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  • Way to much business industrial profits t be made in wars. When wars stop becoming profitable than the budget will get cut. All those expensive planes, ships, supply chains, have to be maintained. Oil fields need protecting to insure future fuel supplies at cheap prices.

  • At this point I think that the best route is through the state governments. I started participating in the recall effort in Wisconsin and that has been a big education in the political thoughts of most people. There is a lot of pent up frustration with the Tea Party garbage (and, yes, some true believers still). If progressives can start winning again at the state level then the national level is winnable. The states can put a lot of pressure on D.C.

  • @MnDraw I'm not discounting this possibility, but that's a big IF. I support the recall efforts in Wisconsin, and would participate in them, if I lived in that State. Shit, the Southern States would rather eliminate the federal government altogether, thus enabling them to impose their own draconian policies on their populations.

  • @55ella2007k Yeah, it is a big IF. But there really is a lot of support for the progressive side. They just need a voice and a motivation. Walker finally went over the line and provided the motivation is Wisconsin. The thing missing is the next JFK. I really thought Obama was it - got fooled again. Feingold is looking good and his Progressives United group is gaining some traction. I agree that it's a tough fight but I think that the state houses are the key. Never give up.

    K

  • I'm glad you're here to break it down.. I just can't stand to listen to that corporate whore, anymore. Let me guess, he never once mentioned cutting countries like Israel and Egypt off from the mega-million dollar welfare handouts every single effing year.

  • @onlywhenprovoked No, he didn't mentioned it.  Why would he? Every other word was 'bi-partisan ship'. And on that score, both parties have always agreed, as in most US foreign policy decisions. It's all a complete sham. I'll be making a vid on our wonderful 'humanitarian mission' in Libya soon. Not that it makes any difference, of course. We can rant all we want, but at least it helps keep me somewhat sane in this vast sea of ignorance.

  • I have "access" to a hip replacement I so desperately need. Without insurance however, I can't afford it. Rep. Jack Kingston told Lawrence O'Donnell the other night that they (republicans) want to "put market forces" into medicare. Market forces = for profit companies. Yeah, all those seniors and sick and disabled people shopping around for the best 'market force" in order to have better "access" to health care.

    Our political system is fucking us over.

  • @voyzovrezon Thanks for your very important comment. If you lived in France or Germany today, you not have this trouble getting the care you need. Yes, the taxes are higher, but nobody is going to place you a waiting list for a YEAR to get a hip replacement. Yes, you may have to wait a few weeks, but the entire operation would be done, regardless of your personal ability to pay. Even the rehab and physical therapy would be at no cost, because you paid for it beforehand, via taxes.

  • @voyzovrezon Yeah, the 'market forces' are working out just nicely for the upper 5%, who think that Health Savings Accts are the answer to major medical expenditures. How long would it take you or me to save up

    $ 200,000 for a triple bypass operation? The vast majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, with no ability SAVE anything. Besides, for-profit insurance companies, even if they are FORCED to insure the already sick + old, aren't prevented from raising their premiums, period.

  • You're getting very good at parsing Obama - which is every bit as difficult as parsing Clinton. Obama rarely makes factually incorrect statements (the primary way in which he differs from Bush) but his language is careful and clever, in both cases intentionally so. Careful in that it promises little and forecasts even less, and clever in that it seems to be promising a lot more than it actually is.

    Obama cares about setting up positions he can retreat behind, Bush just didn't give a damn.

  • @FeelFreeToArgue Tried to respond to your comment, but YT is fucking with me tonight. Evidently the character limit has been reduced to twitter standard. Later, my friend....

  • The puppet is entangled with is garbage.

  • I watched the Canadian leadership debates. Filling my blowhard quota for the week.

  • You must go back to president Johnson to understand why we have Medicare to begin with. It was a national crisis because private insurers refused to cover anyone much over the age of 60 and if they did at all it was with very high unaffordable premiums. Johnson stepped in and instituted Medicare.

  • @Larkinchance Yes, exactly. Johnson was a champion for the poor, and he believed that working people, having worked off their asses for all their lives, should have minimum living standards, period, when they get older. He was both a private farmer, but understood the working class in a more industrial economy. This is the ONE thing he actually got right and he fought for it tooth and nail, on behalf of people who didn't even have voting rights. He wasn't a saint, though...

