Healthcare, Consumer Finance and Immigration Reform....NOT!

The Stench of Truth 174 Three more promises of reform which will fail to deliver. Healthcare reform that puts off the table single payer, and a public plan is already signalling no real reform of a bloated and broken system. The consumer finance reform effort is similarly flawed with no real details and no notion of what power it will have. The so-called credit card reform bill showed us what kind of reform we could expect in this regard. Immigration reform, is just disguised amnesty. What would the penalties be? If someone is currently in the underground economy it would just be rewarding a law breaker with citizenship with no benefits to our country. Three "reforms" that are all bogus.

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[55ella2007k]

Great vid, Ted ! Just one thing: let's not focus our anger on the illegal immigrants coming in, but on the people who are hiring them in the first place, in order to drive wages down everywhere. Both the US elites and the Mexican elites are screwing their own people over, and we are being pitted against each other. Consider the human element involved, because the assholes in DC and Mexico City surely are NOT considering it.

[mikemb123]

its the "military-industrial-pharmeceu­tical" complex that is the true power that runs this country

[bind1967]

@tenebroust Glad to hear it. We DO have the ability to stop them. You seemed to accept defeat in your previous message. I would rather die on my feet fighting than live on my knees in submission.

[tenebroust]

@bind1967 No I haven't as a matter of fact. I'm actually hopeful that there can be change i just don't see the change happening in the order that many others think it should go. I'd like corporate and financial dominance to be shattered first then we can address the government.

[bind1967]

@tenebroust So you have completely given up on your fellow man and their ability change our reality? I see it differently. I see more and more people waking up every day. I see more and more people questioning and thinking critically. Its taken over 230 years for us to get to this point in America. Its going to take a while to wake people up to the realities so we can fix it. We do have the ability to stop the insidious influences and their agendas. Time, patience, and dedication.

[snowfallzz]

I find it interesting actually that independent companies find all the inventive drugs and 1/2 cures but all the Cancer centers and American Heart Foundation and all of these other fucking donation dumps find absolutely nothing at all. I used to work at a big grocery..when there was good food, they would never mark it down, IT HAD TO BE TOSSED, know why? because the Co. made more money in the tax write off at whole cost of product than to mark down. Think of big pharm waste they could give poor

[tenebroust]

@bind1967 You are already being robbed by corporations and banks, many of them foreign, and which you have no ability to stop.

[bind1967]

@tenebroust I agree the constitution is irrelevent. However you want to define them... birth, creator-endowed, god-given... rights. We have them. We just need to stand up for, and protect them from infringement. With as much force is as necessary to stop the infringement from ocurring. But you cant say that, then state in the next sentance that the gov can justify taking them away because I refuse to give poor people the product of my excersizing my rights. What if I refuse? Force ?

[tenebroust]

@bind1967 Not so. And if it was not explicitly said so in this video it has been said in many of my videos that self reliance is important, but, it's true, there is a role for government. The constitution you like so much is useless, shredded and has never been effective in protecting your rights, only the rights of the rich and corporations.

[bind1967]

@tenebroust I did listen closely. You are saying its ok for the government to shred the constitution, shred the declaration of independence, steal our welath, and do what they want to us regardless of our birth rights, by threat of force and threat of imprisonment in cages. Its a shame there are poor in the world. Thats what 503c's, church groups, benevolent donations are for. What you suggest is the outcome of all "their" efforts. Reliance on the state for your every need.

[tenebroust]

@bind1967 If you listen closely you will note that I do NOT as a first course call for drug price controls but instead if we had single payer we should use the combined power of all of the people to negotiate for lower prices like any group would do. BUT if drug companies refuse to negotiate in good faith, then I'm all for pushing it.

[bind1967]

So, If I grown a biz from scratch & 1 of the products I make lets someone live longer, then the government should be allowed to tell me the max I can charge for it ?

I have a counter offer. Why dont I just destroy the forumla and close up operations because I dont want our marxist/socialist government further infringing on our rights ?

Or better yet, move my operations overseas and be out of their regulatory, oppressive, tyrannical control all toghther.

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