The facts about austerity are incontrovertible. There is every good reason to generate more income and not cut entitlement programs. Do NOT let the Right Wing media,which is most television media, persuade you to give in to cutting social services. Ronald Reagan put people onto the streets. There were days in the 1980s that you [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Health Care'
The Neocon Republican Candidates—A Rogues Gallery
June 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
What a bunch of losers we saw in the first Republican debate. It was shallow, obfuscating and ignored reality. We’ll start off by saying that we can’t even add Herman Cain and Ron Paul to a serious discussion. Cain is a total zero and Paul, as we know from what he has said in the [...]
Tags: Herman Cain·Michelle Bachmann·Mit Romney·Neocon Candidates for President·Newt Gingrich·Republicaan debate·Republican candidates for President·Republican debate in New Hampshire·Ric Santorum·Ron Paul·Tim Pawlenty
More Neocon Lies about Obamacare–and the Truth
June 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Politics, Populism
Well, here we go again, folks. More non-stop lies about the future of health care reform legislation. There is no question that our “friends” in the health insurance industry are in a panic. They know that they must fight health care reform tooth and nail or they will end up losing their multi-million dollar bonuses [...]
Tags: health care bankruptcies·Obamacare·Paul Ryan·Republicans obstructing health care·Ryancare·The Affordable Care Act·The Affordable Patient·Vouchercare
Obamacare is the Answer, Ryancare the Disaster
May 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, taxes
There were people who thought Paul Ryan was a genius. Then Democrats and Independents and Seniors began to analyze his plan. He quickly became a dunce. The Republicans had no other budget plan. So they voted on it. They passed it in the House. The Democrats, who could not believe their good fortune, quickly pounced [...]
Tags: Budgets·GOP budget·GOP Cuts to Medicare·Gop Medicare reductions·national debt·Paul Ryan's Medicare removal plan·Ryancare·The Ryan medicare elimination plan
Who Is Scaring All Those Seniors…and Why?
May 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Politics, taxes
“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood…a beautiful day for a neighbor..would you be mine…could you be mine….” Oh, yeah. Mister Rogers had nothing on the way the political parties are trying to attract Independent voters and Senior citizens. But the fact is that there is a significant difference. It is a difference that is [...]
Tags: health care reform·high cost of medical care·high medical costs·Medicare savings·national debt·Obamacare·oil company profits·saving Medicare·solutions to the national debt·supporting Medicare·sustaining Medicare·the Medicare scare
Truth and Consequences
May 18th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, jobs, Politics, taxes
From time to time we may begin to drop in a little digest of Right Wing lies and other assorted items you may be able to use to set the record straight. Why Are Some Companies and States Getting Waivers from the Health Care Reform Bill? Mona Charen, a Right Wing writer for the Right [...]
A Better Way to Balance Budgets
April 13th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
The Republicans are not interested in balancing the budget. They are interested in cutting taxes. Does anyone deny that? We have a $14 trillion national debt and yet they cut taxes on the wealthy and added $800 billion to the national debt over the next two years. Only after that did they start talking about [...]
Tags: budget cuts·Budgets·National budgets·national debt·Republican budgets·the President's Budget
Michele Bachmann and Lies About Health Care Reform
April 1st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Lobbying, Politics
The Republicans said that they wanted to repeal the health care reform bill. Then they said that they wanted to de-fund it. In other words, if we can’t remove it altogether, they said, we will simply not let anyone participate in any kind of better health. Why would a United States Congressman or Congresswoman want [...]
Tags: health care reform·Michelle Bachmann·Obamacare·repeal of health care reform
Imported Americans — Part Two
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
The turn of the century saw the African American as largely uneducated, not owning the place he lived, without education, working as a sharecropper or on a tenant farm or in some menial job. While the second half of the 20th Century would see major improvements in voting rights, job opportunities, social services and particularly [...]
Tags: Neocons·Neoconservatives·Right Wing·slavery·tea party·union-busting·wage slaves
Imported Americans — Part I
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics
We don’t talk much about our Imported Americans. Yes, they have been here almost as long as our Native Americans. They hold an equally sainted place in our memory, the long suffering, the noble, the faithful, the underpaid, abused and isolated. The genuine smile, the graceful politeness, the relaxed demeanor, tipping their hats to women…all [...]
Tags: Billionaire Tax Cuts·Neocons·slavery·the Old South·wage slaves·White Supremacy
Americans Do Want Health Care Reform.
February 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
Here’s the problem with the Neocon Republicans’ argument about health care. The fact is that their argument is simply a lie. It’s a big lie, but it’s a simple lie. The lie is this: health care reform is bad for America. It isn’t. It is good, very good, for most Americans. Here are the ones [...]
Tags: Health Care·health care reform·Health industry lobbying·health insurance premiums·Neocon obstruction of health care reform·Obamacare·Republicans and health insurance lobbyists
Neocons to Middle Class: Forget Health Care Reform. Buy or Die!
January 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Health Care, Politics
The Neocons have begun their full-scale assault on the middle and lower classes of the American People. It began January 6, 2011, with the initial hearings on the already announced legislative proposal to repeal health care reform. Despite the fact that 7 out of 10 Americans do not want health care reform repealed, the Republicans [...]
Tags: health care reform·health insurance industry·hearings on repealing health care reform·Neocon obstruction·Neoconservative obstruction·Obamacare·repeal of health care reform·Republican obstruction
The 500 Reactionary Rich
November 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes
We have a serious problem in this country. It is not hard to recognize or to understand. It is simple and it is ruining America. It could be solved with swift, violent action but, as we are a civilized society, we need to look to more civilized measures. Here is the problem. A handful…about 500 [...]
Tags: Fiscal responsibility·letting tax cuts expire·Neocons·Neonconservatives·Tax cuts for billionaires·war against the middle class
Understanding Political Reality
November 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Life is not a game show. The realities of electing the moronic, semi-troglodytic President’s son as President…or having the Supreme-Court-justice son of a rumored Fascist appoint him…should have proved that. From $5 trillion in debt and a balanced budget to a $14 trillion in debt and a commission trying to figure out how to keep [...]
Tags: Health Care·Neoconservative politics·Politics·Republican tax cuts·Republicans·tea party candidates·the national debt
Why Republicans Want Repeal of Health Care Reform
November 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, Media, Politics
This recent election was not about Americans’ understanding of recent legislation. It was about their misunderstanding of recent legislation. That may be deliberate. We know that Glenn Beck has a million or so listeners and viewers. Rush Limbaugh supposedly has more than ten million listeners a day. That is largely because for many years…perhaps still…his [...]
Tags: health care reform·Mid-term elections·Right wing media