  • @55ella2007k (continued) ....he wasn't a saint though, and via his foreign policy, after JFK's assassinated, he escalated the war in Vietnam, thanks to his hawkish advisors in the Pentagon. In any case, this whole thing resulted in the deaths of millions of Vietnamese peasants, and the 56 thousand dead soldiers on our side. Destroyed lives all around for some domino theory, which is still operative today. MLK did not support these wars and neither should we. 

  • Enter the age of privatization. In spite of being relieved very high risk patients, the health care industry still viewed Medicare as an adversary system and an ongoing threat towards socialization medicine. Through lobbying and actual writing of legislation, they have eroded Medicare and now they are moving in for the kill. In the end, senior health care will again be available for only the extremely rich.

    The Obama administration is proving to be a terrible disappointment...

  • Excellent analysis.

  • AND ... IMHO ... if they can't get "Fukushima" under control, the new cancer cases alone will break any Medical care system that can be developed. The human race is actually faced with an "Extinction Level Event" in Japan ... so, take your concerns for the next 2 - 10 years "cum grano salis".

    You may be worrying unnecessarily.

    The melting down reactors can result in half the world's population being dead or dying in 5 years.

    Don't expect THEM to tell us anymore than they did about COREXIT.

  • @grizzzlyjoe That's an alarming assessment.  What is your basis for the 5 yr estimate?

  • @truthfinder2175 I-131 is being detected on the East Coast. It has made the global trip back to Japan. But the Iodine is the least of our problems. It arrived with a fruit salad of other isotopes (Cesium, Xeon, etc.). These have longer half-lives.

    IT'S FALLOUT, not direct surface radiation like a Chest X-ray. We ingest & inhale fallout. It accumulates in agricultural products & we take in higher & higher doses over time, accumulating in body tissues.

    They're lying about the long term effects.

  • @grizzzlyjoe ...and that does not INCLUDE the chemtrails that are sprayed on us pretty much daily.....is it obvious yet that all the media is nothing but a dog and pony show....while they are slowly spraying everything to CREATE MORE CANCER if not immediate deaths?? CANCER is nothing but TOXIFICATION....chemtrails lower O2 content amongst other things....cannot you see it in the changes of trees and bushes around you? one doesn't have to walk up close anymore...u can see it plain as day....

  • @grizzzlyjoe Of course they are lying about long term effects. I don't buy into the idea, that this particular massive nuclear release is going to be end of humanity. We need to remember that they did hundreds of nuclear tests in the Pacific, with far more lethal long term effects, until the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty came into play. But, nevertheless, all this shit is cumulative OVER TIME. Couple this with natural gas extraction, in which the radioactive sludge is used as FERTILIZER !!!!

  • @55ella2007k Perhaps I may have overstated the case. In reality there are those among us that have higher than normal tolerances to radiation. A study to ferret out those individuals can, obviously, never be conducted.There may very well be a significant number of ppl who are LESS affected by this. However, that is not the general case. There WILL be a major die-off from this event. The greatest threat is to the yet to be conceived, embryos & children.

    The CDC & WHO won't track those numbers.

  • @truthfinder2175 The Fukushima" disaster is FAR from over. The long term internal accumulation from exposure to fallout will be significant & right now, there is no end in sight. The U.S. & Canada will be producing foods for the next 30 - 100 years that are dangerous to eat because of the body's ability to trap the isotopes & not excrete them.

    You know how you can tell the Gov't isn't playing straight with us? The CDC hasn't warned women not to concieve right now. SEE: Birth Defects, Chernobyl.

  • @grizzzlyjoe ....that is ONLY 1 example of the INNUMERABLE criminal things these agencies do in terms of health/wellness and prevention....they are NOT about health/wellness and prevention....they are about destruction

  • Ella,

    The Gov't. is racking up this staggering debt KNOWING it will NEVER be repaid. Right now, there a Global Shift of wealth & power taking place world-wide on a grand scale. ALL the "disposable" population will be slowly disposed of by detrition. The old, ill and poor will be the first to go.

    The Gov't. is no longer interested in propping up social welfare programs... they have a higher calling, "One World Gov't. & One World Currency".

    The wealthy have decided to rid themselves of the poor.

