If you think you have been lied to before…you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. It’s an election year and therefore the amount and the degree of inaccuracy of Republican statements will increase, and already have increased, exponentially. Here are just a few examples. Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have blamed Barack Obama for the lack [...]
Entries Tagged as 'health care reform'
Here Comes the Election Year Propaganda
January 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes
Tags: Bush recession·Class warfare·Corporatism·Economics·Health Care·health care reform·health insurance·jobs·national debt·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·Republican obstruction·Right Wing·Right Wing Propaganda·stimulus·unemployment
The Parable of the Thieves
January 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long operated under the basic principle that hard work creates abundance and abundance may solve all our earthly ills. When that logic, which has always been one of our foundations, along with “fair play” and “brotherhood” among citizens…although a creaky stair-climb with many [...]
Tags: Economics·Health Care·health care reform·lobbyists·Neocons·Neoconservative propaganda·Politics·tax cuts for the rich
Returning the Great American Middle Class
October 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism
This is about returning government to the People. This is about returning the Middle Class to America. If you read this and you are not a Republican, you will understand it immediately. When you do, you should send it to everyone you know and tell them to send it to everyone they know. Now they [...]
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·health care reform·national debt·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·tax cuts for the rich
“Red Tape” Is a Republican Red Herring.
September 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Wall Street
———————————————————————————————— From now on, until the elections of 2012, every post will be lead by the following statement: Nothing proposed or examined here will be changed so long as there are Republican majorities in the House of Representatives and less than 60 Democratic Senators in the Senate. The Republicans…Tea Party or otherwise…all work for the [...]
Tags: health care reform·Koch family·Koch pollution·Neocon obstructionism·pollution and politics·regulation red herring·Republicans want to rid the Kochs of the EPA·why regulations are good
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
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
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
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
American Society at a Crossroads. For People or for Corporations?
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Politics
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 · Comments Off · 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
Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics
March 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, jobs, Politics
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 [...]
Tags: Bush recession·domestic manufacturing·Economics·health care reform·job creation·jobs·national debt·recession·Social Security and Medicare·unemployment
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 danger of becoming [...]
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 · Comments Off · 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