominent political parties. But it goes beyond that.
When are you a citizen of a country? If I move to France to live, am I automatically a [...]
More Idiotic Propaganda From the GOP Lunatic Fringe
March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Media, Politics
The Republicans have lost the battle against health care for their supporters in the health insurance industry. With no more stalling options, they are trying to use propaganda to scare and distract Americans about the federal government. Most of it is just gibberish.
Be assured of one thing. We are in no [...]
Tags: Bush administration·health care lobby·health care reform·Neocon lunatic fringe·Neoconservative propaganda·obstruction·propaganda·Republican propaganda·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
The Communist Fallacy
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics
You might want to take everything you know about our country and have a second look.
We all used to participate in the defense of our country. Now we have young people, mostly poor, trying to get ahead, who risk their lives for a college education while others, not risking their lives, go to college [...]
Tags: Communist·CPAC·Democratic·health care reform·Neoconservative propaganda·racist right wing media·Senator Bunning·Socialist·tea baggers·tea party
Torts, Filibusters, Health Care Reform and Disastrous Supreme Court Decisions
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, Health Care, Politics
We are now well into this session of Congress. The Senate has already begun a pace of filibusters that will exceed that of the last session, which was already double the highest number ever. It is very clear. The Neoconservatives are committed not to the constituents who elected them but to large industrial corporations, [...]
Tags: health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·Neoconservative·Republican health care plan·Right Wing·Supreme Court