  • @grizzzlyjoe True enough. The wealthy don't always succeed in their machinations, though. They also compete amongst themselves ! But, this said, given that these are no longer regional issues, but global issues, they will do anything to keep themselves in power. And yes, the sick and old are entirely useless to them. Minimum health standards for the young slaves will be taken care of though: "Arbeit Macht Frei" read the sign over the concentration camp.

  • @55ella2007k Yes, I've seen that sign over Dachau. It was "disinformation" at it's best to calm the masses passing through that gate.

    In Nature, the old, ill & weak, those most useless to the "group", usually are selected out naturally. However, civilization has changed that natural dynamic.

    This has been said by many & it's origins are not clear. So I chose the most succinct, "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Ghandi

    America has fallen from greatness.

  • @55ella2007k ---Most of his speech's always talked about "spreading the wealth" just did noy say to who.

  • If you waited for the pundits, everyone on MSNBC (hive mind as usual) on their knees worshiping this speech. Only when they invited Kuchinich did someone bring up tha his word means nothing now, he's broken it so much.t Obama is such a fake plastic president. Praising republicans, how unusual for him. He can talk the talk but getting stuff done? How the republicans have turned the deficit (Caused by war and tax cuts) and crisis (caused by companies) into a problem of spending i don't know!

  • Obi is positioning his pieces for a checkmate; amazingly he uses the same strategy all the time, directing us to a fight he knows he will win with the help of republicans saying batshit insane so he can win on that and hide what he's really doing. no one notices what he's doing though he always does it.

    SS and medicare probably need reform - not to be killed.

    If the commission was full of economists, fine, buisinssmen aren't the most impartial or even informed of 'experts.'

  • People make too many "projections" that tax cuts or spending increases will lead to revenue increases, maybe sometimes its true but ppl put too much faith in it. There is a LOT the USA could do to cut how much you pay on healthcare (you pay twice what UK does, 16% GDP!) and though it has nothing to do with the deficits you need to tackle it. Obamacare doesn't go into effect for 2 years so its too early to judge if it cuts costs. Universal systems certainly seem to.

  • Single payer means single buyer of drugs, giving you a big power to dictate prices to drug companies. But lack of single payer (not best option) doesn't mean there aren't other (less good) regulations he could do

    More efficiencies means more people being denied.

    Saving money with preventative care means more money for the people who are sick NOW...but incentives to DRs won't improve prevention, you need to help the poor live healthier lifestyles they CAN'T AFFORD.

    Obama is slide of hand again.

  • Most of Western Europe spend 6% of GDP on defense and that's too much, US spends 20% is insane. Cutting defense would put soldiers out of employment but the seed drill did the same. Invest in infrastructure and we'll have jobs that build not blow up.

    I prefer to defer to real experts (economics professors in this case) than the people (who vote in republicans) but he's deferring to the most bias people. If you can't aford it THEN YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS, in potentia is not in actua where we live

  • people are acting like Obama is progressive because he's NOT attacking liberals for once! Decentralized private public partnerships can work, seems to be how Germany provides universal care, but you need the government to back everyone up. I don't count "could have it if i had cash" as something i can have; i can't have a private jet even though i could if i had 10 million dollars.

  • @unassumption yes, I agree. But there comes a point, one which you and I have reached, evidently, that you can basically see through the entire charade: The appointment of the GE CEO, on the "Job-Creation' commission, is about as laughable as it can be.

  • @55ella2007k

    the rich are treated as experts-on-everything at the moment, almost worshiped as 'job creators'

    (where are those jobs again?) by the right. I'd prefer a panel of people who know what they're talking about to decide how to adapt old programmes to changes in society, international politics, economy, scientific knowledge, technology and demographics that have happened in the last 50 years (when we last got real change) but CEOs are NOT experts. I'm unsure if they buy their own lies.

  • I'm glad you watched, I would rather spend a couple of hours cleaning my septic tank then listen to anything coming out of that man's Septic tank of a mouth.

    Hint [He's full of shit].

  • This whole thing is just one pathetic ass joke. All off those ass hats in the District of Corruption know damn good and well what the truth is here and they are going to continue to talk all kinds of nonsense and then intentionally drive this bus right off the cliff and then point fingers at each other and claim that no one could have seen the collapse coming.

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